April 26, 2015 at 06:14Debian Jessie 8.0 Released
Debian is released under the code name Jessie.
The new release contains many more programs than its predecessor Wheezy - more than 12,000 packages have been added, and in total there are more than 43,500 packages in this release. In addition, most of the packages - more than 24,500 - have been updated (this is approximately 66% of the Wheezy package base). Another 5441 packages were removed for various reasons.
The official Debian distribution now takes from 9 to 10 DVDs or from 61 to 69 CDs (depending on architecture) with the packages compiled, and 8 DVDs or 46 CDs take up packages with the source code. A multi-architecture DVD version of the distribution is also available, including amd64, i386, and source code architectures. In addition, Debian is released in the form of Blu-ray images, three images for the amd64 and i386 architectures for each architecture and two for the source code. Due to size, very large packages did not make it into CD builds; these packages are on DVD and BD.
Jessie is distributed with several desktop environments. The main ones are GNOME 3.14, KDE 4.11, Xfce 4.10, and LXDE. The environment can now be selected during the installation of Debian via tasksel. The Linux kernel version in Jessie is 3.16.
In this release, among other things, the following software was updated:
Office applications have also been updated, including the following:
We should also mention the default change of the initialization system: SysVinit changed to systemd. Its feature is the intensive parallelization of the launch of services during the boot process, which can significantly accelerate the start of the operating system. This decision caused a large number of discussions in the community and the negative reaction of its individual representatives. However, Jessie provides the option to return to SysVinit .
SSLv3 protocol was disabled in the new release, in addition to MySQL, MariaDB was enabled, OpenJDK 7/8 and Tomcat 7/8 are available (OpenJDK 8 is available from backports ), Android SDK Tools are enabled, Docker containers are updated, professional applications have been updated ( Debian Med , Debian Science ,Debian Geographical Information Systems ).
It is noteworthy that this time the developers announced the release in almost a month, and not in two weeks, as usual. In addition, the release was completed in one day, although usually all weekends were reserved for it. And Microsoft invites you to celebrate the release of Jessie at LinuxFest Northwest on April 25 and 26, 2015.
Congratulations to all involved and sympathizers with the new release!
Before updating the system, Debian developers strongly recommend that you back up information that you would not like to lose and note that previous releases recommended using aptitude for updating. Using aptitude is not recommended in this release. After upgrading from Wheezy to Jessie, it is recommended that you clear the old packages before rebooting the system.
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- The Debian Project (@debian) April 26, 2015The new release contains many more programs than its predecessor Wheezy - more than 12,000 packages have been added, and in total there are more than 43,500 packages in this release. In addition, most of the packages - more than 24,500 - have been updated (this is approximately 66% of the Wheezy package base). Another 5441 packages were removed for various reasons.
The official Debian distribution now takes from 9 to 10 DVDs or from 61 to 69 CDs (depending on architecture) with the packages compiled, and 8 DVDs or 46 CDs take up packages with the source code. A multi-architecture DVD version of the distribution is also available, including amd64, i386, and source code architectures. In addition, Debian is released in the form of Blu-ray images, three images for the amd64 and i386 architectures for each architecture and two for the source code. Due to size, very large packages did not make it into CD builds; these packages are on DVD and BD.
Jessie is distributed with several desktop environments. The main ones are GNOME 3.14, KDE 4.11, Xfce 4.10, and LXDE. The environment can now be selected during the installation of Debian via tasksel. The Linux kernel version in Jessie is 3.16.
In this release, among other things, the following software was updated:
| Package | Version 7 (wheezy) | Version 8 (jessie) |
|---|---|---|
| Apache | 2.2.22 | 2.4.10 |
| BIND DNS server | 9.8 | 9.9 |
| Courier MTA | 0.68 | 0.73 |
| Dia | 0.97.2 | 0.97.3 |
| Exim default e-mail server | 4.80 | 4.84 |
| GNU Compiler Collection, default compiler | 4.7 for PC, 4.6 on others | 4.9 |
| GNU C library | 2.13 | 2.19 |
| lighttpd | 1.4.31 | 1.4.35 |
| Linux kernel image | branch 3.2 | branch 3.16 |
| maradns | 1.4.12 | 2.0.09 |
| Openldap | 2.4.31 | 2.4.40 |
| Openssh | 6.0p1 | 6.7p1 |
| Perl | 5.14 | 5.20 |
| Php | 5.4 | 5.6 |
| Postfix mta | 2.9 | 2.11 |
| PostgreSQL | 9.1 | 9.4 |
| Python 3 | 3.2 | 3.4 |
| Samba | 3.6 | 4.1 |
- LibreOffice updated to version 4.3;
- Calligra updated to version 2.8;
- GNUcash has been updated to version 2.6;
- GNUmeric has been updated to version 1.12;
- Abiword has been updated to version 3.0.
We should also mention the default change of the initialization system: SysVinit changed to systemd. Its feature is the intensive parallelization of the launch of services during the boot process, which can significantly accelerate the start of the operating system. This decision caused a large number of discussions in the community and the negative reaction of its individual representatives. However, Jessie provides the option to return to SysVinit .
SSLv3 protocol was disabled in the new release, in addition to MySQL, MariaDB was enabled, OpenJDK 7/8 and Tomcat 7/8 are available (OpenJDK 8 is available from backports ), Android SDK Tools are enabled, Docker containers are updated, professional applications have been updated ( Debian Med , Debian Science ,Debian Geographical Information Systems ).
It is noteworthy that this time the developers announced the release in almost a month, and not in two weeks, as usual. In addition, the release was completed in one day, although usually all weekends were reserved for it. And Microsoft invites you to celebrate the release of Jessie at LinuxFest Northwest on April 25 and 26, 2015.
Congratulations to all involved and sympathizers with the new release!
Before updating the system, Debian developers strongly recommend that you back up information that you would not like to lose and note that previous releases recommended using aptitude for updating. Using aptitude is not recommended in this release. After upgrading from Wheezy to Jessie, it is recommended that you clear the old packages before rebooting the system.
Details: