I would like to say that Debian 8 was my bread and butter at work for most of its supported lifetime. And my main home platform as well, along with CentOS. I think that everyone involved deserves the highest praise.
On Thu, Jul 9, 2020, 11:17 PM Laura Arjona Reina <[email protected]> wrote: > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > The Debian Project https://www.debian.org/ > Debian 8 Long Term Support reaching end-of-life [email protected] > 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 > ------------ > > 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 > ---------------- > > More information about Debian Long Term Support can be found at > https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/. > > > > Contact Information > ------------------- > > For further information, please visit the Debian web pages at > https://www.debian.org/ or send mail to <[email protected]>. > > >
