April 30th 2024

Free software activities in April 2024

Here is my monthly update covering what I have been doing in the free software world during April 2024 (previous month).


Reproducible Builds

The motivation behind the Reproducible Builds effort is to ensure no flaws have been introduced during compilation processes by promising identical results are always generated from a given source, thus allowing multiple third-parties to come to a consensus on whether a build was compromised.

This month, I:

Elsewhere in our tooling, I made the following changes to diffoscope, including preparing and uploading versions 263, 264 and 265 to Debian:


Debian


Debian LTS

This month I have worked 18 hours on Debian Long Term Support (LTS) and 12 hours on its sister Extended LTS project.

You can find out more about the project via the following video:




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