Debian 10.8, being the latest quarterly update of the Linux distribution, is now available before the expected Debian 11 later in the year.
Debian 10.8 provides the latest stable updates for “Buster” with dozens of package updates compared to 10.7. Debian 10.8 has a number of bug fixes, security updates to a wide range of different packages, offers the latest Steam package, an updated NVIDIA graphics driver package, updated time zone data, and an assortment of other fixes / items. maintenance.
The full list of package updates with Debian 10.8 can be found in today’s release announcement at Debian.org.
Remarkable with Debian 10.8 is that the project has improved its build scripts that allow launch images to be built “significantly more in parallel” now and, in turn, to produce new versions much faster than previous versions. Debian developer Andrew Cater confirmed that “the embarrassing parallel acceleration worked” in building much faster-release Debian images.
Meanwhile, Debian 11 is now under the essential construction freeze, while the new lightweight freeze package starts in a week and the hard freeze starts in mid-March. The rest of the Debian 11 release process remains to be determined, while stable Debian 11.0 should be available later this calendar year.