Colin Watson's free software contributions in May 2025 were sponsored by Freexian with a focus on urgent tasks for the trixie release.
In OpenSSH, Colin Watson resolved sshd crashes with the help of Michel Casabona and fixed a regression in ssh-agent socket handling. He also addressed reproducibility issues and issued updates for bookworm-backports, bookworm, and bullseye related to CVE-2025-32728.
For groff, Colin Watson fixed output formatting issues and added an autopkgtest. In the Python team, he upgraded multiple packages, added autopkgtests, and fixed various build/test failures. He also backported security fixes for Django-select2 and python-tornado.
Additionally, Colin Watson contributed to debmirror, backported fixes for security vulnerabilities, resolved build/test failures, added autopkgtests to various packages, packaged new dependencies for python-django-pgtrigger, and ported storm to Python 3.14. In the Science team, he fixed a build failure in apertium-oci-fra.