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CFP Deadlines: September 23, 2021 to November 22, 2021
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| October 19 | November 30 December 2 |
Yocto Project Summit 2021-11 | virtual |
| October 24 | December 1 December 4 |
FlaskCon | Online |
| November 1 | July 28 July 31 |
Southern California Linux Expo | Los Angeles, CA, USA |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
Events: September 23, 2021 to November 22, 2021
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 | LinuxConf [ZA] | Online, South Africa |
| October 4 October 5 |
Open Source Strategy Forum London | London, UK |
| October 5 | PostgresConf South Africa | Online, South Africa |
| October 6 | OSPOCon Europe | London, UK |
| October 7 October 8 |
PyCon ZA 2021 | Online |
| October 11 October 12 |
Open Networking & Edge Summit + Kubernetes on Edge Day | Virtual |
| October 17 October 19 |
All Things Open | Raleigh, NC, and virtual |
| November 3 | Qt World Summit 2021 | Online |
| November 5 November 6 |
Seattle GNU/Linux conference | Online |
| November 9 November 10 |
Open Source Strategy Forum New York | New York, NY, USA |
| November 9 November 10 |
PackagingCon 2021 | Online |
| November 10 November 12 |
Meeting C++ 2021 | Online |
| November 17 | SQLite & Tcl virtual conference | Online |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Security updates
Alert summary September 16, 2021 to September 22, 2021
| Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CentOS | CESA-2021:3498 | C7 | firefox | 2021-09-16 |
| CentOS | CESA-2021:3494 | C7 | thunderbird | 2021-09-16 |
| Debian | DLA-2759-1 | LTS | gnutls28 | 2021-09-17 |
| Debian | DLA-2762-1 | LTS | grilo | 2021-09-21 |
| Debian | DLA-2760-1 | LTS | nettle | 2021-09-18 |
| Debian | DSA-4974-1 | stable | nextcloud-desktop | 2021-09-19 |
| Debian | DLA-2761-1 | LTS | openssl1.0 | 2021-09-18 |
| Debian | DLA-2758-1 | LTS | sssd | 2021-09-15 |
| Debian | DSA-4975-1 | stable | webkit2gtk | 2021-09-21 |
| Debian | DSA-4976-1 | stable | wpewebkit | 2021-09-21 |
| Debian | DSA-4977-1 | stable | xen | 2021-09-20 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-c5584b92d4 | F34 | curl | 2021-09-21 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-e5f64ca6ce | F34 | dovecot-fts-xapian | 2021-09-20 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-8093e197f4 | F34 | drupal7 | 2021-09-19 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-450c33d2a6 | F33 | firefox | 2021-09-21 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-256c80b4eb | F34 | ghostscript | 2021-09-20 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-cd5ee418f6 | F33 | haproxy | 2021-09-17 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-3493f9f6ab | F34 | haproxy | 2021-09-16 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-db6fb33b05 | F33 | libtpms | 2021-09-19 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-bd49accf09 | F34 | libtpms | 2021-09-15 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-232161e4d5 | F33 | lynx | 2021-09-20 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-9f020cf155 | F33 | mingw-python-pillow | 2021-09-21 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-cbfaefb390 | F34 | mingw-python-pillow | 2021-09-21 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-9f020cf155 | F33 | python-pillow | 2021-09-21 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-cbfaefb390 | F34 | python-pillow | 2021-09-21 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-9f020cf155 | F33 | python2-pillow | 2021-09-21 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-4a43cbe0b4 | F33 | vim | 2021-09-15 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-c00e45b6c0 | F34 | webkit2gtk3 | 2021-09-21 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-f53d1bbf50 | F33 | wordpress | 2021-09-17 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-9d5bbdae5b | F34 | wordpress | 2021-09-16 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-fed53cbc7d | F33 | xen | 2021-09-17 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-11577e5229 | F34 | xen | 2021-09-16 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:1277-1 | 15.2 | apache2-mod_auth_openidc | 2021-09-16 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:1300-1 | SLE15.3 | chromium | 2021-09-22 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:1274-1 | 15.2 | fail2ban | 2021-09-16 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:1273-1 | 15.2 | ghostscript | 2021-09-16 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:3175-1 | 15.3 | grafana-piechart-panel | 2021-09-21 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:1279-1 | 15.2 | haserl | 2021-09-16 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:1271-1 | 15.2 | kernel | 2021-09-15 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:3179-1 | 15.3 | kernel | 2021-09-21 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:1294-1 | 15.2 | libcroco | 2021-09-21 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:3123-1 | 15.3 | libcroco | 2021-09-17 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:1275-1 | oSB SLE15 | nextcloud | 2021-09-16 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:1289-1 | 15.2 | php-composer | 2021-09-21 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:1267-1 | 15.2 | php7-pear | 2021-09-15 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:1276-1 | 15.2 | wireshark | 2021-09-16 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:1301-1 | 15.2 | xen | 2021-09-22 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:3140-1 | 15.3 | xen | 2021-09-18 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2021-3582 | OL8 | curl | 2021-09-21 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2021-9452 | OL7 | kernel | 2021-09-21 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2021-9452 | OL7 | kernel | 2021-09-21 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2021-9450 | OL7 | kernel | 2021-09-16 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2021-3548 | OL8 | kernel | 2021-09-15 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2021-9450 | OL8 | kernel | 2021-09-16 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2021-9450 | OL8 | kernel | 2021-09-16 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2021-9451 | OL7 | kernel-container | 2021-09-16 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2021-9451 | OL8 | kernel-container | 2021-09-16 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2021-3572 | OL8 | nss and nspr | 2021-09-21 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:3582-01 | EL8 | curl | 2021-09-21 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:3585-01 | EL8 | go-toolset:rhel8 | 2021-09-21 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:3576-01 | EL8 | krb5 | 2021-09-21 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:3590-01 | EL8 | mysql:8.0 | 2021-09-21 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:3623-01 | EL8 | nodejs:12 | 2021-09-21 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:3639-01 | EL8.1 | nodejs:12 | 2021-09-22 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:3638-01 | EL8.2 | nodejs:12 | 2021-09-22 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:3572-01 | EL8 | nss and nspr | 2021-09-21 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:3559-01 | SCL | rh-ruby27-ruby | 2021-09-20 |
| Slackware | SSA:2021-264-01 | alpine | 2021-09-21 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2021-258-01 | curl | 2021-09-15 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2021-259-01 | httpd | 2021-09-16 | |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:3117-1 | SLE12 | Mesa | 2021-09-16 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:3121-1 | SLE12 | crmsh | 2021-09-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:3180-1 | OS8 OS9 SLE12 | ghostscript | 2021-09-21 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:3174-1 | SES6 | grafana-piechart-panel | 2021-09-21 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:3125-1 | OS8 OS9 SLE12 | gtk-vnc | 2021-09-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:3179-1 | SLE15 | kernel | 2021-09-21 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:3177-1 | SLE15 | kernel | 2021-09-21 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:3178-1 | SLE15 | kernel | 2021-09-21 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:14800-1 | SLE11 | libcroco | 2021-09-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:3123-1 | SLE15 | libcroco | 2021-09-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:3144-1 | OS8 SLE12 | openssl | 2021-09-20 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:14802-1 | SLE11 | openssl | 2021-09-18 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:14801-1 | SLE11 | openssl1 | 2021-09-18 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:3119-1 | SLE12 | postgresql12 | 2021-09-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:3120-1 | SLE12 | postgresql13 | 2021-09-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:3124-1 | OS8 OS9 SLE12 | transfig | 2021-09-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:3181-1 | SLE12 | xen | 2021-09-21 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:3140-1 | SLE15 | xen | 2021-09-18 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:3141-1 | SLE15 | xen | 2021-09-18 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5079-4 | 14.04 16.04 | curl | 2021-09-21 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5079-3 | 18.04 | curl | 2021-09-21 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5080-2 | 16.04 | libgcrypt20 | 2021-09-16 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5080-1 | 18.04 20.04 21.04 | libgcrypt20 | 2021-09-16 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5086-1 | 16.04 18.04 20.04 21.04 | linux, linux-hwe, linux-hwe-5.11, linux-hwe-5.4 | 2021-09-22 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5073-2 | 16.04 18.04 | linux-gcp, linux-gcp-4.15 | 2021-09-16 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5071-2 | 18.04 | linux-hwe-5.4 | 2021-09-16 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5082-1 | 20.04 | linux-oem-5.13 | 2021-09-16 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5071-3 | 18.04 20.04 | linux-raspi, linux-raspi-5.4 | 2021-09-21 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5073-3 | 18.04 | linux-raspi2 | 2021-09-21 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5083-1 | 14.04 16.04 | python3.4, python3.5 | 2021-09-16 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5081-1 | 18.04 | qtbase-opensource-src | 2021-09-16 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5078-2 | 16.04 | squashfs-tools | 2021-09-15 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5084-1 | 20.04 | tiff | 2021-09-21 |
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