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Color
Meaning
Red
Old release; not supported
Yellow
Old release; still supported
Green
Current release
Blue
Future release
Version
Code name
Release date
Archs
Packages
Support
Notes
1.1
buzz
17 June 1996
1
474
1996
dpkg , ELF transition, Linux 2.0[ 1]
1.2
rex
12 December 1996
1
848
1996
-
1.3
bo
5 June 1997
1
974
1997
-
2.0
hamm
24 July 1998
2
~ 1500
1998
glibc transition, new architecture: m68k [ 2]
2.1
slink
9 March 1999
4
~ 2250
2000-12
APT , new architectures: alpha , sparc [ 3]
2.2
potato
15 August 2000
6
~ 3900
2003-04
New architectures: arm , powerpc [ 4]
3.0
woody
19 July 2002
11
~ 8500
2006-08
New architectures: hppa , ia64 , mips , mipsel , s390 [ 5]
3.1
sarge
6 June 2005
11
~ 15400
2008-04.[ 6]
Modular installer, semi-official amd64 support
4.0
etch
8 April 2007
11
~ 18000
2009-09.[ 6]
Graphical installer, udev transition, modular X.Org transition, new architecture: amd64 , dropped architecture: m68k [ 7]
5.0[ 8]
lenny [ 9]
Planned for September 2008[ 10]
TBA
TBA
TBA[ 6]
32-bit SPARC architecture dropped [ 11] . New 'architecture' (really binary ABI): armel [ 12] . Almost complete UTF-8 support.[ 10] Full Eee PC support. [ 13]
TBA
squeeze [ 14]
TBA
TBA
TBA
TBA
-
^ "A Brief History of Debian, 4.2: the 1.x Releases" . 2007-04-03 . Retrieved 2007-04-26 . 1.1 Buzz released June 1996 (474 packages, 2.0 kernel, fully ELF, dpkg)
^ "A Brief History of Debian, 4.3: the 2.x Releases" . 2007-04-03 . Retrieved 2007-04-26 . Debian 2.0 (Hamm ) was released July 1998 for the Intel i386 and Motorola 68000 series architectures. This release marked the move to a new version of the system C libraries (glibc2 or for historical reasons libc6).
^ "A Brief History of Debian, 4.3: the 2.x Releases" . 2007-04-03 . Retrieved 2007-04-26 . this release of Debian was the first to require 2 CD-ROMs for the "Official Debian CD set"
^ Martin Schulze (2000-08-15 ). "Debian GNU/Linux 2.2, the "Joel 'Espy' Klecker" release" . debian-announce (Mailing list). ;
^ "A Brief History of Debian, 4.4: the 3.x Releases" . 2007-04-03 . Retrieved 2007-04-26 . This is the first release including HP PA-RISC, IA-64, MIPS, MIPS (DEC) and IBM s/390 ports.
^ a b c Cite error: The named reference lifespan
was invoked but never defined (see the help page ).
^ Alexander Schmehl (2007-04-08 ). "Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 released" . debian-announce (Mailing list). ;
^ Release Update: Release numbering, goals, armel architecture, BSPs
^ Steve Langasek (2006-11-16 ). "testing d-i Release Candidate 1 and more release adjustments" . debian-devel-announce (Mailing list). ;
^ a b release update: release team, blockers, architectures, schedule, goals
^ Jurij Smakov. "Retiring the sparc32 port" . debian-devel-announce (Mailing list).
^ Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt. "Release Update: arch status, major transitions finished, freeze coming up" (Mailing list).
^ Ben Armstrong. "Bits from the Debian Eee PC team, summer 2008" (Mailing list).
^ Luk Claes (2008-09-01 ). "Release Update: freeze guidelines, testing, BSP, rc bug fixes" . debian-devel-announce (Mailing list). ;