Translation(s): Deutsch - English - Español - Français - Italiano - Português (Brasil)
Extended Long Term Support
Extended Long Term Support (ELTS) is a commercial offering to further extend the lifetime of Debian releases to 10 years (i.e. 5 supplementary years after the 5 years offered by the LTS project). It is not an official Debian project. Debian's package building infrastructure is not involved in this service.
The project is managed by Freexian. Freexian aims to keep the updates available for individual users and non-profit organizations (feel free to mail sales@freexian.com to request access if you are in that situation). However, the scope of supported packages is defined by the organizations which subscribe to Freexian ELTS to ensure complete security support for their systems and to comply with different regulations.
The current ELTS releases are Debian Debian 9 "Stretch", and Debian 10 "Buster". Detailed information about the service, including how to obtain updates can be found on Freexian's Extended LTS page of their website.
ELTS time table
Version |
ELTS architectures |
original release |
ELTS begins |
ELTS ends |
Previous ELTS Releases |
||||
Debian 7 wheezy |
i386, amd64 |
2013-05-04 |
2018-06-01 |
2020-06-30 |
Debian 8 jessie |
i386, amd64, armhf, armel |
2015-04-26 |
2020-07-01 |
2025-06-30 |
Current ELTS Release(s) |
||||
Debian 9 stretch |
i386, amd64, armhf |
2017-06-17 |
2022-07-01 |
2027-06-30 |
Debian 10 buster |
i386, amd64, armhf, arm64 |
2019-06-06 |
2024-07-01 |
2029-06-30 |
Future ELTS Release(s) |
||||
Debian 11 bullseye |
supported architectures still to be determined |
2021-08-14 |
2026-09-01 |
2031-06-30 |
Debian 12 bookworm |
supported architectures still to be determined |
2023-06-10 |
2028-07-01 |
2033-06-30 |
Debian 13 trixie |
supported architectures still to be determined |
2025-08-09 |
2030-07-01 |
2035-06-30 |
Debian consultants
If you need further help with maintaining Debian systems, you could try paid consultants.