Debian always has at least three releases in active maintenance: stable
, testing
and unstable
.
The stable
distribution contains the latest officially released distribution of Debian.
This is the production release of Debian, the one which we primarily recommend using.
The current stable
distribution of Debian is version 13, codenamed trixie. It was initially released as version 13.0 on August 9th, 2025 and its latest update, version 13.1, was released on September 6th, 2025.
The testing
distribution contains packages that haven't been accepted into a stable
release yet, but they are in the queue for that. The main advantage of using this distribution is that it has more recent versions of software.
See the Debian FAQ for more information on what is testing
and how it becomes stable
.
The current testing
distribution is forky.
The unstable
distribution is where active development of Debian occurs. Generally, this distribution is run by developers and those who like to live on the edge. It is recommended that users running unstable should subscribe to the debian-devel-announce mailing list to receive notifications of major changes, for example upgrades that may break.
The unstable
distribution is always called sid.
Debian announces its new stable release on a regular basis. The Debian release life cycle encompasses five years: the first three years of full support followed by two years of Long Term Support (LTS).
See Debian Releases Wiki page and Debian LTS Wiki page for detailed information.
Index of releasesSee the Debian FAQ for an explanation of where all these codenames came from.
Version Code Name Release Date End of Life (EOL) End of LTS End of ELTS Status 15 Duke TBA TBA TBA TBA Codename announced 14 Forky TBA TBA TBA TBAtesting— no release date has been set 13 Trixie 2025-08-09 2028-08-09 2030-06-30 2035-06-30 Current
stablerelease 12 Bookworm 2023-06-10 2026-06-10 2028-06-30 2033-06-30 Current
oldstablerelease 11 Bullseye 2021-08-14 2024-08-14 2026-08-31 2031-06-30 Current
oldoldstablerelease, under LTS support 10 Buster 2019-07-06 2022-09-10 2024-06-30 2029-06-30 Archived release, under third-party paid extended LTS support 9 Stretch 2017-06-17 2020-07-18 2022-07-01 2027-06-30 Archived release, under third-party paid extended LTS support Historic releases
The web pages for the obsolete Debian releases are kept intact, but the releases themselves can only be found in a separate archive.
Version Code Name Release Date End of Life (EOL) End of LTS End of ELTS 8 Jessie 2015-04-25 2018-06-17 2020-06-30 2025-06-30 7 Wheezy 2013-05-04 2016-04-25 2018-05-31 ~2020-06-30 6 Squeeze 2011-02-06 2014-05-31 2016-02-29 — 5 Lenny 2009-02-14 2012-02-06 — — 4 Etch 2007-04-08 2010-02-15 — — 3.1 Sarge 2005-06-06 2008-03-31 — — 3.0 Woody 2002-07-19 2006-06-30 — — 2.2 Potato 2000-08-15 2003-06-30 — — 2.1 Slink 1999-03-09 2000-09-30 2000-10-30 — 2.0 Hamm 1998-07-24 — — — 1.3 Bo 1997-07-02 — — — 1.2 Rex 1996-12-12 — — — 1.1 Buzz 1996-06-17 — — — 0.93R6 — 1995-10-26 — — — 0.93R5 — ~1995-03-01 — — — 0.91 — ~1994-01-01 — — — Integrity of the data in the releasesData integrity is granted by a digitally signed Release file. To ensure that all files in the release belong to it, checksums of all Packages files are copied into the Release file.
Digital signatures for this file are stored in the file Release.gpg, using the current version of the archive signing key. For stable
and oldstable
an additional signature is generated using an offline key specifically generated for a release by a member of the Stable Release Team.
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