The Debian Project announced today the release and general availability of Debian 12.8 as the seventh ISO update to the latest Debian GNU/Linux 12 “Bookworm” operating system series.

Powered by a newer kernel in the Linux 6.1 LTS series, Debian 12.8 is here a little over two months after Debian 12.7 as the seventh point release of Debian Bookworm. Yes, seventh, because Debian 12.3 was never released due to an issue in the EXT4 file system leading to data corruption so it doesn’t count.