User:Laudaka/Debian/List of Debian versions

This List of Debian versions is a simplified version the table in the Debian#Timeline section of the Debian article. I added a column listing all ports to architectures.

List of Debian versions

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This are the Debian versions released by the Debian Project up to 2013-08-31.

  • Overview of Debian versions.
Ver
sion
Code name
8 jessie Future release
7 wheezy Current version
6.0 squeeze Older version, still supported
5.0 lenny Old version
  • Detailed list of Debian versions.

TBA stands for to be announced.

Ver
sion
Code name Release date Supported until Ports Notes List of ports
8 jessie TBA TBA TBA TBA TBA
7 wheezy 2013-05-04 TBA [B]2+11 New architectures: armhf­, s390x. Remove old libraries such as Qt 3. Introduce multiarch support. i386 amd64
armel armhf ia64 mips mipsel powerpc s390 s390x sparc
kfreebsd-i386 kfreebsd-amd64
(multi-arch)
6.0 squeeze 2011-02-06 TBA (expected 2014-05) [A]2+9 New architectures/kernels: kfreebsd-i386, kfreebsd-amd64, dropped architectures: alpha, hppa, OABI arm. eglibc instead of glibc. Dependency-based boot sequence, which allows for parallel init script processing. Remove old libraries such as GTK 1. Default Linux kernel purged of non-free firmware. i368 amd64
armel ia64 mips mipsel powerpc s390 sparc
kfreebsd-i386 kfreebsd-amd64
5.0 lenny 2009-02-15 2012-02-06 12 New architecture/binary ABI: armel. SPARC 32-bit hardware support dropped. Full Eee PC support. i368 amd64
alpha arm armel hppa ia64 mips mipsel powerpc s390 sparc
4.0 etch 2007-04-08 2010-02-15 11 New architecture: amd64, dropped architecture: m68k. Graphical installer, udev transition, modular X.Org transition. i368 amd64
alpha arm hppa ia64 mips mipsel powerpc s390 sparc
3.1 sarge 2005-06-06 2008-04 11 Modular installer, semi-official amd64 support. i368
alpha arm hppa ia64 m68k mips mipsel powerpc s390 sparc
3.0 woody 2002-07-19 2006-08 11 New architectures: hppa, ia64, mips, mipsel, s390 i368
alpha arm hppa ia64 m68k mips mipsel powerpc s390 sparc
2.2 potato 2000-08-15 2003-04 6 New architectures: arm, powerpc i368
alpha arm m68k powerpc sparc
2.1 slink 1999-03-09 2000-12 4 APT, new architectures: alpha, sparc i368
alpha m68k sparc
2.0 hamm 1998-07-24 1998 2 glibc transition, new architecture: m68k i368
m68k
1.2 rex 1996-12-12 1996 1 i368
1.1 buzz 1996-06-17 1996 1 dpkg, ELF transition, Linux 2.0 i368
1.0   never N/A   Due to an incident involving a CD vendor who made an unofficial and broken release labeled 1.0, an official 1.0 release was never made.  


A 9 architectures with Linux kernel + 2 architectures with kernel of FreeBSD
B 11 architectures with Linux kernel + 2 architectures with kernel of FreeBSD

References

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  • This is where I found a list of Debian versions in the Debian article

Debian article

  1. Debian#Features
  2. Debian#Policies
  3. Debian#History
    1. Debian#Releases
    2. Debian#Timeline         also reachable via the redirect page List of Debian versions
    3. Debian#1993–1998
    4. Debian#1999–2004
    5. Debian#2005–present
  4. Debian#Reception
  5. Debian#See also
  6. Debian#References
  7. Debian#Further reading
  8. Debian#External links

Remarks

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  • Only Ubuntu calls it major versions ``releases´´.