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Calls for Presentations

CFP Deadlines: February 25, 2021 to April 26, 2021

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

DeadlineEvent Dates EventLocation
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
April 25 May 25
May 26		 Yocto Project Virtual Summit 2021 Online
April 25 July 9
July 11		 State of the Map Online

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Upcoming Events

Events: February 25, 2021 to April 26, 2021

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

Date(s)EventLocation
March 20
March 21		 LibrePlanet 2021 Online
March 30 Open Source 101 Online
April 9
April 10		 Grazer Linuxtage 2021 Online

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Security updates

Alert summary February 18, 2021 to February 24, 2021

Dist. ID Release Package Date
Arch Linux ASA-202102-24 connman 2021-02-22
Arch Linux ASA-202102-26 firejail 2021-02-22
Arch Linux ASA-202102-23 kernel 2021-02-22
Arch Linux ASA-202102-28 python-django 2021-02-22
Arch Linux ASA-202102-27 roundcubemail 2021-02-22
Arch Linux ASA-202102-25 wpa_supplicant 2021-02-22
Debian DLA-2568-1 LTS bind9 2021-02-19
Debian DSA-4857-1 stable bind9 2021-02-18
Debian DSA-4858-1 stable chromium 2021-02-19
Debian DLA-2566-1 LTS libbsd 2021-02-18
Debian DLA-2573-1 LTS libzstd 2021-02-20
Debian DSA-4859-1 stable libzstd 2021-02-20
Debian DLA-2562-1 LTS mumble 2021-02-18
Debian DLA-2574-1 LTS openldap 2021-02-21
Debian DSA-4860-1 stable openldap 2021-02-20
Debian DLA-2563-1 LTS openssl 2021-02-18
Debian DLA-2565-1 LTS openssl1.0 2021-02-18
Debian DLA-2571-1 LTS openvswitch 2021-02-19
Debian DLA-2564-1 LTS php-horde-text-filter 2021-02-19
Debian DSA-4856-1 stable php7.3 2021-02-17
Debian DLA-2560-1 LTS qemu 2021-02-18
Debian DLA-2570-1 LTS screen 2021-02-20
Debian DSA-4861-1 stable screen 2021-02-21
Debian DLA-2567-1 LTS unrar-free 2021-02-18
Debian DSA-4854-1 stable webkit2gtk 2021-02-17
Debian DLA-2572-1 LTS wpa 2021-02-20
Fedora FEDORA-2021-b881ee9839 F33 dotnet5.0 2021-02-21
Fedora FEDORA-2021-2e59756cbe F33 gdk-pixbuf2 2021-02-23
Fedora FEDORA-2021-2e59756cbe F33 gdk-pixbuf2-xlib 2021-02-23
Fedora FEDORA-2021-aa347d2b99 F33 kiwix-desktop 2021-02-19
Fedora FEDORA-2020-1f643c272c F32 libntlm 2021-02-19
Fedora FEDORA-2021-16e51e39a6 F32 subversion 2021-02-20
Fedora FEDORA-2021-1a2443baa0 F32 wpa_supplicant 2021-02-20
Mageia MGASA-2021-0087 7 coturn 2021-02-19
Mageia MGASA-2021-0086 7 mediawiki 2021-02-19
Mageia MGASA-2021-0089 7 privoxy 2021-02-19
Mageia MGASA-2021-0088 7 veracrypt 2021-02-19
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0310-1 15.2 buildah, libcontainers-common, podman 2021-02-19
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0310-1 15.2 buildah, libcontainers-common, podman 2021-02-19
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0335-1 15.2 firefox 2021-02-24
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0303-1 15.2 jasper 2021-02-18
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0303-1 15.2 jasper 2021-02-18
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0312-1 oSB SLE-15-SP2 mumble 2021-02-19
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0305-1 15.2 php7 2021-02-18
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0305-1 15.2 php7 2021-02-18
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0322-1 15.2 python-djangorestframework 2021-02-22
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0331-1 15.2 python3 2021-02-23
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0304-1 15.2 screen 2021-02-18
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0304-1 15.2 screen 2021-02-18
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0330-1 15.2 tomcat 2021-02-23
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0316-1 15.2 tor 2021-02-20
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0334-1 oSB SLE-15-SP2 tor 2021-02-23
Oracle ELSA-2021-0531 OL8 container-tools:ol8 2021-02-21
Oracle ELSA-2021-9067 OL7 kernel 2021-02-19
Oracle ELSA-2021-9067 OL7 kernel 2021-02-19
Oracle ELSA-2021-0558 OL8 kernel 2021-02-18
Oracle ELSA-2021-0548 OL8 nodejs:10 2021-02-21
Oracle ELSA-2021-0549 OL8 nodejs:12 2021-02-21
Oracle ELSA-2021-0551 OL8 nodejs:14 2021-02-21
Oracle ELSA-2021-0538 OL8 nss 2021-02-18
Oracle ELSA-2021-0557 OL8 perl 2021-02-18
Oracle ELSA-2021-0618 OL8 stunnel 2021-02-23
Oracle ELSA-2021-0507 OL8 subversion:1.10 2021-02-21
Oracle ELSA-2021-9066 OL6 xterm 2021-02-21
Oracle ELSA-2021-0617 OL7 xterm 2021-02-23
Oracle ELSA-2021-0617 OL7 xterm 2021-02-23
Oracle ELSA-2021-0611 OL8 xterm 2021-02-19
Red Hat RHSA-2021:0618-01 EL8 stunnel 2021-02-22
Red Hat RHSA-2021:0620-01 EL8.1 stunnel 2021-02-22
Red Hat RHSA-2021:0619-01 EL8.2 stunnel 2021-02-22
Red Hat RHSA-2021:0648-01 EL8.2.1 virt:8.2 and virt-devel:8.2 2021-02-23
Red Hat RHSA-2021:0617-01 EL7 xterm 2021-02-22
Red Hat RHSA-2021:0611-01 EL8 xterm 2021-02-18
Red Hat RHSA-2021:0650-01 EL8.1 xterm 2021-02-24
Red Hat RHSA-2021:0651-01 EL8.2 xterm 2021-02-24
Scientific Linux SLSA-2021:0617-1 SL7 xterm 2021-02-22
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0528-1 SLE12 ImageMagick 2021-02-19
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0563-1 SLE12 avahi 2021-02-23
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0551-1 SLE15 avahi 2021-02-23
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0507-1 MP4.0 SLE15 SES6 bind 2021-02-18
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0504-1 OS7 OS8 SLE12 bind 2021-02-18
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0503-1 OS9 SLE12 bind 2021-02-18
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:14632-1 SLE11 bind 2021-02-18
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0549-1 SLE15 gnuplot 2021-02-23
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:14640-1 SLE11 java-1_7_0-ibm 2021-02-23
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0512-1 OS7 OS8 OS9 SLE12 java-1_7_1-ibm 2021-02-18
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:14634-1 SLE11 java-1_7_1-ibm 2021-02-19
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0533-1 OS7 OS8 OS9 SLE12 java-1_8_0-openjdk 2021-02-19
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0532-1 MP4.0 SLE15 SES6 kernel 2021-02-19
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0527-1 OS7 OS8 OS9 SLE12 krb5-appl 2021-02-19
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0565-1 SLE15 pcp 2021-02-23
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0494-1 SLE15 php7 2021-02-17
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0498-1 SLE12 php72 2021-02-18
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0522-1 SLE12 php74 2021-02-19
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0544-1 SLE15 postgresql12 2021-02-22
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0545-1 SLE12 postgresql13 2021-02-22
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0543-1 SLE15 postgresql13 2021-02-22
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0515-1 OS8 python-urllib3 2021-02-18
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0529-1 SLE15 python3 2021-02-19
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0521-1 SLE15 qemu 2021-02-19
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0530-1 SLE12 tomcat 2021-02-19
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0531-1 SLE15 tomcat 2021-02-19
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0536-1 SLE15 webkit2gtk3 2021-02-22
Ubuntu USN-4737-1 16.04 18.04 20.04 20.10 bind9 2021-02-18
Ubuntu USN-4743-1 20.04 20.10 gdk-pixbuf 2021-02-22
Ubuntu USN-4741-1 16.04 libjackson-json-java 2021-02-18
Ubuntu USN-4744-1 16.04 18.04 20.04 20.10 openldap 2021-02-22
Ubuntu USN-4738-1 16.04 18.04 20.04 20.10 openssl, openssl1.0 2021-02-18
Ubuntu USN-4745-1 12.04 14.04 openssl 2021-02-23
Ubuntu USN-4742-1 18.04 20.04 20.10 python-django 2021-02-22
Ubuntu USN-4467-3 16.04 18.04 20.04 20.10 qemu 2021-02-22
Ubuntu USN-4740-1 18.04 20.04 shiro 2021-02-18
Ubuntu USN-4739-1 18.04 20.04 20.10 webkit2gtk 2021-02-18
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Kernel patches of interest

Kernel releases

Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.11.1 Feb 23
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior v5.11-rt7 Feb 19
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior v5.11-rt6 Feb 18
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.10.18 Feb 23
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior v5.10.17-rt32 Feb 19
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.4.100 Feb 23
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 4.19.177 Feb 23
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 4.14.222 Feb 23
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 4.9.258 Feb 23
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 4.4.258 Feb 23

Architecture-specific

Mark Rutland arm64: Support FIQ controller registration Feb 19
Lakshmi Ramasubramanian Carry forward IMA measurement log on kexec on ARM64 Feb 21
Anup Patel RISC-V CPU Idle Support Feb 21
Yu-cheng Yu Control-flow Enforcement: Shadow Stack Feb 17
Yu-cheng Yu Control-flow Enforcement: Indirect Branch Tracking Feb 17
Nadav Amit x86/tlb: Concurrent TLB flushes Feb 20
Chang S. Bae x86: Support Intel Advanced Matrix Extensions Feb 21
Borislav Petkov x86/insn: Add an insn_decode() API Feb 24

Core kernel

John Ogness printk: remove logbuf_lock Feb 18
Lennert Buytenhek io_uring: add support for IORING_OP_GETDENTS Feb 18
Jens Axboe Remove kthread usage from io_uring Feb 19
Vipin Sharma cgroup: New misc cgroup controller Feb 18
Michael Jeanson [RFC] Faultable tracepoints (v2) Feb 18
Valentin Schneider sched/fair: misfit task load-balance tweaks Feb 19
Matthew Garrett Enable hibernation when Lockdown is enabled Feb 20
Alexey Gladkov Count rlimits in each user namespace Feb 22
Song Liu bpf: enable task local storage for tracing programs Feb 22

Development tools

Dwaipayan Ray checkpatch: add verbose mode Feb 22

Device drivers

peng.fan@oss.nxp.com remoteproc: imx_rproc: support iMX8MQ/M Feb 18
Calvin Johnson ACPI support for dpaa2 driver Feb 18
Lizhi Hou XRT Alveo driver overview Feb 17
Sergio Paracuellos MIPS: ralink: add CPU clock detection and clock driver for MT7621 Feb 18
Erik Rosen hwmon: (pmbus) Add ST STPDDC60 pmbus driver Feb 18
Adrien Grassein Add support of Lontium lt8912 MIPI to HDMI bridge Feb 18
Steen Hegelund Adding the Sparx5 Serdes driver Feb 18
Gustavo Pimentel dmaengine: dw-edma: HDMA support Feb 18
Benjamin Gaignard Add HANTRO G2/HEVC decoder support for IMX8MQ Feb 18
Andrew Jeffery ipmi: Allow raw access to KCS devices Feb 20
Maxime Chevallier media: i2c: Introduce driver for the TW9900 decoder Feb 19
Noralf Trønnes GUD USB Display driver Feb 19
Al Cooper serial: 8250: Add driver for Broadcom UART Feb 19
Jason Wang virtio-pci: introduce modern device module Feb 20
Ivan Bornyakov net: phy: add Marvell 88X2222 transceiver support Feb 20
Douglas Gilbert sg: add v4 interface Feb 19
Kevin Tang Add Unisoc's drm kms module Feb 22
Daniel Scally Introduce intel_skl_int3472 module Feb 22
Kishon Vijay Abraham I AM64: Add SERDES bindings and driver support Feb 22
Viresh Kumar cpufreq: cppc: Add support for frequency invariance Feb 22
Liam Beguin add support for the lmk04832 Feb 21
Mirela Rabulea Add V4L2 driver for i.MX8 JPEG Encoder/Decoder Feb 22
Elaine Zhang clk: rockchip: add clock controller for rk3568 Feb 23
Codrin Ciubotariu Add I2S-MCC support for Microchip's SAMA7G5 Feb 23
Ben Levinsky Add initial zynqmp R5 remoteproc driver Feb 23
Álvaro Fernández Rojas irqchip: add support for BCM6345 interrupt controller Feb 23
Eric Auger SMMUv3 Nested Stage Setup (IOMMU part) Feb 23
Eric Auger SMMUv3 Nested Stage Setup (VFIO part) Feb 23
Jianjun Wang PCI: mediatek: Add new generation controller support Feb 24
Adrian Catangiu System Generation ID driver and VMGENID backend Feb 24

Device-driver infrastructure

Arnaud Pouliquen introduce a generic IOCTL interface for RPMsg channels management Feb 19
Maxime Ripard drm/atomic: Pass the full state to planes async atomic check and update Feb 19
Alexandru Ardelean iio: Add output buffer support Feb 19
Vivek Kasireddy Introduce Virtio based Dmabuf driver(s) Feb 19
Alex Williamson vfio: Device memory DMA mapping improvements Feb 22

Documentation

Paul E. McKenney Add access-marking documentation Feb 19

Filesystems and block layer

Allison Henderson xfs: Delayed Attributes Feb 18
Jeffle Xu dm: support IO polling Feb 20
Qu Wenruo btrfs: support read-write for subpage metadata Feb 22
Luis Henriques vfs: fix copy_file_range regression in cross-fs copies Feb 22

Memory management

Charan Teja Reddy mm: balancing the node zones occupancy Feb 18
Muchun Song Free some vmemmap pages of HugeTLB page Feb 19
Axel Rasmussen userfaultfd: add minor fault handling Feb 18
Alistair Popple Add support for SVM atomics in Nouveau Feb 19
Mel Gorman Introduce a bulk order-0 page allocator for sunrpc Feb 24

Networking

Arseny Krasnov virtio/vsock: introduce SOCK_SEQPACKET support Feb 18
Lorenz Bauer Expose network namespace cookies to user space Feb 19

Security-related

Sargun Dhillon Seccomp non-preemptible notifier Feb 20
John Wood Fork brute force attack mitigation Feb 21
Meng Yu add ECDH and CURVE25519 algorithms support for Kunpeng 930 Feb 23

Virtualization and containers

Michael Kelley Enable Linux guests on Hyper-V on ARM64 Feb 18
Xie Yongji Introduce VDUSE - vDPA Device in Userspace Feb 23
Johannes Berg PCI support for UML Feb 23

Miscellaneous

Mathieu Desnoyers lttng-trace: a new strace-alike LTTng command Feb 18
Jozsef Kadlecsik ipset 7.11 released Feb 19
Steve Dickson ANNOUNCE: nfs-utils-2.5.3 released. Feb 20
Stephen Hemminger iproute2 5.11 release Feb 23

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