- title: "Deprecate support for Debian 9" announcement_milestone: "14.9" announcement_date: "2022-03-22" removal_milestone: "15.1" removal_date: "2022-06-22" body: | Long term service and support (LTSS) for [Debian 9 Stretch ends in July 2022](https://wiki.debian.org/LTS). Therefore, we will no longer support the Debian 9 distribution for the GitLab package. Users can upgrade to Debian 10 or Debian 11.