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Debian Releases > Debian Buster
Buster is the development codename for Debian 10. It was superseded by Debian Bullseye on 2021-08-14.
It is the current oldoldstable distribution.
Contents
Debian Buster Life cycle
Before the release
2014-11-09: Distribution codename announced
2019-01-12: Transition freeze (announced)
- 2019-02-12: Soft freeze
- 2019-03-12: Full freeze
See the explanation of freeze types for details.
Release and updates
2019-07-06: Initial release: 10.0 (press release)
2019-09-07: Updated (10.1) (press release)
2019-11-16: Updated (10.2) (press release)
2020-02-08: Updated (10.3) (press release)
2020-05-09: Updated (10.4) (press release)
2020-08-01: Updated (10.5) (press release)
2020-09-26: Updated (10.6) (press release)
2020-12-05: Updated (10.7) (press release)
2021-02-06: Updated (10.8) (press release)
2021-03-27: Updated (10.9) (press release)
2021-06-19: Updated (10.10) (press release)
2021-10-09: Updated (10.11) (press release)
2022-03-26: Updated (10.12) (press release)
2022-09-10: Updated (10.13) (press release)
Architectures
Buster was released with 10 architecture ports as announced by the release team:
- amd64
- arm64
- armel
- armhf
- i386
- mips
- mips64el
- mipsel
- ppc64el
- s390x
- See also:
"Bits from the release teams" emails
New Features
See New In Buster
Packages & versions
Desktop environnments
- Cinnamon 3.8,
- GNOME 3.30,
- KDE Plasma 5.14,
- LXDE 0.99.2,
- LXQt 0.14,
- MATE 1.20,
- Xfce 4.12.
Applications
Here are some of the numerous applications Buster includes:
- Apache 2.4.38
- Apt 1.8.2
- Chromium 83.0
- Emacs 26.1
- Firefox 78.5.0 (in the firefox-esr package)
- GIMP 2.10.8
- GNU Compiler Collection 7.4 and 8.3
- GnuPG 2.2.12
- Inkscape 0.92.4
LibreOffice 6.1.5
- Linux kernel 4.19 series
- MariaDB 11
- OpenJDK 11
- Perl 5.28.1
- PHP 7.3
- PostgreSQL 11
- Python 3 3.7.3
- Ruby 2.5.1
- Rustc 1.34
- Samba 4.9
- systemd 241
- Thunderbird 78.5.1
- Vim 8.1
- more than 59,000 other ready-to-use software packages
Artwork
The selected artwork theme for Buster is futurePrototype, designed by Alex Makas.
Links
Release information: https://www.debian.org/releases/buster/
Package Repository: http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/buster/
FAQ
- Q) Which ''Toy Story'' character is Buster?
see Wikipedia page
- Q) Where do I get buster packages?
- Use the following sources for buster:
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ buster main deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates main
See also
Debian Stretch - The previous distribution.
Debian Bullseye - The next distribution.