Status of Debian unstable

The [wiki:DebianUnstable Unstable] release of ["Debian"] is 3.1, codenamed [wiki:DebianSid Sid].

When Will Unstable/Sid Release?

Never. Unstable is never released. You can read more about available versions of Debian at DebianReleases.

Current issues affecting Unstable

X upgrade

["Xorg"] was recently transitioned from version 6.9 to 7.0.

Locales currently broken

*** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0xdeadbeef ***

This is due to GLIB's new memory allocator which broke some false assumptions, which nevertheless some programs assumed.

Packages affected by this problem is tracked with usertag by Gustavo Franco: See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=stratus@debian.org;tag=gslice

Use "G_SLICE=always-malloc application" to workaround.

apt pdiff system now active

The pdiff system was recently merged into the mainstream version of apt. The saves bandwidth on updates, but may interfere with some more restrictive proxy/mirror configurations, including older versions of apt-cacher.