March 15th marked the first of the trixie freeze milestones. I updated several packages and performed various cleanup and preparation for the expected 6.0.4 LTS releases of lxc, lxcfs, and incus in early April.

I also returned to SCALE 22x in Pasadena the first weekend of the month. I hung out at the Debian booth quite a bit as well as enjoyed several talks.

In other fun news, the upcoming TrueNAS 25.04 release will feature Incus for its containerization and virtualization solution. Since TrueNAS is based on Debian, its Incus packages are pulling in work performed by … drum-roll, please … me! 🎉

Highlights

• runit scripts were added to lxcfs and incus (thanks to Martin Steigerwald for the contributions!)
• Applied minor fixes to lxc and incus after apparmor 4.1.0 was uploaded to unstable
• Cherry-picked an upstream fix for incus to support QEMU 10
• Performed some general package cleanup for incus, lxc, and lxcfs

Debian packaging work

Uploaded the following packages to NEW

• golang-github-minio-crc64nvme
  • Found and reported a bug affecting some arm64 systems

Updated the following packages in unstable

• gobgp
• golang-github-casbin-casbin
• golang-github-digitalocean-go-libvirt
• golang-github-digitalocean-go-qemu
• golang-github-golang-jwt-jwt (closed bug #1086792 and fixed low-severity CVE-2024-51744 and CVE-2025-30204)
• golang-github-golang-jwt-jwt-v5 (fixed low-severity CVE-2025-30204)
• golang-github-ibm-sarama
• golang-github-johanneskaufmann-html-to-markdown
• golang-github-klauspost-cpuid
• golang-github-lestrrat-go-jwx
• golang-github-minio-madmin-go
• golang-github-minio-minio-go-v7
• golang-github-minio-pkg
• golang-github-nats-io-go-nats
• golang-github-nats-io-nkeys
• golang-github-openfga-go-sdk
• golang-github-puerkitobio-goquery
• golang-github-toorop-go-dkim
• golang-github-zitadel-logging
• golang-github-zitadel-oidc
• golang-github-zitadel-schema
• golang-k8s-utils
• incus (closed bugs #1084990 and #1099444)
• lua-lxc (closed bug #1050628)
• lxc (closed bugs #1099042 and #1098521)
• lxcfs (closed bug #1087185)
• lxc-templates (closed bug #992255)
• minio-client

Updated the following backported packages for bookworm

• golang-github-golang-jwt-jwt-v5
• golang-github-zitadel-logging
• golang-github-zitadel-oidc
• golang-github-zitadel-schema
• incus

BTS activities

• Reviewed a MR to add runit scripts to incus

Sponsors

All work was done on a volunteer basis.