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CFP: Linux Security Summit Europe 2020

Linux Security Summit Europe (LSS-EU) is scheduled for October 29-30 in Dublin, Ireland. The venue will be re-evaluated as the conference draws nearer and may become a virtual event. The call for proposals closes July 31.

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CFP Deadlines: May 14, 2020 to July 13, 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

Events: May 14, 2020 to July 13, 2020

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

Date(s)EventLocation
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
July 6
July 9		 [Virtual] XenProject Developer and Design Summit 2020
July 6
July 12		 [VIRTUAL] SciPy 2020 Austin, TX, USA
July 7
July 8		 [CANCELED] PostgresLondon 2020 London, United Kingdom
July 10 [CANCELED] PGDay Russia 2020 St. Petersburg, Russia

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

Event Reports

LibrePlanet 2020 sessions: Podcast format

LibrePlanet 2020: Free the Future sessions are available as audio files. "We have uploaded them in conjunction with an RSS feed you can import into your favorite podcasting app or RSS reader, enabling you to discover new talks and catch all of the ones that you might have missed using a free podcast app like AntennaPod via Android, or gPodder, if you are on your desktop computer."

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Security updates

Alert summary May 7, 2020 to May 13, 2020

Dist. ID Release Package Date
Arch Linux ASA-202005-4 a2ps 2020-05-11
Arch Linux ASA-202005-2 chromium 2020-05-09
Arch Linux ASA-202005-3 firefox 2020-05-09
Arch Linux ASA-202005-5 qutebrowser 2020-05-11
Debian DLA-2205-1 LTS firefox-esr 2020-05-08
Debian DSA-4678-1 stable firefox-esr 2020-05-06
Debian DSA-4679-1 stable keystone 2020-05-06
Debian DLA-2207-1 LTS libntlm 2020-05-10
Debian DLA-2204-1 LTS mailman 2020-05-07
Debian DSA-4676-2 stable salt 2020-05-07
Debian DSA-4682-1 stable squid 2020-05-08
Debian DLA-2206-1 LTS thunderbird 2020-05-09
Debian DSA-4683-1 stable thunderbird 2020-05-08
Debian DSA-4680-1 stable tomcat9 2020-05-06
Debian DSA-4681-1 stable webkit2gtk 2020-05-07
Debian DLA-2208-1 LTS wordpress 2020-05-11
Fedora FEDORA-2020-81b9c6cddc F31 ceph 2020-05-07
Fedora FEDORA-2020-c4a555b0bb F32 chromium 2020-05-10
Fedora FEDORA-2020-20ac7c92a1 F30 community-mysql 2020-05-10
Fedora FEDORA-2020-261c9ddd7c F31 community-mysql 2020-05-10
Fedora FEDORA-2020-136dc82437 F32 community-mysql 2020-05-10
Fedora FEDORA-2020-de88782eaa F31 crawl 2020-05-09
Fedora FEDORA-2020-c976cfa87e F32 crawl 2020-05-09
Fedora FEDORA-2020-f389eab5d1 F30 firefox 2020-05-08
Fedora FEDORA-2020-3c52435c2d F31 firefox 2020-05-08
Fedora FEDORA-2020-9e2c5c8f1e F32 firefox 2020-05-07
Fedora FEDORA-2020-21ca991b3b F30 java-1.8.0-openjdk 2020-05-13
Fedora FEDORA-2020-5386fe3bbb F32 java-1.8.0-openjdk 2020-05-07
Fedora FEDORA-2020-e244c98af5 F30 libldb 2020-05-07
Fedora FEDORA-2020-9cf0b1c8f1 F31 libldb 2020-05-07
Fedora FEDORA-2020-d14280a6e8 F31 mingw-gnutls 2020-05-08
Fedora FEDORA-2020-f90fb78f70 F32 mingw-gnutls 2020-05-08
Fedora FEDORA-2020-f389eab5d1 F30 nss 2020-05-08
Fedora FEDORA-2020-3c52435c2d F31 nss 2020-05-08
Fedora FEDORA-2020-9e2c5c8f1e F32 nss 2020-05-07
Fedora FEDORA-2020-57f2df7424 F30 roundcubemail 2020-05-09
Fedora FEDORA-2020-35e12da5fe F31 roundcubemail 2020-05-09
Fedora FEDORA-2020-835b7f0615 F32 roundcubemail 2020-05-09
Fedora FEDORA-2020-e244c98af5 F30 samba 2020-05-07
Fedora FEDORA-2020-9cf0b1c8f1 F31 samba 2020-05-07
Fedora FEDORA-2020-36b36afea6 F30 seamonkey 2020-05-13
Fedora FEDORA-2020-678a5157f7 F31 seamonkey 2020-05-07
Fedora FEDORA-2020-ca99cb4d40 F32 seamonkey 2020-05-13
Fedora FEDORA-2020-c5c2ab38cd F32 suricata 2020-05-07
Fedora FEDORA-2020-0d6b80678a F30 teeworlds 2020-05-08
Fedora FEDORA-2020-cbc3149753 F30 xen 2020-05-11
Gentoo 202005-04 firefox 2020-05-13
Gentoo 202005-01 lrzip 2020-05-13
Gentoo 202005-02 qemu 2020-05-13
Gentoo 202005-05 squid 2020-05-13
Gentoo 202005-03 thunderbird 2020-05-13
Mageia MGASA-2020-0210 7 chromium-browser-stable 2020-05-10
Mageia MGASA-2020-0208 7 firefox 2020-05-08
Mageia MGASA-2020-0207 7 libvncserver 2020-05-08
Mageia MGASA-2020-0202 7 matio 2020-05-08
Mageia MGASA-2020-0204 7 qt4 2020-05-08
Mageia MGASA-2020-0206 7 roundcubemail 2020-05-08
Mageia MGASA-2020-0205 7 samba 2020-05-08
Mageia MGASA-2020-0209 7 thunderbird 2020-05-08
Mageia MGASA-2020-0203 7 vlc 2020-05-08
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:0624-1 15.1 LibVNCServer 2020-05-11
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:0654-1 15.1 cacti, cacti-spine 2020-05-11
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:0654-1 15.1 cacti, cacti-spine 2020-05-11
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:0648-1 chromium 2020-05-11
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:0620-1 15.1 chromium 2020-05-11
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:0621-1 15.1 firefox 2020-05-11
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:0653-1 15.1 ghostscript 2020-05-11
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:0647-1 15.1 openldap2 2020-05-11
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:0635-1 15.1 opera 2020-05-11
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:0622-1 15.1 ovmf 2020-05-11
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:0642-1 15.1 php7 2020-05-11
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:0630-1 15.1 python-PyYAML 2020-05-11
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:0656-1 python-markdown2 2020-05-12
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:0651-1 15.1 python-markdown2 2020-05-11
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:0631-1 15.1 rpmlint 2020-05-11
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:0627-1 15.1 rubygem-actionview-5_1 2020-05-11
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:0636-1 15.1 slirp4netns 2020-05-11
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:0628-1 15.1 sqliteodbc 2020-05-11
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:0623-1 15.1 squid 2020-05-11
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:0643-1 15.1 thunderbird 2020-05-11
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:0646-1 15.1 webkit2gtk3 2020-05-11
Oracle ELSA-2020-2037 OL7 firefox 2020-05-07
Oracle ELSA-2020-2037 OL7 firefox 2020-05-08
Oracle ELSA-2020-1980 OL8 git 2020-05-08
Oracle ELSA-2020-1998 OL8 gnutls 2020-05-08
Oracle ELSA-2020-5670 OL6 kernel 2020-05-06
Oracle ELSA-2020-5671 OL6 kernel 2020-05-08
Oracle ELSA-2020-5670 OL7 kernel 2020-05-06
Oracle ELSA-2020-5671 OL7 kernel 2020-05-08
Oracle ELSA-2020-5676 OL7 kernel 2020-05-11
Oracle ELSA-2020-5676 OL7 kernel 2020-05-11
Oracle ELSA-2020-5674 OL7 libvirt 2020-05-08
Oracle ELSA-2020-2040 OL7 squid 2020-05-07
Oracle ELSA-2020-2040 OL7 squid 2020-05-08
Oracle ELSA-2020-1933 OL8 targetcli 2020-05-08
Oracle ELSA-2020-2050 OL7 thunderbird 2020-05-12
Red Hat RHSA-2020:2116-01 EL7 buildah 2020-05-12
Red Hat RHSA-2020:2064-01 EL6 chromium-browser 2020-05-11
Red Hat RHSA-2020:2103-01 EL6 kernel 2020-05-12
Red Hat RHSA-2020:2082-01 EL7 kernel 2020-05-12
Red Hat RHSA-2020:2102-01 EL8 kernel 2020-05-12
Red Hat RHSA-2020:2104-01 EL7 kernel-alt 2020-05-12
Red Hat RHSA-2020:2085-01 EL7 kernel-rt 2020-05-12
Red Hat RHSA-2020:2125-01 EL8 kpatch-patch 2020-05-13
Red Hat RHSA-2020:2070-01 EL8 libreswan 2020-05-12
Red Hat RHSA-2020:2069-01 EL8.0 libreswan 2020-05-12
Red Hat RHSA-2020:2071-01 EL8.1 libreswan 2020-05-12
Red Hat RHSA-2020:2117-01 EL7 podman 2020-05-12
Red Hat RHSA-2020:2068-01 EL7 python-pip 2020-05-12
Red Hat RHSA-2020:2081-01 EL7 python-virtualenv 2020-05-12
Red Hat RHSA-2020:2126-01 EL7.6 qemu-kvm 2020-05-13
Red Hat RHSA-2020:2065-01 EL7.6 qemu-kvm-ma 2020-05-11
Red Hat RHSA-2020:2049-01 EL6 thunderbird 2020-05-11
Red Hat RHSA-2020:2050-01 EL7 thunderbird 2020-05-11
Red Hat RHSA-2020:2046-01 EL8 thunderbird 2020-05-11
Red Hat RHSA-2020:2048-01 EL8.0 thunderbird 2020-05-11
Red Hat RHSA-2020:2047-01 EL8.1 thunderbird 2020-05-11
Scientific Linux SLSA-2020:2036-1 SL6 firefox 2020-05-06
Scientific Linux SLSA-2020:2037-1 SL7 firefox 2020-05-06
Scientific Linux SLSA-2020:2103-1 SL6 kernel 2020-05-13
Scientific Linux SLSA-2020:2040-1 SL7 squid 2020-05-06
Scientific Linux SLSA-2020:2049-1 SL6 thunderbird 2020-05-11
Scientific Linux SLSA-2020:2050-1 SL7 thunderbird 2020-05-11
Slackware SSA:2020-133-01 mariadb 2020-05-12
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:1218-1 OS7 OS8 SLE12 SES5 firefox 2020-05-07
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:14359-1 SLE11 firefox 2020-05-11
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:1209-1 SLE15 firefox 2020-05-07
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:1212-1 OS7 OS8 SLE12 SES5 ghostscript 2020-05-07
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:1220-1 SLE15 ghostscript 2020-05-07
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:1255-1 OS7 SLE12 kernel 2020-05-12
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:1208-1 SLE15 libvirt 2020-05-07
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:1250-1 SLE15 libvirt 2020-05-11
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:1264-1 SLE12 openconnect 2020-05-13
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:14358-1 SLE11 openldap2 2020-05-07
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:1210-1 SLE12 openldap2 2020-05-07
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:1219-1 SLE15 openldap2 2020-05-07
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:1199-1 SLE15 php7 2020-05-06
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:1213-1 SLE15 rmt-server 2020-05-07
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:1197-1 SLE15 slirp4netns 2020-05-06
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:1227-1 OS7 OS8 SLE12 SES5 squid 2020-05-11
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:1221-1 SLE12 syslog-ng 2020-05-07
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:1225-1 SLE15 thunderbird 2020-05-11
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:1211-1 OS7 OS8 SLE12 SES5 webkit2gtk3 2020-05-07
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:1198-1 SLE15 webkit2gtk3 2020-05-06
Ubuntu USN-3911-2 16.04 18.04 file 2020-05-13
Ubuntu USN-4353-1 16.04 18.04 19.10 20.04 firefox 2020-05-07
Ubuntu USN-4353-2 16.04 18.04 19.10 20.04 firefox 2020-05-12
Ubuntu USN-4357-1 18.04 iproute2 2020-05-13
Ubuntu USN-4351-1 16.04 18.04 linux-firmware 2020-05-06
Ubuntu USN-4354-1 16.04 18.04 mailman 2020-05-11
Ubuntu USN-4352-2 12.04 14.04 openldap 2020-05-06
Ubuntu USN-4352-1 16.04 18.04 19.10 20.04 openldap 2020-05-06
Ubuntu USN-4355-1 16.04 18.04 19.10 20.04 pulseaudio 2020-05-12
Ubuntu USN-4356-1 16.04 18.04 19.10 20.04 squid, squid3 2020-05-13
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Kernel patches of interest

Kernel releases

Linus Torvalds Linux 5.7-rc5 May 10
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.6.12 May 11
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.4.40 May 11
Steven Rostedt 5.4.39-rt23 May 10
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 4.19.122 May 11
Tom Zanussi 4.19.120-rt52 May 06
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 4.14.180 May 11
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 4.9.223 May 11
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 4.4.223 May 11

Architecture-specific

Christophe Leroy Use hugepages to map kernel mem on 8xx May 06
Sasha Levin Enable FSGSBASE instructions May 09
Thomas Gleixner x86/entry: Entry/exception code rework - the leftovers May 12

Core kernel

Anthony Yznaga PKRAM: Preserved-over-Kexec RAM May 06
Parth Shah IDLE gating in presence of latency-sensitive tasks May 07
Yonghong Song bpf: implement bpf iterator for kernel data May 06
Quentin Perret Modularize schedutil May 07
Masami Hiramatsu kprobes: Support nested kprobes May 08
Joel Fernandes (Google) Add support for core-wide protection of IRQ and softirq May 10
Alan Maguire bpf, printk: add BTF-based type printing May 12
Pratik Rajesh Sampat Weighted approach to gather and use history in TEO governor May 11

Development tools

Linus Walleij KASan for Arm May 07
Douglas Anderson kgdb: Support late serial drivers; enable early debug w/ boot consoles May 07
SeongJae Park Introduce Data Access MONitor (DAMON) May 11

Device drivers

Serge Semin clk: Add Baikal-T1 SoC Clock Control Unit support May 07
Serge Semin bus: Add Baikal-T1 SoC APB/AXI bus drivers May 08
Serge Semin spi: Add Baikal-T1 System Boot SPI Controller driver May 08
Serge Semin i2c: designeware: Add Baikal-T1 System I2C support May 10
Gwendal Grignou iio: cros_ec: Add support for RGB light sensor May 06
Ivan Mikhaylov iio: proximity: driver for vcnl3020 May 07
Jean-Baptiste Maneyrol iio: imu: new inv_icm42600 driver May 07
Ramuthevar,Vadivel MuruganX mtd: rawnand: Add NAND controller support on Intel LGM SoC May 07
Miquel Raynal New Arasan NAND controller driver May 07
Konrad Dybcio Add support for ASUS Z00T TM5P5 NT35596 panel May 06
Matti Vaittinen Support ROHM BD99954 charger IC May 07
Bharat Kumar Gogada Adding support for Versal CPM as Root Port driver May 07
Lad Prabhakar Add endpoint driver for R-Car PCIe controller May 07
Talel Shenhar Amazon's Annapurna Labs Memory Controller EDAC May 07
dillon.minfei@gmail.com Enable ilitek ili9341 on stm32f429-disco board May 08
Michael Grzeschik microchip: add support for ksz88x3 driver family May 08
Noralf Trønnes Generic USB Display driver May 09
Andrzej Pietrasiewicz Magic SysRq extensions May 11
Kamel Bouhara Microchip TCB Capture driver May 11
Tali Perry i2c: npcm7xx: add NPCM i2c controller driver May 10
Manivannan Sadhasivam Add Qualcomm IPCC driver support May 08
Sumit Semwal Qualcomm labibb regulator driver May 09
Ralph Campbell nouveau/hmm: add support for mapping large pages May 08
srk@48.io Novena laptop: LVDS-to-eDP bridge May 09
Oded Gabbay Adding GAUDI ASIC support to habanalabs driver May 11
Bartosz Golaszewski mediatek: add support for MediaTek Ethernet MAC May 11
Lubomir Rintel MMP2 Audio clock controller driver May 11
Danil Kipnis RTRS (former IBTRS) RDMA Transport Library and RNBD (former IBNBD) RDMA Network Block Device May 11
Peter Ujfalusi ASoC: ti: Add support for audio on J721e EVM May 12
amirmizi6@gmail.com Add tpm i2c ptp driver May 12
Kieran Bingham MAX9286 GMSL Support (+RDACM20) May 12
Vishal Sagar Add support for Xilinx CSI2 Receiver Subsystem May 12
Matthew Blecker i2c: Add i2c-pseudo driver for userspace I2C adapters. May 11
Jishnu Prakash iio: adc: Add support for QCOM SPMI PMIC7 ADC May 13
Maxime Ripard iommu: Add Allwinner H6 IOMMU driver May 13
Ravi Kumar Bokka Add QTI QFPROM-Efuse driver support May 12
Martin Blumenstingl Amlogic 32-bit Meson SoC SDHC MMC controller driver May 12

Device-driver infrastructure

Alexandru Ardelean iio: buffer: add support for multiple buffers May 08
Geert Uytterhoeven gpio: Add GPIO Aggregator May 11
Lukasz Luba Add support for devices in the Energy Model May 11
Georgi Djakov Introduce OPP bandwidth bindings May 12

Documentation

John Mathew Add scheduler overview documentation May 07
Mauro Carvalho Chehab Add a glossary for the media subsystem May 08
Dave Martin prctl.2 man page updates for Linux 5.6 May 12

Filesystems and block layer

Konstantin Khlebnikov dcache: increase poison resistance May 08
Gabriel Krisman Bertazi Historical Service Time Path Selector May 11
Johannes Thumshirn Introduce Zone Append for writing to zoned block devices May 12
ira.weiny@intel.com Enable ext4 support for per-file/directory DAX operations May 12
Martijn Coenen Add a new LOOP_CONFIGURE ioctl May 13
Miklos Szeredi vfs: add faccessat2 syscall May 13
Ming Lei blk-mq: support batching dispatch from scheduler May 13

Memory management

David Hildenbrand mm/memory_hotplug: Interface to add driver-managed system ram May 08
Johannes Weiner mm: memcontrol: charge swapin pages on instantiation May 08
SeongJae Park Implement Data Access Monitoring-based Memory Operation Schemes May 12

Networking

Björn Töpel Introduce AF_XDP buffer allocation API May 07
Jesper Dangaard Brouer XDP extend with knowledge of frame size May 08
David Ahern net: Add support for XDP in egress path May 12

Security-related

Alexei Starovoitov Introduce CAP_BPF May 08
Mickaël Salaün Landlock LSM May 11

Virtualization and containers

David Hildenbrand virtio-mem: paravirtualized memory May 07
Gavin Shan kvm/arm64: Support Async Page Fault May 08
Xiaoyao Li KVM: Add virtualization support of split lock detection May 09

Miscellaneous

David Sterba Btrfs progs release 5.6.1 May 07

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