I didn&#x27;t even know that Debian has a WordPress package. I always downloaded it from here <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wordpress.org&#x2F;download&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wordpress.org&#x2F;download&#x2F;</a> and applied updates as soon as my WP servers ask me to. I don&#x27;t trust Debian mantainers to be faster than that.<p>As a comparison: WordPress is at 4.4.2, Debian 8 has it a 4.1 and Debian 7 at 3.6.1. You can&#x27;t use those, you must use the one from the developers.<p>Same thing for example with Ruby: Debian 8 is stuck with 2.1.5 (November 2014), which is not even the latest one of the 2.1 series. The current version of the language is 2.3. And Node.js? 0.10.29 (June 2014). Again, you can&#x27;t use the packaged versions and you must go to the developers, maybe through rvm, nvm or other language specific package managers. I really don&#x27;t understand why they bother packaging those languages. They should have tiny packages that explicitly tell that you are on your own and redirect to the appropriate package manager for the language.