New Debian Released

Hello Jessie

Debian have released their new version code named jessie ready for the early upgraders. We have recently moved back over to Debian for desktops due to the need for stability and I miss the system.

So now workstations use this version from now on and I will be upgrading my workstation at some point over the day.

There is the usual blog post about the new release which can be found here and there is a set of release notes about the new OS here.

It has taken 24 months of development time to get to this release and here is a list of what has been changed^[1]

• Apache 2.4.10
• Asterisk 11.13.1
• GIMP 2.8.14
• an updated version of the GNOME desktop environment 3.14
• GNU Compiler Collection 4.9.2
• Icedove 31.6.0 (an unbranded version of Mozilla Thunderbird)
• Iceweasel 31.6.0esr (an unbranded version of Mozilla Firefox)
• KDE Plasma Workspaces and KDE Applications 4.11.13
• LibreOffice 4.3.3
• Linux 3.16.7-ctk9
• MariaDB 10.0.16 and MySQL 5.5.42
• Nagios 3.5.1
• OpenJDK 7u75
• Perl 5.20.2
• PHP 5.6.7
• PostgreSQL 9.4.1
• Python 2.7.9 and 3.4.2
• Samba 4.1.17
• Tomcat 7.0.56 and 8.0.14
• Xen Hypervisor 4.4.1
• the Xfce 4.10 desktop environment
• more than 43,000 other ready-to-use software packages, built from nearly 20,100 source packages.

Including upgrading the workstations the server will be evaluated on the virtual machine to make sure the system works with our website and we have no problems with new software versions.

This will be slated for after the new look upgrade which is now half way and progressing well and it will allow our users to have a better experience and also have some eye candy.

[1] https://www.debian.org/News/2015/20150426