The Jessie release got a bit Stretch'ed

news · April 26, 2015

Hi,

As already officially announced, we have now released Debian 8,

"Jessie".

There are too many people who should be thanked for their

work on getting us to this point to list them all individually, and we

would be sure to miss some. Nevertheless, we would like to particularly

thank the installer team, the buildd and ftp teams, the CD team, the

publicity team, the webmasters, the Release Notes editors, porters and

all the package maintainers and translators who have contributed to

making Jessie a great release of which we should all be proud.

First point release

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As was the case for Wheezy, we anticipate that the first point release

for Jessie will likely occur in approximately a month's time. That has

yet to be finalised, but we hope to be able to confirm the plans soon.

Please co-ordinate fixes which you would like to see included in the

point release with the Stable Release Team via a "pu" bug against the

release.debian.org pseudopackage, including a debdiff of the current and

proposed source packages.

Stretch!

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The release of Jessie also means that you can now upload to unstable

those changes you've been holding off during the freeze. Please do not

rush to upload everything all at once, in order to reduce load on the

buildds etc. Automatic testing migration is not yet re-enabled, but

that will happen during the next day or so.

As with jessie, we would ask that you co-ordinate particularly large

transitions or changes; if your plans involve major toolchain changes or

otherwise have the potential to cause problems in unstable for a long

time (e.g. due to FTBFS issues), please talk to us. We know that there

are a large number of changes which have been waiting for the release to

happen and we're keen not to stand in the way of those but would also

like to avoid a number of larger transitions becoming entangled.

That's it for now; it is time for the celebrations to begin, whether at

a Release Party[PARTY] or otherwise. :-)

Niels, Adam, and your Debian Jessie Release Team

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