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The renowned open-source operating system Debian is currently undergoing final testing for its forthcoming release, Debian 13 “Trixie,” which is scheduled to enter full freeze on July 27 and to be officially launched on August 9.
Debian 13 marks a significant milestone as the first official release of the distribution to support the RISC-V architecture. While support remains limited to a small number of compatible boards and the build process for Debian RISC-V continues to be hampered by sluggish hardware, this development represents a major step forward.
Debian Linux initially began supporting the RISC-V architecture a decade ago through the RISCV64 port. Now, Debian 13.0 will stand as the first stable release to offer official RISC-V support. The current target for Debian RISC-V is RV64GC, with UEFI-based booting set as the default mechanism.
On the software front, more than 17,000 source Debian packages have already been successfully built for the RISC-V architecture under Debian 13 “Trixie.” Nevertheless, given the architectural differences, users may still encounter instances where certain packages are not yet available for RISC-V.
Last week, the Debian Project hosted a Debian RISC-V BoF session during the DebConf25 conference in France to discuss the current state of Debian for RISCV64. Interested users can view the presentation slides here.
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