About Debian 9 Stretch

Everything that you need to know about our support of Debian 9 Stretch.

Extended LTS for Debian 9 Stretch

Support period

  • 2017-06-17: Publication of Debian 9 Stretch
  • 2020-06-30: Security support handed over to the Debian LTS team.
  • 2022-06-30: End of support in Debian. Security support now handled by Freexian’s Extended LTS service.
  • 2027-06-30: End of support.

Architectures supported

  • amd64
  • i386
  • armhf

If you need another architecture, please subscribe and let us know your requirements.

Limitations of support

Not all packages can be supported by our Extended LTS for Debian 9 service:

  • packages that have already been marked as unsupported by the Debian security/LTS teams are not supported: see list in git repository
  • linux: we don’t provide security support for Linux 4.9 that was originally provided in Debian 9 Stretch. Instead we maintain a backport.

Note that when you request a quote, we send you back a list of packages that are not supported or that have limitations in their support so that you can take an informed decision.

List of base packages

The following packages are part of Debian’s 9 base system and will thus always be supported (as long as we have customers paying for Debian 9 support):

  • acl
  • adduser
  • apparmor
  • apt
  • attr
  • audit
  • base-files
  • base-passwd
  • bash
  • bind9
  • bsdmainutils
  • bzip2
  • ca-certificates
  • cdebconf
  • coreutils
  • cpio
  • cron
  • cryptsetup
  • dash
  • db5.3
  • dbus
  • debconf
  • debian-archive-keyring
  • debianutils
  • diffutils
  • dmidecode
  • dpkg
  • e2fsprogs
  • elfutils
  • expat
  • findutils
  • gcc-6
  • gdbm
  • glibc
  • gmp
  • gnupg2
  • gnutls28
  • grep
  • gzip
  • hostname
  • ifupdown
  • init-system-helpers
  • iproute2
  • iptables
  • iputils
  • isc-dhcp
  • keyutils
  • kmod
  • krb5
  • libassuan
  • libbsd
  • libcap2
  • libcap-ng
  • libedit
  • libestr
  • libfastjson
  • libffi
  • libgcrypt20
  • libgpg-error
  • libidn
  • libidn2-0
  • libksba
  • liblocale-gettext-perl
  • liblogging
  • liblognorm
  • libmnl
  • libnetfilter-conntrack
  • libnfnetlink
  • libpipeline
  • libpsl
  • libseccomp
  • libselinux
  • libsemanage
  • libsepol
  • libtasn1-6
  • libtext-charwidth-perl
  • libtext-iconv-perl
  • libtext-wrapi18n-perl
  • libunistring
  • libx11
  • libxau
  • libxcb
  • libxdmcp
  • libxext
  • libxmu
  • logrotate
  • lsb
  • lvm2
  • lz4
  • mawk
  • nano
  • ncurses
  • netbase
  • nettle
  • newt
  • npth
  • openssh
  • openssl
  • openssl1.0
  • p11-kit
  • pam
  • pcre3
  • perl
  • pinentry
  • popt
  • procps
  • readline
  • rsyslog
  • sed
  • sensible-utils
  • shadow
  • slang2
  • sqlite3
  • sudo
  • systemd
  • sysvinit
  • tar
  • tasksel
  • tcp-wrappers
  • tzdata
  • ucf
  • ustr
  • util-linux
  • vim
  • wget
  • xapian-core
  • xauth
  • xz-utils
  • zlib