Work is continuing on SELinux support, which provides users with more fine-grained control over what programs on their system can do, reducing the possibility of security violations.

"We're expecting to be able to announce support of the latest LSB standard, 3.1, in the next few weeks for all the architectures LSB covers, and formally certify that support when etch releases.

"We've added or updated two gigabytes worth of software in the archive every day over the past week, and that will likely continue and possibly increase before the release is done."

The heated Dunc debate

Creating Dunc has not been without heated exchange.