That said, the versions of the programs remain old. Even in comparison with Trisquel 7. And the release of Trisquel 8 hopefully is within a couple of months.
Indeed. Fortunately, Debian now has an LTS team. Wheezy (oldstable) was
handed over to it to take over security support until May 2018:
https://www.debian.org/News/2016/20160425
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