Debian 8 - Code named "Jessie" released
Post by: bond
After almost 24 months of constant development the Debian project is proud to present its new stable version 8 (code name Jessie
), which will be supported for the next 5 years thanks to the combined work of the Debian Security and Long term support team.
Jessie
ships with a new default init system, systemd
. The systemd
suite provides many exciting features such as faster boot times, cgroups for services, and the possibility of isolating part of the services. The sysvinit
init system is still available in Jessie
.
The UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface
) support introduced in Wheezy
has also been greatly improved in Jessie. This includes workarounds for many known firmware bugs, support for UEFI on 32-bit systems, and support for 64-bit kernels with 32-bit UEFI firmware (with the latter being included only on our amd64/i386
multi-arch
installation media).
Updated software packages on this release
- Apache 2.4.10
- Asterisk 11.13.1
- GIMP 2.8.14
- an updated version of the GNOME desktop environment 3.14
- GNU Compiler Collection 4.9.2
- Icedove 31.6.0 (an unbranded version of Mozilla Thunderbird)
- Iceweasel 31.6.0esr (an unbranded version of Mozilla Firefox)
- KDE Plasma Workspaces and KDE Applications 4.11.13
- LibreOffice 4.3.3
- Linux 3.16.7-ckt9
- MariaDB 10.0.16 and MySQL 5.5.42
- Nagios 3.5.1
- OpenJDK 7u75
- Perl 5.20.2
- PHP 5.6.7
- PostgreSQL 9.4.1
- Python 2.7.9 and 3.4.2
- Samba 4.1.17
- Tomcat 7.0.56 and 8.0.14
- Xen Hypervisor 4.4.1
- the Xfce 4.10 desktop environment
- more than 43,000 other ready-to-use software packages, built from nearly 20,100 source packages.
Upgrading Debian
Upgrades to Debian 8 from the previous release, Debian 7 (codenamed Wheezy
), are automatically handled by the apt-get package management tool for most configurations. As always, Debian systems may be upgraded painlessly, in place, without any forced downtime, but it is strongly recommended to read the release notes as well as the installation guide for possible issues, and for detailed instructions on installing and upgrading. The release notes will be further improved and translated to additional languages in the weeks after the release.
Wanna give a try?
If you simply want to try Debian 8 Jessie
without having to install it, you can use a special image, known as a live image, available for CDs, USB sticks, and netboot setups. Initially, these images are provided for the amd64
and i386
architectures only. It is also possible to use these live images to install Debian. More information is available from the Debian Live homepage.