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Join Freexian and help us grow Debian’s impact! We’re hiring a Senior Sales & Business Development Manager to spearhead the next stage of growth for the sales and business development functions within our organization. At Freexian, we’re passionate about Debian and Open Source, and we’re looking for someone who shares that passion. You’ll help us expand our reach, build meaningful partnerships, and ensure Debian remains the leading Linux distribution—all while working in a fully remote, value-driven environment. If you care about Open Source, want to make a real impact, and thrive in a collaborative, mission-driven team, we’d love to hear from you! 🔗 Learn more and apply: https://lnkd.in/ghaHvmgm #Debian #OpenSource #Freexian #Hiring #TechForGood

33 Debian LTS Advisories fixing 216 CVEs for various packages were released by Debian LTS contributors in January 2026. These include notable security updates for python 3.9, django 2.2.28, php 7.4, apache2, ceph, Linux 6.1 kernel and more. A study into the security status report of p7zip, which is unmaintained upstream, was also done last month in addition to updates contributed for recent releases of Debian 12, Debian 13 and to Debian unstable. Read the full report at https://lnkd.in/g5QMbXPd This work is funded through Freexian’s Debian LTS offering. Consider sponsoring Debian LTS (https://lnkd.in/gbDeH5-C) to support this effort and benefit from it: https://lnkd.in/gaHCsgen #python39 #php74 #django #apache2 #ceph #p7zip

#Freexian collaborators worked on cross building packages, rebootstrap, refresh of the patch tagging guidelines and many other contributions to #Debian in January 2026. Visit https://lnkd.in/gQGF-vUT for the complete list and details. We thank the organizations subscribing to our Long Term Support contracts (https://lnkd.in/gwzce9Du) and consulting services (https://lnkd.in/g_--J4Nx) for making this possible. #crossbuilding #ruby34 #python314

#Debusine aims to be an integrated solution to build, distribute and maintain a Debian-based distribution. The lower-level pieces of its workflows are called tasks. A few examples are Sbuild, Lintian and Debdiff worker tasks. Adding a new worker task can help you extend the capabilities of a Debusine instance. Our new blogpost - https://lnkd.in/gGK-DkM9 covers how to write one with a detailed example of adding a worker task that runs reprotest. #freexian

41 Debian LTS Advisories were released in December fixing 252 CVEs. These included notable security updates for libsoup2.4, glib2.0, lasso, #roundcube, #mediawiki, python-apt and libpng1.6. In addition, upstream fixes were proposed for seven CVEs in #ffmpeg and various updates to latest Debian releases was contributed by #Debian LTS team. Full report: https://lnkd.in/gCZFjhFc This work is funded through Freexian’s Debian LTS offering. Consider sponsoring Debian LTS (https://lnkd.in/gbDeH5-C) to support this effort and benefit from it: https://lnkd.in/gbanaV5F #freexian #debianlts

Python 3.14 and Ruby 3.4 transitions, dh-python development, a hybrid dependency solver for crossqa.debian.net, rebootstrap updates and making Debian CI resistant to the growing scraper traffic. #Freexian collaborators worked on these and many more contributions to #Debian in December 2025. Read all the details at:  https://lnkd.in/gSutbVe4 We thank the organizations subscribing to our Long Term Support contracts (https://lnkd.in/gwzce9Du) and consulting services (https://lnkd.in/g_--J4Nx) for making this possible. #python314 #ruby34 #debianci #rebootstrap

We bid adieu to 2025 with a post detailing how files are stored by Debusine. Read about how abstractions for low-level file storage and object collections in Debusine allows storage to be scalable beyond a single filesystem and be highly available. It also goes into detail about how data duplication is minimized using content-addressed storage. Learn more at https://lnkd.in/gvqXsXhZ #debusine #freexian #contentaddressable

In November, Debian LTS contributors released 33 Debian LTS Advisories, fixing 219 CVEs across multiple packages. Notable updates included security fixes for bind9, unbound, pdfminer, firefox-esr, thunderbird, and the Linux 6.1 kernel. In addition, the LTS team also contributed security updates to latest Debian releases and carried out significant work to revamp the LTS team documentation. Read the full report here: https://lnkd.in/gMuGzB_B This work is funded through Freexian’s Debian LTS offering. Consider sponsoring Debian LTS (https://lnkd.in/gbDeH5-C) to support this effort and benefit from it: https://lnkd.in/gbanaV5F #freexian #debianLTS #debian #linux #bind9 #unbound #thunderbird

Ever thought about APT compatible add-on package repositories for Debian? Like PPAs but having proper compatibility with #Debian, QA tests and automatic built-in snapshot capabilities? Glad to announce #Debusine repositories are now in public beta for Debian developers and maintainers. Head to https://lnkd.in/gQ4GG-mG to learn more about it and how you can use it. #Freexian #DebusineRepositories

This is the culmination of one year of work in the #Debusine team and certainly a game changer in the #Debian community. Now we will build on this to make it possible to prepare (large) transitions in Debusine repositories, with all packages to be uploaded together when the entire set is ready and validated. In a company setting, this could be used to collect updates in a staging repository, and test them before moving them the production repositories.