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CFP Deadlines: September 3, 2020 to November 2, 2020

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

DeadlineEvent Dates EventLocation
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
October 25 November 5
November 7		 Ohio LinuxFest Online
October 30 November 21
November 22		 MiniDebConf - Gaming Edition Online
October 31 February 6
February 7		 FOSDEM 2021 Online
November 1 November 14
November 15		 Battlemesh v13 online

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

Upcoming Events

Events: September 3, 2020 to November 2, 2020

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

Date(s)EventLocation
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
October 19
October 20		 [Virtual] All Things Open 2020 Virtual
October 19
October 23		 EPICS collaboration meeting 2020 Virtual
October 19
October 23		 Open Infrastructure Summit Virtual
October 20
October 23		 [Canceled] PostgreSQL Conference Europe Berlin, Germany
October 24
October 25		 [Cancelled] T-Dose 2020 Geldrop (Eindhoven), Netherlands
October 26
October 29		 Open Source Summit Europe online
October 28
October 29		 [Canceled] DevOpsDays Berlin 2020 Berlin, Germany
October 28
October 29		 eBPF Summit online
October 28
October 30		 [Virtual] KVM Forum Virtual
October 29
October 30		 [Virtual] Linux Security Summit Europe Virtual

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

Event Reports

DebConf20 online closes

The Debian Project wraps up DebConf20, which was held online August 23-29. "With more than 850 attendees from 80 different countries and a total of over 100 event talks, discussion sessions, Birds of a Feather (BoF) gatherings and other activities, DebConf20 was a large success."

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Security updates

Alert summary August 27, 2020 to September 2, 2020

Dist. ID Release Package Date
CentOS CESA-2020:3558 C6 firefox 2020-09-01
CentOS CESA-2020:3556 C7 firefox 2020-09-01
Debian DSA-4757-1 stable apache2 2020-08-31
Debian DLA-2353-1 LTS bacula 2020-08-29
Debian DLA-2355-1 LTS bind9 2020-08-29
Debian DSA-4752-1 stable bind9 2020-08-27
Debian DLA-2346-1 LTS firefox-esr 2020-08-27
Debian DLA-2356-1 LTS freerdp 2020-08-30
Debian DLA-2347-1 LTS libvncserver 2020-08-28
Debian DLA-2361-1 LTS libx11 2020-09-01
Debian DSA-4756-1 stable lilypond 2020-08-29
Debian DSA-4753-1 stable mupdf 2020-08-29
Debian DLA-2354-1 LTS ndpi 2020-08-29
Debian DSA-4750-1 stable nginx 2020-08-26
Debian DLA-2358-1 LTS openexr 2020-08-30
Debian DSA-4755-1 stable openexr 2020-08-29
Debian DLA-2349-1 LTS php-horde 2020-08-29
Debian DLA-2348-1 LTS php-horde-core 2020-08-29
Debian DLA-2352-1 LTS php-horde-gollem 2020-08-29
Debian DLA-2350-1 LTS php-horde-kronolith 2020-08-29
Debian DLA-2351-1 LTS php-horde-kronolith 2020-08-29
Debian DLA-2357-1 LTS ros-actionlib 2020-08-30
Debian DSA-4751-1 stable squid 2020-08-27
Debian DLA-2360-1 LTS thunderbird 2020-08-31
Debian DSA-4754-1 stable thunderbird 2020-08-29
Debian DLA-2359-1 LTS xorg-server 2020-08-30
Fedora FEDORA-2020-cf8ef2f333 F32 batik 2020-08-31
Fedora FEDORA-2020-cf8ef2f333 F32 ecj 2020-08-31
Fedora FEDORA-2020-cf8ef2f333 F32 eclipse 2020-08-31
Fedora FEDORA-2020-cf8ef2f333 F32 eclipse-cdt 2020-08-31
Fedora FEDORA-2020-cf8ef2f333 F32 eclipse-ecf 2020-08-31
Fedora FEDORA-2020-cf8ef2f333 F32 eclipse-emf 2020-08-31
Fedora FEDORA-2020-cf8ef2f333 F32 eclipse-gef 2020-08-31
Fedora FEDORA-2020-cf8ef2f333 F32 eclipse-m2e-core 2020-08-31
Fedora FEDORA-2020-cf8ef2f333 F32 eclipse-mpc 2020-08-31
Fedora FEDORA-2020-cf8ef2f333 F32 eclipse-mylyn 2020-08-31
Fedora FEDORA-2020-cf8ef2f333 F32 eclipse-remote 2020-08-31
Fedora FEDORA-2020-cf8ef2f333 F32 eclipse-webtools 2020-08-31
Fedora FEDORA-2020-f136f60e5f F31 firefox 2020-08-31
Fedora FEDORA-2020-314dd0abde F32 firefox 2020-08-26
Fedora FEDORA-2020-80a6d7e7e0 F31 firejail 2020-08-26
Fedora FEDORA-2020-45fc8559d5 F32 firejail 2020-08-26
Fedora FEDORA-2020-deff052e7a F31 golang-github-ulikunitz-xz 2020-08-28
Fedora FEDORA-2020-e384830a0d F32 golang-github-ulikunitz-xz 2020-08-28
Fedora FEDORA-2020-189a1e6c3e F32 httpd 2020-08-31
Fedora FEDORA-2020-cf8ef2f333 F32 jetty 2020-08-31
Fedora FEDORA-2020-eba554b9d5 F32 libX11 2020-08-27
Fedora FEDORA-2020-d7ed9f18ff F32 lua 2020-08-26
Fedora FEDORA-2020-cf8ef2f333 F32 lucene 2020-08-31
Fedora FEDORA-2020-8dd86f1b3f F31 qt 2020-08-29
Fedora FEDORA-2020-740de661da F32 selinux-policy 2020-08-31
Fedora FEDORA-2020-cf8ef2f333 F32 univocity-parsers 2020-08-31
Fedora FEDORA-2020-2981a0224d F31 wireshark 2020-08-27
Fedora FEDORA-2020-7f91f10f2b F32 wireshark 2020-08-27
Gentoo 202008-19 bind 2020-08-29
Gentoo 202008-11 chromium 2020-08-26
Gentoo 202008-23 chrony 2020-08-30
Gentoo 202008-15 docker 2020-08-26
Gentoo 202008-16 firefox and thunderbird 2020-08-27
Gentoo 202008-20 ghostscript-gpl 2020-08-29
Gentoo 202008-21 kleopatra 2020-08-30
Gentoo 202008-18 libX11 2020-08-28
Gentoo 202008-12 net-snmp 2020-08-26
Gentoo 202008-24 openjdk 2020-08-30
Gentoo 202008-13 postgresql 2020-08-26
Gentoo 202008-17 redis 2020-08-28
Gentoo 202008-22 targetcli-fb 2020-08-30
Gentoo 202008-14 wireshark 2020-08-26
Mageia MGASA-2020-0353 7 ark 2020-08-29
Mageia MGASA-2020-0351 7 evolution-data-server 2020-08-28
Mageia MGASA-2020-0348 7 firefox 2020-08-27
Mageia MGASA-2020-0354 7 fossil 2020-08-30
Mageia MGASA-2020-0356 7 hylafax+ 2020-09-01
Mageia MGASA-2020-0355 7 kernel, kernel-linus 2020-08-30
Mageia MGASA-2020-0349 7 libx11 2020-08-27
Mageia MGASA-2020-0357 7 mutt 2020-09-02
Mageia MGASA-2020-0358 7 putty 2020-09-02
Mageia MGASA-2020-0347 7 qt4 and qt5base 2020-08-27
Mageia MGASA-2020-0352 7 thunderbird 2020-08-28
Mageia MGASA-2020-0350 7 x11-server 2020-08-27
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:1293-1 15.1 apache2 2020-08-30
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:1285-1 15.2 apache2 2020-08-29
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:1310-1 15.1 15.2 ark 2020-09-01
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:1260-1 15.1 chromium 2020-08-26
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:1309-1 15.1 chromium 2020-09-01
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:1263-1 15.2 chromium 2020-08-27
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:1306-1 15.2 chromium 2020-09-01
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:1269-1 oSB SLE-15-SP1 claws-mail 2020-08-27
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:1262-1 15.2 dovecot23 2020-08-27
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:1270-1 15.1 gettext-runtime 2020-08-27
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:1278-1 15.2 gettext-runtime 2020-08-28
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:1294-1 15.1 graphviz 2020-08-30
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:1303-1 15.2 graphviz 2020-08-31
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:1280-1 15.1 grub2 2020-08-29
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:1282-1 15.2 grub2 2020-08-29
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:1304-1 inn 2020-08-31
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:1271-1 15.1 inn 2020-08-28
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:1272-1 15.2 inn 2020-08-28
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:1313-1 15.2 ldb, samba 2020-09-01
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:1319-1 15.2 libqt5-qtbase 2020-09-01
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:1261-1 15.2 libreoffice 2020-08-27
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:1289-1 15.2 librepo 2020-08-30
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:1320-1 15.1 opera 2020-09-02
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:1324-1 15.2 opera 2020-09-02
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:1312-1 15.1 postgresql10 2020-09-01
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:1265-1 15.2 python3 2020-08-27
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:1275-1 15.2 webkit2gtk3 2020-08-28
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:1279-1 15.1 xorg-x11-server 2020-08-29
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:1302-1 15.2 xorg-x11-server 2020-08-31
Oracle ELSA-2020-3558 OL6 firefox 2020-08-27
Oracle ELSA-2020-3557 OL8 firefox 2020-08-31
Oracle ELSA-2020-3548 OL6 kernel 2020-08-26
Red Hat RHSA-2020:3592-01 EL7.7 bash 2020-09-01
Red Hat RHSA-2020:3581-01 EL7.7 git 2020-08-31
Red Hat RHSA-2020:3598-01 EL7.7 kernel 2020-09-01
Red Hat RHSA-2020:3588-01 EL8.0 libvncserver 2020-09-01
Red Hat RHSA-2020:3586-01 EL8.2.1 virt:8.2 and virt-devel:8.2 2020-09-01
Scientific Linux SLSA-2020:3558-1 SL6 firefox 2020-08-26
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:2450-1 OS7 OS8 OS9 SLE12 SES5 apache2 2020-09-02
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:2344-1 SLE15 apache2 2020-08-26
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:2444-1 SLE12 curl 2020-09-02
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:2445-1 SLE15 curl 2020-09-02
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:2446-1 SLE15 curl 2020-09-02
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:2391-1 OS7 SLE12 freeradius-server 2020-08-31
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:2408-1 SLE15 freerdp 2020-09-01
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:2409-1 SLE15 freerdp 2020-09-01
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:2346-1 SLE15 graphviz 2020-08-26
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:2357-1 SLE15 libqt5-qtbase 2020-08-28
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:0920-2 OS7 OS8 SLE12 SES5 libxslt 2020-08-26
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:2359-1 SLE12 openvpn 2020-08-28
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:14468-1 SLE11 openvpn-openssl1 2020-08-28
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:2403-1 SLE12 php7 2020-09-01
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:2405-1 SLE12 php72 2020-09-01
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:2404-1 SLE12 php74 2020-09-01
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:2355-1 SLE15 postgresql10 2020-08-28
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:2443-1 SLE12 squid 2020-09-02
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:2442-1 SLE15 squid 2020-09-02
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:2360-1 SLE12 targetcli-fb 2020-08-28
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:2401-1 OS7 OS8 SLE12 SES5 xorg-x11-server 2020-09-01
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:2399-1 OS9 SLE12 xorg-x11-server 2020-09-01
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:14475-1 SLE11 xorg-x11-server 2020-09-01
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:2407-1 SLE12 xorg-x11-server 2020-09-01
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:2398-1 SLE15 xorg-x11-server 2020-09-01
Ubuntu USN-4482-1 16.04 18.04 20.04 ark 2020-09-01
Ubuntu USN-4475-1 18.04 20.04 chrony 2020-08-27
Ubuntu USN-4474-1 16.04 18.04 20.04 firefox 2020-08-26
Ubuntu USN-4481-1 18.04 20.04 freerdp2 2020-09-01
Ubuntu USN-4480-1 18.04 keystone 2020-09-01
Ubuntu USN-4473-1 18.04 libmysofa 2020-08-26
Ubuntu USN-4483-1 18.04 20.04 linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.4, linux-azure, linux-azure-5.4, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.4, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-5.4, linux-raspi, linux-raspi-5.4 2020-09-01
Ubuntu USN-4485-1 14.04 16.04 18.04 linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-hwe, linux-azure, linux-azure-4.15, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-4.15, linux-gke-4.15, linux-kvm, linux-oem, linux-oracle, linux-raspi2, linux-snapdragon 2020-09-01
Ubuntu USN-4486-1 14.04 16.04 linux, linux-aws, linux-kvm, linux-lts-xenial, linux-raspi2, linux-snapdragon 2020-09-01
Ubuntu USN-4484-1 18.04 linux-hwe, linux-aws-5.3, linux-gke-5.3, linux-raspi2-5.3 2020-09-01
Ubuntu USN-4471-2 14.04 16.04 18.04 net-snmp 2020-09-01
Ubuntu USN-4476-1 12.04 14.04 16.04 18.04 20.04 nss 2020-08-27
Ubuntu USN-4479-1 20.04 python-django 2020-09-01
Ubuntu USN-4478-1 14.04 python-rsa 2020-08-31
Ubuntu USN-4477-1 20.04 squid 2020-08-27
Ubuntu USN-4446-2 16.04 18.04 squid3 2020-08-27
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Kernel patches of interest

Kernel releases

Linus Torvalds Linux 5.9-rc3 Aug 30
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.8.5 Aug 27
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.7.19 Aug 27
Steven Rostedt 5.4.61-rt37 Aug 28
Clark Williams 4.14.195-rt94 Aug 27

Architecture-specific

Marc Zyngier arm/arm64: Turning IPIs into normal interrupts Sep 01
Leonardo Bras DMA pagecache Aug 31
Atish Patra Add UEFI support for RISC-V Aug 28
Anup Patel KVM RISC-V Support Aug 31
Fenghua Yu x86: tag application address space for devices Aug 27
yulei.kernel@gmail.com x86/mmu:Introduce parallel memory virtualization to boost performance Sep 01
Alexander Graf Allow user space to restrict and augment MSR emulation Sep 02
Zi Yan 1GB THP support on x86_64 Sep 02

Core kernel

Masami Hiramatsu kprobes: Unify kretprobe trampoline handlers Aug 27
Peter Zijlstra kprobes: Make kretprobes lockless Aug 27
Ahmed S. Darwish seqlock: Introduce seqcount_latch_t Aug 27
Ahmed S. Darwish seqlock: Introduce PREEMPT_RT support Aug 28
KP Singh Generalizing bpf_local_storage Aug 25
Alexander Graf Add HRTICK support to Core Scheduling Aug 27
Ionela Voinescu cpufreq: improve frequency invariance support Aug 28
Julien Desfossez Core scheduling v7 Aug 28
John Ogness printk: reimplement LOG_CONT handling Aug 31
Alexei Starovoitov bpf: Introduce minimal support for sleepable progs Aug 27
Christian Brauner Support non-blocking pidfds Aug 31

Development tools

SeongJae Park DAMON: Support Physical Memory Address Space Monitoring Aug 31

Device drivers

Scott Branden Add Broadcom VK driver Aug 25
Stephen Boyd Support qcom USB3+DP combo phy (or type-c phy) Aug 25
Sumit Semwal Add support for Tianma nt36672a video mode panel Aug 26
Ben Levinsky Provide basic driver to control Arm R5 co-processor found on Xilinx ZynqMP Aug 26
Neal Liu Add MediaTek MT6779 devapc driver Aug 27
Tanmay Shah Add support for DisplayPort driver on SnapDragon Aug 27
Abhinav Kumar add audio support for Display Port on MSM Aug 31
JC Kuo Tegra XHCI controller ELPG support Aug 28
cy_huang usb typec: mt6360: Add support for mt6360 Type-C driver Aug 28
Ricardo Rivera-Matos Introduce the BQ256XX family of chargers Aug 28
Dmitry Osipenko Introduce Embedded Controller driver for Acer A500 Aug 30
Srinivasa Rao Mandadapu Qualcomm's lpass-hdmi ASoC driver to support audio over dp port Aug 31
Swapnil Jakhade drm: Add support for Cadence MHDP8546 DPI/DP bridge and J721E wrapper. Aug 31
Ioana Ciornei net: phy: add Lynx PCS MDIO module Aug 30
Thomas Pedersen add initial S1G support Aug 27
Dmitry Baryshkov Add LT9611UXC DSI to HDMI bridge support Aug 28
Grzegorz Jaszczyk Add TI PRUSS Local Interrupt Controller IRQChip driver Aug 31
Santiago Hormazabal KT0913 FM/AM driver Aug 31
Wan Ahmad Zainie phy: intel: Add Keem Bay eMMC PHY support Sep 01
Anitha Chrisanthus Add support for KeemBay DRM driver Aug 31
Kurt Kanzenbach Hirschmann Hellcreek DSA driver Sep 01
Roy Im da7280: haptic driver submission Sep 02
Dongchun Zhu media: i2c: Add support for OV02A10 sensor Sep 02
Gage Eads dlb2: introduce DLB 2.0 device driver Sep 01
Jonathan Marek SM8150 and SM8250 videocc drivers Sep 01
Amelie Delaunay Add STUSB160x Type-C port controller support Sep 02
Vincent Whitchurch GPIO PWM driver Sep 02
Vadym Kochan net: marvell: prestera: Add Switchdev driver for Prestera family ASIC device 98DX3255 (AC3x) Sep 02

Device-driver infrastructure

Stanimir Varbanov Introduce new hfi platform layer Aug 27
Kent Gibson gpio: cdev: add uAPI v2 Aug 27
Dafna Hirschfeld v4l2: add support for colorspace conversion API (CSC) for video capture and subdevices Aug 27
Greg Kroah-Hartman USB: new USB control message helper functions Sep 02

Documentation

Mauro Carvalho Chehab Add a glossary for the media subsystem Aug 27
John Mathew Add scheduler overview documentation Sep 02

Filesystems and block layer

Allison Collins xfs: Delayed Attributes Aug 26
Darrick J. Wong xfs: widen timestamps to deal with y2038 Aug 30
Jiri Olsa bpf: Add d_path helper Aug 25
Konstantin Komarov NTFS read-write driver GPL implementation by Paragon Software Aug 28
Rich Felker vfs: add RWF_NOAPPEND flag for pwritev2 Aug 31
Tejun Heo blk-iocost: iocost: improve donation, debt and excess handling Sep 01

Memory management

Roman Gushchin mm: kmem: kernel memory accounting in an interrupt context Aug 27
Sumit Semwal Anonymous VMA naming patches Sep 01
Minchan Kim introduce memory hinting API for external process Aug 31
David Howells mm: Make more use of readahead_control [ver #2] Sep 02

Networking

Hangbin Liu xdp: add a new helper for dev map multicast support Aug 26

Security-related

Stefano Garzarella [PATCH v5 0/3] io_uring: add restrictions to support untrusted applications and guests Aug 27
Casey Schaufler LSM: Module stacking for AppArmor Aug 26
Lokesh Gidra SELinux support for anonymous inodes and UFFD Aug 26
Tushar Sugandhi IMA: Infrastructure for measurement of critical kernel data Aug 27
Willy Tarreau prandom_u32: make output less predictable Sep 01

Virtualization and containers

Boqun Feng Hyper-V: Support PAGE_SIZE larger than 4K Sep 02

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