Univention Corporate Server 4.2 Officially Released, Based on Debian 8 "Jessie"

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

Univention GmbH, through Maren Abatielos, informs Softpedia today about the official release and immediate availability of the Univention Corporate Server 4.2 operating system.

Univention Corporate Server 4.2 entered developed in early February, and the biggest new change of this release is, of course, the switch to the latest Debian Stable repositories. In other words, the server-oriented operating system is now powered by the Debian GNU/Linux 8 “Jessie” series.

As expected, this major change alone increases binary compatibility with Debian GNU/Linux and provides for faster updates. Additionally, it also switches to use systemd as default init system for any new installation, as well as for all users who choose to upgrade to Univention Corporate Server 4.2.

“The entire Debian distribution will no longer be rebuilt. This allows security updates to be released even faster, and binary compatibility is increased,” reads today’s <a href="https://help.univention.com/t/… (read…

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