The Debian Installer Buster Alpha 2 release bought support for many single-board computers, including FriendlyArm NanoPi M1 Plus, Marvell 8040 MACHIATOBin, A20-OLinuXino-LIME2-eMMC, Marvell Armada 8040 DB, Solo/DualLite, SolidRun HummingBoard, Olimex, and it’s likely that the support for even more single-board computers will be added in future alpha releases. It will also support the automatic installation of security upgrades through the pkgsel component. SMB3 debuted in Windows 8, representing a significant update from the previous version. So far, it seems that Buster will be one of those releases without many new user-facing features but with plenty of background improvements.īuster will have a new Linux Kernel with support for encrypted SMB3 shares mounted via CIFS/SMB. We certainly hope to improve the length of the full freeze, and you can help with that by ensuring that you are ready for these milestones,” added the Debian team in the same announcement. “We do not have a fixed release date, but, given the cadence of previous releases, it is likely that the release date will be some time mid-2019. In a recent announcement, the Debian team stated, “In order to minimize the freeze length, we have shortened the transition freeze by one month.” As such, the transition freeze of Debian 10 is planned on January 12, 2019, with Buster’s soft-freeze scheduled for February 12. Looking at Debian’s release history, it’s clear that releases are made roughly every two years, which means that Debian 10 will likely be released in mid-2019. It also introduced LibreOffice 5.2, Plasma 5, and Qt 5.7, among many other things. It contained a major Linux Kernel upgrade, going from version 3.16 to 4.9. If you’re anxiously waiting for Debian 10, codename Buster, this article is here to tell you when you can expect it and what new features it will most likely contain.ĭebian 9, codename Stretch, was released on June 17, 2017. Debian 10 buster released July 6th, 2019! After 25 months of development the Debian project is proud to present its new stable version 10 (code name buster), 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.ĭebian doesn’t follow a fixed release schedule, and that makes it somewhat hard to know exactly when a new release will be available.

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