Older version, yet still maintained: Stretch Older version, yet still maintained: Jessie Old version, no longer maintained: Wheezy Old version, no longer maintained: Squeeze Old version, no longer maintained: Potato Old version, no longer maintained: 0.93R6 Old version, no longer maintained: 0.93R5 Debian's unstable trunk is named after Sid, a character who regularly destroyed his toys.

Naming convention ĭebian distribution codenames are based on the names of characters from the Toy Story films. Oldoldstable is eventually moved to the archived releases repository. When the Debian stable branch is replaced again, the oldstable release becomes the 'oldoldstable' release. When the Debian stable branch is replaced with a newer release, the current stable becomes an 'oldstable' release. It is the most volatile version of Debian.

The unstable release (also known as sid) is the release where active development takes place.

Testing has significantly more up-to-date packages than stable and is a close version of the future release candidate for stable. The testing release contains packages that have been tested from unstable. The stable release is the most recent and up-to-date version of Debian. ĭebian always has at least three release branches active at any time: 'stable', 'testing' and 'unstable'. The next up and coming release of Debian is Debian 12, codename 'Bookworm'. The most recent version of Debian is Debian version 11, codename 'Bullseye'. Recent releases have been made roughly biennially by the Debian Project. A screenshot of Debian 10 ( Buster) with the GNOME desktop environmentĭebian releases do not follow a fixed schedule.

Debian testing