10.8. Version 4.1.5

Released July, 2018.

4.9.2

Document how debian/rules and the Rules-Requires-Root field interact.

5.6.12

You should not change a package’s epoch, even in experimental, without getting consensus on debian-devel first.

5.6.12.1

Epochs should not be used for the purpose of rolling back the version of a package. Use the +really convention.

5.6.31

Document the Rules-Requires-Root field.

9.1.1

Update Debian’s version of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard from 2.3 to 3.0, and update the list of exceptions. Only a tiny minority of packages, if any, should be made buggy by this change.

9.3.2 & 10.4

Update version of POSIX standard for shell scripts from SUSv3 to POSIX.1-2017 (also known as SUSv4 in some contexts).