<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Ana Guerrero Lopez</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ana@debian.org">ana@debian.org</a>></span><br>Date: 2017-06-18 8:22 GMT+02:00<br>Subject: Debian 9 "Stretch" released<br>To: <a href="mailto:debian-announce@lists.debian.org">debian-announce@lists.debian.org</a><br><br><br>------------------------------<wbr>------------------------------<wbr>------------<br>
The Debian Project <a href="https://www.debian.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.debian.org/</a><br>
Debian 9 "Stretch" released <a href="mailto:press@debian.org">press@debian.org</a><br>
June 17th, 2017 <a href="https://www.debian.org/News/2017/20170617" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.debian.org/News/<wbr>2017/20170617</a><br>
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After 26 months of development the Debian project is proud to present<br>
its new stable version 9 (code name "Stretch"), which will be supported<br>
for the next 5 years thanks to the combined work of the Debian Security<br>
team [1] and of the Debian Long Term Support [2] team.<br>
<br>
1: <a href="https://security-team.debian.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://security-team.debian.<wbr>org/</a><br>
2: <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/LTS" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.debian.org/LTS</a><br>
<br>
Debian 9 is dedicated [3] to the project's founder Ian Murdock, who<br>
passed away on 28 December 2015.<br>
<br>
3: <a href="http://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/dedication/dedication-9.0.txt" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://ftp.debian.org/debian/<wbr>doc/dedication/dedication-9.0.<wbr>txt</a><br>
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In "Stretch", the default MySQL variant is now MariaDB. The replacement<br>
of packages for MySQL 5.5 or 5.6 by the MariaDB 10.1 variant will happen<br>
automatically upon upgrade.<br>
<br>
Firefox and Thunderbird return to Debian with the release of "Stretch",<br>
and replace their debranded versions Iceweasel and Icedove, which were<br>
present in the archive for more than 10 years.<br>
<br>
Thanks to the Reproducible Builds project, over 90% of the source<br>
packages included in Debian 9 will build bit-for-bit identical binary<br>
packages. This is an important verification feature which protects users<br>
from malicious attempts to tamper with compilers and build networks.<br>
Future Debian releases will include tools and metadata so that end-users<br>
can validate the provenance of packages within the archive.<br>
<br>
Administrators and those in security-sensitive environments can be<br>
comforted in the knowledge that the X display system no longer requires<br>
"root" privileges to run.<br>
<br>
The "Stretch" release is the first version of Debian to feature the<br>
"modern" branch of GnuPG in the "gnupg" package. This brings with it<br>
elliptic curve cryptography, better defaults, a more modular<br>
architecture, and improved smartcard support. We will continue to supply<br>
the "classic" branch of GnuPG as gnupg1 for people who need it, but it<br>
is now deprecated.<br>
<br>
Debug packages are easier to obtain and use in Debian 9 "Stretch". A new<br>
"dbg-sym" repository can be added to the APT source list to provide<br>
debug symbols automatically for many packages.<br>
<br>
The UEFI ("Unified Extensible Firmware Interface") support first<br>
introduced in "Wheezy" continues to be greatly improved in "Stretch",<br>
and also supports installing on 32-bit UEFI firmware with a 64-bit<br>
kernel. The Debian live images now include support for UEFI booting as a<br>
new feature, too.<br>
<br>
This release includes numerous updated software packages, such as:<br>
<br>
* Apache 2.4.25<br>
* Asterisk 13.14.1<br>
* Chromium 59.0.3071.86<br>
* Firefox 45.9 (in the firefox-esr package)<br>
* GIMP 2.8.18<br>
* an updated version of the GNOME desktop environment 3.22<br>
* GNU Compiler Collection 6.3<br>
* GnuPG 2.1<br>
* Golang 1.7<br>
* KDE Frameworks 5.28, KDE Plasma 5.8, and KDE Applications 16.08 and 16.04 for PIM components<br>
* LibreOffice 5.2<br>
* Linux 4.9<br>
* MariaDB 10.1<br>
* MATE 1.16<br>
* OpenJDK 8<br>
* Perl 5.24<br>
* PHP 7.0<br>
* PostgreSQL 9.6<br>
* Python 2.7.13 and 3.5.3<br>
* Ruby 2.3<br>
* Samba 4.5<br>
* systemd 232<br>
* Thunderbird 45.8<br>
* Tomcat 8.5<br>
* Xen Hypervisor<br>
* the Xfce 4.12 desktop environment<br>
* more than 51,000 other ready-to-use software packages, built from a bit more of 25,000 source packages.<br>
<br>
With this broad selection of packages and its traditional wide<br>
architecture support, Debian once again stays true to its goal of being<br>
the universal operating system. It is suitable for many different use<br>
cases: from desktop systems to netbooks; from development servers to<br>
cluster systems; and for database, web, or storage servers. At the same<br>
time, additional quality assurance efforts like automatic installation<br>
and upgrade tests for all packages in Debian's archive ensure that<br>
"Stretch" fulfills the high expectations that users have of a stable<br>
Debian release.<br>
<br>
A total of ten architectures are supported: 64-bit PC / Intel EM64T /<br>
x86-64 (amd64), 32-bit PC / Intel IA-32 (i386), 64-bit little-endian<br>
Motorola/IBM PowerPC (ppc64el), 64-bit IBM S/390 (s390x), for ARM, armel<br>
and armhf for older and more recent 32-bit hardware, plus arm64 for the<br>
64-bit "AArch64" architecture, and for MIPS, in addition to the two 32-<br>
bit mips (big-endian) and mipsel (little-endian), there is a new<br>
mips64el architecture for 64-bit little-endian hardware. Support for 32-<br>
bit Motorola/IBM PowerPC (powerpc) has been removed in "Stretch".<br>
<br>
If you simply want to try Debian 9 "Stretch" without installing it, you<br>
can use one of the available live images which loads and runs the<br>
complete operating system in a read-only state via your computer's<br>
memory. Should you enjoy the operating system you have the option of<br>
installing from the live image onto your computer's hard disk. The live<br>
image is available for CDs, USB sticks, and netboot setups. Initially,<br>
these images are provided for the amd64 and i386 architectures only.<br>
More information is available in the live install images section of the<br>
Debian website [4].<br>
<br>
4: <a href="https://www.debian.org/CD/live/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.debian.org/CD/<wbr>live/</a><br>
<br>
Should you choose to install Debian 9 "Stretch" directly onto your<br>
computer's hard disk you can choose from a variety of installation media<br>
such as Blu-ray Disc, DVD, CD, USB stick, or via internal network.<br>
Several desktop environments — GNOME, KDE Plasma Desktop and<br>
Applications, LXDE, and Xfce — may be installed through those images<br>
with your desired selection chosen from the boot menus of the install<br>
media. In addition, multi-architecture CDs and DVDs are available which<br>
support installation of multiple architectures from a single disc. Or<br>
you can always create bootable USB installation media (see the<br>
Installation Guide [5] for more details). For cloud users Debian also<br>
offers pre-built OpenStack images [6] for amd64 and arm64 architectures,<br>
ready to use.<br>
<br>
5: <a href="https://www.debian.org/releases/stretch/installmanual" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.debian.org/<wbr>releases/stretch/installmanual</a><br>
6: <a href="http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/openstack/current/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://cdimage.debian.org/<wbr>cdimage/openstack/current/</a><br>
<br>
Debian can now be installed in 75 languages, with most of them available<br>
in both text-based and graphical user interfaces.<br>
<br>
The installation images may be downloaded right now via bittorrent [7]<br>
(the recommended method), jigdo [8], or HTTP [9]; see Debian on CDs [10]<br>
for further information. "Stretch" will soon be available on physical<br>
DVD, CD-ROM, and Blu-ray Discs from numerous vendors [11] too.<br>
<br>
7: <a href="https://www.debian.org/CD/torrent-cd/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.debian.org/CD/<wbr>torrent-cd/</a><br>
8: <a href="https://www.debian.org/CD/jigdo-cd/#which" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.debian.org/CD/<wbr>jigdo-cd/#which</a><br>
9: <a href="https://www.debian.org/CD/http-ftp/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.debian.org/CD/<wbr>http-ftp/</a><br>
10: <a href="https://www.debian.org/CD/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.debian.org/CD/</a><br>
11: <a href="https://www.debian.org/CD/vendors" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.debian.org/CD/<wbr>vendors</a><br>
<br>
Upgrades to Debian 9 from the previous release, Debian 8 (codenamed<br>
"Jessie"), are automatically handled by the apt-get package management<br>
tool for most configurations. As always, Debian systems may be upgraded<br>
painlessly, in place, without any forced downtime, but it is strongly<br>
recommended to read the release notes [12] as well as the installation<br>
guide [13] for possible issues, and for detailed instructions on<br>
installing and upgrading. The release notes will be further improved and<br>
translated to additional languages in the weeks after the release.<br>
<br>
12: <a href="https://www.debian.org/releases/stretch/releasenotes" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.debian.org/<wbr>releases/stretch/releasenotes</a><br>
13: <a href="https://www.debian.org/releases/stretch/installmanual" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.debian.org/<wbr>releases/stretch/installmanual</a><br>
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About Debian<br>
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<br>
Debian is a free operating system, developed by thousands of volunteers<br>
from all over the world who collaborate via the Internet. The Debian<br>
project's key strengths are its volunteer base, its dedication to the<br>
Debian Social Contract and Free Software, and its commitment to provide<br>
the best operating system possible. This new release is another<br>
important step in that direction.<br>
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