August 5th, 2024

• Conference Room

Agenda

• Core Updates

  • Core Update 187
    • Unless released before meeting
  • Core Update 188 - Planning and discussion
    • cleanup branch changes
    • patch for openssl version update submitted 21 May. Not yet reviewed or merged.
    • range of package update patches will be provided (Adolf)

• qos backup issues

  • All .pl files in the /var/ipfire/qos/bin/ directory are backed up.
    • This includes the makeqosscripts.pl file so if a restore is done you can revert the script to the fq_codel version
    • The cake version can then only be implemented by manual copying from the git repo.
    • Should anything from the qos/bin/ directory be getting backed up (qos.sh?)
    • The exclude directory explicitly excludes /var/ipfire/qos/bin/qos.pl but this is not in the repo

• Dasharo BIOS updates for PC Engines apu2/3/4/6

  • Pre-paid yearly subscription approach
    • coreboot+SeaBIOS - €99 (Exc VAT) - quarterly releases
    • coreboot+UEFI - €46 (Exc VAT) - yearly releases

• IPFire Meetup 2024?

Attendees

• Michael Tremer
• Arne.F
• Adolf Belka

Log

Core Update 187

• The last fixes for Vectorscan have been merged
  • Brief discussion what instruction sets are worth/possible to support these days and in the future
• The release is now gold

Core Update 188

• There is a huge list of changes that could go into this one:
  • Buildsystem changes have been merged and seem to be working okay
  • Cleanup changes cause a lot of trouble and Michael Tremer will look at them
  • OpenSSL 3.3.0 will be merged
  • Adolf Belka will move the QoS scripts to a new place outside of QoS
  • Michael Tremer will propose a patch to revert back to fq_codel by default as CAKE has too much overhead and barely any advantages in the zero-configuration use-cases

New Firmware for PCEngines APU systems by Dasharo

• Nice to see UEFI for this device, but the price point seems to be too inflated
• We don't expect virtually anyone to buy this

IPFire Meetup 2024

• Request for any changes compared to last year
• Discussion of some organisational bits