The voting period and tally of votes for the Debian Project Leader election has just concluded, and the winner is Sruthi Chandran. Congratulations!

347 out of 1,039 Developers voted using the Condorcet method.

More information about the results of the voting is available on the Debian Project Leader Elections 2026 page.

Many thanks to Sruthi Chandran for her campaign, to our Developers for their votes, and to Andreas Tille for his service as DPL over the past two years!

The new term for the project leader will start on April 21, 2026 and expire on April 20, 2027.

The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months:

• Jongmin Kim (jmkim)
• Yifei Zhan (yifei)
• Sébastien Noel (twolife)

The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers in the last two months:

• Andreas Dolp
• Dandan Zhang
• M Hickford

Congratulations!

Between July and November 2025, the Debian pt_BR translation team received five students for an online mentoring program. The initiative was carried out in partnership with the Federal University of ABC through the extension project "Immersion in Free Software", coordinated by professors Suzana Santos and Miguel Vieira.

During the mentorship the mentees acted on several of the team's translation efforts and joined presentations about the Debian Project and its community given by the mentors. We thank the dedication and contributions of Ana Parra, Bruno Freitas, Henrique Barbosa, Raul Banzatto and Vitoria Cordeiro. And we also thank the members of the team who have reviewed the work of the mentees, specially the ones who were designated as official mentors, namely Allythy Rennan, Daniel Lenharo, Thiago Pezzo, and Victor Marinho.

Results:

• Package descriptions, translations: 27
• Package descriptions, revisions: 190
• Web pages: 11
• Revisions to the Debian Administrator's Handbook
• Revisions to the Debian Edu documentation

We hope that this experience will inspire new paths and that you continue to contribute to Free Software – especially to Debian.

We are pleased to announce that Infomaniak has committed to sponsor DebConf26 as a Platinum Sponsor.

Infomaniak is an independent, employee-owned Swiss technology company that designs, develops, and operates its own cloud infrastructure and digital services entirely in Switzerland. With over 300 employees — more than 70% engineers and developers — the company reinvests all profits into R&D. Its public cloud is built on OpenStack, with managed Kubernetes, Database as a Service, object storage, and sovereign AI services accessible via OpenAI- compatible APIs, all running on its own Swiss infrastructure. Infomaniak also develops a sovereign collaborative suite — messaging, email, storage, online office tools, videoconferencing, and a built-in AI assistant — developed in- house and as a privacy-respecting solution to proprietary platforms. Open source is central to how Infomaniak operates. Its latest data center (D4) runs on 100% renewable energy and uses no traditional cooling: all the heat generated by its servers is captured and fed into Geneva's district heating network, supplying up to 6,000 homes in winter and hot water year-round. The entire project has been documented and open-sourced at d4project.org.

With this commitment as Platinum Sponsor, Infomaniak is contributing to the Debian annual Developers' conference, directly supporting the progress of Debian and Free Software. Infomaniak contributes to strengthen the community that collaborates on Debian projects from all around the world throughout all of the year.

Thank you very much, Infomaniak, for your support of DebConf26!

Become a sponsor too!

DebConf26 will take place from 20th to July 25th 2026 in Santa Fe, Argentina, and will be preceded by DebCamp, from 13th to 19th July 2026.

DebConf26 is accepting sponsors! Interested companies and organizations may contact the DebConf team through sponsors@debconf.org, and visit the DebConf26 website at https://debconf26.debconf.org/sponsors/become-a-sponsor/.

We are pleased to announce that Proxmox has committed to sponsor DebConf26 as a Platinum Sponsor.

Proxmox develops powerful, yet easy-to-use open-source server solutions. The comprehensive open-source ecosystem is designed to manage divers IT landscapes, from single servers to large-scale distributed data centers. Our unified platform integrates server virtualization, easy backup, and rock-solid email security ensuring seamless interoperability across the entire portfolio. With the Proxmox Datacenter Manager, the ecosystem also offers a "single pane of glass" for centralized management across different locations. 

Since 2005, all Proxmox solutions have been built on the rock-solid Debian platform. We are proud to return to DebConf26 as a sponsor because the Debian community provides the foundation that makes our work possible. We believe in keeping IT simple, open, and under your control.

Thank you very much, Proxmox, for your support of DebConf26!

Become a sponsor too!

DebConf26 will take place from 20th to July 25th 2026 in Santa Fe, Argentina, and will be preceded by DebCamp, from 13th to 19th July 2026.

DebConf26 is accepting sponsors! Interested companies and organizations may contact the DebConf team through sponsors@debconf.org, and visit the DebConf26 website at https://debconf26.debconf.org/sponsors/become-a-sponsor/.