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FOSS activity in October 2023

3 December 2023

  • Discussed several bug/issue reports in Debian:
    • Bug#1053122: linux-image-6.5.0-1-amd64: Kernel page fault in process exit due to bit flip
    • Bug#1052676: linux-config: Enabling Kernel Configurations for MediaTek Platforms (CONFIG_ARCH_MEDIATEK)
    • CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC=y?
    • Illegal Instruction Using sudo in Bookworm on i686
  • And for Linux stable branches:
    • [PATCH v2] docs: add backporting and conflict resolution document
    • [stable] Documentation: sysctl: align cells in second content column
  • Updated the linux-5.10 package in Debian 10 "buster" and issued DLA-3623-1.
  • Updated the linux backport in bookworm-backports.
  • Updated klibc in Debian, applying a patch from Peng Fan to support the loong64 architecture.

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