Debian Project announced over the weekend that regular security updates will no longer be compatible with Debian 8 Jessie in the middle of the next month.
According to a post on the Debian security announcement mailing list, Debian 8 Jessie will not receive any more security updates as of June 17, 2018. However, some updates will keep coming for a while.
“This is the announcement that Debian 8 (codenamed Jessie) security update support will be ending on June 17th and as has been done in previous versions, a reduced number of packages and architectures will continue to be updated for a long time." Mentions Moritz Muehlenhoff, one of the lead developers on the Debian team.
LTS versions will be supported until June 6, 2020
After June 17, LTS (Long Term Support) versions will continue to receive support for various essential packages and architectures for two more years until June 6, 2020 when Debian 8 reaches the end of its journey and is not available for download. official (although as always, it can be downloaded from external sources).
Among the supported architectures we can mention 32-bit (i386), 64-bit (amd64), Armel and ARMhf. Of course, anyone who wants to download and use Debian 8 after June 17 should know that the update support is done by a group of volunteers and not by the Debian security team.
It is recommended upgrade your Debian 8 Jessie system to Debian 9 Stretch which will have official support until June 2020 and volunteer support for two more years until June 2022.
Debian 8 Jessie was released 3 years ago, in 2015 and will become the oldest version with LTS support when it replaces Debian 7 Wheezy this month. The next major release, Debian 10 Buster could arrive this summer.