Following this weekend's release of [1]Debian 13.0 "Trixie", Debian GNU/Hurd 2025 has been released as the state of Trixie while running atop Hurd rather than Linux.

This snapshot of Debian GNU/Hurd comes with i386 and x86_64 install images. For now the recommended way of using Debian GNU/Hurd continues to be via virtual machines (VMs) given the limited hardware support for Hurd.

Debian GNU/Hurd 2025 is up to building around 72% of the Debian archive and now comes with 64-bit support being completed, Rust was ported over to GNU/Hurd, support for USB disk and CD-ROM via Rump, SMP packages, are now available, and various other improvements:

* 64bit support is now complete, with the same archive coverage as i386 (actually a bit more since some packages are 64b-only)

* This 64b support is completely using userland disk drivers from NetBSD thanks to the Rump layer.

* We now use xattr by default for recording translators, allowing to bootstrap seamlessly from other OSes, with mmdebstrap for instance

* Rust was ported to GNU/Hurd.

* Support for USB disk and CD-ROM was added through Rump

* Packages are now available for SMP support, which is quite working

* The console is now using xkb for keyboard layouts, and supports multiboot-provided framebuffer

* Various other support were added (acpi, rtc, apic, hpet, ...)

* Some documentation improvement was achieved

* Various fixes have been included (irqs, nfsv3, libports, pipes corner cases, ...)

Downloads and more details on the Debian GNU/Hurd 2025 release via [2]the debian-hurd mailing list .



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-13.0-Released

[2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2025/08/msg00038.html