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openSUSE board meeting minutes August 2
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Calls for Presentations

CFP Deadlines: August 12, 2021 to October 11, 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
September 30 November 27
November 28		 EmacsConf Online
October 1 December 3
December 4		 OLF Conference Columbus, OH, USA
October 4 November 17 SQLite & Tcl virtual conference Online

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

Upcoming Events

Events: August 12, 2021 to October 11, 2021

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

Date(s)EventLocation
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		 GNU Radio Conference 2021 Charlotte, NC, USA
September 20
September 24		 Linux Plumbers Conference Online
September 22
September 24		 CyberCon Brno, Czech Republic
September 22
September 23		 Open Mainframe Summit Online, UTC-4
September 25
September 26		 Ubucon Asia 2021 Online
September 27
September 29		 OSPOCon Seattle, WA, and online
September 27
September 30		 Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference Seattle, WA, and online
September 28
September 30		 Qt Developer Conference [POSTPONED] Berlin, Germany
September 29
October 1		 Linux Security Summit Seattle, WA, and online
September 30
October 1		 Collabora COOL Days 2021 Online
October 2
October 3		 MiniDebConf Regensburg, Germany
October 3
October 9		 Fedora Week of Diversity Online
October 4
October 5		 Open Source Strategy Forum London London, UK
October 4 LinuxConf [ZA] Online, South Africa
October 5 PostgresConf South Africa Online, South Africa
October 6 OSPOCon Europe London, UK
October 7
October 8		 PyCon ZA 2021 Online

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

Security updates

Alert summary August 5, 2021 to August 11, 2021

Dist. ID Release Package Date
CentOS CESA-2021:1002 C7 flatpak 2021-08-09
CentOS CESA-2021:3028 C7 microcode_ctl 2021-08-09
Debian DSA-4950-1 stable ansible 2021-08-07
Debian DSA-4951-1 stable bluez 2021-08-07
Debian DLA-2738-1 LTS c-ares 2021-08-10
Debian DSA-4954-1 stable c-ares 2021-08-10
Debian DLA-2735-1 LTS ceph 2021-08-11
Debian DSA-4949-1 stable jetty9 2021-08-04
Debian DLA-2736-1 LTS lynx 2021-08-09
Debian DSA-4953-1 stable lynx 2021-08-10
Debian DLA-2732-1 LTS openexr 2021-08-04
Debian DLA-2737-1 LTS openjdk-8 2021-08-09
Debian DLA-2733-1 LTS tomcat8 2021-08-05
Debian DSA-4952-1 stable tomcat9 2021-08-09
Fedora FEDORA-2021-ffa749f7f7 F33 buildah 2021-08-11
Fedora FEDORA-2021-54f88bebd4 F33 containernetworking-plugins 2021-08-11
Fedora FEDORA-2021-07e4d20196 F34 containernetworking-plugins 2021-08-11
Fedora FEDORA-2021-5d21b90a30 F33 curl 2021-08-07
Fedora FEDORA-2021-54ee631709 F33 kernel 2021-08-10
Fedora FEDORA-2021-4d4d3866ca F34 kernel 2021-08-09
Fedora FEDORA-2021-17f5cedf66 F33 mod_auth_openidc 2021-08-08
Fedora FEDORA-2021-e3017c538a F34 mod_auth_openidc 2021-08-08
Fedora FEDORA-2021-6ac9b98f9e F33 podman 2021-08-11
Fedora FEDORA-2021-a5161737c3 F34 rust-rav1e 2021-08-09
Fedora FEDORA-2021-3de956ceee F33 webkit2gtk3 2021-08-08
Mageia MGASA-2021-0395 8 bluez 2021-08-06
Mageia MGASA-2021-0396 8 exiv2 2021-08-06
Mageia MGASA-2021-0391 8 fetchmail 2021-08-06
Mageia MGASA-2021-0397 8 kernel 2021-08-07
Mageia MGASA-2021-0398 8 kernel-linus 2021-08-07
Mageia MGASA-2021-0392 8 libsndfile 2021-08-06
Mageia MGASA-2021-0394 8 nodejs 2021-08-06
Mageia MGASA-2021-0393 8 php-pear 2021-08-06
Mageia MGASA-2021-0389 8 python-pillow 2021-08-06
Mageia MGASA-2021-0390 8 rabbitmq-server 2021-08-06
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:1115-1 15.2 apache-commons-compress 2021-08-10
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:2612-1 15.3 apache-commons-compress 2021-08-05
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:1125-1 15.2 aria2 2021-08-10
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:1094-1 15.2 balsa 2021-08-05
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:1131-1 15.2 chromium 2021-08-10
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:1144-1 oSB SLE15 chromium 2021-08-11
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:1112-1 15.2 djvulibre 2021-08-10
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:2619-1 15.3 djvulibre 2021-08-05
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:1107-1 15.2 fastjar 2021-08-10
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:1142-1 15.2 kernel 2021-08-11
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:2645-1 15.3 kernel 2021-08-10
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:1119-1 15.2 libvirt 2021-08-10
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:1102-1 15.2 linuxptp 2021-08-10
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:2605-1 15.3 mariadb 2021-08-04
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:2617-1 15.3 mariadb 2021-08-05
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:2616-1 15.3 mariadb 2021-08-05
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:1126-1 15.2 mysql-connector-java 2021-08-10
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:2622-1 15.3 mysql-connector-java 2021-08-05
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:1113-1 15.2 nodejs8 2021-08-10
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:2618-1 15.3 nodejs8 2021-08-05
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:1096-1 15.2 opera 2021-08-05
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:1095-1 15.3 opera 2021-08-05
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:1130-1 15.2 php7 2021-08-10
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:2637-1 15.3 php7 2021-08-06
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:1134-1 15.2 python-CairoSVG, python-Pillow 2021-08-10
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:2641-1 15.3 python-reportlab 2021-08-09
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:1129-1 15.3 seamonkey 2021-08-10
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:2614-1 15.3 spice-vdagent 2021-08-05
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:1143-1 15.2 transfig 2021-08-11
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:1114-1 15.2 virtualbox 2021-08-10
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:1092-1 15.3 virtualbox 2021-08-05
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:1101-1 15.2 webkit2gtk3 2021-08-10
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:1118-1 15.2 wireshark 2021-08-10
Oracle ELSA-2021-9404 OL7 kernel 2021-08-09
Oracle ELSA-2021-9404 OL8 kernel 2021-08-09
Oracle ELSA-2021-9404 OL8 kernel 2021-08-09
Oracle ELSA-2021-9406 OL7 kernel-container 2021-08-09
Oracle ELSA-2021-9406 OL8 kernel-container 2021-08-09
Oracle ELSA-2021-3028 OL7 microcode_ctl 2021-08-09
Oracle ELSA-2021-3027 OL8 microcode_ctl 2021-08-09
Oracle ELSA-2021-3020 OL8 ruby:2.7 2021-08-06
Red Hat RHSA-2021:3058-01 EL8 glib2 2021-08-10
Red Hat RHSA-2021:3015-01 RHEL7 go-toolset-1.15 and go-toolset-1.15-golang 2021-08-05
Red Hat RHSA-2021:3057-01 EL8 kernel 2021-08-10
Red Hat RHSA-2021:3088-01 EL8 kernel-rt 2021-08-10
Red Hat RHSA-2021:3044-01 EL8 kpatch-patch 2021-08-10
Red Hat RHSA-2021:3028-01 EL7 microcode_ctl 2021-08-09
Red Hat RHSA-2021:3029-01 EL7.7 microcode_ctl 2021-08-10
Red Hat RHSA-2021:3027-01 EL8 microcode_ctl 2021-08-09
Red Hat RHSA-2021:3020-01 EL8 ruby:2.7 2021-08-05
Red Hat RHSA-2021:3042-01 DT7 rust-toolset-1.52 and rust-toolset-1.52-rust 2021-08-10
Scientific Linux SLSA-2021:3028-1 SL7 microcode_ctl 2021-08-09
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:2612-1 SLE15 apache-commons-compress 2021-08-05
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:2621-1 OS8 OS9 SLE12 djvulibre 2021-08-05
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:14773-1 SLE11 djvulibre 2021-08-04
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:2619-1 SLE15 djvulibre 2021-08-05
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:2635-1 SLE12 fastjar 2021-08-06
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:2613-1 SLE12 java-11-openjdk 2021-08-05
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:2643-1 SLE12 kernel 2021-08-10
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:2647-1 SLE12 kernel 2021-08-10
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:2644-1 SLE12 kernel 2021-08-10
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:2645-1 SLE15 kernel 2021-08-10
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:2646-1 SLE15 kernel 2021-08-10
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:14774-1 SLE11 kvm 2021-08-06
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:14776-1 SLE11 libcares2 2021-08-10
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:2615-1 OS8 OS9 SLE12 libsndfile 2021-08-05
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:2617-1 MP4.0 SLE15 SES6 mariadb 2021-08-05
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:2634-1 OS9 SLE12 mariadb 2021-08-06
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:2605-1 SLE15 mariadb 2021-08-04
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:2616-1 SLE15 mariadb 2021-08-05
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:2620-1 MP4.0 SLE15 SES6 nodejs8 2021-08-05
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:2618-1 SLE15 nodejs8 2021-08-05
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:2637-1 SLE15 php7 2021-08-06
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:2638-1 SLE12 php72 2021-08-06
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:2636-1 SLE12 php74 2021-08-06
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:2632-1 OS8 python-Pillow 2021-08-06
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:2631-1 OS9 python-Pillow 2021-08-06
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:2614-1 SLE15 spice-vdagent 2021-08-05
Ubuntu USN-5034-2 16.04 c-ares 2021-08-10
Ubuntu USN-5034-1 18.04 20.04 21.04 c-ares 2021-08-10
Ubuntu USN-5032-1 18.04 20.04 docker.io 2021-08-05
Ubuntu USN-5032-2 21.04 docker.io 2021-08-09
Ubuntu USN-5035-1 20.04 21.04 gpsd 2021-08-10
Ubuntu USN-5031-1 21.04 opencryptoki 2021-08-04
Ubuntu USN-5033-1 21.04 perl 2021-08-09
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Kernel patches of interest

Kernel releases

Linus Torvalds Linux 5.14-rc5 Aug 08
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior v5.14-rc5-rt8 Aug 10
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior v5.14-rc4-rt6 Aug 05
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior v5.14-rc4-rt5 Aug 04
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.13.9 Aug 08
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.10.57 Aug 08
Steven Rostedt 5.10.56-rt48 Aug 06
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.4.139 Aug 08
Tom Zanussi 5.4.138-rt62 Aug 09
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 4.19.202 Aug 08
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 4.14.243 Aug 08
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 4.9.279 Aug 08
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 4.4.280 Aug 10
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 4.4.279 Aug 08

Architecture-specific

Rob Herring arm64 userspace counter support Aug 06
Kefeng Wang arm64: support page mapping percpu first chunk allocator Aug 09
Claudio Imbrenda KVM: s390: pv: implement lazy destroy Aug 04
Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan Add TDX Guest Support (Initial support) Aug 04
Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan Add TDX Guest Support (#VE handler support) Aug 04
Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan Add TDX Guest Support (boot fixes) Aug 04
Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan Add TDX Guest Support (shared-mm support) Aug 04
Wei Huang SVM 5-level page table support Aug 05
Ross Philipson x86: Trenchboot secure dynamic launch Linux kernel support Aug 09
Kirill A. Shutemov x86: Impplement support for unaccepted memory Aug 10

Core kernel

Thomas Gleixner locking, sched: The PREEMPT-RT locking infrastructure Aug 05
Masami Hiramatsu tracing/boot: Add histogram syntax support in boot-time tracing Aug 06
André Almeida futex2: Add wait on multiple futexes syscall Aug 05
Luis Chamberlain kmod: add patient module removal support Aug 09
Ricardo Neri sched/fair: Fix load balancing of SMT siblings with ASYM_PACKING Aug 10
Waiman Long cgroup/cpuset: Add new cpuset partition type & empty effecitve cpus Aug 10

Device drivers

Andrzej Pietrasiewicz VP9 codec V4L2 control interface Aug 05
Iskren Chernev Add GCC for SM4250/6115 Aug 05
Mauro Carvalho Chehab Add support for Hikey 970 PCIe Aug 04
Lucas Stankus iio: accel: Add support for ADXL313 accelerometer Aug 05
Lad Prabhakar Renesas RZ/G2L ADC driver support Aug 04
longli@linuxonhyperv.com Introduce a driver to support host accelerated access to Microsoft Azure Blob for Azure VM Aug 05
Markuss Broks Add support for Samsung S6D27A1 display panel Aug 05
H. Nikolaus Schaller MIPS: jz4780 HDMI Aug 05
Piyush Mehta gpio: modepin: Add driver support for modepin GPIO controller Aug 05
Alistair Francis Add support for the silergy,sy7636a Aug 06
Joel Savitz Raspberry Pi Sense HAT driver Aug 06
Mugilraj Dhavachelvan iio: potentiometer: Add driver support for AD5110 Aug 07
Puranjay Mohan iio: accel: add support for ADXL355 Aug 09
jason-jh.lin Add Mediatek Soc DRM (vdosys0) support for mt8195 Aug 06
Srinivas Kandagatla ASoC: qcom: Add AudioReach support Aug 09
Thara Gopinath Introduce LMh driver for Qualcomm SoCs Aug 09
Yong Wu MT8195 SMI support Aug 10
Bharat Bhushan cn10k DDR Performance monitor support Aug 10
Viresh Kumar gpio: Add virtio based driver Aug 10
Dikshita Agarwal media: venus: Enable venus support on sc7280 Aug 10
Hannes Reinecke nvme: In-band authentication support Aug 10
Chris Morgan power: supply: Add Support for RK817 Charger Aug 09
Souradeep Chowdhury Add driver support for Data Capture and Compare Engine(DCC) for SM8150,SC7280,SC7180,SDM845 Aug 10
Ming Qian imx8q video decoder/encoder driver Aug 11
Yassine Oudjana interconnect: qcom: Add MSM8996 interconnect driver Aug 11
Geert Uytterhoeven auxdisplay: ht16k33: Add character display support Aug 11
Mikko Perttunen NVIDIA Tegra NVDEC support Aug 11
daniel.almeida@collabora.com Add the stateless AV1 uAPI and the VIVPU virtual driver to showcase it. Aug 10
Yongqiang Niu drm/mediatek: add support for mediatek SOC MT8192 Aug 11
Nobuhiro Iwamatsu Visconti: Add Toshiba Visconti PCIe host controller driver Aug 11

Device-driver infrastructure

Amey Narkhede PCI: Expose and manage PCI device reset Aug 05
David Stevens Add dynamic iommu backed bounce buffers Aug 06
Ian Pilcher Add configurable block device LED triggers Aug 08
William Breathitt Gray Introduce the Counter character device interface Aug 09
Kishon Vijay Abraham I Add SR-IOV support in PCIe Endpoint Core Aug 11

Documentation

Akira Yokosawa docs: pdfdocs: Improve font choice in CJK translations Aug 09

Filesystems and block layer

Darrick J. Wong xfs: deferred inode inactivation Aug 04
Gabriel Krisman Bertazi File system wide monitoring Aug 04
Namjae Jeon ksmbd: introduce new SMB3 kernel server Aug 05
Matthew Bobrowski Add pidfd support to the fanotify API Aug 08
NeilBrown Attempt to make progress with btrfs dev number strangeness. Aug 09
Christoph Hellwig switch iomap to an iterator model v2 Aug 09
John Garry blk-mq: Reduce static requests memory footprint for shared sbitmap Aug 09
Jens Axboe Enable bio recycling for polled IO Aug 09
Naohiro Aota ZNS Support for Btrfs Aug 11
Coly Li bcache: support NVDIMM for journaling Aug 12

Memory management

Vlastimil Babka SLUB: reduce irq disabled scope and make it RT compatible Aug 05
Suren Baghdasaryan mm: introduce process_mrelease system call Aug 04
Zi Yan Make MAX_ORDER adjustable as a kernel boot time parameter. Aug 05
David Hildenbrand mm/memory_hotplug: "auto-movable" online policy and memory groups Aug 06

Networking

Martin KaFai Lau bpf: tcp: Allow bpf-tcp-cc to call bpf_(get|set)sockopt Aug 04
Jussi Maki : XDP bonding support Jul 31
Jiang Wang sockmap: add sockmap support for unix stream socket Aug 05
Yunsheng Lin add frag page support in page pool Aug 05
Ido Schimmel ethtool: Add ability to control transceiver modules Aug 09
Leonard Crestez tcp: Initial support for RFC5925 auth option Aug 10
Arseny Krasnov virtio/vsock: introduce MSG_EOR flag for SEQPACKET Aug 10
Kuniyuki Iwashima BPF iterator for UNIX domain socket. Aug 10

Security-related

Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan driver: base: Add driver filter support Aug 04

Virtualization and containers

Michael Kelley Enable Linux guests on Hyper-V on ARM64 Aug 04
Tianyu Lan x86/Hyper-V: Add Hyper-V Isolation VM support Aug 04
Zeng Guang IPI virtualization support for VM Aug 05
Nuno Das Neves Microsoft Hypervisor root partition ioctl interface Aug 05
Yang Weijiang Introduce Architectural LBR for vPMU Aug 06
Paolo Bonzini KVM: x86: pass arguments on the page fault path via struct kvm_page_fault Aug 07
Quentin Perret Track shared pages at EL2 in protected mode Aug 09
Chenyi Qiang KVM: PKS Virtualization support Aug 11

Miscellaneous

Greg KH usbutils 014 release Aug 07
Jozsef Kadlecsik ipset 7.15 released Aug 10
Steven Rostedt libtracefs: APIs to read a trace event hist file Aug 10

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