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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… #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… #debian.

Updated Debian 12: 12.9 released #debian #bookworm #debian.

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

Bits from the DPL: Dear Debian community, . this is bits from DPL for December. Happy New Year 2025! Wishing everyone health, productivity, and a successful Debian release later in this year. Strict ownership of packages. I'm glad my last bits…

The Debian Installer team is pleased to announce the first alpha release of the installer for Debian 13 Trixie. #debian #trixie #debian13 #debian.

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

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 #debian.

"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…

Would you like to see your amazing ideas on the DebConf 25 website, on T-shirts, etc., so that people all over the world can take them home? Only 12 days left to submit your artwork: deadline December 15! #debian #debconf25 #debian.

Bits from the DPL: This is bits from DPL for November. MiniDebConf Toulouse. I had the pleasure of attending the MiniDebConf in Toulouse, which featured a range of engaging talks, complementing those from the recent MiniDebConf in Cambridge. Both…

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…

Congratulations to Patrick Noblet Appiah and Divine Attah-Ohiemi, the Debian Outreachy interns selected for the December 2024 round from a pool of great applicants. To those who didn't manage this time, thanks for your contributions and never… #debian.

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…

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…

Calls for bids for DebConf26 have started, please see: #debian.

OpenStreetMap migrates to Debian 12