Security support for Wheezy handed over to the LTS team

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The Debian Project https://www.debian.org/

Security support for Wheezy handed over to the LTS team press ( -at -) debian.org

April 25th, 2016 https://www.debian.org/News/2016/20160425

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As of 25 April, one year after the release of Debian 8, alias "Jessie",

and nearly three years after the release of Debian 7, alias "Wheezy",

regular security support for Wheezy comes to an end. The Debian Long

Term Support (LTS) [1] Team will take over security support.

 

1: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/

 

 

Information for users

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Wheezy LTS will be supported from 26 April 2016 to 31 May 2018.

 

For Debian 7 Wheezy LTS there will be no requirement to add a separate

wheezy-lts suite to your sources.list any more and your current setup

will continue to work without further changes.

 

For how to use Debian Long Term Support please read LTS/Using [2].

 

2: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Using

 

Important information and changes regarding Wheezy LTS can be found at

LTS/Wheezy [3].

 

3: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Wheezy

 

Most notably OpenJDK 7 will be made the new Java default JRE/JDK on 26

June 2016 to ensure full security support until Wheezy LTS reaches its

end-of-life.