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Debian 11 "bullseye" released
Debian 11, codenamed "bullseye", has been released after just over two years of development. It has lots of updates, including to half a dozen different desktop environments, lots of tools and programming languages, and, of course, more. It is available for nine different architectures.

This release contains over 11,294 new packages for a total count of 59,551 packages, along with a significant reduction of over 9,519 packages which were marked as "obsolete" and removed. 42,821 packages were updated and 5,434 packages remained unchanged.
"bullseye" becomes our first release to provide a Linux kernel with support for the exFAT filesystem and defaults to using it for mount exFAT filesystems. Consequently it is no longer required to use the filesystem-in-userspace implementation provided via the exfat-fuse package. Tools for creating and checking an exFAT filesystem are provided in the exfatprogs package.