List of Debian releases

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Debian 8 (Jessie)

Debian releases does not follow a fixed schedule. Recent releases have been made roughly biennially by the Debian Project.

Release history

Debian 1.0 was never released as a vendor accidentally shipped a development release with that version number. 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).[1]

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.[2]

Debian 1.2 (Rex)

Debian 1.2 (Rex), released 12 December 1996, contained 848 packages maintained by 120 developers.[3]

Debian 1.3 (Bo)

Debian 1.3 (Bo), released 5 June 1997, contained 974 packages maintained by 200 developers.[4]

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.[5]

Debian 2.1 (Slink)

Debian 2.1 (Slink), released 9 March 1999, contained about 2,250 packages. The front-end APT was introduced for the package management system and Debian was ported to Alpha and SPARC.[6][7]

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.[8][9][10]

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).[11][12][13]

Debian 3.1 (Sarge)

Debian 3.1 (Sarge), released 6 June 2005, contained around 15,400 packages. debian-installer and OpenOffice.org were introduced.[14][15]

Debian 4.0 (Etch)

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) architectures was dropped.[16][17]

Debian 5.0 (Lenny)

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.[18][19][20]

Debian 6.0 (Squeeze)

Debian 6.0 (Squeeze)

Debian 6.0 (Squeeze), released 6 February 2011, contained more than 29,000 packages. The web browser Chromium was introduced and Debian was ported to the kfreebsd-i386 and kfreebsd-amd64 architectures and support for the Alpha, and PA-RISC (hppa) architectures was dropped.[21][22][23]

Debian 7 (Wheezy)

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 ESA/390 (s390x) architectures.[24][25][26]

Debian 8 (Jessie)

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Debian 8 (Jessie)

Debian 8 (Jessie), released 25–26 April 2015, contained more than 43,000 packages. systemd is installed by default and init is no longer installed by default. Debian was ported to the ARM64 and ppc64le architectures and support to the following architectures was dropped: IA-64, kfreebsd-amd64 and kfreebsd-i386, IBM ESA/390 (s390) (note the 31-bit variant; the new 64-bit s390x is retained) and SPARC.[27][28][29]

Release table

Version Code name Release date Ports Packages Maintainers Linux kernel Security support until Long Term Support until References
Old version, no longer supported: 1.1 Buzz 17 June 1996 1 474 N/A 2.0 N/A None [1]
Old version, no longer supported: 1.2 Rex 12 December 1996 848 120 N/A N/A [1]
Old version, no longer supported: 1.3 Bo 5 June 1997 974 200 2.0.33 N/A [1]
Old version, no longer supported: 2.0 Hamm 24 July 1998 2 ≈ 1,500 ≈ 400 2.0.34 N/A [1]
Old version, no longer supported: 2.1 Slink 9 March 1999 4 ≈ 2,250 N/A 2.0.34, 2.0.35, 2.0.36, 2.0.38 30 October 2000 [1][30][31]
Old version, no longer supported: 2.2 Potato 14–15 August 2000 6 ≈ 3,900 ≈ 450 2.0.38, 2.2.19 30 June 2003 [1][32][33]
Old version, no longer supported: 3.0 Woody 19 July 2002 11 ≈ 8,500 ≈ 900 2.2.20, 2.4.6 30 June 2006 [1][34][35][36]
Old version, no longer supported: 3.1 Sarge 6 June 2005 ≈ 15,400 N/A 2.4.27, 2.6.8 31 March 2008 [1][37][38]
Old version, no longer supported: 4.0 Etch 8 April 2007 ≈ 18,000 ≈ 1,030 2.6.18 15 February 2010 [1][39][40]
Old version, no longer supported: 5.0 Lenny 14 February 2009 12 ≈ 23,000 N/A 2.6.26 6 February 2012 [1][41][42]
Old version, no longer supported: 6.0 Squeeze 6 February 2011 11 ≈ 29,000 N/A 2.6.32 19 July 2014 29 February 2016 [1][43][44][45][46]
Older version, yet still supported: 7 Wheezy 4 May 2013 13 ≈ 36,000 N/A 3.2 26 April 2016 May 2018 [1][47][48][49][45]
Current stable version: 8 Jessie 25–26 April 2015 10 ≈ 43,000 N/A 3.16 May 2018 April/May 2020 [1][50][51][45]
Future release: 9 Stretch TBA TBA TBA TBA 4.10 TBA TBA [1][52]
Future release: 10 Buster TBA TBA TBA TBA TBA TBA TBA [53]
Legend:
Old version
Older version, still supported
Latest version
Latest preview version
Future release

Release timeline

Port timeline

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
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  10. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  11. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
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  14. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
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  18. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  19. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  20. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  21. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  22. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  23. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  24. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  25. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  26. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  27. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  28. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  29. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  30. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  31. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  32. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  33. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  34. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  35. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  36. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  37. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  38. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  39. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  40. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  41. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  42. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  43. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  44. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  45. ↑ 45.0 45.1 45.2 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  46. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  47. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  48. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  49. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  50. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  51. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  52. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  53. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

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