Vim 9.2 released
Version 9.2 of the Vim text editor has been released. "Vim
9.2 brings significant enhancements to the Vim9 scripting language, improved
diff mode, comprehensive completion features, and platform-specific improvements
including experimental Wayland support." Also included is a new interactive
tutor mode.
New delegation for Debian's data protection team
Debian Project Leader (DPL) Andreas Tille has announced a
new delegation for Debian's data protection team: Following the end of the
previous delegation, Debian was left without an active Data Protection team.
This situation has understandably drawn external attention and highlighted the
importance of having a clearly identified point of contact for data protection
matters within the project.
I am therefore very pleased to announce that new
volunteers have stepped forward, allowing us to re-establish the Debian Data
Protection team with a fresh delegation.
Tille had put out a call for
volunteers in January after all previous members of the team had stepped down.
He has appointed Aigars Mahinovs, Andrew M.A. Cater, Bart Martens, Emmanuel
Arias, Gunnar Wolf, Kiran S Kunjumon, and Salvo Tomaselli as the new members of
the team. The team provides a central coordination and advisory function around
Debian's data handling, retention, dealing with deletion requests, and
more.
[$] The first half of the 7.0 merge window
The merge window for Linux 7.0 has opened, and with it
comes a number of interesting improvements and enhancements. At the time of
writing, there have been 7,695 non-merge commits accepted. The 7.0 release is
not special, according to the kernel's versioning scheme — just the release that
comes after 6.19. Humans love symbolism and round numbers, though, so it may
feel like something of a milestone.
[$] Open-source mapping for disaster response
At FOSDEM 2026 Petya Kangalova, a senior tech partnership
and engagement manager for the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) spoke about
how the project helps people map their surroundings to assist in disaster
response and humanitarian aid. The project has developed a stack of technology
to help volunteers collectively map an area and add in local knowledge metadata.
"One of the core things that we believe is that when we speak about disaster
response or people having access to data is that they really need accessible
technology that's free and open for anyone to use."
Security updates for Friday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (firefox,
gcc-toolset-14-binutils, nodejs:20, nodejs:22, nodejs:24, php:7.4, and
python3.12), Debian (haproxy, nginx, postgresql-15, and postgresql-17), Fedora
(libssh), Oracle (glib2, libsoup, nodejs:20, nodejs:22, and php:7.4), SUSE
(assimp, gnutls, helm, kernel, kubevirt, virt-api-container, virt-controller-
container, virt-exportproxy-container, virt-exportserver-container, virt-
handler-container, virt-launcher-container, virt-libguestfs-t, libmunge2,
libsodium, libsoup, micropython, munge, openCryptoki, python-azure-core, rust-
keylime, rustup, sccache, snpguest, tcpreplay, xorg-x11-server, xrdp, and
zabbix), and Ubuntu (dnsdist, dotnet8, dotnet9, dotnet10, haproxy, libpng1.6,
linux-aws-5.15, linux-azure, linux-azure-fips, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-5.4,
munge, nginx, and node-dottie).