Final post from media team for the day - most of the ordinary images and live images have been tested

 Winding down slightly - we've worked our way through most of the images and testing. Schweer tested all of the Debian Edu/Skolelinux images for which many thanks

Sledge, RattusRattus, Isy and I have been working pretty much solidly for 10 3/4 hours. There's still some images to build - mips, mipsel and s390x but these are all images that we don't have hardware to test on particularly.

Another good and useful day - bits and pieces done throughout. NOTE: There appear to have been some security updates since the main release this morning so, as ever, it's worth updating machines on a regular basis.

Waiting for the final images to finish building so that we can check the archive for completeness and then publish to the media mirrors. All the best until next time: thanks as ever to Sledge for his invaluable help. See you again in a couple of months in all likelihood. 

A much smaller release: some time in the next month we hope to be able to build and test an Alpha release for Bullseye. Bullseye is likely to be released somewhere round the middle of next year so we'll have additional Buster stable point releases in the meantime.

Chunking through the tests for various media images ...

We're working our way through some of the CD/DVD/Blu-Ray media images, doing test installs, noting failures and so on. It's repetitive work but vital if we're going to provide some assurance that folk can install from the images we make. 

There's always the few things that catch us out and there's always something to note for next time. Schweer has joined us and is busy chasing down debian-edu/Skolelinux installs from Germany. We're getting there, one way and another, and significantly ahead of where we were last time around when the gremlins got in and delayed us. All good :)

There are things that money can't buy - and sensible Debian colleagues are worth gold and diamonds :)

 Participating in the Debian media testing on debian-cd. One of my colleagues has just spent time to sort out an email issue having spent a couple of hours with me the other night. I now have good, working email for the first time in years - I can't value that highly enough.

Sledge, RattusRattus, Isy and myself are all engaged in testing various CD images. At the same time, they're debugging a new application to save us from wiki problems when we do this - and we're also able to use a video link which is really handy to chat backwards and forwards and means I can sit virtually in Cambridge :)

Lots of backchat and messages flying backwards and forwards - couldn't wish for a better way to spend an afternoon with friends.

There's a Debian point release for Debian stable happening this weekend - 10.6

 Nothing particularly new or unexpected: there's a point release happening at some point this weekend for Debian stable. Usual rules apply: if you've already got a system current and up to date, there's not much to do but the base files version will change at some point to reflect 10.6 when you next update. 

If you have media from 10.5, you may not _have_ to go and get media this weekend but it's always useful to get new media in due course. There's an updated kernel and an ABI bump. You _will_ need to reboot at some time to use the new kernel image.

This point release will contain security fixes, consequent changes etc. as usual - it is always good and useful to keep machines up to date.

Working with the CD team to eventually test, build and release CD / DVD images and media as and when files gradually become available. As ever, this may take 12-16 hours. As ever, I'll post some blog entries as we go.

Currently "sitting in Cambridge" via video link with Sledge, RattusRattus and Isy who are all involved in the testing and we'll have a great day, as ever.