Debian 7 LTS reached EOL
The Debian LTS team announced on the official website yesterday that the Debian 7 “Wheezy” has officially ended its life cycle on May 31, 2018, five years after its release. They will no longer provide any security updates for Debian 7.
“The Debian Long Term Support (LTS) Team hereby announces that Debian 7 “Wheezy” support has reached its end-of-life on May 31, 2018, five years after its initial release on May 4, 2013.
Debian will not provide further security updates for Debian 7. A subset of Wheezy packages will be supported by external parties. Detailed information can be found at Extended LTS.
The LTS Team will prepare the transition to Debian 8 “Jessie”, which is the current oldstable release. The LTS team will take over support from the Security Team on June 17, 2018.
Debian 8 will also receive Long Term Support for five years after its initial release with support ending on June 30, 2020. The supported architectures include amd64, i386, armel and armhf.
For further information about using Jessie LTS and upgrading from Wheezy LTS, please refer to LTS/Using.”
In previous announcements, the Debian development team had advised users to migrate to the newer Debian GNU/Linux 9 “Stretch” family of operating systems as soon as possible. The series will officially support it until June 2020 and will receive additional LTS support from the Debian LTS team for two years from June 2020 to June 2022.
