#use wml::debian::projectnews::header PUBDATE="2012-08-21" SUMMARY="Debian celebrates its 19th birthday, help the Debian Installer team, bits from the DPL"
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On August 16, the Debian Project celebrated its
nineteenth birthday
since Ian Murdock's original
founding
announcement.
Debian contributors and users celebrated it all over the globe:
appreciation messages and pictures of the parties can be followed on the
Thank you Debian website,
maintained this year by Lincoln de Sousa and Marcelo Jorge Vieira.
You can submit your own message directly on the web platform or using the Identi.ca hashtag
#thxdebian.
For this occasion, Leandro Gómez created a nice
birthday
postcard while some
other
contributors blogged
about their first experiences with Debian.
The Debian Installer team
announced
the first beta release of the installer for Debian 7.0 Wheezy
.
The team asks Debian users to help in testing and improving this new
version of the installer: while there are some known issues with the
installer that do not need to be reported, it is very important to try
the installer in order to find all possible bugs before the release.
Problems should be reported as an installation
report.
Stefano Zacchiroli sent his monthly report on DPL activities. Stefano reported about the ongoing discussion with the FSF about Debian Freeness, as well as an important discussion about the trademark policy draft and the logo relicensing.
# Admins of new ftp.ru have some issues to get the mirror accepted by # managers ... please hold on advertising them # -- spaillard # #The Debian mirrors team, together with our sponsors, is happy to announce three
# new mirrors: in Russia, provided
# by the National Research Nuclear University
# MEPhI
whose administrators are pleased to provide a full Debian mirror
# to Russian users
; in Vietnam,
# provided by MAYCHU; and in Malaysia,
# provided by the Multimedia University of Malaysia.
#
# For other countries, the full list of mirrors
# is available online, as well as the experimental redirector which will
# automatically take into account these new mirrors.
# There are still countries lacking good connectivity to a Debian mirror;
# sponsors interested in hosting are invited to contact the mirrors team.
#
The 30th issue of the miscellaneous news for developers has been released and covers the following topics:
Justin B. Rye has started an informational wiki page describing where package names come from, suggestively entitled "Why the name". As the page description says, giving cryptic names to software is a well-established UNIX tradition, and the explanations are often missing from the documentation, either because the developers imagine it's obvious (usually wrongly) or because they think nobody cares (and here they're usually right, or it would turn up as FAQ material).
There is one upcoming Debian-related event:
You can find more information about Debian-related events and talks on the events section of the Debian web site, or subscribe to one of our events mailing lists for different regions: Europe, Netherlands, Hispanic America, North America.
Do you want to organise a Debian booth or a Debian install party? Are you aware of other upcoming Debian-related events? Have you delivered a Debian talk that you want to link on our talks page? Send an email to the Debian Events Team.
Five applicants have been accepted as Debian Maintainer, and eighteen people have started to maintain packages since the previous issue of the Debian Project News. Please welcome Alexander Golovko, Elías Alejandro Año Mendoza, Gustavo Panizzo, Ian Campbell, Nicolas Bourdaud, Marc Pegon, Marco Maria Francesco De Santis, Jose G. López, Ariane Boehm, Jocelyn Jaubert, Emmanuel Kasper, Sascha Steinbiss, Eva Reisinger, Julia Ertl, Andrej Belym, Julien Puydt, Markus Frosch, Daniele E. Domenichelli, Emmanuel Promayon, Ralf Jung, Vincent Hobeïka, Cedric Staniewski, and Guy Yachdav into our project!
Debian's Security Team recently released advisories for these packages (among others): bind9, krb5, isc-dhcp, openoffice.org, libxml2, fckeditor, globus-gridftp-server, openttd, expat, libotr, php5, icedove, python-django, rssh, and xen. Please read them carefully and take the proper measures.
Debian's Stable Release Team released an update announcement for the package: clamav. Please read it carefully and take the proper measures.
Please note that these are a selection of the more important security advisories of the last weeks. If you need to be kept up to date about security advisories released by the Debian Security Team, please subscribe to the security mailing list (and the separate backports list, and stable updates list) for announcements.
308 packages were added to the unstable Debian archive recently. Among many others are: