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CFP Deadlines: May 7, 2020 to July 6, 2020

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

DeadlineEvent Dates EventLocation
May 22 May 28
May 31		 MiniDebConf Online
June 5 September 13
September 18		 The C++ Conference 2020 Online
June 14 September 4
September 11		 Akademy 2020 Virtual, Online
June 15 August 25
August 27		 Linux Plumbers Conference Virtual
June 30 July 4
July 5		 State of the Map 2020 Virtual
July 1 September 22
September 24		 Linaro Virtual Connect online
July 2 September 9
September 10		 State of the Source Summit online
July 5 October 28
October 29		 [Canceled] DevOpsDays Berlin 2020 Berlin, Germany
July 5 August 23
August 29		 DebConf20 online
July 5 September 16
September 18		 X.Org Developer's Conference 2020 online
July 5 October 2
October 3		 PyGotham TV Online

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

Upcoming Events

MiniDebConf Online

MiniDebConf Online will take place May 28-31. "In this MiniDebConf, we aim to put our online resources to the test and find areas for improvement to have even better online events in the future. It will also be great for us to see each other again, even if only on screen, and transform that energy into renewed motivation to work on new or ongoing projects." The call for proposals closes May 22.

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Events: May 7, 2020 to July 6, 2020

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

Date(s)EventLocation
May 7
May 9		 Linuxwochen Wien Wien, Austria
May 11
May 13		 [ONLINE] Power Management and Scheduling in the Linux Kernel Pisa, Italy
May 11
May 13		 [RESCHEDULED] Linux Audio Conference Bordeaux, France
May 12 Open Source 101 at Home The world , The world
May 18
May 20		 [POSTPONED] Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2020 Austin, Tx, USA
May 26
May 28		 [VIRTUAL] sambaXP 2020 Berlin, Germany
May 26
May 29		 [POSTPONED] Libre Graphics Meeting 2020 Rennes, France
May 27
May 28		 [ONLINE] PGCon 2020 Ottawa, Canada
May 28
May 31		 MiniDebConf Online
June 6
June 7		 [CANCELED] Linuxwochen Linz Linz, Austria
June 11
June 12		 [CANCELED] PGDay.IT 2020 Bergamo, Italy
June 12
June 14		 [POSTPONED] GNU Tools Cauldron Paris, France
June 17
June 18		 [ONLINE] Open Source Data Center Conference Berlin, Germany
June 17
June 18		 [ONLINE] stackconf 2020 Berlin, Germany
June 18
June 19		 [CANCELED] Swiss PGDay 2020 Zurich, Switzerland
June 19 [CANCELED] Open Source Camp | #5 Bareos Berlin, Germany
June 20
June 21		 International Conference on Networks, Blockchain and Internet of Things Dubai, UAE
June 23
June 25		 [CANCELED] IcingaConf 2020 Amsterdam, Netherlands
June 23
June 25		 [ONLINE] Postgres Vision 2020 Boston, MA, USA
June 24
June 26		 Perl Conference in the Cloud
June 25 Linux Plumbers virtual town hall online
June 25
June 26		 [CANCELED] Postgres Ibiza 2020 Ibiza, Spain
June 29
July 2		 [VIRTUAL] Open Source Summit/Embedded Linux Conference North America Austin, TX, USA
July 1
July 2		 [ONLINE] Linux Security Summit North America Austin, TX, USA
July 4
July 5		 State of the Map 2020 Virtual

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

Security updates

Alert summary April 30, 2020 to May 6, 2020

Dist. ID Release Package Date
Arch Linux ASA-202004-22 chromium 2020-04-30
Arch Linux ASA-202004-21 git 2020-04-30
Arch Linux ASA-202004-24 libmicrodns 2020-05-05
Arch Linux ASA-202005-1 salt 2020-05-05
Arch Linux ASA-202004-23 webkit2gtk 2020-04-30
CentOS CESA-2020:1511 C7 git 2020-04-30
CentOS CESA-2020:1507 C7 java-1.7.0-openjdk 2020-04-30
CentOS CESA-2020:1512 C7 java-1.8.0-openjdk 2020-04-30
CentOS CESA-2020:1509 C7 java-11-openjdk 2020-04-30
CentOS CESA-2020:1962 C6 python-twisted-web 2020-04-30
CentOS CESA-2020:1561 C7 python-twisted-web 2020-04-30
CentOS CESA-2020:1489 C7 thunderbird 2020-04-30
Debian DLA-2202-1 LTS ansible 2020-05-05
Debian DLA-2191-1 LTS dom4j 2020-05-01
Debian DSA-4675-1 stable graphicsmagick 2020-05-05
Debian DLA-2200-1 LTS mailman 2020-05-03
Debian DLA-2197-1 LTS miniupnpc 2020-04-30
Debian DSA-4669-1 stable nodejs 2020-04-29
Debian DLA-2201-1 LTS ntp 2020-05-05
Debian DLA-2199-1 LTS openldap 2020-05-02
Debian DLA-2198-1 LTS otrs2 2020-05-01
Debian DLA-2196-1 LTS pound 2020-04-30
Debian DLA-2196-2 LTS pound 2020-05-03
Debian DSA-4674-1 stable roundcube 2020-05-05
Debian DLA-2192-1 LTS ruby2.1 2020-05-01
Debian DSA-4676-1 stable salt 2020-05-06
Debian DLA-2203-1 LTS sqlite3 2020-05-05
Debian DSA-4670-1 stable tiff 2020-04-29
Debian DSA-4673-1 stable tomcat8 2020-05-03
Debian DSA-4672-1 stable trafficserver 2020-05-01
Debian DSA-4671-1 stable vlc 2020-04-30
Debian DLA-2195-1 LTS w3m 2020-04-30
Debian DSA-4677-1 stable wordpress 2020-05-06
Debian DLA-2194-1 LTS yodl 2020-04-30
Fedora FEDORA-2020-0e7f1b663b F30 chromium 2020-05-03
Fedora FEDORA-2020-4e093619bb F30 git 2020-05-01
Fedora FEDORA-2020-73341c894c F30 java-11-openjdk 2020-05-02
Fedora FEDORA-2020-372eeb28f3 F31 java-11-openjdk 2020-05-06
Fedora FEDORA-2020-92ed6d99e4 F30 java-latest-openjdk 2020-05-01
Fedora FEDORA-2020-64d46a6e29 F30 kernel 2020-05-02
Fedora FEDORA-2020-b453269c4e F31 kernel 2020-05-02
Fedora FEDORA-2020-16f9239805 F32 kernel 2020-05-02
Fedora FEDORA-2020-c931060ab7 F32 libldb 2020-05-05
Fedora FEDORA-2020-0c71c00af4 F30 libxml2 2020-04-30
Fedora FEDORA-2020-7694e8be73 F32 mingw-libxml2 2020-05-01
Fedora FEDORA-2020-969414e05b F30 openvpn 2020-05-03
Fedora FEDORA-2020-fd8761fd13 F30 php-horde-horde 2020-04-30
Fedora FEDORA-2020-1a968aeb47 F31 php-horde-horde 2020-04-30
Fedora FEDORA-2020-6b8868fad9 F32 php-horde-horde 2020-05-01
Fedora FEDORA-2020-c9eb911737 F30 pxz 2020-05-03
Fedora FEDORA-2020-07fcbfddbd F31 pxz 2020-04-30
Fedora FEDORA-2020-8b89d5b9eb F32 pxz 2020-05-01
Fedora FEDORA-2020-d171bf636d F30 rubygem-json 2020-05-03
Fedora FEDORA-2020-26df92331a F31 rubygem-json 2020-05-03
Fedora FEDORA-2020-c931060ab7 F32 samba 2020-05-05
Fedora FEDORA-2020-1e85425a52 F30 sqliteodbc 2020-04-30
Fedora FEDORA-2020-c98c7da2f6 F31 sqliteodbc 2020-04-30
Fedora FEDORA-2020-df7c647fa3 F32 sqliteodbc 2020-05-01
Fedora FEDORA-2020-295ed0b1e0 F31 xen 2020-05-01
Gentoo 202004-16 cacti 2020-05-01
Gentoo 202004-17 django 2020-05-01
Gentoo 202004-14 fontforge 2020-05-01
Gentoo 202004-15 libu2f-host 2020-05-01
Mageia MGASA-2020-0198 7 chromium-browser-stable 2020-05-05
Mageia MGASA-2020-0190 7 crawl 2020-05-05
Mageia MGASA-2020-0193 7 dolphin-emu 2020-05-05
Mageia MGASA-2020-0196 7 exiv2 2020-05-05
Mageia MGASA-2020-0199 7 fortune-mod 2020-05-05
Mageia MGASA-2020-0194 7 gnuchess 2020-05-05
Mageia MGASA-2020-0201 7 kernel 2020-05-05
Mageia MGASA-2020-0197 7 libsndfile 2020-05-05
Mageia MGASA-2020-0189 7 openexr 2020-05-05
Mageia MGASA-2020-0200 7 openldap 2020-05-05
Mageia MGASA-2020-0195 7 openvpn 2020-05-05
Mageia MGASA-2020-0192 7 qtbase5 2020-05-05
Mageia MGASA-2020-0186 7 ruby-json 2020-05-05
Mageia MGASA-2020-0187 7 squid 2020-05-05
Mageia MGASA-2020-0191 7 teeworlds 2020-05-05
Mageia MGASA-2020-0188 7 webkit2 2020-05-05
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:0597-1 15.1 apache2 2020-05-02
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:0607-1 15.1 bouncycastle 2020-05-04
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:0565-1 cacti, cacti-spine 2020-04-30
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:0566-1 chromium 2020-05-01
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:0615-1 chromium 2020-05-06
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:0604-1 15.1 chromium 2020-05-03
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:0598-1 15.1 git 2020-05-02
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:0609-1 python-typed-ast 2020-05-04
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:0567-1 15.1 python-typed-ast 2020-05-01
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:0585-1 15.1 resource-agents 2020-05-02
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:0586-1 15.1 ruby2.5 2020-05-02
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:0564-1 15.1 salt 2020-04-30
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:0601-1 15.1 samba 2020-05-02
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:0612-1 sqliteodbc 2020-05-05
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:0606-1 15.1 squid 2020-05-03
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:0602-1 15.1 webkit2gtk3 2020-05-02
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:0599-1 15.1 xen 2020-05-02
Oracle ELSA-2020-1962 OL6 python-twisted-web 2020-04-29
Red Hat RHSA-2020:1981-01 EL6 chromium-browser 2020-04-30
Red Hat RHSA-2020:1970-01 EL6 chromium-browser 2020-04-29
Red Hat RHSA-2020:2036-01 EL6 firefox 2020-05-06
Red Hat RHSA-2020:2037-01 EL7 firefox 2020-05-06
Red Hat RHSA-2020:2031-01 EL8 firefox 2020-05-06
Red Hat RHSA-2020:2033-01 EL8.0 firefox 2020-05-06
Red Hat RHSA-2020:2032-01 EL8.1 firefox 2020-05-06
Red Hat RHSA-2020:1980-01 EL8 git 2020-04-30
Red Hat RHSA-2020:1978-01 EL8.0 git 2020-04-30
Red Hat RHSA-2020:1979-01 EL8.1 git 2020-04-30
Red Hat RHSA-2020:1998-01 EL8 gnutls 2020-04-30
Red Hat RHSA-2020:1984-01 EL7.7 kernel 2020-04-30
Red Hat RHSA-2020:1975-01 RHSC rh-git218-git 2020-04-29
Red Hat RHSA-2020:2014-01 EL7.6 sqlite 2020-05-05
Red Hat RHSA-2020:2040-01 EL7 squid 2020-05-06
Red Hat RHSA-2020:2041-01 EL8 squid:4 2020-05-06
Red Hat RHSA-2020:2038-01 EL8.0 squid:4 2020-05-06
Red Hat RHSA-2020:2039-01 EL8.1 squid:4 2020-05-06
Scientific Linux SLSA-2020:1962-1 SL6 python-twisted-web 2020-04-29
Slackware SSA:2020-126-01 firefox 2020-05-05
Slackware SSA:2020-124-01 seamonkey 2020-05-03
Slackware SSA:2020-126-02 thunderbird 2020-05-05
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:1165-1 OS7 OS8 SLE12 SES5 LibVNCServer 2020-05-04
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:14355-1 SLE11 LibVNCServer 2020-05-04
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:1164-1 SLE15 LibVNCServer 2020-05-04
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:1190-1 OS9 ardana-ansible, ardana-barbican, ardana-cluster, ardana-db, ardana-designate, ardana-input-model, ardana-logging, ardana-monasca, ardana-mq, ardana-neutron, ardana-octavia, ardana-osconfig, ardana-tempest, ardana-tls, crowbar-core, crowbar-ha, crowbar-openstack, memcached, openstack-ceilometer, openstack-cinder, openstack-designate, openstack-heat, openstack-ironic, openstack-ironic-image, openstack-manila, openstack-neutron, openstack-nova, openstack-octavia, openstack-octavia-amphora-image, python-cinderclient, python-glanceclient, python-ironic-lib, python-ironicclient, python-keystonemiddleware, python-manila-tempest-plugin, python-novaclient, python-octaviaclient, python-openstackclient, python-os-brick, python-oslo.config, python-oslo.rootwrap, python-oslo.utils, python-swiftclient, python-watcherclient, release-notes-suse-openstack-cloud, rubygem-crowbar-client, rubygem-puma, zookeeper 2020-05-05
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:1158-1 OS8 SLE12 SES5 ceph 2020-04-30
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:1180-1 OS7 OS8 SLE12 SES5 icu 2020-05-05
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:14354-1 SLE11 kernel 2020-04-30
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:1142-1 SLE12 kernel 2020-04-29
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:1142-1 SLE12 kernel 2020-04-29
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:1141-1 SLE12 kernel 2020-04-29
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:1141-1 SLE12 kernel 2020-04-29
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:1146-1 SLE15 kernel 2020-04-29
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:1146-1 SLE15 kernel 2020-04-29
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:14356-1 SLE11 mailman 2020-05-05
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:1144-1 SLE12 munge 2020-04-29
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:1171-1 SLE15 nginx 2020-05-04
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:1193-1 OS7 OS8 SLE12 SES5 openldap2 2020-05-05
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:14353-1 SLE11 openldap2 2020-04-30
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:1163-1 SLE15 permissions 2020-05-04
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:1194-1 SES5 python-Pillow 2020-05-06
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:1179-1 SLE15 rmt-server 2020-05-05
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:1177-1 SLE15 rpmlint 2020-05-05
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:1178-1 SLE15 rubygem-actionview-5_1 2020-05-05
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:14350-1 salt 2020-04-30
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:14351-1 salt 2020-04-30
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:1147-1 MP3.2 SLE12 salt 2020-04-30
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:1151-1 SLE15 salt 2020-04-30
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:1150-1 SLE15 salt 2020-04-30
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:1156-1 SLE15 squid 2020-04-30
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:1139-1 SLE12 xen 2020-04-29
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:1138-1 SLE12 xen 2020-04-29
Ubuntu USN-4349-1 16.04 18.04 19.10 edk2 2020-04-30
Ubuntu USN-4348-1 16.04 18.04 mailman 2020-04-29
Ubuntu USN-4350-1 16.04 18.04 19.10 20.04 mysql-5.7, mysql-8.0 2020-05-04
Ubuntu USN-4330-2 20.04 php7.4 2020-05-06
Ubuntu USN-4333-2 20.04 python3.8 2020-04-30
Ubuntu USN-4341-2 14.04 samba 2020-04-29
Ubuntu USN-4341-3 16.04 samba 2020-04-29
Ubuntu USN-4347-1 18.04 19.10 20.04 webkit2gtk 2020-04-29
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Kernel patches of interest

Kernel releases

Linus Torvalds Linux 5.7-rc4 May 03
Greg KH Linux 5.6.11 May 06
Greg KH Linux 5.6.10 May 04
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior v5.6.10-rt5 May 04
Greg KH Linux 5.6.9 May 02
Greg KH Linux 5.4.39 May 06
Greg KH Linux 5.4.38 May 04
Greg KH Linux 5.4.37 May 02
Greg KH Linux 4.19.121 May 06
Greg KH Linux 4.19.120 May 04
Greg KH Linux 4.14.179 May 06
Greg KH Linux 4.14.178 May 04
Greg KH Linux 4.9.222 May 06
Greg KH Linux 4.9.221 May 04
Greg KH Linux 4.4.222 May 06
Greg KH Linux 4.4.221 May 04

Architecture-specific

Mark Brown arm64: BTI kernel and vDSO support Apr 29
Yu-cheng Yu Control-flow Enforcement: Shadow Stack Apr 29
Ashish Kalra Add AMD SEV guest live migration support Apr 30
Anshuman Khandual arm64/cpufeature: Introduce ID_PFR2, ID_DFR1, ID_MMFR5 and other changes May 02

Core kernel

Javier Malave Popcorn Linux Distributed Thread Execution Apr 29
John Ogness printk: replace ringbuffer May 01
Peter Zijlstra Add static_call() May 01
J. Bruce Fields allow multiple kthreadd's May 01
Heiner Kallweit timer: add fsleep for flexible sleeping May 01
Christian Brauner nsproxy: attach to multiple namespaces May 04
Yonghong Song bpf: implement bpf iterator for kernel data May 03
Srinivas Pandruvada thermal: Add new mechanism to get thermal notification May 04

Development tools

SeongJae Park Introduce Data Access MONitor (DAMON) May 05

Device drivers

William Breathitt Gray Introduce the Counter character device interface Apr 29
Sowjanya Komatineni Add Tegra driver for video capture Apr 29
Dilip Kota Add Intel ComboPhy driver Apr 30
Arseny Maslennikov TTY Keyboard Status Request Apr 30
Robert Marko net: phy: mdio: add IPQ40xx MDIO support Apr 30
Vinod Koul usb: xhci: Add support for Renesas USB controllers Apr 30
Tim Harvey Add support for the Gateworks System Controller Apr 30
Igor Russkikh net: atlantic: A2 support Apr 30
Vadym Kochan net: marvell: prestera: Add Switchdev driver for Prestera family ASIC device 98DX326x (AC3x) May 01
Grygorii Strashko net: ethernet: ti: k3: introduce common platform time sync driver - cpts May 01
Saravanan Sekar Add battery charger driver support for MP2629 Apr 30
Paul Kocialkowski drm: LogiCVC display controller support Apr 30
Jiaxun Yang irqchip: Add Loongson HyperTransport Vector support May 01
Konrad Dybcio Add support for TM5P5 NT35596 video mode panel May 01
Dan Murphy BQ25150/155 Batter charger May 01
Daniel W. S. Almeida media: vidtv: implement a virtual DVB driver May 02
Robert Marko phy: add driver for Qualcomm IPQ40xx USB PHY May 03
Sivaprakash Murugesan Add APSS clock controller support for IPQ6018 May 04
huobean@gmail.com scsi: ufs: add UFS Host Performance Booster(HPB) support May 04
nikitos.tr@gmail.com leds: add aw2013 driver May 04
Michael Walle add phy shared storage May 04
Cristian Marussi SCMI Notifications Core Support May 04
Danil Kipnis RTRS (former IBTRS) RDMA Transport Library and RNBD (former IBNBD) RDMA Network Block Device May 04
Laurent Pinchart Drivers for the BCM283x CSI-2/CCP2 receiver and ISP May 04
Konrad Dybcio Add support for ASUS Z00T TM5P5 NT35596 panel May 04
Evan Benn Add a watchdog driver that uses ARM Secure Monitor Calls. May 05
Benjamin Gaignard STM32 ETZPC bus controller May 05
Christophe Kerello add STM32 FMC2 EBI controller driver May 05
Ezequiel Garcia media: rkvdec: Add a VP9 backend May 05
Maxime Ripard iommu: Add Allwinner H6 IOMMU driver May 05
Bartosz Golaszewski mediatek: add support for MediaTek Ethernet MAC May 05
Weiyi Lu Mediatek MT8183 scpsys support May 06
Eddie James soc: aspeed: Add XDMA engine driver May 05
Xin Ji Add initial support for slimport anx7625 May 06
Kishon Vijay Abraham I Add PCIe support to TI's J721E SoC May 06
Vladimir Oltean tc-gate offload for SJA1105 DSA switch May 05
Murali Karicheri net: hsr: Add PRP driver May 06

Device-driver infrastructure

Dan Murphy Multicolor Framework v23 Apr 29

Documentation

john mathew Add scheduler overview documentation May 06

Filesystems and block layer

Mickaël Salaün Add support for O_MAYEXEC Apr 30
Satya Tangirala Inline Encryption Support Apr 30
Allison Collins xfs: Delay Ready Attributes Apr 30
Ming Lei blk-mq: improvement CPU hotplug May 03
Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito Statsfs: a new ram-based file sytem for Linux kernel statistics May 04
David Howells [RFC PATCH 00/61] fscache, cachefiles: Rewrite the I/O interface in terms of kiocb/iov_iter May 04
Johannes Thumshirn Introduce Zone Append for writing to zoned block devices May 07

Memory management

Daniel Jordan padata: parallelize deferred page init Apr 30
Alexandre Chartre ASI - Part I (ASI Infrastructure and PTI) May 04
Alexandre Chartre ASI - Part II (Decorated Page-Table) May 04
Alexandre Chartre ASI - Part III (ASI Test Driver and CLI) May 04

Networking

Po Liu Introduce a flow gate control action and apply IEEE May 01
Björn Töpel Introduce AF_XDP buffer allocation API May 04
Jakub Sitnicki Run a BPF program on socket lookup May 06

Security-related

Sumit Garg Introduce TEE based Trusted Keys support May 06

Virtualization and containers

Srivatsa Vaddagiri virtio_mmio: hypervisor specific interfaces for MMIO Apr 30
Sean Christopherson KVM: x86: Misc anti-retpoline optimizations May 01
Yang Weijiang Introduce support for guest CET feature May 06

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