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The Debian project has announced that it is delaying the release of its next version, Debian 123. This delay is because developers are working on fixing a bug that causes EXT4 file systems to become corrupt.

The bug occurs when the system writes too much data in too short a time to the EXT4 file system, leading to data loss and corruption. This affects only some distributions based on Debian, such as Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and Raspbian. 

The bug was found by a developer named Timo Teräs, who posted about it on Launchpad, an open-source collaboration website owned by Canonical Ltd. After finding out about the bug, Canonical contacted Debian about it and suggested that they delay releasing their new version until they could fix this issue.

The team at Debian then decided to delay their release until they could fix this problem so that there would not be any risk posed by using EXT4 file systems within their operating system (OS).

Check out the article linked below for more details on this bug. I'm disappointed to see this release put on hold, but happy to see the Debian team prioritizing security over speed.

The link for this article located at Phoronix is no longer available.