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CFP Deadlines: June 24, 2021 to August 23, 2021
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| July 27 | August 5 August 8 |
Nest with Fedora | Online |
| August 13 | September 20 September 24 |
Linux Plumbers Conference | Online |
| August 19 | November 5 November 6 |
Seattle GNU/Linux conference | Online |
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Events: June 24, 2021 to August 23, 2021
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| June 1 June 30 |
Ceph Month June | Virtual |
| June 18 June 25 |
Akademy 2021 | 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 |
| July 28 July 30 |
EuroPython 2021 | Online |
| August 5 August 8 |
Nest with Fedora | Online |
| August 6 August 8 |
openSUSE.Asia Virtual Summit 2021 | Faridabad, India |
| August 7 | Raku Conference | Online |
| August 14 August 15 |
OpenFest 2021 | Sofia, Bulgaria |
| August 18 August 19 |
eBPF Summit | Virtual |
| August 22 August 29 |
DebConf | Online |
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Security updates
Alert summary June 17, 2021 to June 23, 2021
| Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arch Linux | ASA-202106-37 | aspnet-runtime | 2021-06-17 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-202106-38 | aspnet-runtime-3.1 | 2021-06-17 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-202106-31 | chromium | 2021-06-17 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-202106-44 | connman | 2021-06-18 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-202106-35 | drupal | 2021-06-17 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-202106-42 | go | 2021-06-18 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-202106-43 | grub | 2021-06-18 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-202106-34 | intel-ucode | 2021-06-17 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-202106-36 | nginx | 2021-06-17 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-202106-33 | opera | 2021-06-17 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-202106-41 | python-django | 2021-06-17 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-202106-40 | radare2 | 2021-06-17 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-202106-39 | thefuck | 2021-06-17 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-202106-32 | vivaldi | 2021-06-17 | |
| CentOS | CESA-2018:3140 | C7 | gnupnp | 2021-06-16 |
| CentOS | CESA-2021:1512 | C7 | postgresql | 2021-06-16 |
| Debian | DLA-2688-1 | LTS | jetty9 | 2021-06-17 |
| Debian | DLA-2689-1 | LTS | kernel | 2021-06-23 |
| Debian | DLA-2690-1 | LTS | linux-4.19 | 2021-06-23 |
| Debian | DSA-4933-1 | stable | nettle | 2021-06-18 |
| Debian | DLA-2687-2 | LTS | prosody | 2021-06-19 |
| Debian | DSA-4932-1 | stable | tor | 2021-06-18 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-1a043ee3d2 | F34 | audacity | 2021-06-22 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-d5d263ec35 | F34 | dino | 2021-06-16 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-99ca984f32 | F33 | dogtag-pki | 2021-06-18 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-54a73a7112 | F34 | dogtag-pki | 2021-06-18 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-ca59eb65a9 | F33 | iaito | 2021-06-21 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-834f900f53 | F34 | iaito | 2021-06-21 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-598dbab9a9 | F33 | microcode_ctl | 2021-06-17 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-3d770d7179 | F33 | mingw-ilmbase | 2021-06-20 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-25fe4291c9 | F34 | mingw-openexr | 2021-06-20 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-b14975e43d | F34 | mingw-python-urllib3 | 2021-06-19 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-2ab613b45b | F33 | mosquitto | 2021-06-19 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-1382b4c7f5 | F34 | mosquitto | 2021-06-19 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-d1fc0b9d32 | F34 | nettle | 2021-06-19 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-99ca984f32 | F33 | pki-core | 2021-06-18 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-54a73a7112 | F34 | pki-core | 2021-06-18 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-3f8d6016c9 | F33 | polkit | 2021-06-19 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-ca59eb65a9 | F33 | radare2 | 2021-06-21 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-834f900f53 | F34 | radare2 | 2021-06-21 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-ff4ad9825a | F33 | tor | 2021-06-23 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-1b60c984e5 | F34 | tor | 2021-06-23 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-993693c914 | F33 | xen | 2021-06-17 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-41d4347447 | F34 | xen | 2021-06-16 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2021-0265 | 7, 8 | apache | 2021-06-16 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2021-0263 | 7, 8 | gsoap | 2021-06-16 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2021-0264 | 8 | libgd | 2021-06-16 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2021-0261 | 8 | openssh | 2021-06-16 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2021-0259 | 7, 8 | perl-Image-ExifTool | 2021-06-16 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2021-0269 | 8 | puddletag | 2021-06-18 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2021-0267 | 7, 8 | python-babel | 2021-06-18 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2021-0260 | 7, 8 | python-bleach | 2021-06-16 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2021-0266 | 7, 8 | python-eventlet | 2021-06-18 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2021-0268 | 8 | python-pikepdf | 2021-06-18 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2021-0262 | 7, 8 | qt4 and qtsvg5 | 2021-06-16 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0881-1 | 15.2 | chromium | 2021-06-16 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0898-1 | 15.2 | chromium | 2021-06-21 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0878-1 | 15.2 | containerd, docker, runc | 2021-06-16 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0877-1 | 15.2 | djvulibre | 2021-06-16 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0882-1 | 15.2 | htmldoc | 2021-06-16 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0893-1 | oSB SLE15 | htmldoc | 2021-06-18 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0895-1 | oSB SLE15.1 | htmldoc | 2021-06-18 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0873-1 | 15.2 | kernel | 2021-06-16 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0892-1 | 15.2 | libjpeg-turbo | 2021-06-16 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0885-1 | 15.2 | libopenmpt | 2021-06-16 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0886-1 | 15.2 | libxml2 | 2021-06-16 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0894-1 | 15.2 | postgresql10 | 2021-06-18 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0874-1 | 15.2 | spice | 2021-06-16 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0879-1 | 15.2 | squid | 2021-06-16 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:0876-1 | 15.2 | ucode-intel | 2021-06-16 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2021-9314 | OL6 | dhcp | 2021-06-17 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2021-9318 | OL6 | glib2 | 2021-06-22 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2021-9290 | OL7 | rh-postgresql10-postgresql | 2021-06-22 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:2469-01 | EL7.6 | dhcp | 2021-06-17 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:2467-01 | EL6 | glib2 | 2021-06-17 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:2523-01 | EL7.7 | kernel | 2021-06-22 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:14757-1 | SLE11 | OpenEXR | 2021-06-22 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:2102-1 | SLE12 | Salt | 2021-06-22 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:2104-1 | SLE15 | Salt | 2021-06-22 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:2121-1 | OS8 | ansible | 2021-06-22 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:2004-1 | MP4.0 SLE15 SES6 | apache2 | 2021-06-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:2006-1 | OS8 OS9 SLE12 | apache2 | 2021-06-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:14749-1 | SLE11 | apache2 | 2021-06-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:2127-1 | SLE15 | apache2 | 2021-06-22 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:2007-1 | MP4.0 SLE15 SES6 | caribou | 2021-06-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:2124-1 | MP4.0 SLE15 SES6 | dovecot23 | 2021-06-22 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:2123-1 | SLE15 | dovecot23 | 2021-06-22 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:2082-1 | SLE15 | go1.15 | 2021-06-18 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:2085-1 | SLE15 | go1.16 | 2021-06-18 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:2080-1 | SLE12 | gupnp | 2021-06-18 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:14750-1 | SLE11 | inn | 2021-06-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:1989-1 | MP4.0 SLE15 SES6 | java-1_8_0-openjdk | 2021-06-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:2005-1 | SLE15 | jetty-minimal | 2021-06-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:14751-1 | SLE11 | libgcrypt | 2021-06-18 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:2016-1 | SLE12 | libxml2 | 2021-06-18 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:2119-1 | OS8 SLE12 | ovmf | 2021-06-22 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:2117-1 | SLE12 | ovmf | 2021-06-22 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:2118-1 | SLE15 | ovmf | 2021-06-22 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:1994-1 | SLE15 | postgresql12 | 2021-06-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:2010-1 | OS7 SLE12 | python-PyJWT | 2021-06-18 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:2008-1 | MP4.0 SLE15 SES6 | python-rsa | 2021-06-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:2012-1 | SLE15 | python-urllib3 | 2021-06-18 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:2105-1 | MP4.0 SLE15 SES6 | salt | 2021-06-22 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:2106-1 | SLE15 | salt | 2021-06-22 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:2003-1 | SLE15 | thunderbird | 2021-06-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:1999-1 | SLE15 | tpm2.0-tools | 2021-06-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:1998-1 | SLE15 | tpm2.0-tools | 2021-06-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:1990-1 | OS8 OS9 SLE12 | webkit2gtk3 | 2021-06-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:2125-1 | MP4.0 SLE15 SES6 | wireshark | 2021-06-22 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:1995-1 | SLE15 | xstream | 2021-06-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:2013-1 | MP4.0 SLE15 SES6 | xterm | 2021-06-18 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:2014-1 | OS8 OS9 SLE12 | xterm | 2021-06-18 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:2011-1 | SLE15 | xterm | 2021-06-18 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4994-2 | 14.04 16.04 | apache2 | 2021-06-21 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4994-1 | 18.04 20.04 20.10 21.04 | apache2 | 2021-06-21 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4993-1 | 20.04 20.10 21.04 | dovecot | 2021-06-21 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4992-1 | 18.04 20.04 20.10 | grub2-signed, grub2-unsigned | 2021-06-17 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4991-1 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 20.04 20.10 21.04 | libxml2 | 2021-06-17 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5000-1 | 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-oracle, linux-oracle-5.4, linux-raspi, linux-raspi-5.4 | 2021-06-22 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4999-1 | 20.04 20.10 | linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.8, linux-azure, linux-azure-5.8, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.8, linux-hwe-5.8, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-5.8, linux-raspi | 2021-06-22 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5003-1 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 | linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-hwe, linux-azure, linux-azure-4.15, linux-dell300x, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-4.15, linux-hwe, linux-oracle, linux-raspi2, linux-snapdragon | 2021-06-22 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4997-1 | 21.04 | linux, linux-aws, linux-azure, linux-gcp, linux-oracle, linux-raspi | 2021-06-22 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5002-1 | 18.04 | linux-hwe, linux-gke-5.3, linux-raspi2-5.3 | 2021-06-22 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5001-1 | 20.04 | linux-oem-5.10 | 2021-06-22 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4990-1 | 18.04 20.04 20.10 21.04 | nettle | 2021-06-17 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4996-2 | 16.04 | openexr | 2021-06-22 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4996-1 | 18.04 | openexr | 2021-06-22 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4995-1 | 20.04 20.10 21.04 | thunderbird | 2021-06-22 |
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