Debian 12 “Bookworm” went into a soft freeze last month and is now in a hard freeze until release time.

Debian 12 is now in a strict hard freeze, and if one wants to move from Debian’s unstable release to Bookworm’s test archive, the release team needs to unblock critical packages and packages without important autopkgtest coverage.

In hard freeze state, if a package is not critical to the OS, has enough autopkgtest coverage, and succeeds on all architectures without causing any regressions, then the package will be unlocked after 20 days.

More details can be found through the official update announcement.

There are currently 115 bugs against Bookworm.