This new release of Debian comes with a lot more software than its predecessor 'Bookworm'; the distribution includes over 14,116 new packages, for a total of over 69,830 packages. Most of the software in the distribution has been updated - over 44,326 software packages (this is 63% of all packages in 'Bookworm'). Also, a significant number of packages (over 8,844, 12% of the packages in 'Bookworm') have for various reasons been removed from the distribution. You will not see any updates for these packages and they will be marked as 'obsolete' in package management front-ends. Debian again ships with several desktop applications and environments. Among others it now includes GNOME 48, KDE Plasma 6.3, LXDE 13, LXQt 2.1.0 and Xfce 4.20. Productivity applications have also been upgraded, including the office suites - LibreOffice is upgraded to version 25, GNUcash is upgraded to 5.10.