FOSS activity in August 2023

• (LTS) Updated the linux-5.10 package in buster and issued DLA-3512-1 for it.
• Together with Aurelien Jarno, I investigated boot failures of Linux 5.10 and later versions on Debian's MIPS buildds, but I didn't find the root cause or any solution.
• Reviewed and tested the kernel mitigations for the SRSO (CVE-2023-20569) issue in AMD CPUs, and added a critical missing patch to the backports.
• (LTS) Updated the linux (4.19) and linux-5.10 packages in buster, and the linux (5.10) package in bullseye, to include mitigations for GDS (CVE-2022-40982) on Intel processors and (5.10 only) SRSO on AMD. I issued DLA-3524-1 and DLA-3525-1 for buster.
• Nattie and I hosted a 30th birthday party for Debian in Leuven.
• Rebased and submitted my fixes for dahdi-linux.

• Updated the linux master branch to upstream version 6.5-rc4 and uploaded to experimental.
• Updated the backports of linux in bullseye-backports and bookworm-backports.
• Updated jinja-vanish to be compatible with Jinja 3.0. I also wired up its test suite to autopkgtests and added a Salsa CI configuration to catch any future regressions more quickly.
• Reviewed the following merge requests:
  • firmware-nonfree: Update to 20230625 (merged)
  • klibc: Apply ubuntu specific patch (closed as no longer needed)
  • firmware-free: Recommend firmware-ath9k-htc for its seperately-packaged free firmware (rebased and merged)
  • initramfs-tools: mkinitramfs: Warn if initrd size > some ratio of RAM size (changes requested)
  • (LTS) linux/buster: Add support for ARC-1886 series RAID controllers (queried)
  • nfs-utils: A couple more DEP8 tests (changes requested)
  • initramfs-tools: d/initramfs-tools.maintscripts: Remove code for ancient versions (merged)
• Proposed fixes for some metadata in firmware-nonfree.
• Updated scripts and templates in firmware-free to synchronise with firmware-nonfree.