The seventh corrective update for the Debian 11 distribution has been released, which includes accumulated package updates and fixes for issues in the installer. The release includes 92 updates addressing stability issues and 102 updates addressing vulnerabilities.
Notable changes in Debian 11.7 include updates to the latest stable versions of packages such as clamav, dpdk, flatpak, galera-3, intel-microcode, mariadb-10.5, nvidia-modprobe, postfix, postgresql-13, and shim. Packages like bind-dyndb-ldap (which does not work with new releases of bind9), python-matrix-nio (which has security issues and does not support current versions of matrix), weechat-matrix, matrix-mirage, and pantalaimon (which depend on the removed python-matrix-nio) have been removed. servers matrix), weechat-matrix, matrix-mirage and pantalaimon (rely on the remote python-matrix-nio).
Installation builds for fresh installations will soon be prepared, as well as a live iso-hybrid with Debian 11.7. Systems installed earlier and kept up to date will receive the updates present in Debian 11.7 through the standard update installation system. Security fixes included in new Debian releases are available to users as updates are released through the security.debian.org service.
At the same time, the second release candidate for the installer for the next significant release — Debian 12 ('Bookworm') — has been presented. Changes include the addition of support for the luks2 encryption partition format in digitally signed efi images of GRUB, improvements in cryptsetup performance on systems with low RAM, the installation of the shim-signed package in images for the i386 and arm64 architectures, and the addition of support for devices such as the Lenovo Miix 630, Lenovo Yoga C630, StarFive VisionFive, D1 SoC, A20-OLinuXino_MICRO-eMMC, Lenovo ThinkPad X13s, Colibri iMX6ULL eMMC, and Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Plus Rev 1.3.
The release of Debian 12 is scheduled for June 10, 2023. The complete freeze before the release is planned for May 24. Currently, there are 258 critical bugs blocking the release (a month ago there were 267, two months ago — 392, and three months ago — 637).
Source: opennet.ru
