14 DAY TRIAL // The Debian project announces the immediate availability for download of the tenth maintenance release of the Debian 6 Linux operating system.
This tenth point update is actually very important because it’s the last one in the life of this branch of the Debian distribution, which was released back in February 2011. The developers have announced that no more major updates will be made for Debian 6.x “Squeeze,” but there is also some good news.
Only a month ago, the Debian devs also said that Debian would actually become an LTS release (long term support) and that the operating system would continue to receive security updates (different from the one released today) until February 2016. This would effectively mean that Debian 6.x would feature six years of support and that is even more than Canonical provides for Ubuntu.
“The Debian project is pleased to announce the tenth and final update of its oldstable distribution Debian 6.0 (codename squeeze). This update mainly adds corrections for security problems to the oldstable release, along with a few adjustments for serious problems. Security advisories were already published separately and are referenced where available.”
“The packages from DSA 2727, DSA 2765, DSA 2893 and DSA 2912 are not included in this point release for technical reasons, as are some architectures for DSA 2782, DSA 2809, DSA 2810, DSA 2868 and DSA 2886. All other security updates released during the lifetime of squeeze that have not previously been part of a point release are included in this update,” reads the official announcement.
This is a simple update and only some of the packages have been updated. This means that if you already have this version of Debian installed, you don’t need to do anything extra besides updating the system on regular basis.
According to the changelog, an untrusted search path vulnerability (CVE-2014-2093, CVE-2014-2094, CVE-2014-2095, and CVE-2014-2096) has been fixed, a new upstream version of clamav has been implemented, and a regression fix has been added, the XSS in the web interface has been corrected, the keyring has been updated in order to extend the expiry time on archive key, the Debian installer has been rebuilt for the point release, a robustness fix for the Dovecot authenticator has been implemented, the packages from oldstable and oldstable-security (ia32-libs) have been added, and temporary directories are now removed on exit
Check out the complete changelog in the official announcement. You can also download Debian 6.0.10 from Softpedia and update afterwards.