On Wed, 16 Aug 2023 (next week) Debian will celebrate its 30th birthday. Parties will take place in Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Czech Republic, Germany (CCCcamp), Portugal and Turkey. You're invited to join us!
Due to an issue in ext4 with data corruption in kernel 6.1.64-1, we are a pausing the 12.3 image release for today while we attend to fixes. Please do not update any systems at this time, we urge caution for users with UnattendeUpgrades configured.…
Debian's image building server has 88 CPUs along with 384GB of fast RAM and over 8TB SSD storage. Even so, each DVD-sized image takes approximately 90 minutes to complete and 20 are done at a time in parallel
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CVE-2024-3094 concerning a backdoor exploit in XZ Utils 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 releases are currently being analyzed, for the moment we have paused Archive processing. We will advise as soon as possible. For more reading and information:…
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Although no Debian stable versions are known to be affected by CVE-2024-3094 the next point release for 12.6 has been postponed while we investigate the effects of this CVE on the Archive.
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It's bookworm release day! Across the world members of the release, publicity, images and FTP teams are brewing industrial quantities of coffee as their final preparations are completed
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Before we sign off we wish to say thank you to all of our Developers, Contributors, Sponsors, Friends, and Users for the amazing support and community building that we have all done over the years. We hope you enjoy Debian 12 "bookworm"! Thank you, thank…
Debian 13 will be codenamed trixie. Visit for the names of the past and future Debian releases, and prepare yourself for bullseye, we're freezing soon!
We don't wish to ruin our own surprise anniversary party, but we'd like to share that we celebrate 30 years of Debian on August 17 of this year. Join us! Plenty of Cheese and Cake to be had. :) Organize your very own Debian Day!
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We highly recommend you read the Release Notes before installing or upgrading to Debian 11. They are written, reviewed and updated with care, catering for both new and experienced users, and will help ease your installations and prevent issues when…
GNOME Foundation facing patent lawsuit over Shotwell - The Debian project stands with the
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Debian's CD team is warming up their build server - did you know it uses 88 CPUs, 377GiB of RAM and over 8TiB of SSDs to generate images for bullseye's 9 architectures?
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The release team were advised part way through release that there was the possibility of file system corruption with Debian kernel package: linux-image-6.1.0-14*. Once aware of the issue, we took immediate measures to halt the release of Debian 12.3 with…
We are getting ready! The Transition freeze begins 01-12, during this freeze, packages with failing autopkgtests are blocked from testing. This is the 1st of 3 freeze periods toward the release of Debian 10 (codename: buster).