Weekly development news
Added 2021-03-04 11:51:20 +0000 UTCGreetings to All our valuable Patrons,
A long time has passed since Dan pushed the last post here on our Patreon page, and I think it's overdue to change that. Each of you is part of the fundament that allows ongoing development and growth of DietPi, covering the most important running costs. Thank you for becoming a Patron of DietPi!
We thought about giving you a compact weekly insight into ongoing development and internal topics, also allowing you to participate and give feedback. But we want you to decide about that or suggest alternatives, as some might be interested while others might consider it as spam while participating on GitHub and our forum already. Probably a monthly report would be better, or does it collide with the ~monthly DietPi releases? Tell us!
Best regards,
the DietPi team
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Many thanks to all voters btw, so for now it seems like you're generally interested in such, but not on a weekly basis. I thought that e.g. monthly would be too close to the release schedule, so that all the release announcements make a post here obsolete. But we could simply inform here one or two times between the releases to give some preview and allow you to give early feedback on ideas/changes/implementations we plan or do.
DietPi
2021-03-08 12:09:51 +0000 UTCHi Laurie, thanks for your suggestion. Security patches are a matter of APT package upgrades, shipped by the repositories. Up to stable Debian/Raspbian (currently up Buster), all available APT package upgrades can be considered as either security-related, urgent functionality fixes or otherwise important, like time zone and trusted CA certificate updates. This is not controlled by us, but since we think those are indeed important, we added the daily APT check to show available updates in the login banner. This includes of course also 3rd party repo updates, if you have some installed, which are not always security-related. What is on the ToDo/whishlist, is a feature to use an installed MTA to send notifications about server issues to a custom mail address. The initial idea was about voltage warnings, kernel errors (I/O, e.g. in case of file system corruption), but for DietPi and APT updates this is useful as well, especially for users which do not regularly log into their server. I'll put that on higher priority. There are rare cases where we inform via MOTD about security-related issues on third party software, e.g. an important Pi-hole update or a Nextcloud + Ngnix config patch, I remember, which are not controlled by APT packages. But that is something that should not be limited to Patrons, same as APT security-patches, I think ;).
DietPi
2021-03-08 12:02:33 +0000 UTC
