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Calls for Presentations

LibrePlanet 2022 returns online

The Free Software Foundation has opened the call for sessions for its 2022 LibrePlanet conference, which will be held online, sometime in the (northern hemisphere) spring of 2022. The call for sessions is open until December 1. "Potential talks should examine free software through the lens of this year's theme: Living Liberation."

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CFP Deadlines: October 14, 2021 to December 13, 2021

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

DeadlineEvent Dates EventLocation
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
December 10 April 5
April 7		 Cephalocon 2022 Portland, OR, US

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Upcoming Events

Events: October 14, 2021 to December 13, 2021

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

Date(s)EventLocation
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
November 27
November 28		 EmacsConf Online
November 30
December 2		 Yocto Project Summit 2021-11 virtual
December 1
December 4		 FlaskCon Online
December 2
December 3		 PGConf NYC New York, USA
December 3
December 4		 OLF Conference Columbus, OH, USA

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

Security updates

Alert summary October 7, 2021 to October 13, 2021

Dist. ID Release Package Date
Debian DSA-4982-1 stable apache2 2021-10-08
Debian DLA-2782-1 LTS firefox-esr 2021-10-11
Debian DSA-4981-1 stable firefox-esr 2021-10-06
Debian DSA-4984-1 stable flatpak 2021-10-12
Debian DLA-2783-1 LTS hiredis 2021-10-12
Debian DLA-2784-1 LTS icu 2021-10-12
Debian DLA-2779-1 LTS mediawiki 2021-10-09
Debian DLA-2781-1 LTS neutron 2021-10-11
Debian DSA-4983-1 stable neutron 2021-10-10
Debian DLA-2780-1 LTS ruby2.3 2021-10-13
Debian DLA-2777-1 LTS tiff 2021-10-09
Fedora FEDORA-2021-ab09a05562 F33 chromium 2021-10-09
Fedora FEDORA-2021-669df5ceb9 F33 dr_libs 2021-10-10
Fedora FEDORA-2021-450d81de95 F34 dr_libs 2021-10-10
Fedora FEDORA-2021-2c74a1d70c F34 firefox 2021-10-09
Fedora FEDORA-2021-4b201d15e6 F34 flatpak 2021-10-12
Fedora FEDORA-2021-c35235c250 F34 grafana 2021-10-10
Fedora FEDORA-2021-2a10bc68a4 F34 httpd 2021-10-12
Fedora FEDORA-2021-9dd76a1ed0 F33 kernel 2021-10-11
Fedora FEDORA-2021-ffda3d6fa1 F34 kernel 2021-10-11
Fedora FEDORA-2021-f2a020a065 F33 libssh 2021-10-07
Fedora FEDORA-2021-56d8173b5e F33 mediawiki 2021-10-12
Fedora FEDORA-2021-eee8b7514f F34 mediawiki 2021-10-12
Fedora FEDORA-2021-8913c7900c F33 redis 2021-10-12
Fedora FEDORA-2021-61c487f241 F34 redis 2021-10-12
Fedora FEDORA-2021-fbad11014a F33 xstream 2021-10-12
Fedora FEDORA-2021-d894ca87dc F34 xstream 2021-10-12
Mageia MGASA-2021-0470 8 apache 2021-10-08
Mageia MGASA-2021-0467 8 cockpit 2021-10-06
Mageia MGASA-2021-0464 8 fail2ban 2021-10-06
Mageia MGASA-2021-0469 8 firefox 2021-10-08
Mageia MGASA-2021-0468 8 libcryptopp 2021-10-06
Mageia MGASA-2021-0471 8 libreoffice 2021-10-12
Mageia MGASA-2021-0465 8 libss7 2021-10-06
Mageia MGASA-2021-0463 8 nodejs 2021-10-06
Mageia MGASA-2021-0462 8 opendmarc 2021-10-06
Mageia MGASA-2021-0466 8 weechat 2021-10-06
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:1350-1 15.2 chromium 2021-10-12
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:1339-1 SLE15.3 chromium 2021-10-11
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:3298-1 15.3 curl 2021-10-06
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:3293-1 15.3 ffmpeg 2021-10-06
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:3331-1 15.3 firefox 2021-10-11
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:1345-1 15.2 git 2021-10-11
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:3300-1 15.3 git 2021-10-06
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:3291-1 15.3 glibc 2021-10-06
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:1342-1 15.2 go1.16 2021-10-11
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:3292-1 15.3 go1.16 2021-10-06
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:3338-1 15.3 kernel 2021-10-12
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:3387-1 15.3 kernel 2021-10-12
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:3350-1 15.3 libaom 2021-10-12
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:3301-1 15.3 libcryptopp 2021-10-06
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:3354-1 15.3 libqt5-qtsvg 2021-10-12
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:1344-1 15.2 mbedtls 2021-10-11
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:1341-1 15.2 mupdf 2021-10-11
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:1343-1 15.2 nodejs8 2021-10-11
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:3294-1 15.3 nodejs8 2021-10-06
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:3325-1 15.3 rabbitmq-server 2021-10-10
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:3348-1 15.3 systemd 2021-10-12
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:3353-1 15.3 webkit2gtk3 2021-10-12
Oracle ELSA-2021-3755 OL8 firefox 2021-10-11
Oracle ELSA-2021-9473 OL6 kernel 2021-10-08
Oracle ELSA-2021-9473 OL7 kernel 2021-10-08
Oracle ELSA-2021-9474 OL7 kernel 2021-10-11
Oracle ELSA-2021-9474 OL8 kernel 2021-10-11
Oracle ELSA-2021-9474 OL8 kernel 2021-10-11
Red Hat RHSA-2021:3818-01 EL7 .NET 5.0 2021-10-12
Red Hat RHSA-2021:3819-01 EL8 .NET 5.0 2021-10-12
Red Hat RHSA-2021:3807-01 EL7 389-ds-base 2021-10-12
Red Hat RHSA-2021:3791-01 EL7 firefox 2021-10-12
Red Hat RHSA-2021:3755-01 EL8 firefox 2021-10-11
Red Hat RHSA-2021:3757-01 EL8.1 firefox 2021-10-11
Red Hat RHSA-2021:3756-01 EL8.2 firefox 2021-10-11
Red Hat RHSA-2021:3771-01 EL8 grafana 2021-10-12
Red Hat RHSA-2021:3769-01 EL8.1 grafana 2021-10-12
Red Hat RHSA-2021:3770-01 EL8.2 grafana 2021-10-12
Red Hat RHSA-2021:3754-01 SCL httpd24-httpd 2021-10-11
Red Hat RHSA-2021:3816-01 EL8 httpd:2.4 2021-10-12
Red Hat RHSA-2021:3837-01 EL8.1 httpd:2.4 2021-10-13
Red Hat RHSA-2021:3836-01 EL8.2 httpd:2.4 2021-10-13
Red Hat RHSA-2021:3801-01 EL7 kernel 2021-10-12
Red Hat RHSA-2021:3767-02 EL7.2 kernel 2021-10-12
Red Hat RHSA-2021:3766-01 EL7.3 kernel 2021-10-12
Red Hat RHSA-2021:3812-01 EL7.6 kernel 2021-10-12
Red Hat RHSA-2021:3802-01 EL7 kernel-rt 2021-10-12
Red Hat RHSA-2021:3768-01 EL7 kpatch-patch 2021-10-12
Red Hat RHSA-2021:3814-01 EL7.6 kpatch-patch 2021-10-12
Red Hat RHSA-2021:3810-01 EL7 libxml2 2021-10-12
Red Hat RHSA-2021:3798-01 EL7 openssl 2021-10-12
Red Hat RHSA-2021:3811-01 SCL rh-mysql80-mysql 2021-10-12
Red Hat RHSA-2021:3841-01 EL7 thunderbird 2021-10-13
Red Hat RHSA-2021:3838-01 EL8 thunderbird 2021-10-13
Red Hat RHSA-2021:3840-01 EL8.1 thunderbird 2021-10-13
Red Hat RHSA-2021:3839-01 EL8.2 thunderbird 2021-10-13
Scientific Linux SLSA-2021:3807-1 SL7 389-ds-base 2021-10-12
Scientific Linux SLSA-2021:3801-1 SL7 kernel 2021-10-12
Scientific Linux SLSA-2021:3810-1 SL7 libxml2 2021-10-12
Scientific Linux SLSA-2021:3798-1 SL7 openssl 2021-10-12
Slackware SSA:2021-280-01 httpd 2021-10-07
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:3299-1 OS8 OS9 SLE12 apache2 2021-10-06
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:3335-1 SLE15 SES6 apache2 2021-10-12
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:3352-1 SLE12 apache2-mod_auth_openidc 2021-10-12
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:3336-1 SLE12 containerd, docker, runc 2021-10-12
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:3351-1 OS9 SLE12 curl 2021-10-12
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:3332-1 SLE12 curl 2021-10-11
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:3298-1 SLE15 curl 2021-10-06
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:3297-1 SLE15 SES6 curl 2021-10-06
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:3293-1 SLE15 ffmpeg 2021-10-06
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:3331-1 SLE15 SES6 firefox 2021-10-11
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:3300-1 SLE15 git 2021-10-06
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:3289-1 OS8 SLE12 glibc 2021-10-06
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:3290-1 OS9 SLE12 glibc 2021-10-06
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:3291-1 SLE15 glibc 2021-10-06
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:3385-1 SLE15 SES6 glibc 2021-10-12
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:3292-1 SLE15 go1.16 2021-10-06
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:3295-1 SLE15 SES6 grilo 2021-10-06
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:3386-1 SLE12 kernel 2021-10-12
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:3388-1 SLE12 kernel 2021-10-12
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:3389-1 SLE12 kernel 2021-10-12
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:3205-2 SLE15 kernel 2021-10-13
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:3337-1 SLE15 kernel 2021-10-12
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:3338-1 SLE15 kernel 2021-10-12
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:3339-1 SLE15 kernel 2021-10-12
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:3387-1 SLE15 kernel 2021-10-12
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:3350-1 SLE15 libaom 2021-10-12
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:3301-1 SLE15 libcryptopp 2021-10-06
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:3333-1 SLE12 libqt5-qtsvg 2021-10-11
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:3354-1 SLE15 libqt5-qtsvg 2021-10-12
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:3294-1 SLE15 nodejs8 2021-10-06
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:3325-1 SLE15 rabbitmq-server 2021-10-10
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:3334-1 SLE12 squid 2021-10-11
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:3348-1 SLE15 systemd 2021-10-12
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:14823-1 SLE11 transfig 2021-10-06
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:3296-1 OS8 OS9 SLE12 webkit2gtk3 2021-10-06
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:3353-1 SLE15 webkit2gtk3 2021-10-12
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:3322-1 SLE12 xen 2021-10-08
Ubuntu USN-5107-1 18.04 20.04 21.04 firefox 2021-10-08
Ubuntu USN-5108-1 18.04 20.04 libntlm 2021-10-08
Ubuntu USN-5106-1 20.04 linux-oem-5.10 2021-10-06
Ubuntu USN-5022-3 16.04 mysql-5.7 2021-10-07
Ubuntu USN-5105-1 18.04 20.04 python-bottle 2021-10-07
Ubuntu USN-5078-3 20.04 21.04 squashfs-tools 2021-10-13
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Kernel patches of interest

Kernel releases

Linus Torvalds Linux 5.15-rc5 Oct 10
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior v5.15-rc4-rt8 Oct 08
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.14.12 Oct 13
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.14.11 Oct 09
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.14.10 Oct 07
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.10.73 Oct 13
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.10.72 Oct 09
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.4.153 Oct 13
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.4.152 Oct 09
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 4.19.211 Oct 13
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 4.19.210 Oct 09
Clark Williams 4.19.209-rt89 Oct 10
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 4.14.250 Oct 09
Luis Claudio R. Goncalves 4.14.250-rt124 Oct 11
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 4.9.286 Oct 09
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 4.4.288 Oct 09
Luis Claudio R. Goncalves 4.9.286-rt189 Oct 11
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 4.4.287 Oct 07

Architecture-specific

Ard Biesheuvel ARM: add vmap'ed stack support Oct 08
Marc Zyngier clocksource/arm_arch_timer: Add basic ARMv8.6 support Oct 10
Huacai Chen arch: Add basic LoongArch support Oct 13
Christophe Leroy powerpc: Add KUAP support for BOOKE and 40x Oct 08
Anup Patel Linux RISC-V ACLINT Support Oct 07
Anup Patel RISC-V CPU Idle Support Oct 11
wefu@redhat.com riscv: Add RISC-V svpbmt extension supports Oct 13
Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan Add TDX Guest Support (Initial support) Oct 08
Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan Add TDX Guest Support (shared-mm support) Oct 08
Thomas Gleixner x86/fpu: Preparatory cleanups for AMX support (part 1) Oct 12
Peter Zijlstra x86: Rewrite the retpoline rewrite logic Oct 13

Core kernel

Jiri Olsa x86/ftrace: Add direct batch interface Oct 08
Marcelo Tosatti extensible prctl task isolation interface and vmstat sync Oct 07
Peter Zijlstra Freezer rewrite Oct 09
Pratik R. Sampat kernel: Introduce CPU Namespace Oct 09
Peter Oskolkov sched,mm,x86/uaccess: implement User Managed Concurrency Groups Oct 12

Development tools

Daniel Bristot de Oliveira RTLA: An interface for osnoise/timerlat tracers Oct 11

Device drivers

Vinod Koul drm/msm: Add Display Stream Compression Support Oct 07
Maulik Shah Introduce SoC sleep stats driver Oct 07
Prasanna Vengateshan net: dsa: microchip: DSA driver support for LAN937x switch Oct 07
Sam Protsenko clk: samsung: Introduce Exynos850 SoC clock driver Oct 07
Chunyan Zhang Add Unisoc's SC2730 regulator support Oct 08
cy_huang ASoC: rt9120: Add Richtek RT9120 supprot Oct 08
Kavyasree Kotagiri Add driver for lan966x Generic Clock Controller Oct 08
Roan van Dijk iio: chemical: Add support for Sensirion SCD4x CO2 sensor Oct 08
dillon.minfei@gmail.com Add support for DMA2D of STMicroelectronics STM32 Soc series Oct 08
andrei.drimbarean@analog.com ADPD188 linux driver Oct 08
Mihail Chindris Add ad3552r and ad3542r driver support Oct 08
Ping-Ke Shih rtw89: add Realtek 802.11ax driver Oct 08
sean.wang@mediatek.com Add MT7921 SDIO Bluetooth support Oct 09
Hans de Goede Add support for X86/ACPI camera sensor/PMIC setup with clk and regulator platform data Oct 08
Kohei Tarumizu Add hardware prefetch core driver and A64FX support Oct 11
Huacai Chen irqchip: Add LoongArch-related irqchip drivers Oct 11
Shengjiu Wang Add remoteproc driver for DSP on i.MX Oct 11
Ahmad Fatoum KEYS: trusted: Introduce support for NXP CAAM-based trusted keys Oct 11
alexandru.tachici@analog.com net: phy: adin1100: Add initial support for ADIN1100 industrial PHY Oct 11
Daniel Scally Add support for OV5693 Sensor Oct 09
Markus Schneider-Pargmann drm/mediatek: Add mt8195 DisplayPort driver Oct 11
Stephan Gerhold net: wwan: Add Qualcomm BAM-DMUX WWAN network driver Oct 11
Luca Ceresoli Add MAX77714 PMIC minimal driver (RTC and watchdog only) Oct 11
Kunihiko Hayashi clk: uniphier: Introduce some clock features and NX1 support Oct 12
Richard Zhu add the imx8m pcie phy driver and imx8mm pcie support Oct 12
Emil Renner Berthing Basic StarFive JH7100 RISC-V SoC support Oct 12
Michael Tretter media: i2c: isl7998x: Add driver for Intersil ISL7998x Oct 12
Juergen Gross xen, usb: support pvUSB frontend driver Oct 13
Ming Qian amphion video decoder/encoder driver Oct 13
Geert Uytterhoeven auxdisplay: ht16k33: Add character display support Oct 12
Yifeng Zhao Add Naneng combo PHY support for RK3568 Oct 13
Bhupesh Sharma Enable Qualcomm Crypto Engine on sm8250 Oct 13
Dafna Hirschfeld staging: media: wave5: add wave5 codec driver Oct 13
Sander Vanheule Add Realtek Otto WDT support Oct 13
Yishai Hadas Add mlx5 live migration driver Oct 13
sean.wang@mediatek.com Add MT7921 SDIO WiFi support Oct 13
Alvin Šipraga net: dsa: add support for RTL8365MB-VC Oct 13

Device-driver infrastructure

Zev Weiss Dynamic DT device nodes Oct 06
Dmitry Osipenko Introduce power off call chain API Oct 07
Mihail Chindris iio: Add output buffer support Oct 07
Ian Pilcher Introduce block device LED trigger Oct 08
Greg Kroah-Hartman dma-buf: move dma-buf symbols into the DMA_BUF module namespace Oct 10

Filesystems and block layer

Jens Axboe Add plug based request allocation batching Oct 06
Gao Xiang erofs: some decompression improvements Oct 08
Gao Xiang erofs: add LZMA compression support Oct 11
David Howells fscache: Replace and remove old I/O API Oct 07
Jeffle Xu fuse,virtiofs: support per-file DAX Oct 11
Ming Lei blk-mq: support concurrent queue quiescing Oct 09
Christoph Hellwig switch block layer polling to a bio based model v4 Oct 12

Memory management

Mike Kravetz hugetlb: add demote/split page functionality Oct 07
Huang Ying NUMA balancing: optimize memory placement for memory tiering system Oct 08
Mel Gorman Remove dependency on congestion_wait in mm/ Oct 08
SeongJae Park DAMON: Support Physical Memory Address Space Monitoring Oct 12
Alex Sierra MEMORY_DEVICE_COHERENT for CPU-accessible coherent device memory Oct 12
Aneesh Kumar K.V mm/mempolicy: add MPOL_PREFERRED_STRICT memory policy Oct 13

Security-related

Mickaël Salaün Add trusted_for(2) (was O_MAYEXEC) Oct 07
Jason Wang More virtio hardening Oct 12
Matteo Croce bpf: sign bpf programs Oct 12
Sami Tolvanen x86: Add support for Clang CFI Oct 13
deven.desai@linux.microsoft.com Integrity Policy Enforcement (IPE) Oct 13

Virtualization and containers

Dov Murik Allow access to confidential computing secret area in SEV guests Oct 07
Brijesh Singh Add AMD Secure Nested Paging (SEV-SNP) Guest Support Oct 08
Atish Patra Add SBI v0.2 support for KVM Oct 07
Sean Christopherson KVM: Halt-polling and x86 APICv overhaul Oct 08
Reiji Watanabe KVM: arm64: Make CPU ID registers writable by userspace Oct 11
Quentin Perret KVM: arm64: Implement unshare hypercall for pkvm Oct 13

Miscellaneous

David Sterba Btrfs progs release 5.14.2 Oct 08

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