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Debian 8 "Jessie" was released on 25 Apr. A link to the Debian release page shows the changes and you can follow the release in 'real-time' should you desire to do so.
This release will be supported for 5 years and includes "improvements" to the UEFI software (both 32- and 64-bit) introduced in the previous version, "Wheezy". It also is the first release to use systemd as default init system replacing the earlier sysvinit, which is still available in the repos should you wish to revert the change. What effects such a change might have on the remainder of the system is not clear. Improvements to the support of Debian software include the ability to browse and search all source code distributed in the latest release.
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Everything you know is wrong!
(Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 26 2015, @09:29PM
Anyone opposed to systemd on the debian mailing list had their mails silently dropped, or were banned outright.
They were derided as trolls and mysoginists. Debian devs who opposed systemd were informed by Don Armstrong
that they would be banned from the list for trolling and creating a hostile environment.
The list master added a filter for a time that deleted any mail that had the string "systemd" in it.
Then the list users still present started calling systemd by another name (shittyowl or something like that),
that string was then added to that filter for a time
Don Armstrong was the list master.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Sunday April 26 2015, @10:33PM
How did this Don Armstrong get appointed?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 27 2015, @12:38AM
I guess he was magnanimous enough to take on the responsibility.
Don't forget his name. He's a main player in the quashing of dissent against systemd.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 02 2015, @05:43PM
It is starting to look like Linux project management is like political positions. If someone volunteers to take it question their motives vigorously.
Kay Sievers may well be considered Poettering's right hand man, and he volunteered to take over maintenance of udev (now systemd-udev). Similarly Poettering took over maintenance of Consolekit, only to scuttle it and replace it with systemd-logind.
One may really worry about the future of the kernel once Torvalds retires (or his bus factor goes critical).
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 27 2015, @05:40AM
Citation needed.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 27 2015, @07:39PM
Citation is the debian-user and debian-dev mailing lists you SJW faggot shill.
Go read them.
I'm not going to dig through them to help you, because I hate you and am very happy when one of you is murdered.
Like the woman in pakistan yesterday.
Fuck You.
(Score: 1, Troll) by DeathMonkey on Monday April 27 2015, @08:43PM
Citation is the debian-user and debian-dev mailing lists you SJW faggot shill.
Just in case anyone hasn't figured out that the term SJW is completely meaningless I point you to the above.
Apparently being anything less than foaming-at-the-mouth anti-systemd puts you into the "Social Justice" crowd, somehow.