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Calls for Presentations

CFP Deadlines: July 29, 2021 to September 27, 2021

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

DeadlineEvent Dates EventLocation
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)
September 7 December 2
December 3		 PGConf NYC New York, USA
September 7 September 8
September 9		 DevBreak Paris, France
September 12 January 14
January 16		 linux.conf.au 2022 Online

If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.

Upcoming Events

Events: July 29, 2021 to September 27, 2021

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

Date(s)EventLocation
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
September 8
September 9		 DevBreak Paris, France
September 8
September 10		 Linaro Virtual Connect Online
September 13
September 14		 OpenMP Developer Conference Bristol, UK
September 15
September 17		 International Workshop on OpenMP Bristol, UK
September 15
September 17		 X.Org Developers Conference 2021 Virtual
September 16 Practical Open Source Information Online
September 16
September 19		 EuroBSDCon 2021 online
September 17
September 20		 PyCon India 2021 Online
September 20
September 24		 Linux Plumbers Conference Online
September 20
September 24		 GNU Radio Conference 2021 Charlotte, NC, USA
September 22
September 23		 Open Mainframe Summit Online, UTC-4
September 22
September 24		 CyberCon Brno, Czech Republic
September 25
September 26		 Ubucon Asia 2021 Online

If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.

Security updates

Alert summary July 22, 2021 to July 28, 2021

Dist. ID Release Package Date
Arch Linux ASA-202107-47 chromium 2021-07-22
Arch Linux ASA-202107-59 curl 2021-07-22
Arch Linux ASA-202107-56 impacket 2021-07-22
Arch Linux ASA-202107-53 jdk11-openjdk 2021-07-22
Arch Linux ASA-202107-66 jre-openjdk 2021-07-22
Arch Linux ASA-202107-65 jre-openjdk-headless 2021-07-22
Arch Linux ASA-202107-54 jre11-openjdk-headless 2021-07-22
Arch Linux ASA-202107-48 kernel 2021-07-22
Arch Linux ASA-202107-60 lib32-curl 2021-07-22
Arch Linux ASA-202107-62 lib32-libcurl-compat 2021-07-22
Arch Linux ASA-202107-64 lib32-libcurl-gnutls 2021-07-22
Arch Linux ASA-202107-61 libcurl-compat 2021-07-22
Arch Linux ASA-202107-63 libcurl-gnutls 2021-07-22
Arch Linux ASA-202107-55 libpano13 2021-07-22
Arch Linux ASA-202107-50 linux-hardened 2021-07-22
Arch Linux ASA-202107-51 linux-lts 2021-07-22
Arch Linux ASA-202107-49 linux-zen 2021-07-22
Arch Linux ASA-202107-58 nvidia-utils 2021-07-22
Arch Linux ASA-202107-46 opera 2021-07-22
Arch Linux ASA-202107-57 systemd 2021-07-22
Arch Linux ASA-202107-52 virtualbox 2021-07-22
CentOS CESA-2021:2784 C7 java-11-openjdk 2021-07-22
CentOS CESA-2021:2725 C7 kernel 2021-07-22
Debian DLA-2720-1 LTS aspell 2021-07-25
Debian DLA-2721-1 LTS drupal7 2021-07-26
Debian DLA-2718-1 LTS intel-microcode 2021-07-26
Debian DSA-4944-1 stable krb5 2021-07-25
Debian DSA-4943-1 stable lemonldap-ng 2021-07-23
Debian DLA-2716-1 LTS pillow 2021-07-22
Debian DLA-2710-2 LTS rabbitmq-server 2021-07-25
Debian DLA-2717-1 LTS redis 2021-07-22
Debian DLA-2719-1 LTS ruby-actionpack-page-caching 2021-07-23
Fedora FEDORA-2021-30c84b4924 F33 chromium 2021-07-26
Fedora FEDORA-2021-0c53d8738d F33 containernetworking-plugins 2021-07-24
Fedora FEDORA-2021-0c53d8738d F33 containers-common 2021-07-24
Fedora FEDORA-2021-0c53d8738d F33 crun 2021-07-24
Fedora FEDORA-2021-83fdddca0f F34 curl 2021-07-23
Fedora FEDORA-2021-8523af7a88 F34 fossil 2021-07-26
Fedora FEDORA-2021-25c0011e78 F34 golang 2021-07-28
Fedora FEDORA-2021-4786624190 F33 kernel-headers 2021-07-22
Fedora FEDORA-2021-07dc0b3eb1 F34 kernel-headers 2021-07-22
Fedora FEDORA-2021-4786624190 F33 kernel-tools 2021-07-22
Fedora FEDORA-2021-07dc0b3eb1 F34 kernel-tools 2021-07-22
Fedora FEDORA-2021-4786624190 F33 kernelshark 2021-07-22
Fedora FEDORA-2021-4786624190 F33 libbpf 2021-07-22
Fedora FEDORA-2021-4786624190 F33 libtraceevent 2021-07-22
Fedora FEDORA-2021-4786624190 F33 libtracefs 2021-07-22
Fedora FEDORA-2021-4ead17c8f6 F33 linux-firmware 2021-07-27
Fedora FEDORA-2021-6f327296fe F33 nextcloud 2021-07-22
Fedora FEDORA-2021-9b421b78af F34 nextcloud 2021-07-22
Fedora FEDORA-2021-0c53d8738d F33 podman 2021-07-24
Fedora FEDORA-2021-723a480816 F34 podman 2021-07-23
Fedora FEDORA-2021-0c53d8738d F33 skopeo 2021-07-24
Fedora FEDORA-2021-4786624190 F33 trace-cmd 2021-07-22
Fedora FEDORA-2021-cf7585f0ca F34 varnish-modules 2021-07-25
Fedora FEDORA-2021-cf7585f0ca F34 vmod-uuid 2021-07-25
Gentoo 202107-49 chromium 2021-07-21
Gentoo 202107-51 icedtea-web 2021-07-22
Gentoo 202107-53 leptonica 2021-07-23
Gentoo 202107-55 libsdl2 2021-07-23
Gentoo 202107-54 libyang 2021-07-23
Gentoo 202107-50 singularity 2021-07-21
Gentoo 202107-52 velocity 2021-07-22
Mageia MGASA-2021-0384 8 curl 2021-07-27
Mageia MGASA-2021-0380 8 filezilla 2021-07-27
Mageia MGASA-2021-0369 8 golang 2021-07-25
Mageia MGASA-2021-0381 8 jdom/jdom2 2021-07-27
Mageia MGASA-2021-0366 8 kernel 2021-07-22
Mageia MGASA-2021-0367 8 kernel-linus 2021-07-22
Mageia MGASA-2021-0368 8 lib3mf 2021-07-25
Mageia MGASA-2021-0374 8 netty 2021-07-27
Mageia MGASA-2021-0372 8 nodejs 2021-07-25
Mageia MGASA-2021-0378 8 pdfbox 2021-07-27
Mageia MGASA-2021-0383 8 perl-Mojolicious 2021-07-27
Mageia MGASA-2021-0376 8 perl-Net-CIDR-Lite 2021-07-27
Mageia MGASA-2021-0375 8 perl-Net-Netmask 2021-07-27
Mageia MGASA-2021-0371 8 python-pip 2021-07-25
Mageia MGASA-2021-0377 8 python-urllib3 2021-07-27
Mageia MGASA-2021-0386 8 python3 2021-07-27
Mageia MGASA-2021-0382 8 quassel 2021-07-27
Mageia MGASA-2021-0373 8 redis 2021-07-25
Mageia MGASA-2021-0365 8 systemd 2021-07-22
Mageia MGASA-2021-0379 8 transfig 2021-07-27
Mageia MGASA-2021-0385 8 virtualbox 2021-07-27
Mageia MGASA-2021-0370 8 xstream 2021-07-25
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:2459-1 15.3 bluez 2021-07-22
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:1071-1 15.2 caribou 2021-07-21
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:1073-1 15.2 chromium 2021-07-22
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:1074-1 SLE15.3 chromium 2021-07-22
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:1081-1 15.2 containerd 2021-07-24
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:1087-1 15.2 crmsh 2021-07-24
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:1088-1 15.2 curl 2021-07-24
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:2439-1 15.3 curl 2021-07-21
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:1079-1 15.2 go1.15 2021-07-23
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:1078-1 15.2 go1.16 2021-07-22
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:1089-1 15.2 icinga2 2021-07-25
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:1076-1 15.2 kernel 2021-07-22
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:2442-1 15.3 qemu 2021-07-21
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:2474-1 15.3 qemu 2021-07-27
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:1082-1 15.2 systemd 2021-07-24
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:2458-1 15.3 thunderbird 2021-07-22
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:2454-1 15.3 transfig 2021-07-22
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:1863-1 15.3 umoci 2021-07-27
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:2457-1 15.3 wireshark 2021-07-22
Oracle ELSA-2021-9373 OL7 containerd 2021-07-23
Oracle ELSA-2021-2845 OL7 java-1.8.0-openjdk 2021-07-21
Oracle ELSA-2021-2845 OL7 java-1.8.0-openjdk 2021-07-21
Oracle ELSA-2021-2776 OL8 java-1.8.0-openjdk 2021-07-22
Oracle ELSA-2021-2784 OL7 java-11-openjdk 2021-07-21
Oracle ELSA-2021-2784 OL7 java-11-openjdk 2021-07-21
Oracle ELSA-2021-2781 OL8 java-11-openjdk 2021-07-22
Oracle ELSA-2021-9369 OL6 kernel 2021-07-22
Oracle ELSA-2021-9374 OL6 kernel 2021-07-26
Oracle ELSA-2021-2725 OL7 kernel 2021-07-21
Oracle ELSA-2021-9368 OL7 kernel 2021-07-22
Oracle ELSA-2021-9369 OL7 kernel 2021-07-22
Oracle ELSA-2021-9371 OL7 kernel 2021-07-22
Oracle ELSA-2021-9368 OL7 kernel 2021-07-22
Oracle ELSA-2021-2714 OL8 kernel 2021-07-21
Oracle ELSA-2021-9371 OL8 kernel 2021-07-22
Oracle ELSA-2021-9371 OL8 kernel 2021-07-22
Oracle ELSA-2021-9372 OL7 kernel-container 2021-07-22
Oracle ELSA-2021-9372 OL8 kernel-container 2021-07-22
Oracle ELSA-2021-2717 OL8 systemd 2021-07-21
Oracle ELSA-2021-2881 OL7 thunderbird 2021-07-26
Oracle ELSA-2021-2881 OL7 thunderbird 2021-07-26
Oracle ELSA-2021-2883 OL8 thunderbird 2021-07-27
Red Hat RHSA-2021:2931-01 SCL rh-nodejs12-nodejs and rh-nodejs12-nodejs-nodemon 2021-07-28
Red Hat RHSA-2021:2932-01 SCL rh-nodejs14-nodejs and rh-nodejs14-nodejs-nodemon 2021-07-28
Red Hat RHSA-2021:2881-01 EL7 thunderbird 2021-07-26
Red Hat RHSA-2021:2883-01 EL8 thunderbird 2021-07-26
Red Hat RHSA-2021:2882-01 EL8.1 thunderbird 2021-07-26
Red Hat RHSA-2021:2914-01 EL8.2 thunderbird 2021-07-27
Scientific Linux SLSA-2021:2845-1 SL7 java-1.8.0-openjdk 2021-07-26
Scientific Linux SLSA-2021:2784-1 SL7 java-11-openjdk 2021-07-26
Scientific Linux SLSA-2021:2725-1 SL7 kernel 2021-07-26
Scientific Linux SLSA-2021:2881-1 SL7 thunderbird 2021-07-26
Slackware SSA:2021-202-02 curl 2021-07-21
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:2459-1 SLE15 bluez 2021-07-22
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:2440-1 MP4.0 SLE15 SES6 curl 2021-07-21
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:14768-1 SLE11 curl 2021-07-21
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:2462-1 SLE12 curl 2021-07-23
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:2439-1 SLE15 curl 2021-07-21
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:2470-1 SLE15 dbus-1 2021-07-27
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:2478-1 MP4.0 SLE15 SES6 firefox 2021-07-27
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:2480-1 SLE12 glibc 2021-07-27
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:2451-1 OS8 SLE12 kernel 2021-07-22
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:2438-1 SLE15 kernel 2021-07-21
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:14769-1 SLE11 libsndfile 2021-07-27
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:2471-1 SLE15 libvirt 2021-07-27
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:2472-1 MP4.0 SLE15 SES6 linuxptp 2021-07-27
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:2443-1 OS8 OS9 SLE12 linuxptp 2021-07-21
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:2545-1 SLE12 linuxptp 2021-07-28
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:2441-1 OS8 python-pip 2021-07-21
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:2546-1 OS9 SLE12 qemu 2021-07-28
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:2448-1 SLE12 qemu 2021-07-22
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:2442-1 SLE15 qemu 2021-07-21
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:2461-1 SLE15 qemu 2021-07-23
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:2474-1 SLE15 qemu 2021-07-27
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:2473-1 SLE15 slurm 2021-07-27
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:2458-1 SLE15 thunderbird 2021-07-22
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:2454-1 SLE15 transfig 2021-07-22
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:1863-2 SLE15 umoci 2021-07-27
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:2457-1 SLE15 wireshark 2021-07-22
Ubuntu USN-5023-1 14.04 16.04 18.04 20.04 21.04 aspell 2021-07-26
Ubuntu USN-5021-1 18.04 20.04 21.04 curl 2021-07-22
Ubuntu USN-5022-1 18.04 20.04 21.04 mysql-5.7, mysql-8.0 2021-07-26
Ubuntu USN-5020-1 16.04 18.04 20.04 20.10 21.04 ruby2.3, ruby2.5, ruby2.7 2021-07-21
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Kernel patches of interest

Kernel releases

Linus Torvalds Linux 5.14-rc3 Jul 25
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.13.6 Jul 28
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.13.5 Jul 25
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.10.54 Jul 28
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.10.53 Jul 25
Steven Rostedt 5.10.52-rt47 Jul 23
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.4.136 Jul 28
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.4.135 Jul 25
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 4.19.199 Jul 28
Clark Williams 4.19.198-rt85 Jul 23
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 4.14.241 Jul 28
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 4.9.277 Jul 28
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 4.4.277 Jul 28

Architecture-specific

Arnd Bergmann ARM: remove set_fs callers and implementation Jul 26
Claudio Imbrenda KVM: s390: pv: implement lazy destroy Jul 28
Atish Patra Support non-coherent DMA on RISC-V using a global pool Jul 23
Anup Patel KVM RISC-V Support Jul 27
Yu-cheng Yu Control-flow Enforcement: Shadow Stack Jul 22
Yu-cheng Yu Control-flow Enforcement: Indirect Branch Tracking Jul 22

Core kernel

Mel Gorman Modify and/or delete SIS_PROP Jul 26
John Kacur sched_deadline: HRTICK for newer kernels Jul 23
Andrii Nakryiko BPF perf link and user-provided context value Jul 25
Marcelo Tosatti prctl task isolation interface and vmstat sync Jul 27

Device drivers

Lad Prabhakar pin and gpio controller driver for Renesas RZ/G2L Jul 21
Lad Prabhakar Renesas RZ/G2L CANFD support Jul 21
Puranjay Mohan iio: accel: add support for ADXL355 Jul 22
Manivannan Sadhasivam Add Qualcomm PCIe Endpoint driver support Jul 22
Jens Wiklander Add FF-A support in OP-TEE driver Jul 22
Lucas Stach i.MX8MM GPC improvements and BLK_CTRL driver Jul 21
Nancy.Lin Add MediaTek SoC DRM (vdosys1) support for mt8195 Jul 22
jason-jh.lin Add Mediatek Soc DRM (vdosys0) support for mt8195 Jul 23
Chun-Jie Chen Mediatek MT8192 clock support Jul 26
Chris Morgan power: supply: Add Support for RK817 Charger Jul 22
Douglas Anderson eDP: Support probing eDP panels dynamically instead of hardcoding Jul 22
dillon.minfei@gmail.com Add ilitek ili9341 panel driver Jul 23
Alexandre Torgue Add STM32MP13 SoCs and discovery board support Jul 23
quic_vamslank@quicinc.com Add Pdc, GCC and RPMh clock support for SDX65 Jul 22
Christophe Branchereau iio/adc: ingenic: add support for the JZ4760(B) Socs to the ingenic sadc driver Jul 26
Prasanna Vengateshan net: dsa: microchip: DSA driver support for LAN937x switch Jul 23
Tim Harvey Add IMX8M Mini PCI support Jul 23
Iskren Chernev Add Pinctrl for SM4250/6115 Jul 23
Nicolin Chen iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Add NVIDIA implementation Jul 23
Nobuhiro Iwamatsu Visconti: Add Toshiba Visconti PCIe host controller driver Jul 24
Andre Przywara hwrng: Add Arm SMCCC TRNG based driver Jul 26
Lad Prabhakar Renesas RZ/G2L ADC driver support Jul 26
Ming Qian imx8q video decoder/encoder driver Jul 27
Yunfei Dong Using component framework to support multi hardware decode Jul 27
Matthias Kaehlcke usb: misc: Add onboard_usb_hub driver Jul 26
Geert Uytterhoeven auxdisplay: ht16k33: Add character display support Jul 27
Thara Gopinath Introduce LMh driver for Qualcomm SoCs Jul 27
Russ Weight FPGA Security Manager Class Driver Jul 27
Peter Geis phy-rockchip-inno-usb2: support rk356x usb2phy Jul 28
Swapnil Jakhade PHY: Prepare Cadence Torrent PHY driver to support multilink DP Jul 28
Russ Weight Intel MAX10 BMC Secure Update Driver Jul 27

Device-driver infrastructure

Dongdong Liu PCI: Enable 10-Bit tag support for PCIe devices Jul 23
Sergey Senozhatsky videobuf2: support new noncontiguous DMA API Jul 27

Documentation

Hu Haowen docs: add traditional Chinese translation for kernel Documentation Jul 21
Christian Brauner doc: give a more thorough id handling explanation Jul 27

Filesystems and block layer

Eric Biggers f2fs: use iomap for direct I/O Jul 23
Damien Le Moal Initial support for multi-actuator HDDs Jul 23
Christian Brauner btrfs: support idmapped mounts Jul 26
Qu Wenruo btrfs: add data write support for subpage Jul 26
Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) iomap: make inline data support more flexible Jul 24
Allison Henderson XFS: Delayed Attributes Jul 26

Memory management

Mike Kravetz hugetlb: add demote/split page functionality Jul 21
Huang Ying NUMA balancing: optimize memory placement for memory tiering system Jul 22
Suren Baghdasaryan mm: introduce process_mrelease system call Jul 22
Evan Green mm: Enable suspend-only swap spaces Jul 26

Networking

Vladimir Oltean Let switchdev drivers offload and unoffload bridge ports at their own convenience Jul 21
Boris Pismenny nvme-tcp receive and tarnsmit offloads Jul 22
Jeremy Kerr Add Management Component Transport Protocol support Jul 23
Jiang Wang sockmap: add sockmap support for unix stream socket Jul 27

Security-related

Ahmad Fatoum KEYS: trusted: Introduce support for NXP CAAM-based trusted keys Jul 21
Casey Schaufler LSM: Module stacking for AppArmor Jul 21
Jens Wiklander Asynchronous notifications from secure world Jul 23
Roberto Sassu integrity: Introduce DIGLIM Jul 26
Eric Snowberg Enroll kernel keys thru MOK Jul 26
Kees Cook Introduce strict memcpy() bounds checking Jul 27

Virtualization and containers

Joerg Roedel x86/sev: KEXEC/KDUMP support for SEV-ES guests Jul 21
Zhu Lingshan KVM: x86/pmu: Add *basic* support to enable guest PEBS via DS Jul 22
Peter Gonda Add AMD SEV and SEV-ES intra host migration support Jul 26
Suleiman Souhlal KVM: Support Heterogeneous RT VCPU Configurations. Jul 28
Tianyu Lan x86/Hyper-V: Add Hyper-V Isolation VM support Jul 28

Miscellaneous

Jozsef Kadlecsik ipset 7.14 released Jul 28
Theodore Ts'o e2fsprogs v1.46.3 Jul 27

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