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35 Debian LTS advisories were released in February fixing 527 CVEs across various packages. These include security fixes for gnutls28, xrdp, ClamAV, tomcat9, zabbix, linux kernel, ceph, glib2.0, MUNGE and many more.

Debian LTS contributors also prepared updates for more recent releases, Debian 12 (#bookworm) , Debian 13 (#trixie) and Debian unstable. In addition, improvements were made to documentation and tooling used by the team.

Read the full report at https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-lts-report-2026-02/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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Monthly report about Debian Long Term Support, February 2026

The Debian LTS Team, funded by [Freexian’s Debian LTS offering] (https://www.freexian.com/lts/debian/), is pleased to report its activities for February. Activity summary During the month of February, 20 contributors have been paid to work on Debian LTS (links to individual contributor reports are located below). The team released 35 DLAs fixing 527 CVEs. We also welcomed Arnaud Rebillout to the team and had to say farewell to Roberto, who left the team after more than nine years as part of it.

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Jan 21

41 Debian LTS Advisories were released in December fixing 252 CVEs. These included notable security updates for libsoup2.4, glib2.0, lasso, #roundcube, #mediawiki, python-apt and libpng1.6. In addition, upstream fixes were proposed for seven CVEs in #ffmpeg and various updates to latest Debian releases was contributed by #Debian LTS team.

Full report: https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-lts-report-2025-12/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

This work is funded through Freexian’s Debian LTS offering. Consider sponsoring Debian LTS (https://www.freexian.com/lts/debian/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social) to support this effort and benefit from it: https://www.freexian.com/lts/debian/details/#benefits

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Monthly report about Debian Long Term Support, December 2025

The Debian LTS Team, funded by [Freexian’s Debian LTS offering] (https://www.freexian.com/lts/debian/), is pleased to report its activities for December. Activity summary During the month of December, 18 contributors have been paid to work on Debian LTS (links to individual contributor reports are located below). The team released 41 DLAs fixing 252 CVEs. The team currently focuses on preparing security updates for Debian 11 “bullseye”, but also looks for contributing with updates for Debian 12 “bookworm”, Debian 13 “trixie” and even Debian unstable.

Freexian

Dec 22

In November, Debian LTS contributors released 33 Debian LTS Advisories, fixing 219 CVEs across multiple packages. Notable updates included security fixes for bind9, unbound, pdfminer, firefox-esr, thunderbird, and the Linux 6.1 kernel.

In addition, the LTS team also contributed security updates to latest Debian releases and carried out significant work to revamp the LTS team documentation.

Read the full report here:
https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-lts-report-2025-11/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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Monthly report about Debian Long Term Support, November 2025

The Debian LTS Team, funded by [Freexian’s Debian LTS offering] (https://www.freexian.com/lts/debian/), is pleased to report its activities for November. Activity summary During the month of November, 18 contributors have been paid to work on Debian LTS (links to individual contributor reports are located below). The team released 33 DLAs fixing 219 CVEs. The LTS Team kept going with the usual cadence of preparing security updates for Debian 11 “bullseye”, but also for Debian 12 “bookworm”, Debian 13 “trixie” and even Debian unstable.

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Dec 3

37 Debian LTS Advisories about security updates for various packages were released by Debian LTS contributors in October. These include notable security updates for https-everywhere, openjdk 11 & 17 and intel-microcode. LTS team also contributed towards updates for Debian packages in various releases.

Read about these and more in our report for October: https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-lts-report-2025-10/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#freexian #debian #debianlts #openjdk

Monthly report about Debian Long Term Support, October 2025

The Debian LTS Team, funded by [Freexian’s Debian LTS offering] (https://www.freexian.com/lts/debian/), is pleased to report its activities for October. Activity summary During the month of October, 21 contributors have been paid to work on Debian LTS (links to individual contributor reports are located below). The team released 37 DLAs fixing 893 CVEs. The team has continued in its usual rhythm, preparing and uploading security updates targeting LTS and ELTS, as well as helping with updates to oldstable, stable, testing, and unstable.

Freexian

Oct 21

38 Debian LTS Advisories about security updates for various packages were released by Debian LTS contributors last month. These include notable security updates for modsecurity-apache, cups, python-django, thunderbird and many more.

Read our monthly report for September to know more details: https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-lts-report-2025-09/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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Monthly report about Debian Long Term Support, September 2025

Like each month, have a look at the work funded by Freexian’s Debian LTS offering. Debian LTS contributors In September, 20 contributors have been paid to work on Debian LTS, their reports are available: Abhijith PA did 10.0h (out of 10.0h assigned and 4.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 4.0h to the next month. Andreas Henriksson did 1.0h (out of 0.0h assigned and 20.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 19.

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Sep 26

27 Debian LTS Advisories about security updates were released by Debian LTS contributors in August 2025. These included critical security updates for gnutls28, mdebtls, apache2 and openjdk-17 in addition to other security updates. LTS team also contributed to updates for various packages in Debian stable.

Get the full details in our August report: https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-lts-report-2025-08/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

This work is funded by Freexian's Debian LTS offering. Your organization too can sponsor the Debian LTS (https://www.freexian.com/lts/debian/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social) and join the esteemed list of sponsors in the monthly report.

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Monthly report about Debian Long Term Support, August 2025

Like each month, have a look at the work funded by Freexian’s Debian LTS offering. Debian LTS contributors In August, 21 contributors have been paid to work on Debian LTS, their reports are available: Abhijith PA did 10.0h (out of 0.0h assigned and 14.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 4.0h to the next month. Andrej Shadura did 12.0h (out of 9.0h assigned and 3.0h from previous period). Bastien Roucariès did 20.

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Sep 12, 2025

The critical security updates for angular.js, tomcat9, mediawiki, php7.4 and more landed in Debian 11 "bullseye" by the efforts of the Debian LTS team in July 2025. The security tracker sprint involving members from the LTS team and Debian Security team also happened during July as part of DebCamp 25.

Get the full report covering the details here: https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-lts-report-2025-07/

This work is funded by Freexian's Debian LTS offering. Your organization too can sponsor the Debian LTS (https://www.freexian.com/lts/debian/) and join the esteemed list of sponsors in the monthly report.

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Monthly report about Debian Long Term Support, July 2025

Like each month, have a look at the work funded by Freexian’s Debian LTS offering. Debian LTS contributors In July, 17 contributors have been paid to work on Debian LTS, their reports are available: Adrian Bunk did 19.0h (out of 19.0h assigned). Andrej Shadura did 5.0h (out of 0.0h assigned and 8.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 3.0h to the next month. Bastien Roucariès did 18.5h (out of 18.

Freexian

Aug 21, 2025

Interested in how Debian LTS works and what’s ahead?

The recorded BoF session from #DebConf25 is now online!

The session had engaging discussions on having point-update “releases” for LTS with Debusine, packaging security updates for firmware-nonfree, ca-certificates, and work towards compliance with new regulations like the #CRA.

Watch the recording here: https://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2025/DebConf25/debconf25-670-debian-lts-bof.av1.webm

#debian #debianLTS #linuxsecurity #freexian

Freexian

Aug 11, 2025

Debian 13 “trixie” is now the new Debian stable!

It will be supported for the next 5 years by the Debian Security team (https://security-team.debian.org/) and Debian LTS (https://wiki.debian.org/LTS) team, with up to 10 years of support via Freexian’s Extended LTS (https://www.freexian.com/lts/extended/).

A big congratulations and thank you to everyone who made this release possible!

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Debian Security Team

Freexian

Jun 16, 2025

54 Debian LTS Advisories about security updates for various packages were released by Debian LTS contributors last month. These include critical security bug fixes for containerd, postgresql-13, request-tracker4, glibc and many more.

You can also read about LTS contributors testing out Debusine, an advanced CI platform for Debian-based distributions developed by Freexian, to upload packages into Debian and plans for an upcoming "sprint" during DebCamp 25.

Find more details in our monthly report for May: https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-lts-report-2025-05/

#openjdk #postgres13 #debusine #freexian #debianlts

Monthly report about Debian Long Term Support, May 2025

Like each month, have a look at the work funded by Freexian’s Debian LTS offering. Debian LTS contributors In May, 22 contributors have been paid to work on Debian LTS, their reports are available: Abhijith PA did 8.0h (out of 0.0h assigned and 8.0h from previous period). Adrian Bunk did 26.0h (out of 26.0h assigned). Andreas Henriksson did 1.0h (out of 15.0h assigned and 3.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 17.

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