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Debian Releases > Debian Stretch
Stretch is the development codename for Debian 9. Stretch receives Long-Term-Support since 2020-07-06. It was superseded by Debian Buster on 2019-07-06. Security updates have been discontinued as of 2020-07-06.
It is the archived distribution per Official information about Debian releases
Contents
Debian Stretch Life cycle
Before the release
2014-11-09: Distribution codename announced
- 2015-04-26: Jessie released, development on Stretch started
- 2016-03-03: Decided to defer everything by 2 months to release with Linux 4.10
- Q3 2016: Please finish up things for Stretch
2016-08-13: Stretch kernel will be Linux 4.9 LTS (decision)
- 2016-11-05: Transition freeze (general freeze of transitions)
- 2017-01-05: "Soft" freeze (no new packages, no re-entry, normal migrations)
2017-02-05: Full freeze (official announcement)
- 2017-06-03: Remaining RC bugs tagged stretch-ignore or stretch-will-remove
Release and updates
2017-06-17: Initial release: 9.0 (press release)
2017-07-22: Updated (9.1) (press release)
2017-10-08: Updated (9.2) (press release)
2017-12-09: Updated (9.3) (press release)
2018-03-10: Updated (9.4) (press release)
2018-07-14: Updated (9.5) (press release)
2018-11-10: Updated (9.6) (press release)
2019-01-23: Updated (9.7) (press release)
2019-02-16: Updated (9.8) (press release)
2019-04-27: Updated (9.9) (press release)
2019-07-06: Stretch becomes oldstable. (i.e. A new stable is released: Debian Buster)
2019-09-07: Updated (9.10) (press release)
2019-09-08: Updated (9.11) (press release)
2020-02-08: Updated (9.12) (press release)
2020-07-18: Updated (9.13) (press release)
Architectures
Stretch 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 Stretch
#NewInStretch blog posts
Changes in util-linux by Michael Prokop
New forensic packages by Michael Prokop
dbgsym packages by Michael Prokop
Lastest WebKitGTK+ by Jeremy Bicha
Packages & versions
- apt : 1.4.6
- kernel : Linux 4.9
- gcc : 6.3
- libc : libc6 2.24-11
Artwork
The selected artwork theme for Stretch is softWaves designed by Juliette Taka Belin.
Links
Download CD: http://www.debian.org/CD/
Package Repository: http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stretch/
Release information: http://www.debian.org/releases/stretch/
FAQ
- Q) Which ''Toy Story'' character is Stretch?
see Wikipedia page
- Q) Where do I get stretch packages?
Stretch was partly supported by the LTS project through June 30, 2022. Stretch is now an archived release, receiving no further updates. Upgrading to the current stable release is recommended where possible. Use the following sources for stretch:
deb http://archive.debian.org/debian stretch main
See also:
Debian Jessie - The previous distribution.
Debian Buster - The next distribution.