Re: OK to upgrade to 8.5?
I am running 8.0; 8.5 is out. Came out on June 24. Are you saying I
should wait for 9 to become stable release and then upgrade to that
version? I thought by going to 8.5 would be a good idea. Maybe not?
On Thu, 28 Jul 2016 11:34:01 +0200, you wrote:
>Steve Matzura:
>>
>> Should I follow the standard procedure--edit sources.list to include
>> the DVD drive (if it's not there already), then 'apt-get upgrade'
>> followed by 'apt-get full-upgrade'?
>
>What do you mean with "8.5"? Debian jessie is version 8, Debian stretch
>ussupposed to be version 9, I think. Either way, it isn't stable yet so
>technically the latest Debian version is 8.
>
>In any case, the canonical answer to "How do I upgrade to the latest
>Debian release?" is to go through the release notes of your current
>release+1 until you have reached the desired version.
>
>Example: if you have installed Debian squeeze (version 6) you would
>first follow this (I have picked amd64 randomly):
>https://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/amd64/release-notes/
>
>and then this:
>https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/amd64/release-notes/
>
>J.
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