#use wml::debian::projectnews::header PUBDATE="2010-XX-XX" SUMMARY="" #use wml::debian::acronyms

Welcome to this year's XXXth issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include:

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More details about foo.

Other news

The xxth issue of the miscellaneous news for developers has been released and covers the following topics:

New Debian Contributors

XXX applicants have been accepted as Debian Developers and XXX applicants has been accepted as Debian Maintainer and XXX people started to maintain packages since the previous issue of the Debian Project News. Please welcome X, Y, and Z into our project!

Release-critical bugs statistics for the upcoming release

According to the Bugs Search interface of the Universal Debian Database, the upcoming release, Debian 6.0 Squeeze, is currently affected by XXX release-critical bugs. Ignoring bugs which are easily solved or on the way to being solved, roughly speaking, about XXX release-critical bugs remain to be solved for the release to happen.

There are also more detailed statistics as well as some hints on how to interpret these numbers.

Important Debian Security Advisories

Debian's Security Team recently released advisories for these packages (among others): , Please read them 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 for announcements.

New and noteworthy packages

The following packages were added to the unstable Debian archive recently (among others):

Please note that due to the freeze of the upcoming Debian 6.0 Squeeze acceptance of new packages has almost ceased.

Work-needing packages

Currently XXX packages are orphaned and XXX packages are up for adoption. Please take a look at the recent reports to see if there are packages you are interested in or view the complete list of packages which need your help.

Want to continue reading DPN?

Please help us create this newsletter. We still need more volunteer writers to watch the Debian community and report about what is going on. Please see the contributing page to find out how to help. We're looking forward to receiving your mail at debian-publicity@lists.debian.org.

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