Looking at Debian’s release-critical bugs, you can see that Trixie is close:
Testing now has fewer critical bugs than Stable, and the number is dropping quickly.
About 200 bugs still need to be fixed to get the number down to where the previous releases were done.

Maybe you can help? Bugs blocking the next release can be as simple as missing translations for the upgrade instructions.

  • ohshit604@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    192·
    2 days ago

    The day I do the old fashioned sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade and everything suddenly breaks is when I know I’m on Debian 13.

    • Geodad@lemm.eeEnglish
      20·
      2 days ago

      Unless you change your sources.list, you’ll just update your current system.

        • Geodad@lemm.eeEnglish
          7·
          2 days ago

          It defaults to the codename. Any installer you download will be either Bookworm or Sid right now.

          • Matriks404@lemmy.world
            1·
            1 day ago

            I really wish they had easier way to switch to newer version. It works for me, since it’s not that hard to edit sources.list (or debian.sources nowadays), but I don’t get why they don’t make a tool that does a release upgrade like on Ubuntu. Could even list changes made to the sources file during execution for that matter.

            • Geodad@lemm.eeEnglish
              3·
              22 hours ago

              Yeah, I don’t know. Probably because people don’t immediately upgrade? A lot of people use a release until it goes EoL.

    • superkret@feddit.orgOP
      15·
      2 days ago

      If you didn’t mess with your sources.list it won’t switch to the new release automatically.

    • beleza pura@lemmy.eco.br
      5·
      2 days ago

      debian updates usually go pretty smooth in my personal experience. last time i had an annoying problem with the nvidia proprietary drivers, but that was an exception (i had no such problem in previous updates) and i think it was my fault