Like each month, have a look at the work funded by Freexian’s Debian LTS offering.
Debian LTS contributors
In April, 19 contributors have been paid to work on Debian LTS, their reports are available:
- Abhijith PA did 0.5h (out of 0.0h assigned and 14.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 13.5h to the next month.
- Adrian Bunk did 35.75h (out of 17.25h assigned and 40.5h from previous period), thus carrying over 22.0h to the next month.
- Bastien Roucariès did 25.0h (out of 25.0h assigned).
- Ben Hutchings did 24.0h (out of 9.0h assigned and 15.0h from previous period).
- Chris Lamb did 18.0h (out of 18.0h assigned).
- Daniel Leidert did 10.0h (out of 10.0h assigned).
- Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did 46.0h (out of 12.0h assigned and 34.0h from previous period).
- Guilhem Moulin did 14.75h (out of 20.0h assigned), thus carrying over 5.25h to the next month.
- Lee Garrett did 51.25h (out of 0.0h assigned and 60.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 8.75h to the next month.
- Markus Koschany did 40.0h (out of 40.0h assigned).
- Ola Lundqvist did 22.5h (out of 19.5h assigned and 4.5h from previous period), thus carrying over 1.5h to the next month.
- Roberto C. Sánchez did 11.0h (out of 9.25h assigned and 2.75h from previous period), thus carrying over 1.0h to the next month.
- Santiago Ruano Rincón did 20.0h (out of 20.0h assigned).
- Sean Whitton did 9.5h (out of 4.5h assigned and 5.5h from previous period), thus carrying over 0.5h to the next month.
- Stefano Rivera did 1.5h (out of 0.0h assigned and 10.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 8.5h to the next month.
- Sylvain Beucler did 12.5h (out of 22.75h assigned and 35.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 45.25h to the next month.
- Thorsten Alteholz did 14.0h (out of 14.0h assigned).
- Tobias Frost did 10.0h (out of 12.0h assigned), thus carrying over 2.0h to the next month.
- Utkarsh Gupta did 3.25h (out of 28.5h assigned and 29.25h from previous period), thus carrying over 54.5h to the next month.
Evolution of the situation
In April, we have released 28 DLAs.
During the month of April, there was one particularly notable security update made in LTS. Guilhem Moulin prepared DLA-3782-1 for util-linux (part of the set of base packages and containing a number of important system utilities) in order to address a possible information disclosure vulnerability.
Additionally, several contributors prepared updates for oldstable (bullseye), stable (bookworm), and unstable (sid), including:
- ruby-rack: prepared for oldstable, stable, and unstable by Adrian Bunk
- wpa: prepared for oldstable, stable, and unstable by Bastien Roucariès
- zookeeper: prepared for stable by Bastien Roucariès
- libjson-smart: prepared for unstable by Bastien Roucariès
- ansible: prepared for stable and unstable, including autopkgtest fixes to increase future supportability, by Lee Garrett
- wordpress: prepared for oldstable and stable by Markus Koschany
- emacs and org-mode: prepared for oldstable and stable by Sean Whitton
- qtbase-opensource-src: prepared for oldstable and stable by Thorsten Alteholz
- libjwt: prepared for oldstable by Thorsten Alteholz
- libmicrohttpd: prepared for oldstable by Thorsten Alteholz
These fixes were in addition to corresponding updates in LTS.
Another item to highlight in this month’s report is an update to the distro-info-data database by Stefano Rivera. This update ensures that Debian buster systems have the latest available information concerning the end-of-life dates and other related information for all releases of Debian and Ubuntu.
As announced on the debian-lts-announce mailing list, it is worth to point out that we are getting close to the end of support of Debian 10 as LTS. After June 30th, no new security updates will be made available on security.debian.org.
However, Freexian and its team of paid Debian contributors will continue to maintain Debian 10 going forward for the customers of the Extended LTS offer. If you still have Debian 10 servers to keep secure, it’s time to subscribe!
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