Several improvements have been made in isar, like creating download locks with the correct user, making overrides of Rules-Requires-Root possible, avoiding building unneeded packages, testing multiarch dependency propagation, avoiding needless dependencies on native packages , and fixing a typo in a function name. Adding additional tools like perf to the kernel build (v2, v3).

Extending labgrids scp support to support multiple input files at once was proposed. A part of this was ensuring InteractiveCommandError instances hold an exitcode.

The security advirories of the Linux kernel have received 52 correction patches to the version numbers.