Debian GNU/Hurd 2025 Released With Completed 64-bit Support, Rust Ported

Written by Michael Larabel in Debian on 12 August 2025 at 09:25 AM EDT. 45 Comments

Following this weekend's release of 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 in a VM

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 the debian-hurd mailing list.