While awaiting the official images, here is a look at some of the highlights for Debian 11:

- More than 59k packages are available in the Debian archive, with this release there being some 11k+ new packages.

- The Linux 5.10 LTS kernel is powering Debian 11 compared to Linux 4.19.

- Support for the exFAT file-system thanks to the new kernel support.

- Control groups v2 support.

- Use of yescrypt password hashing by default.

- There are many other updates too including GCC 10.2 as the default compiler (previously was GCC 8.3), LLVM Clang 11.0 rather than Clang 7.0, and many other updates.

- The "open" command is now an alias to xdg-open.

- LibreOffice 7.0 is available on the desktop.

- Driverless printing to USB devices via IPP-USB.