When the distribution becomes a little dated, numerous software projects have released new versions that are not integrated into the current <emphasis role="distribution">Stable</emphasis>(suite, which is only modified to address the most critical problems, such as security problems)issues. Since the <emphasis role="distribution">Testing</emphasis> and <emphasis role="distribution">Unstable</emphasis>distributionsuites can be more risky, package maintainers sometimes voluntarily offer recompilations of recent software applications for <emphasis role="distribution">Stable</emphasis>, which has the advantage to users and system administrators to limit potential instability to a small number of chosen packages. <ulink type="block"The page <ulink url="https://backports.debian.org" /> provides more information.
(suite, which is only modified to address the most critical problems, such as securityproblems)issues. Since the <emphasis role="distribution">Testing</emphasis> and <emphasis role="distribution">Unstable</emphasis>distributionsuites can be more risky, package maintainers sometimes voluntarily offer recompilations of recent software applications for <emphasis role="distribution">Stable</emphasis>, which has the advantage to users and system administrators to limit potential instability to a small number of chosen packages.<ulink type="block"The page <ulink url="https://backports.debian.org" /> provides more information.