The launch of a new maintenance update for the stable Debian branch: Debian 9.7 has just been announced , whose main motivation is given by the recently patched vulnerability found in APT.
It was at the end of last week when a critical flaw was unveiled in the APT package manager , which would allow remote code execution, facilitating man-in-the-middle attacks and a consequent escalation of privileges with the that infect the system at administrator level.
But calm, because as it became known, Debian, Ubuntu and the rest of affected distributions released the patch of rigor , so to keep the system conveniently updated -first basic recommendation for any operating system- there are no more problems.
That is to say, Debian has "taken advantage" of the event to refresh its installation image, but all the Debian versions in course, as well as those of Ubuntu and derived distributions have published the patch, it is worth repeating; that is, as always, this launch is only aimed at new installations .
Otherwise, this version includes Linux kernel 4.9 LTS or GNOME desktop environments 3.22, KDE Plasma 5.8 LTS, Cinnamon 3.2, MATE 1.16, Xfce 4.12 and LXDE, along with the rest of the news that brought Debian 9 'Stretch' .
There's no more. Debian 9.7 can be downloaded through replicas around the world.
Meanwhile, Debian 10 continues its development with a view to arriving this year.
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