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The Debian Project https://www.debian.org/
Security support for Wheezy handed over to the LTS team press@debian.org
April 25th, 2016 https://www.debian.org/News/2016/20160425
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As of 25 April, one year after the release of Debian 8, alias "Jessie",
and nearly three years after the release of Debian 7, alias "Wheezy",
regular security support for Wheezy comes to an end. The Debian Long
Term Support (LTS) [1] Team will take over security support.
1: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/
Information for users
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Wheezy LTS will be supported from 26 April 2016 to 31 May 2018.
For Debian 7 Wheezy LTS there will be no requirement to add a separate
wheezy-lts suite to your sources.list any more and your current setup
will continue to work without further changes.
For how to use Debian Long Term Support please read LTS/Using [2].
2: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Using
Important information and changes regarding Wheezy LTS can be found at
LTS/Wheezy [3].
3: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Wheezy
Most notably OpenJDK 7 will be made the new Java default JRE/JDK on 26
June 2016 to ensure full security support until Wheezy LTS reaches its
end-of-life.
You should also subscribe to the announcement mailing list [4] for
security updates for Wheezy LTS.
4: https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/
A few packages are not covered by the Wheezy LTS support. These can be
detected by installing the debian-security-support [5] package. If
debian-security-support detects an unsupported package which is critical
to you, please get in touch with <debian-lts@lists.debian.org>.
5: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/debian-security-support
Mailing lists
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The whole coordination of the Debian LTS effort is handled through the
debian-lts mailing list [6]
6: https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts/
Please subscribe or follow us via GMANE (gmane.linux.debian.devel.lts)
Aside from the debian-lts-announce list, there is also a list for
following all uploads in Wheezy LTS [7].
7: https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-changes/
Security Tracker
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All information on the status of vulnerabilities (e.g. if the version in
Wheezy LTS happens to be unaffected while Jessie is affected) will be
tracked in the Debian Security Tracker [8].
8: https://security-tracker.debian.org
If you happen to spot an error in the data, please see
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/data/report.
About Debian
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The Debian Project was founded in 1993 by Ian Murdock to be a truly free
community project. Since then the project has grown to be one of the
largest and most influential open source projects. Thousands of
volunteers from all over the world work together to create and maintain
Debian software. Available in 70 languages, and supporting a huge range
of computer types, Debian calls itself the "universal operating system".
Contact Information
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For further information, please visit the Debian web pages at
https://www.debian.org/ or send mail to <press@debian.org>.
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