<story><title>Debian 7.3 is out</title><url>http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>rhizome</author><text>It truly confuses me that the upgrade instructions are so obfuscated, bordering on unfindable. Can someone point me to the chapter where an upgrade from 7.1 to this version is covered?&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/index.en.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.debian.org&amp;#x2F;releases&amp;#x2F;stable&amp;#x2F;amd64&amp;#x2F;release-notes&amp;#x2F;in...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>jlgaddis</author><text>Better link with more info: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.debian.org/News/2013/20131214&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.debian.org&amp;#x2F;News&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;20131214&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>null_ptr</author><text>apt-get update &amp;amp;&amp;amp; apt-get upgrade&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s nothing special about upgrading Debian between point releases.</text></comment>
<story><title>Debian 7.3 is out</title><url>http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>rhizome</author><text>It truly confuses me that the upgrade instructions are so obfuscated, bordering on unfindable. Can someone point me to the chapter where an upgrade from 7.1 to this version is covered?&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/index.en.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.debian.org&amp;#x2F;releases&amp;#x2F;stable&amp;#x2F;amd64&amp;#x2F;release-notes&amp;#x2F;in...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>jlgaddis</author><text>Better link with more info: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.debian.org/News/2013/20131214&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.debian.org&amp;#x2F;News&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;20131214&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jlgaddis</author><text>As others have mentioned:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    $ sudo apt-get update &amp;amp;&amp;amp; sudo apt-get upgrade
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
In this particular case, from 7.1 to 7.3, &amp;quot;dist-upgrade&amp;quot; is not needed (you aren&amp;#x27;t upgrading from one distribution to another (e.g. from 6 to 7)).</text></comment>