We're past summertime, and it's an odd-numbered year, which means there is a new major release of Debian Linux, which in turn means there is a new major release of Raspberry Pi OS. This year's version of Debian is called Trixie - as many of you know, Debian releases are named after characters in Disney's Toy Story series of films, but all the well-known characters have already been used, so the names are getting increasingly obscure! Trixie is apparently a blue plastic triceratops who appears in Toy Story 3, but I must admit I can't remember her - then again, I only watched that one once, because it got a bit sad towards the end…

A Raspberry Pi Monitor displaying the new Raspberry Pi OS Trixie desktop wallpaper, which shows a golden sunrise over dramatic silhouetted mountain peaks
Resplendent But I digress. So we have a new version of Raspberry Pi OS - what has changed? The last few Debian releases have had fewer major architectural changes than the earlier ones; Debian itself seems to be a lot more stable in terms of the major components, and while various bits do get upgraded, the overall design seems not to change much any more.