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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.

DeadlineEvent Dates EventLocation
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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May 25
May 26		 Yocto Project Virtual Summit 2021 Online
June 1
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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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Kernel patches of interest

Kernel releases

Linus Torvalds Linux 5.13-rc2 May 16
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.12.5 May 19
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.12.4 May 14
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.11.22 May 19
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.11.21 May 14
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.10.38 May 19
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.10.37 May 14
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.4.120 May 19
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.4.119 May 14

Architecture-specific

Will Deacon Add support for 32-bit tasks on asymmetric AArch32 systems May 18
Rob Herring arm64 userspace counter support May 17
Amanieu d'Antras arm64: Allow 64-bit tasks to invoke compat syscalls May 18
Anup Patel RISC-V CPU Idle Support May 17
Anup Patel KVM RISC-V Support May 19
guoren@kernel.org riscv: Add DMA_COHERENT support May 19
Chang S. Bae x86: Support Intel Key Locker May 14
H. Peter Anvin x86/syscall: use int for x86-64 system calls May 18
Chang S. Bae Improve Minimum Alternate Stack Size May 18
James Morse x86/resctrl: Merge the CDP resources May 19

Core kernel

Dmitry Kadashev io_uring: add mkdirat support May 13
Pavel Begunkov io_uring BPF requests May 19
Alexei Starovoitov bpf: syscall program, FD array, loader program, light skeleton. May 12
Alex Kogan Add NUMA-awareness to qspinlock May 14
Mathieu Desnoyers LTTng-modules 2.11.9 and 2.12.6 (Linux kernel tracer) May 14
Chris Down printk: Userspace format indexing support May 18

Development tools

Daniel Bristot de Oliveira hwlat improvements and osnoise/timerlat tracers May 14
Daniel Bristot de Oliveira The Runtime Verification (RV) interface May 19

Device drivers

Jonathan Marek drm/msm/a6xx: add support for Adreno 660 GPU May 12
Guy Zadicario misc: nnpi: New PCIe driver for Intel's NNP-I pcie device May 13
Maciej Kwapulinski Driver of Intel(R) Gaussian & Neural Accelerator May 13
Kashyap Desai Introducing mpi3mr driver May 13
Dan Williams CXL Port Enumeration and Plans for v5.14 May 13
Srinivas Kandagatla ASoC: codecs: add wcd938x support May 14
Peter Geis net: phy: add driver for Motorcomm yt8511 phy May 14
Thomas Bogendoerfer gpio: Add support for IDT 79RC3243x GPIO controller May 14
Jozsef Horvath iio: adc: driver for texas instruments ads7142 May 13
Billy Tsai Support pwm driver for aspeed ast26xx May 14
Shiraz Saleem Add Intel Ethernet Protocol Driver for RDMA (irdma) May 14
Jonathan Marek clk: qcom: Add camera clock controller driver for SM8250 May 13
Lad Prabhakar Add new Renesas RZ/G2L SoC and Renesas RZ/G2L SMARC EVK support May 14
Russ Weight FPGA Security Manager Class Driver May 14
Mauro Carvalho Chehab Add an experimental driver for Intel NUC leds May 16
Kishon Vijay Abraham I Add SR-IOV support in PCIe Endpoint Core May 17
Oleksij Rempel add pressure calculation support for resistive-adc-touch driver May 17
Laurent Pinchart media: imx: imx7-mipi-csis: Add i.MX8MM support May 16
Chris Morgan ASoC: codecs: add rk817 support May 14
cy_huang mfd: rt4831: Adds support for Richtek RT4831 May 17
Sander Vanheule RTL8231 GPIO expander support May 17
Roger Lu soc: mediatek: SVS: introduce MTK SVS May 18
Dafna Hirschfeld Add support for ANX7688 May 18
Quan Nguyen Add Aspeed SSIF BMC driver May 19
Emmanuel Gil Peyrot HID: wiiu-drc: Add a driver for the Wii U gamepad May 19
Shai Malin NVMeTCP Offload ULP and QEDN Device Driver May 19
Corentin Labbe crypto: add gemini/sl3516 crypto driver May 18
Venkata Lakshmi Narayana Gubba Enable Bluetooth functionality for WCN6750 May 18
Qi Liu drivers/perf: hisi: Add support for PCIe PMU May 19
Emmanuel Gil Peyrot nvmem: nintendo-otp: Add new driver for the Wii and Wii U OTP May 19
Alexandre Courbot media: mtk-vcodec: support for MT8183 decoder May 19
Deepak Rawat drm/hyperv: Add DRM driver for hyperv synthetic video device May 19
Erik Rosen hwmon: (pmbus/pim4328) Add pim4328 PMBus driver May 19

Device-driver infrastructure

Matteo Croce page_pool: recycle buffers May 13
Logan Gunthorpe Add new DMA mapping operation for P2PDMA May 13
Xie Yongji Introduce VDUSE - vDPA Device in Userspace May 17
Matti Vaittinen Extend regulator notification support May 18
Matti Vaittinen Add devm helper for work-queue initialization May 18
Claire Chang Restricted DMA May 18
Rob Clark dma-fence: Add a "boost" mechanism May 19

Filesystems and block layer

John Garry blk-mq: Request queue-wide tags for shared sbitmap May 13
Allison Henderson xfs: Delay Ready Attributes May 12
Sargun Dhillon Atomic addfd send and reply May 17
Omar Sandoval fs: interface for directly reading/writing compressed data May 17
Guoqing Jiang md: io stats accounting May 18
Damien Le Moal dm: Improve zoned block device support May 19
Shiyang Ruan fsdax,xfs: Add reflink&dedupe support for fsdax May 19

Memory management

Mike Rapoport mm: introduce memfd_secret system call to create "secret" memory areas May 13
Yang Shi mm: thp: use generic THP migration for NUMA hinting fault May 18

Networking

Dmitrii Banshchikov bpfilter May 18
Ido Schimmel Add support for custom multipath hash May 17

Security-related

Dov Murik Allow access to confidential computing secret area May 13
Roberto Sassu evm: Improve usability of portable signatures May 14
Casey Schaufler LSM: Module stacking for AppArmor May 13
Kuniyuki Iwashima Socket migration for SO_REUSEPORT. May 17
Richard Guy Briggs audit: add support for openat2 May 19

Virtualization and containers

Juergen Gross xen: harden frontends against malicious backends May 13
Maciej S. Szmigiero KVM: Scalable memslots implementation May 16

Miscellaneous

David Sterba Btrfs progs release 5.12.1 May 13
Dave Airlie libdrm 2.4.106 May 18
Yordan Karadzhov KernelShark 2.0 May 18

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