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= LTS: Long Term Support = = Debian Long Term Support =
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LTS (Long Term Support) is a project for providing security patches after [[DebianOldStable|oldstable]] reached its end of life. Debian Long Term Support (LTS) is a project to extend the lifetime of all Debian stable releases to (at least) 5 years. Debian LTS will not be handled by the Debian security team, but by a separate group of volunteers and companies interested in making it a success (with some overlap in people involved).
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Official security support for Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 (code name "Squeeze") has ended on 31 May 2014. However long term support for the distribution is going to be extended until February 2016, i.e. five years after the initial release. Thus the Debian LTS team takes over security maintenance of the various releases once the Debian Security team stops its work. The team will thus handle:
 * Debian 6 “Squeeze” until February 2016
 * Debian 7 “Wheezy” from February 2016 to May 2018
 * Debian 8 “Jessie“ from May 2018 to April/May 2020
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Debian-LTS will not be handled by the Debian security team, but by a separate group of volunteers and companies interested in making it a success (with some overlap in people involved).

Companies using Debian who are interested in aiding this effort should either [[LTS/Development|help directly]] or [[LTS/Funding|contribute financially]].

Importantly, the success of Squeeze-LTS will be used to judge the viability of LTS support for Debian 7 (wheezy) and Debian 8 (jessie).
Companies using Debian who are benefitting from this project are encouraged to either [[LTS/Development|help directly]] or [[LTS/Funding|contribute financially]]. The amount of packages which are properly supported depends directly on the level of support that we get.
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All LTS related pages are listed in the [[CategoryLts|category LTS]] All LTS related pages are listed in the [[CategoryLts|LTS category]]
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 * [[https://www.debian.org/News/2015/20150424|Join the LTS project to help shape Wheezy and Jessie LTS]]
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## This page is referenced from https://www.debian.org/News/2014/20140719 ## This page is referenced from https://www.debian.org/News/2014/20140719 and many more

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Debian Long Term Support

Debian Long Term Support (LTS) is a project to extend the lifetime of all Debian stable releases to (at least) 5 years. Debian LTS will not be handled by the Debian security team, but by a separate group of volunteers and companies interested in making it a success (with some overlap in people involved).

Thus the Debian LTS team takes over security maintenance of the various releases once the Debian Security team stops its work. The team will thus handle:

  • Debian 6 “Squeeze” until February 2016
  • Debian 7 “Wheezy” from February 2016 to May 2018
  • Debian 8 “Jessie“ from May 2018 to April/May 2020

Companies using Debian who are benefitting from this project are encouraged to either help directly or contribute financially. The amount of packages which are properly supported depends directly on the level of support that we get.

Important Subpages

See the following sub pages for details:

All LTS related pages are listed in the LTS category

Announcement

Get in contact

The most important way of communication is the mailing list debian-lts. See LTS/Contact for more.


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