This collection article highlights upcoming release schedules of Big Five GNU/Linux distributions can be expected in 2023 from February. This includes Debian, Deepin, Fedora, Mageia, openSUSE, Trisquel and Ubuntu. We want to spread the information and news to all readers so, for the users, they can wait for distro they love coming this year and for contributors, they can join and help with the development. All in all, along with this, to each GNU/Linux Project mentioned you can subscribe to the news, read the announcement and sources, as well as further you can download, test the alpha or beta ISO images available and help report bugs. Happy reading!
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Debian 12 "Bookworm"
According to their published development plan, Debian 12 "Bookworm" seems might be released in 2023. They reached "soft freeze" stage in February, will reach "hard freeze" stage in March, and to be arrived date for the final stage. Visit Debian
www.debian.org.
Deepin 23
According to their Development Planning, Deepin V23 will be released 2023 and they did release the Beta already earlier this February. They promised it will come with a large changes with a new package manager called
Linglong.
Fedora 38
According to Fedora Development Schedule, Fedora 38 will be released in April 2023. It will succeed the previous version F37 which had been released November 2022. We can expect so since this February the F38 has been branched out from Fedora Rawhide and entered Beta Freeze. Visit Fedora
www.getfedora.org.
Mageia 9
According to Mageia's Development Schedule and
Blog Announcement, Mageia 9 Alpha has been out since November 2022. Mageia 9 will succeed Mageia 8 which had been released two years ago in February 2021. It actually planned to be released that year. However, it didn't and becauseit has same principle with Debian's saying that they release when they are ready, we could expect positively they will this year. Visit Mageia
www.mageia.org.
openSUSE Leap 15.5
According to their news accounement, Leap recently published Beta version and the Roadmap clearly stated it is planned to be released June 2023. We really can expect Leap to be released this year.
Ubuntu 23.04 "Lunar Lobster"
Ubuntu releases twice a year on April and October and in 2023 it will be 23.04 "Lunar Lobster". They are very clear and predictable about the Release Schedule as they published in both development forum and wiki. To follow Ubuntu releases, we wholeheartedly recommend dear readers to subscribe to 'ubuntu-announce' mailing list below.
Trisquel 11
Considering their latest release of stable version 10 last year and the availability of version 11 Beta Five earlier in 2023, we can also expect Trisquel 11 codenamed "Aramo" to be released this year (although no strict schedule published). The developer stated that T11 will be based upon Ubuntu 22.04 LTS "Jammy Jellyfish". We also recommend all readers to subscribe to 'trisquel-announce' mailing list to follow the news.
