Debian "bookworm"

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No – this is not something that is supported.

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Security support for Bullseye handed over to the LTS team

As of 14 August 2024, three years after the initial release, the regular security support for Debian 11, alias “Bullseye”, comes to an end.

Whenever possible, users are encouraged to upgrade their machines to Debian 12, alias “Bookworm”, the current Debian stable release.

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It is still maintained and Bookworm is still being worked on. Let’s get v21.1 out first.

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Just wanted to check in: Debian already moved on to trixie and Kodi also is at 21.3 right now (OSMC 25.11). More importantly Python 3.9 (bullseye) is now already a show stopper (e.g. SentToKodi), so an upgrade to either bookworm or, better still, trixie would be highly appreciated.

Kindly asking, what is the current status one and a half years later?

Thanks Sam!

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We are moving to Trixie, not Bookworm.

Sam

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Sensible choice, obviously. Do you have any kind of an (rough) ETA for us? Just for planning purposes.

Thanks!

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Soon. That’s all I can say unfortunately

Sam

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Any update on the update? I must admit, I am getting nervous seeing the trixie and bookworm boxes I manage get plenty of updates, including immediate security updates, while my OSMC installations still on bullseye aren’t.

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Yes, it’s a priority with Kodi v22.

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Debian 11 is now officially dead, even LTS is EOL:

The Debian Long Term Support (LTS) Team hereby announces that Debian 11 “bullseye” support has reached its end-of-life today, 31 August 2026, five years after its initial release on 14 August 2021.

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Indeed, when CVEs are now very regularly announced for core Linux infrastructure, it’s appalling for OSMC to continue shipping an unsupported distro. I guess I have the skills to switch to Kodi running on Raspbian, but I feel sorry for non-techie people who just buy OSMC-based devices, or see it as an easy packaged solution for their Pi, and don’t realize how neglected what’s under the hood is.

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We already backport CVEs and we will be on Debian 13 very shortly.

So little to worry about. The only recommendation which we always make and would make even for maintained distributions is to not expose OSMC to the public internet.

Sam

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Exposing appliances (except firewalls) to the internet is a No-go. But you always must assume that a usual home network is already breached.

At home zero trust and up2date OS is even more important than in a enterprise environment

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