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Welcome to this year's first issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * Welcome to the Debian Project News! * Internal News/Happenings * Events: Upcoming and Reports * Help needed * More than just code * Reports * Quick Links from Debian Social Media * Want to continue reading DPN? Welcome to the Debian Project News! - ----------------------------------- We hope that you are enjoying the new format of the DPN. For other news, please read the official Debian blog Bits from Debian [1], and follow https://micronews.debian.org which RSS-feeds the @debian profile in several social networks too. 1: https://bits.debian.org Debian's Security Team releases current advisories on a daily basis (Security Advisories 2017 [2]). Please read them carefully and subscribe to the security mailing list [3]. 2: https://www.debian.org/security/2017/ 3: https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/ At the end of this project news we've added a Quick Links section which links to many of the posts made through our other media streams. Internal News/Happenings - ------------------------ Updated Debian 8: 8.7 released The seventh update of the stable distribution Debian 8 "Jessie" was published [4] on 14 January 2017. This update mainly adds corrections for security problems to the stable release, along with a few adjustments for serious problems. 4: https://www.debian.org/News/2017/20170114 News on Debian "Stretch" Debian "Stretch" has entered [5] its "soft freeze" (no new source packages will enter "Stretch") and it will enter its "full freeze" soon: all changes to "Stretch" will require approval from 5 February onward. Time to squash Release Critical bugs and to begin planning a Release Party [6]! 5: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2017/01/msg00002.html 6: https://wiki.debian.org/ReleasePartyStretch The Debian-Installer "Stretch" RC 1 release was published [7]. It has been followed [8] by the "Stretch" RC 2 release a few weeks later. Tests and reports to find bugs and further improve the installer are welcome. Installer CDs, other media and everything else are available for download [9]. 7: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2017/01/msg00004.html 8: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2017/02/msg00000.html 9: https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer Events: Upcoming and Reports - ---------------------------- Upcoming events Debian at FOSDEM 2017 On 4–5 February, Debian will be present at FOSDEM 2017 in Brussels, Belgium, with more than 45 current or past contributors speaking at the event, plus a Debian stand with gadgets, T-shirts and swag. Details can be found in the related post published in the Debian blog [10]. 10: https://bits.debian.org/2017/01/debian-at-fosdem-2017.html Bug Squashing Parties and MiniDebConfs On 25–26 February 2017 there will be a Bug Squashing Party in Endocode AG, in Berlin, Germany. See the wiki page [11] for details. 11: https://wiki.debian.org/BSP/2017/02/de/Berlin On 17–19 March 2017 there will be the MiniDebConf Curitiba 2017 [12], which will host its own Bug Squashing Party among other activities [13 ]. 12: http://br2017.mini.debconf.org/ 13: http://br2017.mini.debconf.org/programacao.shtml That same weekend of March 2017, a number of Debian Developers and friends of Debian will gather together in a Mini-DebConf at the FOSSASIA Summit in Singapore. Visit the wiki page of the MiniDebConf [14] if you want to know more details, join or help in the organisation! 14: https://wiki.debian.org/FOSSASIA/MiniDebConf2017 DebConf17 in Montreal The organisation of DebConf17 (Montreal, Canada, 6–12 August 2017) is going on. The Call for Proposals will be published soon. Fifteen companies or organisations have decided to support the event, Savoir- faire Linux [15] being Platinum sponsor among them. DebConf17 is still accepting sponsors; visit its website [16] for more details. 15: https://www.savoirfairelinux.com/ 16: https://debconf17.debconf.org Bid deadline for DebConf18 Hsinchu (Taiwan) and Curitiba (Brazil) are the bids for DebConf18. There has been a meeting for bid evaluation and a decision meeting will be held on 15 February 2017. See all the details about the bids and these meetings in the DebConf18 wiki page [17]. 17: https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf18 Event Reports A report from the last meeting of the DebConf18 in Curitiba bid at UTFPR [18] has been published along with a report from the Debian Edu sprint in Oslo in November 2016 [19]. 18: http://softwarelivre.org/debianbrasil/blog/report-from-the-last-meetin g-of-the-debconf18-in-curitibia-bid-at-utfpr 19: http://layer-acht.org/thinking/blog/20161221-debian-edu-sprint-in-oslo / The Mini Debian Conference Japan 2016 took place on 10 December 2016 in Tokyo, Japan. Visit their website [20] to see the program and get slides of the talks. 20: http://miniconf.debian.or.jp/ The Debian Med Team made a sprint on 12–16 January 2017 in Bucharest, Romania. They had a productive time dominated by bug fixing and upgrading packages for the "Stretch" release as well as writing or fixing autopkgtests for Debian Med packages. More details and personal reports in their sprint wiki page [21]. 21: https://wiki.debian.org/Sprints/2017/DebianMed2017 There has been a Bug Squashing Party on 27–29 January 2017 in Cambridg e. Information about the bugs investigated and worked on can be seen in its wiki page [22]. 22: https://wiki.debian.org/BSP/2017/01/gb/Cambridge Once upon a time in Debian: * 2013-12-27 Contributors service available [23] * 1999-01-04 Joey Hess releases first issue of Debian Weekly News [2 4] * 2007-01-10 Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 "Woody" archived [25] * 2011-01-24 Debian derivatives census [26] 23: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2013/12/msg00009.html 24: https://www.debian.org/News/weekly/1999/1/index 25: https://www.debian.org/News/2007/20070110 26: https://lists.debian.org/debian-news/2011/msg00002.html Help needed - ----------- Packages needing help: Currently [27] 1032 packages are orphaned [28] and 47 packages are up for adoption [29]: please visit the complete list of packages which need your help [30]. 27: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2017/01/msg00381.html 28: https://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/orphaned 29: https://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/rfa 30: https://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested Newcomer bugs Debian has a 'newcomer' bug tag, used to indicate bugs which are suitable for new contributors to use as an entry point to working on specific packages. There are 188 [31] bugs available tagged 'newcomer' . 31: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=newcomer More than just code - ------------------- Contributors 945 people and 17 teams are listed on the Debian Contributors [32] page for 2017. 32: https://contributors.debian.org/ Reports - ------- LTS Freexian Monthly Reports Freexian issues monthly reports [33] about the work of paid contributors to Debian Long Term Support. 33: https://raphaelhertzog.com/tag/Freexian+LTS/ Reproducible Builds status update Follow the reproducible builds blog [34] to get the weekly reports on their work in the "Stretch" cycle. 34: https://reproducible.alioth.debian.org/blog/ Quick Links from Debian Social Media - ------------------------------------ This is an extract from the micronews.debian.org [35] feed, in which we have removed the topics already commented on in this DPN issue. You can skip this section if you already follow micronews.debian.org or the @debian profile in a social network (Pump.io, GNU Social, or Twitter). The items are given unformatted, and in descending order by date (recent news at the top). 35: https://micronews.debian.org January Debian Brasil Community will be at Campus Party Brasil 2017 http://softwarelivre.org/debianbrasil/blog/debian-brasil-community-wil l-be-at-campus-party-brasil-2017 "Debian is a puzzle: difficult" by Arturo Borrero González http://ral-arturo.org/2017/01/17/debian-puzzle.html "manpages.debian.org has been modernized", by Michael Stapelberg https://people.debian.org/~stapelberg//2017/01/18/manpages-debian-org. html Debian hexagonal stickers made by Elena Grandi, available in the website https://www.debian.org/logos/ The root CA for Let's Encrypt (ISRG root X1) is now part of Debian's Jessie, Stretch and Sid releases https://letsencrypt.org/2016/08/05/le-root-to-be-trusted-by-mozilla.ht ml "20 years of being a debian maintainer" by Riku Voipio http://suihkulokki.blogspot.com/2017/01/20-years-of-being-debian-maint ainer.html New Debian Developers and Maintainers (November and December 2016) https://bits.debian.org/2017/01/new-developers-2016-12.html Bits from the DPL - 2016Q4 https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2016/12/msg00001.html Stretch release update: Mandatory 10 day delay for migrations and other upcoming events https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2016/12/msg00000.html December Free FPGA programming with Debian https://bits.debian.org/2016/12/fpga-programming-debian.html "10 years of Debian" by Chris Lamb https://chris-lamb.co.uk/posts/10-years-of-debian Next step for Debian Stretch: testing migration delay is now 10 days https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2016/12/msg00000.html Jonas Meurer: On CVE-2016-4484, a (security)? bug in the cryptsetup initramfs integration https://blog.freesources.org//posts/2016/12/CVE-2016-4484/ The Federal Police of Brazil thank the Debian Project http://softwarelivre.org/debianbrasil/blog/the-federal-police-of-brazi l-thank-the-debian-project Want to continue reading DPN? - ----------------------------- Please help us create this newsletter. 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