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

[Matthias Fischer <matthias.fischer@ipfire.org>]

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Hi,

Done.

'bind 9.16.30' just came out...

Running here.

Best,
Matthias

On 14.06.2022 14:00, Peter Müller wrote:
> 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