Debian 10 Long Term Support reaching end-of-life
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The Debian Long Term Support (LTS) Team hereby announces that Debian 10 "buster" support will reach its end-of-life on June 30, 2024, nearly five years after its initial release on July 6th, 2019.
Starting in July, Debian will not provide further security updates for Debian 10. A subset of "buster" packages will be supported by external parties. Detailed information can be found at Extended LTS.
The Debian LTS Team will prepare afterwards the transition to Debian 11 "bullseye", the current oldstable release. Thanks to the combined effort of different teams including the Security Team, the Release Team, and the LTS Team, the Debian 11 life cycle will also encompass five years. To make the life cycle of Debian releases easier to follow, the related Debian teams have agreed on the following schedule: three years of regular support plus two years of Long Term Support. The LTS Team will take over support from the Security and the Release Teams on August 14, 2024, three years after the initial release on August 14, 2021. The final point update release for "bullseye" will be published soon after the final Debian 11 Security Advisory (DSA) will be issued.
Debian 11 will receive Long Term Support until August 31, 2026. The supported architectures remain amd64, i386, arm64 and armhf.
For further information about using "bullseye" LTS and upgrading from "buster" LTS, please refer to LTS/Using.
Debian and its LTS Team would like to thank all contributing users, developers, sponsors and other Debian teams who are making it possible to extend the life of previous stable releases.
If you rely on Debian LTS, please consider joining the team, providing patches, testing or funding the efforts.
Linuxiac:
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Final Curtain for Debian 10, Users Urged to Upgrade
The Debian Long Term Support (LTS) team has made official announcement, reminding that support for Debian 10, codenamed “Buster”, will end on June 30, 2024.
Launched on July 6, 2019, this marks nearly five years of continuous updates and security patches, which is the standard period for which Debian’s stable releases receive support.
As the curtain draws on Debian 10, users currently operating on it are being urged to start their migration to Debian 11 (Bullseye) if they have not already done so. After June, Debian will stop all security updates for the Buster release.
Neowin:
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Debian 10 users reminded to upgrade by the end of the month - Neowin
If you are rocking Debian 10 on a desktop or server, you will need to upgrade it by June 30, as the long-term support will be ending on that date.
For those not familiar, new Debian versions come out every two years and receive normal security updates for three years. They are then shifted to the long-term support branch, where they are supported by another team for a further two years. That’s the phase that’s ending now for Debian 10.
You have two options if you want to stay on Debian: you can either jump to Debian 11, in which case, you’ll need to do another update in two years, or you can go to Debian 12 and upgrade again in 2028 – if you don’t like messing around with your system, this seems like the best option. If you choose to do an in-place upgrade, you may need to upgrade through Debian 11 and then to 12.