Mass update of Jessie - A better alternative to new version?
Instead of releasing a much hyped new version of Jessie, Debian took everyone by surprise as it came out with a massive update, which includes repairs and fixes of more than 100 bugs last weekend.
Official announcement from Debian stated that “ Those who frequently install updates from security.debian.org won' t have to update many packages and most updates from security.debian.org are included in this update.”
The updates mainly added corrections on security problems along with a few adjustments for serious problems. Security advisories were already published. They promised that “ There is no need to throw away old “ Jessie” CDs or DVDs but only to update via an up-to-date Debian mirror after installation, to cause any out of date packages to be updated.
Google drive users may complain about the termination of grive client, but still it works in a web browser. The OwnCloud open source application is no longer in fashion.
Software package Dropbear SSH client gets four security fixes, Apache' s ActiveMQ message broker gets a DoS-fix, there' s a heap overflow bug plugged in Erlang, and a bunch of fixes to GNU' s TLS package, gnutls28.
The Apache Groovy language (groovy and groovy2) is patched against a serialized object attack, and GNU' s Guile programming language gets two patches. As they become either an orphan or they’ ve been broken, seven packages have been removed.
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