Debian version history

Debian 8 (Jessie)

Debian releases do 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)

Debian 8 (Jessie)

Debian 8 (Jessie), released 25–26 April 2015, contained more than 43,000 packages, with systemd installed by default instead of init. 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 new 64-bit s390x is retained) and SPARC architectures were dropped.[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: 0.90 N/A August-December 1993 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A None [1]
Old version, no longer supported: 0.91 N/A January 1994 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A [1]
Old version, no longer supported: 0.93R5 N/A March 1995 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A [1]
Old version, no longer supported: 0.93R6 N/A November 1995 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A [1]
Old version, no longer supported: 1.0 N/A never released N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A [1]
Old version, no longer supported: 1.1 Buzz 17 June 1996 1 474 N/A 2.0 N/A [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 10 TBA N/A 4.10 TBA TBA [1][52][53]
Future release: 10 Buster TBA TBA TBA TBA TBA TBA TBA [54]
Future release: 11 Bullseye TBA TBA TBA TBA TBA TBA TBA [55]
Legend:
Old version
Older version, still supported
Latest version
Latest preview version
Future release

Release timeline

Port timeline

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 "A Brief History of Debian". The Debian Project. Retrieved 23 November 2015.
  2. ↑ "A Brief History of Debian". The Debian Project. Retrieved 23 November 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.
  3. ↑ "A Brief History of Debian". The Debian Project. Retrieved 23 November 2015. Debian 1.2 Rex (December 12th, 1996): Named for the plastic dinosaur in the Toy Story movies. This release consisted of 848 packages maintained by 120 developers
  4. ↑ "A Brief History of Debian". The Debian Project. Retrieved 23 November 2015. Debian 1.3 Bo (June 5th, 1997): Named for Bo Peep, the shepherdess. This release consisted of 974 packages maintained by 200 developers.
  5. ↑ "A Brief History of Debian". The Debian Project. Retrieved 23 November 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.
  6. ↑ "A Brief History of Debian". The Debian Project. Retrieved 23 November 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.
  7. ↑ "Debian 2.1 (slink) Information". The Debian Project. Retrieved 23 November 2015.
  8. ↑ "A Brief History of Debian". The Debian Project. Retrieved 23 November 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.
  9. ↑ "Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 ('potato') Release Information". The Debian Project. Retrieved 23 November 2015.
  10. ↑ "Debian GNU/Linux 2.2, the "Joel 'Espy' Klecker" release, is officially released". The Debian Project. Retrieved 23 November 2015.
  11. ↑ "A Brief History of Debian". The Debian Project. Retrieved 23 November 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.
  12. ↑ "Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 "woody" Release Information". The Debian Project. Retrieved 23 November 2015.
  13. ↑ "Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 released". The Debian Project. Retrieved 23 November 2015.
  14. ↑ "A Brief History of Debian". The Debian Project. Retrieved 23 November 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.
  15. ↑ "Debian "sarge" Release Information". The Debian Project. Retrieved 23 November 2015.
  16. ↑ "A Brief History of Debian". The Debian Project. Retrieved 23 November 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 to the default one.
  17. ↑ "Debian "etch" Release Information". The Debian Project. Retrieved 23 November 2015.
  18. ↑ "A Brief History of Debian". The Debian Project. Retrieved 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.
  19. ↑ "Debian "lenny" Release Information". The Debian Project. Retrieved 23 November 2015.
  20. ↑ "Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 released". The Debian Project. Retrieved 23 November 2015.
  21. ↑ "A Brief History of Debian". The Debian Project. Retrieved 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.
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  23. ↑ "Debian 6.0 Squeeze released". The Debian Project. Retrieved 23 November 2015.
  24. ↑ "A Brief History of Debian". The Debian Project. Retrieved 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.
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  26. ↑ "Debian 7.0 Wheezy released". The Debian Project. Retrieved 23 November 2015.
  27. ↑ "A Brief History of Debian". The Debian Project. Retrieved 23 November 2015. Debian 8 Jessie (April 2015): named for the cowgirl doll who first appeared in Toy Story 2.
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  31. ↑ "[SECURITY] Security policy for Debian 2.1 (slink) (updated)". The Debian Project. Retrieved 23 November 2015.
  32. ↑ "Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 ('potato') Release Information". The Debian Project. Retrieved 23 November 2015.
  33. ↑ "Debian GNU/Linux 2.2, the "Joel 'Espy' Klecker" release, is officially released". The Debian Project. Retrieved 23 November 2015.
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  35. ↑ "Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 released". The Debian Project. Retrieved 23 November 2015.
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  52. ↑ https://wiki.debian.org/DebianStretch
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