Status of Debian unstable

See DebianUnstable for general information about the "unstable" release of Debian, codenamed "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

See OngoingTransitions to read about ongoing library transitions.

Reportbug broken

Refer to [http://bugs.debian.org/370700 #370700] for details. A fixed reportbug is in ["Incoming"].

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

Call your programs with the G_SLICE=always-malloc environment to workaround. Example:

env G_SLICE=always-malloc gnucash

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.

vim7

The long awaited vim 7.0 has recently been uploaded to unstable, please test it:

Sun's Java implementation in non-free

After Sun announced that they had changed their license to allow OSs to distribute Suns non-free Java implementation, sun-java5 was uploaded to non-free in unstable, which has caused some controversy. See ["Java/Sun"] for details.