Extended LTS for Debian 8 Jessie
Support period
- 2015-04-26: Publication of Debian 8 Jessie
- 2018-06-17: Security support handed over to the Debian LTS team.
- 2020-06-30: End of support in Debian. Security support now handled by Freexian’s Extended LTS service.
- 2025-06-30: End of support.
Architectures supported
- amd64
- i386
- armel
- armhf
Limitations of support
Not all packages can be supported by our Extended LTS for Debian 8 service:
- packages that have already been marked as unsupported by the Debian security/LTS teams are not supported: see list in git repository
- some packages have limited support: see list in git repository
- linux: we don’t provide security support for Linux 3.16 that was originally provided in Debian 8 Jessie. Instead we maintain a backport.
- libav will not be supported
- mariadb-10.0: it’s EOL at the upstream level
- tomcat7: has reached its end-of-life (EOL) on March 2021. We continue to support it on a best effort basis but recommend to use Tomcat 8 instead
- openjdk-7 will be supported as long as it’s maintained upstream, and we will also maintain an openjdk-8 backport.
Note that when you request a quote, we send you back a list of packages that are not supported or that have limitations in their support so that you can take an informed decision.
List of base packages
The following packages are part of Debian’s 8 base system and will thus always be supported (as long as we have customers paying for Debian 8 support):
- acl
- adduser
- apt
- attr
- audit
- base-files
- base-passwd
- bash
- bind9
- boost1.55
- bsdmainutils
- bzip2
- ca-certificates
- cdebconf
- coreutils
- cpio
- cron
- cryptsetup
- dash
- db5.3
- debconf
- debian-archive-keyring
- debianutils
- diffutils
- dmidecode
- dpkg
- e2fsprogs
- findutils
- gcc-4.8
- gcc-4.9
- gdbm
- glibc
- gmp
- gnupg
- gnutls28
- grep
- groff
- gzip
- hostname
- icu
- ifupdown
- init-system-helpers
- insserv
- iproute2
- iptables
- iputils
- isc-dhcp
- json-c
- keyutils
- kmod
- krb5
- less
- libbsd
- libcap2
- libedit
- libestr
- libffi
- libgcrypt20
- libgpg-error
- libidn
- liblocale-gettext-perl
- liblogging
- liblognorm
- libmnl
- libnetfilter-acct
- libnfnetlink
- libpipeline
- libpsl
- libselinux
- libsemanage
- libsepol
- libsigc++-2.0
- libtasn1-6
- libtext-charwidth-perl
- libtext-iconv-perl
- libtext-wrapi18n-perl
- libusb
- libx11
- libxau
- libxcb
- libxdmcp
- libxext
- libxmu
- logrotate
- lsb
- lvm2
- man-db
- manpages
- mawk
- nano
- ncurses
- netbase
- netcat
- nettle
- net-tools
- newt
- nfacct
- openssh
- openssl
- p11-kit
- pam
- pcre3
- perl
- popt
- procps
- readline6
- rsyslog
- sed
- sensible-utils
- shadow
- slang2
- startpar
- sudo
- systemd
- sysvinit
- tar
- tasksel
- tcp-wrappers
- traceroute
- tzdata
- ustr
- util-linux
- vim
- wget
- xauth
- xz-utils
- zlib