Debian 6.0 -- Errata
Security issues
Debian 6.0 'Squeeze' has reached the end of its regular security support timeline. However, the Squeeze LTS team provides continued security support for this distribution.
Note that these updates are not distributed through the regular
security mirrors; instead you need to add the squeeze-lts
repository
to make use of them.
If you use APT, add the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list to be able to access the latest security updates:
deb http://http.debian.net/debian/ squeeze-lts main contrib non-free
After that, run apt-get update followed by apt-get upgrade.
Point releases
Sometimes, in the case of several critical problems or security updates, the released distribution is updated. Generally, these are indicated as point releases.
- The first point release, 6.0.1, was released on March 19, 2011.
- The second point release, 6.0.2, was released on June 25, 2011.
- The third point release, 6.0.3, was released on October 8, 2011.
- The forth point release, 6.0.4, was released on January 28, 2012.
- The fifth point release, 6.0.5, was released on May 12, 2012.
- The sixth point release, 6.0.6, was released on September 29, 2012.
- The seventh point release, 6.0.7, was released on February 23, 2013.
- The eighth point release, 6.0.8, was released on October 20, 2013.
- The ninth point release, 6.0.9, was released on February 15, 2014.
- The tenth and final point release, 6.0.10, was released on July 19, 2014.
See the ChangeLog for details on changes between 6.0.0 and 6.0.10.
Fixes to the released stable distribution often go through an extended testing period before they are accepted into the archive. However, these fixes are available in the dists/squeeze-proposed-updates directory of any Debian archive mirror.
If you use APT to update your packages, you can install the proposed updates by adding the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list:
# proposed additions for a 6.0 point release deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian squeeze-proposed-updates main contrib non-free
After that, run apt-get update followed by apt-get upgrade.