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["FrontPage"] > Debian Releases

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Debian is released on a regular basis. During development of a release, there are a set of development releases that always exist. These are stable (the current release), testing, the next release which is currently in development, and unstable, the release which is constantly updated and in active development. Only stable is recommended for production use.

Current Releases

  • [:DebianOldStable:oldstable] - The previous stable release (3.1) ([:DebianSarge:sarge])

  • [:DebianStable:stable] - The current stable release (4.0) ([:DebianEtch:etch])

  • [:DebianTesting:testing] - The next generation release ([:DebianLenny:lenny])

  • [:DebianUnstable:unstable] - The unstable development release ([:DebianSid:sid]) (new packages are introduced here too)

  • [:DebianExperimental:experimental] - Not really a release, but where new packages are introduced

Production Releases

note: [:DebianReleases/PointReleases:Point releases] (like 4.0r0 and 4.0r1) are detailed in each distribution's page.

  • Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (‘[:DebianEtch:etch]’) -- Released April 8th 2007

  • Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (‘[:DebianSarge:sarge]’) -- Released June 6th 2005

  • Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (‘[:DebianWoody:woody]’) -- Released July 19th 2002

  • Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (‘[:DebianPotato:potato]’) -- Released August 14th 2000

  • Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 (‘[:DebianSlink:slink]’) -- Released March 1999

  • Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 (‘[:DebianHamm:hamm]’) -- Released July 1998

  • Debian GNU/Linux 1.3 (‘[:DebianBo:bo]’) -- Released July 1997

  • Debian GNU/Linux 1.2 (‘[:DebianRex:rex]’) -- Released December 1996

  • Debian GNU/Linux 1.1 (‘[:DebianBuzz:buzz]’) -- June 1996

  • Debian GNU/Linux 0.93R6 -- Released November 1995
  • Debian GNU/Linux 0.93R5 -- Released March 1995
  • Debian GNU/Linux 0.91 -- January 1994

The official information about Debian releases is on the Debian web site (http://www.debian.org/releases/).

Time Between Releases

Time between Debian releases
1.2 178 days
1.3 175 days
2.0 413 days
2.1 229 days
2.2 525 days
3.0 703 days
3.1 1083 days
4.0 671 days

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