Debian 11.1 Released With Initial Batch Of Fixes

[Duff~]

Perhaps pin your system to the stable/bullseye release, and then install the kernel from the testing/bookworm release?

https://wiki.debian.org/AptConfiguration

You'll get kernel version 5.14.9 that way. Hopefully that should be fine.

Thank you for your advice. But since the patch/bugfix I need is not crucial I will pass the backporting advice.
I am very happy with the current state of debian 11, and I don't want to introduce bugs unnecessarily just to get a mostly inane bugfix

[DeeK]

I needed a patch from linux 5.10.71 but the rebase for this point release is 5.10.70 d'oh.

Perhaps pin your system to the stable/bullseye release, and then install the kernel from the testing/bookworm release?

https://wiki.debian.org/AptConfiguration

You'll get kernel version 5.14.9 that way. Hopefully that should be fine.

[piorunz]

By the way, here is better news about new Debian point release:

https://9to5linux.com/debian-gnu-linux-11-1-bullseye-released-with-24-security-updates-and-75-bug-fixes

"Debian GNU/Linux 11.1 comes with a total of 99 updated packages, split into 75 miscellaneous bug fixes and 24 security updates." (...)

[piorunz]

Debian is amazing, using it on all my machines. My main workstation has Bullseye since release candidate, rock solid. One crash of amdgpu in last few months. Apart from that, everything works perfectly and nothing crashes. When I was on Manjaro, I had crashes daily and had do hard reboot. No more! Love Debian.

[Duff~]

I needed a patch from linux 5.10.71 but the rebase for this point release is 5.10.70 d'oh.

Amazing that even with their hard freeze and bug smashing they still have to release a point release so soon because of bugs!

"This point release mainly adds corrections for security issues, along with a few adjustments for serious problems" Nothing big IMO

[tomas]

Amazing that even with their hard freeze and bug smashing they still have to release a point release so soon because of bugs!

Hardly amazing. Just reality. All software have bugs. No software is finished. It also depends on what kind of bugs we are talking about. Is it major bugs like obvious crashes that should have been caught earlier during the hard freeze or is it more subtle bugs and security fixes that were not discovered until now?

[kylew77]

Amazing that even with their hard freeze and bug smashing they still have to release a point release so soon because of bugs!

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Debian 11.1 Released With Initial Batch Of Fixes

Debian 11 "Bullseye" debuted back in August as the latest major release for this popular community Linux distribution. Today it's been succeeded by Debian 11.1...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Debian-11.1-Released