For me the most important new things on Debian Trixie are the Linux kernel supports.

First is the use of 6.12 where the kernel now starts to have real-time capability that was more than 20 years in the making "so now you can run your space laser or audio production without specialty patches" [1].

Second is the official support for RISC-V64 on Debian Trixie [2].

[1] Real-time Linux is officially part of the kernel (138 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41594862

[2] What's new in Debian 13:

https://www.debian.org/releases/trixie/release-notes/whats-n...

I started upgrading my bookworm machines to it to use the updated podman, and it’s been issue-free so far.

Yes, Podman 5 seems really nice tool and seems like the only official way to get it on Debian is to use trixie.

Looks like Rust 1.85 made it in[1]. So that's good news for packages that keep their MSRV at 1.63 only for compatibility with Debian stable releases.

[1]: https://www.debian.org/releases/trixie/release-notes/whats-n...

is who command still broken because of systemd?

Yes, it is still broken, but it isn't because of systemd, its because of the year 2038 not being representable within the utmp file format, so Debian is migrating away from that, but the migration is not yet complete.

Interestingly, it’s also broken under devuan. I wonder what the backstory is.

What's broken? Running `who` seems to work for me?

does it print any output?