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Revision as of 03:51, 20 July 2005
The stable distribution of Debian is the version which was released for wide use. This means it was tested for a long time before enough problems were corrected to obtain what the Debian release process deems a stable operating system.
Debian releases stable when they are assured that fewer peculiar problems will occur with a new release than with the former one.
Versions and codenames
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 sarge is currently the stable release of Debian.
The Debian stable releases and their codenames include:
The next release is codenamed etch. The version number is not decided until some time before the actual release.
Point releases
The so-called point releases are regular but minor updates to the stable distribution that add rN to the version number (for example 3.0r6) and usually include a batch of security fixes.
See also
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