Debian 7

The long-awaited release of Debian version 7.0.



In this version, many improvements have been made both “under the hood” and visible to the end user.
Now the package base has more than 12,800 new packages - thus, the total number of packages in the repository is 3,7493. Compared with Squeeze, 2,160 packages were updated (70% of the package base) and 4125 (14%) were removed for various reasons.

Installation

The installer has the following changes:
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• UEFI support (Secure Boot is not supported)
• WPA support
• Installation using voice commands
• Using default ext4

Soft

The distribution includes the following software versions:

• Linux Kernel 3.2 with its own patches
• X.Org 7.7 (X.Org Server 1.12)
• GNOME 3.4 (with some of the 3.2 components)
• KDE 4.8.4
• Xfce 4.8
• LibreOffice 3.5 (enabled by default and replaces OpenOffice.org when upgrading)
• MySQL 5.5
• Apache 2.2.22
• Python 2.7
• GCC 4.7.2
• LLVM / Clang 3.0
• Iceweasel (Firefox) 10
• systemd 44

Multiarch

In Debian 7, a transition to the multiarch architecture occurred. This means that you can install packages of several architectures on one machine at once. ia32-libs is no longer used, there is a small note about this.

Repositories

The Debian Backports service is now officially part of the Debian project. To use backports, you need to connect the following repository:
deb mirrors.kernel.org/debian wheezy-backports main contrib


Update

Upgrade Instructions with Debian Squeeze
What you need to know about Wheezy

Download

Debian 7 CD1: amd64 i386
Debian 7 Netinstall: amd64 i386
Debian 7 Netinstall (includes non-free firmware): amd64 i386 multiarch