Re: OK to upgrade to 8.5?
On Thursday 28 July 2016 14:36:54 Steve Matzura wrote:
> 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?
You should upgrade regularly to get all the latest security updates.
In Debian terms your question is meaningless. That is why you are getting
strange replies. If you need to ask the question, you are not upgrading
often enough. Given all the nasties around now, you really do need to keep
your security patches up to fate.
Upgrade is the right term. But it is not a *version* upgrade, which is what I
think you may be meaning by your question. So no questions needed. But if
you really are still on 8.00, ($ cat /etc/debian_version) do something about
it fast Then upgrade frequently. You really do need those security
patches.
Lisi
> 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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