Debian News

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Thank you for following all this 19 months!

The Debian Volatile archive is discontinued starting with squeeze. It has been replaced by the suite squeeze-updates on the official mirrors. Read the full announcement to know all the details.

After two years of intense work, the Debian project has published a new stable release.

You are welcome to read the full release announcement to get an overview of the changes, the installation manual if you are doing a fresh installation and the release notes before upgrading your systems.

Choose your preferred installation media from http://deb.li/squeeze

Also, don’t miss checking out the new design of the Debian website, Debian Wiki, Debian Lists Archive, Debian Planet , package information system and Debian Git web.

Thank you to everybody who made it possible!

Follow the release live via IRC (irc.debian.org), identi.ca/debian or join others in the party line!

The following developers got their Debian accounts in the last month:

• Kamal Mostafa (kamal)
• Martin Bagge (brother)
• Kai Wasserbäch (curan)

Congratulations!