The Debian project released the latest version of their operating system, version 13 or "Trixie", last weekend.[0] The new release is now available for both Toolforge and Cloud VPS users.

On Toolforge, the following new pre-built images[1] take advantage of the new runtime versions in Trixie: * trixie (base image for compiled languages) * jdk21 * mono6.12 * node20 * perl5.40 * php8.4 * python3.13 * ruby3.3

On Cloud VPS, a new "debian-13.0-trixie" image is available following the usual naming scheme. Now is also a good opportunity to start migrating VMs running Debian 11 ("bullseye") to newer versions, as we will be starting the proper deprecation process for that in the near future and creation of new Bullseye VMs is now restricted. Note that any new VMs you create will now get IPv6 connectivity by default, see [2] for more details.

[0]: https://www.debian.org/News/2025/20250809 [1]: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Toolforge/Kubernetes#Available_cont... [2]: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/News/2025_Cloud_VPS_VXLAN_IPv6_migration

Taavi