Here is my monthly update covering what I have been doing in the free software world during April 2026 (previous month):
Debian LTS
This month I have worked 30 hours on Debian Long Term Support (LTS) and on its sister Extended LTS (ELTS) project.
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Investigated and triaged
efivar(CVE-2026-6862),emacs(CVE-2026-6861),gpac(CVE-2026-7135),haproxy(CVE-2026-33555),libcryptx-perl(CVE-2026-41564),libxpm(CVE-2026-4367),mako(CVE-2026-41205),mbedtls,mitmproxy(CVE-2026-40606),mongo-c-driver(CVE-2026-6691),nano(CVE-2026-6842&CVE-2026-6843),node-follow-redirects(CVE-2026-40895),node-uuid(CVE-2026-41907&CVE-2026-41988),nsis(CVE-2026-42171),opencryptoki(CVE-2026-40253),php7.0(CVE-2024-2408),php7.3(CVE-2024-2408),php7.4(CVE-2024-2408),redis(CVE-2025-67733),sed(CVE-2026-5958) andwireshark(CVE-2026-6530,CVE-2026-6529&CVE-2026-5653). -
Frontdesk duties, responding to user/developer questions, reviewing others' packages, participating in mailing list discussions, etc.
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Issued DLA 4523-1 because it was discovered that there was a potential SQL vulnerability in GeoPandas, a tool for working with geographic/geospatial data in the Pandas data analysis suite.
You can find out more about the Debian LTS project via the following video: