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CFP Deadlines: January 30, 2025 to March 31, 2025
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| March 28 | October 12 October 14 |
All Things Open | Raleigh, NC, US |
| March 30 | July 1 July 3 |
Pass the SALT Conference | Lille, France |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
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Events: January 30, 2025 to March 31, 2025
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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 11 |
FOSS Backstage | Berlin, Germany |
| March 10 March 14 |
Netdev 0x19 | Zagreb, Croatia |
| 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 |
| March 24 March 26 |
Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management and BPF Summit | Montreal, Canada |
| March 24 March 28 |
TechWeekStorage 25 | Geneva, Switzerland |
| March 29 | Open Source Operating System Annual Technical Conference | Beijing, China |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Security updates
Alert summary January 23, 2025 to January 29, 2025
| Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AlmaLinux | ALSA-2025:0733 | 8 | bzip2 | 2025-01-29 |
| AlmaLinux | ALSA-2025:0746 | 8 | gimp:2.8 | 2025-01-29 |
| AlmaLinux | ALSA-2025:0673 | 9 | git-lfs | 2025-01-25 |
| AlmaLinux | ALSA-2025:0422 | 9 | java-17-openjdk | 2025-01-25 |
| AlmaLinux | ALSA-2025:0426 | 9 | java-21-openjdk | 2025-01-25 |
| AlmaLinux | ALSA-2025:0743 | 8 | keepalived | 2025-01-29 |
| AlmaLinux | ALSA-2025:0578 | 9 | kernel | 2025-01-25 |
| AlmaLinux | ALSA-2025:0737 | 8 | mariadb:10.11 | 2025-01-29 |
| AlmaLinux | ALSA-2025:0739 | 8 | mariadb:10.5 | 2025-01-29 |
| AlmaLinux | ALSA-2025:0711 | 8 | python-jinja2 | 2025-01-29 |
| AlmaLinux | ALSA-2025:0667 | 9 | python-jinja2 | 2025-01-25 |
| AlmaLinux | ALSA-2025:0693 | 9 | redis | 2025-01-29 |
| AlmaLinux | ALSA-2025:0595 | 8 | redis:6 | 2025-01-23 |
| Debian | DSA-5848-1 | stable | chromium | 2025-01-23 |
| Debian | DLA-4029-1 | LTS | frr | 2025-01-23 |
| Debian | DLA-4031-1 | LTS | git | 2025-01-28 |
| Debian | DLA-4028-1 | LTS | git-lfs | 2025-01-22 |
| Debian | DSA-5849-1 | stable | git-lfs | 2025-01-24 |
| Debian | DSA-5850-1 | stable | git | 2025-01-26 |
| Debian | DLA-4032-1 | LTS | iperf3 | 2025-01-28 |
| Debian | DLA-4033-1 | LTS | libtar | 2025-01-28 |
| Debian | DSA-5851-1 | stable | openjpeg2 | 2025-01-27 |
| Debian | DSA-5852-1 | stable | pdns-recursor | 2025-01-28 |
| Debian | DLA-4030-1 | LTS | python-django | 2025-01-23 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2025-5ef10f8485 | F40 | SDL2_sound | 2025-01-23 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2025-82714dbb22 | F41 | SDL2_sound | 2025-01-23 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2025-7631628ba6 | F41 | abseil-cpp | 2025-01-29 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2025-908dfe95f6 | F41 | buildah | 2025-01-25 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2025-5d89c826ff | F40 | chromium | 2025-01-26 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2025-eb2f4a2306 | F41 | chromium | 2025-01-26 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2025-908dfe95f6 | F41 | containers-common | 2025-01-25 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2025-16778d3c88 | F40 | dotnet8.0 | 2025-01-29 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2025-bd8f5a599b | F41 | dotnet8.0 | 2025-01-29 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2025-0487787cb9 | F40 | dotnet9.0 | 2025-01-29 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2025-2eb86c0cbf | F41 | dotnet9.0 | 2025-01-29 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2025-6baf694c75 | F40 | freeipa | 2025-01-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2025-b21777d1b5 | F41 | freeipa | 2025-01-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2025-50deb0acd5 | F40 | git-lfs | 2025-01-24 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2025-1de066b8af | F41 | git-lfs | 2025-01-24 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2025-69207650a4 | F40 | glibc | 2025-01-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2025-497995b101 | F41 | glibc | 2025-01-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2025-e8b9a6b564 | F40 | golang | 2025-01-29 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2025-70a32aa438 | F41 | golang | 2025-01-25 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2025-42ee7772e3 | F41 | libsoup3 | 2025-01-29 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2025-11277f6779 | F40 | mediawiki | 2025-01-26 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2025-25b16d6561 | F41 | mediawiki | 2025-01-26 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2025-b58b563b77 | F40 | pam-u2f | 2025-01-25 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2025-29900cbe83 | F41 | pam-u2f | 2025-01-24 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2025-908dfe95f6 | F41 | podman | 2025-01-25 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2025-b28759cb95 | F40 | rsync | 2025-01-25 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2025-3dff292265 | F40 | vaultwarden | 2025-01-29 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2025-4cb7637c98 | F41 | vaultwarden | 2025-01-29 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2025-e45eecf53a | F40 | webkit2gtk4.0 | 2025-01-23 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2025-0cb4a35438 | F41 | webkit2gtk4.0 | 2025-01-23 |
| Gentoo | 202501-06 | GPL Ghostscript | 2025-01-23 | |
| Gentoo | 202501-11 | PHP | 2025-01-23 | |
| Gentoo | 202501-08 | Qt | 2025-01-23 | |
| Gentoo | 202501-09 | QtWebEngine | 2025-01-23 | |
| Gentoo | 202501-04 | Yubico pam-u2f | 2025-01-23 | |
| Gentoo | 202501-10 | firefox | 2025-01-23 | |
| Gentoo | 202501-07 | libgsf | 2025-01-23 | |
| Gentoo | 202501-05 | libuv | 2025-01-23 | |
| Mageia | MGASA-2025-0020 | 9 | chromium-browser-stable | 2025-01-22 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2025-0026 | 9 | glibc | 2025-01-26 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2025-0021 | 9 | golang | 2025-01-23 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2025-0024 | 9 | iperf | 2025-01-25 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2025-0025 | 9 | openssl | 2025-01-26 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2025-0023 | 9 | phpmyadmin | 2025-01-24 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2025-0022 | 9 | poppler | 2025-01-24 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2025-0027 | 9 | virtualbox | 2025-01-27 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2025-0132 | OL7 | firefox | 2025-01-27 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2025-0746 | OL8 | gimp:2.8 | 2025-01-29 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2025-0673 | OL9 | git-lfs | 2025-01-27 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2025-0401 | OL8 | grafana | 2025-01-27 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2025-0402 | OL7 | iperf3 | 2025-01-29 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2025-0422 | OL8 | java-17-openjdk | 2025-01-27 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2025-0422 | OL9 | java-17-openjdk | 2025-01-27 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2025-0426 | OL8 | java-21-openjdk | 2025-01-27 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2025-0426 | OL9 | java-21-openjdk | 2025-01-27 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2025-0743 | OL8 | keepalived | 2025-01-29 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2025-20066 | OL8 | kernel | 2025-01-29 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2025-0578 | OL9 | kernel | 2025-01-27 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2025-20066 | OL9 | kernel | 2025-01-29 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2025-20066 | OL9 | kernel | 2025-01-29 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2025-0667 | OL9 | python-jinja2 | 2025-01-27 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2025-0595 | OL8 | redis:6 | 2025-01-27 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2025-0692 | OL9 | redis:7 | 2025-01-29 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2024-11003 | OL7 | unbound | 2025-01-29 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2025:0429-01 | EL7 | java-11-openjdk with Extended Lifecycle Support | 2025-01-24 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2025:0421-01 | EL8.4 | java-17-openjdk | 2025-01-24 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2025:0422-01 | EL8.6 | java-17-openjdk | 2025-01-24 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2025:0423-01 | EL9.0 | java-17-openjdk | 2025-01-24 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2025:0426-01 | EL8 | java-21-openjdk | 2025-01-24 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2025:0791-01 | EL9 | libsoup | 2025-01-29 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0277-1 | MP4.2 MP4.3 SLE15 oS15.6 | amazon-ssm-agent | 2025-01-29 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2025:0025-1 | osB15 | cheat | 2025-01-24 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2025:0034-1 | osB15 | chromium | 2025-01-27 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2025:0030-1 | osB15 | dante | 2025-01-24 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0226-1 | SLE15 oS15.6 | docker-stable | 2025-01-23 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2025:14694-1 | TW | go1.22-1.22.11-1.1 | 2025-01-26 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0281-1 | SLE15 SES7.1 oS15.6 | go1.22 | 2025-01-29 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2025:14695-1 | TW | go1.23-1.23.5-1.1 | 2025-01-26 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0280-1 | SLE15 SES7.1 oS15.6 | go1.23 | 2025-01-29 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2025:14693-1 | TW | go1.24-1.24rc2-1.1 | 2025-01-25 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2025:14681-1 | TW | grafana | 2025-01-23 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2025:14666-1 | TW | helmfile | 2025-01-22 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2025:14700-1 | TW | iperf | 2025-01-28 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0235-1 | SLE12 | java-11-openjdk | 2025-01-24 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0279-1 | SLE15 oS15.6 | java-21-openjdk | 2025-01-29 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0236-1 | SLE12 | kernel | 2025-01-24 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0230-1 | SLE15 SLE-m5.1 SLE-m5.2 | kernel | 2025-01-24 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0231-1 | SLE15 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 | kernel | 2025-01-24 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0229-1 | SLE15 SLE-m5.5 oS15.5 | kernel | 2025-01-24 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2025:14692-1 | TW | libQt6Bluetooth6 | 2025-01-24 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2025:14696-1 | TW | libopenssl-3-devel | 2025-01-26 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0282-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 oS15.4 | nginx | 2025-01-29 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0234-1 | SLE12 | nodejs18 | 2025-01-24 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0233-1 | SLE15 oS15.4 | nodejs18 | 2025-01-24 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0232-1 | SLE15 oS15.5 | nodejs20 | 2025-01-24 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0237-1 | SLE15 oS15.6 | nodejs20 | 2025-01-24 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2025:14667-1 | TW | nvidia-modprobe | 2025-01-22 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0278-1 | SLE15 oS15.6 | openvpn | 2025-01-29 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0267-1 | SLE15 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 oS15.4 | podman | 2025-01-28 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2025:14701-1 | TW | python311-asteval | 2025-01-28 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2025:14690-1 | TW | python311-azure-storage-blob | 2025-01-24 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2025:0033-1 | osB15 | qt6-connectivity | 2025-01-25 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2025:0024-1 | osB15 | qt6-webengine | 2025-01-23 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2025:14668-1 | TW | ruby3.4-rubygem-actioncable-8.0-8.0.1-1.1 | 2025-01-22 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2025:14671-1 | TW | ruby3.4-rubygem-actionpack-8.0-8.0.1-1.1 | 2025-01-22 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2025:14672-1 | TW | ruby3.4-rubygem-actiontext-8.0-8.0.1-1.1 | 2025-01-22 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2025:14673-1 | TW | ruby3.4-rubygem-actionview-8.0-8.0.1-1.1 | 2025-01-22 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2025:14674-1 | TW | ruby3.4-rubygem-activejob-8.0-8.0.1-1.1 | 2025-01-22 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2025:14676-1 | TW | ruby3.4-rubygem-activerecord-8.0-8.0.1-1.1 | 2025-01-22 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2025:14677-1 | TW | ruby3.4-rubygem-activestorage-8.0-8.0.1-1.1 | 2025-01-22 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2025:14697-1 | TW | ruby3.4-rubygem-nokogiri-1.18.2-1.1 | 2025-01-26 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2025:14679-1 | TW | ruby3.4-rubygem-rails-8.0-8.0.1-1.1 | 2025-01-22 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2025:14680-1 | TW | ruby3.4-rubygem-railties-8.0-8.0.1-1.1 | 2025-01-22 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7225-1 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 20.04 22.04 24.04 24.10 | HTMLDOC | 2025-01-24 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7227-1 | 16.04 18.04 20.04 22.04 24.04 24.10 | PCL | 2025-01-23 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7222-1 | 20.04 22.04 | bluez | 2025-01-22 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7226-1 | 18.04 20.04 22.04 | cacti | 2025-01-23 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7229-1 | 24.04 24.10 | clamav | 2025-01-27 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7224-1 | 18.04 20.04 22.04 24.04 | cyrus-imapd | 2025-01-23 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7230-2 | 20.04 22.04 24.04 24.10 | frr | 2025-01-27 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7232-1 | 14.04 | kernel | 2025-01-28 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7239-1 | 18.04 | libmicrodns | 2025-01-29 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7228-1 | 20.04 22.04 24.04 24.10 | libreoffice | 2025-01-27 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7233-1 | 16.04 18.04 | linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-hwe, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-4.15, linux-hwe, linux-kvm, linux-oracle | 2025-01-28 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7235-1 | 20.04 22.04 | linux, linux-azure, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.15, linux-gke, linux-gkeop, linux-hwe-5.15, linux-ibm, linux-ibm-5.15, linux-intel-iotg, linux-intel-iotg-5.15, linux-kvm, linux-lowlatency, linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15, linux-nvidia, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-5.15, linux-raspi | 2025-01-28 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7236-1 | 22.04 24.04 | linux, linux-azure, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-6.8, linux-gke, linux-gkeop, linux-hwe-6.8, linux-ibm, linux-lowlatency, linux-nvidia, linux-nvidia-6.8, linux-nvidia-lowlatency, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-6.8, linux-raspi | 2025-01-28 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7238-1 | 24.04 24.10 | linux, linux-azure, linux-gcp, linux-oem-6.11, linux-raspi, linux-realtime | 2025-01-28 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7234-1 | 18.04 20.04 | linux, linux-bluefield, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.4, linux-ibm, linux-ibm-5.4, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-5.4, linux-raspi | 2025-01-28 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7237-1 | 24.04 | linux-oem-6.8 | 2025-01-28 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7179-4 | 22.04 | linux-xilinx-zynqmp | 2025-01-27 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7223-1 | 16.04 18.04 20.04 22.04 24.04 24.10 | openjpeg2 | 2025-01-23 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7205-2 | 18.04 | python-django | 2025-01-23 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7230-1 | 18.04 | quagga | 2025-01-27 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7206-3 | 24.10 | rsync | 2025-01-28 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7231-1 | 16.04 18.04 20.04 22.04 24.04 | tcpreplay | 2025-01-28 |
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