About the 8.0 release of the Debian GNU/Linux operating system. Superseded by Debian Stretch (9.0). Long-term support was available until June 30th, 2020. QUESTIONS MUST BE PROGRAMMING RELATED.
Jessie was initially released on April 26th, 2015, superseding the previous LTS release wheezy (debian 7). It got its last update in 23th June, 2018. Since 30th June, 2020 it has no more LTS support.
Notable changes and improvements
- New architectures: ppc64el and arm64
- Dropped architectures: s390 (31-bit s390 replaced by s390x), sparc and ia64
- New desktop environments: cinnamon and mate-desktop
- More packages built by security-hardening compiler flags
- Cross-platform binutils to ease cross-compilation
- node.js first appearance
- Legacy SSLv3 support dropped