Debian 8.4 Released With Security Fixes, Other Package Updates

Written by Michael Larabel in Debian on 2 April 2016 at 11:02 AM EDT. 2 Comments
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The Debian community has come out today with Debian GNU/Linux 7.10 and Debian GNU/Linux 8.4.

Debian 8.2 provides a number of security updates, various package fixes, the fglrx-driver now ships the XvBA support to deprecate the separate xbva-video package, and there is a wide variety of other fixes/updates.

The release of Debian 7.10 is also predominantly made up of security fixes and other minor work.
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