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Debian Security Team: VirtualBox End of Life

• cheiVia0 10y ago
  The reason for this is that Oracle are completely useless and do not release backportable patches for security fixes.
• dredmorbius 10y ago
  Does this apply to just the 4.3 branch or others as well? The immediate effect is that jessie (stable) users won't have updates to the stable release of Virtualbox. There's the option of backports. https://packages.debian.org/search?suite=jessie-backports&searchon=names&keywords=virtualbox https://packages.debian.org/search?suite=jessie-backports&se... Stretch (unstable) presently has 5.1 Oracle once again prove an exceptionally bad citizen to Free Software.
• dfc 10y ago
  I am not sure why this is newsworthy. 4.3 is EOL upstream. https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog-4.3 https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog-4.3