I just had a few updates today now at grub I get Debian 8 Beta is this normal on Sid?
Even reported by

I believe that change actually happened about 2 weeks ago.

We are in freeze now and so the system is being prepared for release. This is just one of those things that needs done sometime.

Why not now?

If you check at release time I think you will find this is one of the first changes that will happen in Sid. The reference to Debian 8 will be dropped very quickly.

When I was running Ubuntu-testing one of the things new testers wanted to know was how they could tell if they had really done the version upgrade to the testing release. Ignoring the fact that they could only get there that early by using the cli and should have seen things like the tool-chain being installed, all we could tell them was to check any of those files that give the release (all from /etc /os-release, /issue and /ubuntu_version - that last is obviously debian-release here) because for the first 10 days you really couldn't tell much by anything else.

Ilike the new look of grub but was thinkinkig why is it showing debian 8. In fact, even login screen has different background, will check the available backgrounds

It is indeed starting to look like a new version.

Happy.