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Freexian is a services company specialized in Debian GNU/Linux

Our services: Extended Long Term Support for Debian Packages, Long Term Support for PHP releases in Debian and Ubuntu, Debian packaging, Consulting, Custom development, Support and Training.
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In October 2025, contributions to #Debian by #Freexian collaborators involved upstreaming cPython patches, making autopkgtest for ansible-core robust and more!

Read the full report at www.freexian.com/blog/debian-...

#python #cpython
Debian Contributions: Upstreaming cPython patches, ansible-core autopkgtest robustness and more!
Debian Contributions: 2025-10 Contributing to Debian is part of Freexian’s mission. This article covers the latest achievements of Freexian and their collaborators. All of this is made possible by org...
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November 13, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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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.
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 availab...
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October 21, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Freexian’s September 2025 Debian contributions report covers a variety of interesting work.

Find the full report here - www.freexian.com/blog/debian-...

#debian #freexian
Debian Contributions: Old Debian Printing software and C23, Work to decommission packages.qa.debian.org, rebootstrap uses *-for-host and more!
Debian Contributions: 2025-09 Contributing to Debian is part of Freexian’s mission. This article covers the latest achievements of Freexian and their collaborators. All of this is made possible by org...
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October 14, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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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.
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:...
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September 26, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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We have a new blog post on Debusine to share with you!

It's our first design story for the UI, covering our unique approach towards JavaScript.

Read more about us using JavaScript in Debusine without depending on JavaScript here: www.freexian.com/blog/debusin...

#Debusine #Django #JavaScript
Using JavaScript in Debusine without depending on JavaScript
Guidelines and tradeoffs for JavaScript use in Debusine UI
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September 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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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 DebCamp25
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: A...
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September 12, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Our August 2025 Debian Contributions report is out! We have updates on preparing for the setup.py install deprecation in setuptools, Salsa CI, the Debian 13 “trixie” release and more.

Full report here: www.freexian.com/blog/debian-...

#freexian #debian #trixie #setuptools #salsaci
Debian Contributions: Preparing for setup.py install deprecation, Salsa CI, Debian 13 "trixie" release and more!
Debian Contributions: 2025-08 Contributing to Debian is part of Freexian’s mission. This article covers the latest achievements of Freexian and their collaborators. All of this is made possible by org...
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September 11, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Interested in how Debian LTS works and what’s ahead?

The recorded BoF session from #DebConf25 is now online!

Watch the recording here: meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-m...

#debian #debianLTS #linuxsecurity #freexian
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August 21, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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Freexian’s July 2025 Debian contributions report highlights our active role in Debian, from sponsoring and participating in DebConf 25 to contributing talks, infrastructure work, and community planning. Full details: www.freexian.com/blog/debian-...

#debian #freexian #debconf25 #OpenSSH #CrossBuild
Debian Contributions: DebConf 25, OpenSSH upgrades, Cross compilation collaboration and more!
Debian Contributions: 2025-07 Contributing to Debian is part of Freexian’s mission. This article covers the latest achievements of Freexian and their collaborators. All of this is made possible by org...
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August 12, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Debian 13 “trixie” is now the new Debian stable!

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

#debian #trixie
Debian Extended LTS by Freexian
This service extends security support for old Debian releases up to 10 years, albeit only on the subset of packages used by the customers of this service.
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August 11, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Curious about how Debusine workflows actually work in practice?

Check out the recorded BoF session from #DebConf25!

Learn about current developer workflows, challenges, and community discussions on what’s possible and what’s next for #Debusine.

meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-m...

#Debian
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August 8, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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@cjwatson.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy from #Freexian gave a great talk at #DebConf25:

“Using Debusine to pre-test your unstable uploads” debconf25.debconf.org/talks/29-usi...
Using Debusine to pre-test your unstable uploads - DebConf25
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August 7, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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*UEFI Secure Boot Signing with Debusine*

How do you handle Secure Boot signing for Debian-based systems?

We've just published a detailed write-up on how Freexian uses Debusine to manage UEFI Secure Boot signing for Debian 10 ELTS.

#Debian #UEFI #SecureBoot #Debusine #Freexian #LinuxSecurity
Secure boot signing with Debusine
Debusine aims to be an integrated solution to build, distribute and maintain a Debian-based distribution. At Debconf 25, we talked about using it to pre-test uploads to Debian unstable, and also touch...
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August 6, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Freexian is a proud sponsor of this year's annual Debian Conference, DebConf 25, which started on 14th July.
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#debian #freexian #debconf25
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July 14, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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The security support for Debian "Jessie", provided by Freexian, under the ELTS service has reached its end-of-life on June 30, 2025.
www.freexian.com/lts/extended...

#Jessie #LTS #EOL#ELTS
ELA-1477-1 jessie-elts end of life
jessie end of life
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July 1, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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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.

#openjdk #postgres13 #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: Ab...
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June 16, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Contributions to Debian by Freexian Collaborators in the last month include updating 'Austin', continuing the preparations for DebConf 25 and more!

You can read all about it in our monthly report here:
www.freexian.com/blog/debian-...

#debconf #trixie #debian13
Debian Contributions: Updated Austin, DebConf 25 preparations continue and more!
Debian Contributions: 2025-05 Contributing to Debian is part of Freexian’s mission. This article covers the latest achievements of Freexian and their collaborators. All of this is made possible by org...
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June 11, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Debian LTS contributors released 46 Debian LTS Advisories about security updates for various packages in April 2025.

These include critical security bug fixes for jetty9, zabbix and glibc and more.

#debian #freexian #debianlts #glibc
Monthly report about Debian Long Term Support, April 2025
Like each month, have a look at the work funded by Freexian’s Debian LTS offering. Debian LTS contributors In April, 22 contributors have been paid to work on Debian LTS, their reports are available: ...
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May 21, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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The contributions by Freexian collaborators to Debian in April reminds us that DebConf 25 and Trixie release is getting near!!

These contributions include DebConf 25 preparations, PyPA tools updates, Removing libcrypt-dev from build-essential and more!

Read more - www.freexian.com/blog/debian-...
Debian Contributions: DebConf 25 preparations, PyPA tools updates, Removing libcrypt-dev from build-essential and more!
Debian Contributions: 2025-04 Contributing to Debian is part of Freexian’s mission. This article covers the latest achievements of Freexian and their collaborators. All of this is made possible by org...
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May 12, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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31 Debian LTS Advisories were released in March about security updates for various packages including but not limited to linux-6.1, firefox-esr, intel-microcode and vim.

Read more about work done by Debian LTS contributors in our monthly report for March at www.freexian.com/blog/debian-...
Monthly report about Debian Long Term Support, March 2025
Like each month, have a look at the work funded by Freexian’s Debian LTS offering. Debian LTS contributors In March, 20 contributors have been paid to work on Debian LTS, their reports are available: ...
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May 2, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Freexian is a proud sponsor of two MiniDebConfs happening this week in Maceió, Brazil and in Hamburg, Germany.

The talks will be streamed live on the conference websites - maceio.mini.debconf.org and hamburg2025.mini.debconf.org.

#freexian #debian #debconf #miniDebConfMaceio #MiniDebConfHamburg
Página inicial
MiniDebConf Maceió 2025 é um encontro da comunidade Debian brasileira que acontece na capital alagoana entre 1 e 4 de maio de 2025
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May 1, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Freexian is excited to announce that we are partnering with Invisible Things Lab to extend security support for Xen hypervisor version 4.17. www.freexian.com/blog/xen-4.1...

#freexian #debian #xen #lts #hypervisor
Freexian partners with Invisible Things Lab to extend security support for Xen hypervisor
Xen 4.17 LTS release sponsored by Freexian
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April 29, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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In March, contributions to #Debian by #Freexian collaborators involved preparing for Trixie, updating debvm, preparing the #DebConf25 website for opening registration and more!

You can read all about it in our monthly report:
www.freexian.com/blog/debian-...

#freesoftware #opensource
Debian Contributions: Preparations for Trixie, Updated debvm, DebConf 25 registration website updates and more!
Debian Contributions: 2025-03 Contributing to Debian is part of Freexian’s mission. This article covers the latest achievements of Freexian and their collaborators. All of this is made possible by org...
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April 9, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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February was a very busy month for the #Debian LTS contributors. 38 Debian LTS Advisories were released in February about security updates for various packages.

The monthly report on the work done is available at www.freexian.com/blog/debian-...
Monthly report about Debian Long Term Support, February 2025
Like each month, have a look at the work funded by Freexian’s Debian LTS offering. Debian LTS contributors In February, 18 contributors have been paid to work on Debian LTS, their reports are availabl...
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March 31, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Contributions to #Debian by #Freexian Collaborators in the month of February includes Debian.Social administration, DebConf 25 preparations, Fixing Time-based test failure in Python requests package and more!

You can read all about it in our monthly report: www.freexian.com/blog/debian-...
Debian Contributions: Debian.Social administration, DebConf 25 preparations, Fixing Time-based test failure in Python requests package and more!
Debian Contributions: 2025-02 Contributing to Debian is part of Freexian’s mission. This article covers the latest achievements of Freexian and their collaborators. All of this is made possible by org...
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March 11, 2025 at 1:33 PM