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Comprehensive overview of the Debian product lifecycle - Releases, last patch, long-term support, maintenance and support

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What is Debian?

Automate product release and end-of-life managementDebian is a Unix-like computer operating system that is composed entirely of free software, most of which is under the GNU General Public License and packaged by a group of individuals participating in the Debian Project.
 

The entire lifecycle of Debian

The following figure shows you the visualised product life cycle of Debian. You can see all releases with the latest patch version, the long-term support characteristics (orange flag in the green circle, the periods for version provision, maintenance and support.
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Figure: Release, patch and end-of-life cycle of product Debian (Debian)
 

What is the Debian release strategy?

Debian Long Term Support (LTS) is a project to extend the lifetime of all Debian stable releases to (at least) 5 years. Debian LTS is not handled by the Debian Security team, but by a separate group of volunteers and companies interested in making it a success. Thus the Debian LTS team takes over security maintenance of the various releases once the Debian Security team stops its work.

Facts and figures about Debian

Product
Debian
Vendor
Debian
Latest version
12.11
Number of releases
8
Number of versions
98
Number of unstable versions
0
Number of versions affected by CVE
40
Licence
Debian Free Software Guidelines
Version command
cat /etc/debian_version
Last verification date
2025-05-21
 
 

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