Like each month, have a look at the work funded by Freexian s Debian LTS offering.

Debian LTS contributors In July, 18 contributors have been paid to work on Debian LTS, their reports are available:

• Abhijith PA did 0.0h (out of 0h assigned and 2.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 2.0h to the next month.
• Adrian Bunk did 24.75h (out of 18.25h assigned and 6.5h from previous period).
• Anton Gladky did 5.0h (out of 5.0h assigned and 10.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 10.0h to the next month.
• Bastien Roucari s did 17.0h (out of 17.0h assigned and 3.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 3.0h to the next month.
• Ben Hutchings did 14.0h (out of 24.0h assigned), thus carrying over 9.5h to the next month.
• Chris Lamb did 18.0h (out of 18.0h assigned).
• Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did 24.0h (out of 24.75h assigned), thus carrying over 0.25h to the next month.
• Guilhem Moulin did 23.25h (out of 24.75h assigned), thus carrying over 1.5h to the next month.
• Jochen Sprickerhof did 10.0h (out of 20.0h assigned), thus carrying over 10.0h to the next month.
• Lee Garrett did 16.0h (out of 9.75h assigned and 15.5h from previous period), thus carrying over 9.25h to the next month.
• Markus Koschany did 24.75h (out of 24.75h assigned).
• Ola Lundqvist did 0.0h (out of 13.0h assigned and 11.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 24.0h to the next month.
• Roberto C. S nchez did 19.25h (out of 14.75h assigned and 10.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 5.5h to the next month.
• Santiago Ruano Rinc n did 25.5h (out of 10.5h assigned and 15.25h from previous period), thus carrying over 0.25h to the next month.
• Sylvain Beucler did 16.0h (out of 21.25h assigned and 3.5h from previous period), thus carrying over 8.75h to the next month.
• Thorsten Alteholz did 14.0h (out of 14.0h assigned).
• Tobias Frost did 16.0h (out of 16.0h assigned).
• Utkarsh Gupta did 1.5h (out of 0h assigned and 13.75h from previous period), thus carrying over 12.25h to the next month.

Evolution of the situation In July, we have released 35 DLAs. LTS contributor Lee Garrett, has continued his hard work to prepare a testing framework for Samba, that can now provision bootable VMs with little effort, both for Debian and for Windows. This work included the introduction of a new package to Debian, rhsrvany, which allows turning any Windows program or script into a Windows service. As the Samba testing framework matures it will be possible to perform functional tests which cannot be performed with other available test mechanisms and aspects of this framework will be generalizable to other package ecosystems beyond Samba. July included a notable security update of bind9 by LTS contributor Chris Lamb. This update addressed a potential denial of service attack in this critical network infrastructure component.

Thanks to our sponsors Sponsors that joined recently are in bold.

• Platinum sponsors:
  • TOSHIBA (for 95 months)
  • Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) (for 63 months)
• Gold sponsors:
  • Roche Diagnostics International AG (for 106 months)
  • Linode (for 100 months)
  • Babiel GmbH (for 89 months)
  • Plat Home (for 89 months)
  • University of Oxford (for 45 months)
  • Deveryware (for 32 months)
  • VyOS Inc (for 27 months)
  • EDF SA (for 16 months)
• Silver sponsors:
  • Domeneshop AS (for 110 months)
  • Nantes M tropole (for 104 months)
  • Univention GmbH (for 96 months)
  • Universit Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 96 months)
  • Ribbon Communications, Inc. (for 90 months)
  • Exonet B.V. (for 80 months)
  • Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 74 months)
  • CINECA (for 63 months)
  • Minist re de l Europe et des Affaires trang res (for 57 months)
  • Cloudways Ltd (for 47 months)
  • Dinahosting SL (for 45 months)
  • Bauer Xcel Media Deutschland KG (for 39 months)
  • Platform.sh (for 39 months)
  • Moxa Inc. (for 33 months)
  • sipgate GmbH (for 30 months)
  • OVH US LLC (for 28 months)
  • Tilburg University (for 28 months)
  • GSI Helmholtzzentrum f r Schwerionenforschung GmbH (for 20 months)
  • Soliton Systems K.K. (for 17 months)
• Bronze sponsors:
  • Evolix (for 111 months)
  • Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 111 months)
  • Intevation GmbH (for 108 months)
  • Linuxhotel GmbH (for 108 months)
  • Daevel SARL (for 106 months)
  • Bitfolk LTD (for 105 months)
  • Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 105 months)
  • Greenbone AG (for 104 months)
  • NUMLOG (for 104 months)
  • WinGo AG (for 104 months)
  • Ecole Centrale de Nantes - LHEEA (for 100 months)
  • Entr ouvert (for 95 months)
  • Adfinis AG (for 92 months)
  • GNI MEDIA (for 87 months)
  • Laboratoire LEGI - UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 87 months)
  • Tesorion (for 87 months)
  • Bearstech (for 78 months)
  • LiHAS (for 78 months)
  • Catalyst IT Ltd (for 73 months)
  • Supagro (for 68 months)
  • Demarcq SAS (for 67 months)
  • Universit Grenoble Alpes (for 53 months)
  • TouchWeb SAS (for 45 months)
  • SPiN AG (for 42 months)
  • CoreFiling (for 37 months)
  • Institut des sciences cognitives Marc Jeannerod (for 32 months)
  • Observatoire des Sciences de l Univers de Grenoble (for 29 months)
  • Tem Innovations GmbH (for 24 months)
  • WordFinder.pro (for 23 months)
  • CNRS DT INSU R sif (for 22 months)
  • Alter Way (for 15 months)
  • Institut Camille Jordan (for 4 months)

Like each month, have a look at the work funded by Freexian s Debian LTS offering.

Debian LTS contributors In June, 17 contributors have been paid to work on Debian LTS, their reports are available:

• Abhijith PA did 12.0h (out of 6.0h assigned and 8.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 2.0h to the next month.
• Adrian Bunk did 28.0h (out of 0h assigned and 34.5h from previous period), thus carrying over 6.5h to the next month.
• Anton Gladky did 5.0h (out of 6.0h assigned and 9.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 10.0h to the next month.
• Bastien Roucari s did 17.0h (out of 17.0h assigned and 3.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 3.0h to the next month.
• Ben Hutchings did 24.0h (out of 16.5h assigned and 7.0h from previous period).
• Chris Lamb did 18.0h (out of 18.0h assigned).
• Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did 24.0h (out of 21.0h assigned and 2.5h from previous period).
• Guilhem Moulin did 20.0h (out of 20.0h assigned).
• Lee Garrett did 25.0h (out of 0h assigned and 40.5h from previous period), thus carrying over 15.5h to the next month.
• Markus Koschany did 23.5h (out of 23.5h assigned).
• Ola Lundqvist did 13.0h (out of 0h assigned and 24.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 11.0h to the next month.
• Roberto C. S nchez did 13.5h (out of 9.75h assigned and 13.75h from previous period), thus carrying over 10.0h to the next month.
• Santiago Ruano Rinc n did 8.25h (out of 23.5h assigned), thus carrying over 15.25h to the next month.
• Sylvain Beucler did 20.0h (out of 23.5h assigned), thus carrying over 3.5h to the next month.
• Thorsten Alteholz did 14.0h (out of 14.0h assigned).
• Tobias Frost did 16.0h (out of 16.0h assigned).
• Utkarsh Gupta did 0.0h (out of 0h assigned and 25.5h from previous period), thus carrying over 25.5h to the next month.

Evolution of the situation In June, we have released 40 DLAs. Notable security updates in June included mariadb-10.3, openssl, and golang-go.crypto. The mariadb-10.3 package was synchronized with the latest upstream maintenance release, version 10.3.39. The openssl package was patched to correct several flaws with certificate validation and with object identifier parsing. Finally, the golang-go.crypto package was updated to address several vulnerabilities, and several associated Go packages were rebuilt in order to properly incorporate the update. LTS contributor Sylvain has been hard at work with some behind-the-scenes improvements to internal tooling and documentation. His efforts are helping to improve the efficiency of all LTS contributors and also helping to improve the quality of their work, making our LTS updates more timely and of higher quality. LTS contributor Lee Garrett began working on a testing framework specifically for Samba. Given the critical role which Samba plays in many deployments, the tremendous impact which regressions can have in those cases, and the unique testing requirements of Samba, this work will certainly result in increased confidence around our Samba updates for LTS. LTS contributor Emilio Pozuelo Monfort has begun preparatory work for the upcoming Firefox ESR version 115 release. Firefox ESR (and the related Thunderbird ESR) requires special work to maintain up to date in LTS. Mozilla do not release individual patches for CVEs, and our policy is to incorporate new ESR releases from Mozilla into LTS. Most updates are minor updates, but once a year Mozilla will release a major update as they move to a new major version for ESR. The update to a new major ESR version entails many related updates to toolchain and other packages. The preparations that Emilio has begun will ensure that once the 115 ESR release is made, updated packages will be available in LTS with minimal delay. Another highlight of behind-the-scenes work is our Front Desk personnel. While we often focus on the work which results in published package updates, much work is also involved in reviewing new vulnerabilities and triaging them (i.e., determining if they affect one or more packages in LTS and then determining the severity of those which are applicable). These intrepid contributors (Emilio Pozuelo Monfort, Markus Koschany, Ola Lundqvist, Sylvain Beucler, and Thorsten Alteholz for the month of June) reviewed dozens of vulnerabilities and made decisions about how those vulnerabilities should be dealt with.

Thanks to our sponsors

• Platinum sponsors:
  • TOSHIBA (for 94 months)
  • Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) (for 62 months)
• Gold sponsors:
  • Roche Diagnostics International AG (for 105 months)
  • Linode (for 99 months)
  • Babiel GmbH (for 88 months)
  • Plat Home (for 88 months)
  • University of Oxford (for 44 months)
  • Deveryware (for 31 months)
  • VyOS Inc (for 26 months)
  • EDF SA (for 15 months)
• Silver sponsors:
  • Domeneshop AS (for 109 months)
  • Nantes M tropole (for 103 months)
  • Univention GmbH (for 95 months)
  • Universit Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 95 months)
  • Ribbon Communications, Inc. (for 89 months)
  • Exonet B.V. (for 79 months)
  • Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 73 months)
  • CINECA (for 62 months)
  • Minist re de l Europe et des Affaires trang res (for 56 months)
  • Cloudways Ltd (for 46 months)
  • Dinahosting SL (for 44 months)
  • Bauer Xcel Media Deutschland KG (for 38 months)
  • Platform.sh (for 38 months)
  • Moxa Inc. (for 32 months)
  • sipgate GmbH (for 29 months)
  • OVH US LLC (for 27 months)
  • Tilburg University (for 27 months)
  • GSI Helmholtzzentrum f r Schwerionenforschung GmbH (for 18 months)
  • Soliton Systems K.K. (for 16 months)
• Bronze sponsors:
  • Evolix (for 110 months)
  • Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 110 months)
  • Intevation GmbH (for 107 months)
  • Linuxhotel GmbH (for 107 months)
  • Daevel SARL (for 105 months)
  • Bitfolk LTD (for 104 months)
  • Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 104 months)
  • Greenbone AG (for 103 months)
  • NUMLOG (for 103 months)
  • WinGo AG (for 103 months)
  • Ecole Centrale de Nantes - LHEEA (for 99 months)
  • Entr ouvert (for 94 months)
  • Adfinis AG (for 91 months)
  • GNI MEDIA (for 86 months)
  • Laboratoire LEGI - UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 86 months)
  • Tesorion (for 86 months)
  • Bearstech (for 77 months)
  • LiHAS (for 77 months)
  • Catalyst IT Ltd (for 72 months)
  • Supagro (for 67 months)
  • Demarcq SAS (for 66 months)
  • Universit Grenoble Alpes (for 52 months)
  • TouchWeb SAS (for 44 months)
  • SPiN AG (for 41 months)
  • CoreFiling (for 36 months)
  • Institut des sciences cognitives Marc Jeannerod (for 31 months)
  • Observatoire des Sciences de l Univers de Grenoble (for 28 months)
  • Tem Innovations GmbH (for 22 months)
  • WordFinder.pro (for 22 months)
  • CNRS DT INSU R sif (for 21 months)
  • Alter Way (for 14 months)
  • Institut Camille Jordan (for 3 months)

Like each month, have a look at the work funded by Freexian s Debian LTS offering.

Debian LTS contributors In May, 18 contributors have been paid to work on Debian LTS, their reports are available:

• Abhijith PA did 6.0h (out of 6.0h assigned and 8.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 8.0h to the next month.
• Anton Gladky did 6.0h (out of 8.0h assigned and 7.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 9.0h to the next month.
• Bastien Roucari s did 17.0h (out of 17.0h assigned and 3.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 3.0h to the next month.
• Ben Hutchings did 17.0h (out of 16.0h assigned and 8.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 7.0h to the next month.
• Chris Lamb did 18.0h (out of 18.0h assigned).
• Daniel Leidert did 0.0h (out of 0h assigned and 12.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 12.0h to the next month.
• Dominik George did 0.0h (out of 0h assigned and 20.34h from previous period), thus carrying over 20.34h to the next month.
• Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did 32.0h (out of 18.5h assigned and 16.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 2.5h to the next month.
• Guilhem Moulin did 20.0h (out of 8.5h assigned and 11.5h from previous period).
• Holger Levsen did 0.0h (out of 0h assigned and 10.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 10.0h to the next month.
• Lee Garrett did 0.0h (out of 0h assigned and 40.5h from previous period), thus carrying over 40.5h to the next month.
• Markus Koschany did 34.5h (out of 34.5h assigned).
• Roberto C. S nchez did 18.25h (out of 20.5h assigned and 11.5h from previous period), thus carrying over 13.75h to the next month.
• Scarlett Moore did 20.0h (out of 20.0h assigned).
• Sylvain Beucler did 34.5h (out of 29.0h assigned and 5.5h from previous period).
• Thorsten Alteholz did 14.0h (out of 14.0h assigned).
• Tobias Frost did 16.0h (out of 15.0h assigned and 1.0h from previous period).
• Utkarsh Gupta did 5.5h (out of 5.0h assigned and 26.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 25.5h to the next month.

Evolution of the situation In May, we have released 34 DLAs. Several of the DLAs constituted notable security updates to LTS during the month of May. Of particular note were the linux (4.19) and linux-5.10 packages, both of which addressed a considerable number of CVEs. Additionally, the postgresql-11 package was updated by synchronizing it with the 11.20 release from upstream. Notable non-security updates were made to the distro-info-data database and the timezone database. The distro-info-data package was updated with the final expected release date of Debian 12, made aware of Debian 14 and Ubuntu 23.10, and was updated with the latest EOL dates for Ubuntu releases. The tzdata and libdatetime-timezone-perl packages were updated with the 2023c timezone database. The changes in these packages ensure that in addition to the latest security updates LTS users also have the latest information concerning Debian and Ubuntu support windows, as well as the latest timezone data for accurate worldwide timekeeping. LTS contributor Anton implemented an improvement to the Debian Security Tracker Unfixed vulnerabilities in unstable without a filed bug view, allowing for more effective management of CVEs which do not yet have a corresponding bug entry in the Debian BTS. LTS contributor Sylvain concluded an audit of obsolete packages still supported in LTS to ensure that new CVEs are properly associated. In this case, a package being obsolete means that it is no longer associated with a Debian release for which the Debian Security Team has direct responsibility. When this occurs, it is the responsibility of the LTS team to ensure that incoming CVEs are properly associated to packages which exist only in LTS. Finally, LTS contributors also contributed several updates to packages in unstable/testing/stable to fix CVEs. This helps package maintainers, addresses CVEs in current and future Debian releases, and ensures that the CVEs do not remain open for an extended period of time only for the LTS team to be required to deal with them much later in the future.

Thanks to our sponsors Sponsors that joined recently are in bold.

• Platinum sponsors:
  • TOSHIBA (for 93 months)
  • Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) (for 61 months)
• Gold sponsors:
  • Roche Diagnostics International AG (for 104 months)
  • Linode (for 98 months)
  • Babiel GmbH (for 87 months)
  • Plat Home (for 87 months)
  • University of Oxford (for 43 months)
  • Deveryware (for 30 months)
  • VyOS Inc (for 25 months)
  • EDF SA (for 14 months)
• Silver sponsors:
  • Domeneshop AS (for 108 months)
  • Nantes M tropole (for 102 months)
  • Univention GmbH (for 94 months)
  • Universit Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 94 months)
  • Ribbon Communications, Inc. (for 88 months)
  • Exonet B.V. (for 78 months)
  • Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 72 months)
  • CINECA (for 61 months)
  • Minist re de l Europe et des Affaires trang res (for 55 months)
  • Cloudways Ltd (for 45 months)
  • Dinahosting SL (for 43 months)
  • Bauer Xcel Media Deutschland KG (for 37 months)
  • Platform.sh (for 37 months)
  • Moxa Inc. (for 31 months)
  • sipgate GmbH (for 28 months)
  • OVH US LLC (for 26 months)
  • Tilburg University (for 26 months)
  • GSI Helmholtzzentrum f r Schwerionenforschung GmbH (for 17 months)
  • Soliton Systems K.K. (for 15 months)
• Bronze sponsors:
  • Evolix (for 109 months)
  • Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 109 months)
  • Linuxhotel GmbH (for 106 months)
  • Intevation GmbH (for 105 months)
  • Daevel SARL (for 104 months)
  • Bitfolk LTD (for 103 months)
  • Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 103 months)
  • Greenbone AG (for 102 months)
  • NUMLOG (for 102 months)
  • WinGo AG (for 102 months)
  • Ecole Centrale de Nantes - LHEEA (for 98 months)
  • Entr ouvert (for 93 months)
  • Adfinis AG (for 90 months)
  • GNI MEDIA (for 85 months)
  • Laboratoire LEGI - UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 85 months)
  • Tesorion (for 85 months)
  • Bearstech (for 76 months)
  • LiHAS (for 76 months)
  • Catalyst IT Ltd (for 71 months)
  • Supagro (for 66 months)
  • Demarcq SAS (for 65 months)
  • Universit Grenoble Alpes (for 51 months)
  • TouchWeb SAS (for 43 months)
  • SPiN AG (for 40 months)
  • CoreFiling (for 35 months)
  • Institut des sciences cognitives Marc Jeannerod (for 30 months)
  • Observatoire des Sciences de l Univers de Grenoble (for 27 months)
  • Tem Innovations GmbH (for 21 months)
  • WordFinder.pro (for 21 months)
  • CNRS DT INSU R sif (for 20 months)
  • Alter Way (for 13 months)
  • Institut Camille Jordan

Contributing to Debian is part of Freexian s mission. This article covers the latest achievements of Freexian and their collaborators. All of this is made possible by organizations subscribing to our Long Term Support contracts and consulting services.

/usr-merge, by Helmut Grohne, et al Towards the end of April, the discussion on DEP 17 on debian-devel@l.d.o initiated by Helmut Grohne took off, trying to deal with the fact that while Debian bookworm has a merged /usr, files are still being distributed to / and /usr in Debian binary packages, and moving them currently has some risk of breakage. Most participants of the discussion agreed that files should be moved, and there are several competing design ideas for doing it safely. Most of the time was spent understanding the practical implications of lifting the moratorium and moving all the files from / to /usr in a coordinated effort. With help from Emilio Pozuelo Monfort, Enrico Zini, and Raphael Hertzog, Helmut Grohne performed extensive analysis of the various aspects, including quantitative analysis of the original file move problem, analysis of effects on dpkg-divert, dpkg-statoverride, and update-alternatives, analysis of effects on filesystem bootstrapping tools. Most of the problematic cases spawned plausible workarounds, such as turning Breaks into Conflicts in selected cases or adding protective diversions for the symbolic links that enable aliasing. Towards the end of May, Andreas Beckmann reported a new failure scenario which may cause shared resources to inadvertently disappear, such as directories and even regular files in case of Multi-Arch packages, and our work on analyzing these problems and proposing mitigations is on-going. While the quantitative analysis is funded by Freexian, we wouldn t be here without the extensive feedback and ideas of many voluntary contributors from multiple areas of Debian, which are too many to name here. Thank you.

Preparing for the tox 4 transition, by Stefano Rivera While Debian was in freeze for the bookworm release, tox 4 has landed in Debian experimental, and some packages are starting to require it, upstream. It has some backwards-incompatible behavior that breaks many packages using tox through pybuild. So Stefano had to make some changes to pybuild and to many packages that run build-time tests with tox. The easy bits of this transition are now completed in git / experimental, but a few packages that integrate deeply into tox need upstream work.

Debian Printing, by Thorsten Alteholz Just before the release of Bookworm, lots of QA tools were used to inspect packages. One of these tools found a systemd service file in a wrong directory. So, Thorsten did another upload of package lprint to correct this. Thanks a lot to all the hardworking people who run such tools and file bugs. Thorsten also participated in discussions about the new Common Printing Dialog Backends (CPDB) that will be introduced in Trixie and hopefully can replace the current printing architecture in Forky.

Miscellaneous contributions

• DebConf 23 preparations by Stefano Rivera. Some work on the website, video team planning, accounting, and team documentation.
• Utkarsh Gupta started to prep the work on the bursary team s side for DC23.
• Stefano spun up a website for the Hamburg mini-DebConf so that the video team could have a machine-readable schedule and a place to stream video from the event.
• Santiago Ruano Rinc n reviewed and sponsored four python packages of a prospective Debian member.
• Helmut Grohne supported Timo Roehling and Jochen Sprickerhof to improve cross building in 15 ROS packages.
• Helmut Grohne supported Jochen Sprickerhof with diagnosing an e2fsprogs RC bug.
• Helmut Grohne continued to maintain rebootstrap and located an issue with lto in gcc-13.
• Anton Gladky fixed some RC-Bugs and uploaded a new stravalib python library.

Like each month, have a look at the work funded by Freexian s Debian LTS offering.

Debian LTS contributors In April, 18 contributors have been paid to work on Debian LTS, their reports are available:

• Abhijith PA did 6.0h (out of 0h assigned and 14.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 8.0h to the next month.
• Adrian Bunk did 18.0h (out of 16.5h assigned and 24.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 22.5h to the next month.
• Anton Gladky did 8.0h (out of 9.5h assigned and 5.5h from previous period), thus carrying over 7.0h to the next month.
• Bastien Roucari s did 17.0h (out of 17.0h assigned and 3.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 3.0h to the next month.
• Ben Hutchings did 16.0h (out of 12.0h assigned and 12.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 8.0h to the next month.
• Chris Lamb did 18.0h (out of 18.0h assigned).
• Dominik George did 0.0h (out of 0h assigned and 20.34h from previous period), thus carrying over 20.34h to the next month.
• Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did 4.5h (out of 11.0h assigned and 9.5h from previous period), thus carrying over 16.0h to the next month.
• Guilhem Moulin did 8.5h (out of 8.0h assigned and 12.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 11.5h to the next month.
• Helmut Grohne did 5.0h (out of 2.5h assigned and 7.5h from previous period), thus carrying over 5.0h to the next month.
• Lee Garrett did 0.0h (out of 31.5h assigned and 9.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 40.5h to the next month.
• Markus Koschany did 40.0h (out of 40.0h assigned).
• Ola Lundqvist did 12.5h (out of 0h assigned and 24.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 11.5h to the next month.
• Roberto C. S nchez did 8.5h (out of 4.75h assigned and 15.25h from previous period), thus carrying over 11.5h to the next month.
• Stefano Rivera did 1.0h (out of 0h assigned and 28.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 27.0h to the next month.
• Sylvain Beucler did 35.0h (out of 40.5h assigned), thus carrying over 5.5h to the next month.
• Thorsten Alteholz did 14.0h (out of 14.0h assigned).
• Tobias Frost did 15.0h (out of 15.0h assigned and 1.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 1.0h to the next month.
• Utkarsh Gupta did 3.5h (out of 11.0h assigned and 18.5h from previous period), thus carrying over 26.0h to the next month.

Evolution of the situation In April, we have released 35 DLAs. The LTS team would like to welcome our newest sponsor, Institut Camille Jordan, a French research lab. Thanks to the support of the many LTS sponsors, the entire Debian community benefits from direct security updates, as well as indirect improvements and collaboration with other members of the Debian community. As part of improving the efficiency of our work and the quality of the security updates we produce, the LTS has continued improving our workflow. Improvements include more consistent tagging of release versions in Git and broader use of continuous integration (CI) to ensure packages are tested thoroughly and consistently. Sponsors and users can rest assured that we work continuously to maintain and improve the already high quality of the work that we do.

Thanks to our sponsors Sponsors that joined recently are in bold.

• Platinum sponsors:
  • TOSHIBA (for 92 months)
  • Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) (for 60 months)
• Gold sponsors:
  • Roche Diagnostics International AG (for 103 months)
  • Linode (for 97 months)
  • Babiel GmbH (for 86 months)
  • Plat Home (for 86 months)
  • University of Oxford (for 42 months)
  • Deveryware (for 29 months)
  • VyOS Inc (for 24 months)
  • EDF SA (for 13 months)
• Silver sponsors:
  • Domeneshop AS (for 107 months)
  • Nantes M tropole (for 101 months)
  • Univention GmbH (for 93 months)
  • Universit Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 93 months)
  • Ribbon Communications, Inc. (for 87 months)
  • Exonet B.V. (for 77 months)
  • Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 71 months)
  • CINECA (for 60 months)
  • Minist re de l Europe et des Affaires trang res (for 54 months)
  • Cloudways Ltd (for 43 months)
  • Dinahosting SL (for 41 months)
  • Bauer Xcel Media Deutschland KG (for 36 months)
  • Platform.sh (for 36 months)
  • Moxa Inc. (for 30 months)
  • sipgate GmbH (for 27 months)
  • OVH US LLC (for 25 months)
  • Tilburg University (for 25 months)
  • GSI Helmholtzzentrum f r Schwerionenforschung GmbH (for 16 months)
  • Soliton Systems K.K. (for 14 months)
• Bronze sponsors:
  • Evolix (for 108 months)
  • Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 108 months)
  • Linuxhotel GmbH (for 105 months)
  • Intevation GmbH (for 104 months)
  • Daevel SARL (for 103 months)
  • Bitfolk LTD (for 102 months)
  • Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 102 months)
  • Greenbone AG (for 101 months)
  • NUMLOG (for 101 months)
  • WinGo AG (for 100 months)
  • Ecole Centrale de Nantes - LHEEA (for 97 months)
  • Entr ouvert (for 92 months)
  • Adfinis AG (for 89 months)
  • Laboratoire LEGI - UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 84 months)
  • Tesorion (for 84 months)
  • GNI MEDIA (for 83 months)
  • Bearstech (for 75 months)
  • LiHAS (for 75 months)
  • Catalyst IT Ltd (for 70 months)
  • Supagro (for 65 months)
  • Demarcq SAS (for 64 months)
  • Universit Grenoble Alpes (for 50 months)
  • TouchWeb SAS (for 42 months)
  • SPiN AG (for 38 months)
  • CoreFiling (for 34 months)
  • Institut des sciences cognitives Marc Jeannerod (for 29 months)
  • Observatoire des Sciences de l Univers de Grenoble (for 26 months)
  • Tem Innovations GmbH (for 20 months)
  • WordFinder.pro (for 20 months)
  • CNRS DT INSU R sif (for 19 months)
  • Alter Way (for 11 months)
  • Institut Camille Jordan

Like each month, have a look at the work funded by Freexian s Debian LTS offering.

Debian LTS contributors In February, 15 contributors have been paid to work on Debian LTS, their reports are available:

• Adrian Bunk did 22.0h (out of 32.25h assigned), thus carrying over 10.25h to the next month.
• Anton Gladky did 9.75h (out of 11.5h assigned and 3.5h from previous period), thus carrying over 5.25h to the next month.
• Ben Hutchings did 8.0h (out of 8.0h assigned and 16.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 16.0h to the next month.
• Chris Lamb did 18.0h (out of 18.0h assigned).
• Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did 26.25h (out of 0h assigned and 35.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 8.75h to the next month.
• Guilhem Moulin did 20.0h (out of 20.0h assigned).
• Helmut Grohne did 5.0h (out of 5.0h assigned and 5.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 5.0h to the next month.
• Lee Garrett did 26.75h (out of 19.75h assigned and 12.5h from previous period), thus carrying over 5.5h to the next month.
• Markus Koschany did 32.25h (out of 32.25h assigned).
• Ola Lundqvist did 11.5h (out of 12.5h assigned and 11.5h from previous period), thus carrying over 12.5h to the next month.
• Roberto C. S nchez did 5.0h (out of 9.5h assigned and 22.5h from previous period), thus carrying over 27.0h to the next month.
• Sylvain Beucler did 32.0h (out of 17.25h assigned and 15.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 0.25h to the next month.
• Thorsten Alteholz did 8.0h (out of 14.0h assigned), thus carrying over 6.0h to the next month.
• Tobias Frost did 16.0h (out of 16.0h assigned).
• Utkarsh Gupta did 24.25h (out of 49.25h assigned), thus carrying over 8.0h to the next month.

Evolution of the situation In February, we have released 44 DLAs, which resolved 156 CVEs. We are glad to welcome some new contributors who will hopefully help us fix CVEs in the supported release even faster. However, we also experienced some setbacks as a few sponsors have stopped (or decreased) their support. If your company ever hesitated to sponsor Debian LTS, now might be a good time to join to ensure that we can continue this important work without having to scale down on the number of packages that we are able to support.

Thanks to our sponsors Sponsors that joined recently are in bold.

• Platinum sponsors:
  • TOSHIBA (for 90 months)
  • Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) (for 58 months)
• Gold sponsors:
  • Roche Diagnostics International AG (for 101 months)
  • Linode (for 95 months)
  • Babiel GmbH (for 84 months)
  • Plat Home (for 84 months)
  • University of Oxford (for 40 months)
  • Deveryware (for 27 months)
  • VyOS Inc (for 22 months)
  • EDF SA (for 11 months)
• Silver sponsors:
  • Domeneshop AS (for 105 months)
  • Nantes M tropole (for 100 months)
  • Univention GmbH (for 91 months)
  • Universit Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 91 months)
  • Ribbon Communications, Inc. (for 85 months)
  • Exonet B.V. (for 75 months)
  • Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 69 months)
  • CINECA (for 58 months)
  • Minist re de l Europe et des Affaires trang res (for 52 months)
  • Cloudways Ltd (for 42 months)
  • Dinahosting SL (for 40 months)
  • Bauer Xcel Media Deutschland KG (for 34 months)
  • Platform.sh (for 34 months)
  • Moxa Inc. (for 28 months)
  • sipgate GmbH (for 25 months)
  • OVH US LLC (for 23 months)
  • Tilburg University (for 23 months)
  • GSI Helmholtzzentrum f r Schwerionenforschung GmbH (for 15 months)
  • Soliton Systems K.K. (for 12 months)
• Bronze sponsors:
  • Evolix (for 106 months)
  • Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 106 months)
  • Intevation GmbH (for 103 months)
  • Linuxhotel GmbH (for 103 months)
  • Daevel SARL (for 101 months)
  • Bitfolk LTD (for 100 months)
  • Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 100 months)
  • NUMLOG (for 100 months)
  • Greenbone AG (for 99 months)
  • WinGo AG (for 99 months)
  • Ecole Centrale de Nantes - LHEEA (for 95 months)
  • Entr ouvert (for 90 months)
  • Adfinis AG (for 87 months)
  • GNI MEDIA (for 82 months)
  • Laboratoire LEGI - UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 82 months)
  • Tesorion (for 82 months)
  • Bearstech (for 73 months)
  • LiHAS (for 73 months)
  • Catalyst IT Ltd (for 68 months)
  • Supagro (for 63 months)
  • Demarcq SAS (for 62 months)
  • Universit Grenoble Alpes (for 48 months)
  • TouchWeb SAS (for 40 months)
  • SPiN AG (for 37 months)
  • CoreFiling (for 32 months)
  • Institut des sciences cognitives Marc Jeannerod (for 27 months)
  • Observatoire des Sciences de l Univers de Grenoble (for 24 months)
  • Tem Innovations GmbH (for 19 months)
  • WordFinder.pro (for 18 months)
  • CNRS DT INSU R sif (for 17 months)
  • Alter Way (for 10 months)

Like each month, have a look at the work funded by Freexian s Debian LTS offering. This is the first monthly report in 2023.

Debian LTS contributors In January, 17 contributors have been paid to work on Debian LTS. which is possibly the highest number of active contributors per month! Their reports are available:

• Abhijith PA did 0.0h (out of 3.0h assigned and 11.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 14.0h to the next month.
• Adrian Bunk did 26.25h (out of 26.25h assigned).
• Anton Gladky did 11.5h (out of 8.0h assigned and 7.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 3.5h to the next month.
• Ben Hutchings did 8.0h (out of 24.0h assigned), thus carrying over 16.0h to the next month.
• Chris Lamb did 18.0h (out of 18.0h assigned).
• Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did 8.0h (out of 0h assigned and 43.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 35.0h to the next month.
• Guilhem Moulin did 20.0h (out of 17.5h assigned and 2.5h from previous period).
• Helmut Grohne did 10.0h (out of 15.0h assigned), thus carrying over 5.0h to the next month.
• Lee Garrett did 7.5h (out of 20.0h assigned), thus carrying over 12.5h to the next month.
• Markus Koschany did 26.25h (out of 26.25h assigned).
• Ola Lundqvist did 4.5h (out of 10.0h assigned and 6.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 11.5h to the next month.
• Roberto C. S nchez did 3.75h (out of 18.75h assigned and 7.5h from previous period), thus carrying over 22.5h to the next month.
• Stefano Rivera did 4.5h (out of 0h assigned and 32.5h from previous period), thus carrying over 28.0h to the next month.
• Sylvain Beucler did 23.5h (out of 0h assigned and 38.5h from previous period), thus carrying over 15.0h to the next month.
• Thorsten Alteholz did 14.0h (out of 10.0h assigned and 4.0h from previous period).
• Tobias Frost did 19.0h (out of 19.0h assigned).
• Utkarsh Gupta did 43.25h (out of 26.25h assigned and 17.0h from previous period).

Evolution of the situation Furthermore, we released 46 DLAs in January, which resolved 146 CVEs. We are working diligently to reduce the number of packages listed in dla-needed.txt, and currently, we have 55 packages listed. We are constantly growing and seeking new contributors. If you are a Debian Developer and want to join the LTS team, please contact us.

Thanks to our sponsors Sponsors that joined recently are in bold.

• Platinum sponsors:
  • TOSHIBA (for 89 months)
  • GitHub (for 80 months)
  • Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) (for 57 months)
• Gold sponsors:
  • Roche Diagnostics International AG (for 100 months)
  • Linode (for 94 months)
  • Babiel GmbH (for 83 months)
  • Plat Home (for 83 months)
  • University of Oxford (for 39 months)
  • Deveryware (for 26 months)
  • VyOS Inc (for 21 months)
  • EDF SA (for 10 months)
• Silver sponsors:
  • Domeneshop AS (for 105 months)
  • Nantes M tropole (for 99 months)
  • Univention GmbH (for 90 months)
  • Universit Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 90 months)
  • Ribbon Communications, Inc. (for 84 months)
  • Exonet B.V. (for 74 months)
  • Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 68 months)
  • CINECA (for 57 months)
  • Minist re de l Europe et des Affaires trang res (for 52 months)
  • Cloudways Ltd (for 41 months)
  • Dinahosting SL (for 39 months)
  • Bauer Xcel Media Deutschland KG (for 33 months)
  • Platform.sh (for 33 months)
  • MOXA INC. (for 27 months)
  • sipgate GmbH (for 24 months)
  • Tilburg University (for 23 months)
  • OVH US LLC (for 22 months)
  • GSI Helmholtzzentrum f r Schwerionenforschung GmbH (for 14 months)
  • Soliton Systems K.K. (for 11 months)
• Bronze sponsors:
  • Evolix (for 105 months)
  • Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 105 months)
  • Intevation GmbH (for 102 months)
  • Linuxhotel GmbH (for 102 months)
  • Daevel SARL (for 101 months)
  • Bitfolk LTD (for 99 months)
  • Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 99 months)
  • NUMLOG (for 99 months)
  • Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 98 months)
  • WinGo AG (for 98 months)
  • Ecole Centrale de Nantes - LHEEA (for 94 months)
  • Entr ouvert (for 89 months)
  • Adfinis AG (for 87 months)
  • GNI MEDIA (for 81 months)
  • Laboratoire LEGI - UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 81 months)
  • Tesorion (for 81 months)
  • Bearstech (for 73 months)
  • LiHAS (for 72 months)
  • Catalyst IT Ltd (for 67 months)
  • Supagro (for 62 months)
  • Demarcq SAS (for 61 months)
  • Universit Grenoble Alpes (for 47 months)
  • TouchWeb SAS (for 39 months)
  • SPiN AG (for 36 months)
  • CoreFiling (for 31 months)
  • Institut des sciences cognitives Marc Jeannerod (for 26 months)
  • Observatoire des Sciences de l Univers de Grenoble (for 23 months)
  • Tem Innovations GmbH (for 18 months)
  • WordFinder.pro (for 17 months)
  • CNRS DT INSU R sif (for 16 months)
  • Alter Way (for 9 months)

Like each month, have a look at the work funded by Freexian s Debian LTS offering.

Debian LTS contributors In December, 17 contributors have been paid to work on Debian LTS, their reports are available:

• Abhijith PA did 3.0h (out of 0h assigned and 14.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 11.0h to the next month.
• Anton Gladky did 8.0h (out of 6.0h assigned and 9.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 7.0h to the next month.
• 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).
• Dominik George did 0.0h (out of 10.0h assigned and 14.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 24.0h to the next month.
• Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did 8.0h in December, 8.0h in November (out of 1.5h assigned and 49.5h from previous period), thus carrying over 43.0h to the next month.
• Enrico Zini did 0.0h (out of 0h assigned and 8.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 8.0h to the next month.
• Guilhem Moulin did 17.5h (out of 20.0h assigned), thus carrying over 2.5h to the next month.
• Helmut Grohne did 15.0h (out of 15.0h assigned, 2.5h were taken from the extra-budget and worked on).
• Markus Koschany did 40.0h (out of 40.0h assigned).
• Ola Lundqvist did 10.0h (out of 7.5h assigned and 8.5h from previous period), thus carrying over 6.0h to the next month.
• Roberto C. S nchez did 24.5h (out of 20.25h assigned and 11.75h from previous period), thus carrying over 7.5h to the next month.
• Stefano Rivera did 2.5h (out of 20.5h assigned and 14.5h from previous period), thus carrying over 32.5h to the next month.
• Sylvain Beucler did 20.5h (out of 37.0h assigned and 22.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 38.5h to the next month.
• Thorsten Alteholz did 10.0h (out of 14.0h assigned), thus carrying over 4.0h to the next month.
• Tobias Frost did 16.0h (out of 16.0h assigned).
• Utkarsh Gupta did 51.5h (out of 42.5h assigned and 9.0h from previous period).

Evolution of the situation In December, we have released 47 DLAs, closing 232 CVEs. In the same year, in total we released 394 DLAs, closing 1450 CVEs. We are constantly growing and seeking new contributors. If you are a Debian Developer and want to join the LTS team, please contact us.

Thanks to our sponsors Sponsors that joined recently are in bold.

• Platinum sponsors:
  • TOSHIBA (for 88 months)
  • GitHub (for 79 months)
  • Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) (for 56 months)
• Gold sponsors:
  • Roche Diagnostics International AG (for 99 months)
  • Linode (for 93 months)
  • Babiel GmbH (for 82 months)
  • Plat Home (for 82 months)
  • University of Oxford (for 38 months)
  • Deveryware (for 25 months)
  • VyOS Inc (for 20 months)
  • EDF SA (for 9 months)
• Silver sponsors:
  • Domeneshop AS (for 103 months)
  • Nantes M tropole (for 97 months)
  • Univention GmbH (for 89 months)
  • Universit Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 89 months)
  • Ribbon Communications, Inc. (for 83 months)
  • Exonet B.V. (for 73 months)
  • Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 67 months)
  • CINECA (for 56 months)
  • Minist re de l Europe et des Affaires trang res (for 50 months)
  • Cloudways Ltd (for 40 months)
  • Dinahosting SL (for 38 months)
  • Bauer Xcel Media Deutschland KG (for 32 months)
  • Platform.sh (for 32 months)
  • MOXA INC. (for 26 months)
  • sipgate GmbH (for 23 months)
  • OVH US LLC (for 21 months)
  • Tilburg University (for 21 months)
  • GSI Helmholtzzentrum f r Schwerionenforschung GmbH (for 12 months)
  • Soliton Systems K.K. (for 10 months)
• Bronze sponsors:
  • Evolix (for 104 months)
  • Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 104 months)
  • Intevation GmbH (for 101 months)
  • Linuxhotel GmbH (for 101 months)
  • Daevel SARL (for 99 months)
  • Bitfolk LTD (for 98 months)
  • Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 98 months)
  • Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 97 months)
  • NUMLOG (for 97 months)
  • WinGo AG (for 97 months)
  • Ecole Centrale de Nantes - LHEEA (for 93 months)
  • Entr ouvert (for 88 months)
  • Adfinis AG (for 85 months)
  • GNI MEDIA (for 80 months)
  • Laboratoire LEGI - UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 80 months)
  • Tesorion (for 80 months)
  • Bearstech (for 71 months)
  • LiHAS (for 71 months)
  • Catalyst IT Ltd (for 66 months)
  • Supagro (for 61 months)
  • Demarcq SAS (for 60 months)
  • Universit Grenoble Alpes (for 46 months)
  • TouchWeb SAS (for 38 months)
  • SPiN AG (for 35 months)
  • CoreFiling (for 30 months)
  • Institut des sciences cognitives Marc Jeannerod (for 25 months)
  • Observatoire des Sciences de l Univers de Grenoble (for 22 months)
  • Tem Innovations GmbH (for 16 months)
  • WordFinder.pro (for 16 months)
  • CNRS DT INSU R sif (for 15 months)
  • Alter Way (for 8 months)

Like each month, have a look at the work funded by Freexian s Debian LTS offering.

Debian LTS contributors In November, 15 contributors have been paid to work on Debian LTS, their reports are available:

• Abhijith PA did 0.0h (out of 14.0h assigned), thus carrying over 14.0h to the next month.
• Anton Gladky did 6.0h (out of 15.0h assigned), thus carrying over 9.0h to the next month.
• Ben Hutchings did 9.0h (out of 24.0h assigned), thus carrying over 15.0h to the next month.
• Chris Lamb did 18.0h (out of 18.0h assigned).
• Dominik George did 10.0h (out of 0h assigned and 24.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 14.0h to the next month.
• Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did 0.0h (out of 38.0h assigned and 19.5h from previous period), thus carrying over 57.5h to the next month.
• Enrico Zini did 0.0h (out of 0h assigned and 8.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 8.0h to the next month.
• Helmut Grohne did 17.5h (out of 20.0h assigned).
• Markus Koschany did 40.0h (out of 40.0h assigned).
• Ola Lundqvist did 7.5h (out of 11.0h assigned and 5.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 8.5h to the next month.
• Roberto C. S nchez did 20.25h (out of 0.75h assigned and 31.25h from previous period), thus carrying over 11.75h to the next month.
• Stefano Rivera did 2.5h (out of 0h assigned and 17.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 14.5h to the next month.
• Sylvain Beucler did 35.5h (out of 23.0h assigned and 34.5h from previous period), thus carrying over 22.0h to the next month.
• Thorsten Alteholz did 14.0h (out of 14.0h assigned).
• Utkarsh Gupta did 41.0h (out of 32.5h assigned and 25.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 16.5h to the next month.

Evolution of the situation In November, we released 43 DLAs, fixing 183 CVEs. We currently have 63 packages in dla-needed.txt that are waiting for updates, which is 19 fewer than the previous month. We re excited to announce that two Debian Developers Tobias Frost and Guilhem Moulin, have completed the on-boarding process and will begin contributing to LTS as of December 2022. Welcome aboard!

Thanks to our sponsors Sponsors that joined recently are in bold.

• Platinum sponsors:
  • TOSHIBA (for 87 months)
  • GitHub (for 78 months)
  • Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) (for 55 months)
• Gold sponsors:
  • Roche Diagnostics International AG (for 98 months)
  • Linode (for 92 months)
  • Babiel GmbH (for 81 months)
  • Plat Home (for 81 months)
  • University of Oxford (for 37 months)
  • Deveryware (for 24 months)
  • VyOS Inc (for 19 months)
  • EDF SA (for 8 months)
• Silver sponsors:
  • Domeneshop AS (for 102 months)
  • Nantes M tropole (for 96 months)
  • Univention GmbH (for 88 months)
  • Universit Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 88 months)
  • Ribbon Communications, Inc. (for 82 months)
  • Exonet B.V. (for 72 months)
  • Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 66 months)
  • CINECA (for 55 months)
  • Minist re de l Europe et des Affaires trang res (for 49 months)
  • Cloudways Ltd (for 39 months)
  • Dinahosting SL (for 37 months)
  • Bauer Xcel Media Deutschland KG (for 31 months)
  • Platform.sh (for 31 months)
  • MOXA INC. (for 25 months)
  • sipgate GmbH (for 22 months)
  • OVH US LLC (for 20 months)
  • Tilburg University (for 20 months)
  • GSI Helmholtzzentrum f r Schwerionenforschung GmbH (for 12 months)
  • Soliton Systems K.K. (for 9 months)
• Bronze sponsors:
  • Evolix (for 103 months)
  • Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 103 months)
  • Intevation GmbH (for 100 months)
  • Linuxhotel GmbH (for 100 months)
  • Daevel SARL (for 98 months)
  • Bitfolk LTD (for 97 months)
  • Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 97 months)
  • Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 96 months)
  • NUMLOG (for 96 months)
  • WinGo AG (for 96 months)
  • Ecole Centrale de Nantes - LHEEA (for 92 months)
  • Entr ouvert (for 87 months)
  • Adfinis AG (for 84 months)
  • GNI MEDIA (for 79 months)
  • Laboratoire LEGI - UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 79 months)
  • Tesorion (for 79 months)
  • Bearstech (for 70 months)
  • LiHAS (for 70 months)
  • Catalyst IT Ltd (for 65 months)
  • Supagro (for 60 months)
  • Demarcq SAS (for 59 months)
  • Universit Grenoble Alpes (for 45 months)
  • TouchWeb SAS (for 37 months)
  • SPiN AG (for 34 months)
  • CoreFiling (for 29 months)
  • Institut des sciences cognitives Marc Jeannerod (for 24 months)
  • Observatoire des Sciences de l Univers de Grenoble (for 21 months)
  • Tem Innovations GmbH (for 16 months)
  • WordFinder.pro (for 15 months)
  • CNRS DT INSU R sif (for 14 months)
  • Alter Way (for 7 months)

Like each month, have a look at the work funded by Freexian s Debian LTS offering.

Debian LTS contributors In October, 15 contributors have been paid to work on Debian LTS, their reports are available:

• Abhijith PA did 14.0h (out of 2.0h assigned and 12.0h from previous period).
• Anton Gladky did 20.0h (out of 19.0h assigned and 1.0h from previous period).
• Ben Hutchings did 9.0h (out of 0h assigned and 9.0h from previous period).
• Chris Lamb did 18.0h (out of 18.0h assigned).
• Dominik George did 0.0h (out of 0h assigned and 24.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 24.0h to the next month.
• Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did 40.5h (out of 58.0h assigned and 2.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 19.5h to the next month.
• Enrico Zini did 0.0h (out of 0h assigned and 8.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 8.0h to the next month.
• Helmut Grohne did 15.0h (out of 15.0h assigned).
• Markus Koschany did 40.0h (out of 40.0h assigned).
• Ola Lundqvist did 7.0h (out of 12.0h assigned), thus carrying over 5.0h to the next month.
• Roberto C. S nchez did 0.75h (out of 1.0h assigned and 31.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 31.25h to the next month.
• Stefano Rivera did 12.5h (out of 9.0h assigned and 26.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 22.5h to the next month.
• Sylvain Beucler did 25.5h (out of 31.5h assigned and 28.5h from previous period), thus carrying over 34.5h to the next month.
• Thorsten Alteholz did 14.0h (out of 14.0h assigned).
• Utkarsh Gupta did 35.0h (out of 38.0h assigned and 22.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 25.0h to the next month.

Evolution of the situation In October, we have released 42 DLAs, closing 106 CVEs. At the moment we have 82 packages in dla-needed.txt, waiting for update. We are continuously working on updating our infrastructure, trying to document all of our changes in the git-repo. Most of packages there are having continuous integration (CI) pipelines.

Thanks to our sponsors Sponsors that joined recently are in bold.

• Platinum sponsors:
  • TOSHIBA (for 86 months)
  • GitHub (for 77 months)
  • Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) (for 54 months)
• Gold sponsors:
  • Roche Diagnostics International AG (for 97 months)
  • Linode (for 91 months)
  • Babiel GmbH (for 80 months)
  • Plat Home (for 80 months)
  • University of Oxford (for 36 months)
  • Deveryware (for 23 months)
  • VyOS Inc (for 18 months)
  • EDF SA (for 7 months)
• Silver sponsors:
  • Domeneshop AS (for 101 months)
  • Nantes M tropole (for 95 months)
  • Univention GmbH (for 87 months)
  • Universit Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 87 months)
  • Ribbon Communications, Inc. (for 81 months)
  • Exonet B.V. (for 71 months)
  • Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 65 months)
  • CINECA (for 54 months)
  • Minist re de l Europe et des Affaires trang res (for 48 months)
  • Cloudways Ltd (for 38 months)
  • Dinahosting SL (for 36 months)
  • Bauer Xcel Media Deutschland KG (for 30 months)
  • Platform.sh (for 30 months)
  • Moxa Intelligence Co., Ltd. (for 24 months)
  • sipgate GmbH (for 21 months)
  • OVH US LLC (for 19 months)
  • Tilburg University (for 19 months)
  • GSI Helmholtzzentrum f r Schwerionenforschung GmbH (for 11 months)
  • Soliton Systems K.K. (for 8 months)
• Bronze sponsors:
  • Evolix (for 102 months)
  • Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 102 months)
  • Intevation GmbH (for 99 months)
  • Linuxhotel GmbH (for 99 months)
  • Daevel SARL (for 97 months)
  • Bitfolk LTD (for 96 months)
  • Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 96 months)
  • Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 95 months)
  • NUMLOG (for 95 months)
  • WinGo AG (for 95 months)
  • Ecole Centrale de Nantes - LHEEA (for 91 months)
  • Entr ouvert (for 86 months)
  • Adfinis AG (for 83 months)
  • GNI MEDIA (for 78 months)
  • Laboratoire LEGI - UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 78 months)
  • Tesorion (for 78 months)
  • Bearstech (for 69 months)
  • LiHAS (for 69 months)
  • Catalyst IT Ltd (for 64 months)
  • Supagro (for 59 months)
  • Demarcq SAS (for 58 months)
  • Universit Grenoble Alpes (for 44 months)
  • TouchWeb SAS (for 36 months)
  • SPiN AG (for 33 months)
  • CoreFiling (for 28 months)
  • Institut des sciences cognitives Marc Jeannerod (for 23 months)
  • Observatoire des Sciences de l Univers de Grenoble (for 20 months)
  • Tem Innovations GmbH (for 15 months)
  • WordFinder.pro (for 14 months)
  • CNRS DT INSU R sif (for 13 months)
  • Alter Way (for 6 months)

Like each month, have a look at the work funded by Freexian s Debian LTS offering. Debian project funding No any major updates on running projects.
Two 1, 2 projects are in the pipeline now.
Tryton project is in a review phase. Gradle projects is still fighting in work. In July, we put aside 2389 EUR to fund Debian projects. We re looking forward to receive more projects from various Debian teams! Learn more about the rationale behind this initiative in this article. Debian LTS contributors In July, 14 contributors have been paid to work on Debian LTS, their reports are available:

• Abhijith PA did 0.00h (out of 14.00h assigned, thus carrying over 14.00h to the next month).
• Andreas R nnquist did 0.00h (out of 0.00h assigned and 10.50h from previous period, thus carrying over 10.50h to the next month).
• Anton Gladky did 23.00h (out of 25.00h assigned, thus carrying over 2.00h to the next month).
• Ben Hutchings did 3.00h (out of 24.00h assigned, thus carrying over 21.00h to the next month).
• Dominik George did 0.00h (out of 0.00h assigned and 22.17h from previous period, thus carrying over 22.17h to the next month).
• Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did 72.00h (out of 35.75h assigned).
• Enrico Zini did 0.00h (out of 0.00h assigned and 8.00h from previous period, thus carrying over 8.00h to the next month).
• Markus Koschany did 35.75h (out of 35.75h assigned).
• Ola Lundqvist did 8.00h (out of 0.00h assigned and 12.00h from previous period, thus carrying over 4.00h to the next month).
• Roberto C. S nchez did 14.25h (out of 29.25h assigned and 2.75h from previous period, thus carrying over 17.75h to the next month).
• Stefano Rivera did 8.00h (out of 6.25h assigned and 20.75h from previous period, thus carrying over 19.00h to the next month).
• Sylvain Beucler did 3.50h (out of 35.75h assigned, thus carrying over 32.25h to the next month).
• Thorsten Alteholz did 20.00h (out of 35.75h assigned).
• Utkarsh Gupta did not report back about their work so we assume they did nothing (out of 35.75 available hours, thus carrying them over to the next month).

Evolution of the situation In July, we have released 3 DLAs. July was the period, when the Debian Stretch had already ELTS status, but Debian Buster was still in the hands of security team. Many member of LTS used this time to update internal infrastructure, documentation and some internal tickets. Now we are ready to take the next release in our hands: Buster! Thanks to our sponsors Sponsors that joined recently are in bold.

• Platinum sponsors:
  • TOSHIBA (for 83 months)
  • GitHub (for 74 months)
  • Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) (for 51 months)
• Gold sponsors:
  • Roche Diagnostics International AG (for 94 months)
  • Linode (for 88 months)
  • Babiel GmbH (for 78 months)
  • Plat Home (for 77 months)
  • University of Oxford (for 33 months)
  • Deveryware (for 20 months)
  • VyOS Inc (for 15 months)
  • EDF SA (for 4 months)
• Silver sponsors:
  • Domeneshop AS (for 99 months)
  • The Positive Internet Company (for 99 months)
  • Nantes M tropole (for 93 months)
  • Universit Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 85 months)
  • Univention GmbH (for 84 months)
  • Ribbon Communications, Inc. (for 78 months)
  • Exonet B.V. (for 68 months)
  • Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 62 months)
  • CINECA (for 52 months)
  • Minist re de l Europe et des Affaires trang res (for 46 months)
  • Cloudways Ltd (for 35 months)
  • Dinahosting SL (for 33 months)
  • Bauer Xcel Media Deutschland KG (for 27 months)
  • Platform.sh (for 27 months)
  • Moxa Intelligence Co., Ltd. (for 21 months)
  • sipgate GmbH (for 18 months)
  • Tilburg University (for 17 months)
  • OVH US LLC (for 16 months)
  • GSI Helmholtzzentrum f r Schwerionenforschung GmbH (for 8 months)
  • Soliton Systems K.K. (for 5 months)
• Bronze sponsors:
  • Evolix (for 99 months)
  • Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 99 months)
  • Intevation GmbH (for 96 months)
  • Linuxhotel GmbH (for 96 months)
  • Daevel SARL (for 95 months)
  • Bitfolk LTD (for 93 months)
  • Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 93 months)
  • Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 93 months)
  • NUMLOG (for 93 months)
  • WinGo AG (for 92 months)
  • Ecole Centrale de Nantes LHEEA (for 88 months)
  • Entr ouvert (for 83 months)
  • Adfinis AG (for 81 months)
  • GNI MEDIA (for 75 months)
  • Laboratoire LEGI UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 75 months)
  • Tesorion (for 75 months)
  • Bearstech (for 67 months)
  • LiHAS (for 67 months)
  • Catalyst IT Ltd (for 61 months)
  • Supagro (for 57 months)
  • Demarcq SAS (for 55 months)
  • Universit Grenoble Alpes (for 41 months)
  • TouchWeb SAS (for 33 months)
  • SPiN AG (for 30 months)
  • CoreFiling (for 26 months)
  • Institut des sciences cognitives Marc Jeannerod (for 20 months)
  • Observatoire des Sciences de l Univers de Grenoble (for 17 months)
  • Tem Innovations GmbH (for 12 months)
  • WordFinder.pro (for 11 months)
  • CNRS DT INSU R sif (for 10 months)
  • Alter Way (for 3 months)

Like each month, have a look at the work funded by Freexian s Debian LTS offering. Debian project funding No any major updates on running projects.
Two 1, 2 projects are in the pipeline now.
Tryton project is in a review phase. Gradle projects is still fighting in work. In June, we put aside 2254 EUR to fund Debian projects. We re looking forward to receive more projects from various Debian teams! Learn more about the rationale behind this initiative in this article. Debian LTS contributors In June, 15 contributors have been paid to work on Debian LTS, their reports are available:

• Abhijith PA did 14.00h (out of 14.00h assigned).
• Andreas R nnquist did 14.50h (out of 14.50h assigned and 10.50h from previous period, thus carrying over 10.50h to the next month).
• Anton Gladky did 16.00h (out of 16.00h assigned).
• Ben Hutchings did 16.00h (out of 0.00h assigned and 16.00h from previous period).
• Chris Lamb did 18.00h (out of 18.00h assigned).
• Dominik George did 1.83h (out of 6.00h assigned and 18.00h from previous period, thus carrying over 22.17h to the next month).
• Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did 30.25h (out of 9.25h assigned and 21.00h from previous period).
• Enrico Zini did 8.00h (out of 9.50h assigned and 6.50h from previous period, thus carrying over 8.00h to the next month).
• Markus Koschany did 30.25h (out of 30.25h assigned).
• Ola Lundqvist did nothing (out of 12.00 available hours, thus carrying them over to the next month).
• Roberto C. S nchez did 27.50h (out of 11.75h assigned and 18.50h from previous period, thus carrying over 2.75h to the next month).
• Stefano Rivera did 8.00h (out of 30.25h assigned, thus carrying over 20.75h to the next month).
• Sylvain Beucler did 30.25h (out of 13.75h assigned and 16.50h from previous period).
• Thorsten Alteholz did 30.25h (out of 30.25h assigned).
• Utkarsh Gupta did not report back about their work so we assume they did nothing (out of 30.25 available hours, thus carrying them over to the next month).

Evolution of the situation In June we released 27 DLAs.

This is a special month, where we have two releases (stretch and jessie) as ELTS and NO release as LTS. Buster is still handled by the security team and will probably be given in LTS hands at the beginning of the August. During this month we are updating the infrastructure, documentation and improve our internal processes to switch to a new release.
Many developers have just returned back from Debconf22, hold in Prizren, Kosovo! Many (E)LTS members could meet face-to-face and discuss some technical and social topics! Also LTS BoF took place, where the project was introduced (link to video).

Thanks to our sponsors Sponsors that joined recently are in bold. We are pleased to welcome Alter Way where their support of Debian is publicly acknowledged at the higher level, see this French quote of Alterway s CEO.

• Platinum sponsors:
  • TOSHIBA (for 82 months)
  • GitHub (for 73 months)
  • Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) (for 50 months)
• Gold sponsors:
  • Roche Diagnostics International AG (for 93 months)
  • Linode (for 87 months)
  • Babiel GmbH (for 76 months)
  • Plat Home (for 76 months)
  • University of Oxford (for 32 months)
  • Deveryware (for 19 months)
  • VyOS Inc (for 14 months)
  • EDF SA (for 3 months)
• Silver sponsors:
  • Domeneshop AS (for 98 months)
  • The Positive Internet Company (for 98 months)
  • Nantes M tropole (for 92 months)
  • Univention GmbH (for 83 months)
  • Universit Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 83 months)
  • Ribbon Communications, Inc. (for 77 months)
  • Exonet B.V. (for 67 months)
  • Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 61 months)
  • CINECA (for 50 months)
  • Minist re de l Europe et des Affaires trang res (for 45 months)
  • Cloudways Ltd (for 34 months)
  • Dinahosting SL (for 32 months)
  • Bauer Xcel Media Deutschland KG (for 26 months)
  • Platform.sh (for 26 months)
  • Moxa Intelligence Co., Ltd. (for 20 months)
  • sipgate GmbH (for 17 months)
  • Tilburg University (for 16 months)
  • OVH US LLC (for 15 months)
  • GSI Helmholtzzentrum f r Schwerionenforschung GmbH (for 7 months)
  • Soliton Systems K.K. (for 4 months)
• Bronze sponsors:
  • Evolix (for 98 months)
  • Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 98 months)
  • Intevation GmbH (for 95 months)
  • Linuxhotel GmbH (for 95 months)
  • Daevel SARL (for 94 months)
  • Bitfolk LTD (for 92 months)
  • Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 92 months)
  • NUMLOG (for 92 months)
  • Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 91 months)
  • WinGo AG (for 91 months)
  • Ecole Centrale de Nantes LHEEA (for 87 months)
  • Entr ouvert (for 82 months)
  • Adfinis AG (for 80 months)
  • GNI MEDIA (for 74 months)
  • Laboratoire LEGI UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 74 months)
  • Tesorion (for 74 months)
  • Bearstech (for 66 months)
  • LiHAS (for 65 months)
  • Catalyst IT Ltd (for 60 months)
  • Supagro (for 55 months)
  • Demarcq SAS (for 54 months)
  • Universit Grenoble Alpes (for 40 months)
  • TouchWeb SAS (for 32 months)
  • SPiN AG (for 29 months)
  • CoreFiling (for 24 months)
  • Institut des sciences cognitives Marc Jeannerod (for 19 months)
  • Observatoire des Sciences de l Univers de Grenoble (for 16 months)
  • Tem Innovations GmbH (for 11 months)
  • WordFinder.pro (for 10 months)
  • CNRS DT INSU R sif (for 9 months)
  • Alter Way

Like each month, have a look at the work funded by Freexian s Debian LTS offering. Debian project funding Two [1, 2] projects are in the pipeline now. Tryton project is in a final phase. Gradle projects is fighting with technical difficulties. In May, we put aside 2233 EUR to fund Debian projects. We re looking forward to receive more projects from various Debian teams! Learn more about the rationale behind this initiative in this article. Debian LTS contributors In May, 14 contributors have been paid to work on Debian LTS, their reports are available:

• Abhijith PA did 14.0h (out of 14h assigned).
• Andreas R nnquist did 14.5h (out of 25.0h assigned), thus carrying over 10.5h to June.
• Anton Gladky did 19h (out of 19h assigned).
• Ben Hutchings did 8h (out of 11h assigned and 13h from April), thus carrying over 16h to June.
• Chris Lamb did 18h (out of 18h assigned).
• Dominik George did 2h (out of 20.0h assigned), thus carrying over 18h to June.
• Enrico Zini did 9.5h (out of 16.0h assigned), thus carrying over 6.5h to June.
• Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did 28h (out of 13.75h assigned and 35.25h from April), thus carrying over 21h to June.
• Markus Koschany did 40h (out of 40h assigned).
• Roberto C. S nchez did 13.5h (out of 32h assigned), thus carrying over 18.5h to June.
• Sylvain Beucler did 23.5h (out of 20h assigned and 20h from April), thus carrying over 16.5h to June.
• Stefano Rivera did 5h in April and 14h in May (out of 17.5h assigned), thus anticipating 1.5h for June.
• Thorsten Alteholz did 40h (out of 40h assigned).
• Utkarsh Gupta did 35h (out of 19h assigned and 30h from April), thus carrying over 14h to June.

Evolution of the situation In May we released 49 DLAs. The security tracker currently lists 71 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file has 65 packages needing an update. The number of paid contributors increased significantly, we are pleased to welcome our latest team members: Andreas R nnquist, Dominik George, Enrico Zini and Stefano Rivera. It is worth pointing out that we are getting close to the end of the LTS period for Debian 9. After June 30th, no new security updates will be made available on security.debian.org. We are preparing to overtake Debian 10 Buster for the next two years and to make this process as smooth as possible. But Freexian and its team of paid Debian contributors will continue to maintain Debian 9 going forward for the customers of the Extended LTS offer. If you have Debian 9 servers to keep secure, it s time to subscribe! You might not have noticed, but Freexian formalized a mission statement where we explain that our purpose is to help improve Debian. For this, we want to fund work time for the Debian developers that recently joined Freexian as collaborators. The Extended LTS and the PHP LTS offers are built following a model that will help us to achieve this if we manage to have enough customers for those offers. So consider subscribing: you help your organization but you also help Debian! Thanks to our sponsors Sponsors that joined recently are in bold.

• Platinum sponsors:
  • TOSHIBA (for 81 months)
  • GitHub (for 72 months)
  • Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) (for 49 months)
• Gold sponsors:
  • Roche Diagnostics International AG (for 92 months)
  • Linode (for 86 months)
  • Babiel GmbH (for 75 months)
  • Plat Home (for 75 months)
  • University of Oxford (for 31 months)
  • Deveryware (for 18 months)
  • VyOS Inc (for 13 months)
  • EDF SA
• Silver sponsors:
  • The Positive Internet Company (for 97 months)
  • Domeneshop AS (for 96 months)
  • Nantes M tropole (for 90 months)
  • Univention GmbH (for 82 months)
  • Universit Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 82 months)
  • Ribbon Communications, Inc. (for 76 months)
  • Exonet B.V. (for 66 months)
  • Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 60 months)
  • CINECA (for 49 months)
  • Minist re de l Europe et des Affaires trang res (for 43 months)
  • Cloudways Ltd (for 33 months)
  • Dinahosting SL (for 31 months)
  • Bauer Xcel Media Deutschland KG (for 25 months)
  • Platform.sh (for 25 months)
  • Moxa Intelligence Co., Ltd. (for 19 months)
  • sipgate GmbH (for 16 months)
  • OVH US LLC (for 14 months)
  • Tilburg University (for 14 months)
  • GSI Helmholtzzentrum f r Schwerionenforschung GmbH (for 6 months)
  • Telecats BV (for 4 months)
  • Soliton Systems K.K. (for 3 months)
• Bronze sponsors:
  • Evolix (for 97 months)
  • Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 97 months)
  • Intevation GmbH (for 94 months)
  • Linuxhotel GmbH (for 94 months)
  • Daevel SARL (for 92 months)
  • Bitfolk LTD (for 91 months)
  • Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 91 months)
  • Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 90 months)
  • NUMLOG (for 90 months)
  • WinGo AG (for 90 months)
  • Ecole Centrale de Nantes LHEEA (for 86 months)
  • Entr ouvert (for 81 months)
  • Adfinis AG (for 78 months)
  • GNI MEDIA (for 73 months)
  • Laboratoire LEGI UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 73 months)
  • Tesorion (for 73 months)
  • Bearstech (for 64 months)
  • LiHAS (for 64 months)
  • People Doc (for 61 months)
  • Catalyst IT Ltd (for 59 months)
  • Supagro (for 54 months)
  • Demarcq SAS (for 53 months)
  • Universit Grenoble Alpes (for 39 months)
  • TouchWeb SAS (for 31 months)
  • SPiN AG (for 28 months)
  • CoreFiling (for 23 months)
  • Institut des sciences cognitives Marc Jeannerod (for 18 months)
  • Observatoire des Sciences de l Univers de Grenoble (for 15 months)
  • Tem Innovations GmbH (for 10 months)
  • WordFinder.pro (for 9 months)
  • CNRS DT INSU R sif (for 8 months)
  • Alter Way

Like each month, have a look at the work funded by Freexian s Debian LTS offering. Debian project funding Two projects are currently in the pipeline: Gradle enterprise and Tryton update. Progress is quite slow on the Gradle one, there are technical difficulties. The tryton one was stalled because the developer had not enough time but seems to progress smoothly in the last weeks. In April, we put aside 2635 EUR to fund Debian projects. We re looking forward to receive more projects from various Debian teams! Learn more about the rationale behind this initiative in this article. Debian LTS contributors In April, 11 contributors have been paid to work on Debian LTS, their reports are available:

• Abhijith PA did 14h out of 14h assigned
• Anton Gladky did 20h out of 20h assigned
• Ben Hutchings did 11h out of 16h assigned and 8h from March, thus carrying over 13h to May
• Chris Lamb did 18h out of 18h assigned
• Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did 18h (out of 53.25h assigned), thus carrying over 35.25h to May
• Jeremiah Foster did 9.5h out of 13.5h assigned, thus carrying over 4h to May
• Markus Koschany did 40 out of 40h assigned
• Roberto C. S nchez did 18h carried out from March
• Sylvain Beucler did 20h out of 14.5h assigned and 25.5h from March, thus carrying over 20h to May
• Thorsten Alteholz did 40h out of 40h assigned
• Utkarsh Gupta did 23.25h out of 51.5h assigned and 1.75h from March, thus carrying over 30h to May

Evolution of the situation In April we released 30 DLAs and we were glad to welcome a new customer with Alter Way. The security tracker currently lists 72 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file has 71 packages needing an update. It is worth pointing out that we are getting close to the end of the LTS period for Debian 9. After June 30th, no new security updates will be made available on security.debian.org. But Freexian and its team of paid Debian contributors will continue to maintain Debian 9 going forward for the customers of the Extended LTS offer. If you have Debian 9 servers to keep secure, it s time to subscribe! You might not have noticed, but Freexian formalized a mission statement where we explain that our purpose is to help improve Debian. For this, we want to fund work time for the Debian developers that recently joined Freexian as collaborators. The Extended LTS and the PHP LTS offers are built following a model that will help us to achieve this if we manage to have enough customers for those offers. So consider subscribing: you help your organization but you also help Debian! Thanks to our sponsors Sponsors that joined recently are in bold.

• Platinum sponsors:
  • TOSHIBA (for 80 months)
  • GitHub (for 71 months)
  • Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) (for 48 months)
• Gold sponsors:
  • Roche Diagnostics International AG (for 91 months)
  • Linode (for 85 months)
  • Babiel GmbH (for 75 months)
  • Plat Home (for 74 months)
  • University of Oxford (for 30 months)
  • Deveryware (for 17 months)
  • VyOS Inc (for 12 months)
  • EDF SA
• Silver sponsors:
  • The Positive Internet Company (for 97 months)
  • Domeneshop AS (for 96 months)
  • Nantes M tropole (for 90 months)
  • Universit Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 82 months)
  • Univention GmbH (for 81 months)
  • Ribbon Communications, Inc. (for 75 months)
  • Exonet B.V. (for 65 months)
  • Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 59 months)
  • CINECA (for 49 months)
  • Minist re de l Europe et des Affaires trang res (for 43 months)
  • Cloudways Ltd (for 32 months)
  • Dinahosting SL (for 30 months)
  • Bauer Xcel Media Deutschland KG (for 24 months)
  • Platform.sh (for 24 months)
  • Moxa Intelligence Co., Ltd. (for 18 months)
  • sipgate GmbH (for 15 months)
  • Tilburg University (for 14 months)
  • OVH US LLC (for 13 months)
  • GSI Helmholtzzentrum f r Schwerionenforschung GmbH (for 5 months)
  • Telecats BV (for 3 months)
  • Soliton Systems K.K.
• Bronze sponsors:
  • Evolix (for 96 months)
  • Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 96 months)
  • Intevation GmbH (for 93 months)
  • Linuxhotel GmbH (for 93 months)
  • Daevel SARL (for 92 months)
  • Bitfolk LTD (for 91 months)
  • Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 91 months)
  • Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 90 months)
  • NUMLOG (for 90 months)
  • WinGo AG (for 89 months)
  • Ecole Centrale de Nantes LHEEA (for 85 months)
  • Entr ouvert (for 80 months)
  • Adfinis AG (for 78 months)
  • GNI MEDIA (for 72 months)
  • Laboratoire LEGI UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 72 months)
  • Tesorion (for 72 months)
  • Bearstech (for 64 months)
  • LiHAS (for 64 months)
  • People Doc (for 60 months)
  • Catalyst IT Ltd (for 58 months)
  • Supagro (for 54 months)
  • Demarcq SAS (for 52 months)
  • Universit Grenoble Alpes (for 38 months)
  • TouchWeb SAS (for 30 months)
  • SPiN AG (for 27 months)
  • CoreFiling (for 23 months)
  • Institut des sciences cognitives Marc Jeannerod (for 17 months)
  • Observatoire des Sciences de l Univers de Grenoble (for 14 months)
  • Tem Innovations GmbH (for 9 months)
  • WordFinder.pro (for 8 months)
  • CNRS DT INSU R sif (for 7 months)
  • Alter Way

Every month we review the work funded by Freexian s Debian LTS offering. Please find the report for March below. Debian project funding

• There was no new activity in Debian project funding in the two existing projects. However, there was a survey run with hundreds of Debian Developers and Debian contributors. The survey results are being collated and we will use the anonymized data to further develop the Freexian project funding initiative.
• We are preparing to more broadly announce additional support for Debian 8 Jessie and Debian 9 Stretch. Now, Debian 8 can be supported until June 2025 and Debian 9 until June 2027. More information on ELTS support is available.
• In March 2250 was put aside to fund Debian projects.

Learn more about the rationale behind this initiative in this article. Debian LTS contributors In March, 11 contributors were paid to work on Debian LTS, their reports are available below. If you re interested in participating in the LTS or ELTS teams, we welcome participation from the Debian community. Simply get in touch with Jeremiah or Rapha l if you are if you are interested in participating.

• Abhijith PA did 12.0h out of 12h assigned.
• Anton Gladky did 20h out of 20h assigned.
• Ben Hutchings did 16h out of 24h assigned.
• Chris Lamb did 18h out of 18h assigned.
• Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did 59.5h out of 59.5h assigned.
• Jeremiah Foster did 13.5 out of 20h assigned.
• Markus Koschany did 40h out of 40h assigned.
• Roberto C. S nchez did 14h out of 32h assigned, carrying over 18h
• Sylvain Beucler did 14.5h out of 40h assigned, carrying over 25.5h
• Thorsten Alteholz did 40h out of 40h assigned.
• Utkarsh Gupta did 57.75h out of 59.5h assigned, carrying over 1.75 hours.

Evolution of the situation In March we released 42 DLAs. The security tracker currently lists 81 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file has 52 packages needing an update. We re glad to welcome a few new sponsors such as lectricit de France (Gold sponsor), Telecats BV and Soliton Systems. Thanks to our sponsors Sponsors that joined recently are in bold.

• Platinum sponsors:
  • TOSHIBA (for 79 months)
  • GitHub (for 70 months)
  • Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) (for 47 months)
• Gold sponsors:
  • Roche Diagnostics International AG (for 90 months)
  • Linode (for 84 months)
  • Babiel GmbH (for 73 months)
  • Plat Home (for 73 months)
  • University of Oxford (for 29 months)
  • Deveryware (for 16 months)
  • VyOS Inc (for 11 months)
  • EDF SA
• Silver sponsors:
  • Domeneshop AS (for 95 months)
  • The Positive Internet Company (for 95 months)
  • Nantes M tropole (for 89 months)
  • Univention GmbH (for 80 months)
  • Universit Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 80 months)
  • Ribbon Communications, Inc. (for 74 months)
  • Exonet B.V. (for 64 months)
  • Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 58 months)
  • CINECA (for 47 months)
  • Minist re de l Europe et des Affaires trang res (for 42 months)
  • Cloudways Ltd (for 31 months)
  • Dinahosting SL (for 29 months)
  • Bauer Xcel Media Deutschland KG (for 23 months)
  • Platform.sh (for 23 months)
  • Moxa Intelligence Co., Ltd. (for 17 months)
  • sipgate GmbH (for 14 months)
  • Tilburg University (for 13 months)
  • OVH US LLC (for 12 months)
  • GSI Helmholtzzentrum f r Schwerionenforschung GmbH (for 4 months)
  • Telecats BV
  • Soliton Systems K.K.
• Bronze sponsors:
  • Evolix (for 95 months)
  • Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 95 months)
  • Intevation GmbH (for 92 months)
  • Linuxhotel GmbH (for 92 months)
  • Daevel SARL (for 91 months)
  • Bitfolk LTD (for 89 months)
  • Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 89 months)
  • NUMLOG (for 89 months)
  • Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 88 months)
  • WinGo AG (for 88 months)
  • Ecole Centrale de Nantes LHEEA (for 84 months)
  • Entr ouvert (for 79 months)
  • Adfinis AG (for 77 months)
  • GNI MEDIA (for 71 months)
  • Laboratoire LEGI UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 71 months)
  • Tesorion (for 71 months)
  • Bearstech (for 63 months)
  • LiHAS (for 62 months)
  • People Doc (for 59 months)
  • Catalyst IT Ltd (for 57 months)
  • Supagro (for 52 months)
  • Demarcq SAS (for 51 months)
  • Universit Grenoble Alpes (for 37 months)
  • TouchWeb SAS (for 29 months)
  • SPiN AG (for 26 months)
  • CoreFiling (for 22 months)
  • Institut des sciences cognitives Marc Jeannerod (for 16 months)
  • Observatoire des Sciences de l Univers de Grenoble (for 13 months)
  • Tem Innovations GmbH (for 8 months)
  • WordFinder.pro (for 7 months)
  • CNRS DT INSU R sif (for 6 months)

Every month we review the work funded by Freexian s Debian LTS offering. Please find the report for February below. Debian project funding

• In February Rapha l and the LTS worked on a survey of Debian developers meant to solicit ideas for improvements in the Debian project at large. You can see the results of the initial discussion here in the list of ideas of which there are already over 30.
• The full survey is due to be emailed to Debian Developers shortly.
• In February 2250 was put aside to fund Debian projects.

Debian LTS contributors In February, 12 contributors were paid to work on Debian LTS, their reports are available below. If you re interested in participating in the LTS or ELTS teams, we welcome participation from the Debian community. Simply get in touch with Jeremiah or Rapha l if you are if you are interested in participating.

• Abhijith PA did 10h out of 10h available.
• Anton Gladky did 20h out of 20h available.
• Ben Hutchings did 16h out of 16h available.
• Chris Lamb did 18h out of 18h available.
• Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did 42.75h out of 42.75h available.
• Jeremiah Foster worked 20 hours out of 20 available on LTS administration and 2.9 hours on funded projects.
• Markus Koschany did 30h (out of 40h available), thus carrying over 10h to March.
• Roberto C. S nchez did 12h out of 12h available.
• Sylvain Beucler did 13h (out of 40h available), thus carrying over 27h to March.
• Thorsten Alteholz did 40h out of 40h available.
• Utkarsh Gupta did 15.75h (out of 42.75h available), thus carrying over 27h to March.

Evolution of the situation In February we released 24 DLAs. The security tracker currently lists 61 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file has 26 packages needing an update. You can find out more about the Debian LTS project via the following video:

Thanks to our sponsors Sponsors that joined recently are in bold.

• Platinum sponsors:
  • TOSHIBA (for 78 months)
  • GitHub (for 68 months)
  • Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) (for 46 months)
• Gold sponsors:
  • Roche Diagnostics International AG (for 89 months)
  • Linode (for 83 months)
  • Babiel GmbH (for 72 months)
  • Plat Home (for 71 months)
  • University of Oxford (for 28 months)
  • Deveryware (for 15 months)
  • VyOS Inc (for 10 months)
• Silver sponsors:
  • The Positive Internet Company (for 94 months)
  • Domeneshop AS (for 93 months)
  • Nantes M tropole (for 87 months)
  • Univention GmbH (for 79 months)
  • Universit Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 79 months)
  • Ribbon Communications, Inc. (for 73 months)
  • Exonet B.V. (for 63 months)
  • Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 57 months)
  • CINECA (for 46 months)
  • Minist re de l Europe et des Affaires trang res (for 40 months)
  • Cloudways Ltd (for 29 months)
  • Dinahosting SL (for 27 months)
  • Platform.sh (for 22 months)
  • Bauer Xcel Media Deutschland KG (for 21 months)
  • Moxa Intelligence Co., Ltd. (for 16 months)
  • sipgate GmbH (for 13 months)
  • OVH US LLC (for 11 months)
  • Tilburg University (for 11 months)
  • GSI Helmholtzzentrum f r Schwerionenforschung GmbH
  • Telecats BV
  • Soliton Systems K.K.
• Bronze sponsors:
  • Evolix (for 94 months)
  • Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 94 months)
  • Linuxhotel GmbH (for 91 months)
  • Intevation GmbH (for 90 months)
  • Daevel SARL (for 89 months)
  • Bitfolk LTD (for 88 months)
  • Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 88 months)
  • Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 87 months)
  • NUMLOG (for 87 months)
  • WinGo AG (for 86 months)
  • Ecole Centrale de Nantes LHEEA (for 83 months)
  • Entr ouvert (for 78 months)
  • Adfinis AG (for 75 months)
  • Laboratoire LEGI UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 70 months)
  • Tesorion (for 70 months)
  • GNI MEDIA (for 69 months)
  • Bearstech (for 61 months)
  • LiHAS (for 61 months)
  • People Doc (for 57 months)
  • Catalyst IT Ltd (for 56 months)
  • Supagro (for 51 months)
  • Demarcq SAS (for 50 months)
  • Universit Grenoble Alpes (for 36 months)
  • TouchWeb SAS (for 28 months)
  • SPiN AG (for 24 months)
  • CoreFiling (for 20 months)
  • Institut des sciences cognitives Marc Jeannerod (for 15 months)
  • Observatoire des Sciences de l Univers de Grenoble (for 11 months)
  • Tem Innovations GmbH (for 6 months)
  • WordFinder.pro (for 6 months)
  • CNRS DT INSU R sif (for 4 months)

Every month we review the work funded by Freexian s Debian LTS offering. Please find the report for January below. Debian project funding

• In January we saw a new funded project proposed. The project is meant to bring in a number of changes to the Tryton modules and packages in Debian. Tryton, a full featured, entirely open source business software platform, is supported by its own foundation. You can track the current status of all our funded projects at its dedicated web page.
• Folks continue to add to the Grow Your Ideas project page, that s great.
• In January 2550 was put aside to fund Debian projects.

We continue to looking forward to hearing about Debian project proposals from various Debian stakeholders. This month has seen work on a survey that will go out to Debian Developers to gather feedback on what they think should be the priorities for funding in the project. Learn more about the rationale behind this initiative in this article. Debian LTS contributors In January, 13 contributors were paid to work on Debian LTS, their reports are available below. If you re interested in participating in the LTS or ELTS teams, we welcome participation from the Debian community. Simply get in touch with Jeremiah or Rapha l.

• Abhijith Pa worked 5 hours out of 5 available.
• Anton Gladky worked 12 hours out of 12 available.
• Ben Hutchings worked 16 hours out of 24 available and carried over 8 for February.
• Chris Lamb worked 18 hours out of 18 available.
• Emilio Pozuelo Monfort worked 55 hours out of 58.25 available and carried over 3.25 for February
• Jeremiah Foster worked 20 hours out of 20 available on LTS administration and 8.3 hours on funded projects.
• Lee Garrett didn t spend any hours in January and carries over 39.25 hours to February
• Markus Koschany worked 34 hours out of 40 available and carried over 6 for February.
• Ola Lundqvist reported via email that they didn t spend any hours in January and carries over 11 from December for a total of 12 hours for February.
• Roberto C. Sanchez worked 9 hours out of 32 available and carried over 23 for February
• Sylvain Beucler worked 22 hours out of 40 available and carried over 14 for February
• Thorsten Alteholz worked 40 hours out of 40 available.
• Utkarsh Gupta worked 58.25 hours out of 58.25 available.

Evolution of the situation In January we released 34 DLAs. The security tracker currently lists 39 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file has 20 packages still needing an update. Thanks to our sponsors Sponsors that joined recently are in bold.

• Platinum sponsors:
  • TOSHIBA (for 77 months)
  • GitHub (for 68 months)
  • Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) (for 45 months)
• Gold sponsors:
  • Roche Diagnostics International AG (for 88 months)
  • Linode (for 82 months)
  • Babiel GmbH (for 71 months)
  • Plat Home (for 71 months)
  • University of Oxford (for 27 months)
  • Deveryware (for 14 months)
  • VyOS Inc (for 9 months)
• Silver sponsors:
  • The Positive Internet Company (for 93 months)
  • Domeneshop AS (for 92 months)
  • Nantes M tropole (for 86 months)
  • Univention GmbH (for 78 months)
  • Universit Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 78 months)
  • Ribbon Communications, Inc. (for 72 months)
  • Exonet B.V. (for 62 months)
  • Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 56 months)
  • CINECA (for 45 months)
  • Minist re de l Europe et des Affaires trang res (for 39 months)
  • Cloudways Ltd (for 29 months)
  • Dinahosting SL (for 27 months)
  • Bauer Xcel Media Deutschland KG (for 21 months)
  • Platform.sh (for 21 months)
  • Moxa Intelligence Co., Ltd. (for 15 months)
  • sipgate GmbH (for 12 months)
  • OVH US LLC (for 10 months)
  • Tilburg University (for 10 months)
  • GSI Helmholtzzentrum f r Schwerionenforschung GmbH
  • Telecats BV
• Bronze sponsors:
  • Evolix (for 93 months)
  • Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 93 months)
  • Intevation GmbH (for 90 months)
  • Linuxhotel GmbH (for 90 months)
  • Daevel SARL (for 88 months)
  • Bitfolk LTD (for 87 months)
  • Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 87 months)
  • Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 86 months)
  • NUMLOG (for 86 months)
  • WinGo AG (for 86 months)
  • Ecole Centrale de Nantes LHEEA (for 82 months)
  • Entr ouvert (for 77 months)
  • Adfinis AG (for 74 months)
  • GNI MEDIA (for 69 months)
  • Laboratoire LEGI UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 69 months)
  • Tesorion (for 69 months)
  • Bearstech (for 60 months)
  • LiHAS (for 60 months)
  • People Doc (for 57 months)
  • Catalyst IT Ltd (for 55 months)
  • Supagro (for 50 months)
  • Demarcq SAS (for 49 months)
  • Universit Grenoble Alpes (for 35 months)
  • TouchWeb SAS (for 27 months)
  • SPiN AG (for 24 months)
  • CoreFiling (for 19 months)
  • Institut des sciences cognitives Marc Jeannerod (for 14 months)
  • Observatoire des Sciences de l Univers de Grenoble (for 11 months)
  • Tem Innovations GmbH (for 6 months)
  • WordFinder.pro (for 5 months)
  • CNRS DT INSU R sif (for 4 months)

Like each month, have a look at the work funded by Freexian s Debian LTS offering. Debian project funding Folks from the LTS team, along with members of the Debian Android Tools team and Phil Morrel, have proposed work on the Java build tool, gradle, which is currently blocked due to the need to build with a plugin not available in Debian. The LTS team reviewed the project submission and it has been approved. After approval we ve created a Request for Bids which is active now. You ll hear more about this through official Debian channels, but in the meantime, if you feel you can help with this project, please submit a bid. Thanks! This September, Freexian set aside 2550 EUR to fund Debian projects. We re looking forward to receive more projects from various Debian teams! Learn more about the rationale behind this initiative in this article. Debian LTS contributors In September, 15 contributors have been paid to work on Debian LTS, their reports are available:

• Abhijith PA has returned hours and marked themselves inactive, at least for the time being. He did 0h out of 14h, carried over 14h and returned 28h.
• Adrian Bunk did 19.5h (out of 24.75h assigned and 12.75 from August), carrying over 18h to October.
• Anton Gladky did 12h (out of 12h assigned).
• Ben Hutchings did 2h (out of 12.75h assigned and 19.25h from August), thus carrying over 30h to October.
• Chris Lamb did 18h (out of 18h assigned).
• Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did not report back about their work so we assume they did nothing (out of 5.5h assigned plus 74.5h from August), thus is carrying over 80h for October.
• Holger Levsen did 3h (out of 12h assigned) and gave back 9h and carried over 3h.
• Jeremiah Foster worked 10 hours (out of 20h assigned) on LTS work, carrying over 10h.
• Lee Garrett did not report back about their work so we assume they did nothing (out of 24.75h assigned and 23.75 from August), thus is carrying over 48.50h for October.
• Markus Koschany did 43.5h (out of 24.75h assigned and 18.75h from August)
• Neil Williams did 24.5h (out of 24.75h assigned)
• Roberto C. S nchez did 6h (out of 24.75h assigned and gave back 18.75h)
• Sylvain Beucler did 27h (out of 24.75h assigned).
• Thorsten Alteholz did 24.75h (out of 24.75h assigned).
• Utkarsh Gupta did 24.75h (out of 24.75h assigned) but did not publish his report yet.
• Ola Lundqvist did 2 hours (out of 21h carried over from previous months), and is thus carrying 19h for October.

Evolution of the situation In September we released 30 DLAs. September was also the second month of Jeremiah coordinating LTS contributors. Also, we would like say that we are always looking for new contributors to LTS. Please contact Jeremiah if you are interested! The security tracker currently lists 33 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file has 26 packages needing an update. Thanks to our sponsors Sponsors that joined recently are in bold.

• Platinum sponsors:
  • TOSHIBA (for 73 months)
  • GitHub (for 64 months)
  • Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) (for 41 months)
• Gold sponsors:
  • Roche Diagnostics International AG (for 84 months)
  • Linode (for 78 months)
  • Babiel GmbH (for 67 months)
  • Plat Home (for 67 months)
  • University of Oxford (for 23 months)
  • Deveryware (for 10 months)
  • VyOS
• Silver sponsors:
  • The Positive Internet Company (for 89 months)
  • Domeneshop AS (for 88 months)
  • Nantes M tropole (for 82 months)
  • Univention GmbH (for 74 months)
  • Universit Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 74 months)
  • Ribbon Communications, Inc. (for 68 months)
  • Exonet B.V. (for 58 months)
  • Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 52 months)
  • CINECA (for 41 months)
  • Minist re de l Europe et des Affaires trang res (for 35 months)
  • Cloudways Ltd (for 24 months)
  • Dinahosting SL (for 22 months)
  • Bauer Xcel Media Deutschland KG (for 17 months)
  • Platform.sh (for 17 months)
  • Moxa Intelligence Co., Ltd. (for 11 months)
  • sipgate GmbH (for 8 months)
  • OVH US LLC (for 6 months)
  • Tilburg University (for 6 months)
• Bronze sponsors:
  • Evolix (for 89 months)
  • Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 89 months)
  • Linuxhotel GmbH (for 86 months)
  • Intevation GmbH (for 85 months)
  • Daevel SARL (for 84 months)
  • Bitfolk LTD (for 83 months)
  • Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 83 months)
  • Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 82 months)
  • NUMLOG (for 82 months)
  • WinGo AG (for 81 months)
  • Ecole Centrale de Nantes LHEEA (for 78 months)
  • Entr ouvert (for 73 months)
  • Adfinis AG (for 70 months)
  • Laboratoire LEGI UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 65 months)
  • Tesorion (for 65 months)
  • GNI MEDIA (for 64 months)
  • Bearstech (for 56 months)
  • LiHAS (for 56 months)
  • People Doc (for 52 months)
  • Catalyst IT Ltd (for 51 months)
  • Demarcq SAS (for 45 months)
  • Universit Grenoble Alpes (for 31 months)
  • TouchWeb SAS (for 23 months)
  • SPiN AG (for 19 months)
  • CoreFiling (for 15 months)
  • Institut des sciences cognitives Marc Jeannerod (for 10 months)
  • Observatoire des Sciences de l Univers de Grenoble (for 7 months)
  • Tem Innovations GmbH
  • WordFinder.pro

Like each month, have a look at the work funded by Freexian s Debian LTS offering. Debian project funding In August, we put aside 2460 EUR to fund Debian projects. We received a new project proposal that got approved and there s an associated bid request if you feel like proposing yourself to implement this project. We re looking forward to receive more projects from various Debian teams! Learn more about the rationale behind this initiative in this article. Debian LTS contributors In August, 14 contributors have been paid to work on Debian LTS, their reports are available:

• Abhijith PA did 4.0h (out of 14h assigned and 5h from August), thus carrying over 15h to September.
• Adrian Bunk did 11h (out of 23.75h assigned), thus carrying over 12.75h to September.
• Anton Gladky did 12h (out of 12h assigned).
• Ben Hutchings did 1.25h (out of 13.25h assigned and 6h from August), thus carrying over 18h to September.
• Chris Lamb did 18h (out of 18h assigned).
• Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did not report back about their work so we assume they did nothing (out of 23.75h assigned plus 50.75h from August), thus is carrying over 74.5h for September.
• Holger Levsen did 3h (out of 12h assigned) to help coordinate the team, and gave back the remaining hours.
• Lee Garrett did nothing (out of 23.75h assigned), thus is carrying over 23.75h for September.
• Markus Koschany did 35h (out of 23.75h assigned and 30h from August), thus carrying over 18.75h to September.
• Neil Williams did 24h (out of 23.75h assigned), thus anticipating 0.25h of October.
• Roberto C. S nchez did 22.25h (out of 23.75h assigned), thus carrying over 1.5h to September.
• Sylvain Beucler did 21.5h (out of 23.75h assigned), thus carrying over 2.25h to September.
• Thorsten Alteholz did 23.75h (out of 23.75h assigned).
• Utkarsh Gupta did 23.75h (out of 23.75h assigned).

Evolution of the situation In August we released 30 DLAs.

This is the first month of Jeremiah coordinating LTS contributors. We would like to thank Holger Levsen for his work on this role up to now.

Also, we would like to remark once again that we are constantly looking for new contributors. Please contact Jeremiah if you are interested! The security tracker currently lists 73 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file has 29 packages needing an update. Thanks to our sponsors Sponsors that joined recently are in bold.

• Platinum sponsors:
  • TOSHIBA (for 72 months)
  • GitHub (for 63 months)
  • Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) (for 40 months)
• Gold sponsors:
  • Roche Diagnostics International AG (for 83 months)
  • Linode (for 77 months)
  • Babiel GmbH (for 67 months)
  • Plat Home (for 66 months)
  • University of Oxford (for 22 months)
  • Deveryware (for 9 months)
  • VyOS
• Silver sponsors:
  • The Positive Internet Company (for 89 months)
  • Domeneshop AS (for 88 months)
  • Nantes M tropole (for 82 months)
  • Universit Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 74 months)
  • Univention GmbH (for 73 months)
  • Ribbon Communications, Inc. (for 67 months)
  • Exonet B.V. (for 57 months)
  • Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 51 months)
  • CINECA (for 41 months)
  • Minist re de l Europe et des Affaires trang res (for 35 months)
  • Cloudways Ltd (for 24 months)
  • Dinahosting SL (for 22 months)
  • Bauer Xcel Media Deutschland KG (for 16 months)
  • Platform.sh (for 16 months)
  • Moxa Intelligence Co., Ltd. (for 10 months)
  • sipgate GmbH (for 7 months)
  • Tilburg University (for 6 months)
  • OVH US LLC (for 5 months)
• Bronze sponsors:
  • Evolix (for 88 months)
  • Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 88 months)
  • Intevation GmbH (for 85 months)
  • Linuxhotel GmbH (for 85 months)
  • Daevel SARL (for 84 months)
  • Bitfolk LTD (for 83 months)
  • Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 82 months)
  • Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 82 months)
  • NUMLOG (for 82 months)
  • WinGo AG (for 81 months)
  • Ecole Centrale de Nantes LHEEA (for 77 months)
  • Entr ouvert (for 72 months)
  • Adfinis AG (for 70 months)
  • GNI MEDIA (for 64 months)
  • Laboratoire LEGI UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 64 months)
  • Tesorion (for 64 months)
  • Bearstech (for 56 months)
  • LiHAS (for 56 months)
  • People Doc (for 52 months)
  • Catalyst IT Ltd (for 50 months)
  • Demarcq SAS (for 44 months)
  • Universit Grenoble Alpes (for 30 months)
  • TouchWeb SAS (for 22 months)
  • SPiN AG (for 19 months)
  • CoreFiling (for 15 months)
  • Institut des sciences cognitives Marc Jeannerod (for 9 months)
  • Observatoire des Sciences de l Univers de Grenoble (for 6 months)
  • Tem Innovations GmbH
  • WordFinder.pro

Like each month, have a look at the work funded by Freexian s Debian LTS offering. Debian project funding In July, we put aside 2400 EUR to fund Debian projects. We haven t received proposals of projects to fund in the last months, so we have scheduled a discussion during Debconf to try to to figure out why that is and how we can fix that. Join us on August 26th at 16:00 UTC on this link. We are pleased to announce that Jeremiah Foster will help out to make this initiative a success : he can help Debian members to come up with solid proposals, he can look for people willing to do the work once the project has been formalized and approved, and he will make sure that the project implementation keeps on track when the actual work has begun. We re looking forward to receive more projects from various Debian teams! Learn more about the rationale behind this initiative in this article. Debian LTS contributors In July, 12 contributors have been paid to work on Debian LTS, their reports are available:

• Abhijith PA did 5.0h (out of 7h assigned and 3h remaining), thus carrying over 5h to August.
• Anton Gladky did 12h (out of 12h assigned).
• Ben Hutchings did 12.75h (out of 16h assigned and 2.75h from June), thus carrying over 6h to August.
• Chris Lamb did 18h (out of 18h assigned).
• Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did not report back about their work so we assume they did nothing (out of 39.75h assigned plus 11h from June), thus is carrying over 50.75h for August.
• Holger Levsen s work was coordinating/managing the LTS team, he did 3.5h (out of 12h assigned) and gave back 8.5h to the pool.
• Markus Koschany did 30h (out of 30h assigned and 30h from June), thus carrying over 30h to August.
• Ola Lundqvist did nothing (out of 12h assigned plus 20h from June), thus is carrying over 32h for August.
• Roberto C. S nchez did 13.5h (out of 32h assigned and 20h from June), and gave back 38.5h to the pool.
• Sylvain Beucler did 30h (out of 30h assigned).
• Thorsten Alteholz did 30h (out of 30h assigned).
• Utkarsh Gupta did 39.75h (out of 39.75h assigned).

Evolution of the situation In July we released 30 DLAs. Also we were glad to welcome Neil Williams and Lee Garrett who became active contributors. The security tracker currently lists 63 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file has 17 packages needing an update. We would like to thank Holger Levsen for the years of work where he managed/coordinated the paid LTS contributors. Jeremiah Foster will take over his duties. Thanks to our sponsors Sponsors that joined recently are in bold.

• Platinum sponsors:
  • TOSHIBA (for 71 months)
  • GitHub (for 62 months)
  • Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) (for 39 months)
• Gold sponsors:
  • Roche Diagnostics International AG (for 82 months)
  • Linode (for 76 months)
  • Babiel GmbH (for 65 months)
  • Plat Home (for 65 months)
  • University of Oxford (for 21 months)
  • Deveryware (for 8 months)
  • VyOS
• Silver sponsors:
  • The Positive Internet Company (for 87 months)
  • Domeneshop AS (for 86 months)
  • Nantes M tropole (for 80 months)
  • Univention GmbH (for 72 months)
  • Universit Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 72 months)
  • Ribbon Communications, Inc. (for 66 months)
  • Exonet B.V. (for 56 months)
  • Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 50 months)
  • CINECA (for 39 months)
  • Minist re de l Europe et des Affaires trang res (for 33 months)
  • Cloudways Ltd (for 23 months)
  • Dinahosting SL (for 21 months)
  • Bauer Xcel Media Deutschland KG (for 15 months)
  • Platform.sh (for 15 months)
  • Moxa Intelligence Co., Ltd. (for 9 months)
  • sipgate GmbH (for 6 months)
  • OVH US LLC (for 4 months)
  • Tilburg University (for 4 months)
• Bronze sponsors:
  • Evolix (for 87 months)
  • Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 87 months)
  • Intevation GmbH (for 84 months)
  • Linuxhotel GmbH (for 84 months)
  • Daevel SARL (for 82 months)
  • Bitfolk LTD (for 81 months)
  • Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 81 months)
  • Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 80 months)
  • NUMLOG (for 80 months)
  • WinGo AG (for 80 months)
  • Ecole Centrale de Nantes LHEEA (for 76 months)
  • Entr ouvert (for 71 months)
  • Adfinis AG (for 68 months)
  • GNI MEDIA (for 63 months)
  • Laboratoire LEGI UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 63 months)
  • Tesorion (for 63 months)
  • Bearstech (for 54 months)
  • LiHAS (for 54 months)
  • People Doc (for 51 months)
  • Catalyst IT Ltd (for 49 months)
  • Demarcq SAS (for 43 months)
  • Universit Grenoble Alpes (for 29 months)
  • TouchWeb SAS (for 21 months)
  • SPiN AG (for 18 months)
  • CoreFiling (for 13 months)
  • Institut des sciences cognitives Marc Jeannerod (for 8 months)
  • Observatoire des Sciences de l Univers de Grenoble (for 5 months)