Colin Watson's free software activity in September 2024 included sponsored contributions by Freexian and updates to various packages.
He focused on getting Pydantic back into a good state in Debian testing, upgraded Debian packaging to OpenSSH 9.9p1, and updated python-yubihsm, yubihsm-connector, and yubihsm-shell to new versions.
Colin also worked on the Python team, fixing issues caused by setuptools 72.0.0 and added compatibility for Python 3.13.
Additionally, he made updates to various other packages like debmirror, nbconvert, importlib-resources, ipywidgets, jsonpickle, and more.