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Debian 9 soon out of (free) security support

May 11, 2022 by Raphaël Hertzog

Organizations that are still running Debian 9 servers should be aware that the security support of the Debian LTS team will end on June 30th 2022.

If upgrading to a newer Debian release is not an option for them, then they should consider subscribing to Freexian’s Extended LTS to get security support for the packages that they are using on their servers.

It’s worth pointing out that we made some important changes to Freexian’s Extended LTS offering :

we are now willing to support each Debian release for up to 10 years (so 5 years of ELTS support after the 5 initial years), provided that we have customers willing to pay the required amount.
we have changed our pricing scheme so that we can announce up-front the (increasing) cost over the 5 years of ELTS
we have dropped the requirement to subscribe to the Debian LTS sponsorship, though it’s still a good idea to contribute to the funding of that project to ensure that one’s packages are properly monitored/maintained during the LTS period

This means that we have again extended the life of Debian 8 Jessie, this time until June 30th 2025. And that Debian 9 Stretch – that will start its “extended” life on July 1st 2022 – can be maintained up to June 30th 2027.

Organizations using Debian 10 should consider sponsoring the Debian LTS team since security support for that Debian release will soon transition from the regular security team to the LTS team.

Freexian’s report about Debian Long Term Support, March 2022

April 28, 2022 by Raphaël Hertzog

Every month we review the work funded by Freexian’s Debian LTS offering. Please find the report for March below.

Debian project funding

There was no new activity in Debian project funding in the two existing projects. However, there was a survey run with hundreds of Debian Developers and Debian contributors. The survey results are being collated and we will use the anonymized data to further develop the Freexian project funding initiative.
We are preparing to more broadly announce additional support for Debian 8 Jessie and Debian 9 Stretch. Now, Debian 8 can be supported until June 2025 and Debian 9 until June 2027. More information on ELTS support is available.
In March € 2250 was put aside to fund Debian projects.

Learn more about the rationale behind this initiative in this article.

Debian LTS contributors

In March, 11 contributors were paid to work on Debian LTS, their reports are available below. If you’re interested in participating in the LTS or ELTS teams, we welcome participation from the Debian community. Simply get in touch with Jeremiah or Raphaël if you are if you are interested in participating.

Abhijith PA did 12.0h out of 12h assigned.
Anton Gladky did 20h out of 20h assigned.
Ben Hutchings did 16h out of 24h assigned.
Chris Lamb did 18h out of 18h assigned.
Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did 59.5h out of 59.5h assigned.
Jeremiah Foster did 13.5 out of 20h assigned.
Markus Koschany did 40h out of 40h assigned.
Roberto C. Sánchez did 14h out of 32h assigned, carrying over 18h
Sylvain Beucler did 14.5h out of 40h assigned, carrying over 25.5h
Thorsten Alteholz did 40h out of 40h assigned.
Utkarsh Gupta did 57.75h out of 59.5h assigned, carrying over 1.75 hours.

Evolution of the situation

In March we released 42 DLAs.

The security tracker currently lists 81 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file has 52 packages needing an update.

We’re glad to welcome a few new sponsors such as Électricité de France (Gold sponsor), Telecats BV and Soliton Systems.

Thanks to our sponsors

Sponsors that joined recently are in bold.

Platinum sponsors:
- TOSHIBA (for 79 months)
- GitHub (for 70 months)
- Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) (for 47 months)
Gold sponsors:
- Roche Diagnostics International AG (for 90 months)
- Linode (for 84 months)
- Babiel GmbH (for 73 months)
- Plat’Home (for 73 months)
- University of Oxford (for 29 months)
- Deveryware (for 16 months)
- VyOS Inc (for 11 months)
- EDF SA
Silver sponsors:
- Domeneshop AS (for 95 months)
- The Positive Internet Company (for 95 months)
- Nantes Métropole (for 89 months)
- Univention GmbH (for 80 months)
- Université Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 80 months)
- Ribbon Communications, Inc. (for 74 months)
- Exonet B.V. (for 64 months)
- Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 58 months)
- CINECA (for 47 months)
- Ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires Étrangères (for 42 months)
- Cloudways Ltd (for 31 months)
- Dinahosting SL (for 29 months)
- Bauer Xcel Media Deutschland KG (for 23 months)
- Platform.sh (for 23 months)
- Moxa Intelligence Co., Ltd. (for 17 months)
- sipgate GmbH (for 14 months)
- Tilburg University (for 13 months)
- OVH US LLC (for 12 months)
- GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH (for 4 months)
- Telecats BV
- Soliton Systems K.K.
Bronze sponsors:
- Evolix (for 95 months)
- Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 95 months)
- Intevation GmbH (for 92 months)
- Linuxhotel GmbH (for 92 months)
- Daevel SARL (for 91 months)
- Bitfolk LTD (for 89 months)
- Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 89 months)
- NUMLOG (for 89 months)
- Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 88 months)
- WinGo AG (for 88 months)
- Ecole Centrale de Nantes – LHEEA (for 84 months)
- Entr’ouvert (for 79 months)
- Adfinis AG (for 77 months)
- GNI MEDIA (for 71 months)
- Laboratoire LEGI – UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 71 months)
- Tesorion (for 71 months)
- Bearstech (for 63 months)
- LiHAS (for 62 months)
- People Doc (for 59 months)
- Catalyst IT Ltd (for 57 months)
- Supagro (for 52 months)
- Demarcq SAS (for 51 months)
- Université Grenoble Alpes (for 37 months)
- TouchWeb SAS (for 29 months)
- SPiN AG (for 26 months)
- CoreFiling (for 22 months)
- Institut des sciences cognitives Marc Jeannerod (for 16 months)
- Observatoire des Sciences de l’Univers de Grenoble (for 13 months)
- Tem Innovations GmbH (for 8 months)
- WordFinder.pro (for 7 months)
- CNRS DT INSU Résif (for 6 months)

Join Freexian to help improve Debian

March 29, 2022 by Raphaël Hertzog

Freexian has set itself new ambitious goals in support of Debian and we would like to expand our team to help us reach those goals. We have drafted a mission statement to clarify our purpose and our values, and we hope to be able to attract talented software developers, entrepreneurs and Debian experts from our community.

Freexian’s mission is to help Debian evolve to be the leading Linux distribution and a model to follow in the free software world.
We want to achieve that by enabling passionate contributors to spend most of their time working on Debian and free software, combining lucrative work in support of enterprise customers, core contributions to Debian’s processes, and personal goals.
Extract from Freexian’s mission statement

If Debian is an important part of your life, if improving Debian is something that you enjoy doing, if you have enough skills and Debian expertise to match some of the roles that we have described on our Join us page, then we would love to hear from you at gerants@freexian.com, so we can figure out a way to work together.

Freexian’s report about Debian Long Term Support, February 2022

March 17, 2022 by Raphaël Hertzog

Every month we review the work funded by Freexian’s Debian LTS offering. Please find the report for February below.

Debian project funding

In February Raphaël and the LTS worked on a survey of Debian developers meant to solicit ideas for improvements in the Debian project at large. You can see the results of the initial discussion here in the list of ideas of which there are already over 30.
The full survey is due to be emailed to Debian Developers shortly.
In February € 2250 was put aside to fund Debian projects.

Debian LTS contributors

In February, 12 contributors were paid to work on Debian LTS, their reports are available below. If you’re interested in participating in the LTS or ELTS teams, we welcome participation from the Debian community. Simply get in touch with Jeremiah or Raphaël if you are if you are interested in participating.

Abhijith PA did 10h out of 10h available.
Anton Gladky did 20h out of 20h available.
Ben Hutchings did 16h out of 16h available.
Chris Lamb did 18h out of 18h available.
Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did 42.75h out of 42.75h available.
Jeremiah Foster worked 20 hours out of 20 available on LTS administration and 2.9 hours on funded projects.
Markus Koschany did 30h (out of 40h available), thus carrying over 10h to March.
Roberto C. Sánchez did 12h out of 12h available.
Sylvain Beucler did 13h (out of 40h available), thus carrying over 27h to March.
Thorsten Alteholz did 40h out of 40h available.
Utkarsh Gupta did 15.75h (out of 42.75h available), thus carrying over 27h to March.

Evolution of the situation

In February we released 24 DLAs.

The security tracker currently lists 61 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file has 26 packages needing an update.

You can find out more about the Debian LTS project via the following video:

Thanks to our sponsors

Sponsors that joined recently are in bold.

Platinum sponsors:
- TOSHIBA (for 78 months)
- GitHub (for 68 months)
- Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) (for 46 months)
Gold sponsors:
- Roche Diagnostics International AG (for 89 months)
- Linode (for 83 months)
- Babiel GmbH (for 72 months)
- Plat’Home (for 71 months)
- University of Oxford (for 28 months)
- Deveryware (for 15 months)
- VyOS Inc (for 10 months)
Silver sponsors:
- The Positive Internet Company (for 94 months)
- Domeneshop AS (for 93 months)
- Nantes Métropole (for 87 months)
- Univention GmbH (for 79 months)
- Université Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 79 months)
- Ribbon Communications, Inc. (for 73 months)
- Exonet B.V. (for 63 months)
- Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 57 months)
- CINECA (for 46 months)
- Ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires Étrangères (for 40 months)
- Cloudways Ltd (for 29 months)
- Dinahosting SL (for 27 months)
- Platform.sh (for 22 months)
- Bauer Xcel Media Deutschland KG (for 21 months)
- Moxa Intelligence Co., Ltd. (for 16 months)
- sipgate GmbH (for 13 months)
- OVH US LLC (for 11 months)
- Tilburg University (for 11 months)
- GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH
- Telecats BV
- Soliton Systems K.K.
Bronze sponsors:
- Evolix (for 94 months)
- Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 94 months)
- Linuxhotel GmbH (for 91 months)
- Intevation GmbH (for 90 months)
- Daevel SARL (for 89 months)
- Bitfolk LTD (for 88 months)
- Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 88 months)
- Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 87 months)
- NUMLOG (for 87 months)
- WinGo AG (for 86 months)
- Ecole Centrale de Nantes – LHEEA (for 83 months)
- Entr’ouvert (for 78 months)
- Adfinis AG (for 75 months)
- Laboratoire LEGI – UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 70 months)
- Tesorion (for 70 months)
- GNI MEDIA (for 69 months)
- Bearstech (for 61 months)
- LiHAS (for 61 months)
- People Doc (for 57 months)
- Catalyst IT Ltd (for 56 months)
- Supagro (for 51 months)
- Demarcq SAS (for 50 months)
- Université Grenoble Alpes (for 36 months)
- TouchWeb SAS (for 28 months)
- SPiN AG (for 24 months)
- CoreFiling (for 20 months)
- Institut des sciences cognitives Marc Jeannerod (for 15 months)
- Observatoire des Sciences de l’Univers de Grenoble (for 11 months)
- Tem Innovations GmbH (for 6 months)
- WordFinder.pro (for 6 months)
- CNRS DT INSU Résif (for 4 months)

Debian project funding

Debian LTS contributors

Evolution of the situation

Thanks to our sponsors

Debian project funding

Debian LTS contributors

Evolution of the situation

Thanks to our sponsors

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