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CFP Deadlines: November 19, 2020 to January 18, 2021

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Upcoming Events

Copyright reform activist Julia Reda to keynote LibrePlanet

The Free Software Foundation has announced that Julia Reda is the first keynote to be confirmed for LibrePlanet, which will take place March 20-21, 2021. "Reda will discuss the need for public funding for free software projects from different governments around the world."

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Events: November 19, 2020 to January 18, 2021

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

Date(s)EventLocation
November 16
November 22		 Guix Days Online
November 21
November 22		 MiniDebConf - Gaming Edition Online
November 25
November 27		 Linux Audio Conference Online
November 28
November 29		 EmacsConf 2020 Online
November 28
November 29		 MiniDebConf Online Brasil 2020 Online
December 1
December 3		 Open Source Firmware Conference online
December 3 Live Embedded Event Online

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Security updates

Alert summary November 12, 2020 to November 18, 2020

Dist. ID Release Package Date
Debian DSA-4789-1 stable codemirror-js 2020-11-12
Debian DLA-2448-1 LTS firefox-esr 2020-11-11
Debian DLA-2452-1 LTS libdatetime-timezone-perl 2020-11-16
Debian DLA-2452-2 LTS libdatetime-timezone-perl 2020-11-17
Debian DLA-2450-1 LTS libproxy 2020-11-13
Debian DLA-2451-1 LTS libvncserver 2020-11-15
Debian DSA-4792-1 stable openldap 2020-11-17
Debian DLA-2447-1 LTS pacemaker 2020-11-12
Debian DLA-2447-2 LTS pacemaker 2020-11-17
Debian DSA-4791-1 stable pacemaker 2020-11-13
Debian DLA-2453-1 LTS restic 2020-11-17
Debian DLA-2449-1 LTS thunderbird 2020-11-13
Debian DSA-4790-1 stable thunderbird 2020-11-12
Fedora FEDORA-2020-4e8e48da22 F33 chromium 2020-11-14
Fedora FEDORA-2020-fc9085727a F32 firefox 2020-11-12
Fedora FEDORA-2020-84137f197e F31 java-latest-openjdk 2020-11-12
Fedora FEDORA-2020-e211716d08 F32 kernel 2020-11-16
Fedora FEDORA-2020-98ccae320c F33 kernel 2020-11-16
Fedora FEDORA-2020-e211716d08 F32 kernel-headers 2020-11-16
Fedora FEDORA-2020-98ccae320c F33 kernel-headers 2020-11-16
Fedora FEDORA-2020-e211716d08 F32 kernel-tools 2020-11-16
Fedora FEDORA-2020-98ccae320c F33 kernel-tools 2020-11-16
Fedora FEDORA-2020-27b577ab23 F32 krb5 2020-11-14
Fedora FEDORA-2020-e99ef3282f F33 libexif 2020-11-14
Fedora FEDORA-2020-dec3658f55 F32 libmediainfo 2020-11-17
Fedora FEDORA-2020-935f62c3d9 F33 libxml2 2020-11-14
Fedora FEDORA-2020-dec3658f55 F32 mediainfo 2020-11-17
Fedora FEDORA-2020-d42cb01973 F32 mingw-python3 2020-11-17
Fedora FEDORA-2020-a857113c7a F31 nss 2020-11-13
Fedora FEDORA-2020-bb91bf9b8e F32 nss 2020-11-13
Fedora FEDORA-2020-68ef4b6bc5 F33 seamonkey 2020-11-17
Fedora FEDORA-2020-1da8aa9dd3 F31 thunderbird 2020-11-14
Fedora FEDORA-2020-5398bfb466 F32 xen 2020-11-12
Fedora FEDORA-2020-ec84c1565b F33 xen 2020-11-12
Gentoo 202011-16 chromium 2020-11-15
Gentoo 202011-19 libexif 2020-11-16
Gentoo 202011-15 libmaxminddb 2020-11-14
Gentoo 202011-17 mit-krb5 2020-11-15
Mageia MGASA-2020-0420 7 arpwatch 2020-11-13
Mageia MGASA-2020-0419 7 bluez 2020-11-13
Mageia MGASA-2020-0413 7 chromium-browser-stable 2020-11-13
Mageia MGASA-2020-0421 7 firefox and thunderbird 2020-11-13
Mageia MGASA-2020-0424 7 golang 2020-11-15
Mageia MGASA-2020-0418 7 java-1.8.0-op 2020-11-13
Mageia MGASA-2020-0416 7 kdeconnect-kde 2020-11-13
Mageia MGASA-2020-0425 7 kleopatra 2020-11-15
Mageia MGASA-2020-0426 7 libexif 2020-11-15
Mageia MGASA-2020-0414 7 lilypond 2020-11-13
Mageia MGASA-2020-0422 7 microcode 2020-11-13
Mageia MGASA-2020-0415 7 packagekit 2020-11-13
Mageia MGASA-2020-0423 7 ruby 2020-11-13
Mageia MGASA-2020-0417 7 tpm2-tss 2020-11-13
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:1927-1 15.1 ImageMagick 2020-11-15
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:1916-1 15.2 SDL 2020-11-14
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:1937-1 chromium 2020-11-16
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:1943-1 chromium 2020-11-16
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:1937-1 chromium 2020-11-16
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:1943-1 chromium 2020-11-16
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:1929-1 15.1 15.2 chromium 2020-11-15
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:1929-1 15.1 15.2 chromium 2020-11-15
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:1909-1 15.1 firefox 2020-11-14
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:1919-1 15.2 firefox 2020-11-14
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:1901-1 15.1 kernel 2020-11-12
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:1906-1 15.2 kernel 2020-11-13
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:1920-1 15.1 openldap2 2020-11-14
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:1918-1 15.2 openldap2 2020-11-14
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:1952-1 15.1 15.2 opera 2020-11-17
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:1922-1 15.1 python-waitress 2020-11-15
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:1911-1 15.2 python-waitress 2020-11-14
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:1959-1 15.1 raptor 2020-11-18
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:1949-1 15.2 raptor 2020-11-17
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:1899-1 oSB SLE-15-SP2 sddm 2020-11-11
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:1930-1 15.1 u-boot 2020-11-15
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:1930-1 15.1 u-boot 2020-11-15
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:1915-1 15.1 ucode-intel 2020-11-14
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:1923-1 15.2 ucode-intel 2020-11-15
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:1907-1 15.1 zeromq 2020-11-13
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:1910-1 15.2 zeromq 2020-11-14
Oracle ELSA-2020-5011 OL7 bind 2020-11-11
Oracle ELSA-2020-5011 OL7 bind 2020-11-17
Oracle ELSA-2020-4481 OL8 bluez 2020-11-17
Oracle ELSA-2020-5002 OL7 curl 2020-11-11
Oracle ELSA-2020-5002 OL7 curl 2020-11-12
Oracle ELSA-2020-5003 OL7 fence-agents 2020-11-11
Oracle ELSA-2020-5003 OL7 fence-agents 2020-11-13
Oracle ELSA-2020-3835 OL6 firefox 2020-11-14
Oracle ELSA-2020-5104 OL6 firefox 2020-11-14
Oracle ELSA-2020-5099 OL7 firefox 2020-11-13
Oracle ELSA-2020-5099 OL7 firefox 2020-11-13
Oracle ELSA-2020-5100 OL8 firefox 2020-11-17
Oracle ELSA-2020-4952 OL8 freetype 2020-11-13
Oracle ELSA-2020-5936 OL5 kernel 2020-11-16
Oracle ELSA-2020-5926 OL6 kernel 2020-11-13
Oracle ELSA-2020-5926 OL6 kernel 2020-11-13
Oracle ELSA-2020-5936 OL6 kernel 2020-11-16
Oracle ELSA-2020-5023 OL7 kernel 2020-11-11
Oracle ELSA-2020-5926 OL7 kernel 2020-11-13
Oracle ELSA-2020-5926 OL7 kernel 2020-11-13
Oracle ELSA-2020-4685 OL8 kernel 2020-11-13
Oracle ELSA-2020-5012 OL7 librepo 2020-11-11
Oracle ELSA-2020-5012 OL7 librepo 2020-11-12
Oracle ELSA-2020-5040 OL7 libvirt 2020-11-11
Oracle ELSA-2020-5084 OL6 microcode_ctl 2020-11-17
Oracle ELSA-2020-5083 OL7 microcode_ctl 2020-11-17
Oracle ELSA-2020-5085 OL8 microcode_ctl 2020-11-17
Oracle ELSA-2020-5009 OL7 python 2020-11-13
Oracle ELSA-2020-5009 OL7 python 2020-11-13
Oracle ELSA-2020-5010 OL7 python3 2020-11-11
Oracle ELSA-2020-5010 OL7 python3 2020-11-13
Oracle ELSA-2020-5021 OL7 qt and qt5-qtbase 2020-11-11
Oracle ELSA-2020-5021 OL7 qt and qt5-qtbase 2020-11-12
Oracle ELSA-2020-4947 OL6 thunderbird 2020-11-14
Oracle ELSA-2020-4913 OL8 thunderbird 2020-11-17
Oracle ELSA-2020-5020 OL7 tomcat 2020-11-11
Oracle ELSA-2020-5020 OL7 tomcat 2020-11-12
Red Hat RHSA-2020:5104-01 EL6 firefox 2020-11-12
Red Hat RHSA-2020:5099-01 EL7 firefox 2020-11-12
Red Hat RHSA-2020:5100-01 EL8 firefox 2020-11-12
Red Hat RHSA-2020:5138-01 EL8.0 firefox 2020-11-17
Red Hat RHSA-2020:5135-01 EL8.1 firefox 2020-11-17
Red Hat RHSA-2020:5139-01 EL8.2 firefox 2020-11-17
Red Hat RHSA-2020:5129-01 EL6 net-snmp 2020-11-17
Red Hat RHSA-2020:5110-01 SCL rh-postgresql10-postgresql 2020-11-16
Red Hat RHSA-2020:5112-01 SCL rh-postgresql12-postgresql 2020-11-16
Red Hat RHSA-2020:5146-01 EL8 thunderbird 2020-11-18
Red Hat RHSA-2020:5111-01 EL8.2.1 virt:8.2 and virt-devel:8.2 2020-11-16
Scientific Linux SLSA-2020:5104-1 SL6 firefox 2020-11-17
Slackware SSA:2020-319-01 seamonkey 2020-11-14
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:3331-1 OS7 OS8 OS9 SLE12 SES5 firefox 2020-11-16
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:14542-1 SLE11 firefox 2020-11-11
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:3312-1 SLE15 firefox 2020-11-12
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:3311-1 SLE15 firefox 2020-11-12
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:3333-1 SLE15 gdm 2020-11-16
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:3359-1 SLE15 java-11-openjdk 2020-11-17
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:3310-1 OS7 OS8 OS9 SLE12 SES5 java-1_7_0-openjdk 2020-11-12
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:3326-1 SLE12 kernel 2020-11-13
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:3326-1 SLE12 kernel 2020-11-13
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:3354-1 OS7 OS8 SLE12 SES5 kernel-firmware 2020-11-17
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:3353-1 OS9 SLE12 kernel-firmware 2020-11-17
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:3330-1 SLE15 kernel-firmware 2020-11-16
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:3349-1 SLE15 kernel-firmware 2020-11-16
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:3314-1 OS7 OS8 OS9 SLE12 SES5 openldap2 2020-11-12
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:3315-1 SLE12 openldap2 2020-11-12
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:3313-1 SLE15 openldap2 2020-11-12
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:3343-1 OS7 OS8 OS9 SLE12 SES5 postgresql, postgresql96, postgresql10 and postgresql12 2020-11-16
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:3351-1 OS7 OS8 OS9 SLE12 SES5 raptor 2020-11-17
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:3350-1 SLE15 raptor 2020-11-17
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:3352-1 SLE15 raptor 2020-11-17
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:3360-1 SLE12 tcpdump 2020-11-17
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:3358-1 SLE15 tcpdump 2020-11-17
Ubuntu USN-4171-6 16.04 18.04 20.04 20.10 apport 2020-11-12
Ubuntu USN-4637-1 18.04 20.04 20.10 firefox 2020-11-18
Ubuntu USN-4628-2 14.04 16.04 18.04 20.04 20.10 intel-microcode 2020-11-12
Ubuntu USN-4635-1 14.04 16.04 18.04 20.04 20.10 krb5 2020-11-17
Ubuntu USN-4631-1 20.04 20.10 libmaxminddb 2020-11-12
Ubuntu USN-4636-1 16.04 18.04 20.04 20.10 libvncserver, vino 2020-11-17
Ubuntu USN-4607-2 16.04 18.04 20.04 20.10 openjdk-8, openjdk-lts 2020-11-12
Ubuntu USN-4622-2 12.04 14.04 openldap 2020-11-11
Ubuntu USN-4634-1 16.04 18.04 20.04 20.10 openldap 2020-11-17
Ubuntu USN-4633-1 16.04 18.04 20.04 20.10 postgresql-10, postgresql-12, postgresql-9.5 2020-11-17
Ubuntu USN-4630-1 16.04 18.04 20.04 20.10 raptor2 2020-11-11
Ubuntu USN-4632-1 16.04 18.04 slirp 2020-11-12
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Kernel patches of interest

Kernel releases

Linus Torvalds Linux 5.10-rc4 Nov 15
Steven Rostedt 5.4.77-rt43 Nov 14
Clark Williams 4.14.206-rt99 Nov 15

Architecture-specific

Will Deacon An alternative series for asymmetric AArch32 systems Nov 13
Mark Rutland arm64: remove set_fs() and friends Nov 13
Vladimir Murzin arm64: Support Enhanced PAN Nov 13
Lakshmi Ramasubramanian Carry forward IMA measurement log on kexec on ARM64 Nov 13
Andrey Konovalov kasan: add hardware tag-based mode for arm64 Nov 13
Jarkko Sakkinen Intel SGX foundations Nov 13

Build system

Vasily Gorbik objtool and cross compilation Nov 13

Core kernel

Steven Rostedt ftrace: Add access to function arguments for all callbacks Nov 12
Frederic Weisbecker rcu/nocb: De-offload and re-offload support v4 Nov 13
Thomas Gleixner softirq: Cleanups and RT awareness Nov 13
Gabriel Krisman Bertazi Migrate syscall entry/exit work to SYSCALL_WORK flagset Nov 13
Joel Fernandes (Google) Core scheduling (v9) Nov 17
Alex Kogan Add NUMA-awareness to qspinlock Nov 17
Gabriel Krisman Bertazi Syscall User Dispatch Nov 17
Willem de Bruijn add epoll_pwait2 syscall Nov 18

Device drivers

Amireddy Mallikarjuna reddy Add Intel LGM SoC DMA support Nov 12
Wan Ahmad Zainie phy: intel: Add Keem Bay USB PHY support Nov 12
Sia Jee Heng dmaengine: dw-axi-dmac: support Intel KeemBay AxiDMA Nov 17
Daniele Alessandrelli crypto: Add Keem Bay OCS HCU driver Nov 16
Russ Weight Intel MAX10 BMC Secure Update Driver Nov 13
Matti Vaittinen Support ROHM BD9576MUF and BD9573MUF PMICs Nov 12
Claudius Heine Adding I2C support to RX6110 RTC Nov 12
Mirela Rabulea (OSS) Add V4L2 driver for i.MX8 JPEG Encoder/Decoder Nov 12
Jean-Philippe Brucker iommu: I/O page faults for SMMUv3 Nov 12
Jacopo Mondi media: i2c: Add RDACM21 camera module Nov 12
Maxime Chevallier media: i2c: Introduce driver for the TW9900 decoder Nov 13
Paul Kocialkowski media: i2c: OV5648 image sensor support Nov 13
Paul Kocialkowski media: i2c: OV8865 image sensor support Nov 13
Nicolas Saenz Julienne Raspberry Pi PoE HAT fan support Nov 12
Kishon Vijay Abraham I Add SR-IOV support in PCIe Endpoint Core Nov 12
Dmitry Osipenko Introduce Embedded Controller driver for Acer A500 Nov 13
Lars Povlsen Adding support for Microchip/Microsemi serial GPIO controller Nov 13
Eric Biggers eMMC inline encryption support Nov 12
Sergio Paracuellos MIPS: ralink: add CPU clock detection and clock gate driver for MT7621 Nov 13
Dongjiu Geng Enable Hi3559A SOC clock Nov 14
Gustavo Pimentel misc: Add Add Synopsys DesignWare xData IP driver Nov 13
Grzegorz Jaszczyk Add a PRU remoteproc driver Nov 14
Ben Levinsky Provide basic driver to control Arm R5 co-processor found on Xilinx ZynqMP Nov 14
Wendy Liang Xilinx AI engine kernel driver Nov 18
Maximilian Luz Add support for Microsoft Surface System Aggregator Module Nov 15
Dmitry Osipenko Introduce memory interconnect for NVIDIA Tegra SoCs Nov 16
Giovanni Cabiddu crypto: qat - add qat_4xxx driver Nov 13
Peter Geis [RFC] rk3328 usb3 phy driver Nov 16
Ramuthevar,Vadivel MuruganX spi: cadence-quadspi: Add QSPI controller support for Intel LGM SoC Nov 16
Srinivas Kandagatla pinctrl: qcom: Add sm8250 lpass lpi pinctrl support Nov 16
Hemant Kumar userspace MHI client interface driver Nov 16
Neil Armstrong media: meson: Add support for the Amlogic GE2D Accelerator Unit Nov 17
Viresh Kumar mailbox: Add mhuv2 mailbox controller's support Nov 17
Eric Auger SMMUv3 Nested Stage Setup (IOMMU part) Nov 18
Sai Prakash Ranjan System Cache support for GPU and required SMMU support Nov 17
Cristian Marussi Add support for SCMIv3.0 Voltage Domain Protocol and SCMI-Regulator Nov 17
Manivannan Sadhasivam Add support for Qcom SMEM based NAND parser Nov 17
Johan Jonker Enable rk3066a HDMI sound Nov 17
Dan Murphy DP83TD510 Single Pair 10Mbps Ethernet PHY Nov 17
Justin Ernst Add uv_sysfs platform driver Nov 17
Scott Branden Add Broadcom VK driver Nov 17
Jianjun Wang PCI: mediatek: Add new generation controller support Nov 18
Wilken Gottwalt hwspinlock: add sunxi hardware spinlock support Nov 18
Gene Chen leds: mt6360: Add LED driver for MT6360 Nov 18
Srujana Challa Add Support for Marvell OcteonTX2 Cryptographic Nov 18
Sakari Ailus Linux CCS driver preparation Nov 18

Device-driver infrastructure

Ezequiel Garcia Stateless H.264 de-staging Nov 12
Ioana Ciornei net: phy: add support for shared interrupts (part 2) Nov 12
Daniel Lezcano powercap/dtpm: Add the DTPM framework Nov 16
Minchan Kim Chunk Heap Support on DMA-HEAP Nov 17
Alexandru Ardelean iio: core,buffer: add support for multiple IIO buffers per IIO device Nov 17
Lukasz Luba Thermal devfreq cooling improvements with Energy Model Nov 18

Documentation

Thorsten Leemhuis Make reporting-bugs easier to grasp and yet more detailed & helpful Nov 12

Filesystems and block layer

Rachit Agarwal iosched: Add i10 I/O Scheduler Nov 12
Chengguang Xu implement containerized syncfs for overlayfs Nov 13
Qu Wenruo btrfs: preparation patches for subpage support Nov 13
Qu Wenruo btrfs: add read-only support for subpage sector size Nov 18
Christian Brauner fs: idmapped mounts Nov 15
Daniel Rosenberg Add support for Encryption and Casefolding in F2FS Nov 17
Satya Tangirala add support for direct I/O with fscrypt using blk-crypto Nov 17
Giuseppe Scrivano fs, close_range: add flag CLOSE_RANGE_CLOEXEC Nov 18
Omar Sandoval fs: interface for directly reading/writing compressed data Nov 18

Memory management

Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Overhaul multi-page lookups for THP Nov 12
Roman Gushchin bpf: switch to memcg-based memory accounting Nov 12
Mel Gorman Revisit NUMA imbalance tolerance and fork balancing Nov 17
Mike Rapoport mm: introduce memfd_secret system call to create "secret" memory areas Nov 17
Thomas Gleixner mm/highmem: Preemptible variant of kmap_atomic & friends Nov 18

Networking

Björn Töpel Introduce preferred busy-polling Nov 12
Paolo Abeni mptcp: improve multiple xmit streams support Nov 12
alardam@gmail.com New netdev feature flags for XDP Nov 16
Kuniyuki Iwashima Socket migration for SO_REUSEPORT. Nov 17
Wei Wang implement kthread based napi poll Nov 18

Security-related

Lokesh Gidra SELinux support for anonymous inodes and UFFD Nov 11
David Howells crypto: Add generic Kerberos library Nov 12
Mickaël Salaün Landlock LSM Nov 12
KP Singh Sleepable LSM Hooks Nov 12

Virtualization and containers

David Hildenbrand virtio-mem: Big Block Mode (BBM) Nov 12
David Brazdil Opt-in always-on nVHE hypervisor Nov 16
isaku.yamahata@intel.com KVM: X86: TDX support Nov 16
Quentin Perret KVM/arm64: A stage 2 for the host Nov 17
Tom Lendacky SEV-ES hypervisor support Nov 17

Miscellaneous

Shuah Khan Introduce seqnum_ops Nov 13

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