> On 27 Jul 2022, at 10:28, Peter Müller <peter.mueller(a)ipfire.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello development folks,
> 
> first, apologies for being rather unresponsive recently. Due to some technical
> difficulties, I will that way until next week - apologies also to all the people
> that have been trying to reach me via the phone.
> 
> Being in charge of mastering Core Update 170, I would like to keep this update
> open until August 8th, to give everyone (including myself) sufficient time to
> hand in all the things they want to have in this update.
> 
> From my end, this includes a kernel update as well as some hardening changes.
> Also, I noticed several things (kmod, samba, bash, ...) to be in need of an
> update, and will take care of them as well.
> 
> We won't probably include them into C170, but for the next updates, I would like
> to see particularly Perl and Python being updated. Any volounteers are welcomed. :-)
> 
> Also, new versions of u-boot and the ARM firmware conglomerate have been released,
> though I need to check with Arne whether we can ship them with C170 already, or
> if they require some more time.
> 
> OpenSSL 3.x is currently blocked by monitoring-plugins. As soon as the latter
> released a stable version, we can update OpenSSL as well; all other blockers
> have been resolved.
> 
> Thanks to Michael for taking care of things during my absence. As always, feel
> free to drop me a line in case of any questions or comments.

Well, I didn’t do much really :)

> Thanks, and best regards,
> Peter Müller