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CFP Deadlines: August 20, 2020 to October 19, 2020

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

DeadlineEvent Dates EventLocation
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
October 7 November 28
November 29		 EmacsConf 2020 Online
October 11 November 7
November 8		 OpenFest 2020 online
October 12 October 19
October 23		 EPICS collaboration meeting 2020 Virtual
October 14 October 28
October 29		 eBPF Summit online

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

Upcoming Events

Events: August 20, 2020 to October 19, 2020

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

Date(s)EventLocation
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
October 6
October 8		 2020 Virtual LLVM Developers' Meeting online
October 8
October 9		 PyConZA 2020 Online
October 10
October 11		 Arch Linux Conf 2020 Online Online
October 13
October 15		 Lustre Administrator and Developer Workshop 2020 Online
October 15
October 17		 openSUSE LibreOffice Conference Online

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

Security updates

Alert summary August 13, 2020 to August 19, 2020

Dist. ID Release Package Date
Debian DLA-2328-1 LTS dovecot 2020-08-15
Debian DLA-2326-1 LTS htmlunit 2020-08-15
Debian DLA-2333-1 LTS imagemagick 2020-08-19
Debian DLA-2330-1 LTS jruby 2020-08-16
Debian DLA-2329-1 LTS libetpan 2020-08-16
Debian DLA-2323-1 LTS linux-4.19 2020-08-12
Debian DLA-2324-1 LTS linux-latest-4.19 2020-08-12
Debian DLA-2327-1 LTS lucene-solr 2020-08-16
Debian DSA-4746-1 stable net-snmp 2020-08-15
Debian DLA-2325-1 LTS openjdk-8 2020-08-13
Debian DLA-2331-1 LTS posgresql-9.6 2020-08-17
Debian DLA-2334-1 LTS ruby-websocket-extensions 2020-08-19
Debian DLA-2332-1 LTS sane-backends 2020-08-17
Debian DLA-2278-2 LTS squid3 2020-08-13
Fedora FEDORA-2020-c6fa12cfb1 F31 LibRaw 2020-08-19
Fedora FEDORA-2020-ed284fd64b F32 LibRaw 2020-08-18
Fedora FEDORA-2020-e2fe8f0165 F32 ark 2020-08-13
Fedora FEDORA-2020-449743fcc1 F31 firefox 2020-08-17
Fedora FEDORA-2020-8aa8793d25 F31 hylafax+ 2020-08-13
Fedora FEDORA-2020-01eb48bcce F32 hylafax+ 2020-08-13
Fedora FEDORA-2020-2cd6393548 F31 kernel 2020-08-18
Fedora FEDORA-2020-44e52ef729 F31 libetpan 2020-08-19
Fedora FEDORA-2020-13ae5f7221 F32 libetpan 2020-08-19
Fedora FEDORA-2020-7cd08d85ce F31 lilypond 2020-08-14
Fedora FEDORA-2020-328534eeba F32 lilypond 2020-08-14
Fedora FEDORA-2020-481c7e285d F32 nss 2020-08-16
Fedora FEDORA-2020-8e36afc743 F31 php 2020-08-19
Fedora FEDORA-2020-96124cc236 F32 php 2020-08-19
Fedora FEDORA-2020-d808fdd597 F31 python3 2020-08-14
Fedora FEDORA-2020-b8091188d0 F32 qt 2020-08-16
Fedora FEDORA-2020-a4157703ce F32 thunderbird 2020-08-15
Fedora FEDORA-2020-4def6ebb77 F31 wob 2020-08-18
Fedora FEDORA-2020-54010774d1 F32 wob 2020-08-18
Gentoo 202008-08 nss 2020-08-19
Mageia MGASA-2020-0327 7 apache 2020-08-18
Mageia MGASA-2020-0323 7 ark 2020-08-18
Mageia MGASA-2020-0322 7 clamav 2020-08-18
Mageia MGASA-2020-0321 7 claws-mail 2020-08-18
Mageia MGASA-2020-0330 7 dovecot 2020-08-18
Mageia MGASA-2020-0318 7 firefox 2020-08-18
Mageia MGASA-2020-0328 7 firejail 2020-08-18
Mageia MGASA-2020-0338 7 freerdp 2020-08-18
Mageia MGASA-2020-0314 7 glib-networking 2020-08-16
Mageia MGASA-2020-0325 7 golang 2020-08-18
Mageia MGASA-2020-0337 7 jasper 2020-08-18
Mageia MGASA-2020-0333 7 kernel 2020-08-18
Mageia MGASA-2020-0324 7 libssh 2020-08-18
Mageia MGASA-2020-0334 7 libx11 2020-08-18
Mageia MGASA-2020-0315 7 mumble 2020-08-16
Mageia MGASA-2020-0319 7 postgresql-jdbc 2020-08-18
Mageia MGASA-2020-0336 7 python-rstlib 2020-08-18
Mageia MGASA-2020-0329 7 radare2 2020-08-18
Mageia MGASA-2020-0339 7 roundcubemail 2020-08-18
Mageia MGASA-2020-0332 7 squid 2020-08-18
Mageia MGASA-2020-0326 7 targetcli 2020-08-18
Mageia MGASA-2020-0320 7 thunderbird 2020-08-18
Mageia MGASA-2020-0331 7 tomcat 2020-08-18
Mageia MGASA-2020-0317 7 webkit2 2020-08-16
Mageia MGASA-2020-0335 7 x11-server 2020-08-18
Mageia MGASA-2020-0316 7 znc 2020-08-16
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:1230-1 balsa 2020-08-18
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:1207-1 15.1 balsa 2020-08-14
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:1214-1 chromium 2020-08-15
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:1206-1 15.1 15.2 chromium 2020-08-14
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:1208-1 15.2 firejail 2020-08-14
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:1231-1 hylafax+ 2020-08-18
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:1210-1 15.1 hylafax+ 2020-08-15
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:1209-1 15.2 hylafax+ 2020-08-15
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:1198-1 15.1 libX11 2020-08-14
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:1222-1 15.1 libreoffice 2020-08-16
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:1204-1 15.2 perl-XML-Twig 2020-08-14
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:1228-1 15.2 postgresql, postgresql96, postgresql10, postgresql12 2020-08-17
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:1227-1 15.1 postgresql96, postgresql10 and postgresql12 2020-08-17
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:1205-1 15.2 thunderbird 2020-08-14
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:1199-1 15.2 wireshark 2020-08-14
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:1196-1 15.1 xen 2020-08-13
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:1200-1 15.2 xrdp 2020-08-14
Oracle ELSA-2020-3422 OL8 .NET Core 3.1 2020-08-17
Red Hat RHSA-2020:3474-01 EL7.6 bash 2020-08-18
Red Hat RHSA-2020:3471-01 EL7.2 bind 2020-08-18
Red Hat RHSA-2020:3470-01 EL7.3 bind 2020-08-18
Red Hat RHSA-2020:3475-01 EL7.6 bind 2020-08-18
Red Hat RHSA-2020:3456-01 EL8.1 libvncserver 2020-08-17
Red Hat RHSA-2020:3518-01 SCL rh-mysql80-mysql 2020-08-19
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:2274-1 OS7 OS8 OS9 SLE12 SES5 dovecot22 2020-08-19
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:2266-1 SLE15 dovecot23 2020-08-18
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:2267-1 SLE15 dovecot23 2020-08-18
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:14456-1 SLE11 firefox 2020-08-18
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:2272-1 SLE12 freerdp 2020-08-18
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:2258-1 SLE15 fwupd 2020-08-18
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:2259-1 SLE15 fwupd 2020-08-18
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:2235-1 SLE15 libreoffice 2020-08-13
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:2233-1 SLE12 libvirt 2020-08-13
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:2237-1 SLE15 libvirt 2020-08-14
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:2269-1 SLE15 libvirt 2020-08-18
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:2238-1 SLE12 perl-PlRPC 2020-08-14
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:2264-1 SLE15 postgresql10 2020-08-18
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:2265-1 SLE15 postgresql12 2020-08-18
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:2271-1 SLE15 postgresql12 2020-08-18
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:14454-1 SLE11 python-azure-agent 2020-08-18
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:2232-1 OS7 OS8 OS9 SLE12 SES5 webkit2gtk3 2020-08-13
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:2234-1 OS7 SLE12 xen 2020-08-13
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:2225-1 OS7 OS8 OS9 SLE12 SES5 xerces-c 2020-08-13
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:2251-1 SLE12 zabbix 2020-08-17
Ubuntu USN-4458-1 16.04 18.04 20.04 apache2 2020-08-13
Ubuntu USN-4461-1 18.04 20.04 ark 2020-08-17
Ubuntu USN-4466-1 16.04 18.04 20.04 curl 2020-08-19
Ubuntu USN-4456-2 14.04 dovecot 2020-08-17
Ubuntu USN-4464-1 20.04 gnome-shell 2020-08-18
Ubuntu USN-4460-1 14.04 libonig 2020-08-17
Ubuntu USN-4463-1 14.04 16.04 linux, linux-aws, linux-kvm, linux-lts-xenial, linux-raspi2, linux-snapdragon 2020-08-17
Ubuntu USN-4462-1 18.04 linux-gke-5.0, linux-oem-osp1 2020-08-17
Ubuntu USN-4465-1 18.04 linux-hwe, linux-azure-5.3, linux-gke-5.3 2020-08-18
Ubuntu USN-4459-1 16.04 18.04 salt 2020-08-14
Ubuntu USN-4457-2 14.04 software-properties 2020-08-17
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Kernel patches of interest

Kernel releases

Linus Torvalds Linux 5.9-rc1 Aug 16
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.8.2 Aug 19
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.7.16 Aug 19
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.4.59 Aug 19
Steven Rostedt 5.4.58-rt35 Aug 17
Steven Rostedt 5.4.54-rt33 Aug 14
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 4.19.140 Aug 19
Clark Williams 4.14.193-rt92 Aug 15

Architecture-specific

Atish Patra Unify NUMA implementation between ARM64 & RISC-V Aug 14
Atish Patra Add UEFI support for RISC-V Aug 12
Josh Poimboeuf x86/uaccess: Use pointer masking to limit uaccess speculation Aug 19

Core kernel

Paul E. McKenney [PATCH tip/core/rcu 0/12] Add strict short-grace-period Kconfig option Aug 12
Stefano Garzarella [PATCH v4 0/3] io_uring: add restrictions to support untrusted applications and guests Aug 13
Sang Yan kexec: Add quick kexec support for kernel Aug 14
Joel Fernandes (Google) Core-sched v6+: kernel protection and hotplug fixes Aug 14
Peter Zijlstra Add static_call Aug 18

Development tools

SeongJae Park Introduce Data Access MONitor (DAMON) Aug 17
SeongJae Park DAMON: Support Physical Memory Address Space Monitoring Aug 18

Device drivers

Al Cooper usb: Add driver for USB signal re-mapper Aug 12
Neal Liu Add MediaTek MT6779 devapc driver Aug 13
Zhiyong Tao Mediatek pinctrl patch on mt8192 Aug 17
Jiaxin Yu Add mediatek codec mt6359 driver Aug 17
Michael Walle Add support for Kontron sl28cpld Aug 13
Dmitry Osipenko Introduce memory interconnect for NVIDIA Tegra SoCs Aug 14
Amireddy Mallikarjuna reddy Add Intel LGM soc DMA support Aug 14
richard.gong@linux.intel.com add Intel SoCFPGA crypto service driver Aug 17
Xia Jiang Add support for mt2701 JPEG ENC support Aug 14
Sasha Levin drivers: hv: Microsoft Virtual GPU Driver Aug 14
Guido Günther drm/panel: Add panel driver for the Mantix MLAF057WE51-X DSI panel Aug 14
Nicolas Pitre MIPI I3c HCI (Host Controller Interface) driver Aug 13
Xingyu Wu Add GalaxyCore image sensor driver Aug 14
Abhinav Kumar Add audio support for MSM DisplayPort driver Aug 13
Tanmay Shah Add support for DisplayPort driver on SnapDragon Aug 17
Pavel Pisa CTU CAN FD open-source IP core SocketCAN driver, PCI, platform integration and documentation Aug 15
Andreas Kemnade power: supply: RN5T618/RC5T619 Aug 15
Nobuhiro Iwamatsu Add Toshiba Visconti ARM64 Platform support Aug 17
Mauro Carvalho Chehab IOMMU driver for Kirin 960/970 Aug 17
Jean-Philippe Brucker iommu: Shared Virtual Addressing for SMMUv3 (PT sharing part) Aug 17
Rob Clark iommu/arm-smmu + drm/msm: per-process GPU pgtables Aug 17
Anup Patel Dedicated CLINT timer driver Aug 17
Grzegorz Jaszczyk Add TI PRUSS Local Interrupt Controller IRQChip driver Aug 17
Ricardo Rivera-Matos Introduce the BQ256XX family of chargers Aug 17
Lubomir Rintel phy: Add USB HSIC PHY driver for Marvell MMP3 SoC Aug 18
Cheng-Yi Chiang Add documentation and machine driver for SC7180 sound card Aug 18
Roy Im da7280: haptic driver submission Aug 18
Vaishnav M A mikroBUS driver for add-on boards Aug 18
Ooi, Joyce net: eth: altera: tse: Add PTP and mSGDMA prefetcher Aug 18
Daniel W. S. Almeida media: vidtv: Implement a virtual DVB driver Aug 18
Mauro Carvalho Chehab DRM driver for Hikey 970 Aug 19
Atte Tommiska hwrng: add support for Xiphera XIP8001B Aug 19

Device-driver infrastructure

Kent Gibson gpio: cdev: add uAPI v2 Aug 14
Dafna Hirschfeld v4l2: add support for colorspace conversion API (CSC) for video capture and subdevices Aug 18
Jonathan Cameron ACPI: Support Generic Initiator proximity domains Aug 19
Christoph Hellwig a saner API for allocating DMA addressable pages Aug 19

Documentation

Dave Hansen [v2] Documentation: clarify driver licensing rules Aug 14
jchapman@katalix.com Documentation/networking: update l2tp docs Aug 18

Filesystems and block layer

Leah Rumancik block/bpf: add eBPF based block layer IO filtering Aug 12
Pascal Bouchareine proc,fcntl: introduce F_SET_DESCRIPTION Aug 13
Konstantin Komarov [PATCH] fs: NTFS read-write driver GPL implementation by Paragon Software. Aug 14
Darrick J. Wong xfs: widen timestamps to deal with y2038 Aug 17
Harshad Shirwadkar ext4: add free-space extent based allocator Aug 19
Ross Zwisler Add a "nosymfollow" mount option. Aug 19

Memory management

Peter Collingbourne mm: introduce reference pages Aug 13
Nicholas Piggin huge vmalloc mappings Aug 16
Waiman Long memcg: Enable fine-grained per process memory control Aug 17
Minchan Kim Support high-order page bulk allocation Aug 14
Mike Rapoport mm: introduce memfd_secret system call to create "secret" memory areas Aug 18
Dave Hansen [v3] Migrate Pages in lieu of discard Aug 18

Security-related

Tushar Sugandhi IMA: Infrastructure for measurement of critical kernel data Aug 12
Lakshmi Ramasubramanian SELinux: Measure state and hash of policy using IMA Aug 13
krzysztof.struczynski@huawei.com ima: Introduce IMA namespace Aug 18

Virtualization and containers

David Hildenbrand mm / virtio-mem: support ZONE_MOVABLE Aug 16
Andra Paraschiv Add support for Nitro Enclaves Aug 17
David Stevens Support virtio cross-device resources Aug 18
Xiaoyao Li KVM: Add virtualization support of split lock detection Aug 19

Miscellaneous

Eric Biggers fsverity-utils v1.2 Aug 17

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