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CFP Deadlines: December 12, 2024 to February 10, 2025
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
---|---|---|---|
December 19 | May 16 May 18 |
PyCon US 2024 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US |
December 31 | March 20 | pgDay Paris | Paris, France |
December 31 | March 18 | Nordic PGDay 2025 | Copenhagen, Denmark |
January 1 | May 13 May 16 |
PGConf.dev | Montreal, Canada |
January 8 | March 22 March 23 |
Chemnitz Linux Days 2025 | Chemnitz, Germany |
January 12 | May 13 May 17 |
RustWeek / RustNL 2025 | Utrecht, The Netherlands |
January 13 | March 18 March 20 |
Linux Foundation Member Summit | Napa, CA, US |
January 15 | April 29 April 30 |
stackconf 2025 | Munich, Germany |
January 17 | March 10 March 14 |
Netdev 0x19 | Zagreb, Croatia |
January 27 | January 28 | Linaro Forum for Arm Linux Kernel Topics | Virtual , NA |
February 1 | April 14 April 15 |
foss-north 2025 | Gothenburg, Sweden |
February 1 | May 8 May 9 |
PostgreSQL Conference Germany | Berlin, Germany |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
Events: December 12, 2024 to February 10, 2025
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
Date(s) | Event | Location |
---|---|---|
January 20 January 22 |
Everything Open 2025 | Adelaide, Australia |
January 28 | Linaro Forum for Arm Linux Kernel Topics | Virtual , NA |
February 1 February 2 |
FOSDEM | Brussels, Belgium |
February 4 February 5 |
State of Open Con | London, UK |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Security updates
Alert summary December 5, 2024 to December 11, 2024
Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
---|---|---|---|---|
AlmaLinux | ALSA-2024:10752 | 8 | firefox | 2024-12-05 |
AlmaLinux | ALSA-2024:10702 | 9 | firefox | 2024-12-05 |
AlmaLinux | ALSA-2024:10791 | 9 | postgresql | 2024-12-05 |
AlmaLinux | ALSA-2024:10785 | 8 | postgresql:12 | 2024-12-05 |
AlmaLinux | ALSA-2024:10832 | 8 | postgresql:13 | 2024-12-05 |
AlmaLinux | ALSA-2024:10830 | 8 | postgresql:15 | 2024-12-10 |
AlmaLinux | ALSA-2024:10787 | 9 | postgresql:15 | 2024-12-05 |
AlmaLinux | ALSA-2024:10831 | 8 | postgresql:16 | 2024-12-10 |
AlmaLinux | ALSA-2024:10788 | 9 | postgresql:16 | 2024-12-05 |
AlmaLinux | ALSA-2024:10779 | 8 | python3:3.6.8 | 2024-12-05 |
AlmaLinux | ALSA-2024:10869 | 9 | redis:7 | 2024-12-09 |
AlmaLinux | ALSA-2024:10858 | 9 | ruby | 2024-12-09 |
AlmaLinux | ALSA-2024:10850 | 8 | ruby:2.5 | 2024-12-09 |
AlmaLinux | ALSA-2024:10834 | 8 | ruby:3.1 | 2024-12-09 |
AlmaLinux | ALSA-2024:10860 | 9 | ruby:3.1 | 2024-12-09 |
AlmaLinux | ALSA-2024:10591 | 8 | thunderbird | 2024-12-05 |
AlmaLinux | ALSA-2024:10592 | 9 | thunderbird | 2024-12-05 |
Debian | DLA-3990-1 | LTS | avahi | 2024-12-09 |
Debian | DSA-5825-1 | stable | ceph | 2024-12-06 |
Debian | DSA-5824-1 | stable | chromium | 2024-12-06 |
Debian | DLA-3983-1 | LTS | clamav | 2024-12-06 |
Debian | DLA-3985-1 | LTS | gsl | 2024-12-07 |
Debian | DLA-3988-1 | LTS | jinja2 | 2024-12-09 |
Debian | DLA-3988-2 | LTS | jinja2 | 2024-12-09 |
Debian | DLA-3986-1 | LTS | php7.4 | 2024-12-08 |
Debian | DSA-5827-1 | stable | proftpd-dfsg | 2024-12-10 |
Debian | DLA-3987-1 | LTS | renderdoc | 2024-12-08 |
Debian | DLA-3989-1 | LTS | ruby-doorkeeper | 2024-12-09 |
Debian | DSA-5826-1 | stable | smarty3 | 2024-12-10 |
Debian | DLA-3984-1 | LTS | zabbix | 2024-12-07 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2024-35cc1d9ec0 | F40 | chromium | 2024-12-08 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2024-791faa660a | F41 | chromium | 2024-12-07 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2024-45478608e2 | F40 | pam | 2024-12-06 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2024-ab8945c2bd | F40 | python-multipart | 2024-12-10 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2024-92de63698e | F41 | python-python-multipart | 2024-12-10 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2024-01d838d947 | F41 | python3.11 | 2024-12-08 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2024-340a4bdc5d | F41 | python3.12 | 2024-12-10 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2024-b2cebcbb49 | F40 | python3.14 | 2024-12-11 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2024-ccce2763b0 | F40 | retsnoop | 2024-12-10 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2024-aa246ab1a3 | F41 | retsnoop | 2024-12-10 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2024-ccce2763b0 | F40 | rust-rbspy | 2024-12-10 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2024-aa246ab1a3 | F41 | rust-rbspy | 2024-12-10 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2024-5a5f401785 | F40 | rust-rustls | 2024-12-10 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2024-0d14d0d2f9 | F41 | rust-rustls | 2024-12-10 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2024-515180fdb3 | F40 | thunderbird | 2024-12-05 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2024-0cab161b46 | F40 | tuned | 2024-12-05 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2024-075f626765 | F40 | uv | 2024-12-07 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2024-8568f9cd5e | F41 | uv | 2024-12-07 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2024-4014fa4ecc | F40 | webkitgtk | 2024-12-05 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2024-bcdea6e995 | F40 | zabbix | 2024-12-10 |
Gentoo | 202412-03 | Asterisk | 2024-12-07 | |
Gentoo | 202412-02 | Cacti | 2024-12-07 | |
Gentoo | 202412-05 | Chromium, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge. Opera | 2024-12-07 | |
Gentoo | 202412-18 | Distrobox | 2024-12-11 | |
Gentoo | 202412-10 | Dnsmasq | 2024-12-07 | |
Gentoo | 202412-14 | HashiCorp Consul | 2024-12-08 | |
Gentoo | 202412-11 | OATH Toolkit | 2024-12-07 | |
Gentoo | 202412-07 | OpenJDK | 2024-12-07 | |
Gentoo | 202412-15 | OpenSC | 2024-12-11 | |
Gentoo | 202412-12 | PostgreSQL | 2024-12-08 | |
Gentoo | 202412-01 | R | 2024-12-07 | |
Gentoo | 202412-09 | Salt | 2024-12-07 | |
Gentoo | 202412-13 | Spidermonkey | 2024-12-08 | |
Gentoo | 202412-19 | eza | 2024-12-11 | |
Gentoo | 202412-04 | firefox | 2024-12-07 | |
Gentoo | 202412-08 | icinga2 | 2024-12-07 | |
Gentoo | 202412-17 | idna | 2024-12-11 | |
Gentoo | 202412-16 | libvirt | 2024-12-11 | |
Gentoo | 202412-06 | thunderbird | 2024-12-07 | |
Mageia | MGASA-2024-0389 | 9 | kubernetes | 2024-12-06 |
Mageia | MGASA-2024-0388 | 9 | python-aiohttp | 2024-12-04 |
Mageia | MGASA-2024-0387 | 9 | qemu | 2024-12-04 |
Oracle | ELSA-2024-10289 | OL8 | container-tools:ol8 | 2024-12-05 |
Oracle | ELSA-2024-10752 | OL8 | firefox | 2024-12-05 |
Oracle | ELSA-2024-10702 | OL9 | firefox | 2024-12-05 |
Oracle | ELSA-2024-8116 | OL7 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2024-12-05 |
Oracle | ELSA-2024-8116 | OL7 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2024-12-05 |
Oracle | ELSA-2024-8120 | OL7 | java-11-openjdk | 2024-12-05 |
Oracle | ELSA-2024-8120 | OL7 | java-11-openjdk | 2024-12-05 |
Oracle | ELSA-2024-12851 | OL6 | kernel | 2024-12-05 |
Oracle | ELSA-2024-12851 | OL7 | kernel | 2024-12-05 |
Oracle | ELSA-2024-12868 | OL7 | kernel | 2024-12-10 |
Oracle | ELSA-2024-12868 | OL7 | kernel | 2024-12-10 |
Oracle | ELSA-2024-10274 | OL9 | kernel | 2024-12-05 |
Oracle | ELSA-2024-10281 | OL8 | kernel:4.18.0 | 2024-12-05 |
Oracle | ELSA-2024-8788 | OL7 | krb5 | 2024-12-05 |
Oracle | ELSA-2024-8788 | OL7 | krb5 | 2024-12-05 |
Oracle | ELSA-2024-9654 | OL7 | libsoup | 2024-12-10 |
Oracle | ELSA-2024-9654 | OL7 | libsoup | 2024-12-10 |
Oracle | ELSA-2024-10379 | OL8 | pam | 2024-12-05 |
Oracle | ELSA-2024-10785 | OL8 | postgresql:12 | 2024-12-09 |
Oracle | ELSA-2024-10832 | OL8 | postgresql:13 | 2024-12-09 |
Oracle | ELSA-2024-10830 | OL8 | postgresql:15 | 2024-12-09 |
Oracle | ELSA-2024-10787 | OL9 | postgresql:15 | 2024-12-09 |
Oracle | ELSA-2024-10831 | OL8 | postgresql:16 | 2024-12-09 |
Oracle | ELSA-2024-10788 | OL9 | postgresql:16 | 2024-12-05 |
Oracle | ELSA-2024-10590 | OL9 | python-tornado | 2024-12-05 |
Oracle | ELSA-2024-10779 | OL8 | python3:3.6.8 | 2024-12-05 |
Oracle | ELSA-2024-10869 | OL9 | redis:7 | 2024-12-09 |
Oracle | ELSA-2024-10834 | OL8 | ruby:3.1 | 2024-12-09 |
Oracle | ELSA-2024-10860 | OL9 | ruby:3.1 | 2024-12-09 |
Oracle | ELSA-2024-10591 | OL8 | thunderbird | 2024-12-05 |
Oracle | ELSA-2024-10592 | OL9 | thunderbird | 2024-12-05 |
Oracle | ELSA-2024-9901 | OL7 | tigervnc | 2024-12-05 |
Oracle | ELSA-2024-9901 | OL7 | tigervnc | 2024-12-05 |
Oracle | ELSA-2024-10384 | OL9 | tuned | 2024-12-05 |
Oracle | ELSA-2024-10481 | OL8 | webkit2gtk3 | 2024-12-05 |
Oracle | ELSA-2024-10472 | OL9 | webkit2gtk3 | 2024-12-05 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2024:8922-01 | EL8 | bzip2 | 2024-12-05 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2024:10803-01 | EL9.4 | bzip2 | 2024-12-05 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2024:8846-01 | EL8 | container-tools:rhel8 | 2024-12-11 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2024:8935-01 | EL9 | edk2 | 2024-12-11 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2024:10844-01 | EL8.2 | firefox | 2024-12-06 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2024:10848-01 | EL8.8 | firefox | 2024-12-06 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2024:9473-01 | EL9 | grafana | 2024-12-09 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2024:9472-01 | EL9 | grafana-pcp | 2024-12-09 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2024:9456-01 | EL9 | osbuild-composer | 2024-12-09 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2024:10882-01 | EL7 | postgresql | 2024-12-09 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2024:10791-01 | EL9 | postgresql | 2024-12-05 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2024:10827-01 | EL9.0 | postgresql | 2024-12-05 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2024:10832-01 | EL8 | postgresql:13 | 2024-12-05 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2024:10846-01 | EL8.4 | postgresql:13 | 2024-12-06 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2024:10800-01 | EL8.8 | postgresql:13 | 2024-12-05 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2024:10830-01 | EL8 | postgresql:15 | 2024-12-05 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2024:10851-01 | EL8.8 | postgresql:15 | 2024-12-06 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2024:10807-01 | EL9.2 | postgresql:15 | 2024-12-05 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2024:10831-01 | EL8 | postgresql:16 | 2024-12-05 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2024:10590-01 | EL9 | python-tornado | 2024-12-05 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2024:10836-01 | EL9.2 | python-tornado | 2024-12-05 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2024:10843-01 | EL9.4 | python-tornado | 2024-12-06 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2024:10869-01 | EL9 | redis:7 | 2024-12-06 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2024:10858-01 | EL9 | ruby | 2024-12-06 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2024:10850-01 | EL8 | ruby:2.5 | 2024-12-06 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2024:10834-01 | EL8 | ruby:3.1 | 2024-12-05 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2024:10860-01 | EL9 | ruby:3.1 | 2024-12-06 |
Slackware | SSA:2024-339-01 | python3 | 2024-12-04 | |
SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2024:14547-1 | TW | ansible-core | 2024-12-06 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:4225-1 | SLE-m5.2 | avahi | 2024-12-06 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:4282-1 | SLE12 | avahi | 2024-12-10 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:4196-1 | SLE15 oS15.6 | avahi | 2024-12-05 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:4287-1 | SLE-m5.1 SLE-m5.2 | curl | 2024-12-11 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:4284-1 | SLE12 | curl | 2024-12-11 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:4288-1 | SLE15 oS15.6 | curl | 2024-12-11 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:4205-1 | SLE12 | docker-stable | 2024-12-05 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:4204-1 | SLE15 SES7.1 oS15.5 oS15.6 | docker-stable | 2024-12-05 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:4253-1 | SLE12 | firefox | 2024-12-06 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:4254-1 | SLE15 oS15.6 | glib2 | 2024-12-06 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:4252-1 | SLE12 | java-1_8_0-ibm | 2024-12-06 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:4202-1 | SLE15 SES7.1 oS15.5 oS15.6 | java-1_8_0-openjdk | 2024-12-05 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:4255-1 | SLE15 oS15.6 | kernel-firmware | 2024-12-06 |
SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2024:14542-1 | TW | libmozjs-128-0 | 2024-12-05 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:4290-1 | SLE15 oS15.6 | libsoup2 | 2024-12-11 |
SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2024:14564-1 | TW | lxd | 2024-12-10 |
SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2024:0400-1 | osB15 | nanopb | 2024-12-09 |
SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2024:14549-1 | TW | netty | 2024-12-06 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:4272-1 | SLE12 | nodejs18 | 2024-12-10 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:4286-1 | SLE15 oS15.6 | nodejs20 | 2024-12-11 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:4212-1 | SLE15 SES7.1 oS15.5 oS15.6 | obs-scm-bridge | 2024-12-05 |
SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2024:14543-1 | TW | obs-scm-bridge | 2024-12-05 |
SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2024:14563-1 | TW | pam | 2024-12-09 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:4215-1 | SLE15 oS15.4 oS15.5 | php8 | 2024-12-05 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:4173-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.5 SES7.1 oS15.3 oS15.4 oS15.5 | postgresql, postgresql16, postgresql17 | 2024-12-04 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:4175-1 | SLE15 SES7.1 oS15.5 oS15.6 | postgresql13 | 2024-12-04 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:4176-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.5 SES7.1 oS15.5 | postgresql14 | 2024-12-04 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:4174-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 SES7.1 oS15.5 | postgresql15 | 2024-12-04 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:4285-1 | SLE15 oS15.6 | python-Django | 2024-12-11 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:4194-1 | oS15.6 | python-python-multipart | 2024-12-05 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:4193-1 | SLE15 SLE-m5.2 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 SLE-m5.5 oS15.3 oS15.5 oS15.6 osM5.5 | python3 | 2024-12-05 |
SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2024:14565-1 | TW | python310-Django4 | 2024-12-10 |
SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2024:14557-1 | TW | python310-django-ckeditor | 2024-12-07 |
SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2024:14559-1 | TW | python310-jupyter-ydoc | 2024-12-07 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:4291-1 | SLE15 oS15.6 | python312 | 2024-12-11 |
SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2024:0402-1 | osB15 | qt6-webengine | 2024-12-09 |
SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2024:0397-1 | osB15 | radare2 | 2024-12-09 |
SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2024:0396-1 | osB15 | radare2 | 2024-12-09 |
SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2024:14562-1 | TW | skopeo | 2024-12-07 |
SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2024:14566-1 | TW | squid | 2024-12-10 |
SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2024:14544-1 | TW | teleport | 2024-12-05 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:4079-2 | SLE12 | webkit2gtk3 | 2024-12-06 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:4293-1 | SLE12 | webkit2gtk3 | 2024-12-11 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:4292-1 | SLE15 oS15.6 | webkit2gtk3 | 2024-12-11 |
Ubuntu | USN-7146-1 | 16.04 22.04 | dogtag-pki | 2024-12-10 |
Ubuntu | USN-7145-1 | expat | 2024-12-10 | |
Ubuntu | USN-7138-1 | 16.04 18.04 | ghostscript | 2024-12-05 |
Ubuntu | USN-7149-1 | 16.04 18.04 20.04 22.04 24.04 24.10 | intel-microcode | 2024-12-11 |
Ubuntu | USN-7148-1 | 14.04 16.04 | linux, linux-aws, linux-kvm, linux-lts-xenial | 2024-12-10 |
Ubuntu | USN-7144-1 | 20.04 22.04 | linux-intel-iotg, linux-intel-iotg-5.15 | 2024-12-09 |
Ubuntu | USN-7117-3 | 16.04 18.04 20.04 22.04 24.04 24.10 | needrestart | 2024-12-06 |
Ubuntu | USN-7141-1 | 16.04 18.04 20.04 22.04 24.04 24.10 | ofono | 2024-12-10 |
Ubuntu | USN-7136-2 | 16.04 18.04 | python-django | 2024-12-04 |
Ubuntu | USN-7136-1 | 20.04 22.04 24.04 24.10 | python-django | 2024-12-04 |
Ubuntu | USN-7143-1 | 20.04 | rabbitmq-server | 2024-12-09 |
Ubuntu | USN-7137-1 | 16.04 18.04 20.04 22.04 | recutils | 2024-12-04 |
Ubuntu | USN-7139-1 | 16.04 | shiro | 2024-12-05 |
Ubuntu | USN-7147-1 | 16.04 24.04 24.10 | shiro | 2024-12-10 |
Ubuntu | USN-7140-1 | 16.04 18.04 20.04 22.04 | tinyproxy | 2024-12-09 |
Ubuntu | USN-7142-1 | 22.04 24.04 24.10 | webkit2gtk | 2024-12-09 |
Kernel patches of interest
Kernel releases
Architecture-specific
David Woodhouse
x86/kexec: Add exception handling for relocate_kernel and further yak-shaving
Dec 05
Build system
Core kernel
Masami Hiramatsu (Google)
tracing: fprobe: function_graph: Multi-function graph and fprobe on fgraph
Dec 06
Development tools
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
ANNOUNCE: pahole v1.28 (flex arrays, bpf_fastcall, global vars, btf endianness, distilled BTF base, reg tests)
Dec 07
Device drivers
Jan Petrous via B4 Relay
Add support for Synopsis DWMAC IP on NXP Automotive SoCs S32G2xx/S32G3xx/S32R45
Dec 05
Thomas Weißschuh
power: supply: intruduce and use power_supply_for_each_psy() and dev_to_psy()
Dec 08
Manivannan Sadhasivam via B4 Relay
PCI/pwrctrl: Rework pwrctrl driver integration and add driver for PCI slot
Dec 10
Device-driver infrastructure
Documentation
Thorsten Leemhuis
docs: add instruction about handling regressions to our core texts for contributors
Dec 10
Filesystems and block layer
Memory management
Networking
Security-related
Virtualization and containers
Miscellaneous
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