Debian versions series#

2.1r5 (16 February 2000 22 years ago ( )) ĭebian 6.0 ( Squeeze), released 6 February 2011, contained more than 29,000 packages.The front-end APT was introduced for the package management system and Debian was ported to Alpha and SPARC.

Debian versions series#

A transition was made to libc6 and Debian was ported to the Motorola 68000 series (m68k) architectures. ĭebian 2.0 ( Hamm), released 24 July 1998, contained over 1,500 packages maintained by over 400 developers. The only supported architecture was Intel 80386 (i386). A transition from the a.out binary format to the ELF binary format had already begun before the planned 1.0 release. The package management system dpkg and its front-end dselect were developed and implemented on Debian in a previous release. Release history ĭebian 1.0 was never released, as a vendor accidentally shipped a development release with that version number. Debian's unstable trunk is named after Sid, a character who regularly destroyed his toys. ĭebian distribution codenames are based on the names of characters from the Toy Story films. The next up and coming release of Debian is Debian 12 codename 'Bookworm'. The most recent version of Debian is Debian version 11, codename 'Bullseye'. Oldoldstable is eventually moved to the archived releases repository. When the Debian stable branch is replaced again, the oldstable release becomes the 'oldoldstable' release. When the Debian stable branch is replaced with a newer release, the current stable becomes an 'oldstable' release. It is the most volatile version of Debian. The unstable release (also known as sid) is the release where active development takes place. Testing has significantly more up-to-date packages than stable and is a close version of the future release candidate for stable. The testing release contains packages that have been tested from unstable. The stable release is the most recent and up-to-date version of Debian. Recent releases have been made roughly biennially by the Debian Project.ĭebian always has at least three release branches active at any time: 'stable', 'testing' and 'unstable'. A screenshot of Debian 10 ( Buster) with the GNOME desktop environmentĭebian releases do not follow a fixed schedule.