Software release: Debian GNU/Linux 8.0

  • April 28, 2015
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Na twee jaar van ontwikkeling is de eerste stabiele uitgave van versie 8.0 van Debian GNU/Linux uitgekomen. Debian is een opensource-besturingssysteem, dat zowel voor desktops als servers gebruikt kan worden en waarbij de nadruk op stabiliteit en veiligheid ligt. Het wordt dan ook als basis voor diverse Linux-distributies gebruikt, waaronder Ubuntu en Linux Mint. Versie 8.0, die als codenaam ‘Jessie’ meegekregen heeft, bevat onder meer verbeterde multimediamogelijkheden en is er ook flink gesleuteld aan de installer. Verder kan de gebruiker voortaan de Cinnamon- en Mate-desktopomgevingen installeren en er is ondersteuning voor Docker. Hieronder zijn de release notes voor deze uitgave te vinden.

Debian 8 Jessie released

After almost 24 months of constant development the Debian project is proud to present its new stable version 8 (code name Jessie), which will be supported for the next 5 years thanks to the combined work of the Debian Security team and of the Debian Long Term Support team.

Jessie ships with a new default init system, systemd. The systemd suite provides many exciting features such as faster boot times, cgroups for services, and the possibility of isolating part of the services. The sysvinit init system is still available in Jessie.

The UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) support introduced in Wheezy has also been greatly improved in Jessie. This includes workarounds for many known firmware bugs, support for UEFI on 32-bit systems, and support for 64-bit kernels with 32-bit UEFI firmware (with the latter being included only on our amd64/i386 multi-arch installation media).

Since the previous release, members of the Debian project have also made important improvements to our supporting services. One of these is a browsable view of all source code shipped in Debian currently available at sources.debian.net. Of course, with over 20,000 source packages, it can be quite daunting to locate the right file. Therefore, we are also very pleased to present Debian Code Search, available at codesearch.debian.net. Both services are complemented by a completely rewritten and more responsive package tracking system.

This release includes numerous updated software packages, such as:

  • Apache 2.4.10
  • Asterisk 11.13.1
  • GIMP 2.8.14
  • an updated version of the GNOME desktop environment 3.14
  • GNU Compiler Collection 4.9.2
  • Icedove 31.6.0 (an unbranded version of Mozilla Thunderbird)
  • Iceweasel 31.6.0esr (an unbranded version of Mozilla Firefox)
  • KDE Plasma Workspaces and KDE Applications 4.11.13
  • LibreOffice 4.3.3
  • Linux 3.16.7-ckt9
  • MariaDB 10.0.16 and MySQL 5.5.42
  • Nagios 3.5.1
  • OpenJDK 7u75
  • Perl 5.20.2
  • PHP 5.6.7
  • PostgreSQL 9.4.1
  • Python 2.7.9 and 3.4.2
  • Samba 4.1.17
  • Tomcat 7.0.56 and 8.0.14
  • Xen Hypervisor 4.4.1
  • the Xfce 4.10 desktop environment
  • more than 43,000 other ready-to-use software packages, built from nearly 20,100 source packages.