Debian release version history
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Debian is a free and open-source operating system developed based on Linux. It is one of the oldest and most imporant Linux distributions and serves as the base for many other distributions. With one of the largest and most active communities in FOSS software, Debian is constantly being updated and improved by its developers. Major releases are made around every two years by the Debian Project although
Debian releases do not follow a fixed schedule. The most recent version of Debian is Debian version 13, codename "Trixie". The next up and coming release of Debian is Debian 14, codename "Forky".
Debian always has at least three active branches at any time: "stable", "testing" and "unstable". The stable branch is considered the primary release and what most people refer to when talking about Debian. The testing branch contains packages that have been imported from unstable. Testing has significantly more up-to-date packages than stable and is frozen some time before a release to become the next version of Debian.
“Debian release version history” enters the record as wikimedia list article. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Debian, release and version can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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