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CFP Deadlines: March 27, 2025 to May 26, 2025
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
---|---|---|---|
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 |
May 22 | July 14 July 20 |
DebConf 2025 | Brest, France |
May 23 | August 16 August 17 |
Free and Open Source Software Conference | Sankt Augustin, Germany |
May 23 | September 8 | Workshop on eBPF and kernel extensions (colocated with ACM SIGCOMM) | Coimbra, Portugal |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
Events: March 27, 2025 to May 26, 2025
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
Date(s) | Event | Location |
---|---|---|
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 |
May 12 May 15 |
Risc-V Summit Europe | Paris, France |
May 13 May 16 |
PGConf.dev | Montreal, Canada |
May 13 May 17 |
RustWeek / RustNL 2025 | Utrecht, The Netherlands |
May 14 May 16 |
Embedded Recipes | Nice, France |
May 14 May 16 |
Linaro Connect Lisbon 2025 | Lisbon, Portugal |
May 16 May 18 |
Debian MountainCamp | Innsbruck, Austria |
May 16 May 18 |
PyCon US 2024 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US |
May 22 | NLUUG Spring Conference 2025 | Utrecht, The Netherlands |
May 24 May 25 |
Journées du Logiciel Libre | Lyon, France |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Security updates
Alert summary March 20, 2025 to March 26, 2025
Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
---|---|---|---|---|
Debian | DSA-5882-1 | stable | chromium | 2025-03-20 |
Debian | DLA-4089-1 | LTS | libxslt | 2025-03-24 |
Debian | DSA-5884-1 | stable | libxslt | 2025-03-23 |
Debian | DSA-5883-1 | stable | mercurial | 2025-03-22 |
Debian | DLA-4091-1 | LTS | nginx | 2025-03-25 |
Debian | DLA-4088-1 | LTS | php7.4 | 2025-03-20 |
Debian | DLA-4086-1 | LTS | python-django | 2025-03-19 |
Debian | DLA-4087-1 | LTS | python3.9 | 2025-03-20 |
Debian | DLA-4090-1 | LTS | ruby-rack | 2025-03-24 |
Debian | DSA-5886-1 | stable | ruby-rack | 2025-03-25 |
Debian | DSA-5885-1 | stable | webkit2gtk | 2025-03-23 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2025-ae55d50be2 | F41 | OpenIPMI | 2025-03-25 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2025-35347bf9f0 | F42 | bluez | 2025-03-20 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2025-bee62eff98 | F40 | chromium | 2025-03-24 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2025-1afc565e2b | F41 | chromium | 2025-03-25 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2025-3ccee236a3 | F42 | chromium | 2025-03-25 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2025-83c147615e | F40 | dotnet8.0 | 2025-03-23 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2025-adbd75f500 | F41 | dotnet8.0 | 2025-03-23 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2025-54ac622cef | F42 | dotnet8.0 | 2025-03-23 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2025-d487e15b69 | F40 | expat | 2025-03-26 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2025-34c88263fe | F40 | ffmpeg | 2025-03-23 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2025-b2bdcfedac | F40 | fluent-bit | 2025-03-21 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2025-b355fdb8e5 | F41 | fluent-bit | 2025-03-21 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2025-e31c4c683b | F42 | fluent-bit | 2025-03-21 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2025-73800111e8 | F41 | golang-github-openprinting-ipp-usb | 2025-03-25 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2025-35347bf9f0 | F42 | iwd | 2025-03-20 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2025-1d68ba6806 | F40 | jupyterlab | 2025-03-23 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2025-e50201543b | F41 | jupyterlab | 2025-03-23 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2025-2fe21e3da5 | F40 | kitty | 2025-03-22 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2025-35347bf9f0 | F42 | libell | 2025-03-20 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2025-d4d7cfe35a | F40 | libxslt | 2025-03-26 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2025-1e92156b24 | F42 | openssh | 2025-03-21 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2025-4e7e2c40e0 | F40 | php | 2025-03-21 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2025-8d0acf5a57 | F41 | php | 2025-03-21 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2025-8b6aa24ab4 | F40 | python-jinja2 | 2025-03-25 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2025-f8eca89d63 | F40 | radare2 | 2025-03-20 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2025-7b9adcd6ea | F41 | radare2 | 2025-03-20 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2025-1189bc2336 | F42 | radare2 | 2025-03-20 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2025-80e387cc51 | F42 | webkitgtk | 2025-03-21 |
Mageia | MGASA-2025-0115 | 9 | bluez | 2025-03-26 |
Mageia | MGASA-2025-0104 | 9 | chromium-browser-stable | 2025-03-20 |
Mageia | MGASA-2025-0117 | 9 | dcmtk | 2025-03-26 |
Mageia | MGASA-2025-0109 | 9 | expat | 2025-03-22 |
Mageia | MGASA-2025-0114 | 9 | ffmpeg | 2025-03-26 |
Mageia | MGASA-2025-0108 | 9 | freerdp | 2025-03-21 |
Mageia | MGASA-2025-0111 | 9 | kernel | 2025-03-24 |
Mageia | MGASA-2025-0112 | 9 | kernel-linus | 2025-03-24 |
Mageia | MGASA-2025-0110 | 9 | libxslt | 2025-03-22 |
Mageia | MGASA-2025-0106 | 9 | mosquitto | 2025-03-20 |
Mageia | MGASA-2025-0116 | 9 | radare2 | 2025-03-26 |
Mageia | MGASA-2025-0105 | 9 | tomcat, tomcat packages | 2025-03-20 |
Mageia | MGASA-2025-0107 | 9 | vim | 2025-03-20 |
Mageia | MGASA-2025-0113 | 9 | wpa_supplicant, hostapd | 2025-03-24 |
Oracle | ELSA-2025-2699 | OL7 | firefox | 2025-03-19 |
Oracle | ELSA-2025-2867 | OL9 | grub2 | 2025-03-19 |
Oracle | ELSA-2025-2868 | OL8 | libreoffice | 2025-03-19 |
Oracle | ELSA-2025-1750 | OL7 | python3 | 2025-03-19 |
Oracle | ELSA-2025-2900 | OL8 | thunderbird | 2025-03-19 |
Oracle | ELSA-2025-2899 | OL9 | thunderbird | 2025-03-19 |
Oracle | ELSA-2025-2863 | OL8 | webkit2gtk3 | 2025-03-19 |
Oracle | ELSA-2025-2864 | OL9 | webkit2gtk3 | 2025-03-19 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2025:3210-01 | EL8 | container-tools:rhel8 | 2025-03-26 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2025:3175-01 | EL8.6 | container-tools:rhel8 | 2025-03-26 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2025:3113-01 | EL9 | fence-agents | 2025-03-25 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2025:3017-01 | EL9.0 | fence-agents | 2025-03-20 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2025:3111-01 | EL9.2 | fence-agents | 2025-03-25 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2025:3185-01 | EL9.4 | gvisor-tap-vsock | 2025-03-26 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2025:3209-01 | EL8.2 | kernel | 2025-03-26 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2025:3207-01 | EL8.4 | kernel | 2025-03-26 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2025:3213-01 | EL8.6 | kernel | 2025-03-26 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2025:3216-01 | EL8.8 | kernel | 2025-03-26 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2025:3208-01 | EL9 | kernel | 2025-03-26 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2025:3128-01 | EL9.0 | kernel | 2025-03-25 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2025:3212-01 | EL9.2 | kernel | 2025-03-26 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2025:3215-01 | EL9.4 | kernel | 2025-03-26 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2025:3211-01 | EL8.4 | kernel-rt | 2025-03-26 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2025:3127-01 | EL9.0 | kernel-rt | 2025-03-25 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2025:3024-01 | EL9.2 | kernel-rt | 2025-03-20 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2025:3214-01 | EL9.2 | kernel-rt | 2025-03-26 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2025:3169-01 | EL8.8 | libreoffice | 2025-03-26 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2025:2673-01 | EL7 | libxml2 | 2025-03-25 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2025:3107-01 | EL9 | libxslt | 2025-03-24 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2025:2955-01 | EL8.4 | pcs | 2025-03-24 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2025:2956-01 | EL8.6 | pcs | 2025-03-24 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2025:3109-01 | EL8.8 | pcs | 2025-03-24 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2025:3108-01 | EL9.2 | pcs | 2025-03-24 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2025:3076-01 | EL8.4 | php:7.4 | 2025-03-20 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2025:3016-01 | EL8.6 | php:7.4 | 2025-03-20 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2025:3165-01 | EL9.0 | podman | 2025-03-26 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2025:3184-01 | EL9.2 | podman | 2025-03-26 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2025:3186-01 | EL9.4 | podman | 2025-03-26 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2025:2612-01 | EL8.2 | python-jinja2 | 2025-03-20 |
Slackware | SSA:2025-079-01 | libarchive | 2025-03-20 | |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0980-1 | SLE15 oS15.6 | apptainer | 2025-03-21 |
SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2025:14909-1 | TW | apptainer | 2025-03-20 |
SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2025:14903-1 | TW | assimp-devel | 2025-03-19 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:1014-1 | SLE15 oS15.4 | buildah | 2025-03-25 |
SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2025:0103-1 | osB15 | cadvisor | 2025-03-24 |
SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2025:0098-1 | osB15 | chromium | 2025-03-22 |
SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2025:14905-1 | TW | crane | 2025-03-19 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0992-1 | SLE12 | docker | 2025-03-24 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0958-1 | SLE15 oS15.6 | ffmpeg-4 | 2025-03-19 |
SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2025:14919-1 | TW | forgejo | 2025-03-25 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0998-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.1 SLE-m5.2 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 SLE-m5.5 SES7.1 oS15.6 | freetype2 | 2025-03-25 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0960-1 | SLE12 | freetype2 | 2025-03-19 |
SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2025:0094-1 | osB15 | gitea-tea | 2025-03-20 |
SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2025:14920-1 | TW | gitleaks | 2025-03-25 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:1005-1 | MP4.2 MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.5 oS15.6 | google-guest-agent | 2025-03-25 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:1006-1 | MP4.2 MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.5 oS15.6 | google-osconfig-agent | 2025-03-25 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:1013-1 | SLE15 oS15.6 | govulncheck-vulndb | 2025-03-25 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:1010-1 | SLE12 | grafana | 2025-03-25 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:1009-1 | SLE15 oS15.3 oS15.4 oS15.5 oS15.6 | grafana | 2025-03-25 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:1011-1 | SLE15 oS15.6 | grafana | 2025-03-25 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:1007-1 | SLE15 SLE-m5.5 oS15.6 | helm | 2025-03-25 |
SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2025:14906-1 | TW | helm | 2025-03-19 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0983-1 | SLE11 | kernel | 2025-03-21 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0945-1 | SLE15 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 | kernel | 2025-03-19 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0955-1 | SLE15 oS15.6 | kernel | 2025-03-19 |
SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2025:14907-1 | TW | kured | 2025-03-19 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0986-1 | SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 SLE-m5.5 oS15.4 | libarchive | 2025-03-21 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0985-1 | SLE15 oS15.6 | libarchive | 2025-03-21 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0976-1 | SLE15 SLE-m5.1 SLE-m5.2 SES7.1 oS15.6 | libxml2 | 2025-03-21 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:1003-1 | SLE15 SLE-m5.1 SLE-m5.2 SES7.1 oS15.6 | libxslt | 2025-03-25 |
SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2025:14912-1 | TW | mercurial | 2025-03-21 |
SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2025:14917-1 | TW | nodejs-electron | 2025-03-24 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0994-1 | SLE15 oS15.4 | php8 | 2025-03-24 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:1012-1 | SLE15 oS15.6 | php8 | 2025-03-25 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0959-1 | SLE15 oS15.6 | python-Django | 2025-03-19 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0956-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 oS15.4 oS15.6 | python-Jinja2 | 2025-03-19 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:1004-1 | SLE15 SLE-m5.1 SLE-m5.2 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 SLE-m5.5 | python-Jinja2 | 2025-03-25 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:1002-1 | MP4.2 MP4.3 SLE15 | python-gunicorn | 2025-03-25 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:1008-1 | SLE15 oS15.4 oS15.6 | python-gunicorn | 2025-03-25 |
SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2025:14908-1 | TW | python311-Django4 | 2025-03-19 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0981-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 oS15.4 | python311 | 2025-03-21 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0982-1 | SLE15 oS15.6 | python311 | 2025-03-21 |
SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2025:0101-1 | osB15 | radare2 | 2025-03-23 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0991-1 | SLE15 SLE-m5.1 SLE-m5.2 SES7.1 | rsync | 2025-03-24 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0954-1 | SLE12 | tomcat | 2025-03-19 |
SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2025:14911-1 | TW | tomcat | 2025-03-20 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0989-1 | SLE15 oS15.6 | u-boot | 2025-03-24 |
SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2025:14918-1 | TW | warewulf4 | 2025-03-24 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0975-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 oS15.4 | webkit2gtk3 | 2025-03-21 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0993-1 | SLE15 SES7.1 | webkit2gtk3 | 2025-03-24 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0974-1 | SLE15 oS15.6 | webkit2gtk3 | 2025-03-21 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0977-1 | SLE15 oS15.6 | wpa_supplicant | 2025-03-21 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0984-1 | SLE15 oS15.6 | xorg-x11-server | 2025-03-21 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0988-1 | SLE12 | zvbi | 2025-03-24 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2025:0979-1 | SLE15 oS15.6 | zvbi | 2025-03-21 |
Ubuntu | USN-7360-1 | 16.04 18.04 20.04 | alpine | 2025-03-20 |
Ubuntu | USN-7354-1 | 20.04 22.04 24.04 24.10 | djoser | 2025-03-18 |
Ubuntu | USN-7369-1 | 22.04 24.04 24.10 | elfutils | 2025-03-24 |
Ubuntu | USN-7371-1 | 24.04 | freerdp2 | 2025-03-25 |
Ubuntu | USN-7362-1 | 24.04 24.10 | golang-github-cli-go-gh-v2 | 2025-03-21 |
Ubuntu | USN-7357-1 | 20.04 22.04 24.04 24.10 | libxslt | 2025-03-19 |
Ubuntu | USN-7361-1 | 20.04 22.04 24.04 24.10 | libxslt | 2025-03-20 |
Ubuntu | USN-7365-1 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 20.04 | nltk | 2025-03-24 |
Ubuntu | USN-7363-1 | 16.04 18.04 20.04 22.04 24.04 24.10 | pam-pkcs11 | 2025-03-20 |
Ubuntu | USN-7358-1 | 16.04 | postgresql-9.5 | 2025-03-19 |
Ubuntu | USN-7348-2 | 14.04 16.04 20.04 | python3.5, python3.8 | 2025-03-24 |
Ubuntu | USN-7366-1 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 20.04 22.04 24.04 24.10 | ruby-rack | 2025-03-25 |
Ubuntu | USN-7370-1 | 22.04 24.04 24.10 | smartdns | 2025-03-25 |
Ubuntu | USN-7359-1 | 24.04 24.10 | valkey | 2025-03-20 |
Ubuntu | USN-7372-1 | 18.04 20.04 22.04 | varnish | 2025-03-26 |
Ubuntu | USN-7367-1 | 16.04 18.04 20.04 22.04 24.04 24.10 | zvbi | 2025-03-24 |
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hwmon: (oxpsensors) Add devices, features, fix ABI and move to platform/x86
Mar 19
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HID: asus: hid-asus and asus-wmi backlight unification, Z13 QOL improvements
Mar 19
Karunika Choo
drm/panthor: Add GPU specific initialization framework to support new Mali GPUs
Mar 20
Antheas Kapenekakis
HID: Asus: Add RGB Support to Asus Z13, Ally, unify backlight asus-wmi, and Z13 QOL
Mar 20
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HID: asus: Add RGB Support to Asus Z13, Ally, unify backlight asus-wmi, and Z13 QOL
Mar 22
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Rodrigo Siqueira
Documentation/gpu/amdgpu: Add documentation about Pipes, Queues, MES, and others
Mar 25
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ext4: Add extsize and forcealign support (groundwork for multi block atomic writes)
Mar 24
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