Debian 9 Release Date and Features

The Debian users still have to wait for most awaited release Debian 9. The release date for Debian 9 is not announced officially yet but it supposed to release in mid of 2017. It’s development code name is Stretch. For Debian 9 codename was announced on Nov 09, 2014. The Strech name has been taken from Toy Story.

Debian 9 (Stretch)

Lifecycle of Debain 9 Stretch

Below is the lifecycle of Debian 9 before the release. About release date Debian Release Management says As always, Debian 9 “Stretch” will be released “when it’s ready”.

 Date

 Stage

 Status

 Nov 09, 2014

 Codename announced (Strech)

 Completed

 Apr 26, 2015

 Development started

 Completed

 Aug 13, 2016

 Kernel decided to 4.9 LTS

 Completed

 Nov 05, 2016

 Transition freeze

 Completed

 Jan 05, 2017

 “Soft” freeze

 Completed

 Feb 05, 2017

 Full freeze

 Completed

 XXX-XX-XXXX

 Final Release

 Awaited

What’s New in Debian 9 (Stretch):

The new Debian 9 (Stretch) release is coming with lots of new packages. This distribution includes more than 15k new packages. Stretch is again shipping with multiple desktop environments like GNOME 3.22, KDE 5.8, Xfce 4.12, MATE 1.16 and LXDE. Below is the list of few updates comming in this release.

• MariaDB 10 will replace MySQL.
• GNU GCC 6 compiler now default.
• PHP 7.0 will be default version.
• Python 3.5 will be default.
• Firefox 50 will be default available.
• JAVA 8 (openJDK) will be default available.
• Linux kernel image will be from 4.9 series.
• and many more…

For more details visit Debian 9 official web pages:
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianStretch

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