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CFP Deadlines: April 1, 2021 to May 31, 2021

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April 25 May 25
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April 30 October 17
October 19		 All Things Open Raleigh, NC, and virtual
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May 12 June 1
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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
May 26 September 16
September 19		 EuroBSDCon 2021 online

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Security updates

Alert summary March 25, 2021 to March 31, 2021

Dist. ID Release Package Date
Arch Linux ASA-202103-15 awstats 2021-03-26
Arch Linux ASA-202103-12 busybox 2021-03-26
Arch Linux ASA-202103-16 dotnet-runtime 2021-03-26
Arch Linux ASA-202103-20 dotnet-runtime 2021-03-26
Arch Linux ASA-202103-22 dotnet-runtime-3.1 2021-03-26
Arch Linux ASA-202103-17 dotnet-sdk 2021-03-26
Arch Linux ASA-202103-21 dotnet-sdk 2021-03-26
Arch Linux ASA-202103-23 dotnet-sdk-3.1 2021-03-26
Arch Linux ASA-202103-13 gitlab 2021-03-26
Arch Linux ASA-202103-26 godot 2021-03-26
Arch Linux ASA-202103-14 groovy 2021-03-26
Arch Linux ASA-202103-18 libebml 2021-03-26
Arch Linux ASA-202103-11 mkinitcpio-busybox 2021-03-26
Arch Linux ASA-202103-10 openssl 2021-03-26
Arch Linux ASA-202103-27 python2 2021-03-26
Arch Linux ASA-202103-19 vivaldi 2021-03-26
Arch Linux ASA-202103-24 webkit2gtk 2021-03-26
Arch Linux ASA-202103-25 wpewebkit 2021-03-26
CentOS CESA-2021:0992 C7 firefox 2021-03-26
CentOS CESA-2021:0996 C7 thunderbird 2021-03-26
Debian DSA-4881-1 stable curl 2021-03-31
Debian DLA-2607-1 LTS firefox-esr 2021-03-25
Debian DSA-4874-1 stable firefox-esr 2021-03-24
Debian DLA-2608-1 LTS jquery 2021-03-25
Debian DLA-2611-1 LTS ldb 2021-03-31
Debian DLA-2612-1 LTS leptonlib 2021-03-31
Debian DLA-2610-1 LTS linux-4.19 2021-03-30
Debian DLA-2606-1 LTS lxml 2021-03-24
Debian DSA-4880-1 stable lxml 2021-03-29
Debian DSA-4875-1 stable openssl 2021-03-25
Debian DSA-4878-1 stable pygments 2021-03-27
Debian DSA-4879-1 stable spamassassin 2021-03-27
Debian DLA-2609-1 LTS thunderbird 2021-03-26
Debian DSA-4876-1 stable thunderbird 2021-03-25
Debian DSA-4877-1 stable webkit2gtk 2021-03-27
Fedora FEDORA-2021-9de542ab4c F33 CGAL 2021-03-26
Fedora FEDORA-2021-d20c8a4730 F33 busybox 2021-03-31
Fedora FEDORA-2021-265a3c7cb9 F32 dotnet3.1 2021-03-27
Fedora FEDORA-2021-3da33cdc80 F33 dotnet3.1 2021-03-27
Fedora FEDORA-2021-138728e59b F32 dotnet5.0 2021-03-26
Fedora FEDORA-2021-9fac28274f F32 firefox 2021-03-29
Fedora FEDORA-2021-c504fa63be F33 firefox 2021-03-26
Fedora FEDORA-2021-26cb56b3cb F32 jasper 2021-03-25
Fedora FEDORA-2021-9503fffad9 F32 kernel 2021-03-29
Fedora FEDORA-2021-68b0dd2373 F33 kernel 2021-03-26
Fedora FEDORA-2021-d049f32a82 F33 openssl 2021-03-30
Fedora FEDORA-2021-8b17a2725e F33 pdfbox 2021-03-30
Fedora FEDORA-2021-e0f30b4500 F33 qt 2021-03-28
Fedora FEDORA-2021-8d52a8a999 F33 rpm 2021-03-30
Fedora FEDORA-2021-edc673e864 F32 rubygem-kramdown 2021-03-30
Fedora FEDORA-2021-4c57a892d1 F33 rubygem-kramdown 2021-03-30
Fedora FEDORA-2021-a468f36bbe F32 xen 2021-03-27
Fedora FEDORA-2021-0b784a4d02 F33 xen 2021-03-27
Gentoo 202103-03 openssl 2021-03-31
Gentoo 202103-02 redis 2021-03-31
Gentoo 202103-01 salt 2021-03-31
Gentoo 202103-04 sqlite 2021-03-31
Mageia MGASA-2021-0163 7, 8 firefox 2021-03-30
Mageia MGASA-2021-0158 7 fwupd 2021-03-30
Mageia MGASA-2021-0162 8 glib2.0 2021-03-30
Mageia MGASA-2021-0156 7, 8 imagemagick 2021-03-27
Mageia MGASA-2021-0153 7 jackson-databind 2021-03-27
Mageia MGASA-2021-0157 7, 8 openscad 2021-03-27
Mageia MGASA-2021-0161 8 python-aiohttp 2021-03-30
Mageia MGASA-2021-0160 7, 8 radare2 2021-03-30
Mageia MGASA-2021-0155 8 redis 2021-03-27
Mageia MGASA-2021-0164 7, 8 thunderbird 2021-03-30
Mageia MGASA-2021-0154 7 unbound 2021-03-27
Mageia MGASA-2021-0159 7, 8 zeromq 2021-03-30
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0485-1 15.2 eclipse 2021-03-30
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0482-1 15.2 evolution-data-server 2021-03-28
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0487-1 15.2 firefox 2021-03-30
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0470-1 15.2 gnutls 2021-03-25
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0480-1 15.2 go1.15 2021-03-27
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0473-1 15.2 hawk2 2021-03-25
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0469-1 15.2 ldb 2021-03-25
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0472-1 15.2 libass 2021-03-25
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0468-1 15.2 nghttp2 2021-03-25
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0476-1 15.2 openssl-1_1 2021-03-26
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0471-1 15.2 ruby2.5 2021-03-25
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0474-1 oSB SLE-15-SP2 tor 2021-03-25
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0481-1 15.2 zstd 2021-03-28
Oracle ELSA-2021-0992 OL7 firefox 2021-03-25
Oracle ELSA-2021-0992 OL7 firefox 2021-03-25
Oracle ELSA-2021-0990 OL8 firefox 2021-03-26
Oracle ELSA-2021-1002 OL7 flatpak 2021-03-29
Oracle ELSA-2021-1002 OL7 flatpak 2021-03-29
Oracle ELSA-2021-9137 OL6 openssl 2021-03-26
Oracle ELSA-2021-1024 OL8 openssl 2021-03-29
Oracle ELSA-2021-0966 OL8 pki-core:10.6 2021-03-24
Oracle ELSA-2021-0996 OL7 thunderbird 2021-03-26
Oracle ELSA-2021-0996 OL7 thunderbird 2021-03-25
Oracle ELSA-2021-0993 OL8 thunderbird 2021-03-26
Red Hat RHSA-2021:1027-01 EL7.7 curl 2021-03-30
Red Hat RHSA-2021:0992-01 EL7 firefox 2021-03-25
Red Hat RHSA-2021:0990-01 EL8 firefox 2021-03-25
Red Hat RHSA-2021:0991-01 EL8.1 firefox 2021-03-25
Red Hat RHSA-2021:0989-01 EL8.2 firefox 2021-03-25
Red Hat RHSA-2021:1002-01 EL7 flatpak 2021-03-29
Red Hat RHSA-2021:1028-01 EL7.7 kernel 2021-03-30
Red Hat RHSA-2021:1031-01 EL7.7 kpatch-patch 2021-03-30
Red Hat RHSA-2021:1039-01 OSP13 mariadb 2021-03-30
Red Hat RHSA-2021:1026-01 EL7.7 nss-softokn 2021-03-30
Red Hat RHSA-2021:1024-01 EL8 openssl 2021-03-29
Red Hat RHSA-2021:1032-01 EL7.7 perl 2021-03-30
Red Hat RHSA-2021:0996-01 EL7 thunderbird 2021-03-25
Red Hat RHSA-2021:0993-01 EL8 thunderbird 2021-03-25
Red Hat RHSA-2021:0995-01 EL8.1 thunderbird 2021-03-25
Red Hat RHSA-2021:0994-01 EL8.2 thunderbird 2021-03-25
Red Hat RHSA-2021:1030-01 EL7.7 tomcat 2021-03-30
Scientific Linux SLSA-2021:0992-1 SL7 firefox 2021-03-25
Scientific Linux SLSA-2021:0996-1 SL7 thunderbird 2021-03-25
Slackware SSA:2021-086-01 xterm 2021-03-27
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0949-1 SLE15 evolution-data-server 2021-03-24
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0966-1 SLE15 firefox 2021-03-29
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0944-1 MP4.0 SLE15 SES6 ldb 2021-03-24
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0945-1 SLE15 ldb 2021-03-24
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0956-1 MP4.0 SLE15 SES6 libzypp, zypper 2021-03-26
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0954-1 OS9 SLE12 openssl-1_1 2021-03-25
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0955-1 SLE15 openssl-1_1 2021-03-25
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0987-1 SLE12 ovmf 2021-03-30
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0972-1 SLE15 ovmf 2021-03-30
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0947-1 SLE15 python3 2021-03-24
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0975-1 SLE12 tar 2021-03-30
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0974-1 SLE15 tar 2021-03-30
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0988-1 OS9 SLE12 tomcat 2021-03-30
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0989-1 SLE15 tomcat 2021-03-30
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0990-1 SLE12 zabbix 2021-03-30
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0948-1 SLE15 zstd 2021-03-24
Ubuntu USN-4898-1 16.04 18.04 20.04 20.10 curl 2021-03-31
Ubuntu USN-4893-1 16.04 18.04 20.04 20.10 firefox 2021-03-25
Ubuntu USN-4888-2 14.04 ldb 2021-03-25
Ubuntu USN-4888-1 16.04 18.04 20.04 20.10 ldb 2021-03-24
Ubuntu USN-4890-1 16.04 18.04 linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-hwe, linux-azure, linux-azure-4.15, linux-dell300x, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-4.15, linux-hwe, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-signed, linux-snapdragon 2021-03-24
Ubuntu USN-4889-1 14.04 linux, linux-lts-xenial 2021-03-24
Ubuntu USN-4896-1 16.04 18.04 20.04 20.10 lxml 2021-03-30
Ubuntu USN-4891-1 18.04 20.04 20.10 openssl 2021-03-25
Ubuntu USN-4897-1 16.04 18.04 20.04 20.10 pygments 2021-03-30
Ubuntu USN-3685-2 14.04 ruby2.0 2021-03-25
Ubuntu USN-4895-1 16.04 18.04 20.04 20.10 squid, squid3 2021-03-29
Ubuntu USN-4894-1 18.04 20.04 20.10 webkit2gtk 2021-03-29
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Kernel patches of interest

Kernel releases

Linus Torvalds Linux 5.12-rc5 Mar 28
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.11.11 Mar 30
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.11.10 Mar 25
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.10.27 Mar 30
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.10.26 Mar 25
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.4.109 Mar 30
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 4.19.184 Mar 30
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 4.14.228 Mar 30
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 4.9.264 Mar 30
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 4.4.264 Mar 30

Architecture-specific

Thomas Bogendoerfer MIPS: Remove get_fs/set_fs Mar 31
guoren@kernel.org riscv: Add qspinlock/qrwlock Mar 25
ira.weiny@intel.com PKS: Add Protection Key Supervisor support Mar 31

Core kernel

Joel Fernandes (Google) Core sched remaining patches rebased Mar 24
Martin KaFai Lau bpf: Support calling kernel function Mar 24
Alexander Lochmann Introduced new tracing mode KCOV_MODE_UNIQUE. Mar 26
Yafang Shao sched: support schedstats for RT sched class Mar 27
Vipin Sharma cgroup: New misc cgroup controller Mar 29
John Ogness printk: remove safe buffers Mar 30

Development tools

Steven Rostedt trace-cmd 2.9.2 Mar 25
Steven Rostedt KernelShark 1.3 Mar 25
sj38.park@gmail.com Introduce Data Access MONitor (DAMON) Mar 30

Device drivers

Sander Vanheule Add Realtek Otto GPIO support Mar 24
Dan Williams CXL Port Enumeration Mar 24
Ansuel Smith Add support for ipq8064 tsens Mar 24
Roger Lu soc: mediatek: SVS: introduce MTK SVS Mar 25
Souradeep Chowdhury Add driver support for Data Capture and Compare Engine(DCC) for SM8150 Mar 25
Liu Ying phy: phy-fsl-imx8-mipi-dphy: Add i.MX8qxp LVDS PHY mode support Mar 25
Jens Wiklander Add FF-A support in OP-TEE driver Mar 25
Al Cooper 8250: Add driver for Broadcom UART Mar 25
Thierry Reding Tegra XHCI controller ELPG support Mar 25
Sven Peter Apple M1 DART IOMMU driver Mar 28
Quan Nguyen Add Ampere's Altra SMPro hwmon driver Mar 29
Liu Ying drm/imx: Introduce i.MX8qm/qxp DPU DRM Mar 29
Oleksij Rempel mainline ti tsc2046 adc driver Mar 29
Gustavo Pimentel misc: Add Add Synopsys DesignWare xData IP driver Mar 29
Quan Nguyen Add Aspeed SSIF BMC driver Mar 29
Zhiyong Tao Mediatek pinctrl patch on mt8195 Mar 29
Matti Vaittinen Support ROHM BD71815 PMIC Mar 29
Benjamin Gaignard Add HANTRO G2/HEVC decoder support for IMX8MQ Mar 29
Henning Schild add device drivers for Siemens Industrial PCs Mar 29
Yicong Yang Add support for HiSilicon I2C controller Mar 30
Martina Krasteva Camera Sensor Drivers Mar 30
Daniel Mack gpu: drm: add driver for ili9361 panel Mar 29
Pratyush Yadav CSI2RX support on J721E Mar 30
cristian.birsan@microchip.com usb: typec: Add driver for Microchip sama7g5 tcpc Mar 30
Liu Ying Add some DRM bridge drivers support for i.MX8qm/qxp SoCs Mar 31
Greentime Hu Add SiFive FU740 PCIe host controller driver support Mar 31
Hsin-Hsiung Wang Add Support for MediaTek PMIC MT6359 Mar 31
Shiraz Saleem Add Intel Ethernet Protocol Driver for RDMA (irdma) Mar 30
Dmitry Baryshkov phy: qcom-qmp: provide DP phy support for sm8250 Mar 31

Device-driver infrastructure

Xie Yongji Introduce VDUSE - vDPA Device in Userspace Mar 31
Loic Poulain net: Add a WWAN subsystem Mar 31

Documentation

Thorsten Leemhuis Improve reporting-issues.rst and make it official Mar 30

Filesystems and block layer

brookxu bfq: introduce bfq.ioprio for cgroup Mar 25
Qu Wenruo btrfs: support read-write for subpage metadata Mar 25
Miklos Szeredi new kAPI for FS_IOC_[GS]ETFLAGS/FS_IOC_FS[GS]ETXATTR Mar 25
Allison Henderson xfs: Delay Ready Attributes Mar 25
Jeff Layton ceph+fscrypt: context, filename and symlink support Mar 26
Konstantin Komarov NTFS read-write driver GPL implementation by Paragon Software Mar 28
Gao Xiang erofs: introduce on-disk compression configurations Mar 29
Gao Xiang erofs: add big pcluster compression support Mar 30
Dan Schatzberg Charge loop device i/o to issuing cgroup Mar 29
Ming Lei block: support bio based io polling Mar 29

Memory management

Roman Gushchin percpu: partial chunk depopulation Mar 24
Mel Gorman Introduce a bulk order-0 page allocator with two in-tree users Mar 25
Joao Martins mm, sparse-vmemmap: Introduce compound pagemaps Mar 25
Yang Shi mm: thp: use generic THP migration for NUMA hinting fault Mar 29
Anthony Yznaga PKRAM: Preserved-over-Kexec RAM Mar 30
Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Memory Folios Mar 31

Networking

Jesper Dangaard Brouer page_pool using alloc_pages_bulk API Mar 24
Cong Wang sockmap: introduce BPF_SK_SKB_VERDICT and support UDP Mar 28
Andreas Roeseler add support for RFC 8335 PROBE Mar 29

Security-related

Mickaël Salaün Landlock LSM Mar 24
Kees Cook Optionally randomize kernel stack offset each syscall Mar 30

Virtualization and containers

Brijesh Singh Add AMD Secure Nested Paging (SEV-SNP) Guest Support Mar 24
Brijesh Singh Add AMD Secure Nested Paging (SEV-SNP) Hypervisor Support Mar 24
Marc Zyngier KVM: arm64: Add host/guest KVM-PTP support Mar 30

Miscellaneous

David Sterba Btrfs progs release 5.11.1 Mar 24
Christophe Leroy Implement GENERIC_CMDLINE Mar 26
Nick Terrell Update to zstd-1.4.10 Mar 26
Wolfram Sang add simple logic analyzer using polling Mar 30
Douglas Gilbert sg3_utils-1.46 available Mar 29

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