Fixes for a critical rsync vulnerability (CVE-2024-12084) have been released for Stable/Bookworm, Testing and Unstable. Oldstable/Bullseye is not affected. Fixes for other lower severity CVEs have also been released in the same update and can all be tracked at https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/rsync. The fixed Stable version is 3.2.7-1+deb12u1 and the fixed Testing/Unstable version is 3.3.0+ds1-3
After our archive was updated to 12.9, our Debian CD team did the hard work of preparing and testing our installation medias to make sure everything is working correctly. Now their work is complete and the images are available at https://www.debian.org/distrib/
Happy New Year 2025! Wishing everyone health, productivity, and a successful Debian release later in this year.
Strict ownership of packages
I'm glad my last bits sparked discussions about barriers between packages and contributors, summarized temporarily in some post on the debian-devel list. As one participant aptly put it, we need a way to visibly say, "I'll do the job until… https://bits.debian.org/2025/01/bits-from-the-dpl-january.html
Happy 20th anniversary with love to Mozilla's Thunderbird and Firefox suites, 20 years of strength and security in the world of FLOSS! #mozilla#thunderbird#firefox#floss
"Ceratopsian" will be the default theme for Debian 13: The theme "Ceratopsian" by Elise Couper has been selected as the default theme for Debian 13 "trixie". The theme is inspired by Trixie's (the fictional character from Toy Story) frill and is also influenced by a previously used theme called "futurePrototype" by Alex Makas.
Bits from the DPL: This is bits from DPL for November.
MiniDebConf Toulouse
I had the pleasure of attending the MiniDebConf in Toulouse, which featured a range of engaging talks, complementing those from the recent MiniDebConf in Cambridge. Both events were preceded by a DebCamp, which provided a valuable opportunity for focused work and collaboration.
Debian welcomes its new Outreachy interns: Debian continues participating in Outreachy, and we're excited to announce that Debian has selected two interns for the Outreachy December 2024 - March 2025 round.
Patrick Noblet Appiah will work on Automatic Indi-3rd-party driver update, mentored by Thorsten Alteholz.
Congratulations to Patrick Noblet Appiah and Divine Attah-Ohiemi, the Debian Outreachy interns selected for the December 2024 round from a pool of great applicants. To those who didn't manage this time, thanks for your contributions and never give up! https://www.outreachy.org/alums/2024-12/#debian#outreachy
Debian welcomes its new Outreachy interns: Debian continues participating in Outreachy, and we're excited to announce that Debian has selected two interns for the Outreachy December 2024 - March 2025 round.
Patrick Noblet Appiah will work on Automatic Indi-3rd-party driver update, mentored by Thorsten Alteholz.
New Debian Developers and Maintainers (September and October 2024): The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months:
* Joachim Bauch (fancycode)
* Alexander Kjäll (capitol)
* Jan Mojžíš (janmojzis)
* Xiao Sheng Wen (atzlinux)
The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers in the last two months:
OpenStreetMap migrates to Debian 12: You may have seen this toot announcing OpenStreetMap's migration to Debian on their infrastructure.
🚀 After 18 years on Ubuntu, we've upgraded the @openstreetmap servers to Debian 12 (Bookworm). 🌍 openstreetmap.org is now faster using Ruby 3.1. Onward to new mapping adventures! Thank you to the team for the smooth transition. #OpenStreetMap #Debian 🤓
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