Notices by Debian (debian@fosstodon.org), page 7

Debian stretch is not forgotten in the excitement - it will receive a further 12 months support from the Debian Security Team, and then they will hand over to the LTS and ELTS teams #releasingDebianBuster

Buster's release has been noticed by the CD distribution network https://www.acc.umu.se/technical/statistics/ftp/monitordata/ #releasingDebianBuster

The Debian website is being updated to list buster as stable and link to the new images for downloading #releasingDebianBuster

CD images, jigdo templates and torrent seeds are available now (website links will take a while to update) #releasingDebianBuster

Debian FTP masters are now pushing the results of today's work to the mirror network #releasingDebianBuster

Final image test results are being collated and the Debian CD team are preparing to sign them off - buster is very nearly with us! #releasingDebianBuster

There are 645 tags in the Debtags vocabulary, and 95661 known packages to tag. Of these, 17050 are tagged by humans, and 78611 are tagged by robots. https://debtags.debian.org/reports/stats/ #ReleasingDebianBuster

Used for Debian events, booths, or as a banner of pride, Debian Flyers are available in 9 languages. You can help improve or translate it into other languages. https://debian.pages.debian.net/debian-flyers/ #ReleasingDebianBuster

Debian 10 buster has AppArmor enabled per default. https://wiki.debian.org/AppArmor/HowToUse #ReleasingDebianBuster

Officially supported architectures for Debian 10: 32-bit PC (i386) and 64-bit PC (amd64), 64-bit ARM (arm64), ARM EABI (armel), ARMv7 (EABI hard-float ABI, armhf), MIPS (mips (big-endian) and mipsel (little-endian)), 64-bit little-endian MIPS (mips64el), 64-bit little-endian PowerPC (ppc64el), IBM System z (s390x).

The Debian security team has issued at least 4475 advisories over its lifetime. https://www.debian.org/security/ #ReleasingDebianBuster

Following Pixar's Toy Story naming scheme, Debian's releases have been: buzz, rex, bo, hamm, slink, potato, woody, sarge, etch, lenny, squeeze, wheezy, jessie, stretch and now buster. Future releases will be bullseye and then bookworm.

There are at least 91 different Debian derivatives known and active to the derivatives census. https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Census #ReleasingDebianBuster

In addition to the officially supported architectures, the Debian Ports Team maintains other architectures. See more info in https://www.ports.debian.org/

With more than 300 packages in the Debian Astro Pure Blend, Debian buster is well prepared to solve current and upcoming astronomical and astrophysical problems https://blends.debian.org/astro/ #ReleasingDebianBuster

Testing of the live images is nearing completion! #releasingDebianBuster

You don't need to be an expert to contribute to Debian! Assisting users with problems on the user support channels is a large contribution to Debian. https://www.debian.org/support #ReleasingDebianBuster

There are 34 vendors of Debian DVDs and USB sticks in 18 countries. Become a vendor today! https://www.debian.org/CD/vendors/ #ReleasingDebianBuster

Debian Volunteers Daisy and George work diliigently toward the release. https://www.jwiltshire.org.uk/2019/07/06/daisy-and-george-help-debian/ #ReleaseDebianBuster

GNOME in Debian 10 buster has changed its default display server from Xorg to Wayland. https://wiki.debian.org/Wayland #ReleasingDebianBuster