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CFP Deadlines: March 15, 2018 to May 14, 2018

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

DeadlineEvent Dates EventLocation
March 15 June 7
June 10		 Linux Audio Conference Berlin, Germany
March 18 June 20
June 22		 Automotive Linux Summit Tokyo, Japan
March 18 June 20
June 22		 Open Source Summit Japan Tokyo, Japan
March 19 May 3
May 5		 Linuxwochen Wien 2018 Vienna, Austria
March 21 May 4
May 5		 PyDays Vienna Vienna, Austria
March 25 May 7
May 10		 8th RISC-V Workshop Barcelona, Spain
March 30 May 22
May 23		 Infoshare 2018 Gdańsk, Poland
March 30 September 24
September 27		 ApacheCon North America Montreal, Canada
March 31 July 2
July 4		 Pass the SALT 2018 Lille, France
April 3 August 17
August 19		 DevConf.us 2018 Boston, MA, USA
April 4 June 4
June 6		 PyCon Israel 2018 Israel
April 15 July 7
July 12		 Libre Software Meeting Strasbourg, France
April 15 June 22
June 24		 XenProject Developer and Design Summit Nanjing, China
April 18 May 18
May 19		 French Perl Workshop 2018 Paris, France
April 20 May 25
May 27		 openSUSE Conference 2018 Prague, Czech Republic
April 20 June 8
June 10		 South East Linux Fest Charlotte, NC, USA
April 29 August 29
August 31		 Open Source Summit Vancouver, Canada
April 29 July 6
July 11		 GUADEC Almería, Spain
April 30 August 7
August 11		 JuliaCon 2018 London, UK
May 4 August 4
August 5		 DevConf India Bangalore, India

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

Upcoming Events

Events: March 15, 2018 to May 14, 2018

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

Date(s)EventLocation
March 19
March 23		 Linaro Connect Hong Kong, China
March 22
March 25		 FOSSASIA Summit Singapore, Singapore
March 23
March 25		 LibreOffice Conference Indonesia Surabaya, Indonesia
March 24
March 25		 LibrePlanet Cambridge, MA, USA
March 26
March 28		 Open Networking Summit Los Angeles, CA, USA
March 30
April 2		 Easterhegg 2018 Würzburg, Germany
April 9
April 11		 QCon.ai Applied AI for Developers San Francisco, CA, USA
April 9
April 12		 ‹Programming› 2018 Nice, France
April 9
April 13		 OpenFabrics Alliance Workshop 2018 Boulder, CO, USA
April 11
April 14		 MiniDebConf Curitiba 2018 Curitiba, Brazil
April 14
April 15		 Prague Makerfaire Prague, Czech Republic
April 14
April 15		 curl up 2018 Stockholm, Sweden
April 16
April 17		 LLVM European Developers Meeting Bristol, UK
April 16
April 18		 Power Management and Scheduling Summit Pisa, Italy
April 23 foss-north 2018 Gothenburg, Sweden
April 23
April 25		 Storage, Filesystem and Memory-Management Summit Park City, UT, USA
April 26
April 27		 FLOSSUK – Spring Conference Edinburgh, Scotland
April 27
April 28		 Grazer Linuxtage 2018 Graz, Austria
April 28
April 29		 LinuxFest Northwest Bellingham, WA, USA
May 2
May 4		 KubeCon+CloudNativeCon Copenhagen, Denmark
May 3
May 5		 Linuxwochen Wien 2018 Vienna, Austria
May 4
May 5		 PyDays Vienna Vienna, Austria
May 7
May 10		 8th RISC-V Workshop Barcelona, Spain
May 7
May 13		 Wireless-Meshup (Wireless Battle Mesh) Berlin, Germany
May 9
May 13		 PyCon Cleveland, OH, USA

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

Security updates

Alert summary March 8, 2018 to March 14, 2018

Dist. ID Release Package Date
Arch Linux ASA-201803-8 calibre 2018-03-13
Arch Linux ASA-201803-7 dovecot 2018-03-13
Arch Linux ASA-201803-9 postgresql 2018-03-14
CentOS CESA-2018:0414 C7 389-ds-base 2018-03-10
CentOS CESA-2018:0469 C6 dhcp 2018-03-09
CentOS CESA-2018:0483 C7 dhcp 2018-03-14
CentOS CESA-2018:0395 C7 kernel 2018-03-09
CentOS CESA-2018:0418 C7 libreoffice 2018-03-10
CentOS CESA-2018:0505 C7 mailman 2018-03-14
CentOS CESA-2018:0406 C7 php 2018-03-10
CentOS CESA-2018:0377 C7 quagga 2018-03-10
CentOS CESA-2018:0378 C7 ruby 2018-03-10
Debian DSA-4133-1 stable isc-dhcp 2018-03-07
Debian DLA-1305-1 LTS ming 2018-03-11
Debian DLA-1303-1 LTS python-django 2018-03-08
Debian DSA-4135-1 stable samba 2018-03-13
Debian DSA-4134-1 stable util-linux 2018-03-10
Debian DLA-1306-1 LTS vips 2018-03-11
Debian DLA-1304-1 LTS zsh 2018-03-09
Fedora FEDORA-2018-394bf4fb5a F26 community-mysql 2018-03-11
Fedora FEDORA-2018-c1b8e0176c F26 freetype 2018-03-13
Fedora FEDORA-2018-2bce10900e F27 kernel 2018-03-13
Fedora FEDORA-2018-78570112db F26 leptonica 2018-03-13
Fedora FEDORA-2018-cbf621a53c F27 leptonica 2018-03-13
Fedora FEDORA-2018-00647ae0d5 F27 mariadb 2018-03-13
Fedora FEDORA-2018-78570112db F26 mingw-leptonica 2018-03-13
Fedora FEDORA-2018-cbf621a53c F27 mingw-leptonica 2018-03-13
Fedora FEDORA-2018-d64806ca1d F27 net-snmp 2018-03-13
Fedora FEDORA-2017-8d369659cb F26 nx-libs 2018-03-13
Fedora FEDORA-2018-e8bc8d2784 F26 php 2018-03-11
Fedora FEDORA-2018-1fffa787e7 F26 ruby 2018-03-11
Fedora FEDORA-2018-18a0cf206b F26 tor 2018-03-12
Fedora FEDORA-2018-8b33bd7abf F27 tor 2018-03-12
Fedora FEDORA-2018-b166805347 F26 transmission 2018-03-11
Fedora FEDORA-2018-668664ba84 F27 util-linux 2018-03-13
Fedora FEDORA-2018-d94e205df8 F26 wavpack 2018-03-13
Fedora FEDORA-2017-8d369659cb F26 x2goserver 2018-03-13
Fedora FEDORA-2018-019a32a468 F27 zsh 2018-03-13
Gentoo 201803-05 chromium 2018-03-13
Gentoo 201803-03 go 2018-03-07
Gentoo 201803-04 newsbeuter 2018-03-11
Gentoo 201803-02 util-linux 2018-03-07
Mageia MGASA-2018-0162 6 389-ds-base 2018-03-07
Mageia MGASA-2018-0160 6 dovecot 2018-03-07
Mageia MGASA-2018-0164 6 libraw 2018-03-10
Mageia MGASA-2018-0163 6 mbedtls 2018-03-10
Mageia MGASA-2018-0161 6 tor 2018-03-07
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2018:0668-1 42.3 glibc 2018-03-13
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2018:0666-1 42.3 mysql-connector-java 2018-03-13
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2018:0657-1 42.3 php7 2018-03-10
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2018:0651-1 python-Django 2018-03-09
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2018:0632-1 SPH python-Django 2018-03-07
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2018:0643-1 42.3 rsync 2018-03-09
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2018:0667-1 42.3 shadow 2018-03-13
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2018:0642-1 42.3 shotwell 2018-03-09
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2018:0647-1 42.3 squid 2018-03-09
Oracle ELSA-2018-0515 OL6 389-ds-base 2018-03-13
Oracle ELSA-2018-0414 OL7 389-ds-base 2018-03-07
Oracle ELSA-2018-0469 OL6 dhcp 2018-03-08
Oracle ELSA-2018-0483 OL7 dhcp 2018-03-12
Oracle ELSA-2018-0395 OL7 kernel 2018-03-07
Oracle ELSA-2018-0418 OL7 libreoffice 2018-03-07
Oracle ELSA-2018-0504 OL6 mailman 2018-03-13
Oracle ELSA-2018-0505 OL7 mailman 2018-03-13
Oracle ELSA-2018-0406 OL7 php 2018-03-07
Oracle ELSA-2018-0516 OL6 qemu-kvm 2018-03-13
Red Hat RHSA-2018:0515-01 EL6 389-ds-base 2018-03-13
Red Hat RHSA-2018:0470-01 MRG MRG Realtime 2.5 2018-03-12
Red Hat RHSA-2018:0487-01 EL6.4 EL6.5 EL6.6 EL6.7 bind 2018-03-12
Red Hat RHSA-2018:0488-01 EL7.2 EL7.3 bind 2018-03-12
Red Hat RHSA-2018:0484-01 EL6 chromium-browser 2018-03-12
Red Hat RHSA-2018:0469-01 EL6 dhcp 2018-03-09
Red Hat RHSA-2018:0483-01 EL7 dhcp 2018-03-12
Red Hat RHSA-2018:0512-01 EL6 kernel 2018-03-13
Red Hat RHSA-2018:0496-01 EL6.7 kernel 2018-03-13
Red Hat RHSA-2018:0502-01 EL7 kernel-alt 2018-03-13
Red Hat RHSA-2018:0517-01 EL6 libreoffice 2018-03-13
Red Hat RHSA-2018:0504-01 EL6 mailman 2018-03-13
Red Hat RHSA-2018:0505-01 EL7 mailman 2018-03-13
Red Hat RHSA-2018:0516-01 EL6 qemu-kvm 2018-03-13
Scientific Linux SLSA-2018:0414-1 SL7 389-ds-base 2018-03-07
Scientific Linux SLSA-2018:0469-1 SL6 dhcp 2018-03-08
Scientific Linux SLSA-2018:0483-1 SL7 dhcp 2018-03-12
Scientific Linux SLSA-2018:0395-1 SL7 kernel 2018-03-07
Scientific Linux SLSA-2018:0418-1 SL7 libreoffice 2018-03-07
Scientific Linux SLSA-2018:0504-1 SL6 mailman 2018-03-13
Scientific Linux SLSA-2018:0505-1 SL7 mailman 2018-03-13
Scientific Linux SLSA-2018:0406-1 SL7 php 2018-03-07
Slackware SSA:2018-072-01 firefox 2018-03-13
Slackware SSA:2018-072-02 samba 2018-03-13
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:0645-1 SLE11 java-1_7_0-ibm 2018-03-09
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:0661-1 SLE12 java-1_7_0-openjdk 2018-03-12
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:0665-1 OS6 SLE12 java-1_8_0-ibm 2018-03-12
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:0663-1 OS6 SLE12 java-1_8_0-openjdk 2018-03-12
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:0660-1 SLE11 kernel 2018-03-12
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:0638-1 SLE11 xen 2018-03-08
Ubuntu USN-3592-2 12.04 clamav 2018-03-08
Ubuntu USN-3592-1 14.04 16.04 17.10 clamav 2018-03-08
Ubuntu USN-3594-1 14.04 kernel 2018-03-09
Ubuntu USN-3579-3 17.10 libreoffice 2018-03-07
Ubuntu USN-3595-1 14.04 16.04 17.10 samba 2018-03-13
Ubuntu USN-3593-1 14.04 16.04 17.10 zsh 2018-03-08
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Kernel patches of interest

Kernel releases

Linus Torvalds Linux 4.16-rc5 Mar 11
Greg KH Linux 4.15.9 Mar 11
Greg KH Linux 4.15.8 Mar 09
Greg KH Linux 4.14.26 Mar 11
Greg KH Linux 4.14.25 Mar 09
Greg KH Linux 4.9.87 Mar 11
Greg KH Linux 4.4.121 Mar 11
Daniel Wagner 4.4.120-rt135 Mar 09
Greg KH Linux 3.18.99 Mar 11

Architecture-specific

Michal Suchanek powerpc barrier_nospec Mar 13
Thomas Garnier x86: PIE support and option to extend KASLR randomization Mar 13

Build system

Ard Biesheuvel add support for relative references in special sections Mar 11

Core kernel

Rafael J. Wysocki sched/cpuidle: Idle loop rework Mar 09
Patrick Bellasi Utilization estimation (util_est) for FAIR tasks Mar 09
Steven Rostedt tracing: Rewrite the function filter code Mar 09
Deepa Dinamani posix_clocks: Prepare syscalls for 64 bit time_t conversion Mar 12
Matthew Wilcox XArray v9 Mar 13
Alexei Starovoitov bpf: introduce cgroup-bpf bind, connect, post-bind hooks Mar 13

Development tools

Masahiro Yamada Add Kconfig unit tests Mar 13

Device drivers

Jacob Chen Rockchip ISP1 Driver Mar 08
Niklas Söderlund rcar-vin: Add Gen3 with media controller Mar 07
Ramalingam C drm/i915: Implement HDCP2.2 Mar 08
Jacopo Mondi drm: Add LVDS decoder bridge Mar 09
Enric Balletbo i Serra DRM Rockchip rk3399 (Kevin) Mar 09
gabriel.fernandez@st.com Introduce STM32MP1 clock driver Mar 08
Peter Rosin iio: potentiometer: mcp4018: new driver Mar 08
Joel Stanley watchdog: Add Nuvoton NPCM (Poleg) driver Mar 09
Manivannan Sadhasivam Add Actions Semi S900 pinctrl and gpio support Mar 09
Paul Kocialkowski Sunxi-Cedrus driver for the Allwinner Video Engine, using the V4L2 request API Mar 09
Heikki Krogerus usb: typec: Support for Alternate Modes Mar 09
Heikki Krogerus USB Type-C device-connection, mux and switch support Mar 12
William Breathitt Gray Introduce the Counter subsystem Mar 09
Lina Iyer drivers/qcom: add RPMH communication support Mar 09
srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org ASoC: qcom: Add support to QDSP based Audio Mar 10
Neil Armstrong ASoC: Add support for max9759 Amplifier Driver Mar 10
Anirudh Venkataramanan Add ice driver Mar 09
Logan Gunthorpe Copy Offload in NVMe Fabrics with P2P PCI Memory Mar 12
Richard Fitzgerald Add support for Cirrus Logic CS47L35/L85/L90/L91 codecs Mar 13
Razvan Stefanescu staging: Introduce DPAA2 Ethernet Switch driver Mar 13
Vitaly Andrianov Keystone2 HW random generator Mar 13
Gerd Hoffmann Add udmabuf misc device Mar 13
Jakob Unterwurzacher can: ucan: add driver for Theobroma Systems UCAN devices Mar 13
Chunfeng Yun Add Apple Carplay driver Mar 14
Sibi S Add support for remoteproc modem-pil on SDM845 SoCs Mar 14
NeilBrown [PATCH 00/13] staging: add drivers to support Mediatek mt7621 in gnubee-pc1 Mar 15

Device-driver infrastructure

Maciej Purski Add coupled regulators mechanism Mar 09
Gustavo Padovan V4L2 Explicit Synchronization Mar 09
Georgi Djakov Introduce on-chip interconnect API Mar 09
Ulf Hansson PM / Domains: Support hierarchical CPU arrangement (PSCI/ARM) Mar 14

Filesystems and block layer

Eric W. Biederman fuse: mounts from non-init user namespaces Mar 08
Andiry Xu NOVA: a new file system for persistent memory Mar 10
Boaz Harrosh first draft of ZUFS - the Kernel part Mar 13

Memory management

David Rientjes mm, memcg: introduce oom policies Mar 12
Laurent Dufour Speculative page faults Mar 13

Networking

Jesper Dangaard Brouer XDP redirect memory return API Mar 08
Dave Watson TLX Rx Mar 08
Christoph Paasch MPTCP Stable Release v0.94 Mar 09
John Fastabend bpf,sockmap: sendmsg/sendfile ULP Mar 12

Security-related

Casey Schaufler LSM: Security module stacking Mar 07
Stefan Berger ima: namespacing IMA Mar 09
James Bottomley add integrity and security to TPM2 transactions Mar 10
Igor Stoppa mm: security: ro protection for dynamic data Mar 13

Virtualization and containers

Oleksandr Andrushchenko drm/xen-front: Add support for Xen PV display frontend Mar 13

Miscellaneous

Darrick J. Wong e2scrub: online fsck for ext4 Mar 12

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