Debian 8 will be supported for over 5 years

The LTS Team, responsible for creating updates for LTS branches Debian, has announced on the possibility of receiving updates for Debian 8 after the completion of the standard five-year support cycle. Initially, support for the LTS branch of Debian 8 was scheduled to end in July 2020, but Freexian expressed its willingness to release updates addressing vulnerabilities in the packages as part of an extended program.Extended LTS«.

Additional support will cover a limited set of packages and will be available only for amd64 and i386 architectures (possibly also armel). Support will not cover packages such as Linux kernel 3.16 (kernel 4.9 will be offered, backported from Debian 9), openjdk-7 (openjdk-8 will be offered), and tomcat7 (support will continue until March 2021). Updates will be distributed through an external repository, supported by Freexian. Access will be free available to all interested parties, and the range of supported packages will depend on the total number of sponsors and the packages of interest to them.

Source: opennet.ru

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