Notices by Debian (debian@framapiaf.org)

We are in the countdown (T-6 days) for MiniDebConf Maceió 2025 (Brazil). Check out https://maceio.mini.debconf.org/ for more info #debian #debconf #miniDebConfMaceio #brazil

We are one step closer to trixie! The soft freeze began on 2025-04-15 (only minor, targeted fixes for trixie, no new packages in testing). Check https://release.debian.org/trixie/freeze_policy.html#summary for more info #debian #trixie

A Bug Squashing Party is being organised near Leuven, Belgium, on 26th and 27th April, to fix as many bugs as possible to help prepare for the release of the next stable version of Debian (Debian 13 - Trixie) https://wiki.debian.org/BSP/2025/04/be/Leuven #debian #trixie #bsp

After Debian archive was updated to 12.10, the Debian CD team did the hard work of preparing and testing our installation medias to make sure everything is working correctly. Their work is now complete and the images are available at https://www.debian.org/distrib/ #debian #bookworm

Debian 15 will be codenamed duke. Visit https://wiki.debian.org/DebianReleases for the names of past and future Debian releases #debian #duke

The Debian Release Team is keeping pace: the first trixie freeze step (transition and toolchain freeze) is coming next month! https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2025/01/msg00004.html #debian #trixie

Proxmox, provider of powerful, yet easy-to-use Open Source server software based on Debian is the newest Platinum Sponsor of #DebConf25 https://bits.debian.org/2025/02/proxmox-platinum-debconf25.html #debian

The Debian Publicity Team will no longer post on X/Twitter. We took this decision since we feel X doesn't reflect Debian shared values as stated in our social contract, code of conduct and diversity statement. X evolved into a place where people we care about don't feel safe. You are very much invited to follow us on https://bits.debian.org , on https://micronews.debian.org/ , or any media as listed on https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Publicity/otherSN #debian

Fixes for a critical rsync vulnerability (CVE-2024-12084) have been released for Stable/Bookworm, Testing and Unstable. Oldstable/Bullseye is not affected. Fixes for other lower severity CVEs have also been released in the same update and can all be tracked at https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/rsync. The fixed Stable version is 3.2.7-1+deb12u1 and the fixed Testing/Unstable version is 3.3.0+ds1-3

After our archive was updated to 12.9, our Debian CD team did the hard work of preparing and testing our installation medias to make sure everything is working correctly. Now their work is complete and the images are available at https://www.debian.org/distrib/ https://micronews.debian.org/2025/1736623797.html #debian

After our archive was updated to 12.9, our Debian CD team did the hard work of preparing and testing our installation medias to make sure everything is working correctly. Now their work is complete and the images are available at https://www.debian.org/distrib/

Updated Debian 12: 12.9 released https://www.debian.org/News/2025/20250111 #debian #bookworm https://micronews.debian.org/2025/1736606183.html #debian

Help choose the DebConf25 logo! With 23 entries to vote from, we've got your style: https://surveys.debian.net/ #debian #debconf #debconf25 https://micronews.debian.org/2024/1734539445.html #debian

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

Happy 20th anniversary with love to Mozilla's Thunderbird and Firefox suites, 20 years of strength and security in the world of FLOSS! #mozilla #thunderbird #firefox #floss

"Ceratopsian" will be the default theme for Debian 13: The theme "Ceratopsian" by Elise Couper has been selected as the default
theme for Debian 13 "trixie". The theme is inspired by Trixie's (the fictional
character from Toy Story) frill and is also influenced by a previously used
theme called "futurePrototype" by Alex Makas.

After the Debian Desktop Team made the call for proposing themes, a total
of six choices were submitted. The desktop artwork poll was open… https://bits.debian.org/2024/12/ceratopsian-will-be-the-default-theme-for-debian-13.html

Debian welcomes its new Outreachy interns: Debian continues participating in Outreachy, and we're excited to announce that
Debian has selected two interns for the Outreachy December 2024 - March 2025 round.

Patrick Noblet Appiah will work on Automatic Indi-3rd-party driver update,
mentored by Thorsten Alteholz.

Divine Attah-Ohiemi will work on Making the Debian main website more attractive by switching to HuGo as site generator,
mentored by Carsten Schoenert, Subin… https://bits.debian.org/2025/11/welcome-outreachy-interns-2024.html

New Debian Developers and Maintainers (September and October 2024): The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two
months:

* Joachim Bauch (fancycode)

* Alexander Kjäll (capitol)

* Jan Mojžíš (janmojzis)

* Xiao Sheng Wen (atzlinux)

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

* Alberto Bertogli

* Alexis Murzeau

* David Heilderberg

* Xiyue Deng

* Kathara Sasikumar

*… https://bits.debian.org/2024/11/new-developers-2024-10.html

OpenStreetMap migrates to Debian 12: You may have seen this toot
announcing OpenStreetMap's migration to Debian on their infrastructure.

🚀 After 18 years on Ubuntu, we've upgraded the
@openstreetmap servers to Debian 12
(Bookworm). 🌍 openstreetmap.org is now faster
using Ruby 3.1. Onward to new mapping adventures! Thank you to the team for
the smooth transition.
#OpenStreetMap
#Debian 🤓

We spoke with Grant Slater, the Senior Site Reliability Engineer for the… https://bits.debian.org/2024/11/openstreetmap-on-debian.html

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