[Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox 25.11 released

James Valleroy jvalleroy at mailbox.org
Tue Sep 9 12:36:45 BST 2025


FreedomBox 25.11 has been released and uploaded to Debian unstable. Typically, the freedombox package will migrate to 
testing in 2 days, and then can be uploaded to stable-backports.

Highlights of this release:

  * email: Fix Thunderbird auto configuration failure
  * matrixsynapse, upgrades: Install select packages from unstable

Other Changes:

  * action_utils: Implement a utility to run a command as different user
  * actions, backup: Implement raw output for privileged daemon
  * actions, backups: Fix tests depending on sudo based actions
  * actions: Drop feature to run privileged action as another user
  * actions: Drop sudo based privileged actions
  * actions: Framework for capturing stdout/stderr in privileged daemon
  * actions: Simplify raw output code in privileged methods
  * backups: Trim translatable string
  * container: Add support for Trixie as stable distribution
  * container: Pass --nvram option to virsh undefine
  * d/control: Remove libpam-abl as a recommendation
  * diagnostics: Fix notification severity when skipping tests
  * dynamicdns: Handle showing errors from GnuDIP
  * gitweb: Don't use privileged action feature to run as different user
  * gitweb: Use pathlib API more
  * HACKING.md: Mention using virtual machines instead of containers
  * homeassistant: Fix typo in description
  * l10n: Fix a broken string in Russian translation
  * l10n: Fix broken Italian translation
  * l10n: Fix formatted strings for errors/exceptions
  * locale: Update translations for Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified Han script), Czech, Dutch, French, German, Italian, 
Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian
  * Makefile, settings: Use full paths in pot files
  * package: Don't consider uninstalled packages as available
  * package: Refresh apt cache if sources list is newer
  * power: logind config to ignore laptop lid close
  * privileged: Don't isolate /var/tmp/ for privileged daemon
  * privileged_daemon: Introduce a command line client for the API
  * privileged_daemon: Log only to journal and not console
  * samba: Update client list
  * storage: Don't use privileged action feature to run as different user
  * syncthing: Update Android clients to Syncthing-Fork
  * tests: functional: Fix incorrect skipping of install tests
  * ui: Fix missing semicolon in JS file
  * upgrades: Don't allow needs-restart to restart privileged daemon
  * upgrades: Overhaul detection of distribution
  * web_server: Restart in development mode only for source code changes

The following people contributed to the git repository for this release:

- 109247019824
- Burak Yavuz
- Coucouf
- Dietmar
- ikmaak
- James Valleroy
- Jiří Podhorecký
- Joseph Nuthalapati
- Roman Akimov
- Sunil Mohan Adapa
- Veiko Aasa
- Максим Горпиніч
- 大王叫我来巡山

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