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What's new in the
Trixie
release?
As ever, see the
Release Notes
for more information; for this release there's also a page
Gnome/NewInTrixie
New Features
systemd provides the privilege-escalator
run0
, which like sudo expects the user's password rather than root's, and in fact checks for membership of the "sudo" group, but in theory makes sudo itself largely redundant
to help with deprecating the old "one-liner"
SourcesList
format in favor of deb822 format there's now
apt modernize-sources
something that mostly won't be visible to end users though it took significant development and organization work: the
t64 transition
, making various libraries Y2038-safe.
Changes
systemd by default now creates
/tmp
as a tmpfs. On new installs it also introduces a "tmpreaping" regime for
/tmp
and
/var/tmp
, but this is opt-in for upgraded systems (see
NEWS.Debian.gz
the old
utmp/wtmp
db format was Y2038-buggy (see t64 above), and the functionality is these days mostly covered by other logging mechanisms, so various tools have been either dropped or replaced: lastlog (in login) is replaced by the package
lastlog2
(and its recommended packages), last (in util-linux) is replaced by the package
wtmpd
(and ditto), and
utils-linux
provides a new lslogins
utils-linux-extra also drops mesg and write while adding new tools including exch and waitpid
since all trixie systems should now have a "merged" /usr, usrmerge and usr-is-merged are removable dummy packages
Upgrade Issues
Users of i386 (the original Debian architecture) should be aware that although it's still on the architectures list, it's intended for legacy functions only - in chroots, for multiarch, etc; dist-upgrades to trixie are
NOT
supported.
Please read the
Release Notes
, which list several packages (such as dovecot and libvirt) that will require configuration changes.
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