I came to the end of Supervision period LTS tests of the DEBIAN 9 “Stretch” distribution formed in 2017. The release of updates for LTS tests was carried out by a separate group of developers lts Team , created from enthusiasts and representatives of companies interested in long-term supplies for Debian .
In the near future, the initiative group will begin to form a new LTS vehicle based on Debian 10 Buster, whose full-time support expires on July 7, 2022. The LTS Team team will take the seals from Security Team and continue to support without a break. The release of updates for Debian 10 will be extended until June 30, 2024 (in the future, the LTS support will be provided for Debian 11, the updates for which will be produced until 2026). Like DEBIAN 9, the DEBIAN 10 and Debian 11 LTS support will only be extended to architectures i386, AMD64, ARMEL, ARMHF and ARM64, and the total support period will be 5 years.
At the same time, the end of LTS support does not mean the termination of the Debian 9.0 life cycle – as part of the expanded program “ Extended lts ” Freexian expressed readiness until June 30, 2027 to release update on the elimination of vulnerability in Limited packages set for AMD64, Armel and i386 architectures. Support will not cover many packages, including the Linux 4.9 core, instead of which the nucleus 4.19 will be offered, darned From Debian 10. Updates are distributed through the external repository , supported by Freexian. Access free for everyone, and the spectrum of supported packages depends on the total number sponsors and packets of interest to them.
Recall that the insignificant and unpredictable deadline for support for Debian, which was on average for three years and depended on the activity of developing a new release, was one of the main obstacles that interfere with the implementation of Debian at enterprises. With the introduction of LTS and Extended LTS initiatives, this obstacle is eliminated and Debian’s support time has been brought to seven years from the date of release, which is more than five-year-old Ubuntu LTS, but three years less than the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Enterprise, which are supported 10 years.