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

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

• 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

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