Debian

linux-distribution os

Debian is a free operating system for your computer. The Debian stable branch is the most popular edition for personal computers and network servers, and is used as the basis for many other Linux distributions.

Release Released Debian Security Support Debian LTS Latest
12 (Bookworm) 1 year and 5 months ago
(10 Jun 2023)
 Ends in 1 year and 6 months
(10 Jun 2026)
 Ends in 3 years and 6 months
(10 Jun 2028)
 12.8
(09 Nov 2024)
11 (Bullseye) 3 years ago
(14 Aug 2021)
 Ended 3 months ago
(14 Aug 2024)
 Ends in 1 year and 9 months
(31 Aug 2026)
 11.11
(31 Aug 2024)
10 (Buster) 5 years ago
(06 Jul 2019)
 Ended 2 years ago
(10 Sep 2022)
 Ended 4 months and 3 weeks ago
(30 Jun 2024)
 10.13
(10 Sep 2022)
9 (Stretch) 7 years ago
(17 Jun 2017)
 Ended 4 years ago
(18 Jul 2020)
 Ended 2 years and 4 months ago
(01 Jul 2022)
 9.13
(18 Jul 2020)
8 (Jessie) 9 years ago
(25 Apr 2015)
 Ended 6 years ago
(17 Jun 2018)
 Ended 4 years ago
(30 Jun 2020)
 8.11
(23 Jun 2018)
7 (Wheezy) 11 years ago
(04 May 2013)
 Ended 8 years ago
(25 Apr 2016)
 Ended 6 years ago
(31 May 2018)
 7.11
(04 Jun 2016)
6 (Squeeze) 13 years ago
(06 Feb 2011)
 Ended 10 years ago
(31 May 2014)
 Ended 8 years ago
(29 Feb 2016)
 6.0.10
(19 Jul 2014)
5 (Lenny) 15 years ago
(14 Feb 2009)
 Ended 12 years ago
(06 Feb 2012)
 Ended 12 years ago
(06 Feb 2012)
 5.0.10
(10 Mar 2012)
4 (Etch) 17 years ago
(08 Apr 2007)
 Ended 14 years ago
(15 Feb 2010)
 Ended 14 years ago
(15 Feb 2010)
 4.0r9
(22 May 2010)
3.1 (Sarge) 19 years ago
(06 Jun 2005)
 Ended 16 years ago
(31 Mar 2008)
 Ended 16 years ago
(31 Mar 2008)
 3.1r8
(13 Apr 2008)
3.0 (Woody) 22 years ago
(19 Jul 2002)
 Ended 18 years ago
(30 Jun 2006)
 Ended 18 years ago
(30 Jun 2006)
 3.0r6
(02 Jun 2005)
2.2 (Potato) 24 years ago
(15 Aug 2000)
 Ended 21 years ago
(30 Jun 2003)
 Ended 21 years ago
(30 Jun 2003)
 2.2r7
(13 Jul 2002)
2.1 (Slink) 25 years ago
(09 Mar 1999)
 Ended 24 years ago
(30 Sep 2000)
 Ended 24 years ago
(30 Oct 2000)
 2.1r5
(16 Feb 2000)
2.0 (Hamm) 26 years ago
(24 Jul 1998)
 Ended 25 years ago
(15 Feb 1999)
 Ended 25 years ago
(15 Feb 1999)
 2.0r5
(17 Feb 1999)
1.3 (Bo) 27 years ago
(02 Jul 1997)
 Ended 25 years ago
(08 Dec 1998)
 Ended 25 years ago
(08 Dec 1998)
 1.3.1 r.6
(03 Feb 1998)
1.2 (Rex) 27 years ago
(12 Dec 1996)
 Ended 27 years ago
(23 Oct 1997)
 Ended 27 years ago
(23 Oct 1997)
 1.2
(12 Dec 1996)
1.1 (Buzz) 28 years ago
(17 Jun 1996)
 Ended 27 years ago
(12 Dec 1996)
 Ended 27 years ago
(12 Dec 1996)
 1.1
(17 Jun 1996)

At any given time, there is one stable release of Debian, which has the support of the Debian security team. When a new stable version is released, the security team will usually cover the previous version for a year or so, while they also cover the new/current version. Only stable is recommended for production use.

Debian Long Term Support (LTS) is a project to extend the lifetime of all Debian stable releases to (at least) 5 years on a limited set of architectures. Debian LTS will not be handled by the Debian security team, but by a separate group of volunteers and companies. Not all packages of the Debian archive are supported by LTS, the debian-security-support package can check for unsupported packages.

A commercial offering for Extended Long Term Support (ELTS) is also available to further extend the lifetime of Debian releases to 10 years (5 supplementary years after the 5 years offered by the LTS project). It is not an official Debian project.

More information is available on the Debian website.

You should be running one of the supported release numbers listed above in the rightmost column.

You can check the version that you are currently using by running: 
cat /etc/os-release
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