Extended LTS for Debian 12 Bookworm
Support period
- 2023-06-10: Publication of Debian 12 Bookworm
- 2026-06-11: Security support handed over to the Debian LTS team.
- 2028-06-30: End of support in Debian. Security support now handled by Freexian’s Extended LTS service.
- 2033-06-30: End of support.
Architectures supported
- amd64
The set of architectures supported depends on the request of our customers. However, the support for amd64 during the whole Extended LTS period of Bookworm is confirmed. If you are interested in support for other architectures (such as armhf or arm64), please contact us at sales@freexian.com and let us know your requirements.
Limitations of support
Not all packages can be supported by our Extended LTS for Debian 12 service:
- packages that have already been marked as unsupported by the Debian security/LTS teams are not supported: see list in git repository
- some packages have limited support: see list in git repository
- linux: to cover the whole ELTS lifetime, we are backporting newer kernels from newer Debian release. See our kernel backports instructions.
Note that when you request a quote, we send you back a list of packages that are not supported or that have limitations in their support so that you can take an informed decision.
List of base packages
The following packages are part of Debian’s 12 base system and will thus always be supported (as long as we have customers paying for Debian 12 support):
- acl
- adduser
- apparmor
- apt
- argon2
- attr
- audit
- base-files
- base-passwd
- bash
- bzip2
- ca-certificates
- cdebconf
- coreutils
- cpio
- cron
- cryptsetup
- dash
- db5.3
- dbus
- debconf
- debian-archive-keyring
- debianutils
- dh-runit
- diffutils
- dmidecode
- dpkg
- e2fsprogs
- elfutils
- expat
- findutils
- gcc-12
- glibc
- gmp
- gnupg2
- gnutls28
- grep
- gzip
- hostname
- ifupdown
- init-system-helpers
- iproute2
- iptables
- iputils
- isc-dhcp
- jansson
- json-c
- keyutils
- kmod
- krb5
- less
- libbpf
- libbsd
- libcap2
- libcap-ng
- libcbor
- libedit
- libffi
- libfido2
- libgcrypt20
- libgpg-error
- libidn2
- liblocale-gettext-perl
- libmd
- libmnl
- libnftnl
- libnsl
- libseccomp
- libselinux
- libsemanage
- libsepol
- libtasn1-6
- libtext-charwidth-perl
- libtext-iconv-perl
- libtext-wrapi18n-perl
- libtirpc
- libunistring
- libx11
- libxau
- libxcb
- libxcrypt
- libxdmcp
- libxext
- libxmu
- libzstd
- logrotate
- lvm2
- lz4
- mawk
- nano
- ncurses
- netbase
- nettle
- newt
- nftables
- openssh
- openssl
- p11-kit
- pam
- pcre2
- perl
- popt
- procps
- readline
- sed
- sensible-utils
- shadow
- slang2
- sudo
- systemd
- sysvinit
- tar
- tasksel
- tcp-wrappers
- tzdata
- ucf
- usrmerge
- util-linux
- vim
- xauth
- xxhash
- xz-utils
- zlib