Core Update 169 merge window closes by the end of this week

["Peter Müller" <peter.mueller@ipfire.org>]

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Hello development folks,

as discussed yesterday (https://wiki.ipfire.org/devel/telco/2022-06-13), I would like to close
the merge window for Core Update 169 by the end of this week (i.e. Sunday).

Currently, the update features a toolchain update, to bring some GCC fixes to our users. An
updated kernel plugs several recently disclosed security vulnerabilities, some of them related
to BPF. None of them is critical and/or remotely exploitable, but they leverage local privilege
escalation, which we don't want in IPFire. :-) Lastly, an updated linux-firmware petting zoo
brings all the shiny proprietary firmware of various vendors to our users, and we can only hope
that they benefit from whatever changes were made in all these binary blobs.

Currently, the update is pretty large (95 MBytes) already. Should any of you have changes in
the pipeline that are space-intensive, I would like to abstain from including them in C169, and
rather put them into C170.

Michael's OpenVPN 2FA merge request is yet to come, and I need to update U-Boot.

To cut it short, please submit patches you want to have in C169 soon. It is my intention to
provide our users with a testing Core Update as soon as possible, ideally not waiting as long
for the final release as we unfortunately had to with C168.

Stay safe, and best regards,
Peter Müller