Many thanks for your donations and for your support.<\/p>\n
Server upgrades<\/strong><\/p>\n The repository servers were upgraded. They’re now able to serve packages at 10gbps, which is 10 times faster than before.<\/p>\n We no longer observe bottlenecks during large updates when packages such as Firefox or Chromium are updated concurrently.<\/p>\n Upgrade path<\/strong><\/p>\n The upgrade between Mint 21.3 and 22 was broken last week due to package conflicts introduced upstream in Ubuntu 24.04 on samba and libreoffice.<\/p>\n When Debian unstable was frozen to make the Ubuntu 24.04 package base, Debian was performing a large transition<\/a> towards new T64 packages. When the 24.04 release was delayed, it was to address the XZ backdoor (all packages had to be recompiled). The package base was also in really bad shape though. A week before it was due, we couldn’t even debootstrap it. Credits to Canonical, by the time 24.04 was released, everything was stable. The transition to T64 wasn’t finished though and so the path from 22.04 to 24.04 was delayed until 24.04.1.<\/p>\n This usually never happens. Post-release the 24.04 package base still needs to catch up with Debian to backport the rest of the T64 transition. Only then can the upgrade path be stable and open. This is really quite complex because the 24.04 base is frozen and stable.. but Debian unstable itself has moved on. The situation is being worked on and addressed upstream by Canonical. It’s getting better and better but regressions can pop in and break the upgrade path at any moment.<\/p>\n Canonical Pauses Ubuntu 22.04 to 24.04 Upgrade Path Due to Critical Bugs<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n