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#Freexian collaborators worked on detecting undeclared file conflicts, mini-sprint improving contributors.debian.org, security-tracker performance, fixing dput-ng data loss bug, MiniDebConf Campinas and many more contributions to #Debian in April 2026.
Read all the details at https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-contributions-04-2026/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
We thank the organizations subscribing to our Long Term Support contracts (https://www.freexian.com/lts/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social) and consulting services (https://www.freexian.com/services/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social) for making this possible.
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#Freexian collaborators worked on detecting undeclared file conflicts, mini-sprint improving contributors.debian.org, security-tracker performance, fixing dput-ng data loss bug, MiniDebConf Campinas and many more contributions to #Debian in April 2026.
Read all the details at https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-contributions-04-2026/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
We thank the organizations subscribing to our Long Term Support contracts (https://www.freexian.com/lts/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social) and consulting services (https://www.freexian.com/services/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social) for making this possible.
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In the latest in a series of articles about Debusine, our developers and sysadmins do a deep dive on how they managed to investigate and fix #Debusine workflow performance issues caused by complex interactions between a series of database concurrency and worker communication issues.
It involved delicate work to avoid system deadlocks, optimizing our workflow orchestration, scheduling fixes, worker refactoring and reducing the high database write volume.
Read the detailed breakdown at https://www.freexian.com/blog/debusine-performance-issues/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
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Freexian is excited to support MiniDebConf Hamburg, currently underway at dock europe, Hamburg, Germany!
The talks are scheduled on May 9 and 10. If you can’t attend in person, the talks will also be live-streamed: https://hamburg2026.mini.debconf.org/
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A few snapshots of the Freexian team from MiniDebConf Campinas 2026.
Our collaborators took part as organizers, speakers, and attendees. Proud to support and engage with the Debian Brasil community.
Thanks to everyone who made it a success!
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24 Debian LTS Advisories fixing 250 CVEs for various packages were released by Debian LTS contributors in March 2026. These include notable security updates for ansible, asterisk, gimp, gst-plugins-base1.0, gst-plugins-ugly1.0, imagemagick, libpng1.6, linux kernel, roundcube, strongswan and more.
In addtion to the LTS contributions, the team also prepared updates for recent releases - Debian 12(#bookworm), Debian 13(#trixie) and Debian unstable.
Read the full report at https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-lts-report-2026-03/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
This work is funded by Freexian's Debian LTS offering. Become a sponsor of Debian LTS (https://www.freexian.com/lts/debian/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social) and enjoy the benefits (https://www.freexian.com/lts/debian/details/#benefits)
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Freexian is proud to be a sponsor of MiniDebConf Campinas 2026 which will take place from April 23 to 25 at the State University of Campinas. The MiniDebCamp is already underway! We wish the organizing team and all the attendees a successful and enjoyable event.
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Debusine projects in GSoC, incus backend landing in Debian CI and other updates, Salsa CI maintenance. #Freexian collaborators worked on these and many more contributions to #Debian in March 2026.
Read all the details at https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-contributions-03-2026/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
We thank the organizations subscribing to our Long Term Support contracts (https://www.freexian.com/lts/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social) and consulting services (https://www.freexian.com/services/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social) for making this possible.
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Debusine projects in GSoC, incus backend landing in Debian CI and other updates, Salsa CI maintenance. #Freexian collaborators worked on these and many more contributions to #Debian in March 2026.
Read all the details at https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-contributions-03-2026/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
We thank the organizations subscribing to our Long Term Support contracts (https://www.freexian.com/lts/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social) and consulting services (https://www.freexian.com/services/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social) for making this possible.
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35 Debian LTS advisories were released in February fixing 527 CVEs across various packages. These include security fixes for gnutls28, xrdp, ClamAV, tomcat9, zabbix, linux kernel, ceph, glib2.0, MUNGE and many more.
Debian LTS contributors also prepared updates for more recent releases, Debian 12 (#bookworm) , Debian 13 (#trixie) and Debian unstable. In addition, improvements were made to documentation and tooling used by the team.
Read the full report at https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-lts-report-2026-02/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
This work is funded by Freexian's Debian LTS offering. Become a sponsor of Debian LTS (https://www.freexian.com/lts/debian/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social) and enjoy the benefits (https://www.freexian.com/lts/debian/details/#benefits).
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Debusine's QA pipelines, which checks if #Debian packages are ready to upload, have recently gained a regression tracking mechanism. The regressions are found by checking for new failures in autopkgtests for packages in the archive that depends on the built package.
Read the new #Debusine blog post at https://www.freexian.com/blog/debusine-regression-tracking/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social to know more about how it works and how you can use it in your own workflows.
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Opening DebConf 26 registration, improvements to #Debian CI and many more contributions to Debian were made by #Freexian collaborators in February.
Read all the details at https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-contributions-02-2026/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
We thank the organizations subscribing to our Long Term Support contracts (https://www.freexian.com/lts/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social) and consulting services (https://www.freexian.com/services/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social) for making this possible.
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Join Freexian and help us grow Debian’s impact!
We’re hiring a Senior Sales & Business Development Manager to spearhead the next stage of growth for the sales and business development functions within our organization. At Freexian, we’re passionate about Debian and Open Source, and we’re looking for someone who shares that passion. You’ll help us expand our reach, build meaningful partnerships, and ensure Debian remains the leading Linux distribution—all while working in a fully remote, value-driven environment.
If you care about Open Source, want to make a real impact, and thrive in a collaborative, mission-driven team, we’d love to hear from you!
🔗 Learn more and apply:
https://freexian.odoo.com/r/sales-bizdev-scl#Debian #OpenSource #Freexian #Hiring #TechForGood #fedihire #getfedihired
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33 Debian LTS Advisories fixing 216 CVEs for various packages were released by Debian LTS contributors in January 2026. These include notable security updates for python 3.9, django 2.2.28, php 7.4, apache2, ceph, Linux 6.1 kernel and more.
A study into the security status report of p7zip, which is unmaintained upstream, was also done last month in addition to updates contributed for recent releases of Debian 12, Debian 13 and to Debian unstable.
Read the full report at https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-lts-report-2026-01/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
This work is funded through Freexian’s Debian LTS offering. Consider sponsoring Debian LTS (https://www.freexian.com/lts/debian/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social) to support this effort and benefit from it: https://www.freexian.com/lts/debian/details#benefits
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The security support for Debian "Jessie", provided by Freexian, under the ELTS service has reached its end-of-life on June 30, 2025.
https://www.freexian.com/lts/extended/updates/ela-1477-1-jessie-elts/If you are still using Jessie, it's now the time to upgrade to a release currently receiving security support from Debian / supported under LTS/ELTS services offered by Freexian.
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Freexian offers Extended LTS (#ELTS) service which extends Debian's security support period up to 10 years.
In 2024, with #Debian 10 having reached its end-of-life on June 30th on the Debian side, #Freexian added Debian 10 to the set of ELTS releases that we are maintaining.
Debian 10 #buster is joining Debian 8 #jessie (still supported for 1 year) and Debian 9 #stretch (still supported for 3 years).
You can find more details by reading our blog post - https://www.freexian.com/blog/extended-lts-for-debian-10/
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Freexian’s September 2025 Debian contributions report covers a variety of interesting work.
Find the full report here - https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-contributions-09-2025/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
You can read about #C23 and old Debian Printing software, work done to decommission packages.qa.debian.org, rebootstrap using *-for-host and more!
We thank the organizations subscribing to our Long Term Support contracts (https://www.freexian.com/lts/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social) and consulting services (https://www.freexian.com/services/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social) for making this possible.
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The critical security updates for angular.js, tomcat9, mediawiki, php7.4 and more landed in Debian 11 "bullseye" by the efforts of the Debian LTS team in July 2025. The security tracker sprint involving members from the LTS team and Debian Security team also happened during July as part of DebCamp 25.
Get the full report covering the details here: https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-lts-report-2025-07/
This work is funded by Freexian's Debian LTS offering. Your organization too can sponsor the Debian LTS (https://www.freexian.com/lts/debian/) and join the esteemed list of sponsors in the monthly report.
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In November, Debian LTS contributors released 33 Debian LTS Advisories, fixing 219 CVEs across multiple packages. Notable updates included security fixes for bind9, unbound, pdfminer, firefox-esr, thunderbird, and the Linux 6.1 kernel.
In addition, the LTS team also contributed security updates to latest Debian releases and carried out significant work to revamp the LTS team documentation.
Read the full report here:
https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-lts-report-2025-11/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=socialThis work is funded through Freexian’s Debian LTS offering. Consider sponsoring Debian LTS (https://www.freexian.com/lts/debian/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social) to support this effort and benefit from it: https://www.freexian.com/lts/debian/details/#benefits
#freexian #debianLTS #debian #linux #bind9 #unbound #thunderbird
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Temporary remediation
While we prepare updates for the different Debian releases, this is a list of actions that remediate the exposure to the vulnerabilities:
Remove cups from BrowseRemoteProtocols in /etc/cups/cups-browsed.conf or disable cups-browsed if possible
Block any incoming traffic to the 631 UDP portThanks to the Debian Security Team for their collaboration on addressing these issues!
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You may be aware of the OpenPrinting CUPS vulnerabilities disclosed yesterday by Simone Margaritelli.
Unfortunately, this disclosure happened without the planned coordination between the reporter, the developers and the different distributions, without waiting for proper and tested patches to be available. As a result, vulnerable machines are currently exposed.
The Debian LTS team is working on preparing updates for the different Debian releases
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Our August 2025 Debian Contributions report is out! We have updates on preparing for the setup.py install deprecation in setuptools, Salsa CI, the Debian 13 “trixie” release and more.
Full report here: https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-contributions-08-2025/
We thank the organizations subscribing to our Long Term Support contracts (https://www.freexian.com/lts/) and consulting services (https://www.freexian.com/services/) for making this possible.
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#Freexian collaborators worked on cross building packages, rebootstrap, refresh of the patch tagging guidelines and many other contributions to #Debian in January 2026.
Visit https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-contributions-01-2026/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social for the complete list and details.
We thank the organizations subscribing to our Long Term Support contracts (https://www.freexian.com/lts/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social) and consulting services (https://www.freexian.com/services/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social) for making this possible.
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#Freexian collaborators worked on cross building packages, rebootstrap, refresh of the patch tagging guidelines and many other contributions to #Debian in January 2026.
Visit https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-contributions-01-2026/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social for the complete list and details.
We thank the organizations subscribing to our Long Term Support contracts (https://www.freexian.com/lts/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social) and consulting services (https://www.freexian.com/services/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social) for making this possible.
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#Freexian collaborators worked on cross building packages, rebootstrap, refresh of the patch tagging guidelines and many other contributions to #Debian in January 2026.
Visit https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-contributions-01-2026/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social for the complete list and details.
We thank the organizations subscribing to our Long Term Support contracts (https://www.freexian.com/lts/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social) and consulting services (https://www.freexian.com/services/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social) for making this possible.
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#Freexian collaborators worked on cross building packages, rebootstrap, refresh of the patch tagging guidelines and many other contributions to #Debian in January 2026.
Visit https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-contributions-01-2026/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social for the complete list and details.
We thank the organizations subscribing to our Long Term Support contracts (https://www.freexian.com/lts/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social) and consulting services (https://www.freexian.com/services/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social) for making this possible.
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#Freexian collaborators worked on cross building packages, rebootstrap, refresh of the patch tagging guidelines and many other contributions to #Debian in January 2026.
Visit https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-contributions-01-2026/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social for the complete list and details.
We thank the organizations subscribing to our Long Term Support contracts (https://www.freexian.com/lts/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social) and consulting services (https://www.freexian.com/services/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social) for making this possible.
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Python 3.14 and Ruby 3.4 transitions, dh-python development, a hybrid dependency solver for crossqa.debian.net, rebootstrap updates and making Debian CI resistant to the growing scraper traffic.
#Freexian collaborators worked on these and many more contributions to #Debian in December 2025.
Read all the details at:
https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-contributions-12-2025/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=socialWe thank the organizations subscribing to our Long Term Support contracts (https://www.freexian.com/lts/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social) and consulting services (https://www.freexian.com/services/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social) for making this possible.
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Python 3.14 and Ruby 3.4 transitions, dh-python development, a hybrid dependency solver for crossqa.debian.net, rebootstrap updates and making Debian CI resistant to the growing scraper traffic.
#Freexian collaborators worked on these and many more contributions to #Debian in December 2025.
Read all the details at:
https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-contributions-12-2025/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=socialWe thank the organizations subscribing to our Long Term Support contracts (https://www.freexian.com/lts/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social) and consulting services (https://www.freexian.com/services/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social) for making this possible.
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Python 3.14 and Ruby 3.4 transitions, dh-python development, a hybrid dependency solver for crossqa.debian.net, rebootstrap updates and making Debian CI resistant to the growing scraper traffic.
#Freexian collaborators worked on these and many more contributions to #Debian in December 2025.
Read all the details at:
https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-contributions-12-2025/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=socialWe thank the organizations subscribing to our Long Term Support contracts (https://www.freexian.com/lts/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social) and consulting services (https://www.freexian.com/services/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social) for making this possible.