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CFP Deadlines: August 6, 2020 to October 5, 2020

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

DeadlineEvent Dates EventLocation
August 14 October 2
October 5		 PyCon India 2020 Virtual
August 28 October 8
October 9		 PyConZA 2020 Online
September 1 September 14 GNU Radio Conference Virtual
September 13 October 13
October 15		 Lustre Administrator and Developer Workshop 2020 Online
September 15 October 24
October 25		 [Cancelled] T-Dose 2020 Geldrop (Eindhoven), Netherlands
September 18 October 10
October 11		 Arch Linux Conf 2020 Online Online
September 23 November 7
November 8		 RustFest Global Online
October 1 December 1
December 3		 Open Source Firmware Conference online

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

Upcoming Events

Events: August 6, 2020 to October 5, 2020

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

Date(s)EventLocation
August 6
August 9		 [Canceled] miniDebConf Montreal 2020 Montreal, Canada
August 7
August 9		 Nest With Fedora Online
August 13
August 21		 Netdev 0x14 Virtual
August 20 [Virtual] RustConf online
August 23
August 29		 DebConf20 online
August 25
August 27		 Linux Plumbers Conference Virtual
August 26
August 28		 [Canceled] FOSS4G Calgary Calgary, Canada
August 28 Linux Kernel Maintainer Summit Virtual
September 4
September 11		 Akademy 2020 Virtual, Online
September 9
September 10		 State of the Source Summit online
September 13
September 18		 The C++ Conference 2020 Online
September 14 GNU Radio Conference Virtual
September 16
September 18		 X.Org Developer's Conference 2020 online
September 18 [Postponed to 2021] PGDay Austria 2020 Vienna, Austria
September 22
September 24		 Linaro Virtual Connect online
September 29
October 1		 ApacheCon 2020 Online
October 2
October 3		 PyGotham TV Online
October 2
October 5		 PyCon India 2020 Virtual
October 3
October 4		 Handmade Seattle 2020 Online

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

Security updates

Alert summary July 30, 2020 to August 5, 2020

Dist. ID Release Package Date
Arch Linux ASA-202007-4 ffmpeg 2020-07-31
Arch Linux ASA-202007-6 libjcat 2020-07-31
Arch Linux ASA-202007-5 mbedtls 2020-07-31
Arch Linux ASA-202007-3 tcpreplay 2020-07-31
Arch Linux ASA-202007-1 webkit2gtk 2020-07-29
Arch Linux ASA-202007-2 wireshark-cli 2020-07-31
CentOS CESA-2018:3140 C7 GNOME 2020-07-30
CentOS CESA-2020:3217 C7 grub2 2020-07-30
CentOS CESA-2020:3217 C7 grub2 2020-07-30
CentOS CESA-2020:3217 C7 grub2 2020-07-30
CentOS CESA-2020:3220 C7 kernel 2020-07-30
Debian DSA-4738-1 stable ark 2020-07-31
Debian DLA-2309-1 LTS evolution-data-server 2020-08-03
Debian DSA-4736-1 stable firefox-esr 2020-07-29
Debian DSA-4735-1 stable grub2 2020-07-29
Debian DSA-4735-2 stable grub2 2020-07-30
Debian DLA-2301-1 LTS json-c 2020-07-30
Debian DLA-2300-1 LTS kdepim-runtime 2020-07-30
Debian DLA-2298-1 LTS libapache2-mod-auth-openidc 2020-07-29
Debian DLA-2302-1 LTS libjpeg-turbo 2020-07-31
Debian DLA-2308-1 LTS libopenmpt 2020-08-02
Debian DLA-2304-1 LTS libpam-radius-auth 2020-08-01
Debian DLA-2306-1 LTS libphp-phpmailer 2020-08-02
Debian DLA-2303-1 LTS libssh 2020-08-01
Debian DLA-2312-1 LTS libx11 2020-08-04
Debian DLA-2293-1 LTS mercurial 2020-07-31
Debian DLA-2299-1 LTS net-snmp 2020-07-30
Debian DLA-2313-1 LTS net-snmp 2020-08-04
Debian DLA-2307-1 LTS ruby-zip 2020-08-02
Debian DLA-2310-1 LTS thunderbird 2020-08-03
Debian DSA-4740-1 stable thunderbird 2020-08-02
Debian DLA-2305-1 LTS transmission 2020-08-01
Debian DSA-4739-1 stable webkit2gtk 2020-08-03
Debian DSA-4737-1 stable xrdp 2020-07-29
Debian DLA-2311-1 LTS zabbix 2020-08-03
Fedora FEDORA-2020-84d87cbd50 F31 chromium 2020-08-02
Fedora FEDORA-2020-bf684961d9 F32 chromium 2020-07-30
Fedora FEDORA-2020-6584a641ae F32 clamav 2020-08-01
Fedora FEDORA-2020-fe6c1a9c16 F31 claws-mail 2020-08-02
Fedora FEDORA-2020-2def860ce7 F32 claws-mail 2020-08-02
Fedora FEDORA-2020-45041afb19 F31 evolution-data-server 2020-08-01
Fedora FEDORA-2020-856ae65766 F32 firefox 2020-07-31
Fedora FEDORA-2020-a3432485db F31 freerdp 2020-08-01
Fedora FEDORA-2020-8d5f86e29a F32 freerdp 2020-07-30
Fedora FEDORA-2020-4e92a61688 F31 glibc 2020-08-02
Fedora FEDORA-2020-f6edb9843b F31 java-latest-openjdk 2020-08-02
Fedora FEDORA-2020-9a5b36306c F32 java-latest-openjdk 2020-08-02
Fedora FEDORA-2020-ad05132742 F32 mingw-curl 2020-08-05
Fedora FEDORA-2020-16741ac7ff F31 nspr 2020-08-01
Fedora FEDORA-2020-16741ac7ff F31 nss 2020-08-01
Fedora FEDORA-2020-24b936a870 F32 webkit2gtk3 2020-08-04
Gentoo 202007-59 chromium 2020-07-29
Gentoo 202007-60 firefox 2020-07-30
Gentoo 202007-65 libsndfile 2020-07-31
Gentoo 202007-62 pycrypto 2020-07-31
Gentoo 202008-01 python 2020-08-02
Gentoo 202007-63 snmptt 2020-07-31
Gentoo 202007-64 thunderbird 2020-07-31
Gentoo 202007-61 webkit-gtk 2020-07-31
Mageia MGASA-2020-0308 7 botan2 2020-08-01
Mageia MGASA-2020-0302 7 chocolate-doom 2020-08-01
Mageia MGASA-2020-0295 7 cloud-init 2020-08-01
Mageia MGASA-2020-0310 7 dnsmasq 2020-08-01
Mageia MGASA-2020-0297 7 freerdp/remmina 2020-08-01
Mageia MGASA-2020-0304 7 gssdp/gupnp 2020-08-01
Mageia MGASA-2020-0309 7 java-1.8.0-openjdk 2020-08-01
Mageia MGASA-2020-0299 7 matio 2020-08-01
Mageia MGASA-2020-0298 7 microcode 2020-08-01
Mageia MGASA-2020-0303 7 nasm 2020-08-01
Mageia MGASA-2020-0307 7 openjpeg2 2020-08-01
Mageia MGASA-2020-0305 7 pcre2 2020-08-01
Mageia MGASA-2020-0313 7 php-phpmailer 2020-08-01
Mageia MGASA-2020-0294 7 podofo 2020-07-30
Mageia MGASA-2020-0312 7 redis 2020-08-01
Mageia MGASA-2020-0301 7 roundcubemail 2020-08-01
Mageia MGASA-2020-0306 7 ruby-rack 2020-08-01
Mageia MGASA-2020-0300 7 thunderbird 2020-08-01
Mageia MGASA-2020-0311 7 virtualbox 2020-08-01
Mageia MGASA-2020-0296 7 xerces-c 2020-08-01
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:1116-1 15.1 claws-mail 2020-07-31
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:1139-1 15.2 claws-mail 2020-08-03
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:1147-1 15.1 firefox 2020-08-05
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:1142-1 15.1 ghostscript 2020-08-04
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:1146-1 15.2 ghostscript 2020-08-04
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:1112-1 knot 2020-07-30
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:1121-1 15.1 ldb 2020-08-01
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:1128-1 15.2 libraw 2020-08-02
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:1148-1 15.1 opera 2020-08-05
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:1141-1 15.1 targetcli-fb 2020-08-03
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:1144-1 15.2 targetcli-fb 2020-08-04
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:1111-1 15.2 tomcat 2020-07-29
Oracle ELSA-2020-3233 OL6 firefox 2020-07-31
Oracle ELSA-2020-3253 OL7 firefox 2020-07-31
Oracle ELSA-2020-3253 OL7 firefox 2020-07-31
Oracle ELSA-2020-3241 OL8 firefox 2020-07-31
Oracle ELSA-2020-5790 OL7 grub2 2020-07-29
Oracle ELSA-2020-5782 OL7 grub2 2020-07-29
Oracle ELSA-2020-5786 OL8 grub2 2020-07-29
Oracle ELSA-2020-5792 OL7 kernel 2020-07-29
Oracle ELSA-2020-5792 OL7 kernel 2020-07-29
Oracle ELSA-2020-5791 OL7 kernel 2020-07-29
Oracle ELSA-2020-5791 OL7 kernel 2020-07-29
Oracle ELSA-2020-3220 OL7 kernel 2020-07-30
Oracle ELSA-2020-5792 OL8 kernel 2020-07-29
Oracle ELSA-2020-3218 OL8 kernel 2020-07-31
Oracle ELSA-2020-3281 OL7 libvncserver 2020-08-04
Oracle ELSA-2020-3284 OL6 postgresql-jdbc 2020-08-04
Oracle ELSA-2020-3285 OL7 postgresql-jdbc 2020-08-04
Oracle ELSA-2020-3176 OL8 postgresql-jdbc 2020-07-29
Oracle ELSA-2020-3185 OL8 python-pillow 2020-07-29
Red Hat RHSA-2020:3272-01 EL7.7 bind 2020-08-03
Red Hat RHSA-2020:3298-01 EL8.1 dbus 2020-08-04
Red Hat RHSA-2020:3233-01 EL6 firefox 2020-07-29
Red Hat RHSA-2020:3253-01 EL7 firefox 2020-07-30
Red Hat RHSA-2020:3241-01 EL8 firefox 2020-07-30
Red Hat RHSA-2020:3229-01 EL8.0 firefox 2020-07-29
Red Hat RHSA-2020:3254-01 EL8.1 firefox 2020-07-30
Red Hat RHSA-2020:3217-01 EL7 grub2 2020-07-29
Red Hat RHSA-2020:3273-01 EL7.2 grub2 2020-08-03
Red Hat RHSA-2020:3276-01 EL7.3 grub2 2020-08-03
Red Hat RHSA-2020:3275-01 EL7.4 grub2 2020-08-03
Red Hat RHSA-2020:3271-01 EL7.6 grub2 2020-08-03
Red Hat RHSA-2020:3274-01 EL7.7 grub2 2020-08-03
Red Hat RHSA-2020:3216-01 EL8 grub2 2020-07-29
Red Hat RHSA-2020:3227-01 EL8.0 grub2 2020-07-29
Red Hat RHSA-2020:3223-01 EL8.1 grub2 2020-07-29
Red Hat RHSA-2020:3220-01 EL7 kernel 2020-07-29
Red Hat RHSA-2020:3232-01 EL7.2 kernel 2020-07-29
Red Hat RHSA-2020:3230-01 EL7.4 kernel 2020-07-29
Red Hat RHSA-2020:3226-01 EL7.6 kernel 2020-07-29
Red Hat RHSA-2020:3224-01 EL7.7 kernel 2020-07-29
Red Hat RHSA-2020:3218-01 EL8 kernel 2020-07-29
Red Hat RHSA-2020:3228-01 EL8.0 kernel 2020-07-29
Red Hat RHSA-2020:3222-01 EL8.1 kernel 2020-07-29
Red Hat RHSA-2020:3221-01 EL7 kernel-rt 2020-07-29
Red Hat RHSA-2020:3219-01 EL8 kernel-rt 2020-07-29
Red Hat RHSA-2020:3266-01 MRG2 kernel-rt 2020-08-03
Red Hat RHSA-2020:3297-01 EL8.1 kpatch-patch 2020-08-04
Red Hat RHSA-2020:3281-01 EL7 libvncserver 2020-08-03
Red Hat RHSA-2020:3280-01 EL8 nss and nspr 2020-08-03
Red Hat RHSA-2020:3284-01 EL6 postgresql-jdbc 2020-08-03
Red Hat RHSA-2020:3285-01 EL7 postgresql-jdbc 2020-08-03
Red Hat RHSA-2020:3283-01 EL8.0 postgresql-jdbc 2020-08-03
Red Hat RHSA-2020:3286-01 EL8.1 postgresql-jdbc 2020-08-03
Red Hat RHSA-2020:3302-01 EL8.0 python-pillow 2020-08-04
Red Hat RHSA-2020:3299-01 EL8.1 python-pillow 2020-08-04
Red Hat RHSA-2020:3267-01 EL7 qemu-kvm-rhev 2020-08-03
Scientific Linux SLSA-2020:3233-1 SL6 firefox 2020-07-30
Scientific Linux SLSA-2020:3253-1 SL7 firefox 2020-08-03
Scientific Linux SLSA-2020:3217-1 SL7 grub2 2020-07-31
Scientific Linux SLSA-2020:3220-1 SL7 kernel 2020-07-31
Scientific Linux SLSA-2020:3281-1 SL7 libvncserver 2020-08-03
Scientific Linux SLSA-2020:3284-1 SL6 postgresql-jdbc 2020-08-04
Scientific Linux SLSA-2020:3285-1 SL7 postgresql-jdbc 2020-08-04
Slackware SSA:2020-213-01 thunderbird 2020-07-31
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:2100-1 OS7 OS8 OS9 SLE12 SES5 firefox 2020-07-31
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:2118-1 SLE15 firefox 2020-08-04
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:2097-1 OS7 OS8 OS9 SLE12 SES5 ghostscript 2020-07-30
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:2095-1 SLE15 ghostscript 2020-07-30
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:2076-1 OS7 SLE12 grub2 2020-07-30
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:2079-1 OS8 SLE12 SES5 grub2 2020-07-30
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:2078-1 OS9 SLE12 grub2 2020-07-30
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:14440-1 SLE11 grub2 2020-07-30
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:2077-1 SLE15 grub2 2020-07-30
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:2074-1 SLE15 grub2 2020-07-30
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:2073-1 SLE15 grub2 2020-07-30
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:2121-1 OS9 SLE12 kernel 2020-08-04
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:2121-1 OS9 SLE12 kernel 2020-08-04
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:14442-1 SLE11 kernel 2020-08-03
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:2122-1 SLE12 kernel 2020-08-05
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:2119-1 SLE12 kernel 2020-08-04
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:2122-1 SLE12 kernel 2020-08-05
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:2102-1 SLE15 kernel 2020-07-31
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:2103-1 SLE15 kernel 2020-08-03
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:2105-1 SLE15 kernel 2020-08-03
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:2106-1 SLE15 kernel 2020-08-03
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:2106-1 SLE15 kernel 2020-08-03
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:2107-1 SLE15 kernel 2020-08-03
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:2107-1 SLE15 kernel 2020-08-03
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:2117-1 OS7 OS8 OS9 SLE12 SES5 libX11 2020-08-04
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:2116-1 SLE15 libX11 2020-08-04
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:2109-1 SLE15 python-rtslib-fb 2020-08-03
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:2086-1 SLE15 targetcli-fb 2020-07-30
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:2101-1 SLE15 targetcli-fb 2020-07-31
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:14444-1 SLE11 xen 2020-08-04
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:14445-1 SLE11 xorg-x11-libX11 2020-08-05
Ubuntu USN-4449-1 16.04 18.04 20.04 apport 2020-08-04
Ubuntu USN-4443-1 16.04 18.04 20.04 firefox 2020-07-29
Ubuntu USN-4445-1 20.04 ghostscript 2020-08-03
Ubuntu USN-4432-1 14.04 16.04 18.04 20.04 grub2, grub2-signed 2020-07-29
Ubuntu USN-4432-2 14.04 16.04 18.04 20.04 grub2, grub2-signed 2020-08-04
Ubuntu USN-4436-2 16.04 18.04 librsvg 2020-07-29
Ubuntu USN-4447-1 16.04 18.04 20.04 libssh 2020-08-04
Ubuntu USN-4452-1 20.04 libvirt 2020-08-04
Ubuntu USN-4441-2 20.04 mysql-8.0 2020-08-05
Ubuntu USN-4451-1 16.04 18.04 20.04 ppp 2020-08-04
Ubuntu USN-4298-2 14.04 sqlite3 2020-08-03
Ubuntu USN-4446-1 16.04 18.04 squid3 2020-08-03
Ubuntu USN-4448-1 16.04 tomcat8 2020-08-04
Ubuntu USN-4444-1 18.04 20.04 webkit2gtk 2020-08-03
Ubuntu USN-4450-1 16.04 18.04 20.04 whoopsie 2020-08-04
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Kernel patches of interest

Kernel releases

Linus Torvalds Linux 5.8 Aug 02
Alexandre Oliva GNU Linux-libre 5.8-gnu Aug 02
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.7.13 Aug 05
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.7.12 Jul 31
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.4.56 Aug 05
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.4.55 Jul 31
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 4.19.137 Aug 05
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 4.19.136 Jul 31
Tom Zanussi 4.19.135-rt60 Aug 03
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 4.14.192 Aug 05
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 4.14.191 Jul 31
Clark Williams 4.14.191-rt90 Aug 02
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 4.9.232 Jul 31
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 4.4.232 Jul 31

Architecture-specific

Atish Patra Add UEFI support for RISC-V Jul 29

Core kernel

Kirill Tkhai [PATCH 00/23] proc: Introduce /proc/namespaces/ directory to expose namespaces lineary Jul 30
Maciej Fijalkowski bpf: tailcalls in BPF subprograms Jul 31
Song Liu introduce BPF_PROG_TYPE_USER Aug 01
Peter Oskolkov FUTEX_SWAP (tip/locking/core) Aug 03

Development tools

David Gow KASAN-KUnit Integration Jul 30
Brendan Higgins [PATCH v6 0/5] kunit: create a centralized executor to dispatch all KUnit tests Aug 04
SeongJae Park Introduce Data Access MONitor (DAMON) Aug 04
SeongJae Park DAMON: Support Physical Memory Address Space Monitoring Aug 05

Device drivers

Scott Branden Add Broadcom VK driver Jul 29
Christian Eggers iio: light: Support AMS AS73211 digital XYZ sensor Jul 30
David Thompson Add Mellanox BlueField Gigabit Ethernet driver Jul 29
Divya Bharathi Introduce support for Systems Management Driver over WMI for Dell Systems Jul 30
Daniel W. S. Almeida media: vidtv: Implement a virtual DVB driver Jul 30
Sowjanya Komatineni Support for Tegra video capture from external sensor Jul 31
Edward Cree sfc: driver for EF100 family NICs, part 2 Jul 31
Laurentiu Palcu Add support for iMX8MQ Display Controller Subsystem Jul 31
Santiago Hormazabal KT0913 FM/AM driver Aug 02
Hsin-Hsiung Wang Add support for MT6315 regulator Aug 03
Xia Jiang Add support for mt2701 JPEG ENC support Aug 04
Michael Walle Add support for Kontron sl28cpld Aug 03
Cristian Ciocaltea Add Actions Semi S500 pinctrl support Aug 03
Michael Grzeschik microchip: add support for ksz88x3 driver family Aug 03
pisa@cmp.felk.cvut.cz CTU CAN FD open-source IP core SocketCAN driver, PCI, platform integration and documentation Aug 03
Jordan Crouse iommu/arm-smmu: Add Adreno SMMU specific implementation Aug 03
Wesley Cheng Introduce PMIC based USB type C detection Aug 03
Eli Cohen VDPA support for Mellanox ConnectX devices Aug 04

Device-driver infrastructure

Siddharth Gupta Add character device interface to remoteproc Jul 29
Jacob Pan IOMMU user API enhancement Jul 29
Helen Koike media: v4l2: Add extended fmt and buffer ioctls Aug 04

Documentation

Valentin Schneider sched: Document capacity aware scheduling Jul 31

Filesystems and block layer

Kees Cook Introduce partial kernel_read_file() support Jul 29
Dan Williams [PATCH v3 00/23] device-dax: Support sub-dividing soft-reserved ranges Jul 31
David Howells Mount notifications [ver #2] Aug 03
David Howells VFS: Filesystem information [ver #21] Aug 03
Theodore Ts'o V2- ext4 block bitmap prefetch patches Jul 31
Jiri Olsa bpf: Add d_path helper Aug 01
Chao Yu Support Age-Threshold based Garbage Collection for f2fs Aug 04

Memory management

David Hildenbrand mm / virtio-mem: support ZONE_MOVABLE Jul 30
Roman Gushchin bpf: switch to memcg-based memory accounting Jul 30
Peter Collingbourne mm: introduce reference pages Jul 31
Mike Rapoport mm: introduce memfd_secret system call to create "secret" memory areas Aug 04
SeongJae Park Implement Data Access Monitoring-based Memory Operation Schemes Aug 04

Networking

Florian Westphal mptcp: add syncookie support Jul 30
Martin KaFai Lau BPF TCP header options Jul 30

Security-related

Deven Bowers Integrity Policy Enforcement LSM (IPE) Jul 29
Lakshmi Ramasubramanian LSM: Measure security module data Jul 29
Mickaël Salaün Landlock LSM Aug 02

Virtualization and containers

Like Xu Guest Architectural LBR Enabling Jul 31
Sean Christopherson KVM: x86/mmu: Introduce pinned SPTEs framework Jul 31
Atish Patra Add SBI v0.2 support for KVM Aug 03
Alexander Graf Allow user space to restrict and augment MSR emulation Aug 03
Andra Paraschiv Add support for Nitro Enclaves Aug 05

Miscellaneous

Christoph Hellwig inherit TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE v2 Jul 30
Nick Terrell Add support for ZSTD-compressed kernel and initramfs Jul 30
Michal Kubecek ethtool 5.8 released Aug 04

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