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