Debian 13 Upgrade for existing LXC - Testers wanted!

[CrazyWolf13]

Looking for Debian 13 Upgrade Testers

We are currently looking for testers for Debian 13 (Trixie) in our LXC scripts.
At this stage, support will most likely only work on Proxmox VE 9 (currently 9.0). Proxmox VE 8.x is not targeted for Debian 13 support.

Caution

The following post is intended as Beta-test, proceed with Caution and ensure full Backups are created.

The ideal commands we recommand to update a Debian 12 (Bookworm) LXC to Debian 13 Trixie:

What it does

This will install the latest updates, install screen (kinda like a virtual terminal) this makes sure the update continues to run even if the ssh session would get interrupted, the user can just run screen -r to re-attach to the update process.
After that it will rewrite the sources to Trixie and upgrade everything.
Then existin source files will be rewritten to the new deb822 format.

Caution

Proceed with Caution, this may break your LXC, so be sure to create proper Backups beforehand.

Important

Check out this thread for more info on what LXC have issues upgrading and keep up to date on their status:
#7332

apt update
apt install screen -y
apt upgrade -y

sed -i 's/bookworm/trixie/g' /etc/apt/sources.list
apt update

screen apt dist-upgrade
apt autoremove
apt autoclean
apt modernize-sources
apt update
reboot

Tip

After the upgrade the MOTD (Message displayed on SSH login, will still show Debian 12, check out this guide on how to regenerate it.
#7227

Note

For new installations of a LXC, check this thread:
#7485

We would appreciate your feedback
Simply let us know which scripts are working and which are not.
We will continuously clean up and update this post based on your reports.

Thank you for helping us move Debian 13 support forward 🙌
CrazyWolf13 (Community-Scripts-Team)

[oOStroudyOo]

Here are my findings from my server, all of these apps are in separate LXCs..

These apps (LXCs) have been pre-built via the community script (These are not fresh installs), and run fine after updating from Debian 12 to Debian 13 after following the commands above:

• Radarr
• Docker
• Uptime Kuma
• Sonarr
• Emby
• Pulse
• Jellyseerr
• Mealie
• Cloudflared
• FileBrowser Quantum
• Tdarr
• Cross-Seed
• Notifiarr - (Update script fails, it returns No Notifiarr Installation Found!)
• Cleanuparr
• Planka
• Apt-Cacher-NG

Note: Except for Notifarr, the update script run successfully on all LXCs, however I didn't actually have any apps that required updating so this has not been fully tested.

These apps (LXCs) were NOT pre-built via community scripts (as I prefer the beta version) but still run fine on Debian 13:

• Whisparr

These apps (LXCs) have been pre-built via the community script (These are not fresh installs) and do not work when updating to Debian 13:

• Huntarr
• Change Detection

For future reference, Unpackerr from the project board also runs fine on Debian 13.

I hope this helps.
I can gather more info on Huntarr and Change Detection if required.

Thanks.

[Aloe-recite]

these works for me (some extensively tested more than others):

• Sonarr
• Prowlarr
• ADGuard Home
• Gitea
• Karakeep
• Caddy
• Audiobookshelf
• Homepage
• Kavita
• Cronicle
• Peanut
• Homebox

NOT working:

• Adventurelog
• Changedetection
• Booklore (seems to start, but shows a generic nginx welcome page?)
• Calibre web

[jonnewman85]

These do not work for me after Debian 13 upgrade inside the LXC:

• WallOS
• Bar-Assistant
• phpipam

phpipam and WallOS seem to be Apache2/PHP module issues causing Apache2 to not load. Bar-Assistant will not connect to the API after upgrade (checked IPs in config, all correct)

[CrazyWolf13]

@jonnewman85 check out the linked github issue, it contains a fix for wallos.