I would like to say that Debian 8 was my bread and butter at work for most
of its supported lifetime. And my main home platform as well, along with
CentOS.
I think that everyone involved deserves the highest praise.
On Thu, Jul 9, 2020, 11:17 PM Laura Arjona Reina wrote:
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> The Debian Project https://www.debian.org/
> Debian 8 Long Term Support reaching end-of-life pr...@debian.org
> July 9th, 2020 https://www.debian.org/News/2020/20200709
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> The Debian Long Term Support (LTS) Team hereby announces that Debian 8
> "jessie" support has reached its end-of-life on June 30, 2020, five
> years after its initial release on April 26, 2015.
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> Debian will not provide further security updates for Debian 8. A subset
> of "jessie" packages will be supported by external parties. Detailed
> information can be found at Extended LTS [1].
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> 1: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Extended
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> The LTS Team will prepare the transition to Debian 9 "stretch", which is
> the current oldstable release. The LTS Team has taken over support from
> the Security Team on July 6, 2020 while the final point update for
> "stretch" will be released on July 18, 2020.
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> Debian 9 will also receive Long Term Support for five years after its
> initial release with support ending on June 30, 2022. The supported
> architectures remain amd64, i386, armel and armhf. In addition we are
> pleased to announce, for the first time support will be extended to
> include the arm64 architecture.
>
> For further information about using "stretch" LTS and upgrading from
> "jessie" LTS, please refer to LTS/Using [2].
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> 2: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Using
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> Debian and its LTS Team would like to thank all contributing users,
> developers and sponsors who are making it possible to extend the life of
> previous stable releases, and who have made this LTS a success.
>
> If you rely on Debian LTS, please consider joining the team [3],
> providing patches, testing or funding the efforts [4].
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> 3: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Development
> 4: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Funding
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> About Debian
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> The Debian Project was founded in 1993 by Ian Murdock to be a truly free
> community project. Since then the project has grown to be one of the
> largest and most influential open source projects. Thousands of
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> Debian software. Available in 70 languages, and supporting a huge range
> of computer types, Debian calls itself the "universal operating system".
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> More Information
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> More information about Debian Long Term Support can be found at
> https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/.
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