#1 2017-06-18 10:57:15

Head_on_a_Stick

Member

From: London

Registered: 2015-09-29

Posts: 9,093

Website

Debian 9 Stretch release

After 26 months of development the Debian project is proud to present its new stable version 9 (code name "Stretch")

https://lists.debian.org/debian-announc … 00003.html

https://www.debian.org/News/2017/20170617

Full release notes here:

https://www.debian.org/releases/stretch/releasenotes

Any users attempting a `dist-upgrade` from jessie to stretch (in a pure Debian system) are strongly advised to carefully study the official advice beforehand:

https://www.debian.org/releases/stretch … ng.en.html

There are many caveats and gotcha's to be avoided but most upgrades should proceed smoothly if the guidelines are followed.

The (unofficial) ISO images that contain the non-free firmware required by most wireless cards can be found here:

https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unof … ch/iso-cd/

The team is working hard on the BunsenLabs Helium release that will follow in due course.

Any enterprising h4x0rs who want to test-pilot an experimental version ("Helium-dev") and help us in our development can use the Debian stretch ISO image to install a (CLI-only) system and then boot that and run our bunsen-netinstall script:

https://github.com/BunsenLabs/bunsen-ne … helium-dev

A more flexible installation method is covered by this guide:

https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic.php?id=3800

Thanks for testing!

---

Para todos todo, para nosotros nada

KrunchTime

Member

Registered: 2015-09-29

Posts: 857

Re: Debian 9 Stretch release

^ Whoops...beat me to it.  I posted a similar announcement in the BL & General Linux Discussion forum.

DeepDayze

Like sands through an hourglass...

From: In Linux Land

Registered: 2017-05-28

Posts: 1,901

Re: Debian 9 Stretch release

YAy...and another era begins...

---

Real Men Use Linux

Krisbee

Member

From: Londinium

Registered: 2016-01-08

Posts: 10

Re: Debian 9 Stretch release

firmware-9.0.0-amd64-i386-netinst.iso +  https://github.com/bunsenlabs/bunsen-ne … dev.tar.gz = error

install fails with missing file: bl-github-upgrade

Net install script is clear enough to trace problem to the necessary_files array check. Removing bl-github-upgrade from   bunsen-netinstall/config allowed bunsen-netinstall to complete successfully.

I installed this in KVM and ended up spending more time trying find out how to get auto window resizing to work which seems to be a long standing bug in spice-vdagent.

From the little testing I have done, Bunsen Helium seems to be OK, but I don't have any real hardware I can try this on and have yet to run bl-welcome.

johnraff

nullglob

From: Nagoya, Japan

Registered: 2015-09-09

Posts: 12,661

Website

Re: Debian 9 Stretch release

Thanks for the bug report @Krisbee.

The bl-github-upgrade bug has now been fixed and pushed to GitHub.

The helium-dev installer is not yet really ready - maybe a week or two for something nearer usable - and bl-welcome needs a lot of recoding, so will take a bit longer.

Last edited by johnraff (2017-06-19 08:29:26)

---

...elevator in the Brain Hotel, broken down but just as well...
( a boring Japan blog (currently paused), now on Bluesky, there's also some GitStuff )

Introduction to the Bunsenlabs Boron Desktop

Krisbee

Member

From: Londinium

Registered: 2016-01-08

Posts: 10

Re: Debian 9 Stretch release

OK, I'll watch for further news in the forum and hold off for now.

Horizon_Brave

Operating System: Linux-Nettrix

Registered: 2015-10-18

Posts: 1,473

Re: Debian 9 Stretch release

Congrats Ma' Deb! Hmm Helium should be interesting then... Since playing around with it on my 'toy box', admittedly from  narrow use cases, it seems very solid!  Thanks for your effort JohnRaff, and likewise, we've waited 26 months...so I think we can wait a bit longer for our official Bunsen spinoff release.

---

"I have not failed, I have found 10,000 ways that will not work" -Edison

DeepDayze

Like sands through an hourglass...

From: In Linux Land

Registered: 2017-05-28

Posts: 1,901

Re: Debian 9 Stretch release

Time to get Stretched!

---

Real Men Use Linux

Nili

Member

From: $HOME/♫♪

Registered: 2015-09-30

Posts: 1,271

Website

Re: Debian 9 Stretch release

Congrat Debian Team for the stretch release. I wish everybody enjoy it

---

Tumbleweed (Server) | KDE Plasma (Wayland)