This month’s work was dominated by the transition of Debian 12 “bookworm” to support by the LTS team, and by review of some large updates to Linux stable branches.

Linux 6.12 is currently available in bookworm-backports, but that suite will stop accepting uploads after the last bookworm point release. I updated some supporting packages in bookworm in preparation for adding Linux 6.12 there. I also prepared for the possibility that bookworm-backports would close earlier.

Since the LTS team is still also maintaining Debian 11 “bullseye” until August, I reviewed upstream changes for both Linux 5.10 and 6.1 stable branches and reported a number of regressions and other issues.