The developers only have a small number of bugs to fix

Mar 8, 2015 15:43 GMT  ·  By

Debian "Jessie" 8.0 might arrive in April, if the developers will be able to fix all the bugs that are still in the queue. 

The previous RC for Debian 8.0 "Jessie" was made available back in January and the developers are still working to correct the problems left in the cycle. There aren't so many known blockers and a push is being made to complete this work as soon as possible.

"The Jessie freeze is now entering its 4th month. Thanks to many of you, the release have made good process. At this point, an April release is /a possibility/ - however*, it implies that we all roll up our sleeves and squash those remaining bugs. I will follow up with a dd-list of packages with RC bugs affecting unstable and testing to debian-devel shortly," wrote Niels Thykier on the official mailing list.

Debian developers never advanced an actual launch date for this version and they'va had a couple of similar messages in the past six months, but it really looks like they are approaching the end of the cycle. You can download Debian 8.0 "Jessie" Installer RC1 right now from Softpedia, if you want to see the progress made by the devs first hand.