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<r>The voting period for the Debian Project Leader election has ended. Please join us in congratulating Andreas Tille as the new Debian Project Leader. The new term for the project leader started on 2024-04-19. 369 of 1,010 Debian Developers voted using the <URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Con...

Congratulations to Andreas Tille our newly elected Debian Project Leader. #debian

Source: https://micronews.debian.org/2024/1713587115.html

<r>MiniDebConf in Berlin is coming up in four weeks! Registering now will guarantee that you'll get a t-shirt. We are still looking for presentations, as well as sponsors for the event. More information at <URL url="https://berlin2024.mini.debconf.org/"><s>[url=https://berlin2024.mini.debconf.org/]<...

<r>As Debian Backports do not offer Long Term Support (LTS), buster-backports is soon to be removed from the Debian Archive: <URL url="https://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/2024/04/msg00000.html"><s>[url=https://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/2024/04/msg00000.html]</s>https:...

<r>Registration and the Call for Proposals are now open for DebConf24. This year's event will be held in Busan, Korea, and will offer Talks, Hacking sessions, activites, discussions, and of course a legendary cheese party! <URL url="https://debconf24.debconf.org/news/2024-04-15-dc24-registration-cfp...

<r>MiniDebConf Belo Horizonte 2024 with presentations on Debian and Free Software, mostly in Brazilian Portuguese, is about to start in 2 weeks. Registation is still possible and volunteers are very welcome; the schedule is now available. See <URL url="https://bh.mini.debconf.org/en/"><s>[url=https:...

<r>Seeking a small group to package Apache Arrow: apache-arrow -- cross-language development platform for in-memory analytics (Bug# 970021). Join the discussion and effort at <URL url="https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2024/03/msg00311.html"><s>[url=https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2024/03/...

<r>The Debian Policy Manual has been updated to version 4.7.0.0. Highlights include: The addition of the non-free-firmware archive, hard links now permitted in source packages, addressing autobuild network permissions, and systemd requirements for packages that automatically start or stop system ser...

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<r><URL url="https://www.proxmox.com/"><s>[url=https://www.proxmox.com/]</s><IMG src="https://bits.debian.org/images/proxmox.png"><s>[img]</s>https://bits.debian.org/images/proxmox.png<e>[/img]</e></IMG><e>[/url]</e></URL> We are pleased to announce that <URL url="https://www.proxmox.com/"><s>[url=h...

<r>Dear Debianites This morning I decided to just start writing Bits from DPL and send whatever I have by 18:00 local time. Here it is, barely proof read, along with all it's warts and grammar mistakes! It's slightly long and doesn't contain any critical information, so if you're not in the mood, do...

<r>MiniDebconfBerlin 24 registration and CfP are open. The conference will take place Tue May 14th till Tue May 21st at c-base.org in Germany. See <URL url="https://lists.debian.org/6183020.4L0H4hUvkO@tomato#1"><s>[url=https://lists.debian.org/6183020.4L0H4hUvkO@tomato#1]</s>https://lists.debian.org...

<r>CVE-2024-3094 concerning a backdoor exploit in XZ Utils 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 releases are currently being analyzed, for the moment we have paused Archive processing. We will advise as soon as possible. For more reading and information: <URL url="https://tukaani.org/xz-backdoor/"><s>[url=https://tukaan...

<r>Although no Debian stable versions are known to be affected by CVE-2024-3094 the next point release for 12.6 has been postponed while we investigate the effects of this CVE on the Archive. <URL url="https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2024/msg00057.html"><s>[url=https://lists.debian...

<r>Debian 10 buster has moved to archive.debian.org freeing up space on our mirror network holding presently at 5,746GB across several architectures. More information on this move and other details: <URL url="https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2024/03/msg00003.html"><s>[url=https://lists...

<r>Mini-DebConf Berlin will take place Tue 14 May until Tue 21 May 2024 at the c-base hackspace in Germany. Book your trip and lodging now! RSN a CfP will get published. Please register at <URL url="https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/de/2024/MiniDebconfBerlin"><s>[url=https://wiki.debian.org/Debia...

<r>The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months: <LIST><s>[list]</s> <LI><s>[*]</s>Carles Pina i Estany (cpina)</LI> <LI><s>[*]</s>Dave Hibberd (hibby)</LI> <LI><s>[*]</s>Soren Stoutner (soren)</LI> <LI><s>[*]</s>Daniel Gröber (dxld)</LI> <LI><s>[*]</s>Jeremy...

<r>Have a peek behind the curtain to see how Debian Developers work to solve issues within the Archive, as the link indicates please remember that we are phasing out the 32 bit architectures. <URL url="https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2024/03/msg00174.html"><s>[url=https://lists.debian.org/debi...

<r>DebConf25 to be held in Brest, France. Hope to see you all there for the most amazing wine and CHEESE party ever!!! Some Debian Development may also occur at said event. <E>:)</E> <URL url="https://lists.debian.org/debconf-announce/2024/03/msg00000.html"><s>[url=https://lists.debian.org/debconf-a...