Debian 8.5 Released, Debian 7.11 Is Out Too For Ending Wheezy

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Debian 8.5 Released, Debian 7.11 Is Out Too For Ending Wheezy

Debian updated their stable and old-stable releases this weekend...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Debian-8.5-Released

[Chewi]

Hrm, that's annoying, I've been using the mediawiki package at work. It's only an internal wiki so the security issues aren't a massive concern but still. Hopefully Backports will pick it up?

[starshipeleven]

Hrm, that's annoying, I've been using the mediawiki package at work. It's only an internal wiki so the security issues aren't a massive concern but still. Hopefully Backports will pick it up?

Usually you can just compile the packages from source package, as the source packages aren't removed. I do so for some SiS drivers they dropped. Spliced the old source package with the newer sources from xorg.

[nanonyme]

Hrm, that's annoying, I've been using the mediawiki package at work. It's only an internal wiki so the security issues aren't a massive concern but still. Hopefully Backports will pick it up?

I find it really irritating migration plans start only after things are end-of-lifed