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Debian Releases > Debian Jessie

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 It was superseded by Debian 9 'Stretch' on 2017-06-17.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.

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

Links

• Download CD: http://www.debian.org/CD/

• Package Repository: http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie/

• Release information: http://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/

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.

See also:

• Debian Releases

  • Debian Wheezy - The previous distribution.

  • Debian Stretch - The next distribution.

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