Imminent release for the media images for Debian 10.12 and 11.3 20220327 0010

 OK - so it wasn't quite all done in one day - and since today is TZ change day in the UK, it might actually run into the TZ bump but I suspect that it will all be done very soon now. Very few glitches - everybody cheerful with what's been done.

I did spot someone in IRC who had been reading the release notes - which is always much appreciated. Lots of security fixes overall in the last couple of months but just a fairly normal time, I think.

Thanks to the team behind all of this: the ftpmasters, the press team and everyone else involved in making Debian more secure. This is the last blog for this one - there will be another point release along in about three months or so.

Still testing Debian media images 20220326 2026UTC- almost finished 11.3 - Buster starting soon

 And we're working through quite nicely.

It's been a long, long day so far and we're about 1/2 way through :)

Shout out to Isy, Sledge and RattusRattus in Cambridge and also smcv.

Two releases in a day is a whole bunch :)

Part way through testing Debian media images 20220326 1555UTC - Found a new useful utility

 For various obscure reasons, I have a mirror of Debian in one room and the main laptop and so on I use in another. The mirror is connected to a fast Internet line - and has a 1Gb Ethernet cable into the back directly from the router, the laptop and everything else - not so much, everything is wired, but depends on a WiFi link across the property. One end is fast - one end runs like a snail.

Steve suggested I use a different tool to make images directly on the mirror machine - jigit. Slightly less polished than jigdo but - if you're on the same machine - blazingly fast. I just used it to make the Blu-Ray sized .iso and was very pleasantly surprised. 

jigit-mkimage -j [jigdo file] -t [template file] -m Debian=[path to mirror of Debian] -o [output filename]

Another nice surprise for me - I have a horrible old Lenovo Ideapad. It's one of the Bay Trail Intel machines with a 32 bit UEFI and a 64 bit processor. I rescued it from the junk heap. Reinstalling it with an image today fixed an issue I had with slow boot and has turned it into an adequate machine for web browsing.

All in all, I've done relatively few tests so far - but it's been a good day, as ever.

More later.

Debian media team - testing and releasing Debian 11.3 - 20220326 1243UTC

And back to relative normality : the usual suspects are in Cambridge. It's a glorious day across the UK and we're spending it indoors with laptops :)

We'll also be releasing a point release of Buster as a wrap up of recent changes.

Debian 10 should move from full support to LTS on July August 14th - one year after the release of Debian 11 - and there will be a final point release of Buster somewhere around that point.

All seems to be behaving itself well.

Thanks to all for the hard work that goes into preparing each release and especially the security fixes of which there seem to be loads lately.