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Calls for Presentations

CFP Deadlines: May 13, 2021 to July 12, 2021

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

DeadlineEvent Dates EventLocation
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
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
July 10 August 6
August 8		 openSUSE.Asia Virtual Summit 2021 Faridabad, India
July 11 November 9
November 10		 Open Source Strategy Forum New York New York, NY, USA
July 11 October 4
October 5		 Open Source Strategy Forum London London, UK
July 11 September 29
October 1		 Linux Security Summit Seattle, WA, and online

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Upcoming Events

Events: May 13, 2021 to July 12, 2021

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

Date(s)EventLocation
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
June 3 Live Embedded Event Online
June 15
June 16		 stackconf online 2021 Online
June 18
June 20		 openSUSE conference online
June 18
June 25		 Akademy 2021 Online
June 22
June 23		 Postgres Vision 2020 online
June 23 Linaro and Arm CCA Tech Event Online
June 24
June 25		 Build Meetup 2021 Virtual
July 9
July 11		 State of the Map Online

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Security updates

Alert summary May 6, 2021 to May 12, 2021

Dist. ID Release Package Date
Debian DLA-2654-1 LTS composer 2021-05-12
Debian DLA-2656-1 LTS hivex 2021-05-12
Debian DSA-4913-1 stable hivex 2021-05-10
Debian DLA-2653-1 LTS libxml2 2021-05-10
Debian DLA-2657-1 LTS lz4 2021-05-12
Debian DLA-2648-2 LTS mediawiki 2021-05-07
Debian DLA-2651-1 LTS python-django 2021-05-06
Debian DLA-2655-1 LTS rails 2021-05-12
Debian DLA-2652-1 LTS unbound1.9 2021-05-06
Fedora FEDORA-2021-cb871c9e6c F34 autotrace 2021-05-10
Fedora FEDORA-2021-7e2a143808 F32 babel 2021-05-09
Fedora FEDORA-2021-a499f89369 F33 babel 2021-05-09
Fedora FEDORA-2021-ff893e12c5 F32 chromium 2021-05-12
Fedora FEDORA-2021-c3754414e7 F34 chromium 2021-05-12
Fedora FEDORA-2021-01189f6361 F34 community-mysql 2021-05-12
Fedora FEDORA-2021-fcb25df974 F32 djvulibre 2021-05-12
Fedora FEDORA-2021-d4c1c98a58 F33 djvulibre 2021-05-11
Fedora FEDORA-2021-d781fa9f44 F34 djvulibre 2021-05-07
Fedora FEDORA-2021-f28c870528 F34 dom4j 2021-05-12
Fedora FEDORA-2021-0d26f8a9f3 F34 firefox 2021-05-12
Fedora FEDORA-2021-3bf9ba59ef F32 java-latest-openjdk 2021-05-06
Fedora FEDORA-2021-b9093bc6c6 F33 java-latest-openjdk 2021-05-06
Fedora FEDORA-2021-bbc2f07ed3 F32 kernel 2021-05-08
Fedora FEDORA-2021-4c5bfbfea9 F33 kernel 2021-05-08
Fedora FEDORA-2021-de12dbcbc8 F34 kernel 2021-05-08
Fedora FEDORA-2021-57540ff4ad F32 libopenmpt 2021-05-09
Fedora FEDORA-2021-89b7823e8c F33 libopenmpt 2021-05-09
Fedora FEDORA-2021-9d4ea81052 F34 libopenmpt 2021-05-06
Fedora FEDORA-2021-e3ed1ba38b F34 libxml2 2021-05-10
Fedora FEDORA-2021-6af32bfcd2 F33 mingw-OpenEXR 2021-05-10
Fedora FEDORA-2021-96a5dabcfa F33 mingw-exiv2 2021-05-10
Fedora FEDORA-2021-2d860da728 F34 mingw-exiv2 2021-05-10
Fedora FEDORA-2021-c194de7719 F34 mingw-openexr 2021-05-10
Fedora FEDORA-2021-3f9e87aaa4 F32 php 2021-05-12
Fedora FEDORA-2021-eab9e0e415 F34 php 2021-05-12
Fedora FEDORA-2021-b21bbfa198 F34 php-phpmailer6 2021-05-12
Fedora FEDORA-2021-01044b8a59 F34 python-django 2021-05-12
Fedora FEDORA-2021-0337384e41 F32 python-markdown2 2021-05-10
Fedora FEDORA-2021-77191478ad F33 python-markdown2 2021-05-10
Fedora FEDORA-2021-e235a0da4a F34 python-markdown2 2021-05-10
Fedora FEDORA-2021-dd62918333 F33 python-yara 2021-05-06
Fedora FEDORA-2021-3b267a756c F34 redis 2021-05-12
Fedora FEDORA-2021-7026246ea9 F32 samba 2021-05-08
Fedora FEDORA-2021-1d0807008b F33 samba 2021-05-07
Fedora FEDORA-2021-c56a213327 F33 skopeo 2021-05-06
Fedora FEDORA-2021-8f13872334 F33 thunderbird 2021-05-11
Fedora FEDORA-2021-8ef98a68b9 F34 thunderbird 2021-05-06
Fedora FEDORA-2021-dd62918333 F33 yara 2021-05-06
Mageia MGASA-2021-0207 8 ceph 2021-05-07
Mageia MGASA-2021-0211 7, 8 mariadb 2021-05-12
Mageia MGASA-2021-0208 7, 8 messagelib 2021-05-07
Mageia MGASA-2021-0209 7 nagios 2021-05-12
Mageia MGASA-2021-0206 7 pagure 2021-05-07
Mageia MGASA-2021-0210 7, 8 pngcheck 2021-05-12
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0695-1 alpine 2021-05-10
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0675-1 15.2 alpine 2021-05-06
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0694-1 15.2 avahi 2021-05-10
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0672-1 15.2 ceph 2021-05-06
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0677-1 15.2 exim 2021-05-07
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0692-1 15.2 libxml2 2021-05-09
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0706-1 15.2 monitoring-plugins-smart 2021-05-11
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0670-1 15.2 openexr 2021-05-05
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0712-1 15.2 opera 2021-05-11
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0684-1 15.2 p7zip 2021-05-08
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0707-1 15.2 perl-Image-ExifTool 2021-05-11
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0682-1 15.2 redis 2021-05-08
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0713-1 syncthing 2021-05-12
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0688-1 15.2 syncthing 2021-05-08
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0714-1 vlc 2021-05-12
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0691-1 15.2 vlc 2021-05-09
Oracle ELSA-2021-9215 OL6 kernel 2021-05-06
Oracle ELSA-2021-9222 OL7 kernel 2021-05-10
Oracle ELSA-2021-9222 OL7 kernel 2021-05-10
Oracle ELSA-2021-9215 OL7 kernel 2021-05-06
Oracle ELSA-2021-9220 OL7 kernel 2021-05-10
Oracle ELSA-2021-9220 OL8 kernel 2021-05-10
Oracle ELSA-2021-9220 OL8 kernel 2021-05-10
Oracle ELSA-2021-9221 OL7 kernel-container 2021-05-10
Oracle ELSA-2021-1512 OL7 postgresql 2021-05-06
Oracle ELSA-2021-1512 OL7 postgresql 2021-05-06
Red Hat RHSA-2021:1531-01 EL7.7 kernel 2021-05-11
Red Hat RHSA-2021:1532-01 EL7.7 kpatch-patch 2021-05-11
Red Hat RHSA-2021:1512-01 EL7 postgresql 2021-05-06
Scientific Linux SLSA-2021:1512-1 SL7 postgresql 2021-05-06
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:1559-1 SLE15 drbd-utils 2021-05-11
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:1560-1 SLE15 drbd-utils 2021-05-11
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:1561-1 SLE15 drbd-utils 2021-05-11
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:1554-1 MP4.0 SLE15 SES6 java-11-openjdk 2021-05-11
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:14724-1 SLE11 kernel 2021-05-12
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:1572-1 SLE12 kernel 2021-05-12
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:1571-1 SLE15 kernel 2021-05-12
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:1573-1 SLE15 kernel 2021-05-12
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:1574-1 SLE15 kernel 2021-05-12
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:1524-1 SLE12 libxml2 2021-05-05
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:1523-1 SLE15 libxml2 2021-05-05
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:1576-1 SLE12 openvpn 2021-05-12
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:1577-1 SLE15 openvpn 2021-05-12
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:14723-1 SLE11 openvpn-openssl1 2021-05-12
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:1557-1 SLE15 python3 2021-05-11
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:1564-1 MP4.0 SLE15 SES6 shim 2021-05-11
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:1580-1 SLE12 xen 2021-05-12
Ubuntu USN-4934-2 14.04 16.04 exim4 2021-05-06
Ubuntu USN-4941-1 16.04 18.04 20.04 20.10 21.04 exiv2 2021-05-10
Ubuntu USN-4942-1 18.04 20.04 20.10 21.04 firefox 2021-05-10
Ubuntu USN-4951-1 18.04 20.04 20.10 flatpak 2021-05-11
Ubuntu USN-4937-1 18.04 20.04 20.10 gnome-autoar 2021-05-06
Ubuntu USN-4943-1 18.04 20.04 20.10 21.04 libxstream-java 2021-05-11
Ubuntu USN-4945-1 18.04 20.04 linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.4, linux-azure, linux-azure-5.4, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.4, linux-gke, linux-gke-5.4, linux-gkeop, linux-gkeop-5.4, linux-hwe-5.4, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-5.4 2021-05-11
Ubuntu USN-4949-1 20.04 20.10 linux, linux-aws, linux-azure, linux-gcp, linux-hwe-5.8, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-raspi 2021-05-11
Ubuntu USN-4950-1 21.04 linux, linux-aws, linux-azure, linux-gcp, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-raspi 2021-05-11
Ubuntu USN-4946-1 14.04 16.04 18.04 linux, linux-aws, lnux-aws-hwe, linux-azure, inux-azure-4.15, linux-dell300x, linux-gcp, linux-hwe, linux-gcp-4.15, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-raspi2, linux-snapdragon 2021-05-11
Ubuntu USN-4948-1 20.04 linux-oem-5.10 2021-05-11
Ubuntu USN-4947-1 20.04 linux-oem-5.6 2021-05-11
Ubuntu USN-4944-1 18.04 20.04 20.10 21.04 mariadb-10.1, mariadb-10.3, mariadb-10.5 2021-05-11
Ubuntu USN-4940-1 20.04 20.10 pyyaml 2021-05-10
Ubuntu USN-4936-1 20.04 20.10 thunderbird 2021-05-06
Ubuntu USN-4938-1 18.04 20.04 unbound 2021-05-06
Ubuntu USN-4939-1 18.04 20.04 20.10 webkit2gtk 2021-05-10
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Kernel patches of interest

Kernel releases

Linus Torvalds Linux 5.13-rc1 May 09
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.12.3 May 12
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.12.2 May 07
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.11.20 May 12
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.11.19 May 07
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.10.36 May 11
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.10.35 May 07
Steven Rostedt 5.10.35-rt39 May 12
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.4.118 May 11
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.4.117 May 07
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 4.19.190 May 07

Architecture-specific

Mark Rutland locking/atomic: convert all architectures to ARCH_ATOMIC May 10
Marc Zyngier KVM: arm64: Initial host support for the Apple M1 May 10
Christopher M. Riedl Use per-CPU temporary mappings for patching May 05
Peter Zijlstra jump_label: Yet another attempt at variable sized jump_labels May 06

Build system

Stephen Boyd Add build ID to stacktraces May 10

Core kernel

Alexei Starovoitov bpf: syscall program, FD array, loader program, light skeleton. May 05
Giuseppe Scrivano new mode 'shadow' for /proc/PID/setgroups May 10
Christian Brauner cgroup: introduce cgroup.kill May 08
Beata Michalska Rework CPU capacity asymmetry detection May 10
Denis Salopek Add lookup_and_delete_elem support to BPF hash map types May 11

Device drivers

Bhupesh Sharma Enable Qualcomm Crypto Engine on sm8250 May 06
Sankeerth Billakanti Add support for next gen eDP driver on sc7280 May 06
Sean Young IR driver for USB-UIRT device May 06
WANG Xuerui rtc: ls2x: Add support for the Loongson-2K/LS7A RTC May 06
Sean Nyekjaer iio: accel: add support for FXLS8962AF/FXLS8964AF accelerometers May 06
Benjamin Gaignard Add IOMMU driver for rk356x May 07
Keqian Zhu iommu/smmuv3: Implement hardware dirty log tracking May 07
Peng Fan (OSS) mailbox: imx: add i.MX8ULP MU support May 07
Aswath Govindraju CAN TRANSCEIVER: Add support for CAN transceivers May 10
Jianqun Xu gpio-rockchip driver May 10
Billy Tsai Support pwm driver for aspeed ast26xx May 10
Srinivas Kandagatla ASoC: codecs: wcd934x: add Headset and button detection support May 10
Radu Pirea (NXP OSS) Add PTP support for TJA1103 May 10
Guru Das Srinagesh Add Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. PM8008 MFD driver May 10
Bjorn Andersson drm/msm/dpu: Qualcomm SC8180x MDSS/DPU support May 10
Stephan Gerhold iio: accel: kxcjk-1013: Add support for KX023-1025 May 11
Sander Vanheule RTL8231 GPIO expander support May 11
Vadim Pasternak Add support for MPS Multi-phase mp2888 controller May 11
Jonathan Marek CAMSS: SM8250 support (and some fixes) May 11
Emmanuel Gil Peyrot HID: wiiu-drc: Add a driver for the Wii U gamepad May 11
Matthias Kaehlcke USB: misc: Add onboard_usb_hub driver May 11
Lizhi Hou XRT Alveo driver overview May 11
Guy Zadicario misc: nnpi: New PCIe driver for Intel's NNP-I pcie device May 12
daire.mcnamara@microchip.com i2c: microchip: Add driver for PolarFire SoC May 12
Kashyap Desai Introducing mpi3mr driver May 12

Device-driver infrastructure

Hans de Goede drm + usb-type-c: Add support for out-of-band hotplug notification (v3) May 05
Tomi Valkeinen v4l2: multistream support via stream based configuration May 07
Claire Chang Restricted DMA May 10
Matti Vaittinen Extend regulator notification support May 10
Matteo Croce page_pool: recycle buffers May 11
Dongdong Liu PCI: Enable 10-Bit tag support for PCIe devices May 12

Filesystems and block layer

Changbin Du 9p: add support for root file systems May 08
Ian Kent kernfs: proposed locking and concurrency improvement May 12
Jan Kara fs: Hole punch vs page cache filling races May 12
Christoph Hellwig switch block layer polling to a bio based model v3 May 12

Memory management

Muchun Song Free some vmemmap pages of HugeTLB page May 10
Liam Howlett mm: Add vma_lookup() May 10
Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Memory folios May 11
Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Folio migration May 11
Muchun Song Optimize list lru memory consumption May 11

Networking

Arseny Krasnov virtio/vsock: introduce SOCK_SEQPACKET support May 08
Kuniyuki Iwashima Socket migration for SO_REUSEPORT. May 10
Cong Wang sockmap: add sockmap support for unix datagram socket May 08
Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi Add TC-BPF API May 12
dlinkin@nvidia.com devlink: rate objects API May 12

Security-related

YiFei Zhu eBPF seccomp filters May 10
Johannes Berg mac80211/driver security fixes May 11

Virtualization and containers

Shameer Kolothum kvm/arm: New VMID allocator based on asid(2nd approach) May 06
Gavin Shan Support SDEI Virtualization May 07
Gavin Shan Support Asynchronous Page Fault May 07
Like Xu KVM: x86/pmu: Guest Architectural LBR Enabling May 10
Like Xu KVM: x86/pmu: Add *basic* support to enable guest PEBS via DS May 11
Marc Zyngier KVM: arm64: ARMv8.3/8.4 Nested Virtualization support May 10
Ilias Stamatis KVM: Implement nested TSC scaling May 12
Ben Gardon Lazily allocate memslot rmaps May 11
Michael Kelley Enable Linux guests on Hyper-V on ARM64 May 12

Miscellaneous

Douglas Gilbert lsscsi release 0.32 May 06
Rob Herring dtschema 2021.5 release May 06
David Sterba Btrfs progs release 5.12 May 10

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