Debian 8 "Jessie" released

Debian 8, codenamed "Jessie", has been released. It comes with a wide array of upgraded packages including GNOME 3.14, KDE Plasma Workspaces and KDE Applications 4.11.13, Python 2.7.9 and 3.4.2, Perl 5.20.2, PHP 5.6.7, PostgreSQL 9.4.1, MariaDB 10.0.16 and MySQL 5.5.42, Linux 3.16.7-ctk9, and lots more. "With this broad selection of packages and its traditional widearchitecture support, Debian once again stays true to its goal of beingthe universal operating system. It is suitable for many different usecases: from desktop systems to netbooks; from development servers tocluster systems; and for database, web, or storage servers. At the sametime, additional quality assurance efforts like automatic installationand upgrade tests for all packages in Debian's archive ensure that"Jessie" fulfills the high expectations that users have of a stableDebian release."