Download Debian GNU/Linux 7.0

Version 7.0 of Debian GNU/Linux has been released. Debian is an open source operating system, which can be used for both desktops and servers, with an emphasis on stability and security. It is therefore used as the basis for various Linux distributions. In version 7.0, which has been codenamed ‘Wheezy’, multiarch support has been added, among other things. This means that programs developed for a different architecture can be installed. Below are the release notes for this release.

Debian 7.0 “Wheezy” released

This new version of Debian includes various interesting features such as multiarch supportseveral specific tools to deploy private cloudsan improved installer, and a complete set of multimedia codecs and front-ends which remove the need for third-party repositories.

Multiarch support, one of the main release goals for “Wheezy”, will allow Debian users to install packages from multiple architectures on the same machine. This means that you can now, for the first time, install both 32- and 64-bit software on the same machine and have all the relevant dependencies correctly resolved, automatically.

The installation process has been greatly improved: Debian can now be installed using software speech, above all by visually impaired people who do not use a Braille device. Thanks to the combined efforts of a huge number of translators, the installation system is available in 73 languages, and more than a dozens of them are available for speech synthesis too.

In addition, for the first time, Debian supports installation and booting using UEFI for new 64-bit PCs (amd64), although there is no support for “Secure Boot” yet.

This release includes numerous updated software packages, such as:

• Apache 2.2.22
• Asterisk 1.8.13.1
• GIMP 2.8.2
• an updated version of the GNOME desktop environment 3.4
• GNU Compiler Collection 4.7.2
• Icedove 10 (an unbranded version of Mozilla Thunderbird)
• Iceweasel 10 (an unbranded version of Mozilla Firefox)
• KDE Plasma Workspaces and KDE Applications 4.8.4
• kFreeBSD kernel 8.3 and 9.0
• LibreOffice 3.5.4
• Linux 3.2
• MySQL 5.5.30
• Nagios 3.4.1
• OpenJDK 6b27 and 7u3
• Perl 5.14.2
• PHP 5.4.4
• PostgreSQL 9.1
• Python 2.7.3 and 3.2.3
• Samba 3.6.6
• Tomcat 6.0.35 and 7.0.28
• Xen Hypervisor 4.1.4
• the Xfce 4.8 desktop environment
• X.Org 7.7
• more than 36,000 other ready-to-use software packages, built from nearly 17,500 source packages.