# FreedomBox v19.5 released

**URL:** https://discuss.freedombox.org/t/freedombox-v19-5-released/58
**Category:** Announcements
**Created:** [April 15, 2019, 11:27pm UTC](https://discuss.freedombox.org/t/freedombox-v19-5-released/58 "2019-04-15T23:27:51Z")
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### Author: ![jvalleroy](https://discuss.freedombox.org/user_avatar/discuss.freedombox.org/jvalleroy/32/331_2.png) [@jvalleroy](https://discuss.freedombox.org/u/jvalleroy)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2019, 11:27pm UTC](https://discuss.freedombox.org/t/freedombox-v19-5-released/58/1 "2019-04-15T23:27:51Z")

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# Release Announcements

**Title** : FreedomBox v19.5 released

FreedomBox v19.5 has been released and uploaded to Debian experimental.

Highlights of this release:

- storage: Use more reliable method to list disks and disk space usage.
- Updated translations for Russian and German.

The following contributed to the git repository for this release:

- CurlingTongs
- Igor
- James Valleroy
- Joseph Nuthalapati
- LoveIsGrief
- Sunil Mohan Adapa
- wind

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### Author: ![wind](https://discuss.freedombox.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/97f17d/32.png) [@wind](https://discuss.freedombox.org/u/wind)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2019, 9:22am UTC](https://discuss.freedombox.org/t/freedombox-v19-5-released/58/2 "2019-04-17T09:22:54Z")

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This version sees external usb flash drive?

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### Author: ![mray](https://discuss.freedombox.org/user_avatar/discuss.freedombox.org/mray/32/9_2.png) [@mray](https://discuss.freedombox.org/u/mray)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2019, 11:51am UTC](https://discuss.freedombox.org/t/freedombox-v19-5-released/58/3 "2019-04-17T11:51:09Z")

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# Caution

any release after 19.1 does not hit users FreedomBoxes until Debian 10 is released, and that is said to happen about some day **Mid-2019**.

> **[Debian version history | Debian 10 (Buster)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian_version_history#Debian_10_(Buster))**
>
> Debian 10 (Buster) was released on 6 July 2019; 9 months ago (2019-07-06), two years and a month after Debian 9 (Stretch). Debian 10 contains 57,703 packages, supports UEFI Secure Boot, has AppArmor enabled by default, uses LUKS2 as the default LUKS format, and uses Wayland for GNOME by default.
> Debian 10 ships with Linux kernel version 4.19. Available desktops include GNOME 3.30, Plasma 5.14, LXDE 10, LXQt 0.14, MATE 1.20, and Xfce 4.12. Key applications include LibreOffice 6.1 for office prod...