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.
Common problems upgrading from xorg 6.9 to 7.0 are being documented in Xorg69To7. Check there first if you are having problems
Common Fix: # apt-get install xkb-data
Locales currently broken
[http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=363644 #363644]: What fixed this for one user was upgrading debconf to 1.5.0, purging locales, removing /etc/environment and /etc/default/locale, then reinstalling and reconfiguring locales.
*** 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.
Quick links
[http://debian.dabase.com/ Critical bugs in unstable]
- [wiki:Status The Status page]
- [wiki:Status/Stable Status of Stable]
- [wiki:Status/Testing Status of Testing]