Re: Clarification regarding End-of-Life Date of Debian 12 (Bookworm)

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Subject	Re: Clarification regarding End-of-Life Date of Debian 12 (Bookworm)
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Hi Max (2026.05.20_12:48:44_+0000)
>According to statements from the Proxmox team, the Proxmox Virtual Environment reaches its End of Life alongside Debian 12, which they indicate is in August 2026.
>However, the following official Debian resources list the EOL date as June 10, 2026:

On the 11th of July we expect to make the final point release of 
bookworm and hand it to the LTS team.

https://release.debian.org/

In August 2025 this date was tentatively earmarked to be in September 2026. 
But it was brought forward, fairly soon after that.

You can see distro-info-data's record of these changes in git history:

https://salsa.debian.org/debian/distro-info-data/-/commits/main/debian.csv?ref_type=heads

Stefano

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