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CFP Deadlines: January 23, 2025 to March 24, 2025
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| February 13 | May 14 May 16 |
Linaro Connect Lisbon 2025 | Lisbon, Portugal |
| February 17 | June 23 June 25 |
Open Source Summit North America | Denver, CO, US |
| February 22 | May 22 | NLUUG Spring Conference 2025 | Utrecht, The Netherlands |
| February 23 | June 15 June 17 |
Berlin Buzzwords | Berlin, Germany |
| February 23 | June 5 June 8 |
Flock to Fedora 2025 | Prague, Czech Republic |
| February 28 | March 24 March 28 |
TechWeekStorage 25 | Geneva, Switzerland |
| March 1 | April 26 | Central Pennsylvania Open Source Conference | Lancaster, PA, US |
| March 1 | April 26 | 21st Linux Infotag Augsburg | Augsburg, Germany |
| March 2 | June 12 June 14 |
DevConf.CZ | Brno, Czech Republic |
| March 10 | June 26 June 27 |
Linux Security Summit North America | Denver, CO, US |
| March 16 | July 24 July 29 |
GUADEC 2025 | Brescia, Italy |
| March 16 | May 24 May 25 |
Journées du Logiciel Libre | Lyon, France |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
LSFMM+BPF 2025 proposal deadline approaching
A reminder has gone out that the deadline for proposals for the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management and BPF Summit is February 1; anybody wanting to attend will need to make themselves known before then. The reminder also says that there will be no remote participation option (or live streams) this year.
Upcoming Events
Events: January 23, 2025 to March 24, 2025
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| March 6 March 9 |
SCALE 22x | Pasadena, CA, US |
| March 10 March 14 |
Netdev 0x19 | Zagreb, Croatia |
| March 10 March 11 |
FOSS Backstage | Berlin, Germany |
| March 13 March 15 |
FOSSASIA Summit | Bangkok, Thailand |
| March 18 | Nordic PGDay 2025 | Copenhagen, Denmark |
| March 18 March 20 |
Linux Foundation Member Summit | Napa, CA, US |
| March 20 | pgDay Paris | Paris, France |
| March 22 March 23 |
Chemnitz Linux Days 2025 | Chemnitz, Germany |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Security updates
Alert summary January 16, 2025 to January 22, 2025
| Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AlmaLinux | ALSA-2025:0381 | 8 | .NET 8.0 | 2025-01-18 |
| AlmaLinux | ALSA-2025:0382 | 8 | .NET 9.0 | 2025-01-18 |
| AlmaLinux | ALSA-2025:0377 | 9 | NetworkManager | 2025-01-18 |
| AlmaLinux | ALSA-2025:0308 | 9 | fence-agents | 2025-01-15 |
| AlmaLinux | ALSA-2025:0401 | 8 | grafana | 2025-01-20 |
| AlmaLinux | ALSA-2025:0334 | 9 | ipa | 2025-01-18 |
| AlmaLinux | ALSA-2025:0314 | 8 | raptor2 | 2025-01-15 |
| AlmaLinux | ALSA-2025:0312 | 9 | raptor2 | 2025-01-15 |
| AlmaLinux | ALSA-2025:0325 | 8 | rsync | 2025-01-15 |
| AlmaLinux | ALSA-2025:0324 | 9 | rsync | 2025-01-15 |
| Debian | DLA-4021-1 | LTS | 389-ds-base | 2025-01-20 |
| Debian | DLA-4019-1 | LTS | busybox | 2025-01-19 |
| Debian | DSA-5844-1 | stable | chromium | 2025-01-15 |
| Debian | DLA-4023-1 | LTS | libebml | 2025-01-20 |
| Debian | DLA-4020-1 | LTS | libreoffice | 2025-01-19 |
| Debian | DSA-5846-1 | stable | libreoffice | 2025-01-19 |
| Debian | DLA-4024-1 | LTS | poco | 2025-01-20 |
| Debian | DLA-4025-1 | LTS | redis | 2025-01-20 |
| Debian | DLA-4015-2 | LTS | rsync | 2025-01-17 |
| Debian | DSA-5843-2 | stable | rsync | 2025-01-16 |
| Debian | DLA-4018-1 | LTS | ruby2.7 | 2025-01-18 |
| Debian | DSA-5847-1 | stable | snapcast | 2025-01-21 |
| Debian | DLA-4027-1 | LTS | sympa | 2025-01-21 |
| Debian | DLA-4026-1 | LTS | tiff | 2025-01-20 |
| Debian | DSA-5845-1 | stable | tomcat10 | 2025-01-17 |
| Debian | DLA-4017-1 | LTS | tomcat9 | 2025-01-17 |
| Debian | DLA-4022-1 | LTS | tryton-server | 2025-01-19 |
| Debian | DLA-4016-1 | LTS | ucf | 2025-01-21 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2025-4c65803ea6 | F40 | chromium | 2025-01-18 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2025-d9219c6a43 | F41 | chromium | 2025-01-17 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2025-5f04326f4f | F40 | mingw-python-jinja2 | 2025-01-17 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2025-dbe19a2b1f | F41 | mingw-python-jinja2 | 2025-01-17 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2025-6ed1e0c3c6 | F40 | python-jinja2 | 2025-01-22 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2025-282df7372b | F40 | redict | 2025-01-17 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2025-d6c0319427 | F41 | redict | 2025-01-17 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2025-73c1f25730 | F40 | rsync | 2025-01-16 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2025-3ec637e6e9 | F41 | rsync | 2025-01-21 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2025-4945eb6eeb | F40 | seamonkey | 2025-01-16 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2025-135cf1b7f3 | F41 | seamonkey | 2025-01-16 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2025-49e8952aab | F40 | stb | 2025-01-19 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2025-6a64d3b2fc | F41 | stb | 2025-01-19 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2025-9eccdb2c3e | F40 | valkey | 2025-01-17 |
| Gentoo | 202501-02 | GIMP | 2025-01-17 | |
| Gentoo | 202501-03 | pip | 2025-01-17 | |
| Mageia | MGASA-2025-0017 | 9 | dcmtk | 2025-01-20 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2025-0016 | 9 | git | 2025-01-20 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2025-0013 | 9 | openafs | 2025-01-18 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2025-0012 | 9 | openjpeg2 | 2025-01-16 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2025-0015 | 9 | proftpd | 2025-01-20 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2025-0018 | 9 | raptor2 | 2025-01-20 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2025-0019 | 9 | rsync | 2025-01-22 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2025-0014 | 9 | vim | 2025-01-18 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2025-0381 | OL8 | .NET 8.0 | 2025-01-20 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2025-0382 | OL8 | .NET 9.0 | 2025-01-20 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2025-0377 | OL9 | .NET | 2025-01-17 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2025-0308 | OL9 | fence-agents | 2025-01-17 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2025-0334 | OL9 | ipa | 2025-01-17 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2025-20019 | OL7 | kernel | 2025-01-17 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2025-20018 | OL8 | kernel | 2025-01-17 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2025-20019 | OL8 | kernel | 2025-01-17 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2025-20018 | OL9 | kernel | 2025-01-17 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2024-11048 | OL7 | python-virtualenv | 2025-01-17 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2025-0314 | OL8 | raptor2 | 2025-01-17 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2025-0312 | OL9 | raptor2 | 2025-01-17 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2025-0325 | OL8 | rsync | 2025-01-17 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2025-0324 | OL9 | rsync | 2025-01-17 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2025:0381-01 | EL8 | .NET 8.0 | 2025-01-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2025:0382-01 | EL8 | .NET 9.0 | 2025-01-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2025:0401-01 | EL8 | grafana | 2025-01-21 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2025:0402-01 | EL7 | iperf3 | 2025-01-21 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2025:0403-01 | EL8.2 | iperf3 | 2025-01-21 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2025:0346-01 | EL8.6 | iperf3 | 2025-01-21 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2025:0404-01 | EL8.8 | iperf3 | 2025-01-21 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2025:0440-01 | EL9.2 | iperf3 | 2025-01-21 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:8162-01 | EL9 | kernel | 2025-01-21 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:9401-01 | EL9 | microcode_ctl | 2025-01-21 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2025:0400-01 | EL9.0 | redis | 2025-01-21 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2025:0398-01 | EL9.2 | redis | 2025-01-21 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2025:0399-01 | EL9.4 | redis | 2025-01-21 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2025:0368-01 | EL8.6 | tuned | 2025-01-16 |
| Slackware | SSA:2025-015-01 | git | 2025-01-15 | |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2025:14642-1 | TW | SDL2_sound-devel | 2025-01-15 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0191-1 | SLE12 | amazon-ssm-agent | 2025-01-20 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2025:14658-1 | TW | amazon-ssm-agent | 2025-01-18 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0143-1 | SLE12 | apache2-mod_jk | 2025-01-16 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0216-1 | SLE15 SLE-m5.5 oS15.5 | cdi-apiserver-container, cdi-cloner-container, cdi- controller-container, cdi-importer-container, cdi-operator-container, cdi- uploadproxy-container, cdi-uploadserver-container, cont | 2025-01-22 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0217-1 | SLE15 oS15.6 | cdi-apiserver-container, cdi-cloner-container, cdi- controller-container, cdi-importer-container, cdi-operator-container, cdi- uploadproxy-container, cdi-uploadserver-container, cont | 2025-01-22 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2025:14659-1 | TW | chromedriver | 2025-01-18 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2025:0018-1 | osB15 | chromium | 2025-01-20 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2025:14643-1 | TW | dcmtk | 2025-01-15 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0196-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.5 SES7.1 oS15.6 | dhcp | 2025-01-21 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0130-1 | SLE15 SLE-m5.1 SLE-m5.2 SES7.1 | dnsmasq | 2025-01-15 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2025:0021-1 | osB15 | gh | 2025-01-22 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0144-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.5 SES7.1 oS15.3 | git | 2025-01-16 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0197-1 | SLE12 | git | 2025-01-21 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2025:14652-1 | TW | git | 2025-01-17 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2025:14649-1 | TW | git-lfs | 2025-01-16 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2025:14660-1 | TW | golang-github-prometheus-prometheus | 2025-01-18 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2025:14653-1 | TW | govulncheck-vulndb | 2025-01-17 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2025:14644-1 | TW | govulncheck-vulndb | 2025-01-15 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2025:14654-1 | TW | grafana | 2025-01-17 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2025:14655-1 | TW | hplip | 2025-01-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0202-1 | MP4.2 SLE15 SLE-m5.1 SLE-m5.2 SES7.1 oS15.3 | kernel | 2025-01-21 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0203-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 oS15.4 | kernel | 2025-01-21 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0152-1 | SLE11 | kernel | 2025-01-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0201-1 | SLE15 SLE-m5.5 oS15.5 | kernel | 2025-01-21 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0154-1 | SLE15 oS15.6 | kernel | 2025-01-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0153-1 | SLE15 oS15.6 | kernel | 2025-01-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0214-1 | SLE15 SLE-m5.5 oS15.5 | kubevirt, virt-api-container, virt-controller-container, virt-exportproxy-container, virt-exportserver-container, virt-handler-container, virt-launcher-container, virt-libguestfs-t | 2025-01-22 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0215-1 | SLE15 oS15.6 | kubevirt, virt-api-container, virt-controller-container, virt-exportproxy-container, virt-exportserver-container, virt-handler-container, virt-launcher-container, virt-libguestfs-t | 2025-01-22 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0139-1 | SLE12 | libQtWebKit4 | 2025-01-16 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0194-1 | SLE12 | libqt5-qtwebkit | 2025-01-20 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2025:14646-1 | TW | libraptor-devel | 2025-01-15 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0208-1 | SLE15 SLE-m5.5 oS15.5 | nvidia-open-driver-G06-signed | 2025-01-21 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0207-1 | SLE15 oS15.6 | nvidia-open-driver-G06-signed | 2025-01-21 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2025:0012-1 | oS15.6 | opera | 2025-01-15 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0200-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 SLE-m5.5 oS15.4 | pam_u2f | 2025-01-21 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0198-1 | SLE12 | pam_u2f | 2025-01-21 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0192-1 | SLE15 SES7.1 | pam_u2f | 2025-01-20 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0167-1 | SLE15 oS15.6 | pam_u2f | 2025-01-17 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2025:14656-1 | TW | perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib | 2025-01-17 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2025:14657-1 | TW | perl-IO-Compress | 2025-01-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0149-1 | SLE15 oS15.6 | python-Django | 2025-01-16 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2025:14645-1 | TW | python311-Pillow | 2025-01-15 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2025:14647-1 | TW | python311-translate-toolkit | 2025-01-15 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0162-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 oS15.4 | redis | 2025-01-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0163-1 | SLE15 oS15.6 | redis | 2025-01-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0160-1 | SLE15 oS15.5 | redis7 | 2025-01-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0161-1 | SLE15 oS15.6 | redis7 | 2025-01-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0165-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 SLE-m5.5 oS15.4 | rsync | 2025-01-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0122-2 | MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 SLE-m5.5 oS15.4 oS15.5 osM5.5 | rsync | 2025-01-15 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0166-1 | SLE12 | rsync | 2025-01-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0120-2 | SLE12 | rsync | 2025-01-15 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0157-1 | SLE15 SLE-m5.1 SLE-m5.2 SES7.1 | rsync | 2025-01-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0121-2 | SLE15 SLE-m5.1 SLE-m5.2 SES7.1 | rsync | 2025-01-15 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0156-1 | SLE15 oS15.6 | rsync | 2025-01-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0118-2 | SLE15 oS15.6 | rsync | 2025-01-15 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2025:14648-1 | TW | thunderbird | 2025-01-16 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2025:14663-1 | TW | velociraptor | 2025-01-18 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0142-1 | SLE15 oS15.6 | xen | 2025-01-16 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7211-1 | 16.04 18.04 20.04 | audacity | 2025-01-16 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7208-1 | 16.04 18.04 20.04 22.04 | bcel | 2025-01-16 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7210-1 | 22.04 24.04 24.10 | dotnet8, dotnet9 | 2025-01-16 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7209-1 | 16.04 18.04 20.04 22.04 | gimp-dds | 2025-01-16 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7214-1 | 24.10 | harfbuzz | 2025-01-16 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7217-1 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 20.04 22.04 | libpodofo | 2025-01-20 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7215-1 | 24.10 | libxml2 | 2025-01-16 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7221-1 | 24.04 | linux-oem-6.11 | 2025-01-21 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7173-3 | 18.04 | linux-raspi-5.4 | 2025-01-15 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7166-4 | 22.04 | linux-xilinx-zynqmp | 2025-01-20 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7204-1 | 18.04 20.04 22.04 24.04 | neomutt | 2025-01-15 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7213-1 | 16.04 18.04 20.04 22.04 24.04 24.10 | poppler | 2025-01-16 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7212-1 | 20.04 22.04 | python2.7 | 2025-01-16 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7218-1 | 20.04 22.04 | python3.10, python3.8 | 2025-01-20 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7219-1 | 24.04 24.10 | python3.12 | 2025-01-20 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7206-2 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 20.04 22.04 24.04 | rsync | 2025-01-17 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7216-1 | 22.04 24.04 | tqdm | 2025-01-16 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7220-1 | 20.04 22.04 24.04 24.10 | vim | 2025-01-21 |
Kernel patches of interest
Kernel releases
Architecture-specific
Build system
Core kernel
Juntong Deng
bpf: BPF internal fine-grained permission management (BPF internal capabilities)
Jan 16
Development tools
Device drivers
Manivannan Sadhasivam via B4 Relay
PCI/pwrctrl: Rework pwrctrl driver integration and add driver for PCI slot
Jan 16
Vadim Pasternak
platform/mellanox: Add support for new systems, amendments, relocate mlx-platform module
Jan 16
Device-driver infrastructure
Documentation
Filesystems and block layer
Memory management
Networking
Security-related
Virtualization and containers
Miscellaneous
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