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Looking at the date I am posting this it will not come as a surprise that the season was not a strong one.

For pre-opening I again booked a carving fresh-up workshop with Pure Boarding in Pitztal (November 21 to November 24). Since the resort extends to more than 3400m of atitude the weather can be harsh. This year we had strong southern winds and moved to Riffelsee for Saturday, which turned out to be a really nice resort.

Natural snow turned out to be a rare commodity this year, but nevertheless I only rode at Diedamskopf where they rely on tnatural snow almost eclusively. They again managed to prepare quality slopes with natural snow. First day on snow was 15 December followed by a long pause until December 28. Having loads of unused vacation days I did three- or four-day work weeks in January and start of February whenever work (thanks, colleagues!) weather and conditions were nice. In hindsight this saved the season.

Since resorts have closed yesterday or will close today due to COVID-19 I am missing out on riding in Warth/Salober in spring.

While the number of a days is a low number, the quality of riding was still high.

Health-wise jumper's knee has kept me from finally really improving on my backside turn.

Well here is the balance-sheet, excluding pre-opening in Pitztal:

Testing users might want to manually pull the latest (4.92.1-3) upload of Exim from sid instead of waiting for regular migration to testing. It fixes a nasty vulnerability.

All in a very good season.

For pre-opening I again booked a carving fresh-up workshop with Pure Boarding in Pitztal (November 22 to November 25). As expected this was a great experience with friendly people, but obviously extremely exhausting. ;-)

I started the regular season on December 15 in Damüls on artificial snow, riding a series of bumps through artifical snowfall. We then got a little bit of snow around christmas, which Diedamskopf somehow managed to converted to high-quality slopes, allowing 5 snow days up to and including January 1.

Then this season's snowfall happened (The total amount was not unusual, but quite a bit fell in a very short time.) and I had three amazing days in mid of January. Which promptly was followed by me hurting myself (again) when luging. Did not look/feel too bad, but MRI showed a small tibial plateau fracture, resulting in a snowboarding break until February 23, missing a period of great weather and great snow. From that point on I tried to take a holiday from work whenever there was a sunny day (14 days on-piste in March). Diedamskopf closed early this year (April 7, with about 280 cm of snow left), and even Warth ended the season on easter monday. I had an amazing Easter week with loads of sunshine.

Well here is the balance-sheet, excluding pre-opening in Pitztal and our company outing in Brandnertal (on January 12):

GnuTLS 3.6.x has been marked stable with release 3.6.5. Binary packages are available in experimental. - Please test! FWIW I have rebuilt all reverse build-dependencies without finding GnuTLS-triggered build errors.

GnuTLS 3.6.x is ABI compatible with earlier versions. However the addition of TLS 1.3 support might require source changes. Due to differences in the TLS 1.3 handshake GNUTLS_E_AGAIN can be returned for blocking sockets.

... if one of the major changes on going back to work after the holidays is that swimming in the morning or the evening in the lake in Lipno nad Vltavou is replaced by a going for a swim in the Lake Constance during the lunch break.

For a change a winter with snow again, allowing a early start of the season (December 2). Due to early easter (lifts closing) last run was on April 14. The amount of snow would have allowed boarding for at least another two weeks. (Today, on May 10 mountainbiking is still curtailed, routes above 1650 meters of altitude are not yet rideable.)

OTOH weather sucked, extended periods of stable sunny weather were rare and totally absent in February and the first half of March. - I only had 3 days on piste in February. I made many kilometres luging during that time. ;-)

Anyway here it is:

Some time ago my computer stopped booting fast, it was stuck for about 10 seconds at Wait for Network to be Configured. Which seemed strange, since I am using systemd-networkd with a simple static configuration.

[Match]
Name=enp2s*

[Network]
Address=10.0.0.140/8
Gateway=10.0.0.138

Debugging showed the expected quick network setup followed by "NDISC":

Dez 31 15:39:02 argenau systemd-networkd[279]: enp2s0: Flags change: +LOWER_UP +RUNNING
Dez 31 15:39:02 argenau systemd-networkd[279]: enp2s0: Gained carrier
Dez 31 15:39:02 argenau systemd-networkd[279]: enp2s0: Setting addresses
Dez 31 15:39:02 argenau systemd-networkd[279]: enp2s0: Updating address: 10.0.0.140/8 (valid forever)
Dez 31 15:39:02 argenau systemd-timesyncd[368]: Network configuration changed, trying to establish connection.
Dez 31 15:39:02 argenau systemd-networkd[279]: enp2s0: Addresses set
Dez 31 15:39:02 argenau systemd-networkd[279]: enp2s0: Setting routes
Dez 31 15:39:02 argenau systemd-networkd[279]: enp2s0: Routes set
Dez 31 15:39:02 argenau kernel: r8169 0000:02:00.0 enp2s0: link up
Dez 31 15:39:02 argenau kernel: IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): enp2s0: link becomes ready
Dez 31 15:39:03 argenau systemd-timesyncd[368]: Synchronized to time server 194.177.151.10:123 (0.debian.pool.ntp.org).
Dez 31 15:39:04 argenau systemd-networkd[279]: enp2s0: Adding address: fe80::dacb:8aff:fecb:9db/64 (valid forever)
Dez 31 15:39:04 argenau systemd-networkd[279]: enp2s0: Gained IPv6LL
Dez 31 15:39:04 argenau systemd-networkd[279]: enp2s0: Discovering IPv6 routers
Dez 31 15:39:04 argenau systemd-networkd[279]: NDISC: Started IPv6 Router Solicitation client
Dez 31 15:39:04 argenau systemd-networkd[279]: NDISC: Sent Router Solicitation, next solicitation in 4s
Dez 31 15:39:08 argenau systemd-networkd[279]: NDISC: Sent Router Solicitation, next solicitation in 7s
Dez 31 15:39:16 argenau systemd-networkd[279]: NDISC: Sent Router Solicitation, next solicitation in 15s
Dez 31 15:39:16 argenau systemd-networkd[279]: NDISC: No RA received before link confirmation timeout
Dez 31 15:39:16 argenau systemd-networkd[279]: NDISC: Invoking callback for 't'.
Dez 31 15:39:16 argenau systemd-networkd[279]: enp2s0: Configured
Dez 31 15:39:16 argenau systemd-networkd-wait-online[290]: ignoring: lo
Dez 31 15:39:16 argenau systemd[1]: Started Wait for Network to be Configured.
Dez 31 15:39:16 argenau systemd[1]: Reached target Network is Online.

Given that I am not running a local IPv6 network I have simply added IPv6AcceptRA=no to the [Network]-stanza and bootup is fast again.

Another year of minimal snow. Again there was early snowfall in the mountains at the start of November, but the snow was gone soon again. There was no snow up to 2000 meters of altitude until about January 3. Christmas week was spent hiking up and taking the lift down.

I had my first day on board on January 6 on artificial snow, and the first one on natural snow on January 19. Down where I live (800m), snow was tight the whole winter, never topping 1m. Measuring station Diedamskopf at 1800m above sea-level topped at slightly above 200cm, on April 19. Last boarding day was yesterday (April 22) in Warth with hero-conditions.

I had a preopening on the glacier in Pitztal at start of November with Pure Boarding. However due to the long waiting-period between pre-opening and start of season it did not pay off. By the time I rode regularily I had forgotten almost everything I learned at Carving-School.

Nevertheless I strong season due to long periods on stable, sunny weather with 30 days on piste (counting the day I went up and barely managed a single blind run in superdense fog).

Anyway, here is the balance-sheet:

I am in the process of trying to fix CVE-2017-533[4567] for jessie and have created a preliminary candidate for uploading to stable. Source (and amd64 binaries for the trusting) is available here and also on the gnutls28_jessie branch in GIT.

I would appreciate testing and feedback to gnutls28 at packages.debian.org. Thanks!

I am wondering how many years it is going to take me to stop expecting snow below 2000m in December. This has now been the third year in a row with basically zero snow until christmas up to the top of the mountains around here. (And this year it is not going to change anymore, there might be a tiny bit of snow on January 3, but not enough to ride a board on.) I should have grown accustomed to it, but I have not managed yet, it still feels like a let-down.

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