FOSS activity in April 2026

2 May 2026

Debian packages:
- firmware-nonfree:
  - Bugs:
    - replied to #1132448: firmware-mediatek: Wifi perf degraded a lot after upgrade firmware-mediatek from 20250410-2 to 20260221-1~bpo13+1 and 20260309-1
  - Merge requests:
    - merged !142: Replace copy-firmware.sh; install files and generate metainfo.xml at build time
    - opened and merged !143: Clean up configuration format and directory
    - opened and merged !144: Remove usr-move mitigation, only needed for the trixie upgrade
    - opened and merged !145: Update to 20260410
  - Uploads:
    - uploaded version 20260309-1~bpo13+1 to trixie-backports
    - uploaded version 20260410-1 to unstable
    - uploaded version 20260410-1~bpo13+1 to trixie-backports
- initramfs-tools:
  - Bugs:
    - replied to #1135141: please be more careful with available disk space on /boot
  - Merge requests:
    - merged !192: [Backport to Trixie] hook-functions: Add Cadence USB driver to base
    - merged !194: d/t/qemu-net-iscsi: determinate boot by LABEL
  - Uploads:
    - uploaded version 0.151 to unstable
- kernel-handbook:
  - Merge requests:
    - opened and merged !11: Update documentation for rebuilding official kernel packages
    - opened !12: Update description of ABI name and delete section about ABI maintenance
    - opened !13: Update list of packages
- ktls-utils:
  - Merge requests:
    - opened and merged !4: Revert “configure: Disable use of GnuTLS API not yet accepted upstream”
    - opened !5: Draft: Update to 1.4.0-rc1
- linux:
  - Bugs:
  - Merge requests:
    - merged !1864: [amd64] drivers/media/i2c: Enable VIDEO_OV02E10 as module
    - opened !1869: Cleanup for kernel-wedge
    - opened !1870: kernel-wedge, udeb: Define which packages to build through package-list
    - opened !1871: Update udeb package definitions
    - reviewed !1872: Install bug files via debhelper
    - merged !1877: [amd64] drivers/staging/media/ipu7: Enable VIDEO_INTEL_IPU7 as module
    - opened !1880: Fix FTBFS on several architectures
    - reviewed !1885: bug script: Extend several parts
    - opened and merged !1891: linux-image: Add retrospective NEWS entry for the removal of XFS V4 support
    - merged !1897: Add selection of bugfixes for 6.1.y on top of 6.1.170
  - Uploads:
    - (LTS) uploaded version 5.10.251-3 to bullseye-security
    - uploaded version 6.12.85-1~bpo12+1 to bookworm-backports
    - uploaded version 6.19.10-1~bpo13+1 to trixie-backports
    - uploaded version 6.19.11-1~bpo13+1 to trixie-backports
    - uploaded version 6.19.13-1~bpo13+1 to trixie-backports
    - uploaded version 7.0-1~exp1 to experimental
  - (LTS) updated the bullseye-security branch to 5.10.253, but did not upload this version
  - (LTS) worked on regression fixes for 5.10/5.15/6.1 upstream stable branches
- (LTS) linux-6.1:
  - Uploads:
    - uploaded version 6.1.170-1~deb11u1 to bullseye-security
- linux-base:
  - Bugs:
    - closed #1128562: /usr/bin/linux-check-removal: Use of uninitialized value $_[2] in join or string at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Client/ConfModule.pm line 122.
  - Merge requests:
    - merged !20: Simplify install file
- openntpd:
  - Bugs:
    - closed #791335: openntpd: should set the clock status (ADJ_STATUS) to have the RTC updated by the kernel
Debian non-package bugs:
- wnpp:
  - replied to #1134655: ITP: forge-git – library and CLI for working with git forges
Mailing lists:
- debian-kernel:
  - posted Agenda items for kernel-team meeting on 2026-04-08
  - replied to generating linux-image-${VERSION}-amd64 locally
- initramfs:
  - posted initramfs-tools 0.151 release
- stable:
  - (LTS) reviewed 5.10.253-rc1 and replied to various patches included in it … … … … … … … … … … … …
  - replied to [PATCH 5.10.y] x86/cpu: Enable FSGSBASE early in cpu_init_exception_handling()