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CFP Deadlines: May 6, 2021 to July 5, 2021

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

DeadlineEvent Dates EventLocation
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
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May 26 September 16
September 19		 EuroBSDCon 2021 online
June 10 July 19
July 23		 Netdev 0x15 Main Conference Online
June 13 September 27
September 29		 OSPOCon Seattle, WA, and online
June 13 September 27
September 30		 Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference Seattle, WA, and online
June 13 September 28
September 30		 Qt Developer Conference [POSTPONED] Berlin, Germany
June 14 September 13
September 14		 OpenMP Developer Conference Bristol, UK
June 20 August 22
August 29		 DebConf Online
June 20 October 11
October 12		 Open Networking & Edge Summit + Kubernetes on Edge Day Virtual
July 4 September 15
September 17		 X.Org Developers Conference 2021 Virtual

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May 4
May 6		 sambaXP 2021 Online
May 13
May 15		 Linux App Summit online
May 14
May 15		 PyCon US 2021 Online
May 25
May 26		 Yocto Project Virtual Summit 2021 Online
June 1
June 30		 Ceph Month June Virtual
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June 15
June 16		 stackconf online 2021 Online
June 18
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June 18
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June 25		 Build Meetup 2021 Virtual

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Security updates

Alert summary April 29, 2021 to May 5, 2021

Dist. ID Release Package Date
Arch Linux ASA-202104-10 bind 2021-04-29
Arch Linux ASA-202104-7 chromium 2021-04-29
Arch Linux ASA-202104-3 firefox 2021-04-29
Arch Linux ASA-202104-1 gitlab 2021-04-29
Arch Linux ASA-202104-8 libupnp 2021-04-29
Arch Linux ASA-202104-6 nimble 2021-04-29
Arch Linux ASA-202104-5 opera 2021-04-29
Arch Linux ASA-202104-4 thunderbird 2021-04-29
Arch Linux ASA-202104-9 virtualbox 2021-04-29
Arch Linux ASA-202104-2 vivaldi 2021-04-29
CentOS CESA-2018:3140 C7 GNOME 2021-04-29
CentOS CESA-2021:1469 C7 bind 2021-04-29
CentOS CESA-2021:1298 C7 java-1.8.0-openjdk 2021-04-29
CentOS CESA-2021:1297 C7 java-11-openjdk 2021-04-29
CentOS CESA-2020:4076 C7 nss and nspr 2021-04-29
CentOS CESA-2021:1354 C7 xstream 2021-04-29
CentOS CESA-2021:0617 C7 xterm 2021-04-30
Debian DLA-2647-1 LTS bind9 2021-05-04
Debian DSA-4909-1 stable bind9 2021-05-01
Debian DLA-2649-1 LTS cgal 2021-05-05
Debian DSA-4911-1 stable chromium 2021-05-03
Debian DSA-4907-1 stable composer 2021-04-29
Debian DLA-2645-1 LTS edk2 2021-04-29
Debian DLA-2650-1 LTS exim4 2021-05-05
Debian DSA-4912-1 stable exim4 2021-05-04
Debian DSA-4908-1 stable libhibernate3-java 2021-04-29
Debian DSA-4910-1 stable libimage-exiftool-perl 2021-05-02
Debian DLA-2648-1 LTS mediawiki 2021-05-05
Debian DLA-2646-1 LTS subversion 2021-05-04
Fedora FEDORA-2021-c1116fb75e F32 ansible 2021-05-03
Fedora FEDORA-2021-4a17f0225d F33 ansible 2021-05-03
Fedora FEDORA-2021-0414eb891b F34 ansible 2021-05-03
Fedora FEDORA-2021-90b4716992 F33 axel 2021-05-05
Fedora FEDORA-2021-5214bd8f14 F34 axel 2021-05-05
Fedora FEDORA-2021-3fb798ea36 F34 babel 2021-05-03
Fedora FEDORA-2021-168fbed46f F32 ceph 2021-04-29
Fedora FEDORA-2021-e65b9fb52e F33 ceph 2021-04-29
Fedora FEDORA-2021-10d7331a31 F34 exiv2 2021-05-04
Fedora FEDORA-2021-f71b592e07 F32 java-1.8.0-openjdk 2021-04-30
Fedora FEDORA-2021-8b80ef64f1 F33 java-1.8.0-openjdk 2021-04-29
Fedora FEDORA-2021-b88e86b753 F32 java-11-openjdk 2021-05-01
Fedora FEDORA-2021-ba275e4102 F34 java-latest-openjdk 2021-05-03
Fedora FEDORA-2021-444e38face F32 jetty 2021-04-29
Fedora FEDORA-2021-35f06984d7 F33 jetty 2021-04-29
Fedora FEDORA-2021-fd66b2bd53 F34 jetty 2021-04-30
Fedora FEDORA-2021-a963f04012 F34 kernel 2021-04-29
Fedora FEDORA-2021-a963f04012 F34 kernel-headers 2021-04-29
Fedora FEDORA-2021-a963f04012 F34 kernel-tools 2021-04-29
Fedora FEDORA-2021-6d5578e756 F32 libmicrohttpd 2021-05-05
Fedora FEDORA-2021-d4149ff7fb F33 libmicrohttpd 2021-05-05
Fedora FEDORA-2021-5e10ad8c19 F34 libmicrohttpd 2021-05-05
Fedora FEDORA-2021-cfdc434610 F33 libtpms 2021-05-05
Fedora FEDORA-2021-d6b9d8497b F32 openvpn 2021-04-29
Fedora FEDORA-2021-e3d8833d36 F32 perl-Image-ExifTool 2021-05-05
Fedora FEDORA-2021-88d24aa32b F33 perl-Image-ExifTool 2021-05-05
Fedora FEDORA-2021-de850ed71e F34 perl-Image-ExifTool 2021-05-05
Fedora FEDORA-2021-eb5d6cf9f6 F32 pngcheck 2021-05-05
Fedora FEDORA-2021-f925ef1e2a F33 pngcheck 2021-05-05
Fedora FEDORA-2021-3f001ba18b F34 pngcheck 2021-05-05
Fedora FEDORA-2021-f41d5fc954 F34 python-yara 2021-05-05
Fedora FEDORA-2021-7de0418ec8 F34 samba 2021-04-30
Fedora FEDORA-2021-f6c91e2b75 F33 shim-unsigned-x64 2021-04-29
Fedora FEDORA-2021-a3703b9dc8 F34 skopeo 2021-05-04
Fedora FEDORA-2021-f41d5fc954 F34 yara 2021-05-05
Gentoo 202104-08 chromium 2021-05-01
Gentoo 202104-07 clamav 2021-05-01
Gentoo 202105-01 exim 2021-05-04
Gentoo 202104-10 firefox 2021-05-01
Gentoo 202104-01 git 2021-05-01
Gentoo 202104-05 grub 2021-05-01
Gentoo 202104-04 python 2021-05-01
Gentoo 202104-09 thunderbird 2021-05-01
Gentoo 202104-06 tiff 2021-05-01
Gentoo 202104-03 webkit-gtk 2021-05-01
Gentoo 202104-02 xorg-server 2021-05-01
Mageia MGASA-2021-0199 7, 8 firefox 2021-04-29
Mageia MGASA-2021-0204 7, 8 kernel 2021-05-02
Mageia MGASA-2021-0205 7, 8 kernel-linus 2021-05-04
Mageia MGASA-2021-0203 7, 8 nvidia-current 2021-05-02
Mageia MGASA-2021-0202 7, 8 nvidia390 2021-05-02
Mageia MGASA-2021-0200 7 qtbase5 2021-04-30
Mageia MGASA-2021-0201 7 sdl2 2021-04-30
Mageia MGASA-2021-0198 7, 8 thunderbird 2021-04-29
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0629-1 15.2 Chromium 2021-05-01
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0668-1 15.2 bind 2021-05-04
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0639-1 15.2 cifs-utils 2021-05-01
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0638-1 15.2 cups 2021-05-01
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0650-1 15.2 giflib 2021-05-02
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0664-1 gsoap 2021-05-04
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0632-1 15.2 gsoap 2021-05-01
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0635-1 15.2 libnettle 2021-05-01
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0634-1 15.2 librsvg 2021-05-01
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0647-1 15.2 netdata 2021-05-01
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0628-1 nim 2021-04-29
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0669-1 postsrsd 2021-05-05
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0646-1 15.2 postsrsd 2021-05-01
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0636-1 15.2 samba 2021-05-01
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0644-1 15.2 thunderbird 2021-05-01
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0630-1 15.2 virtualbox 2021-05-01
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0637-1 15.2 webkit2gtk3 2021-05-01
Oracle ELSA-2021-9213 OL6 bind 2021-05-03
Oracle ELSA-2021-1469 OL7 bind 2021-04-29
Oracle ELSA-2021-1469 OL7 bind 2021-04-29
Oracle ELSA-2021-9212 OL6 kernel 2021-05-03
Oracle ELSA-2021-1384 OL7 nss 2021-04-28
Oracle ELSA-2021-1384 OL7 nss 2021-04-28
Oracle ELSA-2021-1389 OL7 openldap 2021-04-28
Oracle ELSA-2021-1389 OL7 openldap 2021-04-28
Oracle ELSA-2021-9203 OL7 runc 2021-04-29
Oracle ELSA-2021-9169 OL6 sudo 2021-05-03
Red Hat RHSA-2021:1468-01 EL6 bind 2021-04-29
Red Hat RHSA-2021:1469-01 EL7 bind 2021-04-29
Red Hat RHSA-2021:1476-01 EL7.2 bind 2021-05-03
Red Hat RHSA-2021:1475-01 EL7.3 bind 2021-05-03
Red Hat RHSA-2021:1479-01 EL7.4 bind 2021-05-03
Red Hat RHSA-2021:1478-01 EL7.6 bind 2021-05-03
Red Hat RHSA-2021:1477-01 EL7.7 bind 2021-05-03
Scientific Linux SLSA-2021:1469-1 SL7 bind 2021-04-30
Slackware SSA:2021-118-01 14+ bind 2021-04-28
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:1494-1 SLE12 avahi 2021-05-04
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:1493-1 SLE15 avahi 2021-05-04
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:1471-1 MP4.0 SLE15 SES6 bind 2021-05-04
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:1469-1 OS8 SLE12 bind 2021-05-04
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:1468-1 OS9 SLE12 bind 2021-05-04
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:14714-1 SLE11 bind 2021-05-04
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:1472-1 SES6 ceph, deepsea 2021-05-04
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:1473-1 MP4.0 SLE15 SES6 ceph 2021-05-04
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:1474-1 SLE15 SES7 ceph 2021-05-04
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:1455-1 SLE15 cifs-utils 2021-04-30
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:1458-1 SLE12 containerd, docker, runc 2021-04-30
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:1454-1 MP4.0 SLE15 SES6 cups 2021-04-30
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:1453-1 OS8 OS9 SLE12 cups 2021-04-30
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:14712-1 SLE11 cups 2021-04-30
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:1433-1 MP4.0 SLE15 SES6 firefox 2021-04-29
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:14708-1 SLE11 firefox 2021-04-28
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:1409-1 SLE15 giflib 2021-04-28
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:1435-1 OS8 OS9 SLE12 java-1_7_0-openjdk 2021-04-29
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:1440-1 SES7 ldb, samba 2021-04-29
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:1412-1 MP4.0 SLE15 SES6 libnettle 2021-04-28
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:1408-1 SLE15 librsvg 2021-04-28
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:1489-1 SLE15 openexr 2021-05-04
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:1491-1 SLE15 p7zip 2021-05-04
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:1429-1 OS9 SLE12 permissions 2021-04-29
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:1466-1 SLE15 permissions 2021-05-04
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:1500-1 SLE15 python-Pygments 2021-05-04
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:1490-1 SLE12 python36 2021-05-04
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:1498-1 MP4.0 SLE15 SES6 samba 2021-05-04
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:1492-1 OS8 OS9 SLE12 samba 2021-05-04
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:14709-1 SLE11 samba 2021-04-29
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:1442-1 SLE12 samba 2021-04-29
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:1438-1 SLE12 samba 2021-04-29
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:1439-1 SLE12 samba 2021-04-29
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:1444-1 SLE15 samba 2021-04-29
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:1445-1 SLE15 samba 2021-04-29
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:1497-1 MP4.0 SLE15 SES6 sca-patterns-sle11 2021-05-04
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:1465-1 MP4.0 SLE15 SES6 stunnel 2021-05-04
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:1432-1 SLE15 thunderbird 2021-04-29
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:1431-1 OS8 SLE12 tomcat 2021-04-29
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:1499-1 MP4.0 SLE15 SES6 webkit2gtk3 2021-05-04
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:1430-1 SLE15 webkit2gtk3 2021-04-29
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:1460-1 MP4.0 SLE15 SES6 xen 2021-04-30
Ubuntu USN-4929-1 16.04 18.04 20.04 20.10 21.04 bind9 2021-04-29
Ubuntu USN-4918-3 14.04 16.04 18.04 20.04 20.10 21.04 clamav 2021-05-04
Ubuntu USN-4934-1 18.04 20.04 20.10 21.04 exim4 2021-05-04
Ubuntu USN-4928-1 16.04 18.04 20.04 20.10 gst-plugins-good1.0 2021-04-28
Ubuntu USN-4935-1 18.04 20.04 20.10 21.04 nvidia-graphics-drivers-390, nvidia-graphics-drivers-418-server, nvidia-graphics-drivers-450, nvidia-graphics-drivers-450-server, nvidia-graphics-drivers-460, nvidia-graphics-drivers-460-server 2021-05-04
Ubuntu USN-4933-1 18.04 20.04 20.10 21.04 openvpn 2021-05-04
Ubuntu USN-4932-1 18.04 20.04 20.10 21.04 python-django 2021-05-04
Ubuntu USN-4931-1 14.04 samba 2021-05-03
Ubuntu USN-4930-1 16.04 18.04 20.04 20.10 21.04 samba 2021-04-29
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Kernel patches of interest

Kernel releases

Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.12.1 May 02
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.11.18 May 02
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.10.34 May 02
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.4.116 May 02
Tom Zanussi 5.4.115-rt57 May 03
Luis Claudio R. Goncalves 4.14.232-rt111 May 01
Luis Claudio R. Goncalves 4.14.227-rt110 Apr 30
Luis Claudio R. Goncalves 4.9.268-rt179 Apr 30
Luis Claudio R. Goncalves 4.9.264-rt178 Apr 30

Architecture-specific

Amanieu d'Antras arm64: Allow 64-bit tasks to invoke compat syscalls Apr 30
madvenka@linux.microsoft.com arm64: Stack trace reliability checks in the unwinder May 03
Nanyong Sun THP supprt for RISCV Apr 30
Ricardo Neri x86: Implement an HPET-based hardlockup detector May 04
Ricardo Neri x86: watchdog/hardlockup/hpet: Add support for interrupt remapping May 04

Build system

Masahiro Yamada Raise the minimum GCC version to 5.2 May 02

Core kernel

Christian Brauner cgroup: introduce cgroup.kill Apr 29

Device drivers

Sean Nyekjaer iio: accel: add support for FXLS8962AF/FXLS8964AF accelerometers Apr 29
DENG Qingfang MT7530 interrupt support Apr 29
Peng Fan (OSS) soc: imx: add i.MX BLK-CTL support Apr 29
Ping-Ke Shih rtw89: add Realtek 802.11ax driver Apr 29
Stanimir Varbanov HEIC image encoder Apr 29
Thara Gopinath Add support for AEAD algorithms in Qualcomm Crypto Engine driver Apr 29
Shai Malin NVMeTCP Offload ULP and QEDN Device Driver Apr 29
Bjorn Andersson Qualcomm Light Pulse Generator Apr 29
Robert Marko hwmon: (pmbus) Add driver for Delta DPS-920AB PSU Apr 30
Robert Marko mfd: Add Delta TN48M CPLD driver Apr 30
Sergey Senozhatsky media: uvcvideo: implement UVC 1.5 ROI May 01
Jozsef Horvath iio: adc: driver for texas instruments ads7142 May 01
Felix Kuehling CRIU support for ROCm Apr 30
Matthias Kaehlcke USB: misc: Add onboard_usb_hub driver May 03
Russ Weight FPGA Security Manager Class Driver May 03
Russ Weight Intel MAX10 BMC Secure Update Driver May 03
Souradeep Chowdhury Add driver support for Data Capture and Compare Engine(DCC) for SM8150 May 03
Benjamin Gaignard Add driver for rk356x May 04
Greentime Hu Add SiFive FU740 PCIe host controller driver support May 04
Sudeep Holla firmware: Add initial support for Arm FF-A May 05
Zack Rusin drm/vmwgfx: SVGA v3 and arm64 support May 04
chun-jie.chen Mediatek MT8192 clock support May 05
Sankeerth Billakanti Add support for next gen eDP driver on SnapDragon May 05
Chris Morgan ASoC: codecs: add rk817 support May 05

Device-driver infrastructure

Enzo Matsumiya leds: trigger: introduce block trigger Apr 30
Hans de Goede drm + usb-type-c: Add support for out-of-band hotplug notification (v2) May 03
Ulf Hansson Initital support for new power/perf features for SD cards May 04
Andrzej Pietrasiewicz vp9 v4l2 stateless uapi May 05

Memory management

Muchun Song Free some vmemmap pages of HugeTLB page Apr 30
Michel Lespinasse Speculative page faults (anon vmas only) Apr 30
Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Memory Folios Apr 30
Axel Rasmussen userfaultfd: add minor fault handling for shmem May 03

Networking

Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi Add TC-BPF API May 04

Security-related

Richard Guy Briggs audit: add support for openat2 Apr 30
Sargun Dhillon Handle seccomp notification preemption Apr 30
Rick Edgecombe PKS write protected page tables May 04
Josh Poimboeuf x86/uaccess: Use pointer masking to limit uaccess speculation May 04
Roberto Sassu evm: Improve usability of portable signatures May 05

Virtualization and containers

Brijesh Singh Add AMD Secure Nested Paging (SEV-SNP) Guest Support Apr 30

Miscellaneous

Nick Terrell Update to zstd-1.4.10 Apr 29

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