[guiambros]

What a weird announcement. It says "To install Debian 12 bookworm ... you can choose from a variety of installation media types to Download..." and "If you simply want to try Debian 12 bookworm... you can use one of the available live images" as if it were all available, but in fact the Debian 12 images are not ready.

It feels like the blog post was written before images were created, but they forgot to add a comment saying when it'll be available for download and published anyway.

I understand by the comments that the apt repos were already updated, so you could install bullseye 11.7 and upgrade to 12 in the OS, but seems a convoluted way to do it. I guess I won't be trying out 12 this weekend.

[pja]

The CD images should be downloadable towards the end of the day if previous releases are anything to go by.

This HN post jumped the gun a little with the Debian Wiki page: the final official release happens when https://debian.org/ gets updated to point to the new installation media.

[yjftsjthsd-h]

We seem to have this conversation for every release; I wish Debian would make it very explicit when exactly a new release is "released", perhaps by sticking a banner at the top of the relevant pages that says something like "Debian 12 'Bookworm' has NOT been formally released but is expected to ship at $TIME/$DATE"