Debian version history explained

Debian releases do not follow a fixed schedule. Recent releases have been made around every two years by the Debian Project. The most recent version of Debian is Debian version 12, codename "Bookworm".^[1] The next up and coming release of Debian is Debian 13, codename "Trixie".^[2]

Debian always has at least three active branches at any time: "stable", "testing" and "unstable".^[3] The stable branch is considered the primary release and what most people refer to when talking about Debian. The testing branch contains packages that have been imported from unstable. Testing has significantly more up-to-date packages than stable and is frozen some time before a release to become the next version of Debian. The unstable release (also known as Sid) is the branch where active development takes place. It is the most volatile version of Debian.

When the Debian stable branch is replaced with a newer release, the current stable becomes an "oldstable" release. When the Debian stable branch is replaced again, the oldstable release becomes the "oldoldstable" release. Oldoldstable is eventually moved to the archived releases repository.^[4]

Naming convention

Debian distribution codenames are based on the names of characters from the Toy Story films. Debian's unstable trunk is named after Sid, a character who regularly destroyed his toys.^[5]

Release cycle

Debian Unstable, known as "Sid", contains all the latest packages as soon as they are available, and follows a rolling-release model.^[6]

Once a package has been in Debian Unstable for 2-10 days (depending on the urgency of the upload), doesn't introduce critical bugs and doesn't break other packages (among other conditions), it is included in Debian Testing, also known as "next-stable".^[7]

On average about every two years, Debian Testing enters a "freeze" cycle, where new packages are held back unless they fix critical bugs.^{[8] [9]} This frozen state lasts on average 7 months (but can be as short as one month). Once Debian Testing doesn't contain any more release critical bugs, it is declared "stable" and released with a version number.

Release table

	Code­name	Release date	Final/latest release (date)	No. of Archs.	Package count		Linux kernel	End of support			References
					Binary	Source		Security	Long-term	FreexianELTS
				1					^[10]
							0.99.14t
					256		1.2.13		^[11]
1.0									^[12]
					474		2.0		^[13]
					848		2.0.27		^[14]
					974		2.0.33		^[15]
				2	data-sort-value=1500	≈1,500		2.0.34		^[16]
				4	data-sort-value=2250	≈2,250		2.0.34, 2.0.35, 2.0.36, 2.0.38		^[17]
		14–15 August 2000		6	data-sort-value=3900	≈3,900	data-sort-value=2600	≈2,600	2.0.38, 2.2.19
				11	data-sort-value=8500	≈8,500		2.2.20, 2.4.18		^[18]
					data-sort-value=15400	≈15,400		2.4.27, 2.6.8		^[19]
			4.0r9 (22 May 2010)		data-sort-value=18000	≈18,000		2.6.18, 2.6.24		^[20]
			5.0.10 (10 Mar 2012)	12	data-sort-value=23000	≈23,000	data-sort-value=12000	≈12,000	2.6.26
			6.0.10 (19 Jul 2014)	11	data-sort-value=29000	≈29,000	data-sort-value=15000	≈15,000	2.6.32			^[21] ^[22]
			7.11 (4 Jun 2016)	13	data-sort-value=36000	≈36,000	data-sort-value=17500	≈17,500	3.2	25 April 2016			^[23] ^[24] ^[25]
		25–26 April 2015	8.11 (23 Jun 2018)	10	data-sort-value=43000	≈43,000	data-sort-value=20000	≈20,000	3.16				^[26] ^[27]
			9.13 (18 Jul 2020)		data-sort-value=51000	≈51,000	data-sort-value=25000	≈25,000	4.9				^[28] ^[29]
			10.13 (10 Sep 2022)		data-sort-value=59000	≈59,000	data-sort-value=29000	≈29,000	4.19				^[30] ^[31]
			11.10 (29 Jun 2024)	9	data-sort-value=59551	59,551	data-sort-value=31387	31,387	5.10				^[32] ^[33] ^[34] ^[35] ^[36]
		10 June 2023	12.6 (29 Jun 2024)		data-sort-value=64419	64,419	34,780	6.1	June 2026	June 2028		^[37] ^[38] ^[39] ^[40] ^[41]
											^[42]
data-sort-value=e99	unstable	Sid			22	data-sort-value=62000	>67,000	data-sort-value=32000	>32,000	6.10.3

When a release transitions to long-term support phase (LTS-phase), security is no longer handled by the main Debian security team.^[43] Only a subset of Debian architectures are eligible for Long Term Support, and there is no support for packages in backports.^[44]

Release history

Debian 1.0 was never released, as a vendor accidentally shipped a development release with that version number.^[45] The package management system dpkg and its front-end dselect were developed and implemented on Debian in a previous release. A transition from the a.out binary format to the ELF binary format had already begun before the planned 1.0 release. The only supported architecture was Intel 80386 (i386).^[46]

Debian 1.1 (Buzz)

Debian 1.1 (Buzz), released 17 June 1996, contained 474 packages. Debian had fully transitioned to the ELF binary format and used Linux kernel 2.0.^[47]

Debian 1.2 (Rex)

Debian 1.2 (Rex), released 12 December 1996, contained 848 packages maintained by 120 developers.^[48]

Debian 1.3 (Bo)

Debian 1.3 (Bo), released 5 June 1997, contained 974 packages maintained by 200 developers.^[49]

Point releases:

• 1.3.1 ^[50]
• 1.3.1r1 (Release date unknown)
• 1.3.1r2 (Release date unknown)
• 1.3.1r3 (Release date unknown)
• 1.3.1r4 (Release date unknown)
• 1.3.1r5
• 1.3.1r6 ^[51]

Debian 2.0 (Hamm)

Debian 2.0 (Hamm), released 24 July 1998, contained over 1,500 packages maintained by over 400 developers. A transition was made to libc6 and Debian was ported to the Motorola 68000 series (m68k) architectures.^[52]

Point releases:

• 2.0r1 ^[53]
• 2.0r2
• 2.0r3
• 2.0r4
• 2.0r5

Debian 2.1 (Slink)

Debian 2.1 (Slink), released 9 March 1999,^[54] contained about 2,250 packages. The front-end APT was introduced for the package management system and Debian was ported to Alpha and SPARC.^{[55] [56]}

Point releases:

• 2.1r1 (Possibly never released)^[57]
• 2.1r2 ^[58]
• 2.1r3 ^[59]
• 2.1r4 ^[60]
• 2.1r5 ^[61]

Debian 2.2 (Potato)

Debian 2.2 (Potato), released 14–15 August 2000, contained 2,600 packages maintained by more than 450 developers. New packages included the display manager GDM, the directory service OpenLDAP, the security software OpenSSH and the mail transfer agent Postfix. Debian was ported to the PowerPC and ARM architectures.^{[62] [63] [64]}

Point releases:

• 2.2r1 ^[65]
• 2.2r2 ^[66]
• 2.2r3 ^[67]
• 2.2r4 ^[68]
• 2.2r5 ^[69]
• 2.2r6 ^[70]
• 2.2r7 ^[71]

Debian 3.0 (Woody)

Debian 3.0 (Woody), released 19 July 2002, contained around 8,500 packages maintained by more than 900 developers. KDE was introduced and Debian was ported to the following architectures: IA-64, PA-RISC (hppa), mips and mipsel and IBM ESA/390 (s390).^{[72] [73] [74]}

Point releases:

• 3.0r1 ^[75]
• 3.0r2 ^[76]
• 3.0r3 ^[77]
• 3.0r4 ^[78]
• 3.0r5 ^[79]
• 3.0r6 ^[80]

Debian 3.1 (Sarge)

Debian 3.1 (Sarge), released 6 June 2005, contained around 15,400 packages. debian-installer and OpenOffice.org were introduced.^{[81] [82]} Point releases:

• 3.1r1 ^{[83] [84]}
• 3.1r2 ^{[85] [86]}
• 3.1r3 ^{[87] [88]}
• 3.1r4 ^{[89] [90]}
• 3.1r5 ^{[91] [92]}
• 3.1r6 ^{[93] [94]}
• 3.1r7 ^{[95] [96]}
• 3.1r8 this is the final update for codename Sarge.^{[97] [98]}

Debian 4.0 (Etch)

Debian 4.0 (Etch), released 8 April 2007, contained around 18,000 packages maintained by more than 1,030 developers. Debian was ported to x86-64 (amd64) and support for the Motorola 68000 series (m68k) architecture was dropped.^{[99] [100]} This version introduced utf-8 and udev device management by default.

Point releases:

• 4.0r1 ^{[101] [102]}
• 4.0r2 ^{[103] [104]}
• 4.0r3 ^{[105] [106]}
• 4.0r4 ^{[107] [108]}
• 4.0r5 ^{[109] [110]}
• 4.0r6 ^{[111] [112]}
• 4.0r7 ^{[113] [114]}
• 4.0r8 ^{[115] [116]}
• 4.0r9 this is the final update for codename Etch^{[117] [118]}

Debian 5.0 (Lenny)

Debian 5.0 (Lenny), released 14 February 2009, contained more than 23,000 packages. Debian was ported to the ARM EABI (armel) architecture.^{[119] [120] [121]}

Point releases:

• 5.0.1 ^{[122] [123]}
• 5.0.2 ^{[124] [125]}
• 5.0.3 ^{[126] [127]}
• 5.0.4 ^{[128] [129]}
• 5.0.5 ^{[130] [131]}
• 5.0.6 ^{[132] [133]}
• 5.0.7 ^[134]
• 5.0.8 ^[135]
• 5.0.9 ^[136]
• 5.0.10 this is the final update for codename Lenny.^[137]

Debian 6.0 (Squeeze)

Debian 6.0 (Squeeze), released 6 February 2011, contained more than 29,000 packages. The default Linux kernel included was deblobbed beginning with this release. The web browser Chromium was introduced and Debian was ported to the kfreebsd-i386 and kfreebsd-amd64 architectures (while that port was later discontinued), and support for the Intel 486, Alpha, and PA-RISC (hppa) architectures was dropped.^{[138] [139] [140] [141]}

Squeeze was the first release of Debian in which non-free firmware components (aka "binary blobs") were excluded from the "main" repository as a matter of policy.^{[142] [143] [144] [145]}

Point releases:

• 6.0.1 ^[146]
• 6.0.2 ^[147]
• 6.0.3 ^[148]
• 6.0.4 ^[149]
• 6.0.5 ^[150]
• 6.0.6 ^[151]
• 6.0.7 ^[152]
• 6.0.8 ^[153]
• 6.0.9 ^[154]
• 6.0.10 this is the final update for codename Squeeze.^[155]
• Squeeze long term support reaches end-of-life ^[156]

Debian 7 (Wheezy)

Debian 7 (Wheezy), released 4 May 2013, contained more than 36,000 packages. Support for UEFI was added and Debian was ported to the armhf and IBM z/Architecture (s390x) architectures.^{[157] [158] [159] [160]}

Point releases:

• 7.1 ^[161]
• 7.2 ^[162]
• 7.3 ^[163]
• 7.4 ^[164]
• 7.5 ^[165]
• 7.6 ^[166]
• 7.7 ^[167]
• 7.8 ^[168]
• Debian 8.0 codename Jessie releases, Wheezy becomes oldstable
• 7.9 ^[169]
• 7.10 ^[170]
• 7.11 this is the final update for codename Wheezy.^[171]
• Debian 9.0 codename Stretch releases, Wheezy becomes oldoldstable
• Wheezy long term support reached end-of-life ^[172]
• Wheezy extended long term support reached end-of-life .^[173]

Debian 8 (Jessie)

Debian 8 (Jessie), released 25 April 2015, contained more than 43,000 packages, with systemd installed by default instead of init. (sysvinit and upstart packages are provided as alternatives.) Debian was ported to the ARM64 and ppc64le architectures, while support for the IA-64, kfreebsd-amd64 and kfreebsd-i386, IBM ESA/390 (s390) (only the 31-bit variant; the newer 64-bit s390x was retained) and SPARC architectures were dropped.^{[174] [175] [176]}

Long term support ended June 2020.^[177]

Point releases:

• 8.1 ^[178]
• 8.2 ^[179]
• 8.3 ^[180]
• 8.4 ^[181]
• 8.5 ^[182]
• 8.6 ^[183]
• 8.7 ^[184]
• 8.8 ^[185]
• Debian 9.0 codename Stretch releases, Jessie becomes oldstable
• 8.9 ^[186]
• 8.10 ^[187]
• Regular security support updates have been discontinued ^[177]
• 8.11 this is the final update for codename Jessie.^[188]
• Debian 10.0 codename Buster releases, Jessie becomes oldoldstable
• Jessie long term support reaches end-of-life
• Jessie extended long term support reaches end-of-life

Debian 9 (Stretch)

Debian 9 (Stretch) was released on 17 June 2017, two years and two months after Debian 8.0, and contained more than 51,000 packages.^[189] The final minor update, called a "point release", is version 9.13,^[190] released on . Major upgrades include the Linux kernel going from version 3.16 to 4.9, GNOME desktop version going from 3.14 to 3.22, KDE Plasma 4 was upgraded to Plasma 5, LibreOffice 4.3 upgraded to 5.2 and Qt upgraded from 4.8 to 5.7. LXQt has been added as well.

The Intel i586 (Pentium), i586/i686 hybrid and PowerPC architectures are no longer supported as of Stretch.^{[191] [192] [193]}

Point releases:

• 9.1 ^[194]
• 9.2 ^[195]
• 9.3 ^[196]
• 9.4 ^[197]
• 9.5 ^[198]
• 9.6 ^[199]
• 9.7 ^[200]
• 9.8 ^[201]
• 9.9 ^[202]
• Stretch becomes oldstable, Buster becomes stable release
• 9.10 ^[203]
• 9.11 ^[204]
• 9.12 ^[205]
• 9.13 this is the final update for codename Stretch.^[206]
• Stretch long term support reaches end-of-life ^[207]
• Stretch extended long term support reaches end-of-life

Debian 10 (Buster)

Debian 10 (Buster) was released on . It was two years and a month after Debian 9 (Stretch).^[208] Debian 10 contains 57,703 packages, supports UEFI Secure Boot,^[209] has AppArmor enabled by default, uses LUKS2 as the default LUKS format, and uses Wayland for GNOME by default.

Debian 10 ships with Linux kernel version 4.19.^[210] Available desktops include Cinnamon 3.8, GNOME 3.30, KDE Plasma 5.14, LXDE 0.99.2, LXQt 0.14, MATE 1.20, Xfce 4.12. Key application software includes LibreOffice 6.1 for office productivity, VLC 3.0 for media viewing, and Firefox ESR for web browsing.^[211]

Point releases:

• 10.1 ^{[212] [213]}
• 10.2 ^[214]
• 10.3 ^[215]
• 10.4 ^[216]
• 10.5 ^[217]
• 10.6 ^[218]
• 10.7 ^[219]
• 10.8 ^[220]
• 10.9 ^[221]
• 10.10 ^[222]
• Buster becomes oldstable, Bullseye is the current stable release
• 10.11 ^[223]
• 10.12 ^[224]
• 10.13 this is the final update for codename Buster^[225]
• Buster long term support reaches end-of-life ^[226]
• Buster extended long term support reaches end-of-life ^[227]

Debian 11 (Bullseye)

Debian 11 (Bullseye) was released on 14 August 2021. It is based on the Linux 5.10 LTS kernel and will be supported for five years.^[228]

On 12 November 2020, it was announced that "Homeworld", by Juliette Taka, will be the default theme for Debian 11, after winning a public poll held with eighteen choices.^[229]

Bullseye dropped the remaining Qt4/KDE 4 libraries and Python 2,^{[230] [231]} and shipped with Qt 5.15 KDE Plasma 5.20.^[232] Available desktops include Gnome 3.38, KDE Plasma 5.20, LXDE 11, LXQt 0.16, MATE 1.24, and Xfce 4.16.^{[233] [234] [235]}

Bullseye does not support the older big-endian 32-bit MIPS architectures.^[236] This is not to be confused with the more common i386 32-bit architecture which is still supported.

The first of the code freezes, readying Debian 11 for release, began on 12 January 2021.^[237]

Development freeze timetable:

• 12 January, 2021: transition freeze
• 12 February, 2021: soft freeze^[238]
• 12 March, 2021: hard freeze^[239]
• 17 July, 2021: full freeze
• 14 August, 2021: release

Point releases:

• 11.1 ^[240]
• 11.2 ^[241]
• 11.3 ^[242]
• 11.4 ^[243]
• 11.5 ^[244]
• 11.6 ^[245]
• 11.7 ^[246]
• Bullseye becomes oldstable, Bookworm is the current stable release
• 11.8 ^[247]
• 11.9 ^[248]
• 11.10 ^[249]
• 11.11 ^[250]

Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Debian 12 (Bookworm) was released on 10 June 2023. It is based on Linux kernel v6.1 LTS, and uses GNOME 43 as its default desktop environment, but as usual many other desktops are available, such as KDE Plasma 5.27, LXDE 11, LXQt 1.2.0, MATE 1.26, and Xfce 4.18.^[251]

On 13 October 2022, the Release Team announced the freeze development milestone timeline for this release:^{[252] [253]}

• 12 January 2023: transition and toolchain
• 12 February 2023: soft freeze
• 12 March 2023: hard freeze

Point releases:

• 12.1 ^[254]
• 12.2 ^[255]
• 12.3 (Cancelled, was intended to be released)^[256]
• 12.4 ^[257]
• 12.5 ^[258]
• 12.6 ((delayed from))^{[259] [260]}
• 12.7 ^[261]

Debian 13 (Trixie)

With the release of Debian 12 on June 10, 2023, testing is now also known by the codename Trixie which is anticipated to be released as Debian 13 in 2025.^[262]

Debian 13 will continue to support 32 bit x86 processors, however the lower limit is now i686.^[263]

Debian 13 will drop support for the mipsel architecture.^[264]

Debian 14 (Forky)

Following the release of Debian 13 (Trixie), testing will also be known by the codename Forky which is anticipated to be released as Debian 14 in 2027.^[265]

Release timeline

Timeline description
Release	First	From	Last	Until	References
Buzz	1.1	17 June 1996
Rex	1.2	12 December 1996
Bo	1.3	5 June 1997	1.3.1.r8	16 May 1998
Hamm	2.0r0	24 July 1998	2.0r5	15 February 1999	^[266]
Slink	2.1r0	9 March 1999	2.1r5	30 September 2000	^[267]
Potato	2.2r0	14–15 August 2000	2.2r7	19 July 2002	^[268]
Woody	3.0r0	19 July 2002	3.0r6	30 June 2006	^[269]
Sarge	3.1r0	6 June 2005	3.1r8	12 April 2008	^[270]
Etch	4.0r0	8 April 2007	4.0r9	22 May 2010	^[271]
Lenny	5.0	14 February 2009	5.0.10	10 March 2012	^[272]
Squeeze	6.0	6 February 2011	6.0.10	19 July 2014	^[273]
Wheezy	7.0	4 May 2013	7.11	4 June 2016	^[274]
Jessie	8.0	25 April 2015	8.11	17 June 2018	^[275]
Stretch	9.0	17 June 2017	9.13	18 July 2020	^[276]
Buster	10.0	6 July 2019	10.13	10 September 2022	^[277]
Bullseye	11.0	14 August 2021	11.10		^[278]
Bookworm	12.0	10 June 2023	12.6		^[279]

Port timeline

Timeline description
Port	Pointer Size		Added	Dropped	Status	References
	64 bits	Little	Slink	Squeeze	ports	^[280]
	64 bits	Little	Etch		release	^[281]
	32 bits	Little	Potato	Squeeze	-	^[282]
	32 bits	Little	Lenny		release
	32 bits	Little	Wheezy		release
	64 bits	Little	Jessie		release
	32 bits	Big	Woody	Squeeze	ports	^[283]
	32 bits	Little	first		release	^[284]
	64 bits	Little	Woody	Jessie	ports	^[285]
	64 bits	Little	Squeeze	Jessie	ports	^[286]
	32 bits	Little	Squeeze	Jessie	ports
	32 bits	Big	Hamm	Etch	ports	^[287]
	32 bits	Big	Woody	Bullseye	-	^[288]
	64 bits	Little	Stretch		release	^[289]
	32 bits	Little	Woody	Trixie	release	^[290]
	32 bits	Big	Potato	Stretch	ports	^[291]
ppc64le	64 bits	Little	Jessie		release
	32 bits	Big	Woody	Jessie	-	^[292]
	64 bits	Big	Wheezy		release
	32 bits	Big	Slink	Jessie	-	^[293]

Many of past architectures, plus some that have not yet achieved release status, are available from the debian-ports repository.

See also

• Summary of Debian version history
• Ubuntu version history
• Linux Mint version history

External links

• Debian Releases at Debian Wiki
• Debian Releases at debian.org

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32. Web site: Bits from the release team: Winter is Coming (but not to South Africa) . Jonathan . Wiltshire . The Debian Project . 7 July 2016 . 18 July 2016 . https://archive.today/20160718173347/https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2016/07/msg00002.html . live.
33. Web site: Debian Micronews: There are 31,387 source packages in Debian bullseye. . Donald . Norwood . 14 August 2021 . The Debian Project . 14 August 2021 . live . 14 August 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210814152004/https://micronews.debian.org/2021/1628958296.html.
34. Web site: Debian Package Auto-Building . 15 August 2021.
35. Web site: Debian 11 "bullseye" released . The Debian Project . 15 August 2021 . live . 14 August 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210814211009/https://www.debian.org/News/2021/20210814.
36. Web site: About Debian 11 Bullseye . 27 November 2023 . 29 July 2024.
37. Web site: Debian 12 "bookworm" released . 2023-06-10 . 2023-06-10 . debian.org.
38. Web site: This Is the Default Theme of Debian GNU/Linux 12 "Bookworm" . 9to5linux.com. 11 December 2022 . February 6, 2023.
39. Web site: Bits from the release team: full steam ahead towards buster . Emilio . Pozuelo Monfort . The Debian Project . 16 April 2018 . 17 April 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180417023820/https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2018/04/msg00006.html . live.
40. Web site: Norwood . Donald . Debian 12 has over 34,780 Source packages . Debian micronews. 10 June 2023 .
41. Web site: About Debian 12 Bookworm . 27 November 2023 . 12 February 2024.
42. Web site: bits from the release team: winter^Wfreeze is coming . Paul . Gevers . The Debian Project . 9 November 2020 . 8 November 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201108233057/https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2020/11/msg00002.html . live.
43. Web site: LTS - Debian Wiki. Wiki.debian.org. 2017-10-25. Debian Long Term Support (LTS) is a project to extend the lifetime of all Debian stable releases to (at least) 5 years. [..] Thus the Debian LTS team takes over security maintenance of the various releases once the Debian Security team stops its work.. 7 May 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200507040157/https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/. live.
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45. Web site: Wrong version of Debian on InfoMagic CD . Bruce Perens . 17 May 2023.
46. Web site: A Brief History of Debian . The Debian Project . 23 November 2015 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20151221235522/http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/project-history/ . 21 December 2015.
47. Web site: A Brief History of Debian . The Debian Project . 23 November 2015 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20151221235522/http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/project-history/ . 21 December 2015 . Debian 1.1 Buzz (June 17th, 1996): This was the first Debian release with a code name. It was taken, like all others so far, from a character in one of the Toy Story movies... in this case, Buzz Lightyear. By this time, Bruce Perens had taken over leadership of the Project from Ian Murdock, and Bruce was working at Pixar, the company that produced the movies. This release was fully ELF, used Linux kernel 2.0, and contained 474 packages..
48. Web site: A Brief History of Debian . The Debian Project . 23 November 2015 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20151221235522/http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/project-history/ . 21 December 2015 . Rex is the code name for a former Stable Debian distribution.It was released on December 12th, 1996 as Debian GNU/Linux 1.2: Named for the plastic dinosaur in the Toy Story movies. This release consisted of 848 packages maintained by 120 developers. It was superseded by DebianBo on June 5th, 1997.Rex is now obsolete and security updates are no longer provided..
49. Web site: A Brief History of Debian . The Debian Project . 23 November 2015 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20151221235522/http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/project-history/ . 21 December 2015 . Debian 1.3 Bo (June 5th, 1997): Named for Bo Peep, the shepherdess. This release consisted of 974 packages maintained by 200 developers..
50. Web site: 8 July 1997 . Debian 1.3.1 Released . 13 May 2021.
51. Web site: 3 February 1998 . Revised Debian CD Available . 13 May 2021.
52. Web site: A Brief History of Debian . The Debian Project . 23 November 2015 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20151221235522/http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/project-history/ . 21 December 2015 . Debian 2.0 Hamm (July 24th, 1998): Named for the piggy-bank in the Toy Story movies. This was the first multi-architecture release of Debian, adding support for the Motorola 68000 series architectures. With Ian Jackson as Project Leader, this release made the transition to libc6, and consisted of over 1500 packages maintained by over 400 developers..
53. Web site: 24 October 1998 . security updates webpage . 13 May 2021.
54. Web site: 9 March 1999 . Release of Debian 2.1 . 13 May 2021.
55. Web site: A Brief History of Debian . The Debian Project . 23 November 2015 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20151221235522/http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/project-history/ . 21 December 2015 . Debian 2.1 Slink (March 9th, 1999): Named for the slinky-dog in the movie. Two more architectures were added, Alpha and SPARC. With Wichert Akkerman as Project Leader, this release consisted of about 2250 packages and required 2 CDs in the official set. The key technical innovation was the introduction of apt, a new package management interface. Widely emulated, apt addressed issues resulting from Debian's continuing growth, and established a new paradigm for package acquisition and installation on Open Source operating systems..
56. Web site: Debian 2.1 (slink) Information . The Debian Project . 23 November 2015 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20151123134403/https://www.debian.org/releases/slink/ . 23 November 2015 .
57. Web site: 5 May 1999 . Re: CD-Image of latest release . 13 May 2021.
58. Web site: 27 June 1999 . 2.1r2 images . 13 May 2021.
59. Web site: 4 September 1999 . 2.1_r3 images appearing on cdimage.debian.org . 13 May 2021.
60. Web site: 15 December 1999 . Debian GNU/Linux 2.1r4 Released . 13 May 2021.
61. Web site: 16 February 2000 . Debian GNU/Linux 2.1r5 Released . 13 May 2021.
62. Web site: A Brief History of Debian . The Debian Project . 23 November 2015 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20151221235522/http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/project-history/ . 21 December 2015 . Debian 2.2 Potato (15 August 2000): Named for "Mr Potato Head" in the Toy Story movies. This release added support for the PowerPC and ARM architectures. With Wichert still serving as Project Leader, this release consisted of more than 3900 binary packages derived from over 2600 source packages maintained by more than 450 Debian developers..
63. Web site: Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 ('potato') Release Information . The Debian Project . 23 November 2015 . live . 22 December 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151222000856/http://www.debian.org/releases/potato/ .
64. Web site: Debian GNU/Linux 2.2, the "Joel 'Espy' Klecker" release, is officially released . The Debian Project . 23 November 2015 . live . 29 June 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110629101301/http://www.debian.org/News/2000/20000815 .
65. Web site: 1 November 2000 . Debian GNU/Linux 2.2r1 Released . 13 May 2021.
66. Web site: 5 December 2000 . Debian GNU/Linux 2.2r2 Released . 13 May 2021.
67. Web site: 17 April 2001 . Debian GNU/Linux 2.2r3 Released . 13 May 2021.
68. Web site: 5 November 2001 . Debian GNU/Linux 2.2r4 released . 13 May 2021.
69. Web site: 10 January 2002 . Debian GNU/Linux 2.2r5 released . 13 May 2021.
70. Web site: 3 April 2002 . Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 updated (r6) . 13 May 2021.
71. Web site: 13 July 2002 . Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 updated (r7) . 13 May 2021.
72. Web site: A Brief History of Debian . The Debian Project . 23 November 2015 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20151221235522/http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/project-history/ . 21 December 2015 . Debian 3.0 Woody (19 July 2002): Named for the main character the Toy Story movies: "Woody" the cowboy. Even more architectures were added in this release: IA-64, HP PA-RISC, MIPS (big endian), MIPS (little endian) and S/390. This is also the first release to include cryptographic software due to the restrictions for exportation being lightened in the US, and also the first one to include KDE, now that the license issues with QT were resolved. With Bdale Garbee recently appointed Project Leader, and more than 900 Debian developers, this release contained around 8,500 binary packages and 7 binary CDs in the official set..
73. Web site: Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 "woody" Release Information . The Debian Project . 23 November 2015 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20151222000854/http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/ . 22 December 2015 .
74. Web site: Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 released . The Debian Project . 23 November 2015 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20151222020406/http://www.debian.org/News/2002/20020719 . 22 December 2015 .
75. Web site: 16 December 2002 . Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 updated (r1) . 13 May 2021.
76. Web site: 21 November 2003 . Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 updated (r2) . 13 May 2021.
77. Web site: 26 October 2004 . Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 updated (r3) . 13 May 2021.
78. Web site: 1 January 2005 . Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 updated (r4) . 13 May 2021.
79. Web site: 16 April 2005 . Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 updated (r5) . 13 May 2021.
80. Web site: 2 June 2005 . Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 updated (r6) . 13 May 2021.
81. Web site: A Brief History of Debian . The Debian Project . 23 November 2015 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20151221235522/http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/project-history/ . 21 December 2015 . Debian 3.1 Sarge (6 June 2005): named for the sergeant of the Green Plastic Army Men. No new architectures were added to the release, although an unofficial AMD64 port was published at the same time and distributed through the new Alioth project hosting site. This release features a new installer: debian-installer, a modular piece of software that feature automatic hardware detection, unattended installation features and was released fully translated to over thirty languages. It was also the first release to include a full office suite: OpenOffice.org. Branden Robinson had just been appointed as Project Leader. This release was made by more than nine hundred Debian developers, and contained around 15,400 binary packages and 14 binary CDs in the official set..
82. Web site: Debian "sarge" Release Information . The Debian Project . 23 November 2015 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20180620130652/https://www.debian.org/releases/sarge/ . 20 June 2018 .
83. Web site: 20 December 2005 . Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 updated (r1) . 7 May 2021.
84. Web site: Index of /mirror/cdimage/archive/3.1_r1 . 7 May 2021.
85. Web site: 19 April 2006 . Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 updated (r2) . 7 May 2021.
86. Web site: Index of /mirror/cdimage/archive/3.1_r2 . 7 May 2021.
87. Web site: 1 September 2006 . Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 updated . 7 May 2021.
88. Web site: Index of /mirror/cdimage/archive/3.1_r3 . 7 May 2021.
89. Web site: 6 November 2006 . Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 updated . 7 May 2021.
90. Web site: Index of /mirror/cdimage/archive/3.1_r4 . 7 May 2021.
91. Web site: 18 February 2007 . Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 updated . 7 May 2021.
92. Web site: Index of /mirror/cdimage/archive/3.1_r5 . 7 May 2021.
93. Web site: 7 April 2007 . Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 updated . 7 May 2021.
94. Web site: Index of /mirror/cdimage/archive/3.1_r6 . 7 May 2021.
95. Web site: 28 December 2007 . Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 updated . 7 May 2021.
96. Web site: Index of /mirror/cdimage/archive/3.1_r7 . 7 May 2021.
97. Web site: 13 April 2008 . Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 updated . 7 May 2021.
98. Web site: Index of /mirror/cdimage/archive/3.1_r8 . 7 May 2021.
99. Web site: A Brief History of Debian . The Debian Project . 23 November 2015 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20151221235522/http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/project-history/ . 21 December 2015 . Debian 4.0 Etch (8 April 2007): named for the sketch toy in the movie. One architecture was added in this release: AMD64, and official support for m68k was dropped. This release continued using the debian-installer, but featuring in this release a graphical installer, cryptographic verification of downloaded packages, more flexible partitioning (with support for encrypted partitions), simplified mail configuration, a more flexible desktop selection, simplified but improved localization and new modes, including a rescue mode. New installations would not need to reboot through the installation process as the previous two phases of installation were now integrated. This new installer provided support for scripts using composed characters and complex languages in its graphical version, increasing the number of available translations to over fifty. Sam Hocevar was appointed Project Leader the very same day, and the project included more than one thousand and thirty Debian developers. The release contained around 18,000 binary packages over 20 binary CDs (3 DVDs) in the official set. There were also two binary CDs available to install the system with alternate desktop environments different from the default one..
100. Web site: Debian "etch" Release Information . The Debian Project . 23 November 2015 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20151222000852/http://www.debian.org/releases/etch/ . 22 December 2015 .
101. Web site: 17 August 2007 . Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 updated . 6 May 2021.
102. Web site: Index of /mirror/cdimage/archive/4.0_r1 . 6 May 2021.
103. Web site: 27 December 2007 . Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 updated . 6 May 2021.
104. Web site: Index of /mirror/cdimage/archive/4.0_r2 . 6 May 2021.
105. Web site: 17 February 2008 . Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 updated . 6 May 2021.
106. Web site: Index of /mirror/cdimage/archive/4.0_r3 . 6 May 2021.
107. Web site: 26 July 2008 . Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 updated and support for newer hardware added . 6 May 2021.
108. Web site: Index of /mirror/cdimage/archive/4.0_r4 . 6 May 2021.
109. Web site: 23 October 2008 . Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 updated . 6 May 2021.
110. Web site: Index of /mirror/cdimage/archive/4.0_r5 . 6 May 2021.
111. Web site: 18 December 2008 . Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 updated . 6 May 2021.
112. Web site: Index of /mirror/cdimage/archive/4.0_r6 . 6 May 2021.
113. Web site: 18 February 2009 . Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 updated . 6 May 2021.
114. Web site: Index of /mirror/cdimage/archive/4.0_r7 . 6 May 2021.
115. Web site: 8 April 2009 . Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 updated . 6 May 2021.
116. Web site: Index of /mirror/cdimage/archive/4.0_r8 . 6 May 2021.
117. Web site: 22 May 2010 . Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 updated . 6 May 2021.
118. Web site: Index of /mirror/cdimage/archive/4.0_r9 . 6 May 2021.
119. Web site: A Brief History of Debian . The Debian Project . 23 November 2015 . Debian 5.0 Lenny (February 2009): named for the wind up binoculars in the Toy Story movies. One architecture was added in this release: ARM EABI (or armel), providing support for newer ARM processors and deprecating the old ARM port (arm). The m68k port was not included in this release, although it was still provided in the unstable distribution. This release did not feature the FreeBSD port, although much work on the port had been done to make it qualify it did not meet yet the qualification requirements for this release. . 21 December 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151221235522/http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/project-history/ . live.
120. Web site: Debian "lenny" Release Information . The Debian Project . 23 November 2015 . 27 November 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151127011450/http://www.debian.org/releases/lenny/ . live .
121. Web site: Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 released . The Debian Project . 23 November 2015 . 23 November 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151123142106/https://www.debian.org/News/2009/20090214 . live .
122. Web site: 11 April 2009 . Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 updated . 5 May 2021.
123. Web site: Index of /mirror/cdimage/archive/5.0.1 . 5 May 2021.
124. Web site: 27 June 2009 . Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 updated . 5 May 2021.
125. Web site: Index of /mirror/cdimage/archive/5.0.2 . 5 May 2021.
126. Web site: 5 September 2009 . Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 updated . 5 May 2021.
127. Web site: Index of /mirror/cdimage/archive/5.0.3 . 5 May 2021.
128. Web site: 30 January 2010 . Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 updated . 5 May 2021.
129. Web site: Index of /mirror/cdimage/archive/5.0.4 . 5 May 2021.
130. Web site: 26 June 2010 . Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 updated . 5 May 2021.
131. Web site: Index of /mirror/cdimage/archive/5.0.5 . 5 May 2021.
132. Web site: 4 September 2010 . Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 updated . 5 May 2021.
133. Web site: Index of /mirror/cdimage/archive/5.0.6 . 5 May 2021.
134. Web site: 27 November 2010 . Updated Debian GNU/Linux: 5.0.7 released . 5 May 2021.
135. Web site: 22 January 2011 . Updated Debian GNU/Linux: 5.0.8 released . 5 May 2021.
136. Web site: 1 October 2011 . Updated Debian GNU/Linux 5.0: 5.0.9 released . 5 May 2021.
137. Web site: 10 March 2012 . Updated Debian 5.0: 5.0.10 released . 5 May 2021.
138. Web site: Debian i386 architecture now requires a 686-class processor . The Debian Project . 18 June 2017 . Support for 486-class processors was dropped, somewhat accidentally, in squeeze. . 17 May 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170517202412/https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2016/05/msg00001.html . live.
139. Web site: A Brief History of Debian . The Debian Project . 23 November 2015 . Debian 6.0 Squeeze (February 2011): named for the green three-eyed aliens. The release was frozen on 6 August 2010, with many of the Debian developers gathered at the 10th Debconf at New York City. While two architectures (alpha and hppa) were dropped, two architectures of the new FreeBSD port (kfreebsd-i386 and kfreebsd-amd64) were made available as technology preview, including the kernel and userland tools as well as common server software (though not advanced desktop features yet). This was the first time a Linux distribution has been extended to also allow use of a non-Linux kernel. . 21 December 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151221235522/http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/project-history/ . live.
140. Web site: Debian "squeeze" Release Information . The Debian Project . 23 November 2015 . 23 November 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151123142320/https://www.debian.org/releases/squeeze/ . live .
141. Web site: Debian 6.0 Squeeze released . The Debian Project . 23 November 2015 . 21 February 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110221183035/http://www.debian.org/News/2011/20110205a . live .
142. Web site: Debian aims for FSF endorsement - The H Open: News and Features. H-online.com. 8 September 2018. 9 April 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170409065830/http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Debian-aims-for-FSF-endorsement-1632789.html. live.
143. Web site: Debian -- News -- Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" to be released with completely free Linux Kernel. Debian.org. 8 September 2018. 1 August 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180801111622/https://www.debian.org/News/2010/20101215. live.
144. Web site: Debian GNU/Linux seeks alignment with Free Software Foundation. Brian. Proffitt. 12 July 2012 . 8 September 2018. 9 September 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180909041220/https://www.itworld.com/article/2723388/it-management/debian-gnu-linux-seeks-alignment-with-free-software-foundation.html. live.
145. Web site: squeeze your non-free firmware away. Upsilon.cc. 8 September 2018. 9 September 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180909040404/https://upsilon.cc/~zack/blog/posts/2010/12/squeeze_your_non-free_firmware_away/. live.
146. Web site: 19 March 2011 . Updated Debian 6: 6.0.1 released . 4 May 2021.
147. Web site: 25 June 2011 . Updated Debian 6: 6.0.2 released . 4 May 2021.
148. Web site: 8 October 2011 . Updated Debian 6: 6.0.3 released . 4 May 2021.
149. Web site: 28 January 2012 . Updated Debian 6: 6.0.4 released . 4 May 2021.
150. Web site: 12 May 2012 . Updated Debian 6: 6.0.5 released . 4 May 2021.
151. Web site: 29 September 2012 . Updated Debian 6: 6.0.6 released . 4 May 2021.
152. Web site: 23 February 2013 . Updated Debian 6: 6.0.7 released . 4 May 2021.
153. Web site: 20 October 2013 . Updated Debian 6: 6.0.8 released . 4 May 2021.
154. Web site: 15 February 2014 . Updated Debian 6: 6.0.9 released . 4 May 2021.
155. Web site: 19 July 2014 . Updated Debian 6: 6.0.10 released . 4 May 2021.
156. Web site: 12 February 2016 . Debian 6.0 Long Term Support reaching end-of-life . 13 May 2021.
157. Web site: A Brief History of Debian . The Debian Project . 23 November 2015 . Debian 7.0 Wheezy (May 2013): named for the rubber toy penguin with a red bow tie. One architecture was included in this release (armhf) and this release introduced multi-arch support, which allowed users to install packages from multiple architectures on the same machine. Improvements in the installation process allowed visually impaired people to install the system using software speech for the first time. This was also the first release that supported the installation and booting in devices using UEFI firmware. . 21 December 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151221235522/http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/project-history/ . live.
158. Web site: Debian "wheezy" Release Information . The Debian Project . 23 November 2015 . 3 November 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151103173130/https://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/ . live .
159. Web site: Debian 7.0 Wheezy released . The Debian Project . 23 November 2015 . 22 December 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151222015735/http://www.debian.org/News/2013/20130504 . live .
160. Web site: UEFI . The Debian Project . 1 January 2020 . The initial support to make UEFI amd64 systems directly installable in Debian was added in Wheezy (7.0). Support was later added for i386 and arm64 systems for Jessie (8.0), along with a number of quirks and bug workarounds. Support for armhf was added in Buster (10.0). . 14 November 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20191114091005/https://wiki.debian.org/UEFI#debian-installer_support . live.
161. Web site: 15 June 2013 . Updated Debian 7: 7.1 released . 4 May 2021.
162. Web site: 12 October 2013 . Updated Debian 7: 7.2 released . 4 May 2021.
163. Web site: 14 December 2013 . Updated Debian 7: 7.3 released . 4 May 2021.
164. Web site: 8 February 2014 . Updated Debian 7: 7.4 released . 4 May 2021.
165. Web site: 26 April 2014 . Updated Debian 7: 7.5 released . 4 May 2021.
166. Web site: 12 July 2014 . Updated Debian 7: 7.6 released . 4 May 2021.
167. Web site: 18 October 2014 . Updated Debian 7: 7.7 released . 4 May 2021.
168. Web site: 10 January 2015 . Updated Debian 7: 7.8 released . 4 May 2021.
169. Web site: 5 September 2015 . Updated Debian 7: 7.9 released . 4 May 2021.
170. Web site: 2 April 2016 . Updated Debian 7: 7.10 released . 4 May 2021.
171. Web site: 4 June 2016 . Updated Debian 7: 7.11 released . 17 November 2019 . 22 December 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20191222032442/https://www.debian.org/News/2016/2016060402 . live .
172. Web site: 4 June 2016 . Debian 7 Long Term Support reaching end-of-life . 13 May 2021.
173. Web site: LTS/Extended - Debian Wiki . 2022-01-16 . wiki.debian.org.
174. Web site: A Brief History of Debian . The Debian Project . 23 November 2015 . Debian 8 Jessie (April 2015): named for the cowgirl doll who first appeared in Toy Story 2. . 21 December 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151221235522/http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/project-history/ . live.
175. Web site: Debian "jessie" Release Information . The Debian Project . 23 November 2015 . 15 November 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151115195044/http://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/ . live .
176. Web site: Debian 8 Jessie released . The Debian Project . 23 November 2015 . 18 June 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170618152940/https://www.debian.org/News/2015/20150426 . live .
177. Web site: Debian "jessie" Release Information . 21 November 2015 . 15 November 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151115195044/http://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/ . live .
178. Web site: 6 June 2015 . Updated Debian 8: 8.1 released . 4 May 2021.
179. Web site: 5 September 2015 . Updated Debian 8: 8.2 released . 4 May 2021.
180. Web site: 23 January 2016 . Updated Debian 8: 8.3 released . 4 May 2021.
181. Web site: 2 April 2016 . Updated Debian 8: 8.4 released . 4 May 2021.
182. Web site: 4 June 2016 . Updated Debian 8: 8.5 released . 4 May 2021.
183. Web site: 17 September 2016 . Updated Debian 8: 8.6 released . 4 May 2021.
184. Web site: 14 January 2017 . Updated Debian 8: 8.7 released . 4 May 2021.
185. Web site: 6 May 2017 . Updated Debian 8: 8.8 released . 4 May 2021.
186. Web site: 22 July 2017 . Updated Debian 8: 8.9 released . 28 March 2020 . 12 December 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20171212203214/https://www.debian.org/News/2017/2017072202 . live .
187. Web site: 9 December 2017 . Updated Debian 8: 8.10 released . 14 February 2020 . 12 December 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20171212203158/https://www.debian.org/News/2017/20171209 . live .
188. Web site: 23 June 2018 . Updated Debian 8: 8.11 released . 15 May 2019 . 7 July 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190707051702/https://www.debian.org/News/2018/20180623 . live .
189. Web site: Debian 9 "Stretch" released. Debian.org. 17 June 2017. 2017-08-28. 18 June 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170618145125/https://www.debian.org/News/2017/20170617. live.
190. Web site: ChangeLog. stretch. Debian. 2020-07-18. 2020-07-21. 8 October 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20181008045120/http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stretch/ChangeLog. live.
191. Web site: Debian i386 architecture now requires a 686-class processor . . 18 June 2017 . 17 May 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170517202412/https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2016/05/msg00001.html . live .
192. Web site: Release architectures for Debian 9 'Stretch' . The only change from Jessie is the removal of powerpc as a release architecture. We discussed this at length, and eventually took the view that the least disservice to users of that port is to provide reasonable notice of its discontinuation. We recognise and acknowledge that discontinuing any port is unavoidably disruptive. The question of whether powerpc remains an architecture in the main archive or moves to ports is one for FTP masters, not the release team. . 28 May 2017 . 6 November 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161106161122/https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2016/10/msg00008.html . live .
193. Web site: Debian Is Dropping Support for Older 32-bit Hardware Architectures in Debian 9 . The change has already been implemented to the Linux kernel 4.3 packages, which have been uploaded to the Debian Unstable repositories last year. And today users are being informed to move to Debian GNU/Linux 8 "Jessie" if they're still using Debian on older computers powered by i586 or i486 processors. If i386 support is to be included in the Debian GNU/Linux 8 "Jessie" release, which should enter LTS (Long Term Support) stage from May 2018, the operating system will then support older 32-bit processors until the year 2020. . 9 February 2020 . 31 October 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20191031050340/https://news.softpedia.com/news/debian-is-dropping-support-for-older-32-bit-hardware-architectures-in-debian-9-503832.shtml . live .
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198. Web site: 14 July 2018 . Updated Debian 9: 9.5 released . 14 February 2020 . 14 July 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180714165136/https://www.debian.org/News/2018/20180714 . live .
199. Web site: 10 November 2018 . Updated Debian 9: 9.6 released . 14 February 2020 . 22 December 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20191222032255/https://www.debian.org/News/2018/20181110 . live .
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255. Web site: 7 October 2023 . Updated Debian 12: 12.2 released . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20231008021101/https://www.debian.org/News/2023/20231007 . 8 October 2023 .
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258. Web site: Updated Debian 12: 12.5 released .
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