Debian 9 (Stretch) Will Be Released Today

The Debian Project has been liveblogging today's release of Debian 9 (Stretch) using the Twitter hashtag releasingstretch. Some of the announcements:

The oldstable suite (wheezy) has now been renamed to oldoldstable
-Debian jessie now been renamed to oldstable!
-The Debian stretch suites have now been renamed to stable!
-The draft debian-devel-announce post is ready, archive docs are being cleaned up
-This release is named after that purple octopus in Toy Story 3, and more tantalizing tidbits of information keep appearing on

Debian's micronews site:
-At least 1436 people and 18 teams contributed to Debian in 2017
-Stretch has 25,357 source packages with 9,808,465 source files
-There were 13 different themes proposed to be the official Debian stretch theme
-Debian Stretch ships with the free mathematical software SageMath, you can install it with apt
-During the stretch development, 101 contributors became Debian Developers, and 94 more become Debian Maintainers
-Debian Stretch will ship with the first release of the Debian Astro Pure Blend [for astronomers]
-Debian Popularity Contest gathers anonymous statistics about Debian packages usage from about 195,000 reports

Read more here: https://twitter.com/debian https://linux.slashdot.org/story/17/06/17/1951234/debian-9-stretch-will-be-released-today

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