Security support for Bullseye handed over to the LTS team
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The Debian Project https://www.debian.org/
Security support for Bullseye handed over to the LTS team
press@debian.org
August 14th, 2024 https://www.debian.org/News/2024/20240814
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As of 14 August 2024, three years after the initial release, the regular
security support for Debian 11, alias "Bullseye", comes to an end. The
Debian Long Term Support (LTS) [1] Team will take over security support
from the Security and the Release Teams.
1: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/
Information for users
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Bullseye LTS will be supported from 15 August 2024 to 31 August 2026.
Whenever possible, users are encouraged to upgrade their machines to
Debian 12, alias "Bookworm", the current Debian stable release. To make
the life cycle of Debian releases easier to remember, the related Debian
teams have agreed on the following schedule: three years of regular
support plus two years of Long Term Support. Debian 12 will receive thus
regular support until 10 June 2026 and Long Term Support until 30 June
2028, three and five years after the initial release, respectively.
Users that need to stick with Debian 11 can find relevant information
about Debian Long Term Support at LTS/Using [2]. Important information
and changes regarding Bullseye LTS specifically can be found at LTS/
Bullseye [3].
2: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Using
3: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Bullseye
Debian 11 LTS users are invited to subscribe to the announcement mailing
list [4] for receiving notifications about security updates, or to
follow the latest advisories through the LTS Security Information [5]
webpage.
4: https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/
5: https://www.debian.org/lts/security/
A few packages are not covered by the Bullseye LTS support. Non-
supported packages installed in the users machines can be identified by
installing the debian-security-support [6] package. If debian-security-
support detects an unsupported package which is critical to you, please
get in touch with .
6: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/debian-security-support
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, and who have made Buster
LTS a success.
If you rely on Debian LTS, please consider joining the team [7],
providing patches, testing or funding the efforts [8].
7: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Development
8: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Funding
About Debian
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The Debian Project was founded in 1993 by Ian Murdock to be a truly free
community project. Since then the project has grown to be one of the
largest and most influential open source projects. Thousands of
volunteers from all over the world work together to create and maintain
Debian software. Available in 70 languages, and supporting a huge range
of computer types, Debian calls itself the "universal operating system".
Contact Information
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For further information, please visit the Debian web pages at
https://www.debian.org/ or send mail to [press@debian.org].
The Debian Long Term Support (LTS) Team will take over security support for Debian GNU/Linux 11 (Bullseye)
