02 May 2026
Planet Debian
Bits from Debian: Debian welcomes the 2026 GSoC interns


We are very excited to announce that Debian has been assigned seven contributors to work under mentorship on a variety of projects with us during the Google Summer of Code.
Here is a list of the projects and contributors, along with details of the tasks to be performed.
Project: Automated Debian Packaging with debianize
- Contributor: Anurag Nayak
Deliverables of the project: Debianize is a tool that aims to automatically create debian packages from scratch from upstream source trees. As for the current version, it works for some of the packages but it is not reliable. This project aims at making it production ready such that it can work with most of the projects. Along with that improving its reliability, coverage, integration with the broader ecosystem and other enhancements.
Project: Linux Livepatching
- Contributor: Aryan Karamtoth
Deliverables of the project: Linux Kernel Livepatching is the process of replacing functions in the kernel code affected by CVEs with the patch-applied functions during system runtime. It's basically a method to apply security kernel patches to a running system.
Project: DebNet: Visualising the Bus Factor - Graph Analysis of Debian's Infrastructure
- Contributor: Fabio Ruhland
Deliverables of the project: DebNet models the Debian archive as a graph to identify critical packages maintained by too few people. Using data from the Ultimate Debian Database (UDD), it builds a package dependency graph and a maintainer-package graph to compute practical metrics like the Bus Factor, Fragility Score, and Dependency Impact for every source package.
Project: Attack of the Clones: Fight Back Using Code Duplication Detection From Security Patches
- Contributor: Gajendra Nath Soren
Deliverables of the project: This project aims to detect vulnerable code clones in the Debian archive by automatically extracting signatures from security patches. Using a two-signal approach that separates vulnerable patterns from fix patterns, the system generates high-specificity queries to search the entire archive via Debian CodeSearch.
Project: Debusine: debuginfod server
- Contributor: Jugal59
Deliverables of the project: This project implements a debuginfod-compatible server within Debusine to provide automated debug symbol resolution for Debian developers.
Project: Debian-LSP: Improve File Format Support
- Contributor: Lucas Ly Ba
Deliverables of the project: The Debian LSP Language Server currently provides only basic features-field completion, parse-error diagnostics, and simple quick fixes-leaving Debian maintainers without the rich IDE experience available in other ecosystems.
Project: Debusine: live log streaming
- Contributor: mo-ashraf
Deliverables of the project: Debusine currently only shows task logs after a task has fully completed. This means developers working with long-running jobs (such as package builds or test pipelines) have no way to monitor progress in real time or catch failures early. This project adds live log streaming to Debusine.
Congratulations and welcome to all the contributors!
The Google Summer of Code program is possible in Debian thanks to the efforts of Debian Developers and Debian Contributors that dedicate part of their free time to mentor contributors and outreach tasks.
Join us and help extend Debian! You can follow the contributors' weekly reports on the debian-outreach mailing-list, chat with us on our IRC channel or reach out to the individual projects' team mailing lists.
02 May 2026 10:04am GMT
Ben Hutchings: FOSS activity in April 2026

- Debian packages:
- firmware-nonfree:
- Bugs:
- Merge requests:
- merged !142: Replace copy-firmware.sh; install files and generate metainfo.xml at build time
- opened and merged !143: Clean up configuration format and directory
- opened and merged !144: Remove usr-move mitigation, only needed for the trixie upgrade
- opened and merged !145: Update to 20260410
- Uploads:
- uploaded version 20260309-1~bpo13+1 to trixie-backports
- uploaded version 20260410-1 to unstable
- uploaded version 20260410-1~bpo13+1 to trixie-backports
- initramfs-tools:
- kernel-handbook:
- Merge requests:
- ktls-utils:
- Merge requests:
- linux:
- Bugs:
- closed #1113728: linux: new ABI versioning prevents linux-version and other tools from correctly sorting Debian revisions
- closed #1113996: linux-image-amd64: self-tests for sha256 using sha256-padlock-nano failed
- closed #1122357: linux: Please update udeb packages to use non-aliased paths
- closed #1127612: linux-image-6.12.69+deb13-amd64: hp_bioscfg mm/page_alloc.c:4802 warning
- replied to #1130926: systemd powering hard disks down before reboot
- closed #1130971: linux-image-6.19.8+deb14-amd64: fails to boot unless IOMMU is turned off
- closed #1131166: enable uniwill platform driver
- closed #1131431: linux: loong64 KVM warnings (memcpy + UBSAN out-of-bounds)
- closed #1131546: linux: debian/b/test-patches does not produce easy to test (unsigned) image package
- closed #1132155: linux: Missing kernel module udebs in some architectures
- closed #1132201: linux: Please enable CONFIG_VIDEO_OV02E10 to support ipu6 camera on Dell Precision 5690
- closed #1132622: CVE-2026-23417: fix BPF PROBE_MEM32 constant blinding
- closed #1132796: linux-kbuild is missing scripts/gen-btf.sh
- closed #1132814: linux-source-6.19: please enable CONFIG_VIDEO_INTEL_IPU7
- replied to #1132816: linux-image-rt-amd64: missing ip_tables.ko in linux-image-rt-amd64
- Merge requests:
- merged !1864: [amd64] drivers/media/i2c: Enable VIDEO_OV02E10 as module
- opened !1869: Cleanup for kernel-wedge
- opened !1870: kernel-wedge, udeb: Define which packages to build through package-list
- opened !1871: Update udeb package definitions
- reviewed !1872: Install bug files via debhelper
- merged !1877: [amd64] drivers/staging/media/ipu7: Enable VIDEO_INTEL_IPU7 as module
- opened !1880: Fix FTBFS on several architectures
- reviewed !1885: bug script: Extend several parts
- opened and merged !1891: linux-image: Add retrospective NEWS entry for the removal of XFS V4 support
- merged !1897: Add selection of bugfixes for 6.1.y on top of 6.1.170
- Uploads:
- (LTS) uploaded version 5.10.251-3 to bullseye-security
- uploaded version 6.12.85-1~bpo12+1 to bookworm-backports
- uploaded version 6.19.10-1~bpo13+1 to trixie-backports
- uploaded version 6.19.11-1~bpo13+1 to trixie-backports
- uploaded version 6.19.13-1~bpo13+1 to trixie-backports
- uploaded version 7.0-1~exp1 to experimental
- (LTS) updated the bullseye-security branch to 5.10.253, but did not upload this version
- (LTS) worked on regression fixes for 5.10/5.15/6.1 upstream stable branches
- Bugs:
- (LTS) linux-6.1:
- Uploads:
- uploaded version 6.1.170-1~deb11u1 to bullseye-security
- Uploads:
- linux-base:
- openntpd:
- firmware-nonfree:
- Debian non-package bugs:
- Mailing lists:
02 May 2026 9:08am GMT
01 May 2026
Planet Debian
Dirk Eddelbuettel: binb 0.0.8 on CRAN: Maintenance

The eight release of the binb package, and first in two years, is now on CRAN and in r2u. binb regroups four rather nice themes for writing LaTeX Beamer presentations much more easily in (R)Markdown. As a teaser, a quick demo combining all four themes is available; documentation and examples are in the package.
This release contains regular internal updates to continuous integration, URLs reference and switch to Authors@R. The trigger for the release, though, was a small updated need when very recent pandoc versions (as shipped with RStudio) are used which require a new variable declaration in the LaTeX template files in order to process uncaptioned tables. The summary of changes follows.
Changes in binb version 0.0.8 (2026-05-01)
Small updates to documentation URLs and continuous integration
The package now uses Authors@R in DESCRIPTION
Newer pandoc versions are accommodated by adding a required counter variable in the latex template file
CRANberries provides a summary of changes to the previous version. For questions or comments, please use the issue tracker at the GitHub repo.
This post by Dirk Eddelbuettel originated on his Thinking inside the box blog. If you like this or other open-source work I do, you can sponsor me at GitHub. You can also sponsor my Tour de Shore 2026 ride in support of the Maywood Fine Arts Center.
01 May 2026 1:34pm GMT