This page is a placeholder for New In Wheezy.
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Debian Archives
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OS Infrastructure
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As an option: systemd: with journald, utilizing new kernel feature cgroups, and exposing other new kernel features like per-process filesystem namespaces.
Desktop and Laptop
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Server
Xen Cloud Platform (XCP)
Openstack
Communications
Better support for UnifiedCommunications and Federated VoIP:
- previous releases of Debian had excellent support for VoIP (SIP and Jabber) within a single site
- Wheezy includes a range of independent components that enable federation and routing between sites
reTurn server provides ICE/STUN/TURN to enable NAT traversal for sites using SIP, Jabber or both
repro SIP proxy provides mutual TLS for federated SIP calling (packages like ejabberd already provide federation for Jabber users)
dlz-ldap-enum uses the phone numbers and email addresses in LDAP directories to support routing of SIP or Jabber over large sites or distributed/loosely-coupled organisations
Security
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Programming
- Python 2.7 as the default Python 2.X interpreter (2.6 remains supported)
- Python 3.2 as the default Python 3.X interpreter
Ruby - 1.9 as default version, 1.8 still available, but will be dropped in Wheezy+1
Debian Installer
WPA support
Debian Pure Blends
The Debian subsets targeting at specific user groups which were formerly known as Custom Debian Distributions are now called Debian Pure Blends (in short Blends). New Blends featuring metapackages in Wheezy are : none yet
Debian Med
New packages of specific importance
- ginkgocadx: industrial strength,field-tested medical image (DICOM) viewer fit for use in the busy daily practice of Medicine.
- hhsuite: sensitive protein sequence search tool based on the pairwise alignment of hidden Markov models. hhsuite compares favourably to the NCBI PSI-BLAST accourding to the authors.
- reprof: protein secondary structure and accessibility predictor that improves on the popular PROF (packaged as profphd) tool.
- biosig4c++: supports over 40 formats for biomedical signal data (EEG, ECG, etc.
- freediams: pharmaceutical drug prescription and interaction manager
- freemedforms-emr: electronic medical record manager
other packages to mention here
Debian Science
and the other sciences oriented Blends DebianMed and ?DebiChem started maintaining citation information that is displayed in the web sentinel and can be used in a BibTeX file.
No longer supported in Wheezy
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Upgrade issues
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Notes
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See Also
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