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…

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…

Updated Debian 12: 12.9 released https://www.debian.org/News/2025/20250111 #debian #bookworm

Our map of Developer Locations now links to a nice interactive world map where Debian Developers offer PGP keysigning. We use such keysigning to prove identities of prospective Debian people. Debian Members can add themselves to the PGP signing offers…

Dear Debian community, this is bits from DPL for December. 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…

The Debian Installer team is pleased to announce the first alpha release of the installer for Debian 13 Trixie. https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2024/12/msg00002.html #debian #trixie #debian13

Help choose the DebConf25 logo! With 23 entries to vote from, we've got your style: https://surveys.debian.net/ #debian #debconf #debconf25

The Debian LTS Team is actively working towards ensuring that security fixes made in LTS are also propogated to more recent Debian releases. See the latest batch of updates https://deb.li/lGLC

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

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…

Would you like to see your amazing ideas on the DebConf 25 website, on T-shirts, etc., so that people all over the world can take them home? Only 12 days left to submit your artwork: deadline December 15!…

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…

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…

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!…

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…

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…

Calls for bids for DebConf26 have started, please see: https://lists.debian.org/debconf-announce/2024/11/msg00001.html

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…

Videos from the MiniDebConf Toulouse are now available! View any session via their title in the program here: https://toulouse2024.mini.debconf.org/schedule/ #debian #debconf #miniDebConfToulouse

The DebConf 25 Logo and Artwork Call for Proposals has opened! https://lists.debian.org/debconf-announce/2024/11/msg00000.html

You are not in Toulouse, don't worry, you can follow the talks online here: https://toulouse2024.mini.debconf.org/schedule/venue/1/ #debian #debconf #miniDebConfToulouse

MiniDebConf Toulouse 2024 talks start soon. You can find the schedule here https://toulouse2024.mini.debconf.org/schedule/ #debian #debconf #miniDebConfToulouse

Today MiniDebConf Toulouse has officially started with a two day MinDebCamp, but the livestreamed talks will happen during this weekend. Check out the schedule at https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/fr/2024/Toulouse#Schedule #debian #debconf…

Debian Junior is now available with live weekly builds, check out an amazing focused Pure Blend that caters to a younger audience. https://lists.debian.org/debian-jr/2024/11/msg00009.html

Updated Debian 12: 12.8 released https://www.debian.org/News/2024/20241109 #debian #bookworm

Great work done by the 2024 Google Summer of Code contributors working on Debian! Read all about their experience here: https://outreach-team.pages.debian.net/ #debian #gsoc

Dear Debian community, this is Bits from DPL for October. In addition to a summary of my recent activities, I aim to include newsworthy developments within Debian that might be of interest to the broader community. I believe this provides valuable…

Call for linguists and translators toward the upcoming debian-installer! https://lists.debian.org/debian-i18n/2024/11/msg00000.html Connect with the installer team at debian-boot@lists.debian.org #debian

Thank you to LWN.net again for another DebConf24 related article: Debian's secret sauce https://lwn.net/Articles/990177

One cannot have too many MiniDebConfs, watch out for the Brazilian Online MiniDebConf happening this week at https://mdcobr2024.mini.debconf.org (talks will be in Portuguese) #debconf #miniDebConfOnlineBrasil #debian

Ada Lovelace Day was celebrated on October 8 in 2024, and on this occasion, to celebrate and raise awareness of the contributions of women to the STEM fields we interviewed some of the women in Debian. Here we share their thoughts, comments, and…

We celebrate 20 years of Ubuntu! Happy Birthday with love from all of us. https://ubuntu.com/20years #Ubuntu #Linux

The Brazilian team closed the POPCON500 translation https://debianbrasil.org.br/blog/the-brazilian-team-closed-the-popcon500-translation

Debian will participate in this year's December Outreachy round with the projects "Automatic Indi-3rd-party driver update" and "Migrate the Debian main website to HuGo". We are currently in the Intern selection period and are looking forward to start the…

Videos from the first half of MiniDebConf Cambridge are now available from https://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2024/MiniDebConf-Cambridge/ . #debian #debconf #miniDebConfCambridge

MiniDebConf Cambridge's livestream just went live: https://onsite.live.debconf.org/player.html #debian #debconf #miniDebConfCambridge

MiniDebConf Cambridge has officially started already, but the livestreamed talks will happen during this weekend. Check out the schedule at https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/gb/2024/MiniDebConfCambridge#Schedule #debian #debconf #miniDebConfCambridge

Dear Debian community, this are my bits from DPL for September. New lintian maintainer I'm pleased to welcome Louis-Philippe Véronneau as a new Lintian maintainer. He humorously acknowledged his new role, stating, "Apparently I'm a Lintian…

We are excited to announce and welcome Freexian into Debian Partners. Freexian specializes in Free Software with a particular focus on Debian GNU/Linux. Freexian can assist with consulting, training, technical support, packaging, or software development…

Debian has two new mirrors in India. Thanks to both CUSAT and NITC University Campus for hosting mirrors, helping distribute Debian https://lists.debian.org/debian-dug-in/2024/10/msg00003.html #debian #debianindia

The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months: * Carlos Henrique Lima Melara (charles) * Joenio Marques da Costa (joenio) * Blair Noctis (ncts) The following contributors were added as Debian…

Thank you to LWN.net for their recent article: Attracting and retaining Debian contributors, which highlights one of the ways that our project grows. https://lwn.net/Articles/987548/ #debian

Dear Debian community, this are my bits from DPL for August. Happy Birthday Debian On 16th of August Debian celebrated its 31th birthday. Since I'm unable to write a better text than our great publicity team I'm simply linking to their article for…

Updated Debian 12: 12.7 released https://www.debian.org/News/2024/20240831 #debian #bookworm

Updated Debian 11: 11.11 released https://www.debian.org/News/2024/2024083102 #debian #bullseye

Thanks to Stefano Rivera and others, pictures by some participants of DebConf24 in Busan are now easily viewable on https://people.debian.org/~stefanor/dc24-photos/ . You are invited to share your DebConf24 pictures on DebConf Share git-lfs too!

Did you know that Debian's gitlab instance, salsa.debian.org: has ~15.500 users, 79.000 projects, 750 groups, 31.000 forks, 14.600 issues, and 64.000 merge requests? We are active!

Debian Developer Samuel Henrique presents: Fixing CVEs on Debian: Everything you probably know already. Originally presented at DebConf24: https://youtu.be/XzNVVILVyUM #debian #debconf24

Debian Day 2024 in Santa Maria - Brazil https://debianbrasil.org.br/blog/debianday2024-santa-maria-report

Debian Day 2024 in Pouso Alegre - Brazil https://debianbrasil.org.br/blog/debianday2024-pouso-alegre-report/