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!Â
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Debian 12 “Bookworm”
Expected release: around 2023Subscribe to announcement: Mailing List
Download: Development Release
Source: Debian Freezing
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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.
Expected release: 2023Subscribe to announcement: Deepin News
Download: Development Release
Source: Planning
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Fedora 38
Expected release: April 2023Subscribe to release news: Fedora Magazine Download: Fedora 38 Development Release
Source: Development Schedule
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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.
Expected release: around 2022-2023
Subscribe to announcement: Mageia News
Download: Mageia 9 Development Release
Source: Development Schedule
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.
Expected release: June 2023
Subscribe to announcement: news.opensuse.org Â
Download: Leap 15.5 Development Version
Source: openSUSE News | Roadmap
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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.
Expected release: April 2023
Subscribe to announcement: Mailing List | News
Download: Lunar Lobster Development Release
Source: Release Schedule
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Trisquel 11
Expected release: around 2023Subscribe to release news: Mailing List
Download: Beta Release
Source: OS Name | Development Info
References
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