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Calls for Presentations
CFP Deadlines: January 28, 2021 to March 29, 2021
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| 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 |
| March 22 | July 21 July 25 |
GUADEC | Online |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
Events: January 28, 2021 to March 29, 2021
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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 21, 2021 to January 27, 2021
| Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arch Linux | ASA-202101-25 | sudo | 2021-01-26 | |
| CentOS | CESA-2021:0153 | C7 | dnsmasq | 2021-01-25 |
| CentOS | CESA-2020:5350 | C7 | net-snmp | 2021-01-25 |
| CentOS | CESA-2021:0221 | C7 | sudo | 2021-01-27 |
| CentOS | CESA-2021:0162 | C7 | xstream | 2021-01-25 |
| Debian | DLA-2533-1 | LTS | crmsh | 2021-01-25 |
| Debian | DLA-2532-1 | LTS | debian-security-support | 2021-01-25 |
| Debian | DLA-2530-1 | LTS | drupal7 | 2021-01-21 |
| Debian | DSA-4830-2 | stable | flatpak | 2021-01-22 |
| Debian | DSA-4833-2 | stable | gst-plugins-bad1.0 | 2021-01-24 |
| Debian | DLA-2529-1 | LTS | mutt | 2021-01-21 |
| Debian | DSA-4838-1 | stable | mutt | 2021-01-25 |
| Debian | DSA-4836-1 | stable | openvswitch | 2021-01-22 |
| Debian | DLA-2531-1 | LTS | python-bottle | 2021-01-25 |
| Debian | DSA-4837-1 | stable | salt | 2021-01-24 |
| Debian | DLA-2534-1 | LTS | sudo | 2021-01-26 |
| Debian | DSA-4839-1 | stable | sudo | 2021-01-26 |
| Debian | DSA-4835-1 | stable | tomcat9 | 2021-01-22 |
| Debian | DSA-4834-1 | stable | vlc | 2021-01-22 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-d9faeff8eb | F32 | chromium | 2021-01-23 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-48866282e5 | F33 | chromium | 2021-01-24 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-77a4202036 | F32 | dotnet3.1 | 2021-01-22 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-fb078913dd | F33 | dotnet3.1 | 2021-01-22 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-3bcc7198c8 | F33 | kernel | 2021-01-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-8794383d6f | F33 | libntlm | 2021-01-21 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-a8ddc1ce70 | F33 | mingw-python-pillow | 2021-01-21 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-02996612f6 | F32 | php-pear | 2021-01-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-880aa7bd27 | F32 | python-pillow | 2021-01-24 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-a8ddc1ce70 | F33 | python-pillow | 2021-01-21 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-7066b95c99 | F33 | sddm | 2021-01-24 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-8840cbdccd | F32 | sudo | 2021-01-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-234d14bfcc | F32 | sudo | 2021-01-21 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-2cb63d912a | F33 | sudo | 2021-01-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-7785f6c616 | F33 | xen | 2021-01-25 |
| Gentoo | 202101-23 | PEAR-Archive_Tar | 2021-01-26 | |
| Gentoo | 202101-31 | cacti | 2021-01-26 | |
| Gentoo | 202101-24 | cfitsio | 2021-01-26 | |
| Gentoo | 202101-13 | chromium | 2021-01-22 | |
| Gentoo | 202101-17 | dnsmasq | 2021-01-22 | |
| Gentoo | 202101-26 | f2fs-tools | 2021-01-26 | |
| Gentoo | 202101-21 | flatpak | 2021-01-24 | |
| Gentoo | 202101-27 | freeradius | 2021-01-26 | |
| Gentoo | 202101-20 | glibc | 2021-01-24 | |
| Gentoo | 202101-16 | kdeconnect | 2021-01-22 | |
| Gentoo | 202101-22 | libvirt | 2021-01-26 | |
| Gentoo | 202101-25 | mutt | 2021-01-26 | |
| Gentoo | 202101-32 | mutt | 2021-01-26 | |
| Gentoo | 202101-28 | ncurses | 2021-01-26 | |
| Gentoo | 202101-19 | openjdk | 2021-01-24 | |
| Gentoo | 202101-29 | openjpeg | 2021-01-26 | |
| Gentoo | 202101-18 | python | 2021-01-24 | |
| Gentoo | 202101-30 | qtwebengine | 2021-01-26 | |
| Gentoo | 202101-33 | sudo | 2021-01-26 | |
| Gentoo | 202101-14 | thunderbird | 2021-01-22 | |
| Gentoo | 202101-15 | virtualbox | 2021-01-22 | |
| Gentoo | 202101-12 | wireshark | 2021-01-22 | |
| Gentoo | 202101-11 | zabbix | 2021-01-21 | |
| Mageia | MGASA-2021-0051 | 7 | blosc | 2021-01-23 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2021-0049 | 7 | crmsh | 2021-01-23 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2021-0053 | 7 | glibc | 2021-01-24 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2021-0047 | 7 | kernel | 2021-01-20 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2021-0048 | 7 | perl-DBI | 2021-01-23 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2021-0050 | 7 | php-oojs-oojs-ui | 2021-01-23 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2021-0054 | 7 | python-pip | 2021-01-25 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2021-0055 | 7 | python-urllib3 | 2021-01-25 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2021-0056 | 7 | sudo | 2021-01-27 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2021-0052 | 7 | undertow | 2021-01-23 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0148-1 | 15.1 | ImageMagick | 2021-01-24 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0136-1 | 15.2 | ImageMagick | 2021-01-22 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0166-1 | 15.1 | chromium | 2021-01-26 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0150-1 | 15.2 | gdk-pixbuf | 2021-01-24 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0147-1 | 15.1 | hawk2 | 2021-01-24 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0144-1 | 15.2 | hawk2 | 2021-01-23 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0161-1 | 15.1 | mutt | 2021-01-26 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0162-1 | 15.2 | mutt | 2021-01-26 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0138-1 | 15.1 | opera | 2021-01-22 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0139-1 | 15.2 | opera | 2021-01-22 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0132-1 | 15.1 | python-autobahn | 2021-01-21 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0152-1 | 15.2 | python-autobahn | 2021-01-24 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0160-1 | 15.2 | stunnel | 2021-01-25 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0169-1 | 15.1 | sudo | 2021-01-27 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0170-1 | 15.2 | sudo | 2021-01-27 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0145-1 | viewvc | 2021-01-23 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0165-1 | 15.2 | virtualbox | 2021-01-26 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0154-1 | 15.1 | wavpack | 2021-01-25 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0153-1 | 15.2 | wavpack | 2021-01-25 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0140-1 | 15.2 | xstream | 2021-01-22 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2021-0221 | OL7 | sudo | 2021-01-26 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2021-0221 | OL7 | sudo | 2021-01-27 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2021-0218 | OL8 | sudo | 2021-01-27 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:0258-01 | EL8.2 | cryptsetup | 2021-01-26 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:0240-01 | EL7.2 | dnsmasq | 2021-01-25 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:0245-01 | EL7.3 | dnsmasq | 2021-01-25 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:0266-01 | EL8.2 | gnome-settings-daemon | 2021-01-26 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:0257-01 | EL7.4 | net-snmp | 2021-01-26 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:0227-01 | EL6 | sudo | 2021-01-26 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:0221-01 | EL7 | sudo | 2021-01-26 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:0226-01 | EL7.2 | sudo | 2021-01-26 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:0225-01 | EL7.3 | sudo | 2021-01-26 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:0224-01 | EL7.4 | sudo | 2021-01-26 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:0223-01 | EL7.6 | sudo | 2021-01-26 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:0222-01 | EL7.7 | sudo | 2021-01-26 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:0218-01 | EL8 | sudo | 2021-01-26 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:0220-01 | EL8.1 | sudo | 2021-01-26 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:0219-01 | EL8.2 | sudo | 2021-01-26 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2021:0221-1 | SL7 | sudo | 2021-01-26 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2021:0162-1 | SL7 | xstream | 2021-01-26 |
| Slackware | SSA:2021-024-01 | seamonkey | 2021-01-24 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2021-026-01 | sudo | 2021-01-26 | |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:0199-1 | OS7 OS8 OS9 SLE12 SES5 | ImageMagick | 2021-01-22 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:0184-1 | SLE15 | gdk-pixbuf | 2021-01-21 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:0222-1 | MP4.0 SLE15 SES6 | go1.14 | 2021-01-26 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:0223-1 | MP4.0 SLE15 SES6 | go1.15 | 2021-01-26 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:0192-1 | SLE12 | hawk2 | 2021-01-22 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:0198-1 | SLE12 | hawk2 | 2021-01-22 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:0200-1 | SLE15 | hawk2 | 2021-01-22 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:0196-1 | SLE12 | mutt | 2021-01-22 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:0195-1 | SLE15 | mutt | 2021-01-22 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:0224-1 | MP4.0 SLE15 SES6 | nodejs8 | 2021-01-26 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:0183-1 | SLE15 | perl-Convert-ASN1 | 2021-01-21 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:0197-1 | SLE15 | permissions | 2021-01-22 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:0217-1 | OS7 OS8 OS9 SLE12 SES5 | postgresql, postgresql12, postgresql13 | 2021-01-26 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:0210-1 | OS7 | rubygem-nokogiri | 2021-01-25 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:0185-1 | SES7 | samba | 2021-01-21 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:0194-1 | SLE15 | stunnel | 2021-01-22 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:0227-1 | MP4.0 SLE15 SES6 | sudo | 2021-01-27 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:0232-1 | OS7 SLE12 | sudo | 2021-01-27 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:0226-1 | OS8 OS9 SLE12 SES5 | sudo | 2021-01-27 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:0225-1 | SLE12 | sudo | 2021-01-27 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:0186-1 | MP4.0 SLE15 SES6 | wavpack | 2021-01-21 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:0182-1 | SLE12 | yast2-multipath | 2021-01-21 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4704-1 | 14.04 16.04 | libsndfile | 2021-01-26 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4689-4 | 18.04 20.04 20.10 | linux, linux-aws, linux-azure, linux-gcp, linux-hwe-5.4, linux-hwe-5.8, linux-oracle | 2021-01-20 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4703-1 | 16.04 18.04 20.04 20.10 | mutt | 2021-01-25 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4702-1 | 16.04 | pound | 2021-01-25 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4705-2 | 12.04 14.04 | sudo | 2021-01-27 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4705-1 | 16.04 18.04 20.04 20.10 | sudo | 2021-01-26 |
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