The Debian release team published an update on the status of Debian 11 Bullseye.

Bits from the Release Team: frozen hard to get hot

Hi all,

According to schedule, we froze bullseye a bit more last week (12-03-2021). This means that we are one step closer to the release of bullseye and we expect everyone to follow the freeze policy [1]. This means that from now on key packages and packages without significant autopkgtest coverage need to be unblocked by the release team to be able to migrate from unstable to testing. If you need to request an unblock, check that your request is in line with the freeze policy and use $(reportbug release.debian.org) in order to get the meta data correct and get the template that helps us get the right information.

Note that packages that are not on the key-packages list, with non-superficial autopkgtests that succeed on all architectures and don't cause regressions will migrate without an unblock after 20 days. If you're unsure about the current migration status of your package, you can check it at [3].

Now is a good time to help testing installations and upgrades to find as many issues as possible and fix rc bugs [4]. Please be aware of bug 984533 (libc6), 974552 (libcrypt1) and 953562 (libcrypt1) when you do. Add information to those bug if you can help them forward.

Please also remember to file bugs against the release-notes pseudo package if you know of issues that deserve being mentioned in the release notes. Ideally with proposed text, or even via a merge request on salsa [2], but even if you can only point us at issues that's already appreciated.

On behalf of the Release Team,
Paul

[1] https://release.debian.org/bullseye/freeze_policy.html#hard
[2] https://salsa.debian.org/ddp-team/release-notes/
[3] https://qa.debian.org/excuses.php
[4] https://deb.li/rcbugs