{"id":289719,"date":"2026-07-15T06:44:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T10:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/15\/a-moment-of-silence-please-for-the-final-release-of-debian-on-x86-32\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T07:10:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T11:10:06","slug":"a-moment-of-silence-please-for-the-final-release-of-debian-on-x86-32","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/15\/a-moment-of-silence-please-for-the-final-release-of-debian-on-x86-32\/","title":{"rendered":"A moment of silence, please, for the final release of Debian on x86-32"},"content":{"rendered":"

A moment of silence, please, for the final release of Debian on x86-32<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/os-platforms\/2026\/07\/15\/a-moment-of-silence-please-for-the-final-release-of-debian-on-x86-32\/5271198<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-07-15 06:44:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.theregister.com<\/a><\/p>\n

os platforms<\/p>\n

New Debian versions hit FOSSland in the form of 13.6 and 12.15<\/p>\n

This week brings two point releases for both Debian 13 – aka \u201cTrixie\u201d – and Debian 12 – \u201cBookworm,\u201d the latter now shuffling off into long-term support.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Debian 13.6\u00a0and Debian 12.15\u00a0are just the latest point releases of Trixie and Bookworm, but Debian 12.15 is also significant in another way: it marks the end of regular support for Debian 12, which is being\u00a0handed over to the LTS team. That reduced level of support is scheduled to last until mid-2028.<\/p>\n

That means Debian 12.15 is the last point release of Debian 12. There won\u2019t be a Debian 12.16. In turn, that means mainstream support for Debian on 32-bit x86 is over. (Debian 13 does still support some 32-bit Arm CPUs via the armhf<\/span> port.)<\/p>\n

As we warned you in 2023, to run Debian 13 on x86, you require a 64-bit CPU. It supports 32-bit packages and libraries, so you can run 32-bit programs fine \u2013 but if you want to install Trixie on a 32-bit CPU, then you need to compile your own kernel. That\u2019s not impossible: as we reported in late 2025, WindowMaker Live 13.2 does this, and so does antiX Linux, which we last looked at in March.<\/p>\n

The new releases both have two significant changes worth knowing about.<\/p>\n

The fwupd<\/span> firmware-update tool from the Linux Vendor Firmware Service has been updated to version 2.0.20. As the Arch wiki describes, fwupd<\/span> can only update the system firmware if your machine boots in UEFI mode (that is, not legacy BIOS boot.) However, that\u2019s useful, as it can update UEFI machines\u2019 secure-boot signing certificates and database too \u2013 and as Red Hat warned last month, Microsoft\u2019s original 2011 secure-boot certificates just expired. <\/p>\n

If you don\u2019t use secure boot, that doesn\u2019t matter, but if you do and your boxes haven\u2019t rebooted in a while, you might have problems. Don\u2019t panic: problems aren\u2019t likely, but if you do have some,…<\/p>\n

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