Debian 10 [buster](https://wiki.debian.org/DebianBuster) was released on [july 6th 2019](https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2019/07/msg00002.html). Tor started
the upgrade to buster during the freeze and hopes to complete the
process before the stretch EOL, somewhere in 2020.
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Procedure
Procedure
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alberti:
alberti:
address: 94.130.28.196
address: 94.130.28.196
Notable changes
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Here is a subset of the [notable changes in this release](https://www.debian.org/releases/buster/amd64/release-notes/ch-whats-new.en.html#newdistro), along
with our risk analysis and notes:
| Package | Stretch | Buster | Notes |
| ------------ | ------- | ------ | ----- |
| Apache | 2.4.25 | 2.4.38 | |
| Bind | 9.10 | 9.11 | |
| Cryptsetup | 1.7 | 2.1 | |
| Docker | N/A | 18 | Docker back in Debian? |
| GnuPG | 2.1 | 2.2 | |
| Linux kernel | 4.9 | 4.19 | |
| MariaDB | 10.1 | 10.3 | |
| OpenJDK | 8 | 11 | major upgrade, TBD |
| OpenSSH | 7.4 | 7.8 | |
| Perl | 5.24 | 5.28 | |
| Postfix | 3.1.8 | 3.3.2 | |
| PostgreSQL | 9.6 | 11 | two major upgrades, release notes: [10](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/release-10.html) [11](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/release-11.html)|
| Rustc | N/A | 1.34 | Rust enters Debian |
Many packages were removed from Buster. Anarcat built an [exhaustive
list](https://paste.anarc.at/publish/debian-packages-removed-from-buster-without-libs/stdin.txt) on May 16th 2019, but it's probably changed since then. See
also the [noteworthy obsolete packages](https://www.debian.org/releases/buster/amd64/release-notes/ch-information.en.html#noteworthy-obsolete-packages) list.
Python 2 is unsupported upstream since January 1st 2020. We have a
significant number of Python scripts that will need to be upgraded. It
is unclear what will happen to Python 2 in Debian in terms of security
