Re: The Upcoming Core Update(s)

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

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Hello *,

being in charge of mastering Core Update 182, I've just created the new update,
and added most of the pending patches from Patchwork. The latter is not quite
complete yet; I strive to be up to speed by the end of this week.

As far as package updates are concerned, I'd like to update the following ones,
unless someone else is already working on them:

- OpenSSH
- strongSwan
- Tor

In C182, we have a linux-firmware update, which already takes quite some breathing
room in terms of file size. Unless something urgent comes up, it might be sensible
to close this update sooner rather than later, so it can go into testing once
Core Update 181 is released.

Thoughts/comments?

Thanks, and best regards,
Peter Müller

> Michael,
> 
> I am back from my holiday trip visiting my family and friends in the UK.
> 
> I will be working again on the OpenVPN package but that won't be ready for CU182.
> 
> I am currently working through about 20 package updates which should get submitted over the next couple of days.
> 
> I have some minor bug fixes that may get submitted in time for CU182.
> 
> Overall, for CU182, there is nothing critical that I am working on beyond normal package updates, so you can decide form the patches I submit what to use and what to leave for a following CU.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Adolf.
> 
> 
> On 07/11/2023 19:22, Peter Müller wrote:
>> Hello Michael,
>> hello *,
>>
>>> Hello everyone,
>>>
>>> Since this month’s video conference has been canceled, here is a couple of updates from my side:
>>>
>>> * Core Update 181 has been branched yesterday. I have this running in my office for a little while and it seems to be a solid update. It also has a lot of security fixes, so please give it a good test that we can hopefully release this in two weeks.
>> indeed, Core Update 181 seems to work fine without any hiccups whatsoever. :-)
>>
>>> * For the following update(s): what do we have in the pipeline? Just to coordinate that we don’t have too much in one update :)
>> Unless we have more pressing things on our agenda, I remember Adolf saying
>> that there are still a couple of packages, particularly libraries, which he
>> did not had the resources to work through. At some point, it might be sensible
>> to have something like a distributed mini-hackathon to ensure that everything
>> we include is at least roughly up to date, and if it's just by slicing the
>> package list and distribute the shares. :-)
>>
>> At some point, I had the idea to keep an eye on various security advisories
>> published by other distributions to identify non-prolific packages with
>> important updates that might otherwise have flown under our radar, but this
>> approach never worked well...
>>
>> Aside from updating, I recall Stefan working on porting firewall groups to
>> ipset a while ago. Perhaps this is something we can then focus on to push
>> out of the door next?
>>
>> Just my two cents. I currently do not have anything major on my docket list
>> for IPFire 2.x. :-)
>>
>> All the best,
>> Peter Müller