I was assigned 15 hours of work by Freexian's Debian LTS initiative and worked 12 hours, so I have carried 3 hours over to July. Since Debian 7 "wheezy" LTS ended at the end of May, I prepared for Debian 8 "jessie" to enter LTS status.

I prepared a stable update of Linux 3.16, sent it out for review, and then released it. I rebased jessie's linux package on this, but didn't yet upload it.

Since the "jessie-backports" suite is no longer accepting updates, and there are LTS users depending on the updated kernel (Linux 4.9) there, I prepared to add it to the jessie-security suite. The source package I have prepared is similar to what was in jessie-backports, but I have renamed it to "linux-4.9" and disabled building some binary packages to avoid conflicting with the standard linux source package. I also disabled building the "udeb" packages used in the installer, since I don't expect anyone to need them and building them would require updating the "kernel-wedge" package too. I didn't upload this either, since there wasn't a new linux version in "stretch" to backport yet.