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CFP Deadlines: October 21, 2021 to December 20, 2021
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| December 15 | March 19 March 20 |
LibrePlanet 2022 | Online |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
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Events: October 21, 2021 to December 20, 2021
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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 14, 2021 to October 20, 2021
| Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | DLA-2743-2 | LTS | amd64-microcode | 2021-10-18 |
| Debian | DSA-4990-1 | stable | ffmpeg | 2021-10-19 |
| Debian | DSA-4988-1 | stable | libreoffice | 2021-10-16 |
| Debian | DLA-2785-1 | LTS | linux-4.19 | 2021-10-15 |
| Debian | DLA-2786-1 | LTS | nghttp2 | 2021-10-17 |
| Debian | DLA-2787-1 | LTS | redmine | 2021-10-18 |
| Debian | DLA-2618-3 | LTS | smarty3 | 2021-10-20 |
| Debian | DSA-4987-1 | stable | squashfs-tools | 2021-10-15 |
| Debian | DLA-2788-1 | LTS | strongswan | 2021-10-19 |
| Debian | DSA-4989-1 | stable | strongswan | 2021-10-18 |
| Debian | DSA-4984-1 | stable | tomcat9 | 2021-10-14 |
| Debian | DSA-4985-1 | stable | wordpress | 2021-10-14 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-116eff380f | F34 | chromium | 2021-10-15 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-df975338d4 | F34 | containerd | 2021-10-19 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-0ab8f6a19a | F34 | fail2ban | 2021-10-19 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-dd83dc8b0b | F34 | grafana | 2021-10-19 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-7ff1c8680d | F33 | libopenmpt | 2021-10-16 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-7cc30bb3dd | F34 | libopenmpt | 2021-10-16 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-df975338d4 | F34 | moby-engine | 2021-10-19 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-fa0e94198f | F33 | openssh | 2021-10-14 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-5b9128d9fd | F34 | thunderbird | 2021-10-19 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-55f3c0b6f1 | F34 | udisks2 | 2021-10-19 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-968f57ec98 | F34 | vim | 2021-10-16 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-0b7a484688 | F33 | xen | 2021-10-15 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-80bbe7def0 | F34 | xen | 2021-10-15 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2021-0475 | 8 | golang | 2021-10-13 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2021-0472 | 8 | grilo | 2021-10-13 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2021-0477 | 8 | mediawiki | 2021-10-13 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2021-0476 | 8 | plib | 2021-10-13 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2021-0473 | 8 | python-flask-restx | 2021-10-13 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2021-0479 | 8 | python-mpmath | 2021-10-13 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2021-0478 | 8 | thunderbird | 2021-10-13 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2021-0474 | 8 | xstream/xmlpull/mxparser | 2021-10-13 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:1384-1 | 15.2 | curl | 2021-10-18 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:1367-1 | 15.2 | firefox | 2021-10-18 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:3451-1 | 15.3 | firefox | 2021-10-16 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:3472-1 | 15.3 | flatpak | 2021-10-20 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:1374-1 | 15.2 | glibc | 2021-10-18 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:1357-1 | 15.2 | kernel | 2021-10-15 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:1365-1 | 15.2 | kernel | 2021-10-18 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:3447-1 | 15.3 | kernel | 2021-10-15 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:3454-1 | 15.3 | krb5 | 2021-10-18 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:1359-1 | 15.2 | libaom | 2021-10-15 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:1371-1 | 15.2 | libqt5-qtsvg | 2021-10-18 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:1355-1 | SLE15.2 | mbedtls | 2021-10-15 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:1358-1 | 13.1 15.2 15.3 | opera | 2021-10-15 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:1366-1 | 15.2 | rpm | 2021-10-18 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:3445-1 | 15.3 | rpm | 2021-10-15 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:1383-1 | 15.2 | ssh-audit | 2021-10-18 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:3467-1 | 15.3 | strongswan | 2021-10-19 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:1370-1 | 15.2 | systemd | 2021-10-18 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:3474-1 | 15.3 | util-linux | 2021-10-20 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:1369-1 | 15.2 | webkit2gtk3 | 2021-10-18 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:3476-1 | 15.3 | xstream | 2021-10-20 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2021-3807 | OL7 | 389-ds-base | 2021-10-13 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2021-3807 | OL7 | 389-ds-base | 2021-10-13 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2021-3771 | OL8 | grafana | 2021-10-13 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2021-3856 | OL7 | httpd | 2021-10-14 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2021-3856 | OL7 | httpd | 2021-10-14 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2021-3816 | OL8 | httpd:2.4 | 2021-10-13 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2021-9485 | OL7 | kernel | 2021-10-14 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2021-9486 | OL7 | kernel | 2021-10-14 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2021-9485 | OL7 | kernel | 2021-10-14 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2021-3801 | OL7 | kernel | 2021-10-13 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2021-9486 | OL8 | kernel | 2021-10-14 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2021-9486 | OL8 | kernel | 2021-10-14 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2021-9487 | OL7 | kernel-container | 2021-10-14 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2021-9487 | OL8 | kernel-container | 2021-10-14 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2021-3810 | OL7 | libxml2 | 2021-10-13 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2021-3810 | OL7 | libxml2 | 2021-10-13 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2021-3798 | OL7 | openssl | 2021-10-13 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2021-3798 | OL7 | openssl | 2021-10-13 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2021-3918 | OL8 | redis:5 | 2021-10-19 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2021-3838 | OL8 | thunderbird | 2021-10-15 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:3906-01 | EL8.2 | 389-ds:1.4 | 2021-10-19 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:3903-01 | EL8.2 | curl | 2021-10-19 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:3856-01 | EL7 EL7.2 EL7.3 EL7.4 EL7.6 EL7.7 | httpd | 2021-10-14 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:3893-01 | EL8 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2021-10-20 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:3884-01 | EL8.1 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2021-10-20 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:3885-01 | EL8.2 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2021-10-20 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:3891-01 | EL8 | java-11-openjdk | 2021-10-20 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:3886-01 | EL8.1 | java-11-openjdk | 2021-10-20 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:3887-01 | EL8.2 | java-11-openjdk | 2021-10-20 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:3904-01 | EL8.2 | kernel | 2021-10-19 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:3909-01 | EL8.2 | kernel-rt | 2021-10-19 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:3942-01 | EL7 | openvswitch2.11 | 2021-10-20 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:3918-01 | EL8 | redis:5 | 2021-10-19 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:3946-01 | EL8.1 | redis:5 | 2021-10-20 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:3944-01 | EL8.2 | redis:5 | 2021-10-20 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:3945-01 | EL8 | redis:6 | 2021-10-20 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:3947-01 | SCL | rh-redis5-redis | 2021-10-20 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:3900-01 | EL8.2 | systemd | 2021-10-19 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:14826-1 | SLE11 | firefox, rust-cbindgen | 2021-10-18 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:3446-1 | OS8 OS9 SLE12 | firefox | 2021-10-15 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:3451-1 | SLE15 | firefox | 2021-10-16 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:3472-1 | SLE15 | flatpak | 2021-10-20 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:3452-1 | SLE12 | iproute2 | 2021-10-18 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:3450-1 | OS8 OS9 SLE12 | javapackages-tools, javassist, mysql-connector-java, protobuf, python-python-gflags | 2021-10-15 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:3415-1 | SLE15 | kernel | 2021-10-13 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:3447-1 | SLE15 | kernel | 2021-10-15 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:3454-1 | SLE15 | krb5 | 2021-10-18 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:3473-1 | SLE15 SES6 | python-Pygments | 2021-10-20 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:3477-1 | SLE12 | python3 | 2021-10-20 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:3444-1 | MP4.1 SLE15 | rpm | 2021-10-15 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:3445-1 | MP4.2 SLE15 | rpm | 2021-10-15 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:3468-1 | OS8 OS9 SLE12 | strongswan | 2021-10-19 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:14827-1 | SLE11 | strongswan | 2021-10-19 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:3467-1 | SLE15 | strongswan | 2021-10-19 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:3469-1 | SLE15 SES6 | strongswan | 2021-10-19 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:3463-1 | OS8 SLE12 | util-linux | 2021-10-19 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:3475-1 | SLE12 | util-linux | 2021-10-20 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:3474-1 | SLE15 | util-linux | 2021-10-20 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:3476-1 | SLE15 | xstream | 2021-10-20 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5110-1 | 18.04 20.04 | ardour | 2021-10-18 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5113-1 | 20.04 21.04 | linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.11, linux-azure, linux-azure-5.11, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.11, linux-hwe-5.11, linux-kvm, linux-raspi | 2021-10-19 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5092-3 | 20.04 21.04 | linux-azure, linux-azure-5.11 | 2021-10-18 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5091-3 | 18.04 20.04 | linux-azure, linux-azure-5.4 | 2021-10-14 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5109-1 | 14.04 16.04 | nginx | 2021-10-18 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5111-2 | 14.04 16.04 | strongswan | 2021-10-19 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5111-1 | 18.04 20.04 21.04 21.10 | strongswan | 2021-10-19 |
Kernel patches of interest
Kernel releases
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madvenka@linux.microsoft.com
arm64: Reorganize the unwinder and implement stack trace reliability checks
Oct 14
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