The Debian project developers announced that the package base for Debian 11 'Bullseye' has been transitioned to full freeze, during which the process of moving key packages and packages without autopkgtests from unstable to testing will be completely halted, and the stage of intensive testing and fixing release-blocking issues will begin. In special cases, packages from unstable may be transferred manually, but this requires approval from the team responsible for release preparation.
As a reminder, on January 15, 2021, the first freeze stage for the Debian 11 package base was implemented, during which the execution of 'transitions' (package updates requiring dependency adjustments for other packages, leading to temporary removal from Testing) was halted, and updates for essential build packages were also stopped. A soft freeze of the package base took place on February 12, during which the acceptance of new source packages was ceased and the possibility of reintegrating previously removed packages was closed.
Currently, there are 240 critical bugs blocking the release (two months ago there were 472, at the time of the freeze in Debian 10 — 316, Debian 9 — 275, Debian 8 — 350, Debian 7 — 650). The final release of Debian 11 is expected this summer.
Source: opennet.ru
