From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthias Fischer To: development@lists.ipfire.org Subject: Re: Core Update 169 merge window closes by the end of this week Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2022 14:47:47 +0200 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <74c4bc99-2abf-207f-da52-d94c80565966@ipfire.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============0977960301777213692==" List-Id: --===============0977960301777213692== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, Done. 'bind 9.16.30' just came out... Running here. Best, Matthias On 14.06.2022 14:00, Peter M=C3=BCller wrote: > Hello development folks, >=20 > 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). >=20 > Currently, the update features a toolchain update, to bring some GCC fixes = to our users. An > updated kernel plugs several recently disclosed security vulnerabilities, s= ome of them related > to BPF. None of them is critical and/or remotely exploitable, but they leve= rage local privilege > escalation, which we don't want in IPFire. :-) Lastly, an updated linux-fir= mware 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. >=20 > Currently, the update is pretty large (95 MBytes) already. Should any of yo= u have changes in > the pipeline that are space-intensive, I would like to abstain from includi= ng them in C169, and > rather put them into C170. >=20 > Michael's OpenVPN 2FA merge request is yet to come, and I need to update U-= Boot. >=20 > 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 n= ot waiting as long > for the final release as we unfortunately had to with C168. >=20 > Stay safe, and best regards, > Peter M=C3=BCller --===============0977960301777213692==--