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The following are the officially supported architectures for Debian 11:
32-bit PC (i386) and 64-bit PC (amd64)
64-bit ARM (arm64)
ARM EABI (armel)
ARMv7 (EABI hard-float ABI, armhf)
little-endian MIPS (mipsel)
64-bit little-endian MIPS (mips64el)
64-bit little-endian PowerPC (ppc64el)
IBM System z (s390x)
You can read more about port status, and port-specific information for your architecture at the Debian port web pages.
This new release of Debian again comes with a lot more software than its predecessor buster; the distribution includes over 13370 new packages, for a total of over 57703 packages. Most of the software in the distribution has been updated: over 35532 software packages (this is 62% of all packages in buster). Also, a significant number of packages (over 7278, 13% of the packages in buster) 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; see Section 4.8, “Obsolete packages”.
Debian again ships with several desktop applications and environments. Among others it now includes the desktop environments GNOME 3.30, KDE Plasma 5.14, LXDE 10, LXQt 0.14, MATE 1.20, and Xfce 4.12.
Productivity applications have also been upgraded, including the office suites:
Updates of other desktop applications include the upgrade to Evolution 3.30.
Among many others, this release also includes the following software updates:
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