DebianJessie

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Jessie is the development codename for Debian 8. Jessie receives Long-Term-Support since 2018-06-17. It was superseded by Debian 9 'Stretch' on 2017-06-17.

It is the archived distribution per Official information about Debian releases.

Contents

Debian Jessie Life cycle
1. Before the release
2. Release and updates
Architectures
New Features
1. Packages & versions
Links
FAQ

Debian Jessie Life cycle

Before the release

2012-07-27: Distribution codename announced
2013-05-04: Wheezy released, development on Jessie started
2013-10-13: Jessie freeze date announced
2014-08-13: Jessie installer beta 1 released
2014-10-05: Jessie installer beta 2 released
2014-11-05: Jessie freeze Debian 8.0 "Jessie" is frozen
2015-01-26: Jessie installer RC1 released
2015-03-27: Jessie installer RC2 released
2015-03-31: Jessie target release date announced
2015-04-19: Jessie installer RC3 released

Release and updates

2015-04-25: Initial release: 8.0 (press release)
2015-06-06: Updated (8.1) (press release).
2015-09-05: Updated (8.2) (press release).
2016-01-23: Updated (8.3) (press release).
2016-04-02: Updated (8.4) (press release).
2016-06-04: Updated (8.5) (press release).
2016-09-17: Updated (8.6) (press release).
2017-01-14: Updated (8.7) (press release).
2017-05-06: Updated (8.8) (press release).
2017-06-17: Jessie becomes oldstable. (i.e. A new stable is released: Debian Stretch)
2017-07-22: Updated (8.9) (press release).
2017-12-09: Updated (8.10) (press release).
2018-05-18: Long-Term-Support announced (security advisory).
2018-06-23: Updated (8.11) (press release).

Architectures

work in progress, Read "Bits from the release teams" emails and arch_qualify page
- Two architectures have been introduced: arm64 and ppc64el, and three were dropped: s390 (i.e 31bits support is dropped, replaced by s390x), sparc, and ia64.

New Features

See New In Jessie

Packages & versions

apt: 1.0.9.8.1
kernel: Linux 3.16
gcc: 4.9
Gnome 3.14, KDE 4.14, Xfce 4.10
libc: libc6 2.19-18
X-server: Xorg 7.7

Expected version, as of 2015-09-08

FAQ

Q) Which ''Toy Story'' character is Jessie?

She's the cowgirl modeled after the character on the fictional television show Woody's Roundup (see Wikipedia page, picture)

Q) Where do I get jessie packages?

Jessie is an archived release, receiving no further updates. Upgrading to the current stable release is recommended where possible. Use the following sources for jessie:

deb http://archive.debian.org/debian jessie main

If you need backports, first be warned that these are archived and no longer being updated; they may have security bugs or other major issues. They are not supported in any way.

deb http://archive.debian.org/debian/ jessie-backports main

The jessie-backports Release file's validation key is also expired, and will not be renewed or replaced. You will need to tell apt to disregard this expired key. One way to do that is to put

Acquire::Check-Valid-Until false;

in the /etc/apt/apt.conf file.