Privacy Browser PC 0.7 was recently released, with packages being uploaded to Debian unstable and testing. Debian testing is also known as trixie, and will be the next Debian stable release, expected to land in the first half of 2025.

Up until this point I have been backporting Privacy Browser PC releases to bookworm-backports (bookworm is the current Debian stable release). However, the 0.7 release represents a major change from Qt5 and KF5 (KDE Frameworks 5) to Qt6 and KF6. Debian bookworm does not contain all of the necessary KF6 components to build Privacy Browser PC 0.7. Specifically, KCompletion is not available on bookworm, and backporting it would require backporting the entire KF6 6.8.0 suite (and likely other things), which doesn’t feel feasible.

Therefore, 0.6.2-1~bpo12+1 is expected to be the last release of Privacy Browser PC on bookworm. Once trixie is released, it is expected that new versions of Privacy Browser PC will be backported to trixie, as well as new versions of qt6-webengine, throughout its two-year run as Debian stable.