------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project https://www.debian.org/ Debian 8 Long Term Support reaching end-of-life pr...@debian.org July 9th, 2020 https://www.debian.org/News/2020/20200709 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
The Debian Long Term Support (LTS) Team hereby announces that Debian 8
"jessie" support has reached its end-of-life on June 30, 2020, five
years after its initial release on April 26, 2015.
Debian will not provide further security updates for Debian 8. A subset
of "jessie" packages will be supported by external parties. Detailed
information can be found at Extended LTS [1].
1: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Extended
The LTS Team will prepare the transition to Debian 9 "stretch", which is
the current oldstable release. The LTS Team has taken over support from
the Security Team on July 6, 2020 while the final point update for
"stretch" will be released on July 18, 2020.
Debian 9 will also receive Long Term Support for five years after its
initial release with support ending on June 30, 2022. The supported
architectures remain amd64, i386, armel and armhf. In addition we are
pleased to announce, for the first time support will be extended to
include the arm64 architecture.
For further information about using "stretch" LTS and upgrading from
"jessie" LTS, please refer to LTS/Using [2].
2: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Using
Debian and its LTS Team would like to thank all contributing users,
developers and sponsors who are making it possible to extend the life of
previous stable releases, and who have made this LTS a success.
If you rely on Debian LTS, please consider joining the team [3],
providing patches, testing or funding the efforts [4].
3: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Development
4: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Funding
About Debian
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The Debian Project was founded in 1993 by Ian Murdock to be a truly free
community project. Since then the project has grown to be one of the
largest and most influential open source projects. Thousands of
volunteers from all over the world work together to create and maintain
Debian software. Available in 70 languages, and supporting a huge range
of computer types, Debian calls itself the "universal operating system".
More Information
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More information about Debian Long Term Support can be found at
https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/.
Contact Information
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For further information, please visit the Debian web pages at
https://www.debian.org/ or send mail to <pr...@debian.org>.
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