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

The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months:

• Jeroen Ploemen (jcfp)
• Mark Hindley (leepen)
• Scarlett Moore (sgmoore)
• Baptiste Beauplat (lyknode)

The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers in the last two months:

• Gunnar Ingemar Hjalmarsson
• Stephan Lachnit

Congratulations!

Yesterday I have updated my builds of Plasma for Debian to Plasma 5.19.5, which are now available from the usual sources, nothing has changed. [Update 2020-09-03: KDE Apps 20.08.1 are also now available] On a different front, there are good news concerning updates in Debian proper: Together with Scarlett Moore and Patrick Franz we are in the process of updating the official Debian packages. The first bunch of packages has been uploaded to experimental, and after NEW processing the next group will go there, too. This is still 5.19.4, but a great step forward. I expect that all of Plasma 5.19.4 will be available in experimental in the next weeks, and soon after also in Debian/unstable. Again, thanks to Scarlett and Patrick for the good collaboration, this is very much appreciated!