A robotic submarine driven by Debian has won first place in the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) competition run at a U.S. Naval facility. The Debian project lauds the participating undergrads from Cornell University.

Christian Perrier (Bubulle) issued statistics in his blog that show which countries of the world have the largest per capita Debian developers. First place goes to Finland.

IndiMail, an email solution made of open source components, now includes greylisting spam filtering in version 1.6.

Debian developer Frans Pop has updated debmirror, a tool that creates local copies of Debian repositories. The version number thereby jumped from 1.0 to 2.2 in just three weeks.

The current Debian Sysvinit boot system will gradually be replaced by upstart due to sysvinit's unreliability, according to Debian boot system maintainers.

The embedded webserver Appweb is available in version 3.0. The new release improves performance, introduces a server-side JavaScript framework and runs on more operating systems than ever before.

Emesene is a Linux client for communicating over Windows Live Messenger. The current version brings first-time webcam support.