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CFP Deadlines: May 20, 2021 to July 19, 2021
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| July 13 | September 8 September 10 |
Linaro Virtual Connect | Online |
| July 15 | August 7 | Raku Conference | Online |
| July 15 | September 16 | Practical Open Source Information | Online |
| July 18 | October 6 | OSPOCon Europe | London, UK |
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| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| July 13 July 14 |
Netdev 0x15 Workshops & Tutorials | Online |
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Security updates
Alert summary May 13, 2021 to May 19, 2021
| Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | DSA-4917-1 | stable | chromium | 2021-05-17 |
| Debian | DLA-2664-1 | LTS | curl | 2021-05-17 |
| Debian | DLA-2659-1 | LTS | graphviz | 2021-05-13 |
| Debian | DSA-4914-1 | stable | graphviz | 2021-05-12 |
| Debian | DLA-2661-1 | LTS | jetty9 | 2021-05-14 |
| Debian | DLA-2660-1 | LTS | libgetdata | 2021-05-13 |
| Debian | DLA-2663-1 | LTS | libimage-exiftool-perl | 2021-05-16 |
| Debian | DSA-4915-1 | stable | postgresql-11 | 2021-05-13 |
| Debian | DLA-2662-1 | LTS | postgresql-9.6 | 2021-05-15 |
| Debian | DSA-4916-1 | stable | prosody | 2021-05-17 |
| Debian | DLA-2658-1 | LTS | redmine | 2021-05-13 |
| Debian | DSA-4918-1 | stable | ruby-rack-cors | 2021-05-18 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-598b6d2924 | F32 | cacti | 2021-05-19 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-6dfba2aabf | F33 | cacti | 2021-05-19 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-598b6d2924 | F32 | cacti-spine | 2021-05-19 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-6dfba2aabf | F33 | cacti-spine | 2021-05-19 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-35d2bb4627 | F33 | chromium | 2021-05-14 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-8015a8cdc4 | F33 | dom4j | 2021-05-12 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-c06b64b5ee | F32 | dotnet3.1 | 2021-05-18 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-f25eb9e302 | F33 | dotnet3.1 | 2021-05-18 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-13e3bd248f | F34 | dotnet3.1 | 2021-05-18 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-a3c205f5b2 | F32 | dotnet5.0 | 2021-05-18 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-d551431950 | F33 | dotnet5.0 | 2021-05-18 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-721731dc86 | F34 | dotnet5.0 | 2021-05-18 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-477809f45f | F32 | exif | 2021-05-19 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-04f7b000fa | F33 | exif | 2021-05-19 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-be94728b95 | F33 | exiv2 | 2021-05-14 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-beac175abc | F33 | firefox | 2021-05-14 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-da76643229 | F33 | hivex | 2021-05-19 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-b71cc4df92 | F34 | hivex | 2021-05-19 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-9c0276e935 | F32 | kernel | 2021-05-13 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-7c085ca697 | F33 | kernel | 2021-05-13 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-05152dbcf5 | F33 | kernel | 2021-05-16 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-5ad5249c43 | F34 | kernel | 2021-05-13 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-286375de1e | F34 | kernel | 2021-05-16 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-9c0276e935 | F32 | kernel-headers | 2021-05-13 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-7c085ca697 | F33 | kernel-headers | 2021-05-13 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-05152dbcf5 | F33 | kernel-headers | 2021-05-16 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-5ad5249c43 | F34 | kernel-headers | 2021-05-13 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-286375de1e | F34 | kernel-headers | 2021-05-16 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-9c0276e935 | F32 | kernel-tools | 2021-05-13 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-7c085ca697 | F33 | kernel-tools | 2021-05-13 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-05152dbcf5 | F33 | kernel-tools | 2021-05-16 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-5ad5249c43 | F34 | kernel-tools | 2021-05-13 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-286375de1e | F34 | kernel-tools | 2021-05-16 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-68db93b130 | F33 | mariadb | 2021-05-13 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-27187ac9dd | F34 | mariadb | 2021-05-14 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-6f34b7c382 | F33 | php | 2021-05-12 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-ecf4fed550 | F33 | php-phpmailer6 | 2021-05-12 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-888ccfd5b6 | F33 | python-impacket | 2021-05-16 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-52dfb60726 | F34 | python-impacket | 2021-05-16 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-8b19c99d6a | F33 | redis | 2021-05-12 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2021-0212 | 7, 8 | avahi | 2021-05-16 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0742-1 | 15.2 | chromium | 2021-05-16 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0724-1 | 15.2 | drbd-utils | 2021-05-14 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0746-1 | 15.2 | dtc | 2021-05-16 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0750-1 | 15.2 | ibsim | 2021-05-17 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0745-1 | 15.2 | ipvsadm | 2021-05-16 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0719-1 | 15.2 | java-11-openjdk | 2021-05-14 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0743-1 | 15.2 | jhead | 2021-05-16 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0716-1 | 15.2 | kernel | 2021-05-12 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0735-1 | nagios | 2021-05-16 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0715-1 | 15.2 | nagios | 2021-05-12 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0730-1 | 15.2 | netdata | 2021-05-15 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0734-1 | 15.2 | openvpn | 2021-05-15 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0729-1 | 15.2 | opera | 2021-05-15 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0751-1 | prosody | 2021-05-18 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0728-1 | 15.2 | prosody | 2021-05-15 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0723-1 | 15.2 | virtualbox | 2021-05-14 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:1586-01 | EL8 | GNOME | 2021-05-18 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:1574-01 | EL8 | NetworkManager and libnma | 2021-05-18 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:1679-01 | EL8 | bash | 2021-05-18 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:1989-01 | EL8 | bind | 2021-05-18 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:2028-01 | EL8.1 | bind | 2021-05-19 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:2024-01 | EL8.2 | bind | 2021-05-19 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:1598-01 | EL8 | bluez | 2021-05-18 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:1702-01 | EL8 | brotli | 2021-05-18 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:1796-01 | EL8 | container-tools:rhel8 | 2021-05-18 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:1582-01 | EL8 | cpio | 2021-05-18 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:1610-01 | EL8 | curl | 2021-05-18 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:2037-01 | EL8 | dotnet3.1 | 2021-05-19 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:2036-01 | EL8 | dotnet5.0 | 2021-05-19 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:1887-01 | EL8 | dovecot | 2021-05-18 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:1752-01 | EL8 | evolution | 2021-05-18 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:1758-01 | EL8 | exiv2 | 2021-05-18 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:1849-01 | EL8 | freerdp | 2021-05-18 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:1852-01 | EL8 | ghostscript | 2021-05-18 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:1585-01 | EL8 | glibc | 2021-05-18 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:1746-01 | EL8 | go-toolset:rhel8 | 2021-05-18 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:1859-01 | EL8 | grafana | 2021-05-18 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:1789-01 | EL8 | gssdp and gupnp | 2021-05-18 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:1809-01 | EL8 | httpd:2.4 | 2021-05-18 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:1846-01 | EL8 | idm:DL1 and idm:client | 2021-05-18 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:1983-01 | EL8 | idm:DL1 | 2021-05-18 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:2027-01 | EL8.1 | ipa | 2021-05-19 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:2026-01 | EL8.2 | ipa | 2021-05-19 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:1578-01 | EL8 | kernel | 2021-05-18 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:1739-01 | EL8 | kernel-rt | 2021-05-18 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:1593-01 | EL8 | krb5 | 2021-05-18 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:1675-01 | EL8 | libdb | 2021-05-18 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:1811-01 | EL8 | libvncserver | 2021-05-18 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:1597-01 | EL8 | libxml2 | 2021-05-18 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:1620-01 | EL8 | linux-firmware | 2021-05-18 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:1751-01 | EL8 | mailman:2.1 | 2021-05-18 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:1968-01 | EL8 | mingw packages | 2021-05-18 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:1600-01 | EL8 | opensc | 2021-05-18 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:1609-01 | EL8 | p11-kit | 2021-05-18 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:1972-01 | EL8 | pandoc | 2021-05-18 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:1678-01 | EL8 | perl | 2021-05-18 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:1775-01 | EL8 | pki-core:10.6 and pki-deps:10.6 | 2021-05-18 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:1881-01 | EL8 | poppler and evince | 2021-05-18 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:1608-01 | EL8 | python-cryptography | 2021-05-18 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:1898-01 | EL8 | python-lxml | 2021-05-18 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:1631-01 | EL8 | python-urllib3 | 2021-05-18 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:1761-01 | EL8 | python27:2.7 | 2021-05-18 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:1633-01 | EL8 | python3 | 2021-05-18 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:1879-01 | EL8 | python38:3.8 | 2021-05-18 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:1756-01 | EL8 | qt5-qtbase | 2021-05-18 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:1842-01 | EL8 | raptor2 | 2021-05-18 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:2034-01 | EL8 | redis:6 | 2021-05-19 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:2040-01 | SCL | rh-mariadb103-mariadb and rh-mariadb103-galera | 2021-05-19 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:1935-01 | EL8 | rust-toolset:rhel8 | 2021-05-18 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:1647-01 | EL8 | samba | 2021-05-18 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:1744-01 | EL8 | sane-backends | 2021-05-18 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:1734-01 | EL8 | shim | 2021-05-18 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:2032-01 | EL7 | slapi-nis | 2021-05-19 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:1924-01 | EL8 | spice | 2021-05-18 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:1791-01 | EL8 | spice-vdagent | 2021-05-18 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:1581-01 | EL8 | sqlite | 2021-05-18 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:1979-01 | EL8 | squid:4 | 2021-05-18 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:2025-01 | EL8.1 EL8.2 | squid:4 | 2021-05-19 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:1723-01 | EL8 | sudo | 2021-05-18 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:1611-01 | EL8 | systemd | 2021-05-18 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:1783-01 | EL8 | tigervnc | 2021-05-18 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:1627-01 | EL8 | trousers | 2021-05-18 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:1853-01 | EL8 | unbound | 2021-05-18 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:1804-01 | EL8 | userspace graphics, xorg-x11, and mesa | 2021-05-18 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:1762-01 | EL8 | virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel | 2021-05-18 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:1686-01 | EL8 | wpa_supplicant | 2021-05-18 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:2033-01 | EL7 | xorg-x11-server | 2021-05-19 |
| Slackware | SSA:2021-135-01 | libxml2 | 2021-05-15 | |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:1598-1 | SLE15 | dtc | 2021-05-13 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:1606-1 | SLE15 | ibsim | 2021-05-14 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:1597-1 | SLE15 | ibutils | 2021-05-13 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:1599-1 | SLE15 | ipvsadm | 2021-05-13 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:1625-1 | kernel | 2021-05-18 | |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:1624-1 | MP4.0 SLE15 SES6 | kernel | 2021-05-18 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:1623-1 | OS8 SLE12 | kernel | 2021-05-18 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:1596-1 | OS9 SLE12 | kernel | 2021-05-13 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:1605-1 | SLE12 | kernel | 2021-05-14 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:1595-1 | SLE12 | kernel | 2021-05-13 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:1617-1 | SLE12 | kernel | 2021-05-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:1622-1 | SLE15 | kernel | 2021-05-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:1613-1 | SLE12 | lz4 | 2021-05-14 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:1621-1 | OS8 OS9 SLE12 | python3 | 2021-05-17 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4953-1 | 16.04 18.04 20.04 20.10 | awstats | 2021-05-13 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4958-1 | 20.04 20.10 | caribou | 2021-05-17 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4957-2 | 16.04 | djvulibre | 2021-05-18 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4957-1 | 18.04 20.04 20.10 21.04 | djvulibre | 2021-05-17 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4954-1 | 16.04 | glibc | 2021-05-13 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4959-1 | 16.04 18.04 20.04 20.10 | gst-plugins-base1.0 | 2021-05-18 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4628-3 | 18.04 20.04 20.10 21.04 | intel-microcode | 2021-05-17 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4945-2 | 18.04 20.04 | linux-raspi, linux-raspi-5.4 | 2021-05-18 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4952-1 | 18.04 20.04 20.10 21.04 | mysql-5.7, mysql-8.0 | 2021-05-12 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4932-2 | 14.04 16.04 | python-django | 2021-05-13 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4956-1 | 20.04 20.10 21.04 | python-eventlet | 2021-05-17 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4961-1 | 20.04 | python-pip | 2021-05-19 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4960-1 | 18.04 20.04 20.10 21.04 | runc | 2021-05-19 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4955-1 | 21.04 | rust-pleaser | 2021-05-17 |
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