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Calls for Presentations

LPC 2021 Networking and BPF Track CFP (Reminder)

Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC) will be held online on September 20-24. The call for proposals closes August 13. "We are seeking proposals of 40 minutes in length (including Q&A discussion), optionally accompanied by papers of 2 to 10 pages in length."

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CFP Deadlines: July 8, 2021 to September 6, 2021

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

DeadlineEvent Dates EventLocation
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
August 31 October 7
October 8		 PyCon ZA 2021 Online
August 31 October 4 LinuxConf [ZA] Online, South Africa
August 31 October 5 PostgresConf South Africa Online, South Africa
August 31 November 9
November 10		 PackagingCon 2021 Online
September 3 October 2
October 3		 MiniDebConf Regensburg, Germany
September 5 January 14 LCA2022 Systems Administration Miniconf Online, UTC+11 (AEDT)

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Upcoming Events

Netdev 0x15: Registration opened

The Netdev 0x15 virtual conference will be held July 20-23. Registration is open and the schedule is available.

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Events: July 8, 2021 to September 6, 2021

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

Date(s)EventLocation
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 July 1, 2021 to July 7, 2021

Dist. ID Release Package Date
Arch Linux ASA-202107-2 electron11 2021-07-03
Arch Linux ASA-202107-1 electron12 2021-07-03
Arch Linux ASA-202107-3 istio 2021-07-03
Arch Linux ASA-202107-5 jenkins 2021-07-03
Arch Linux ASA-202107-9 libtpms 2021-07-03
Arch Linux ASA-202107-7 mediawiki 2021-07-03
Arch Linux ASA-202107-10 mruby 2021-07-03
Arch Linux ASA-202107-4 opera 2021-07-03
Arch Linux ASA-202107-8 puppet 2021-07-03
Arch Linux ASA-202107-11 python-django 2021-07-05
Arch Linux ASA-202107-6 python-fastapi 2021-07-03
Debian DLA-2702-1 LTS djvulibre 2021-07-04
Debian DLA-2700-1 LTS htmldoc 2021-07-01
Debian DLA-2699-1 LTS ipmitool 2021-06-30
Debian DSA-4936-1 stable libuv1 2021-07-05
Debian DLA-2704-1 LTS libxstream-java 2021-07-05
Debian DLA-2698-1 LTS node-bl 2021-06-30
Debian DLA-2701-1 LTS openexr 2021-07-03
Debian DSA-4935-1 stable php7.3 2021-07-05
Fedora FEDORA-2021-4ad7c70d71 F33 ansible 2021-07-02
Fedora FEDORA-2021-574ee4dd30 F34 ansible 2021-07-02
Fedora FEDORA-2021-891c1ab1ac F33 dovecot 2021-07-05
Fedora FEDORA-2021-208340a217 F34 dovecot 2021-07-05
Fedora FEDORA-2021-f29b4643c7 F33 glibc 2021-07-07
Fedora FEDORA-2021-31fdc84207 F34 libgcrypt 2021-07-01
Fedora FEDORA-2021-57e3c4261a F33 libtpms 2021-07-04
Fedora FEDORA-2021-465b5c3b67 F34 libtpms 2021-07-01
Fedora FEDORA-2021-a856024cca F33 nginx 2021-07-04
Fedora FEDORA-2021-031436cb0e F34 nginx 2021-07-04
Fedora FEDORA-2021-717516a2e9 F33 php-league-flysystem 2021-07-04
Fedora FEDORA-2021-b9187c535c F34 php-league-flysystem 2021-07-04
Fedora FEDORA-2021-58ea3e138d F33 rabbitmq-server 2021-07-06
Fedora FEDORA-2021-bf942f1fa3 F34 rabbitmq-server 2021-07-06
Fedora FEDORA-2021-e7c868ef83 F34 seamonkey 2021-07-02
Gentoo 202107-01 corosync 2021-07-03
Gentoo 202107-11 doas 2021-07-07
Gentoo 202107-09 firefox 2021-07-07
Gentoo 202107-02 freeimage 2021-07-03
Gentoo 202107-13 glib 2021-07-07
Gentoo 202107-07 glibc 2021-07-05
Gentoo 202107-06 google-chrome 2021-07-05
Gentoo 202107-04 graphviz 2021-07-03
Gentoo 202107-03 libqb 2021-07-03
Gentoo 202107-05 libxml2 2021-07-05
Gentoo 202107-08 postsrsd 2021-07-05
Gentoo 202107-12 schismtracker 2021-07-07
Gentoo 202107-10 tpm2-tss 2021-07-07
Mageia MGASA-2021-0310 7, 8 busybox 2021-07-04
Mageia MGASA-2021-0307 7, 8 dhcp 2021-07-01
Mageia MGASA-2021-0311 7, 8 file-roller 2021-07-04
Mageia MGASA-2021-0308 8 glibc 2021-07-01
Mageia MGASA-2021-0314 7 httpcomponents-client 2021-07-07
Mageia MGASA-2021-0313 7, 8 live 2021-07-04
Mageia MGASA-2021-0309 8 networkmanager 2021-07-04
Mageia MGASA-2021-0305 7, 8 p7zip 2021-07-01
Mageia MGASA-2021-0312 7 php 2021-07-04
Mageia MGASA-2021-0303 7 sqlite3 2021-07-01
Mageia MGASA-2021-0304 7 systemd 2021-07-01
Mageia MGASA-2021-0306 8 thunar 2021-07-01
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0945-1 15.2 arpwatch 2021-07-01
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:2242-1 15.3 clamav-database 2021-07-05
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0950-1 15.2 go1.15 2021-07-01
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:2214-1 15.3 go1.15 2021-06-30
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0947-1 15.2 kernel 2021-07-01
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0973-1 15.2 libqt5-qtwebengine 2021-07-06
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0962-1 15.2 lua53 2021-07-03
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0949-1 15.2 opera 2021-07-01
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0948-1 15.3 opera 2021-07-01
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0959-1 oSB-SLE15.2 roundcubemail 2021-07-03
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0974-1 oSB-SLE15.2 roundcubemail 2021-07-06
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0977-1 15.3 virtualbox 2021-07-06
Oracle ELSA-2021-2595 OL8 389-ds:1.4 2021-07-02
Oracle ELSA-2021-9346 OL6 kernel 2021-07-02
Oracle ELSA-2021-9346 OL7 kernel 2021-07-02
Oracle ELSA-2021-2570 OL8 kernel 2021-07-01
Oracle ELSA-2021-2569 OL8 libxml2 2021-07-02
Oracle ELSA-2021-2308 OL8 microcode_ctl 2021-07-01
Oracle ELSA-2021-2583 OL8 python38:3.8 and python38-devel:3.8 2021-07-02
Oracle ELSA-2021-2587 OL8 ruby:2.5 2021-07-02
Red Hat RHSA-2021:2634-01 EL7 go-toolset-1.15 and go-toolset-1.15-golang 2021-07-01
Red Hat RHSA-2021:2658-01 EL7 linuxptp 2021-07-06
Red Hat RHSA-2021:2660-01 EL8 linuxptp 2021-07-06
Red Hat RHSA-2021:2659-01 EL8.1 linuxptp 2021-07-06
Red Hat RHSA-2021:2657-01 EL8.2 linuxptp 2021-07-06
Scientific Linux SLSA-2021:2658-1 SL7 linuxptp 2021-07-07
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:2238-1 SLE15 crmsh 2021-07-02
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:2239-1 SLE15 crmsh 2021-07-02
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:14760-1 SLE11 curl 2021-06-30
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:2211-1 SLE15 dbus-1 2021-06-30
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:14761-1 SLE11 djvulibre 2021-07-02
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:2214-1 MP4.0 SLE15 SES6 go1.15 2021-06-30
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:2236-1 OS7 SLE12 python-py 2021-07-02
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:2237-1 OS7 SLE12 python-rsa 2021-07-02
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:2253-1 OS9 python-rsa 2021-07-06
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:2212-1 SLE15 qemu 2021-06-30
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:2213-1 SLE15 qemu 2021-06-30
Ubuntu USN-5005-1 16.04 18.04 djvulibre 2021-07-05
Ubuntu USN-5007-1 20.04 20.10 21.04 libuv1 2021-07-07
Ubuntu USN-5006-1 18.04 20.04 20.10 21.04 php7.2, php7.4 2021-07-07
Ubuntu USN-4905-2 14.04 xorg-server 2021-06-30
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Kernel patches of interest

Kernel releases

Sasha Levin Linux 5.13.1 Jul 07
Sasha Levin Linux 5.12.15 Jul 07
Sasha Levin Linux 5.10.48 Jul 07
Steven Rostedt 5.10.47-rt45 Jul 02
Sasha Levin Linux 5.4.130 Jul 07
Clark Williams 4.19.196-rt83 Jul 05

Architecture-specific

madvenka@linux.microsoft.com arm64: Implement stack trace reliability checks Jun 30
Huacai Chen arch: Add basic LoongArch support Jul 06
isaku.yamahata@intel.com KVM: X86: TDX support Jul 02
Joerg Roedel x86/sev: KEXEC/KDUMP support for SEV-ES guests Jul 05

Core kernel

Nicholas Piggin nohz: nohz idle balancing per node Jul 01
Alexei Starovoitov bpf: Introduce BPF timers. Jul 01
Lukasz Luba Introduce Active Stats framework with CPU performance statistics Jul 06
Dmitry Kadashev io_uring: add mkdir and [sym]linkat support Jul 06
Pavel Begunkov open/accept directly into io_uring fixed file table Jul 07
Nick Alcock kallsyms: new /proc/kallmodsyms with builtin modules and symbol sizes Jul 06

Device drivers

Drew Fustini gpio: starfive-jh7100: Add StarFive JH7100 GPIO bindings and driver Jun 30
Dmitry Osipenko Add OTG mode support to Tegra USB PHY, SMB347 and Nexus 7 Jul 01
AngeloGioacchino Del Regno Add support for Core Power Reduction v3, v4 and Hardened Jul 01
AngeloGioacchino Del Regno cpufreq-qcom-hw: Implement full OSM programming Jul 01
Alex Helms Renesas 8T49N241 device driver Jul 01
Viktor Prutyanov media: rc: add support for Amlogic Meson IR blaster Jul 02
Matt Roper Begin enabling Xe_HP SDV and DG2 platforms Jul 01
Emmanuel Gil Peyrot nvmem: nintendo-otp: Add new driver for the Wii and Wii U OTP Jul 02
Roger Lu soc: mediatek: SVS: introduce MTK SVS Jul 02
Shameer Kolothum vfio/hisilicon: add acc live migration driver Jul 02
Gayatri Kammela Add Alder Lake PCH-S support to PMC core driver Jul 01
Alex Helms Renesas 8T49N241 device driver Jul 01
Vadym Kochan Marvell Prestera add policer support Jul 02
Maxim Mikityanskiy Add support for common USB HID headset features Jul 04
Hsin-Hsiung Wang Add SPMI support for Mediatek SoC IC Jul 04
Alexandre Courbot media: mtk-vcodec: support for MT8183 decoder Jul 05
Martin Hundebøll fpga/mfd/hwmon: Initial support for Silicom N5010 PAC Jul 05
Pavo Banicevic Add support for the IEI WT61P803 PUZZLE MCU Jul 05
Jagan Teki drm: bridge: Samsung MIPI DSIM bridge Jul 04
Chun-Jie Chen Mediatek MT8192 clock support Jul 06
Jon Lin Add Rockchip SFC(serial flash controller) support Jul 07
jason-jh.lin Add MediaTek SoC DRM (vdosys0) support for mt8195 Jul 07

Device-driver infrastructure

William Breathitt Gray Introduce the Counter character device interface Jul 05
Daniel Vetter drm/scheduler dependency tracking Jul 02
Amey Narkhede Expose and manage PCI device reset Jul 05
David Stevens Add dynamic iommu backed bounce buffers Jul 07

Documentation

Mickaël Salaün Add Landlock man pages Jul 06

Filesystems and block layer

Boris Burkov btrfs: support fsverity Jun 30
Qu Wenruo btrfs: add data write support for subpage Jul 05

Memory management

Kaiyang Zhao Shared page tables during fork Jul 01

Networking

Cong Wang sockmap: add sockmap support for unix datagram socket Jul 04
Arseny Krasnov Improve SOCK_SEQPACKET receive logic Jul 04

Security-related

Mickaël Salaün Landlock filesystem caching Jul 01
Eric Snowberg Enroll kernel keys thru MOK Jul 06
Igor Zhbanov NAX (No Anonymous Execution) LSM Jul 07

Virtualization and containers

Jie Deng i2c: virtio: add a virtio i2c frontend driver Jul 01
Cristian Marussi Introduce SCMI transport based on VirtIO Jul 05
Tianyu Lan x86/Hyper-V: Add Hyper-V Isolation VM support Jul 07
Brijesh Singh Add AMD Secure Nested Paging (SEV-SNP) Guest Support Jul 07

Miscellaneous

Matteo Croce lib/string: optimized mem* functions Jul 02
Bas Nieuwenhuizen libdrm 2.4.107 Jul 02

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