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CFP Deadlines: January 4, 2018 to March 5, 2018

The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.

DeadlineEvent Dates EventLocation
January 7 March 12
March 14		 Embedded Linux Conference Portland, OR, USA
January 14 June 8
June 9		 Texas Linux Fest Austin, TX, USA
January 17 June 11
June 14		 O'Reilly Velocity Conf San Jose, CA, USA
January 19 May 29
June 1		 PGCon 2018 Ottawa, Canada
January 21 March 6
March 8		 Open Source Leadership Summit Sonoma Valley, CA, USA
January 22 March 19
March 23		 Linaro Connect Hong Kong, China
January 23 April 9
April 11		 QCon.ai Applied AI for Developers San Francisco, CA, USA
January 26 February 15 Linux FAST Summit '18 Oakland, CA, USA
January 30 April 14
April 15		 Prague Makerfaire Prague, Czech Republic
January 30 July 16
July 19		 OSCON 2018 Portland, OR, USA
January 31 May 21
May 22		 OpenMP UK Users' Conference Oxford, UK
January 31 June 12
June 13		 Open Source Data Center Conference Berlin, Germany
January 31 April 11
April 14		 MiniDebConf Curitiba 2018 Curitiba, Brazil
January 31 April 28
April 29		 LinuxFest Northwest Bellingham, WA, USA
January 31 April 23
April 25		 Storage, Filesystem and Memory-Management Summit Park City, UT, USA
February 1 May 23
May 27		 DjangoCon Europe 2018 Heidelberg, Germany
February 3 February 9
February 10		 LVEE Winter 2017 Minsk, Belarus
February 8 May 21
May 24		 OpenStack Summit Vancouver, Canada
February 9 April 16
April 17		 LLVM European Developers Meeting Bristol, UK
February 15 July 9
July 15		 SciPy 2018 Austin, TX, USA
February 16 April 9
April 13		 OpenFabrics Alliance Workshop 2018 Boulder, CO, USA
February 18 June 13
June 14		 FOSS Backstage Berlin, Germany
February 18 July 28
July 30		 State of the Map 2018 Milan, Italy
February 28 March 30
April 2		 Easterhegg 2018 Würzburg, Germany
February 28 March 8 Glustered 2018 Bologna, Italy
March 2 July 17
July 18		 International Faust Conference Mainz, Germany
March 4 June 25
June 27		 LinuxCon+ContainerCon+Cloudopen China Beijing, China

If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.

Upcoming Events

Events: January 4, 2018 to March 5, 2018

The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.

Date(s)EventLocation
January 22 Sysadmin Miniconf at lca Sydney, Australia
January 22 Kernel Miniconf at lca Sydney, Australia
January 22
January 26		 linux.conf.au Sydney, Australia
January 26
January 28		 DevConf.cz Brno, Czech Republic
February 3
February 4		 FOSDEM 2018 Brussels, Belgium
February 9
February 10		 LVEE Winter 2017 Minsk, Belarus
February 15 Linux FAST Summit '18 Oakland, CA, USA
February 20
February 21		 Automotive Grade Linux Tokyo, Japan

If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.

Security updates

Alert summary December 28, 2017 to January 3, 2018

Dist. ID Release Package Date
Debian DLA-1225-1 LTS asterisk 2017-12-30
Debian DSA-4076-1 stable asterisk 2017-12-30
Debian DSA-4072-1 stable bouncycastle 2017-12-21
Debian DLA-1219-1 LTS enigmail 2017-12-23
Debian DSA-4070-1 stable enigmail 2017-12-21
Debian DLA-1220-1 LTS gimp 2017-12-23
Debian DSA-4077-1 stable gimp 2017-12-30
Debian DLA-1227-1 LTS imagemagick 2018-01-01
Debian DSA-4074-1 stable imagemagick 2017-12-28
Debian DLA-1217-1 LTS irssi 2017-12-23
Debian DSA-4073-1 stable kernel 2017-12-23
Debian DLA-1214-1 LTS libreoffice 2017-12-20
Debian DLA-1224-1 LTS mercurial 2017-12-28
Debian DLA-1213-1 LTS openafs 2017-12-20
Debian DLA-1215-1 LTS otrs2 2017-12-20
Debian DSA-4069-1 stable otrs2 2017-12-20
Debian DLA-1228-1 LTS poppler 2018-01-03
Debian DLA-1218-1 LTS rsync 2017-12-23
Debian DLA-1222-1 LTS ruby1.8 2017-12-25
Debian DLA-1221-1 LTS ruby1.9.1 2017-12-25
Debian DSA-4071-1 stable sensible-utils 2017-12-21
Debian DLA-1223-1 LTS thunderbird 2017-12-27
Debian DSA-4075-1 stable thunderbird 2017-12-29
Debian DLA-1226-1 LTS wireshark 2017-12-31
Fedora FEDORA-2017-38fbcdffc3 F26 asterisk 2017-12-26
Fedora FEDORA-2017-66e9367f7e F27 asterisk 2017-12-28
Fedora FEDORA-2017-ea44f172e3 F26 chromium 2018-01-01
Fedora FEDORA-2017-c2645aa935 F27 chromium 2018-01-01
Fedora FEDORA-2017-d6402c8005 F26 evince 2017-12-26
Fedora FEDORA-2017-828f8a8fc6 F27 glibc 2018-01-02
Fedora FEDORA-2017-fd9462d9ef F27 global 2017-12-29
Fedora FEDORA-2017-6d952bdc53 F26 json-c 2017-12-24
Fedora FEDORA-2017-20b18a4ffe F27 json-c 2017-12-24
Fedora FEDORA-2017-7810b7c59f F26 kernel 2017-12-24
Fedora FEDORA-2017-f7cb245861 F27 kernel 2017-12-21
Fedora FEDORA-2017-1ebb87e7c0 F27 kernel 2017-12-24
Fedora FEDORA-2017-b24ef59f94 F27 libexif 2017-12-28
Fedora FEDORA-2017-bf172b2035 F26 lynx 2017-12-26
Fedora FEDORA-2017-481515e199 F26 phpMyAdmin 2018-01-02
Fedora FEDORA-2017-cad79c7c6c F27 phpMyAdmin 2018-01-02
Fedora FEDORA-2017-7b4149911a F26 python-mistune 2017-12-27
Fedora FEDORA-2017-2eefd424bd F27 python-mistune 2017-12-29
Fedora FEDORA-2017-2e5a17c4cc F27 python33 2018-01-02
Fedora FEDORA-2017-6e6f4f95e6 F26 ruby 2017-12-26
Fedora FEDORA-2017-80c6b4d3be F26 sensible-utils 2017-12-26
Fedora FEDORA-2017-2fab3f12c4 F27 sensible-utils 2017-12-28
Fedora FEDORA-2017-1dc71e1acd F26 shellinabox 2017-12-26
Fedora FEDORA-2017-a95dd74301 F27 shellinabox 2017-12-28
Fedora FEDORA-2017-856a149a4c F26 thunderbird-enigmail 2017-12-30
Fedora FEDORA-2017-54288fb74e F27 thunderbird-enigmail 2017-12-29
Fedora FEDORA-2017-06b373d942 F27 webkitgtk4 2017-12-28
Fedora FEDORA-2017-16a414b3c5 F26 xen 2018-01-02
Mageia MGASA-2018-0032 5 OpenEXR 2018-01-03
Mageia MGASA-2018-0011 5 X11 client libraries 2018-01-01
Mageia MGASA-2018-0007 5 apache 2018-01-01
Mageia MGASA-2018-0009 6 apache 2018-01-01
Mageia MGASA-2018-0045 5, 6 awstats 2018-01-03
Mageia MGASA-2017-0478 5 bind 2017-12-31
Mageia MGASA-2018-0046 5 binutils 2018-01-03
Mageia MGASA-2018-0036 5, 6 connman 2018-01-03
Mageia MGASA-2017-0458 5, 6 dhcp 2017-12-21
Mageia MGASA-2018-0027 5 elfutils 2018-01-03
Mageia MGASA-2017-0476 5, 6 emacs 2017-12-31
Mageia MGASA-2018-0008 5 ffmpeg 2018-01-01
Mageia MGASA-2017-0462 5, 6 flash-player-plugin 2017-12-21
Mageia MGASA-2018-0037 5, 6 fontforge 2018-01-03
Mageia MGASA-2018-0042 5, 6 fossil 2018-01-03
Mageia MGASA-2017-0475 5 freerdp 2017-12-31
Mageia MGASA-2018-0034 5 gdb 2018-01-03
Mageia MGASA-2018-0035 6 gdb 2018-01-03
Mageia MGASA-2018-0016 5, 6 gdk-pixbuf2.0 2018-01-01
Mageia MGASA-2018-0030 5 gimp 2018-01-03
Mageia MGASA-2017-0470 5 glibc 2017-12-28
Mageia MGASA-2017-0464 6 glibc 2017-12-22
Mageia MGASA-2017-0455 5, 6 graphicsmagick 2017-12-21
Mageia MGASA-2018-0012 5 gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad/gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad 2018-01-01
Mageia MGASA-2018-0015 6 gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly 2018-01-01
Mageia MGASA-2018-0014 5 gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly/gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly 2018-01-01
Mageia MGASA-2018-0013 6 gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad 2018-01-01
Mageia MGASA-2017-0485 6 heimdal 2017-12-31
Mageia MGASA-2018-0018 5, 6 iceape 2018-01-02
Mageia MGASA-2017-0484 5, 6 icu 2017-12-31
Mageia MGASA-2018-0010 5, 6 ipsec-tools 2018-01-01
Mageia MGASA-2017-0474 5 jasper 2017-12-31
Mageia MGASA-2017-0460 5, 6 java-1.8.0-openjdk 2017-12-21
Mageia MGASA-2018-0039 5, 6 jbig2dec 2018-01-03
Mageia MGASA-2017-0473 5 kdebase4-runtime 2017-12-31
Mageia MGASA-2017-0463 5 kernel 2017-12-21
Mageia MGASA-2017-0472 6 kernel-firmware 2017-12-28
Mageia MGASA-2017-0467 5 kernel-linus 2017-12-22
Mageia MGASA-2017-0466 5 kernel-tmb 2017-12-22
Mageia MGASA-2018-0003 5, 6 ldns 2018-01-01
Mageia MGASA-2018-0043 5, 6 libextractor 2018-01-03
Mageia MGASA-2018-0021 5, 6 libical 2018-01-02
Mageia MGASA-2018-0025 5 libplist 2018-01-03
Mageia MGASA-2017-0468 5, 6 libraw 2017-12-24
Mageia MGASA-2018-0017 5 libvirt 2018-01-01
Mageia MGASA-2018-0020 5, 6 libzip 2018-01-02
Mageia MGASA-2018-0019 5, 6 mad 2018-01-02
Mageia MGASA-2017-0461 5, 6 mariadb 2017-12-21
Mageia MGASA-2018-0038 5, 6 mbedtls 2018-01-03
Mageia MGASA-2018-0041 5, 6 mercurial 2018-01-03
Mageia MGASA-2017-0479 5 mupdf 2017-12-31
Mageia MGASA-2018-0001 5 ncurses 2018-01-01
Mageia MGASA-2018-0002 6 ncurses 2018-01-01
Mageia MGASA-2017-0481 5, 6 openjpeg2 2017-12-31
Mageia MGASA-2018-0033 5 openldap 2018-01-03
Mageia MGASA-2018-0006 5 openssh 2018-01-01
Mageia MGASA-2017-0483 6 openssh 2017-12-31
Mageia MGASA-2017-0454 5, 6 pcre 2017-12-21
Mageia MGASA-2018-0031 5, 6 perl-DBD-mysql 2018-01-03
Mageia MGASA-2017-0471 6 phpmyadmin 2017-12-28
Mageia MGASA-2018-0026 5 podofo 2018-01-03
Mageia MGASA-2018-0040 5, 6 python-werkzeug 2018-01-03
Mageia MGASA-2018-0004 5, 6 python/python3 2018-01-01
Mageia MGASA-2018-0028 5 raptor2 2018-01-03
Mageia MGASA-2018-0029 5 rkhunter 2018-01-03
Mageia MGASA-2017-0457 5, 6 rootcerts 2017-12-21
Mageia MGASA-2017-0459 5, 6 rsync 2017-12-21
Mageia MGASA-2017-0486 5, 6 ruby 2017-12-31
Mageia MGASA-2017-0482 5, 6 ruby-RubyGems 2017-12-31
Mageia MGASA-2018-0022 5 samba 2018-01-02
Mageia MGASA-2018-0023 6 samba 2018-01-02
Mageia MGASA-2017-0465 5, 6 shadow-utils 2017-12-22
Mageia MGASA-2017-0480 5 shotwell 2017-12-31
Mageia MGASA-2017-0477 5, 6 thunderbird 2017-12-31
Mageia MGASA-2017-0469 5, 6 transfig 2017-12-25
Mageia MGASA-2018-0024 5 w3m 2018-01-03
Mageia MGASA-2018-0044 5, 6 wayland 2018-01-03
Mageia MGASA-2018-0005 6 webkit2 2018-01-01
Mageia MGASA-2017-0456 6 xrdp 2017-12-21
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2017:3420-1 42.2 42.3 ImageMagick 2017-12-22
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2017:3419-1 enigmail 2017-12-22
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2017:3427-1 42.2 42.3 enigmail 2017-12-22
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2017:3431-1 42.2 42.3 evince 2017-12-23
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2017:3447-1 42.2 42.3 gdk-pixbuf 2017-12-29
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2017:3442-1 42.2 42.3 global 2017-12-28
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2017:3451-1 phpMyAdmin 2017-12-29
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2017:3448-1 42.2 42.3 phpMyAdmin 2017-12-29
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2017:3425-1 42.2 42.3 postgresql96 2017-12-22
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2017:3421-1 42.2 42.3 python-PyJWT 2017-12-22
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2017:3433-1 thunderbird 2017-12-25
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2017:3434-1 42.2 42.3 thunderbird 2017-12-25
Slackware SSA:2017-356-01 mozilla 2017-12-22
SUSE SUSE-SU-2017:3435-1 SLE11 GraphicsMagick 2017-12-27
SUSE SUSE-SU-2017:3378-1 SLE11 ImageMagick 2017-12-20
SUSE SUSE-SU-2017:3388-1 SLE12 ImageMagick 2017-12-20
SUSE SUSE-SU-2017:3428-1 SLE12 evince 2017-12-23
SUSE SUSE-SU-2017:3455-1 OS6 SLE12 java-1_7_1-ibm 2017-12-30
SUSE SUSE-SU-2017:3440-1 SLE11 java-1_7_1-ibm 2017-12-27
SUSE SUSE-SU-2017:3411-1 OS6 SLE12 java-1_8_0-ibm 2017-12-22
SUSE SUSE-SU-2017:3410-1 SLE12 kernel 2017-12-22
SUSE SUSE-SU-2017:3398-1 SLE12 kernel 2017-12-21
Ubuntu USN-3477-4 14.04 16.04 17.04 17.10 firefox 2018-01-03
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Kernel patches of interest

Kernel releases

Linus Torvalds Linux 4.15-rc6 Dec 31
Linus Torvalds Linux 4.15-rc5 Dec 23
Greg KH Linux 4.14.11 Jan 03
Greg KH Linux 4.14.10 Dec 29
Greg KH Linux 4.14.9 Dec 25
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior v4.14.8-rt9 Dec 22
Greg KH Linux 4.9.74 Jan 03
Greg KH Linux 4.9.73 Dec 29
Greg KH Linux 4.9.72 Dec 25
Greg KH Linux 4.4.109 Jan 03
Greg KH Linux 4.4.108 Dec 25
Greg KH Linux 3.18.91 Jan 03
Greg KH Linux 3.18.90 Dec 25
Ben Hutchings Linux 3.16.52 Jan 02
Ben Hutchings Linux 3.2.97 Jan 02

Architecture-specific

Greentime Hu Andes(nds32) Linux Kernel Port Jan 02
Catalin Marinas arm64: 52-bit physical address support Dec 22
Fenghua Yu x86/intel_rdt: Enable L2 CDP (Code and Data Prioritization) Dec 20
Thomas Gleixner x86/pti: Final XMAS release Dec 20

Build system

Ard Biesheuvel add support for relative references in special sections Dec 25

Core kernel

Anna-Maria Gleixner hrtimer: Provide softirq context hrtimers Dec 21
Tom Zanussi tracing: Inter-event (e.g. latency) support Dec 21
Frederic Weisbecker isolation: 1Hz residual tick offloading v2 Dec 21

Device drivers

Maxime Ripard drm/sun4i: Add A83t LVDS support Dec 21
Jernej Skrabec drm/sun4i: Add A83T HDMI support Dec 30
Kunihiko Hayashi add UniPhier AVE ethernet support Dec 21
Andrey Smirnov ZII RAVE platform driver Dec 20
Dhaval Shah Documentation and driver of logicoreIP Dec 21
David Lechner DRM driver for Sitronix ST7735R display panels Dec 21
Joel Stanley clk: Add Aspeed clock driver Dec 22
jassisinghbrar-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org Socionext Synquacer NETSEC driver Dec 21
David R. Bild Add driver for Xaptum ENF Access card (XAP-EA-00x) Dec 22
Ryan Lee ASoC: max98373: Added Amplifier Driver Dec 25
Jarkko Sakkinen Intel SGX Driver Dec 24
Mathieu Malaterre Add efuse driver for Ingenic JZ4780 SoC Dec 27
Karthikeyan Ramasubramanian Introduce GENI SE Controller Driver Dec 27
Jacopo Mondi Renesas Capture Engine Unit (CEU) V4L2 driver Dec 28
Shunqian Zheng Rockchip ISP1 Driver Dec 29
Tim Harvey TDA1997x HDMI video receiver Dec 28
Paul Cercueil Ingenic JZ47xx TCU drivers Dec 29
Jonathan Woithe FFADO 2.4.0 released Dec 23
Marcus Folkesson input: pxrc: new driver for PhoenixRC Flight Controller Adapter Dec 31
Shunqian Zheng media: ov5695: add support for OV5695 sensor Dec 25
Suzuki K Poulose perf: Support for ARM DynamIQ Shared Unit Jan 02
Sudeep Holla firmware: ARM System Control and Management Interface(SCMI) support Jan 02
Martin Blumenstingl Realtek Bluetooth serdev support (H5 protocol) Jan 01
Kieran Bingham Asynchronous UVC Jan 03

Device-driver infrastructure

Chunyan Zhang Add regulator suspend and resume support Dec 21
Mauro Carvalho Chehab dvb: add support for memory mapped I/O Dec 21
Viresh Kumar PM /Domain/OPP: Add support to get performance state from DT Dec 22
Eugen Hristev iio: triggers: add consumer support Dec 22
Noralf Trønnes drm: Add generic fbdev emulation Dec 31
Leon Romanovsky RDMA resource tracking Jan 02

Documentation

Thomas Gleixner LICENSES: Add documentation and initial License files Dec 28

Filesystems and block layer

Jeff Layton fs: rework and optimize i_version handling in filesystems Dec 22
Dongsu Park FUSE mounts from non-init user namespaces Dec 22
Damien Le Moal blk-mq support for ZBC disks Dec 21
tgvlcw@gmail.com dm: add asymmetric stripe target device dirver Dec 26

Memory management

Christoph Hellwig revamp vmem_altmap / dev_pagemap handling V3 Dec 29
Christoph Hellwig consolidate direct dma mapping and swiotlb support Dec 29
Christoph Lameter Xarray object migration V1 Dec 27
Michal Hocko mm, hugetlb: allocation API and migration improvements Jan 03

Networking

Tom Herbert net: ILA notification mechanism and fixes Dec 21
Jesper Dangaard Brouer xdp: new XDP rx-queue info concept Dec 22
Pablo Neira Ayuso Flow offload infrastructure Dec 22
Jason Wang XDP transmission for tuntap Dec 29

Security-related

Marcelo Ricardo Leitner Add SELinux SCTP protocol support Dec 22
Dan Aloni RFC: Public key encryption of dmesg by the kernel Dec 30
Mahesh Bandewar capability controlled user-namespaces Jan 02
Andi Kleen Avoid speculative indirect calls in kernel Jan 03
Mark Rutland API for inhibiting speculative arbitrary read primitives Jan 03
Dan Williams asm/generic: introduce if_nospec and nospec_barrier Jan 03

Virtualization and containers

Jan Kiszka Jailhouse 0.8 released Dec 28

Miscellaneous

Joel Fernandes ANNOUNCE: bpfd - a remote proxy daemon for executing bpf code (with corres. bcc changes) Dec 29
Pali Rohár udftools 2.0 Dec 29
Theodore Ts'o Release of e2fsprogs 1.43.8 Jan 02

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