Debian 10.8 as the last quarterly update for the Linux distribution is now available before Debian 11 expected later this year.
Debian 10.8 provides the latest stable version updates for “Buster” with dozens of package updates compared to 10.7. Debian 10.8 has a number of bug fixes, security updates for a wide range of different packages, offers the latest Steam package, an updated NVIDIA graphics driver package, updated time zone data and a variety of other fixes / items maintenance.
The full list of package updates with Debian 10.8 can be found through today’s announcement of release on Debian.org.
Notable with Debian 10.8 is that the project has improved its build scripts that allow launch images to now be built “significantly more in parallel” and in turn produce new releases much faster than previous releases. Debian developer Andrew Cater confirmed that “the embarrassingly parallel speed worked” in building Debian release images much faster.
Meanwhile, Debian 11 is now under its essential construction freeze, while the soft freeze of the new package starts in a week and the total freeze starts in mid-March. The rest of the Debian 11 release process has yet to be determined, while stable Debian 11.0 is due to be released later this year.