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