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    Debian 9 Stretch Release Date, Features and Upgrade Steps

    By RahulJune 5, 20172 Mins Read

    The Debian users still have to wait for most awaited release Debian 9. The Debian 9 Stretch will be released on June 17, 2017. It’s development code name is Stretch. For Debian 9 codename was announced on Nov 09, 2014. The Strech name has been taken from Toy Story.

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    Debian 9 (Stretch)

    Lifecycle of Debain 9 Stretch

    The Debian development team is making hard work to make the final release out. Finally, they reach near to its release date. On Nov 09, 2014 its codename was announced. Below is the lifecycle of Debian 9 before the release. About release date Debian Release Management says As always, Debian 9 “Stretch” will be released “when it’s ready”.

     Date
     Stage
     Status
     Nov 09, 2014
     Codename announced (Strech)
     Completed
     Apr 26, 2015
     Development started
     Completed
     Aug 13, 2016
     Kernel decided to 4.9 LTS
     Completed
     Nov 05, 2016
     Transition freeze
     Completed
     Jan 05, 2017
     “Soft” freeze
     Completed
     Feb 05, 2017
     Full freeze
     Completed
     Jun 17, 2017
     Final Release
     Awaited

    Upgrade to Debian 9 Stretch:

    Visit following tutorial to upgrade from Debian 8 Jessie to Debian 9 Stretch.

    • Upgrade from Debian 8 to Debian 9

    What’s New in Debian 9 Stretch:

    The new Debian 9 (Stretch) release is coming with lots of new packages. This distribution includes more than 15k new packages. Stretch is again shipping with multiple desktop environments like GNOME 3.22, KDE 5.8, Xfce 4.12, MATE 1.16 and LXDE. Below is the list of few updates coming in this release.

    • MariaDB 10 will replace MySQL.
    • GNU GCC 6 compiler now default.
    • PHP 7.0 will be default version.
    • Python 3.5 will be default.
    • Firefox 50 will be default available.
    • JAVA 8 (openJDK) will be default available.
    • Linux kernel image will be from 4.9 series.
    • and many more…

    For more details visit Debian 9 official web pages:

    https://wiki.debian.org/DebianStretch

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