Debian 8 will be supported for over 5 years

The LTS Team, responsible for generating updates for LTS branches debbian, reported about the ability to receive updates for Debian 8 after completing the regular five-year maintenance cycle. Initially, it was planned to stop supporting the LTS branch of Debian 8 in July 2020, but Freexian expressed its readiness to release updates on its own to fix vulnerabilities in packages as part of the extended program β€œExtended LTSΒ«.

Additional support will cover a limited set of packages and will only apply to amd64 and i386 architectures (possibly armel). Support will not include packages such as Linux kernel 3.16 (kernel 4.9 backported from Debian 9 will be offered), openjdk-7 (openjdk-8 will be offered) and tomcat7 (maintenance will last until March 2021). Updates will be distributed via external repository, maintained by Freexian. Access will be free for everyone, and the range of supported packages will depend on the total number sponsors and the packages they are interested in.

Source: opennet.ru

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