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The Debian developers officially announces the upcoming Debian 8 "Jessie" distro will introduce GNOME 3.14 as its default desktop environment. Well earlier the developers announced that Debian 8 will include Xfce desktop environment instead of GNOME desktop, but they also provide the GNOME 3.14 packages in repository so that whoever wants to install GNOME desktop can install it by downloading packages from repository.

According to official announcement, it is officially confirmed that Debian 8 "Jessie" will receive GNOME 3.14 packages in its repository. There are lot of developers and users who are much comfortable with GNOME desktop instead of Xfce desktop. Recently, the community has decided to provide all GNOME 3.14 packages in repository for testing so that any one wants to use GNOME desktop environment, can use it easily on Debian 8 "Jessie". Also, review recent Linux Distro News to know what's new in them ?

As you know that in few days, stable release of GNOME desktop environment will be released and the Debian community working very fast to upload all the relevant GNOME 3.14 packages in the repository. The Debian 8 users will have blast because they have the opportunity of using GNOME desktop as well as Xfce desktop environment. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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The Debian community officially announces the release of Debian 6.0.10 which is the tenth and final update of stable Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" series. Well Debian 6.x series is active for quite a while and after particular interval it is updated with new packages and fixes. So this release is also updated with minor fixes along with updated packages. Also, review recent Linux Distro News to know which distro has been released ?

According to official announcement, Debian 6.0.10 comes with corrections for security problems to the oldstable release along with a few adjustments for serious problems. Security advisories were already published separately and are referenced where available.

During its final release, Debian 6.0.10 does not includes packages from DSA 2727, DSA 2765, DSA 2893 and DSA 2912 because of some technical reasons, as are some architectures for DSA 2782, DSA 2809, DSA 2810, DSA 2868 and DSA 2886. All other security updates released during the lifetime of "squeeze" that have not previously been part of a point release are also included in this update. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

List of Bug Fixes Made in Debian 6.0.10

- base-files : Update for the point release.
- catfish : Fix untrusted search path vulnerability.
- cups : Fix XSS in the web interface.
- debian-installer : Rebuild for the point release.
- exim4 : Robustness fix for the Dovecot authenticator; use exim's ${quote:xxx} operator when invoking spfquery to disallow bypassing of SPF validation by using special mailbox names.
- ia32-libs : Update packages from oldstable and oldstable-security.
- libdbi-perl : Remove dependency on to-be-removed libplrpc-perl.

These are some of the major security fixes which you may notice in this release. If you wish to check out detailed list of all fixes, then you must visit their official changelog page.

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Debian Community officially announces the release of Debian Installer 8.0 Jessie RC3 with several improvements and bugfixes. Well this is the third release candidate and primarily available for testing purposes. The community also claims that there might be some known issues which need to be resolved before final stable release, so they are waiting for your feedback and test cases.

This might be the last release candidate of upcoming Debian 8.0 "Jessie" and almost fixed all the issues which were raised in previously released RC1 and RC2 releases. Well about Debian Installer, you know that it is just a installation system for Debian distros since Sarge release.

According to official announcement, Debian Installer Jessie RC3 comes with minor improvements, few hardware support changes, localization status along with other bugfixes. The Debian Installer includes SD-card image build support for hd-media builds on armhf, add SD-card image and tftpboot tarball build support for netboot builds on armhf and add symlink boot.scr.uimg in the armhf netboot.tar.gz to support network autoboot with modern u-boot versions.

This candidate release provides support for 75 languages along with full translation for 22 languages. The apt-setup stops enabling backports by default, debian installer restore shortcuts on help screens, hw-detect improve missing firmware detection to avoid false positives once firmwares have been loaded. You might also like to check out other latest Linux Distro News to know what's new in them ?

The Debian Installer team officially announces the release of Debian 8.0 "Jessie" Beta 1 with new changes and bug fixes. According to official announcement, Debian Installer Jessie Beta 1 comes with fixed Gnome installation images which allows you to install Gnome instead of Xfce and also offers best experience as far as accessibility is concerned. This release also includes merged major parted release and several other related components also updated. If you face problem during partitioning, then make sure to include /var/log/syslog but also /var/log/partman in your installation report.

One of the main hightlighted feature of this release is that this installer supports systemd as default init system. It also deal with incompatible changes in syslinux and drops some parted_server functions. Other new changes includes updated Linux Kernel 3.14.15, updated kfreebsd 10 and resized banner when window width and banner width doesn't match. Also, review recent Linux Distro News to know what's new in them ?

The Debian 8 Installer Beta 1 also comes with some of the new hardware changes which is specifically supported by this release. This installer includes support for mipsel/loongson-3, support for QNAP HS-210 and support for D-Link DNS 320. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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Debian community officially announces the release of Debian 7.6 under Debian 7 "Wheezy" series. This is the sixth update under stable Debian 7 "Wheezy" distro. There are nothing new in this release which could uniquely identify it separately than previous versions of Debian 7 release. Also, review other Linux Distro News.

According to official announcement, Debian 7.6 comes with addition of corrections for security problems along with few adjustments for serious problems. The community also published security advisories and available for upgrade for your previous Debian 7.5 release. Some of the major bug fixes are enlisted below.

As you know that this release does not contribute a new version of Debian 7 but only contains updated packages and enhanced version than Debian 7.5 release. If you are using previous Debian 7.5 then you must upgrade your Debian to 7.6 version because it will download whatever new updates available for existing packages. You might also like to check out other latest Software News to know what's new in them ?

List of Bug Fixes Made in Debian 7.6

- Support ECC keys and ECDH ciphers; mod_proxy: fix crashes under load; mod_dav: fix potential DoS [CVE-2013-6438]; mod_log_config: fix cookie logging.
- Fix cross-site scripting via 403 responses [CVE-2014-4510].
- Automake1.9-nonfree : Add empty prerm to ensure a clean upgrade path in case of install-info removal.
- catfish : Fix regression from previous security update.
- clamav : New upstream release; fix a crash while using clamscan.
- cups : Fix XSS in the CUPS web interface; fix syntax errors in Hungarian templates.
- firebug : Take over xul-ext-firecookie, as firebug now provides all its functionality; remove copyrighted ICC profile.
- openssl : Don't prefer ECDHE_ECDSA with some Safari versions; actually restart the services when restart-without-asking is set.
- openssh : Restore patch to disable OpenSSL version check.

These are some of the major fixes which you might notice in Debian 7.6 "Wheezy" release. If you want to check out complete list of all fixes then you must visit their official changelog page.

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The Debian community announces that stable release of Debian 8.0 "Jessie" might arrive in the month of February, 2015. As you know that, Debian 8.0 "Jessie" was frozen down in last week, but according to release notes it is confirmed that still 310RC bugs are remianed to be fixed. These large number of bugs offer a challenge to developers so that they can reduce them before the schedule release of Debian 8 "Jessie".

According to one of the announcement made by Lucas Nussbaum in his blog state that the existing 310RC bugs in frozen state of Debian 8.0 already breaks record of all recent Debian releases. It seems that the auto-removals of RC-buggy non-key packages helped a lot to keep the bug number under control. The team assume that if they remove all RC-buggy non-key packages then number of bugs reduced to 150RC bugs. Also, review recent Linux Distro News to know what's new in them ?

The history of Debian freeze itself explains that everytime freeze state takes minimum of 40 weeks, but this time developers think that it shouldn't take this much time in frozen state. One of the developer, Richard Hartmann's weekly stats provides a good live breakdown of RC bugs per category. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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The Debian development team officially announces that the features of Debian 8.0 "Jessie" now frozen till the stable release. According to this, nobody can put further updates in this release and currently it is opened for bugfixes. The valid candidates for unblocks are divided into five categories. You can check out freeze policy to know what and how anyone can unblock the freeze release of Debian 8 "Jessie".

According to official announcement by community, it is confirmed that the features of upcoming Debian 8.0 "Jessie" is now freeze its features but development can push changes if something really important comes up before the final release. As of now there is nothing important proposed which development team can include in the final release of Debian 8.0 "Jessie". Also, review recent Linux Distro News to know what's new in them ?

If you want to request to unblock the freeze policy then you must possess following features like appropriate tags, justification, _Debian_bug numbers and their severities, the changelog entry/entries and a _source_debdiff between Jessie and the uploaded or proposed package. If your request possess these requirements then development team process your request quickly or efficiently without round-trips. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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The Debian Installer team officially announces the release of second beta release of installer for Debian 8 "Jessie" with new changes and minor fixes. As you know that Debian Installer is the official installation system for Debian distribution since Sarge release.

According to official announcement, Debian 8 Installer Beta 2 comes with default GNOME desktop environment along with preliminary support for arm64 and ppc64el architectures. This beta release also provides a list of desktop environments which is displayed in tasksel which makes easier installation of another desktop environment. Unfortunately, this is currently underdocumented.

Among other changes, Debian 8 Installer Beta 2 includes fixed PXE boot images built for kfreebsd, add fonts-lohit-guru-udeb to gtk images, fixing rendering for punjabi, remove desktop selection from syslinux; now available in tasksel, keep Linux modules.builtin file in the initrd and fixed lib location and search path for syslinux >= 5. We have also enlisted some of the changes below in this post. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

List of New Changes Made in Debian 8 Installer Beta 2

- hw-detect: Move firmware installation code to pre-pkgsel.d.
- hw-detect: Correct detection of Macs needing to blacklist snd-aoa modules.
- iso-scan: Do not error out when searching in folders with shell-special characters in their name.
- lowmem: Update lowmem limits for linux-x86.
- lowmem: Make the / ramfs fill the whole memory again.
- netcfg: Do not kill_dhcp_client after setting the hostname and domain, otherwise Linux udhcpc will stop renewing its lease, and on other platforms dhclient will de-configure the network interface.
- netcfg: Don't copy /etc/network/interfaces to /target if netcfg/target_network_config=ifupdown.
- netcfg: Fix support for entering an ESSID manually, it was previously getting ignored.
- preseed: Update auto-install/defaultroot for jessie.
- preseed: Always disable locale & keyboard question when auto is enabled, even if no preseed file was given on boot, in case the dhcp server provides it.
- rootskel: Update lowmem limit for gtk on linux-x86.
- rootskel: Use a tmpfs for some directories to avoid running out of space in the fixed-size initrd on kfreebsd-*.
- rootskel-gtk: Update gtk-set-font to learn a new mapping.

These are some of the new changes made in Debian 8 Installer Beta 2. If you wish to checkout complete list of new changes, then you must visit their official changelog page.

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Debian Linux Kernel team officially announces that the upcoming Debian 8 "Jessie" distro will be featured with Linux Kernel 3.16 as the default kernel. As you know that Linux Kernel 3.16 has quite a small development cycle, according to Linus Torvalds, the stable Linux Kernel 3.16 will be available in mid of August. Currently all the release candidates are tested and packaged so that stable Kernel 3.16 will be ready as soon as possible. You can also review recent Linux Kernel 3.16 News to know how much work has completed in 3.16 series ?

According to official announcement made by Ana Guerrero Lopez, it is officially confirmed that Debian 8 will be based on Linux Kernel 3.16. The team state that if you maintain a package which is closely bound to kernel version - a kernel module or a userland application that depends on an unstable API. The team claims that they will remove incompatible packages while testing before the stable release of Debian 8 "Jessie". Also, review recent Linux Distro News to know which distro has just released ?

If you testing any particular package with Kernel 3.16 and face any problem then report it before the freeze date which is 5th November, 2014. The kernel team might be able to resolve your problems before stable Debian 8 release. The Linux Kernel 3.16 series will not be maintained as longterm branch because it will be maintained till April, 2016. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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