2

I understand Raspbian has moved-on; to be Debian Jessie based. But, on the official Raspberry Pi website the update from Wheezy to Jessie is discouraged (as also discussed on this StackExchange question. Instead they recommend to make a clean Jessie install. However I am not in the position to do so any time soon. Hence my question:

  • Until when does Raspbian Wheezy receive security updates (wherever from)?

On that same site there has been some discourse in the comments-section about: whether or not security updates for Raspbian Wheezy will still be released, or (only) pushed downstream from Debian, or none at all. But it is not quite clear to me what is / is not to be expected in practice, as a Raspbian Wheezy user (that can not migrate for another month orso).

Community
  • 1
woosting
  • 151
  • 1
  • 10

1 Answers1

4

Wheezy in general has been handed over to the Debian LTS team as of 25 April of this year (2016). The official answer for LTS support is May 31, 2018 (https://www.debian.org/News/2016/20160425.en.html).

Since Raspbian Wheezy uses the same package management as the rest of Debian Wheezy, it's official security support should cover the same timeframe. In short, you have a little less than 2 years before upgrading becomes a necessity for security reasons.

Brandon Denning
  • 56
  • 2