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CFP Deadlines: January 21, 2021 to March 22, 2021
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| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| February 12 | May 14 May 15 |
PyCon US 2021 | Online |
| February 28 | June 15 June 16 |
stackconf online 2021 | Online |
| March 1 | May 2 May 3 |
PyCon Israel 2021 | Online |
| March 15 | May 13 May 15 |
Linux App Summit | online |
| March 19 | May 4 May 6 |
sambaXP 2021 | Online |
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Upcoming Events
Events: January 21, 2021 to March 22, 2021
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| January 23 | LCA Systems Administration Miniconf | Online, UTC+11 |
| January 23 | LCA Kernel Miniconf | Online, UTC+11 |
| January 23 January 24 |
MiniDebConf India | Online |
| January 23 January 25 |
linux.conf.au 2021 | Online |
| February 6 February 7 |
FOSDEM 2021 | Online |
| February 18 February 20 |
DevConf.CZ | Online |
| March 20 March 21 |
LibrePlanet 2021 | Online |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Security updates
Alert summary January 14, 2021 to January 20, 2021
| Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arch Linux | ASA-202101-24 | atftp | 2021-01-15 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-202101-21 | coturn | 2021-01-15 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-202101-10 | gitlab | 2021-01-15 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-202101-8 | mdbook | 2021-01-15 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-202101-22 | mediawiki | 2021-01-15 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-202101-16 | nodejs | 2021-01-15 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-202101-13 | nodejs-lts-dubnium | 2021-01-15 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-202101-14 | nodejs-lts-erbium | 2021-01-15 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-202101-15 | nodejs-lts-fermium | 2021-01-15 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-202101-19 | nvidia-utils | 2021-01-15 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-202101-18 | opensmtpd | 2021-01-15 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-202101-9 | php | 2021-01-15 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-202101-12 | python-cairosvg | 2021-01-15 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-202101-11 | python-pillow | 2021-01-15 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-202101-17 | thunderbird | 2021-01-15 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-202101-20 | vivaldi | 2021-01-15 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-202101-23 | wavpack | 2021-01-15 | |
| CentOS | CESA-2021:0053 | C7 | firefox | 2021-01-15 |
| CentOS | CESA-2021:0087 | C7 | thunderbird | 2021-01-15 |
| Debian | DSA-4832-1 | stable | chromium | 2021-01-16 |
| Debian | DSA-4830-1 | stable | flatpak | 2021-01-14 |
| Debian | DLA-2528-1 | LTS | gst-plugins-bad1.0 | 2021-01-19 |
| Debian | DSA-4833-1 | stable | gst-plugins-bad1.0 | 2021-01-18 |
| Debian | DLA-2526-1 | LTS | ruby-redcarpet | 2021-01-15 |
| Debian | DSA-4831-1 | stable | ruby-redcarpet | 2021-01-15 |
| Debian | DLA-2527-1 | LTS | snapd | 2021-01-18 |
| Debian | DLA-2525-1 | LTS | wavpack | 2021-01-15 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-24ef21134b | F32 | adplug | 2021-01-14 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-64168929e4 | F33 | adplug | 2021-01-14 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-24ef21134b | F32 | audacious-plugins | 2021-01-14 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-64168929e4 | F33 | audacious-plugins | 2021-01-14 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-79926272ce | F33 | chromium | 2021-01-17 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-32d0068851 | F32 | coturn | 2021-01-20 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-dee141fc61 | F33 | coturn | 2021-01-20 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-9b7b3599be | F33 | cpu-x | 2021-01-14 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-1fe0e08c8d | F33 | dia | 2021-01-15 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-c90cb486f7 | F32 | dovecot | 2021-01-20 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-f807eb480a | F32 | flatpak | 2021-01-19 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-f970ea9d79 | F33 | flatpak | 2021-01-16 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-6e581c051a | F32 | glibc | 2021-01-20 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-6feb090c97 | F33 | glibc | 2021-01-18 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-082e638d02 | F32 | kernel | 2021-01-16 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-620fb40359 | F33 | kernel | 2021-01-16 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-3465ada1ca | F33 | kernel | 2021-01-14 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-082e638d02 | F32 | kernel-headers | 2021-01-16 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-620fb40359 | F33 | kernel-headers | 2021-01-16 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-3465ada1ca | F33 | kernel-headers | 2021-01-14 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-d32853a28d | F32 | mingw-openjpeg2 | 2021-01-15 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-d5b2c18fe6 | F32 | nodejs | 2021-01-16 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-24ef21134b | F32 | ocp | 2021-01-14 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-64168929e4 | F33 | ocp | 2021-01-14 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-d32853a28d | F32 | openjpeg2 | 2021-01-15 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-ca0e53d310 | F32 | php | 2021-01-16 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-8dac5c39f3 | F33 | php | 2021-01-14 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-8537865fb5 | F32 | python-cairosvg | 2021-01-16 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-a2d05a2e65 | F33 | python-cairosvg | 2021-01-16 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-307946cfb6 | F32 | python-lxml | 2021-01-14 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-0e055ea503 | F33 | python-lxml | 2021-01-14 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-324479472c | F33 | sudo | 2021-01-20 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2021-0024 | 7 | awstats | 2021-01-14 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2021-0036 | 7 | bind | 2021-01-17 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2021-0023 | 7 | bison | 2021-01-14 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2021-0028 | 7 | cairo | 2021-01-14 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2021-0043 | 7 | caribou | 2021-01-17 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2021-0044 | 7 | chromium-browser-stable | 2021-01-17 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2021-0034 | 7 | dom4j | 2021-01-17 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2021-0035 | 7 | edk2 | 2021-01-17 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2021-0030 | 7 | kernel | 2021-01-15 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2021-0031 | 7 | kernel-linus | 2021-01-15 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2021-0022 | 7 | krb5 | 2021-01-14 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2021-0029 | 7 | nvidia-current | 2021-01-14 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2021-0026 | 7 | nvidia390 | 2021-01-14 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2021-0046 | 7 | openldap | 2021-01-19 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2021-0037 | 7 | opensc | 2021-01-17 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2021-0041 | 7 | p11-kit | 2021-01-17 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2021-0025 | 7 | php | 2021-01-14 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2021-0032 | 7 | policycoreutils | 2021-01-17 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2021-0038 | 7 | python-lxml | 2021-01-17 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2021-0045 | 7 | resource-agents | 2021-01-19 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2021-0039 | 7 | resteasy | 2021-01-17 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2021-0042 | 7 | sudo | 2021-01-17 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2021-0040 | 7 | synergy | 2021-01-17 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2021-0027 | 7 | thunderbird | 2021-01-14 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2021-0033 | 7 | unzip | 2021-01-17 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0079-1 | 15.1 | ceph | 2021-01-16 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0058-1 | oSB SLE-15-SP2 | cobbler | 2021-01-14 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0073-1 | 15.1 | crmsh | 2021-01-16 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0055-1 | 15.2 | crmsh | 2021-01-13 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0124-1 | 15.2 | dnsmasq | 2021-01-20 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0072-1 | 15.1 | dovecot23 | 2021-01-16 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0063-1 | 15.1 | firefox | 2021-01-15 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0056-1 | 15.2 | firefox | 2021-01-13 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0074-1 | 15.1 | hawk2 | 2021-01-16 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0054-1 | 15.2 | hawk2 | 2021-01-13 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0075-1 | 15.1 | kernel | 2021-01-16 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0060-1 | 15.2 | kernel | 2021-01-15 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0059-1 | 15.2 | libzypp, zypper | 2021-01-14 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0082-1 | 15.1 | nodejs10 | 2021-01-16 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0065-1 | 15.2 | nodejs10 | 2021-01-15 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0064-1 | 15.2 | nodejs12 | 2021-01-15 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0066-1 | 15.2 | nodejs14 | 2021-01-15 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0089-1 | 15.2 | open-iscsi | 2021-01-17 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0102-1 | 15.1 | openldap2 | 2021-01-18 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0107-1 | 15.2 | openldap2 | 2021-01-18 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0101-1 | 15.1 | php7 | 2021-01-18 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0106-1 | 15.2 | php7 | 2021-01-18 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0117-1 | python-jupyter_notebook | 2021-01-19 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0078-1 | 15.1 | python-jupyter_notebook | 2021-01-16 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0096-1 | 15.2 | slurm_18_08 | 2021-01-17 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0097-1 | 15.2 | tcmu-runner | 2021-01-17 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0093-1 | 15.2 | thunderbird | 2021-01-17 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0081-1 | 15.1 | tomcat | 2021-01-16 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0119-1 | viewvc | 2021-01-19 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0084-1 | 15.1 | viewvc | 2021-01-16 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0123-1 | 15.2 | viewvc | 2021-01-20 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0121-1 | vlc | 2021-01-20 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0122-1 | vlc | 2021-01-20 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0076-1 | 15.1 | vlc | 2021-01-16 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0091-1 | 15.2 | vlc | 2021-01-17 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2021-0153 | OL7 | dnsmasq | 2021-01-19 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2021-0153 | OL7 | dnsmasq | 2021-01-20 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2021-0150 | OL8 | dnsmasq | 2021-01-20 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2021-0095 | OL8 | dotnet3.1 | 2021-01-15 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2021-0087 | OL7 | thunderbird | 2021-01-15 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2021-0087 | OL7 | thunderbird | 2021-01-13 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2021-0089 | OL8 | thunderbird | 2021-01-15 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2021-0162 | OL7 | xstream | 2021-01-19 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2021-0162 | OL7 | xstream | 2021-01-20 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:0153-01 | EL7 | dnsmasq | 2021-01-19 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:0156-01 | EL7.4 | dnsmasq | 2021-01-19 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:0155-01 | EL7.6 | dnsmasq | 2021-01-19 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:0154-01 | EL7.7 | dnsmasq | 2021-01-19 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:0150-01 | EL8 | dnsmasq | 2021-01-19 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:0152-01 | EL8.1 | dnsmasq | 2021-01-19 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:0151-01 | EL8.2 | dnsmasq | 2021-01-19 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:0181-01 | EL6 | kernel | 2021-01-19 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:0184-01 | EL8.1 | kernel | 2021-01-19 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:0136-01 | EL8.2 | kernel-rt | 2021-01-14 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:0189-01 | EL8 | kpatch-patch | 2021-01-19 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:0165-01 | EL8.1 | libpq | 2021-01-18 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:0183-01 | EL8.1 | linux-firmware | 2021-01-19 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:0166-01 | EL8.1 | postgresql:10 | 2021-01-18 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:0161-01 | EL8.2 | postgresql:10 | 2021-01-18 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:0163-01 | EL8.2 | postgresql:12 | 2021-01-18 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:0167-01 | EL8.1 | postgresql:9.6 | 2021-01-18 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:0164-01 | EL8.2 | postgresql:9.6 | 2021-01-18 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:0160-01 | EL8.1 | thunderbird | 2021-01-18 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:0162-01 | EL7 | xstream | 2021-01-18 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2021:0087-1 | SL7 | thunderbird | 2021-01-14 |
| Slackware | SSA:2021-014-01 | wavpack | 2021-01-14 | |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:0156-1 | MP4.0 SLE15 SES6 | ImageMagick | 2021-01-18 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:14598-1 | SLE11 | ImageMagick | 2021-01-15 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:0153-1 | SLE15 | ImageMagick | 2021-01-15 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:0166-1 | OS7 OS8 OS9 SLE12 SES5 | dnsmasq | 2021-01-19 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:14603-1 | SLE11 | dnsmasq | 2021-01-19 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:14604-1 | SLE11 | dnsmasq | 2021-01-19 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:0162-1 | SLE15 | dnsmasq | 2021-01-19 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:0163-1 | SLE15 | dnsmasq | 2021-01-19 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:0133-1 | SLE12 | kernel | 2021-01-15 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:0118-1 | SLE15 | kernel | 2021-01-14 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:0117-1 | SLE15 | kernel | 2021-01-14 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:0121-1 | SLE15 | nodejs8 | 2021-01-14 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:0127-1 | SLE15 | open-iscsi | 2021-01-14 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:14597-1 | SLE11 | openldap2 | 2021-01-14 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:0128-1 | SLE12 | openldap2 | 2021-01-14 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:0142-1 | SLE12 | openldap2 | 2021-01-15 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:0129-1 | SLE15 | openldap2 | 2021-01-14 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:0172-1 | SLE12 | perl-Convert-ASN1 | 2021-01-19 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:0124-1 | SLE15 | php7 | 2021-01-14 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:0125-1 | SLE12 | php72 | 2021-01-14 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:0126-1 | SLE12 | php74 | 2021-01-14 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:0175-1 | SLE15 | postgresql, postgresql13 | 2021-01-20 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:0115-1 | SLE12 | rubygem-archive-tar-minitar | 2021-01-13 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:0155-1 | SLE12 | slurm | 2021-01-18 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:0139-1 | SLE15 | slurm_20_02 | 2021-01-15 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:0158-1 | MP4.0 SLE15 SES6 | tcmu-runner | 2021-01-18 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:0143-1 | SES6 | tcmu-runner | 2021-01-15 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:0122-1 | SLE15 | thunderbird | 2021-01-14 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:0123-1 | SLE15 | thunderbird | 2021-01-14 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:0176-1 | SLE15 | xstream | 2021-01-20 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4693-1 | 16.04 | ampache | 2021-01-15 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4698-1 | 16.04 18.04 20.04 20.10 | dnsmasq | 2021-01-19 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4696-1 | 16.04 18.04 | htmldoc | 2021-01-18 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4695-1 | 16.04 | icoutils | 2021-01-18 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4694-1 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 20.04 20.10 | linux, linux-hwe, linux-hwe-5.4, linux-hwe-5.8, linux-lts-xenial | 2021-01-14 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4699-1 | 16.04 18.04 20.04 20.10 | log4net | 2021-01-19 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4689-3 | 18.04 20.04 20.10 | nvidia-graphics-drivers-418-server, nvidia-graphics-drivers-450-server | 2021-01-20 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4691-1 | 16.04 18.04 20.04 20.10 | openvswitch | 2021-01-13 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4697-2 | 14.04 | pillow | 2021-01-20 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4697-1 | 16.04 18.04 20.04 20.10 | pillow | 2021-01-18 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4700-1 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 | pyxdg | 2021-01-19 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4692-1 | 12.04 14.04 16.04 18.04 20.04 20.10 | tar | 2021-01-13 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4701-1 | 20.10 | thunderbird | 2021-01-20 |
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