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Calls for Presentations
CFP Deadlines: March 13, 2025 to May 12, 2025
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| March 31 | June 26 June 28 |
Linux Audio Conference | Lyon, France |
| March 31 | August 9 August 10 |
COSCUP 2025 | Taipei City, Taiwan |
| April 13 | April 30 May 5 |
MiniDebConf Hamburg | Hamburg, Germany |
| April 14 | August 25 August 27 |
Open Source Summit Europe | Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| April 27 | June 13 June 15 |
SouthEast LinuxFest | Charlotte, NC, US |
| April 28 | July 31 August 3 |
FOSSY | Portland OR, US |
| April 30 | June 26 June 28 |
openSUSE Conference | Nuremberg, Germany |
| April 30 | September 23 | Open Tech Day 25: Grafana Edition | Nuremberg, Germany |
| May 6 | August 28 August 29 |
Linux Security Summit Europe | Amsterdam, Netherlands |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
Events: March 13, 2025 to May 12, 2025
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| March 10 March 14 |
Netdev 0x19 | Zagreb, Croatia |
| March 13 March 15 |
FOSSASIA Summit | Bangkok, Thailand |
| March 18 March 20 |
Linux Foundation Member Summit | Napa, CA, US |
| March 18 | Nordic PGDay 2025 | Copenhagen, Denmark |
| 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 |
| April 1 April 2 |
FediForum Unconference | online |
| April 7 April 8 |
sambaXP 2025 | Göttingen, Germany |
| April 8 April 10 |
SNIA SMB3 Interoperability Lab EMEA | Goettingen, Germany |
| April 14 April 15 |
foss-north 2025 | Gothenburg, Sweden |
| April 26 | Central Pennsylvania Open Source Conference | Lancaster, PA, US |
| April 26 | 21st Linux Infotag Augsburg | Augsburg, Germany |
| April 29 April 30 |
stackconf 2025 | Munich, Germany |
| April 30 May 5 |
MiniDebConf Hamburg | Hamburg, Germany |
| May 8 May 9 |
PostgreSQL Conference Germany | Berlin, Germany |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Security updates
Alert summary March 6, 2025 to March 12, 2025
| Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | DSA-5875-1 | stable | chromium | 2025-03-06 |
| Debian | DLA-4078-1 | LTS | firefox-esr | 2025-03-06 |
| Debian | DSA-5874-1 | stable | firefox-esr | 2025-03-05 |
| Debian | DLA-4080-1 | LTS | libaws | 2025-03-10 |
| Debian | DLA-4084-1 | LTS | libmodbus | 2025-03-11 |
| Debian | DLA-4079-1 | LTS | openvpn | 2025-03-08 |
| Debian | DLA-4082-1 | LTS | ruby2.7 | 2025-03-10 |
| Debian | DLA-4083-1 | LTS | squid | 2025-03-11 |
| Debian | DLA-4081-1 | LTS | thunderbird | 2025-03-10 |
| Debian | DSA-5876-1 | stable | thunderbird | 2025-03-08 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2025-5b272a55b8 | F42 | bigloo | 2025-03-10 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2025-f7524afa1f | F41 | buildah | 2025-03-10 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2025-762804f16e | F40 | chromium | 2025-03-08 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2025-e94782e579 | F41 | chromium | 2025-03-09 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2025-5b272a55b8 | F42 | emacs | 2025-03-10 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2025-100adaf12d | F40 | firefox | 2025-03-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2025-60c0e24d76 | F41 | firefox | 2025-03-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2025-a778f51bce | F40 | man2html | 2025-03-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2025-538f2e492d | F41 | man2html | 2025-03-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2025-5b272a55b8 | F42 | neovim | 2025-03-10 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2025-dcf429359c | F40 | podman-tui | 2025-03-10 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2025-736781dc2a | F41 | podman-tui | 2025-03-10 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2025-cd7f5876b2 | F41 | python-jinja2 | 2025-03-11 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2025-2215919645 | F40 | python-spotipy | 2025-03-08 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2025-fba1b24e4b | F41 | python-spotipy | 2025-03-08 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2025-c858874183 | F41 | qt6-qtwebengine | 2025-03-09 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2025-5b272a55b8 | F42 | rizin | 2025-03-10 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2025-bd6664e83b | F41 | thunderbird | 2025-03-12 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2025-5b272a55b8 | F42 | tree-sitter | 2025-03-10 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2025-6452f3da4b | F40 | vim | 2025-03-08 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2025-027a373c31 | F41 | vim | 2025-03-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2025-77c63e7236 | F40 | vyper | 2025-03-12 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2025-c7fae57601 | F41 | vyper | 2025-03-12 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2025-0091 | 9 | chromium-browser-stable | 2025-03-08 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2025-0088 | 9 | erlang | 2025-03-06 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2025-0087 | 9 | ffmpeg | 2025-03-06 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2025-0092 | 9 | firefox, nss | 2025-03-12 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2025-0090 | 9 | gpac | 2025-03-08 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2025-0095 | 9 | python-django | 2025-03-12 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2025-0094 | 9 | python-jinja2 | 2025-03-12 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2025-0093 | 9 | thunderbird, thunderbird-l10n | 2025-03-12 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2025-0089 | 9 | vim | 2025-03-06 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2025-1718 | OL7 | bind | 2025-03-11 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2025-1255 | OL7 | doxygen | 2025-03-07 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2025-2452 | OL8 | firefox | 2025-03-07 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2025-2359 | OL9 | firefox | 2025-03-07 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2025-20153 | OL7 | kernel | 2025-03-11 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2025-20152 | OL8 | kernel | 2025-03-11 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2025-20153 | OL8 | kernel | 2025-03-11 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2025-20153 | OL8 | kernel | 2025-03-11 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2025-2473 | OL8 | kernel | 2025-03-11 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2025-20152 | OL9 | kernel | 2025-03-11 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2025-20152 | OL9 | kernel | 2025-03-11 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2025-1352 | OL7 | krb5 | 2025-03-07 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2025-1250 | OL7 | python-jinja2 | 2025-03-07 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2025-2600 | OL8 | rsync | 2025-03-11 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2024-11049 | OL7 | squid | 2025-03-07 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2025-2502 | OL8 | tigervnc | 2025-03-11 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2025-2500 | OL9 | tigervnc | 2025-03-11 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2025-2034 | OL8 | webkit2gtk3 | 2025-03-07 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2025-2035 | OL9 | webkit2gtk3 | 2025-03-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2025:2670-01 | EL8 | .NET 8.0 | 2025-03-12 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2025:2669-01 | EL9 | .NET 8.0 | 2025-03-12 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2025:2666-01 | EL9.4 | .NET 8.0 | 2025-03-12 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2025:2667-01 | EL8 | .NET 9.0 | 2025-03-12 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2025:2668-01 | EL9 | .NET 9.0 | 2025-03-12 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2025:2452-01 | EL8 | firefox | 2025-03-06 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2025:2484-01 | EL8.4 | firefox | 2025-03-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2025:2485-01 | EL8.6 | firefox | 2025-03-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2025:2486-01 | EL8.8 | firefox | 2025-03-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2025:2359-01 | EL9 | firefox | 2025-03-06 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2025:2481-01 | EL9.0 | firefox | 2025-03-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2025:2480-01 | EL9.2 | firefox | 2025-03-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2025:2479-01 | EL9.4 | firefox | 2025-03-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2025:2655-01 | EL8.4 | grub2 | 2025-03-11 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2025:2653-01 | EL8.6 | grub2 | 2025-03-11 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2025:2521-01 | EL8.8 | grub2 | 2025-03-11 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2025:2517-01 | EL6 | kernel | 2025-03-11 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2025:2501-01 | EL7 | kernel | 2025-03-11 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2025:2514-01 | EL7.7 | kernel | 2025-03-11 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2025:2473-01 | EL8 | kernel | 2025-03-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2025:2646-01 | EL8.2 | kernel | 2025-03-11 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2025:2528-01 | EL8.4 | kernel | 2025-03-11 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2025:2489-01 | EL8.6 | kernel | 2025-03-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2025:2525-01 | EL8.8 | kernel | 2025-03-11 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2025:2627-01 | EL9 | kernel | 2025-03-11 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2025:2488-01 | EL9.0 | kernel | 2025-03-11 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2025:2475-01 | EL9.2 | kernel | 2025-03-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2025:2490-01 | EL9.4 | kernel | 2025-03-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2025:2510-01 | EL7 | kernel-rt | 2025-03-11 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2025:2474-01 | EL8 | kernel-rt | 2025-03-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2025:2524-01 | EL8.4 | kernel-rt | 2025-03-11 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2025:2512-01 | EL9.0 | kernel-rt | 2025-03-11 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2025:2476-01 | EL9.2 | kernel-rt | 2025-03-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2025:2654-01 | EL8.2 | libxml2 | 2025-03-11 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2025:2660-01 | EL8.4 | libxml2 | 2025-03-12 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2025:2513-01 | EL8.6 | libxml2 | 2025-03-11 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2025:2507-01 | EL8.8 | libxml2 | 2025-03-11 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2025:2483-01 | EL9.0 | libxml2 | 2025-03-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2025:2482-01 | EL9.2 | libxml2 | 2025-03-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2025:1582-01 | EL8 | nodejs:18 | 2025-03-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2025:1446-01 | EL9 | nodejs:18 | 2025-03-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2025:2471-01 | EL9 | pcs | 2025-03-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2025:2470-01 | EL9.4 | pcs | 2025-03-10 |
| Slackware | SSA:2025-064-01 | mozilla | 2025-03-05 | |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0813-1 | SLE15 SES7.1 oS15.3 | buildah | 2025-03-10 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0812-1 | SLE15 oS15.4 | buildah | 2025-03-10 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0811-1 | SLE15 oS15.5 oS15.6 | buildah | 2025-03-10 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2025:14854-1 | TW | chromedriver | 2025-03-07 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2025:0084-1 | osB15 | chromium | 2025-03-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0798-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 oS15.4 oS15.6 | emacs | 2025-03-06 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0788-1 | SLE15 SES7.1 oS15.6 | firefox | 2025-03-05 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2025:14861-1 | TW | firefox | 2025-03-08 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2025:14852-1 | TW | firefox-esr | 2025-03-05 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0803-1 | SLE15 oS15.6 | go1.23 | 2025-03-06 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2025:14855-1 | TW | go1.23 | 2025-03-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0802-1 | SLE15 oS15.6 | go1.24 | 2025-03-06 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2025:14856-1 | TW | go1.24 | 2025-03-07 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2025:14857-1 | TW | grype | 2025-03-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0845-1 | SLE12 | iniparser | 2025-03-12 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0821-1 | SLE15 oS15.5 oS15.6 | iniparser | 2025-03-10 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0835-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 oS15.4 | kernel | 2025-03-11 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0834-1 | SLE12 | kernel | 2025-03-11 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0784-1 | SLE15 | kernel | 2025-03-05 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0201-2 | SLE15 | kernel | 2025-03-11 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0577-2 | SLE15 SLE-m5.5 | kernel | 2025-03-11 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0833-2 | SLE15 SLE-m5.5 | kernel | 2025-03-11 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0833-1 | SLE15 SLE-m5.5 oS15.5 | kernel | 2025-03-11 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0822-1 | SLE-m5.1 SLE-m5.2 oS15.3 | krb5 | 2025-03-10 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0818-1 | SLE12 | libxkbfile | 2025-03-10 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0801-1 | SLE15 oS15.4 | pcp | 2025-03-06 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0786-1 | SLE15 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 oS15.4 | podman | 2025-03-05 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0785-1 | SLE15 SLE-m5.5 oS15.5 oS15.6 | podman | 2025-03-05 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0814-1 | SLE12 | python | 2025-03-10 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2025:14858-1 | TW | python311-GitPython | 2025-03-07 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2025:14859-1 | TW | ruby3.4-rubygem-rack | 2025-03-07 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2025:14853-1 | TW | thunderbird | 2025-03-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0817-1 | SLE-m5.2 oS15.3 | u-boot | 2025-03-10 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2025:14860-1 | TW | xen | 2025-03-07 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7330-1 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 20.04 | ansible | 2025-03-06 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7345-1 | 22.04 24.04 24.10 | dotnet8, dotnet9 | 2025-03-12 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7334-1 | 20.04 | firefox | 2025-03-06 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7341-1 | 24.04 | freerdp2 | 2025-03-11 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7336-1 | 22.04 24.04 24.10 | gnuchess | 2025-03-10 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7320-1 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 20.04 22.04 24.04 | gpac | 2025-03-04 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7343-1 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 20.04 22.04 24.04 24.10 | jinja2 | 2025-03-12 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7333-1 | 14.04 | kernel | 2025-03-05 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7337-1 | 20.04 22.04 24.04 24.10 | libreoffice | 2025-03-10 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7332-1 | 14.04 16.04 | linux, linux-aws | 2025-03-05 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7342-1 | 16.04 18.04 | linux, linux-hwe | 2025-03-11 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7344-1 | 16.04 18.04 | linux-aws, linux-aws-hwe, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-4.15, linux-kvm, linux-oracle | 2025-03-11 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7323-2 | 24.10 | linux-azure | 2025-03-06 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7329-1 | 20.04 22.04 | linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.15, linux-gke | 2025-03-05 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7331-1 | 20.04 | linux-hwe-5.15 | 2025-03-05 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7332-2 | 16.04 | linux-kvm | 2025-03-11 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7325-2 | 24.04 | linux-nvidia | 2025-03-07 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7338-1 | 24.10 | openjdk-17-crac | 2025-03-11 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7339-1 | 24.10 | openjdk-21-crac | 2025-03-11 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7346-1 | 16.04 18.04 20.04 22.04 24.04 24.10 | opensc | 2025-03-12 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7340-1 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 | openvpn | 2025-03-10 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7335-1 | 18.04 20.04 22.04 24.04 24.10 | python-django | 2025-03-07 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7321-1 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 20.04 22.04 24.04 24.10 | redis | 2025-03-05 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7299-2 | 16.04 18.04 | xorg-server, xorg-server-hwe-16.04, xorg-server-hwe-18.04 | 2025-03-10 |
Kernel patches of interest
Kernel releases
Architecture-specific
Build system
Core kernel
Thomas Gleixner
posix-timers: Rework the global hash table and provide a sane mechanism for CRIU
Mar 08
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
futex: Add support task local hash maps, FUTEX2_NUMA and FUTEX2_MPOL
Mar 12
Development tools
Device drivers
Peter Griffin
samsung: pinctrl: Add support for eint_fltcon_offset and filter selection on gs101
Mar 06
Rafael J. Wysocki
cpufreq: intel_pstate: Enable EAS on hybrid platforms without SMT - alternative
Mar 07
Antheas Kapenekakis
hwmon: (oxpsensors) Add devices, features, fix ABI and move to platform/x86
Mar 09
Device-driver infrastructure
Documentation
Filesystems and block layer
Memory management
Networking
Alexander Mikhalitsyn
Add getsockopt(SO_PEERCGROUPID) and fdinfo API to retreive socket's peer cgroup id
Mar 09
Security-related
Virtualization and containers
Miscellaneous
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