Monthly report about Debian Long Term Support, October 2025

The Debian LTS Team, funded by [Freexian’s Debian LTS offering] (https://www.freexian.com/lts/debian/), is pleased to report its activities for October.

Activity summary

During the month of October, 21 contributors have been paid to work on Debian LTS (links to individual contributor reports are located below).

The team released 37 DLAs fixing 893 CVEs.

The team has continued in its usual rhythm, preparing and uploading security updates targeting LTS and ELTS, as well as helping with updates to oldstable, stable, testing, and unstable. Additionally, the team received several contributions of LTS uploads from Debian Developers outside the standing LTS Team.

Notable security updates:

  • https-everywhere, prepared by Markus Koschany, deals with a problem created by ownership of the https-rulesets.org domain passing to a malware operator
  • openjdk-17 and openjdk-11, prepared by Emilio Pozuelo Monfort, fixes XML external entity and certificate validation vulnerabilities
  • intel-microcode, prepared by Tobias Frost, fixes a variety of privilege escalation and denial of service vulnerabilities

Notable non-security updates:

  • distro-info-data, prepared by Stefano Rivera, updates information concerning current and upcoming Debian and Ubuntu releases

Contributions from outside the LTS Team:

  • Lukas Märdian, a Debian Developer, provided an update of log4cxx
  • Andrew Ruthven, one of the request-tracker4 maintainers, provided an update of request-tracker4
  • Christoph Goehre, co-maintainer of thunderbird, provided an update of thunderbird

Beyond the typical LTS updates, the team also helped the Debian community more broadly:

  • Abhijith PA prepared oldstable/stable updates of libxml2, and an unstable update of libxml2.9
  • Bastien Roucariès prepared oldstable/stable updates of imagemagick
  • Daniel Leidert prepared an oldstable update of python-authlib, oldstable update of libcommons-lang-java and stable update of libcommons-lang3-java
  • Utkarsh Gupta prepared oldstable/stable/testing/unstable updates of ruby-rack

The LTS Team is grateful for the opportunity to contribute to making LTS a high quality for sponsors and users. We are also particularly grateful for the collaboration from others outside the time; their contributions are important to the success of the LTS effort.

Individual Debian LTS contributor reports

Thanks to our sponsors

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