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• 1 July 2026

  FOSS activity in June 2026

  This month’s work was dominated by the transition of Debian 12 “bookworm” to support by the LTS team, and by review of some large updates to Linux stable branches.

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• 2 June 2026

  FOSS activity in May 2026

  This was a particularly busy month for me in terms of Debian contributions.

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• 2 May 2026

  FOSS activity in April 2026

  • Debian packages:
    • firmware-nonfree:
      • Bugs:
        • replied to #1132448: firmware-mediatek: Wifi perf degraded a lot after upgrade firmware-mediatek from 20250410-2 to 20260221-1~bpo13+1 and 20260309-1
      • Merge requests:
        • merged !142: Replace copy-firmware.sh; install files and generate metainfo.xml at build time
        • opened and merged !143: Clean up configuration format and directory
        • opened and merged !144: Remove usr-move mitigation, only needed for the trixie upgrade
        • opened and merged !145: Update to 20260410
      • Uploads:
        • uploaded version 20260309-1~bpo13+1 to trixie-backports
        • uploaded version 20260410-1 to unstable
        • uploaded version 20260410-1~bpo13+1 to trixie-backports

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• 1 April 2026

  FOSS activity in March 2026

  • Debian packages:
    • firmware-nonfree:
      • Bugs:
        • closed #1064620: firmware-nonfree: suggestions for the packaging, gencontrol.py and debian/rules
        • closed #1126797: firmware-intel-graphics: Please ship irci_irci_ecr-master_20161208_0213_20170112_1500.bin as ipu3-fw.bin
        • closed #1131751: ABI break in amdxdna npu firmware
      • Merge requests:
        • opened and merged !140: Update to 20260309
        • opened and merged !141: Clean up packaging (from Nicolas Boulenguez)
        • opened !142: Replace copy-firmware.sh; install files and generate metainfo.xml at build time
      • Uploads:
        • uploaded version 20260110-1~bpo13+1 to trixie-backports
        • uploaded version 20260221-1 to unstable
        • uploaded version 20260221-1~bpo13+1 to trixie-backports
        • uploaded version 20260309-1 to unstable

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• 2 March 2026

  FOSS activity in February 2026

  • Debian packages:
    • firmware-free:
      • Bugs:
        • closed #890601: firmware-linux-free uses prebuilt blobs instead of building from source
      • Uploads:
        • uploaded version 20241210-3 to unstable
    • firmware-nonfree:
      • Bugs:
        • closed #481234: firmware-nonfree: Include firmware for p54 driver
        • closed #484177: firmware-nonfree: keyspan
        • closed #534379: [firmware-nonfree] Please consider including dvb-usb-af9015.fw
        • closed #548745: firmware-linux: Fix licence and include edgeport firmware
        • closed #588142: Add r8192u_usb (aka rtl8192u) firmware
        • closed #597897: RFP: alsa-firmware – firmware binaries used by each alsa-firmware-loader program
        • closed #999485: Please add brcmfmac43456-sdio.* files as it’s not just used in RPi devices
        • opened and closed #1126794: Undistributable file under qcom/qdu100
        • closed #1126846: Qualcomm AudioReach topology files are covered by separate licence
        • replied to #1126896: firmware-nvidia-graphics: Cannot upgrade from bookworm-backports to trixie-backports
      • Merge requests:
        • closed !128: Draft: Add Provides: based ABI versioning mechanism
        • merged !134: Update to 20251125
        • reviewed and merged !135: Drop DSP firmware, migrated to hexagon-dsp-binaries source
        • reviewed and merged !136: debian/copyright: correct licence issues
        • opened and closed !137: d/copyright, qcom-soc: Exclude undistributable QDU100 firmware
        • opened and merged !138: Update to 20260110
        • opened and merged !139: Update to 20260221
      • Uploads:
        • uploaded version 20251111-1~bpo13+1 to trixie-backports
        • uploaded version 20251125-1 to unstable
        • uploaded version 20260110-1 to unstable

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• 4 February 2026

  FOSS activity in January 2026

  • Debian packages:
    • dracut:
      • Bugs:
        • replied to and reassigned #1124400: update-initramfs no longer includes /lib/modules/<kver>/updates directory
    • flash-kernel:
      • Bugs:
        • closed #1102690: A higher version (…) is still installed, no reflashing required
        • closed #1125327: since linux 6.18, flash-kernel fails to find dtbs in /usr/lib/linux-image-*
      • Uploads:
        • uploaded version 3.110 to unstable
        • uploaded version 3.110~bpo13+1 to trixie-backports
    • kernel-sec:
      • Merge requests:
        • opened !30: scripts/import-korg-vulns: Ignore issues in unsupported architectures

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• 2 January 2026

  FOSS activity in December 2025

  • Debian packages:
    • firmware-nonfree:
      • Merge requests:
        • reviewed !135: Upgrade to 20251125
    • ktls-utils:
      • Bugs:
        • replied to and closed #1121921: ktls-utils: Deprecated tlshd config path breaks autopkgtests
      • Uploads:
        • uploaded version 1.3.0-2 to unstable
    • linux:
      • Merge requests:
        • reviewed !1723: Draft: Avoid usage of dh_movetousr and also update udebs to use /usr/lib/modules
      • Uploads:
        • (LTS) uploaded version 5.10.247-1 to bullseye-security
        • uploaded version 6.17.13-1~bpo13+1 to trixie-backports

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• 4 December 2025

  FOSS activity in November 2025

  • Debian packages:
    • debian-cd:
      • Bugs:
        • replied to #1120055: Please include ifenslave, vlan and possibly bridge-utils to netinst CD
    • firmware-nonfree:
      • Bugs:
        • closed #1106074: include potentially non-redistributable C\&M firmware
        • replied to and closed #1112208: firmware-nvidia-graphics: Missing gsp symlink for nvidia ad107
        • closed #1116997: firmware-amd-graphics: Please update to current VCN firmware on gitlab
        • closed #1118195: firmware-misc-nonfree: no longer actually ships Arm Mali firmware, only link to non-existing file
        • closed #1118199: firmware-mediatek: mt7921e stops working with latest version (20250917-1)

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• 2 November 2025

  FOSS activity in October 2025

  • Debian packages:
    • firmware-nonfree:
      • Bugs:
        • closed #1118156: Missing Build-Depends on python3-dacite, python3-jinja2
      • Merge requests:
        • closed !129: Retire vorlon from uploaders
        • merged !130: Update firmware-nonfree to 20250917
        • reviewed and merged !131: Update to 20251011
        • merged !132: misc-nonfree: Include all Arm Mali firmware
        • opened and merged !133: Fix another broken symlink and avoid creating more of them
      • Uploads:
        • uploaded version 20250917-1 to unstable
    • gdm3:
      • Bugs:
        • opened #1119809: Black screen after upgrading from 48

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