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My Debian Activities in December 2024

Debian LTS

This was my hundred-twenty-sixth month that I did some work for the Debian LTS initiative, started by Raphael Hertzog at Freexian.

I worked on updates for ffmpeg and haproxy in all releases. Along the way I marked more CVEs as not-affected than I had to fix. So finally there was no upload needed for haproxy anymore. Unfortunately testing ffmpeg was not as easy, as the recommended “just look whether mpv can play random videos” is not really satisfying. So the upload will happen only in January.

I also wonder whether fixing glewlwyd is really worth the effort, as the software is already EOL upstream.

Debian ELTS

This month was the seventy-seventhth ELTS month. During my allocated time I worked on ffmpeg, haproxy, amanda and kmail-account-wizzard.

Like LTS, all CVEs of haproxy and some of ffmpeg could be marked as not-affected and testing of the other packages was/is not really straight forward. So the final upload will only happen in January as well.

Debian Printing

Unfortunately I didn’t found any time to work on this topic.

Debian Matomo

Thanks a lot to William Desportes for all fixes of my bad PHP packaging.

Debian Astro

This month I uploaded new packages or new upstream or bugfix versions of:

I again sponsored an upload of calceph.

Debian IoT

This month I uploaded new upstream or bugfix versions of:

Debian Mobcom

This month I uploaded new packages or new upstream or bugfix versions of:

misc

This month I uploaded new upstream or bugfix versions of:

I also sponsored uploads of emacs-lsp-docker, emacs-dape, emacs-oauth2, gpgmngr, libjs-jush.

FTP master

This month I accepted 330 and rejected 13 packages. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 335.

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My Debian Activities in November 2024

Debian LTS

This was my hundred-twenty-fifth month that I did some work for the Debian LTS initiative, started by Raphael Hertzog at Freexian. During my allocated time I uploaded or worked on:

  • [DLA 3968-1] netatalk security update to fix four CVEs related to heap buffer overflow and writing arbitrary files. The patches have been prepared by the maintainer.
  • [DLA 3976-1] tgt update to fix one CVE related to not using a propper seed for rand()
  • [DLA 3977-1] xfpt update to fix one CVE related to a stack-based buffer overflow
  • [DLA 3978-1] editorconfig-core update to fix two CVEs related to buffer overflows.

I also continued to work on a fix for glewlwyd, which is more difficult than expected. Besides I started to work on ffmpeg and haproxy.

Last but not least I did a week of FD this month and attended the monthly LTS/ELTS meeting.

Debian ELTS

This month was the seventy-sixth ELTS month. During my allocated time I uploaded or worked on:

  • [ELA-1259-1]editorconfig-core security update for two CVEs in Buster to fix buffer overflows.

I also started to work on a fix for kmail-account-wizzard. Unfortunately preparing a testing environment takes some time and I did not finish testing this month. Besides I started to work on ffmpeg and haproxy.

Last but not least I did a week of FD this month and attended the monthly LTS/ELTS meeting.

Debian Printing

Unfortunately I didn’t found any time to work on this topic.

Debian Matomo

Unfortunately I didn’t found any time to work on this topic.

Debian Astro

This month I uploaded new packages or new upstream or bugfix versions of:

I also sponsored an upload of calceph.

Debian IoT

This month I uploaded new upstream or bugfix versions of:

Debian Mobcom

This month I uploaded new packages or new upstream or bugfix versions of:

misc

This month I uploaded new upstream or bugfix versions of:

I also did some NMU of opensta, kdrill, glosstex, irsim, pagetools, afnix, cpm, to fix some RC bugs.

FTP master

This month I accepted 266 and rejected 16 packages. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 269.

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My Debian Activities in September 2024

FTP master

This month I accepted 441 and rejected 29 packages. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 448.

I couldn’t believe my eyes, but this month I really accepted the same number of packages as last month.

Debian LTS

This was my hundred-twenty-third month that I did some work for the Debian LTS initiative, started by Raphael Hertzog at Freexian. During my allocated time I uploaded or worked on:

  • [unstable] libcupsfilters security update to fix one CVE related to validation of IPP attributes obtained from remote printers
  • [unstable] cups-filters security update to fix two CVEs related to validation of IPP attributes obtained from remote printers
  • [unstable] cups security update to fix one CVE related to validation of IPP attributes obtained from remote printers
  • [DSA 5778-1] prepared package for cups-filters security update to fix two CVEs related to validation of IPP attributes obtained from remote printers
  • [DSA 5779-1] prepared package for cups security update to fix one CVE related to validation of IPP attributes obtained from remote printers
  • [DLA 3905-1] cups-filters security update to fix two CVEs related to validation of IPP attributes obtained from remote printers
  • [DLA 3904-1] cups security update to fix one CVE related to validation of IPP attributes obtained from remote printers
  • [DLA 3905-1] cups-filters security update to fix two CVEs related to validation of IPP attributes obtained from remote printers

Despite the announcement the package libppd in Debian is not affected by the CVEs related to CUPS. By pure chance there is an unrelated package with the same name in Debian. I also answered some question about the CUPS related uploads. Due to the CUPS issues, I postponed my work on other packages to October.

Last but not least I did a week of FD this month and attended the monthly LTS/ELTS meeting.

Debian ELTS

This month was the seventy-fourth ELTS month. During my allocated time I uploaded or worked on:

  • [ELA-1186-1]cups-filters security update for two CVEs in Stretch and Buster to fix the IPP attribute related CVEs.
  • [ELA-1187-1]cups-filters security update for one CVE in Jessie to fix the IPP attribute related CVEs (the version in Jessie was not affected by the other CVE).

I also started to work on updates for cups in Buster, Stretch and Jessie, but their uploads will happen only in October.

I also did a week of FD and attended the monthly LTS/ELTS meeting.

Debian Printing

This month I uploaded …

  • … libcupsfilters to also fix a dependency and autopkgtest issue besides the security fix mentioned above.
  • … splix for a new upstream version. This package is managed now by OpenPrinting.

Last but not least I tried to prepare an update for hplip. Unfortunately this is a nerve-stretching task and I need some more time.

This work is generously funded by Freexian!

Debian Matomo

This month I even found some time to upload packages that are dependencies of Matomo …

This work is generously funded by Freexian!

Debian Astro

This month I uploaded a new upstream or bugfix version of:

Most of the uploads were related to package migration to testing. As some of them are in non-free or contrib, one has to build all binary versions. From my point of view handling packages in non-free or contrib could be very much improved, but well, they are not part of Debian …

Anyway, starting in December there is an Outreachy project that takes care of automatic updates of these packages. So hopefully it will be much easier to keep those package up to date. I will keep you informed.

Debian IoT

This month I uploaded new upstream or bugfix versions of:

Debian Mobcom

This month I did source uploads of all the packages that were prepared last month by Nathan and started the transition. It went rather smooth except for a few packages where the new version did not propagate to the tracker and they got stuck in old failing autopkgtest. Anyway, in the end all packages migrated to testing.

I also uploaded new upstream releases or fixed bugs in:

misc

This month I uploaded new upstream or bugfix versions of:

Most of those uploads were needed to help packages to migrate to testing.

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My Debian Activities in August 2024

FTP master

This month I accepted 441 and rejected 15 packages. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 442.

I am ashamed of some occurrences that happened this month and I apologize for this. Unfortunately I have no idea how to prevent this in the future without becoming a solo entertainer.

Debian LTS

This was my hundred-twenty-second month that I did some work for the Debian LTS initiative, started by Raphael Hertzog at Freexian.

  • [#1073518] bookworm-pu: cups 2.4.2-3+deb12u6 has been closed
  • [#1074439] bookworm-pu: cups 2.4.2-3+deb12u7 has been closed
  • [#1073519] bullseye-pu: cups 2.3.3op2-3+deb11u7 has been closed
  • [#1074438] bullseye-pu: cups 2.3.3op2-3+deb11u8 has been closed

Unfortunately Bullseye was not handed over to LTS in August. So I only prepared new packages of asterisk, libvirt and tinyproxy and will upload them next month.

Last but not least I did a week of FD this month.

Debian ELTS

This month was the seventy-third ELTS month. During my allocated time I uploaded or worked on:

  • [ELA-1160-1]tiff security update for two CVEs in Jessie and Stretch. The Buster upload was already done before. This upload fixed a segmentation fault and a memory leak
  • [ELA-1161-1]libvirt security update for six CVEs to fix issues related to use-after-free, an off-by-one, a null pointer dereference, a badly handled mutex, a privilege escalation and breaking out of the sVirt confinement. In this case only Jessie and Stretch needed an update.
  • [ELA-1166-1]frr security update for one CVEs in Buster to fix a missing length check.

I also did a week of FD.

Debian Printing

This month I uploaded …

This work is generously funded by Freexian!

Debian Astro

This month I uploaded a new upstream or bugfix version of:

Debian Mobcom

The following packages have been prepared by the GSoC student Nathan:

It was so much fun working with Nathan. Unfortunately GSoC is over now, but Nathan will continue working in Debian and become a Debian Maintainer.

misc

This month I uploaded new upstream or bugfix versions of:

I also filed an RM bug against meep-openmpi. As Adrian made me ware, this package is no longer needed.

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My Debian Activities in July 2024

FTP master

This month I accepted 502 and rejected 40 packages. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 515.

In case you want to upload dozens of packages, it would be nice to give some heads-up before. It is kind of a shock to see a full NEW queue in the morning, though it was much shorter in the evening before.

Debian LTS

This was my hundred-twenty-first month that I did some work for the Debian LTS initiative, started by Raphael Hertzog at Freexian.

  • [#1074439] bookworm-pu: cups 2.4.2-3+deb12u7 has been marked for accept

This month I finished the new version of tiff for Bullseye (and Bookworm). The upload will follow, when Bullseye has been handed over to the LTS team in August.

Last but not least I attended the monthly LTS/ELTS meeting.

Debian ELTS

This month was the seventy-second ELTS month. During my allocated time I uploaded or worked on:

  • [ELA-1126-1-1]exim4 security update for one CVE. This was the delayed ELA I mentioned in my last report.
  • [ELA-1144-1-1]exim4 security update for one CVE to fix parsing of multiline RFC 2231 header filenames in Stretch and Buster. Jessie was not affected by this issue.
  • Uploaded new versions of tiff for Jessie and Stretch that got stuck in the autopkgtests.

For whatever reason, I had trouble with the CI again. The new tiff package wanted to run the autopkgtest of cups but never did it. So the corresponding ELA will appear only in August.

I also continued to work on an update for libvirt. There really is a reason why some packages don’t get much attention. Nevertheless someone has to take care of them. I also did a week of FD and attended the LTS/ELTS meeting.

Debian Printing

This month I uploaded …

This work is generously funded by Freexian!

Debian Astro

This month I uploaded a new upstream or bugfix version of:

Debian IoT

This month I uploaded new upstream or bugfix versions of:

Debian Mobcom

This month I uploaded …

The following packages have been prepared by the GSoC student Nathan:

misc

This month I uploaded new upstream or bugfix versions of:

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My Debian Activities in June 2024

FTP master

This month I accepted 270 and rejected 23 packages. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 279.

Debian LTS

This was my hundred-twentieth month that I did some work for the Debian LTS initiative, started by Raphael Hertzog at Freexian.

During my allocated time I uploaded or worked on:

  • [DLA 3826-1] cups security update for one CVE to prevent arbitrary chmod of files
  • [#1073519] bullseye-pu: cups/2.3.3op2-3+deb11u7 to fix one CVE
  • [#1073518] bookworm-pu: cups/2.4.2-3+deb12u6 to fix one CVE
  • [#1073519] bullseye-pu: cups/2.3.3op2-3+deb11u7 package upload
  • [#1073518] bookworm-pu: cups/2.4.2-3+deb12u6 package upload
  • [#1074438] bullseye-pu: cups/2.3.3op2-3+deb11u8 to fix an upstream regression of the last upload
  • [#1074439] bookworm-pu: cups/2.4.2-3+deb12u7 to fix an upstream regression of the last upload
  • [#1074438] bullseye-pu: cups/2.3.3op2-3+deb11u8 package upload
  • [#1074439] bookworm-pu: cups/2.4.2-3+deb12u7 package upload
  • [#1055802] bookworm-pu: package qtbase-opensource-src/5.15.8+dfsg-11+deb12u1 package upload

This month handling of the CVE of cups was a bit messy. After lifting the embargo of the CVE, a published patch did not work with all possible combinations of the configuration. In other words, in cases of having only one local domain socket configured, the cupsd did not start and failed with a strange error. Anyway, upstream published a new set of patches, which made cups work again. Unfortunately this happended just before the latest point release for Bullseye and Bookworm, so that the new packages did not make it into the release, but stopped in the corresponding p-u-queues: stable-p-u and old-p-u.

I also continued to work on tiff and last but not least did a week of FD and attended the monthly LTS/ELTS meeting.

Debian ELTS

This month was the seventy-first ELTS month. During my allocated time I tried to upload a new version of cups for Jessie and Stretch. Unfortunately this was stopped due to an autopkgtest error, which I could not reproduce yet.

I also wanted to finally upload a fixed version of exim4. Unfortunately this was stopped due to lots of CI-jobs for Buster. Updates for Buster are now also availble from ELTS, so some stuff had to prepared before the actual switch end of June. Additionally everything was delayed due to a crash of the CI worker. All in all this month was rather ill-fated. At least the exim4 upload will happen/already happened in July.

I also continued to work on an update for libvirt, did a week of FD and attended the LTS/ELTS meeting.

Debian Printing

This month I uploaded new upstream or bugfix versions of:

This work is generously funded by Freexian!

Debian Astro

This month I uploaded a new upstream or bugfix version of:

All of those uploads are somehow related to /usr-move.

Debian IoT

This month I uploaded new upstream or bugfix versions of:

Debian Mobcom

The following packages have been prepared by the GSoC student Nathan:

misc

This month I uploaded new upstream or bugfix versions of:

Here as well all uploads are somehow related to /usr-move

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My Debian Activities in May 2024

FTP master

This month I accepted 347 and rejected 49 packages. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 348.

Debian LTS

This was my hundred-nineteenth month that I did some work for the Debian LTS initiative, started by Raphael Hertzog at Freexian.

During my allocated time I uploaded or worked on:

  • [#1070154] bullseye-pu: qtbase-opensource-src/5.15.2+dfsg-9+deb11u1 package upload
  • [#1064550] bullseye-pu: libjwt 1.10.2-1+deb11u1 has been marked for accept
  • [#1067544] bullseye-pu: libmicrohttpd 0.9.72-2+deb11u1 has been marked for accept

I also continued to work on tiff and last but not least did a week of FD and attended the monthly LTS/ELTS meeting.

Unfortunately I used lots of time to debug an issue with nghttp2. Please see my odyssey below.

Debian ELTS

This month was the seventieth ELTS month. During my allocated time I uploaded:

  • [ELA-1104-1-1]nghttp2 security update for one CVEs to fix an DoS resulting from bad handling of CONTINUATION frames in Stretch

For some tests I installed the new nghttp2 package on my Stretch VM and started the daemon. Unfortunately I got an unexpected error from getaddrinfo() about ai_socktype not supported. The daemon was configured to listen on lo, the device was available, but the error remained. I was pretty sure that my patch was not the reason for this and indeed the unpatched version showed this error as well. I didn’t want to release an untested package, so nghttp2 had to start at least! Therefore I built a minimal example to reproduce the issue. getaddrinfo() failed for hints.ai_socktype=SOCK_STREAM and a numerical IP address. Having no hints at all or “localhost” instead of “127.0.0.1” made the error disappear (as a remark: “localhost” resolves to 127.0.0.1, the ipv6 variant is “ip6-localhost”). I could see that in nghttp2 as well. Configuring it with “localhost” let the error vanish but the daemon still exited due to other reasons. After some time of debugging, I added another network interface to my VM and configured it with a dummy IPv4 address. Voila, everything worked as expected. According to Wikipedia, IPv6 was ratified as standard in 2017 and Stretch was also released in 2017. No wonder that a IPv6-only-VM had problems back then and these problems survived to the present.

I also continued to work on an update for tiff in Jessie and Stretch, did a week of FD and attended the LTS/ELTS meeting.

Debian Printing

This month I uploaded new upstream or bugfix versions of:

This work is generously funded by Freexian!

Debian Astro

This month I uploaded a new upstream or bugfix version of:

Debian IoT

This month I uploaded new upstream or bugfix versions of:

Debian Mobcom

Due to more and more problems with time_t, I removed osmo-iuh and all dependencies from armel, armhf and i386, sorry. If there is really anybody using this software on 32-bit architectures don’t hesitate to get in touch.

It is official now, the GSoC student working on the Mobcom packages is Nathan Doris. He already finished the hardest part of the job and I could upload the latest version of libosmocore. I really enjoy working with him and look forward to a pleasant SoC :-).

misc

This month I uploaded new upstream or bugfix versions of:

Did I already mention that I love lists with topics I can work on. I print out such lists and enjoy checking off one after the other. End of May Helmut told me that I am a bit lazy and gave me such a list with all my packages that have one or the other issue with /usr-move. Most of the uploads above are packages on that list and I could check off a lot :-).

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My Debian Activities in April 2024

FTP master

This month I accepted 386 and rejected 39 packages. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 386.

I also added lots of +moreinfo tags to some RM bugs. Is it that hard to check the reverse dependencies on your own?

Debian LTS

This was my hundred-eighteenth month that I did some work for the Debian LTS initiative, started by Raphael Hertzog at Freexian.

During my allocated time I uploaded:

  • [DLA 3781-1] libgd2 security update for three CVEs to fix out-of-bounds reads or NULL pointer derefence
    • [DLA 3784-1] libcaca security update for two CVEs to fix heap buffer overflows
      • [DLA 3805-1] qtbase-opensource-src security update for seven CVEs to fix buffer overflows, infinite loops or application crashs due to processing of crafted input files. When trying to compile the fixed version, I got an error that there is no .compare() for QByteArray available. Yes, indeed, QByteArray::compare, which was used in a patch, was introduced only in Qt 6.0. So I had to backport that to Buster as well. It is astonishing that such a basic function was not needed before.
      • [#1070153] bookworm-pu: qtbase-opensource-src/5.15.8+dfsg-11+deb12u2 to fix two CVEs
      • [#1070154] bullseye-pu: qtbase-opensource-src/5.15.2+dfsg-9+deb11u1 to fix ten CVEs
      • [#1064550] uploaded libjwt
      • [#1067544] uploaded libmicrohttpd

      I also continued to work on tiff and last but not least did a week of FD and attended the monthly LTS/ELTS meeting.

      Debian ELTS

      This month was the sixty-ninth ELTS month. During my allocated time I uploaded:

      • [ELA-1069-1]libgd2 security update for three CVEs to fix out-of-bounds reads or NULL pointer derefence in Jessie and Stretch
      • [ELA-1070-1]libcaca security update for two CVEs to fix heap buffer overflows in Jessie and Stretch
      • [ELA-1083-1]qtbase-opensource-src security update for five CVEs to fix buffer overflows, infinite loops or application crashs due to processing of crafted input files in Stretch

      I also continued to work on an update for tiff in Jessie and Stretch, did a week of FD and attended the LTS/ELTS meeting.

      Debian Printing

      This month I uploaded new upstream or bugfix versions of:

      In preparation for cups3 I introduced a new package:

      This work is generously funded by Freexian!

      Debian Astro

      This month I uploaded a new upstream or bugfix version of:

      Debian IoT

      This month I uploaded new upstream or bugfix versions of:

      Debian Mobcom

      This month I uploaded new upstream or bugfix versions of:

      I have done these uploads in preparation for my GSoC student, who will be officially announced in May.

      misc

      I am sorry for people still using 32bit computers, but from my point of view these are dying architectures. So if there are any problems with builds on those architectures, I no longer try to fix them but file RM bugs. Patches are welcome, but I am no longer willing to spend any time for this.

      This month I uploaded new upstream or bugfix versions of:

      This month I even found some time to introduce new packages:

      • … mailio a cross platform C++ library for email support
      • … pksc11-proxy a proxy for the PKCS11-library
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My Debian Activities in March 2024

FTP master

This month I accepted 147 and rejected 12 packages. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 151.

If you file an RM bug, please do check whether there are reverse dependencies as well and file RM bugs for them. It is annoying and time-consuming when I have to do the moreinfo dance.

Debian LTS

This was my hundred-seventeenth month that I did some work for the Debian LTS initiative, started by Raphael Hertzog at Freexian.

During my allocated time I uploaded:

  • [DLA 3770-1] libnet-cidr-lite-perl security update for one CVE to fix IP parsing and ACLs based on the result
  • [#1067544] Bullseye PU bug for libmicrohttpd
  • Unfortunately XZ happened at the end of month and I had to delay/intentionally delayed other uploads: they will appear as DLA-3781-1 and DLA-3784-1 in April

I also continued to work on qtbase-opensource-src and last but not least did a week of FD.

Debian ELTS

This month was the sixty-eighth ELTS month. During my allocated time I uploaded:

  • [ELA-1062-1]libnet-cidr-lite-perl security update for one CVE to improve parsing of IP addresses in Jessie and Stretch
  • Due to XZ I also delayed the uploads here. They will appear as ELA-1069-1 and DLA-1070-1 in April

I also continued on an update for qtbase-opensource-src in Stretch (and LTS and other releases as well) and did a week of FD.

Debian Printing

This month I uploaded new upstream or bugfix versions of:

This work is generously funded by Freexian!

Debian Astro

This month I uploaded a new upstream or bugfix version of:

Debian IoT

This month I uploaded new upstream or bugfix versions of:

Debian Mobcom

This month I uploaded a new upstream or bugfix version of:

misc

This month I uploaded new upstream or bugfix versions of:

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My Debian Activities in February 2024

FTP master

This month I accepted 242 and rejected 42 packages. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 251.

This was just a short month and the weather outside was not really motivating. I hope it will be better in March.

Debian LTS

This was my hundred-sixteenth month that I did some work for the Debian LTS initiative, started by Raphael Hertzog at Freexian.

During my allocated time I uploaded:

  • [DLA 3739-1] libjwt security update for one CVE to fix some ‘constant-time-for-execution-issue
  • [libjwt] upload to unstable
  • [#1064550] Bullseye PU bug for libjwt
  • [#1064551] Bookworm PU bug for libjwt
  • [#1064551] Bookworm PU bug for libjwt; upload after approval
  • [DLA 3741-1] engrampa security update for one CVE to fix a path traversal issue with CPIO archives
  • [#1060186] Bookworm PU-bug for libde265 was flagged for acceptance
  • [#1056935] Bullseye PU-bug for libde265 was flagged for acceptance

I also started to work on qtbase-opensource-src (an update is needed for ELTS, so an LTS update seems to be appropriate as well, especially as there are postponed CVE).

Debian ELTS

This month was the sixty-seventth ELTS month. During my allocated time I uploaded:

  • [ELA-1047-1]bind9 security update for one CVE to fix an stack exhaustion issue in Jessie and Stretch

The upload of bind9 was a bit exciting, but all occuring issues with the new upload workflow could be quickly fixed by Helmut and the packages finally reached their destination. I wonder why it is always me who stumbles upon special cases? This month I also worked on the Jessie and Stretch updates for exim4. I also started to work on an update for qtbase-opensource-src in Stretch (and LTS and other releases as well).

Debian Printing

This month I uploaded new upstream versions of:

This work is generously funded by Freexian!

Debian Matomo

I started a new team debian-matomo-maintainers. Within this team all matomo related packages should be handled. PHP PEAR or PECL packages shall be still maintained in their corresponding teams.

This month I uploaded:

This work is generously funded by Freexian!

Debian Astro

This month I uploaded a new upstream version of:

Debian IoT

This month I uploaded new upstream versions of: