Hi 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