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Raspberry Pi OS History

DebianCode NameRelease DateRPi OS NameRelease Date
12bookworm2023/06/10Raspberry Pi OS2022/10/15
11bullseye2021/09/14Raspberry Pi OS2021/10/30
10buster2019/07/06Raspbian buster2019/07/10
09stretch2017/06/17Raspbian stretch2017/08-17
08jessie2015/04/26Raspbian jessie2015/09/20
07wheezy2013/05/04Raspbian wheeze2013/09/27
06squeeze2011/02/06  

On May 28, 2020, in the announcement of the Raspberry Pi 4B with 8GH of RAM [30], they stopped using the name Raspbian, and they announced a beta 64-bit version of the Raspberry Pi OS. An official 64-bit version of the Raspberry PI OS was announced on Feb 2, 2022 [31].

On Oct 28, 2021, the Raspberry Pi Zero 2W was announced

On Sept 28, 2023, the Raspberry Pi 5B was anounced.

Offical Raspberry Pi Announcements

Wheezy

Jessie

Stretch

Buster

Bullseye

Bookworm

Microcontrollers

Bug Fixes

Tutorials