Debian's election results The Debian project has voted strongly to retain Jonathan Carter as the project leader. On that other little nagging issue, the project has voted not to issue a statement regarding Richard Stallman's return to the Free Software Foundation board of directors. This, too, was a relatively strong result over the other options. Details can be found on the specific pages for the project leader and general resolution ballots.
LLVM 12.0.0 released Version 12.0.0 of the LLVM compiler suite is out. This appears to be a release with a lot of incremental improvements rather than large headline features; see the various sets of release notes in the announcement for details.
Kernel prepatch 5.12-rc8 In the end, Linus decided to hold the 5.12 release for one more week and put out 5.12-rc8 instead. "Ok, so it's been _fairly_ calm this past week, but it hasn't been the kind of dead calm I would have taken to mean 'no rc8 necessary'.
So here we are, with an extra rc to make sure things are all settled down."