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CFP Deadlines: May 27, 2021 to July 26, 2021
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| July 23 | August 18 August 19 |
eBPF Summit | Virtual |
| July 24 | August 14 August 15 |
OpenFest 2021 | Sofia, Bulgaria |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
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| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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 25 |
Akademy 2021 | Online |
| June 18 June 20 |
openSUSE conference | 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 |
| July 19 July 23 |
Netdev 0x15 Main Conference | Online |
| July 21 July 25 |
GUADEC | Online |
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Security updates
Alert summary May 20, 2021 to May 26, 2021
| Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arch Linux | ASA-202105-3 | ceph | 2021-05-20 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-202105-7 | chromium | 2021-05-20 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-202105-18 | djvulibre | 2021-05-26 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-202105-21 | dotnet-runtime | 2021-05-26 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-202105-22 | dotnet-runtime-3.1 | 2021-05-26 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-202105-20 | dotnet-sdk | 2021-05-26 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-202105-23 | dotnet-sdk-3.1 | 2021-05-26 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-202105-5 | firefox | 2021-05-20 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-202105-4 | gitlab | 2021-05-20 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-202105-26 | gupnp | 2021-05-26 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-202105-9 | hedgedoc | 2021-05-20 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-202105-28 | hivex | 2021-05-26 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-202105-6 | keycloak | 2021-05-20 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-202105-12 | libx11 | 2021-05-20 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-202105-27 | lz4 | 2021-05-26 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-202105-14 | mariadb | 2021-05-20 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-202105-19 | matrix-synapse | 2021-05-26 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-202105-13 | opendmarc | 2021-05-20 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-202105-25 | prometheus | 2021-05-26 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-202105-11 | prosody | 2021-05-20 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-202105-15 | python-babel | 2021-05-20 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-202105-2 | python-flask-security-too | 2021-05-20 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-202105-24 | python-pydantic | 2021-05-26 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-202105-1 | redmine | 2021-05-20 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-202105-17 | runc | 2021-05-26 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-202105-10 | squid | 2021-05-20 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-202105-29 | thunderbird | 2021-05-26 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-202105-8 | vivaldi | 2021-05-20 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-202105-16 | websvn | 2021-05-26 | |
| Debian | DLA-2666-1 | LTS | libx11 | 2021-05-24 |
| Debian | DSA-4920-1 | stable | libx11 | 2021-05-24 |
| Debian | DSA-4919-1 | stable | lz4 | 2021-05-21 |
| Debian | DSA-4916-2 | stable | prosody | 2021-05-21 |
| Debian | DLA-2665-1 | LTS | ring | 2021-05-23 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-0e0fd08e44 | F34 | cacti | 2021-05-20 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-0e0fd08e44 | F34 | cacti-spine | 2021-05-20 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-6e540b85b9 | F32 | ceph | 2021-05-23 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-1bf13db941 | F33 | ceph | 2021-05-23 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-ec414c5e18 | F34 | ceph | 2021-05-21 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-8a098ecbcf | F33 | composer | 2021-05-26 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-ab7d0d3486 | F34 | composer | 2021-05-26 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-b2bd2b1d13 | F34 | exif | 2021-05-20 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-4f06d202d4 | F32 | firefox | 2021-05-20 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-2ba993d6c5 | F33 | glibc | 2021-05-22 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-8832eab899 | F32 | kernel | 2021-05-20 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-0722515c0a | F32 | kernel | 2021-05-23 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-4f852b79d1 | F33 | kernel | 2021-05-20 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-bae582b42c | F34 | kernel | 2021-05-20 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-e8b7e177a4 | F34 | libxml2 | 2021-05-24 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-179f2fbb88 | F32 | mariadb | 2021-05-20 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-1716261bc3 | F34 | moodle | 2021-05-26 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-9fde3d7ab1 | F33 | python-eventlet | 2021-05-25 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-d5915c247b | F34 | python-eventlet | 2021-05-25 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-3f378dda90 | F34 | python-pip | 2021-05-24 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-f8bb3ba3ec | F33 | python-pydantic | 2021-05-21 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-4d3de3183f | F34 | python-pydantic | 2021-05-21 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-f75a803ff3 | F33 | slurm | 2021-05-24 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-335cd3eab7 | F34 | slurm | 2021-05-24 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-38e1f87ac3 | F32 | thunderbird | 2021-05-20 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-fa78f3ca9f | F34 | tpm2-tss | 2021-05-24 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-935da812d7 | F33 | wordpress | 2021-05-26 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-5abe99c62b | F34 | wordpress | 2021-05-26 |
| Gentoo | 202105-34 | bash | 2021-05-26 | |
| Gentoo | 202105-04 | boost | 2021-05-26 | |
| Gentoo | 202105-09 | busybox | 2021-05-26 | |
| Gentoo | 202105-33 | containerd | 2021-05-26 | |
| Gentoo | 202105-36 | curl | 2021-05-26 | |
| Gentoo | 202105-20 | dnsmasq | 2021-05-26 | |
| Gentoo | 202105-24 | ffmpeg | 2021-05-26 | |
| Gentoo | 202105-19 | firejail | 2021-05-26 | |
| Gentoo | 202105-10 | gnome-autoar | 2021-05-26 | |
| Gentoo | 202105-03 | gptfdisk | 2021-05-26 | |
| Gentoo | 202105-08 | icu | 2021-05-26 | |
| Gentoo | 202105-18 | lcms | 2021-05-26 | |
| Gentoo | 202105-16 | libX11 | 2021-05-26 | |
| Gentoo | 202105-28 | mariadb | 2021-05-26 | |
| Gentoo | 202105-13 | mumble | 2021-05-26 | |
| Gentoo | 202105-30 | mupdf | 2021-05-26 | |
| Gentoo | 202105-05 | mutt | 2021-05-26 | |
| Gentoo | 202105-27 | mysql | 2021-05-26 | |
| Gentoo | 202105-31 | nettle | 2021-05-26 | |
| Gentoo | 202105-37 | nextcloud-client | 2021-05-26 | |
| Gentoo | 202105-12 | opensmtpd | 2021-05-26 | |
| Gentoo | 202105-35 | openssh | 2021-05-26 | |
| Gentoo | 202105-25 | openvpn | 2021-05-26 | |
| Gentoo | 202105-23 | php | 2021-05-26 | |
| Gentoo | 202105-32 | postgresql | 2021-05-26 | |
| Gentoo | 202105-15 | prosody | 2021-05-26 | |
| Gentoo | 202105-17 | rxvt-unicode | 2021-05-26 | |
| Gentoo | 202105-22 | samba | 2021-05-26 | |
| Gentoo | 202105-11 | screen | 2021-05-26 | |
| Gentoo | 202105-06 | smarty | 2021-05-26 | |
| Gentoo | 202105-26 | spamassassin | 2021-05-26 | |
| Gentoo | 202105-14 | squid | 2021-05-26 | |
| Gentoo | 202105-02 | stunnel | 2021-05-26 | |
| Gentoo | 202105-29 | tar | 2021-05-26 | |
| Gentoo | 202105-21 | tcpreplay | 2021-05-26 | |
| Gentoo | 202105-07 | telegram-desktop | 2021-05-26 | |
| Mageia | MGASA-2021-0220 | 7, 8 | bind | 2021-05-23 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2021-0214 | 7, 8 | kernel | 2021-05-19 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2021-0215 | 7, 8 | kernel-linus | 2021-05-19 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2021-0219 | 7, 8 | libx11 | 2021-05-23 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2021-0213 | 7, 8 | libxml2 | 2021-05-19 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2021-0218 | 7, 8 | mediawiki | 2021-05-23 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2021-0216 | 7, 8 | openjpeg2 | 2021-05-22 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2021-0221 | 7, 8 | postgresql | 2021-05-23 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2021-0217 | 7, 8 | thunderbird | 2021-05-22 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0794-1 | Botan | 2021-05-25 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0765-1 | 15.2 | Botan | 2021-05-22 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0787-1 | cacti, cacti-spine | 2021-05-24 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0755-1 | 15.2 | cacti, cacti-spine | 2021-05-21 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0755-1 | SPH SLE12 | cacti, cacti-spine | 2021-05-21 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0762-1 | 15.2 | chromium | 2021-05-22 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0759-1 | 15.2 | djvulibre | 2021-05-22 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0754-1 | oSB SLE15 | exim | 2021-05-20 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0753-1 | oSB SLE15 | exim | 2021-05-20 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0763-1 | 15.2 | fribidi | 2021-05-22 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0757-1 | 15.2 | graphviz | 2021-05-22 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0790-1 | 15.2 | grub2 | 2021-05-25 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0776-1 | 15.2 | java-1_8_0-openj9 | 2021-05-23 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0752-1 | oSB SLE15 | jhead | 2021-05-19 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0758-1 | 15.2 | kernel | 2021-05-22 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0773-1 | 15.2 | libass | 2021-05-23 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0764-1 | 15.2 | libxml2 | 2021-05-22 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0760-1 | 15.2 | lz4 | 2021-05-22 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0788-1 | 15.2 | mpv | 2021-05-24 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0772-1 | 15.2 | python-httplib2 | 2021-05-23 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2021-2032 | OL7 | slapi-nis | 2021-05-19 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2021-2032 | OL7 | slapi-nis | 2021-05-19 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2021-2033 | OL7 | xorg-x11-server | 2021-05-19 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2021-2033 | OL7 | xorg-x11-server | 2021-05-19 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:2106-01 | EL8.1 | kernel | 2021-05-25 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:2099-01 | EL8.1 | kpatch-patch | 2021-05-25 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:2104-01 | SCL | rh-ruby25-ruby | 2021-05-25 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2021:2032-1 | SL7 | slapi-nis | 2021-05-20 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2021:2033-1 | SL7 | xorg-x11-server | 2021-05-20 |
| Slackware | SSA:2021-143-01 | expat | 2021-05-23 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2021-145-01 | gnutls | 2021-05-25 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2021-139-01 | libX11 | 2021-05-19 | |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:1649-1 | MP4.0 SLE15 SES6 | djvulibre | 2021-05-19 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:1645-1 | OS8 OS9 SLE12 | djvulibre | 2021-05-19 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:14728-1 | SLE11 | djvulibre | 2021-05-19 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:1641-1 | SLE15 | djvulibre | 2021-05-19 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:1655-1 | SLE15 | fribidi | 2021-05-19 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:1651-1 | MP4.0 SLE15 SES6 | graphviz | 2021-05-19 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:1646-1 | OS8 OS9 SLE12 | graphviz | 2021-05-19 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:1636-1 | SLE15 | grub2 | 2021-05-19 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:1760-1 | SLE12 | hivex | 2021-05-26 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:1761-1 | SLE15 | hivex | 2021-05-26 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:1664-1 | SLE15 | libass | 2021-05-20 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:1755-1 | SLE15 | libu2f-host | 2021-05-25 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:1658-1 | OS8 OS9 SLE12 | libxml2 | 2021-05-19 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:14729-1 | SLE11 | libxml2 | 2021-05-19 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:1654-1 | SLE15 | libxml2 | 2021-05-19 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:1647-1 | MP4.0 SLE15 SES6 | lz4 | 2021-05-19 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:1637-1 | SLE15 | python-httplib2 | 2021-05-19 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:1652-1 | SLE15 | redis | 2021-05-19 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:1650-1 | OS7 | rubygem-actionpack-4_2 | 2021-05-19 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:1759-1 | SLE15 | rubygem-actionpack-5_1 | 2021-05-26 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:1648-1 | OS9 SLE12 | xen | 2021-05-19 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4965-2 | 14.04 16.04 | apport | 2021-05-25 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4965-1 | 18.04 20.04 20.10 21.04 | apport | 2021-05-25 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4964-1 | 16.04 18.04 20.04 20.10 21.04 | exiv2 | 2021-05-25 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4966-2 | 14.04 16.04 | libx11 | 2021-05-25 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4966-1 | 18.04 20.04 20.10 21.04 | libx11 | 2021-05-25 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4963-1 | 18.04 20.04 20.10 21.04 | pillow | 2021-05-19 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4962-1 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 20.04 20.10 21.04 | python-babel | 2021-05-19 |
Kernel patches of interest
Kernel releases
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Maxime Ripard
drm/vc4: hdmi: Enable Channel Mapping, IEC958, HBR Passthrough using hdmi-codec
May 25
Srinivas Pandruvada
thermal: int340x: processor_thermal: Add new PCI MMIO based thermal driver
May 25
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Joel Fernandes (Google)
Documentation: Add usecases, design and interface for core scheduling
May 26
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