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Calls for Presentations

CFP Deadlines: March 25, 2021 to May 24, 2021

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

DeadlineEvent Dates EventLocation
April 25 May 25
May 26		 Yocto Project Virtual Summit 2021 Online
April 25 July 9
July 11		 State of the Map Online
April 30 October 17
October 19		 All Things Open Raleigh, NC, and virtual
April 30 June 3 Live Embedded Event Online
May 2 June 18
June 25		 Akademy 2021 Online
May 4 June 18
June 20		 openSUSE conference online
May 12 June 1
June 30		 Ceph Month June Virtual
May 15 September 15
September 17		 International Workshop on OpenMP Bristol, UK
May 16 July 28
July 30		 EuroPython 2021 Online
May 22 September 17
September 20		 PyCon India 2021 Online

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Upcoming Events

Events: March 25, 2021 to May 24, 2021

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Date(s)EventLocation
March 30 Open Source 101 Online
April 9
April 10		 Grazer Linuxtage 2021 Online
May 2
May 3		 PyCon Israel 2021 Online
May 4
May 6		 sambaXP 2021 Online
May 13
May 15		 Linux App Summit online
May 14
May 15		 PyCon US 2021 Online

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Security updates

Alert summary March 18, 2021 to March 24, 2021

Dist. ID Release Package Date
Arch Linux ASA-202103-9 chromium 2021-03-20
Arch Linux ASA-202103-7 ffmpeg 2021-03-20
Arch Linux ASA-202103-4 flatpak 2021-03-20
Arch Linux ASA-202103-3 git 2021-03-20
Arch Linux ASA-202103-1 gnutls 2021-03-20
Arch Linux ASA-202103-5 minio 2021-03-20
Arch Linux ASA-202103-6 openssh 2021-03-20
Arch Linux ASA-202103-8 opera 2021-03-20
Arch Linux ASA-202103-2 wireshark-qt 2021-03-20
CentOS CESA-2021:0856 C7 kernel 2021-03-18
CentOS CESA-2021:0851 C7 pki-core 2021-03-18
Debian DLA-2601-1 LTS cloud-init 2021-03-20
Debian DLA-2604-1 LTS dnsmasq 2021-03-22
Debian DLA-2602-1 LTS imagemagick 2021-03-23
Debian DLA-2603-1 LTS libmediainfo 2021-03-23
Debian DLA-2605-1 LTS mariadb-10.1 2021-03-23
Debian DLA-2600-1 LTS pygments 2021-03-19
Debian DSA-4872-1 stable shibboleth-sp 2021-03-18
Debian DLA-2599-1 LTS shibboleth-sp2 2021-03-19
Debian DSA-4873-1 stable squid 2021-03-23
Debian DLA-2598-1 LTS squid3 2021-03-19
Debian DLA-2597-1 LTS velocity-tools 2021-03-17
Debian DLA-2558-2 LTS xterm 2021-03-21
Fedora FEDORA-2021-1b22f31541 F33 dotnet5.0 2021-03-23
Fedora FEDORA-2021-26ad138ffa F33 flatpak 2021-03-19
Fedora FEDORA-2021-a1f51fc418 F33 glib2 2021-03-22
Fedora FEDORA-2021-51b2657092 F33 jasper 2021-03-24
Fedora FEDORA-2021-14f6642aa6 F32 kernel 2021-03-21
Fedora FEDORA-2021-bb755ed5e3 F33 kernel 2021-03-20
Fedora FEDORA-2021-e49da8a226 F33 kernel 2021-03-24
Fedora FEDORA-2021-14f6642aa6 F32 kernel-headers 2021-03-21
Fedora FEDORA-2021-bb755ed5e3 F33 kernel-headers 2021-03-20
Fedora FEDORA-2021-14f6642aa6 F32 kernel-tools 2021-03-21
Fedora FEDORA-2021-bb755ed5e3 F33 kernel-tools 2021-03-20
Fedora FEDORA-2021-50f63a0161 F32 moodle 2021-03-23
Fedora FEDORA-2021-431b232659 F33 moodle 2021-03-23
Fedora FEDORA-2021-344dd24c84 F32 pki-core 2021-03-20
Fedora FEDORA-2021-6c412a4601 F33 pki-core 2021-03-20
Fedora FEDORA-2021-f3ebd7554c F33 radare2 2021-03-23
Fedora FEDORA-2021-7d55c00267 F32 switchboard-plug-bluetooth 2021-03-18
Fedora FEDORA-2021-dff7e97510 F32 upx 2021-03-19
Fedora FEDORA-2021-4b43992608 F33 upx 2021-03-19
Mageia MGASA-2021-0146 7, 8 discover 2021-03-18
Mageia MGASA-2021-0143 7 flatpak 2021-03-18
Mageia MGASA-2021-0145 8 flatpak 2021-03-18
Mageia MGASA-2021-0150 7 glibc 2021-03-21
Mageia MGASA-2021-0148 7 htmlunit 2021-03-21
Mageia MGASA-2021-0151 7, 8 kernel 2021-03-22
Mageia MGASA-2021-0152 7, 8 kernel-linus 2021-03-22
Mageia MGASA-2021-0147 7 koji 2021-03-21
Mageia MGASA-2021-0149 7 python-cairosvg 2021-03-21
Mageia MGASA-2021-0144 7, 8 xmlgraphics-commons 2021-03-18
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0446-1 chromium 2021-03-19
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0436-1 15.2 chromium 2021-03-17
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0452-1 connman 2021-03-20
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0450-1 froxlor 2021-03-20
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0462-1 15.2 grub2 2021-03-22
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0459-1 libmysofa 2021-03-22
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0444-1 15.2 libmysofa 2021-03-18
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0448-1 15.2 netty 2021-03-19
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0460-1 privoxy 2021-03-22
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0443-1 15.2 privoxy 2021-03-18
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0435-1 15.2 python 2021-03-17
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0451-1 python-markdown2 2021-03-20
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0461-1 15.2 tor 2021-03-22
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0447-1 15.2 velocity 2021-03-19
Oracle ELSA-2021-9117 OL6 bind 2021-03-18
Oracle ELSA-2021-0860 OL7 ipa 2021-03-19
Oracle ELSA-2021-0860 OL7 ipa 2021-03-19
Oracle ELSA-2021-9113 OL7 kernel 2021-03-17
Oracle ELSA-2021-0856 OL7 kernel 2021-03-17
Oracle ELSA-2021-9112 OL7 kernel 2021-03-17
Oracle ELSA-2021-9114 OL8 kernel 2021-03-17
Oracle ELSA-2021-9115 OL7 kernel-container 2021-03-17
Oracle ELSA-2021-9115 OL8 kernel-container 2021-03-17
Oracle ELSA-2021-0851 OL7 pki-core 2021-03-17
Oracle ELSA-2021-0851 OL7 pki-core 2021-03-17
Oracle ELSA-2021-9128 OL8 python27:2.7 2021-03-23
Oracle ELSA-2021-9129 OL8 python36:3.6 2021-03-23
Oracle ELSA-2021-9130 OL8 python38:3.8 2021-03-23
Red Hat RHSA-2021:0931-01 OSP13 openvswitch2.11 and ovn2.11 2021-03-18
Red Hat RHSA-2021:0975-01 EL7.7 pki-core 2021-03-23
Red Hat RHSA-2021:0966-01 EL8 pki-core:10.6 2021-03-23
Red Hat RHSA-2021:0933-01 OSP13 python-django 2021-03-18
Red Hat RHSA-2021:0934-01 OSP13.0 qemu-kvm-rhev 2021-03-18
Red Hat RHSA-2021:0937-01 OSP13 rubygem-em-http-request 2021-03-18
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0806-1 SLE15 crmsh 2021-03-17
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0885-1 SLE12 evolution-data-server 2021-03-19
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0891-1 SLE12 evolution-data-server 2021-03-19
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0890-1 MP4.0 SLE15 SES6 glib2 2021-03-19
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0934-1 MP4.0 SLE15 SES6 gnutls 2021-03-24
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0935-1 SLE15 gnutls 2021-03-24
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0938-1 MP4.0 SLE15 SES6 go1.15 2021-03-24
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0937-1 SLE15 go1.16 2021-03-24
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0942-1 SLE12 hawk2 2021-03-24
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0943-1 SLE12 hawk2 2021-03-24
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0941-1 SLE15 hawk2 2021-03-24
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0940-1 SLE15 jetty-minimal 2021-03-24
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0936-1 MP4.0 SLE15 SES6 libass 2021-03-24
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0931-1 MP4.0 SLE15 SES6 nghttp2 2021-03-24
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0932-1 OS7 OS8 OS9 SLE12 nghttp2 2021-03-24
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0930-1 SLE15 nghttp2 2021-03-24
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0939-1 OS7 OS8 SLE12 openssl 2021-03-24
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:14670-1 SLE11 openssl 2021-03-19
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:14667-1 SLE11 openssl1 2021-03-17
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:14668-1 SLE11 php53 2021-03-17
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0886-1 SLE12 python3 2021-03-19
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0887-1 SLE12 python36 2021-03-19
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0933-1 MP4.0 SLE15 SES6 ruby2.5 2021-03-24
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0928-1 OS7 SLE12 sudo 2021-03-24
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0929-1 OS7 OS8 OS9 SLE12 wavpack 2021-03-24
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:14669-1 SLE11 wavpack 2021-03-19
Ubuntu USN-4887-1 18.04 20.04 20.10 linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.4, linux-azure, linux-azure-5.4, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.4, linux-gke-5.3, linux-gke-5.4, linux-gkeop, linux-gkeop-5.4, linux-hwe, linux-hwe-5.4, linux-hwe-5.8, linux-kvm, linux-oem-5.10, linux-oem-5.6, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-5.4, linux-raspi, linux-raspi-5.4, linux-raspi2-5.3 2021-03-23
Ubuntu USN-4883-1 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-hwe, linux-kvm, linux-raspi2, linux-snapdragon 2021-03-19
Ubuntu USN-4884-1 20.04 linux-oem-5.10 2021-03-19
Ubuntu USN-4886-1 14.04 16.04 18.04 20.04 20.10 privoxy 2021-03-22
Ubuntu USN-4885-1 16.04 18.04 20.04 20.10 pygments 2021-03-22
Ubuntu USN-4882-1 16.04 18.04 20.04 20.10 ruby2.3, ruby2.5, ruby2.7 2021-03-18
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Kernel patches of interest

Kernel releases

Linus Torvalds Linux 5.12-rc4 Mar 21
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior v5.12-rc3-rt3 Mar 19
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.11.9 Mar 24
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.11.8 Mar 20
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.10.25 Mar 20
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.4.108 Mar 24
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.4.107 Mar 20
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 4.19.183 Mar 24
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 4.19.182 Mar 20
Tom Zanussi 4.19.182-rt74 Mar 23
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 4.14.227 Mar 24
Clark Williams 4.14.226-rt109 Mar 22
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 4.9.263 Mar 24
Luis Claudio R. Goncalves 4.9.257-rt171 Mar 21
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 4.4.263 Mar 24

Architecture-specific

Laurent Vivier m68k: Add Virtual M68k Machine Mar 23
Christophe Leroy Implement EBPF on powerpc32 Mar 22
Michael Ellerman Rust for Linux for ppc64le Mar 23
Anup Patel RISC-V CPU Idle Support Mar 18
guoren@kernel.org riscv: locks: introduce ticket-based spinlock implementation Mar 24
kan.liang@linux.intel.com Uncore PMON discovery mechanism support Mar 17
ira.weiny@intel.com PKS Add Protection Key Supervisor support Mar 21
Fenghua Yu x86/bus_lock: Enable bus lock detection Mar 22

Core kernel

Jens Axboe io_uring passthrough support Mar 17
Barry Song scheduler: expose the topology of clusters and add cluster scheduler Mar 19
Joel Fernandes (Google) Core scheduling remaining patches Mar 19
Thomas Gleixner signals: Allow caching one sigqueue object per task Mar 22
Alexey Gladkov Count rlimits in each user namespace Mar 23
Marco Elver Add support for synchronous signals on perf events Mar 24

Development tools

sj38.park@gmail.com Introduce Data Access MONitor (DAMON) Mar 18

Device drivers

Parshuram Thombare enable HDCP in Cadence MHDP bridge driver Mar 17
Benjamin Gaignard Add HANTRO G2/HEVC decoder support for IMX8MQ Mar 17
Vijendar Mukunda ASoC: amd: Add support for RT5682 codec in machine driver Mar 18
Greentime Hu Add SiFive FU740 PCIe host controller driver support Mar 18
Dario Binacchi clk: ti: add am33xx spread spectrum clock support Mar 18
Sergey Senozhatsky media: uvcvideo: implement UVC 1.5 ROI Mar 19
Srinivas Kandagatla ASoC: codecs: add wcd938x support Mar 19
Kishon Vijay Abraham I PHY: Add support in Sierra to use external clock Mar 19
Oleksij Rempel mainline ti tsc2046 adc driver Mar 19
Sven Peter Apple M1 DART IOMMU driver Mar 20
nikitos.tr@gmail.com soc: qcom: Add Qualcomm Memshare QMI service Mar 19
Ansuel Smith Add support for ipq8064 tsens Mar 19
Puranjay Mohan iio: temperature: add support for tmp117 Mar 20
Martina Krasteva Keem Bay Camera Subsystem Mar 19
Cristian Ciocaltea Add support for Actions Semi Owl Ethernet MAC Mar 22
Sanjay R Mehta Add support for AMD PTDMA controller driver Mar 21
Jianqun Xu gpio-rockchip driver Mar 22
Raviteja Narayanam iio: adc: Add driver for INA260 Mar 22
Geert Uytterhoeven auxdisplay: ht16k33: Add character display support Mar 22
Felix Kuehling Add HMM-based SVM memory manager to KFD v2 Mar 22
Russ Weight FPGA Security Manager Class Driver Mar 22
Sanket Goswami i2c: designware: Add driver support for AMD NAVI GPU Mar 22
chun-jie.chen Mediatek MT8192 clock support Mar 23
Jianjun Wang PCI: mediatek: Add new generation controller support Mar 24
Lizhi Hou XRT Alveo driver overview Mar 23
Matti Vaittinen Support ROHM BD71815 PMIC Mar 24
Adrien Grassein Add support of Lontium lt8912 MIPI to HDMI bridge Mar 23
Mauro Carvalho Chehab Add support for the other MaxLinear/Exar UARTs Mar 24
Hermes Zhang New multiple GPIOs LED driver Mar 24
Álvaro Fernández Rojas pinctrl: add BCM63XX pincontrol support Mar 24
Shiraz Saleem Add Intel Ethernet Protocol Driver for RDMA (irdma) Mar 23
Maciej Kwapulinski Driver of Intel(R) Gaussian & Neural Accelerator Mar 24

Device-driver infrastructure

Manivannan Sadhasivam Add support for secure regions in NAND Mar 18
William Breathitt Gray Introduce the Counter character device interface Mar 19
kaike.wan@intel.com RDMA: A rendezvous module Mar 19
Matti Vaittinen Add managed version of delayed work init Mar 23

Documentation

Peter Xu man2: udpate mm/userfaultfd manpages to latest Mar 22

Filesystems and block layer

Shiyang Ruan fsdax,xfs: Add reflink&dedupe support for fsdax Mar 19
Ming Lei block: support bio based io polling Mar 19
Darrick J. Wong xfs: deferred inode inactivation Mar 18
Konstantin Komarov NTFS read-write driver GPL implementation by Paragon Software Mar 19
Miklos Szeredi new kAPI for FS_IOC_[GS]ETFLAGS/FS_IOC_FS[GS]ETXATTR Mar 22
David Howells Network fs helper library & fscache kiocb API Mar 23
André Almeida mm: shmem: Add case-insensitive support for tmpfs Mar 23

Memory management

Oscar Salvador Allocate memmap from hotadded memory (per device) Mar 19
Oscar Salvador Make alloc_contig_range handle Hugetlb pages Mar 19
Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Memory Folios Mar 20
Muchun Song Use obj_cgroup APIs to charge kmem pages Mar 20
Mel Gorman Introduce a bulk order-0 page allocator Mar 22
Peter Xu userfaultfd-wp: Support shmem and hugetlbfs Mar 22
Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) vmalloc: Improve vmalloc(4MB) performance Mar 24

Networking

Seth David Schoen Treat IPv4 lowest address as ordinary unicast address Mar 19
Arseny Krasnov virtio/vsock: introduce SOCK_SEQPACKET support Mar 23
Cong Wang sockmap: introduce BPF_SK_SKB_VERDICT and support UDP Mar 22
Pablo Neira Ayuso netfilter: flowtable enhancements Mar 24

Security-related

Richard Guy Briggs audit: add support for openat2 Mar 17
Sargun Dhillon Handle seccomp notification preemption Mar 17
Sami Tolvanen Add support for Clang CFI Mar 18
Kees Cook Optionally randomize kernel stack offset each syscall Mar 19

Virtualization and containers

Quentin Perret KVM: arm64: Stage-2 for the host Mar 19

Miscellaneous

Andrii Nakryiko BPF static linking Mar 17
David Hildenbrand drivers/char: remove /dev/kmem for good Mar 19

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