|
|
Log in / Subscribe / Register

Announcements

Newsletters

Distributions and system administration

CentOS Community Newsletter November
DistroWatch Weekly November 1
Linux Mint Monthly News October
Lunar Linux Weekly News October 29
openSUSE Tumbleweed Review of the Week October 29
SparkyLinux News November 1
Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter October 30

Development

Emacs News November 1
GCC Rust monthly report November 1
What's cooking in git.git November 1
Git Rev News October 30
This Week in GNOME October 29
Koha Community Newsletter October
LLVM Weekly November 1
LXC/LXD/LXCFS Weekly Status November 1
OCaml Weekly News November 2
Perl Weekly November 1
PostgreSQL Weekly News October 31
Python Weekly Newsletter October 28
Weekly Rakudo News November 1
Ruby Weekly News October 28
This Week in Rust October 27
Tor News November 2
Wikimedia Tech News November 1

Meeting minutes

openSUSE Release Engineering minutes November 3

Miscellaneous

Free Software Supporter November

Calls for Presentations

CFP Deadlines: November 4, 2021 to January 3, 2022

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

DeadlineEvent Dates EventLocation
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.

Upcoming Events

Events: November 4, 2021 to January 3, 2022

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

Date(s)EventLocation
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 28, 2021 to November 3, 2021

Dist. ID Release Package Date
Arch Linux ASA-202110-12 bind 2021-11-01
Arch Linux ASA-202110-7 chromium 2021-11-01
Arch Linux ASA-202110-11 freerdp 2021-11-01
Arch Linux ASA-202110-8 opera 2021-11-01
Arch Linux ASA-202110-9 webkit2gtk 2021-11-01
Arch Linux ASA-202110-10 wpewebkit 2021-11-01
Debian DSA-4999-1 stable asterisk 2021-11-01
Debian DLA-2807-1 LTS bind9 2021-11-02
Debian DSA-4994-1 stable bind9 2021-10-28
Debian DLA-2801-1 LTS cron 2021-10-30
Debian DLA-2800-1 LTS cups 2021-10-29
Debian DLA-2802-1 LTS elfutils 2021-10-31
Debian DSA-4998-1 stable ffmpeg 2021-10-31
Debian DLA-2806-1 LTS glusterfs 2021-11-02
Debian DLA-2795-1 LTS gpsd 2021-10-29
Debian DLA-2796-1 LTS jbig2dec 2021-10-28
Debian DLA-2798-1 LTS libdatetime-timezone-perl 2021-10-29
Debian DLA-2805-1 LTS libmspack 2021-10-31
Debian DLA-2804-1 LTS libsdl1.2 2021-10-31
Debian DLA-2803-1 LTS libsdl2 2021-10-31
Debian DLA-2799-1 LTS opencv 2021-10-30
Debian DSA-5000-1 stable openjdk-11 2021-11-01
Debian DSA-4997-1 stable tiff 2021-10-31
Debian DLA-2797-1 LTS tzdata 2021-10-29
Debian DSA-4995-1 stable webkit2gtk 2021-10-28
Debian DSA-4996-1 stable wpewebkit 2021-10-28
Fedora FEDORA-2021-8ea648186c F34 CuraEngine 2021-11-02
Fedora FEDORA-2021-16d848834d F35 CuraEngine 2021-11-03
Fedora FEDORA-2021-0397bb2ccc F35 ansible 2021-11-02
Fedora FEDORA-2021-1d24845e93 F35 curl 2021-11-03
Fedora FEDORA-2021-7f0e71beb1 F34 firefox 2021-11-03
Fedora FEDORA-2021-a87c34524c F35 firefox 2021-11-03
Fedora FEDORA-2021-c5a9c85737 F33 flatpak 2021-10-28
Fedora FEDORA-2021-1cc8ffd122 F33 java-1.8.0-openjdk 2021-10-28
Fedora FEDORA-2021-7701833090 F34 java-1.8.0-openjdk 2021-10-28
Fedora FEDORA-2021-9a51a6f8b1 F33 java-11-openjdk 2021-10-28
Fedora FEDORA-2021-b277e63494 F33 java-latest-openjdk 2021-10-31
Fedora FEDORA-2021-27ba6780e5 F34 java-latest-openjdk 2021-10-31
Fedora FEDORA-2021-4140b54de2 F33 php 2021-10-28
Fedora FEDORA-2021-9f68f5f752 F34 php 2021-10-28
Fedora FEDORA-2021-02d218c3be F35 php 2021-11-03
Fedora FEDORA-2021-0511a38484 F33 stb 2021-10-31
Fedora FEDORA-2021-082bea5b34 F34 stb 2021-10-31
Fedora FEDORA-2021-b2c6765a41 F33 thunderbird 2021-10-31
Fedora FEDORA-2021-af135cabe2 F35 vim 2021-11-03
Mageia MGASA-2021-0497 8 cairo 2021-10-29
Mageia MGASA-2021-0494 8 cloud-init 2021-10-29
Mageia MGASA-2021-0500 8 docker 2021-10-31
Mageia MGASA-2021-0495 8 ffmpeg 2021-10-29
Mageia MGASA-2021-0496 8 libcaca 2021-10-29
Mageia MGASA-2021-0501 8 php 2021-10-31
Mageia MGASA-2021-0499 8 squid 2021-10-31
Mageia MGASA-2021-0498 8 webkit2 2021-10-29
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:1438-1 15.2 apache2 2021-11-02
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:1408-1 15.2 busybox 2021-10-31
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:1396-1 15.2 chromium 2021-10-30
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:1424-1 15.2 civetweb 2021-10-31
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:1404-1 15.2 containerd, docker, runc 2021-10-31
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:1426-1 15.2 dnsmasq 2021-10-31
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:1416-1 15.2 fetchmail 2021-10-31
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:1400-1 15.2 flatpak 2021-10-31
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:1420-1 15.2 go1.16 2021-10-31
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:1411-1 15.2 krb5 2021-10-31
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:1436-1 15.2 mailman 2021-11-02
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:1417-1 15.2 ncurses 2021-10-31
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:1433-1 15.2 opera 2021-11-01
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:1434-1 15.3 opera 2021-11-01
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:1441-1 15.2 pcre 2021-11-02
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:1418-1 15.2 python 2021-10-31
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:1402-1 15.2 python-Pygments 2021-10-31
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:1443-1 15.2 salt 2021-11-02
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:3557-1 15.3 salt 2021-10-27
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:1419-1 15.2 squid 2021-10-31
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:1399-1 15.2 strongswan 2021-10-31
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:1439-1 15.2 transfig 2021-11-02
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:3584-1 15.3 transfig 2021-10-29
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:1440-1 15.2 util-linux 2021-11-02
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:1403-1 15.2 virtualbox 2021-10-31
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:1425-1 15.2 wireguard-tools 2021-10-31
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:1401-1 15.2 xstream 2021-10-31
Oracle ELSA-2021-3819 OL8 .NET 5.0 2021-11-02
Oracle ELSA-2021-4033 OL7 binutils 2021-11-02
Oracle ELSA-2021-4033 OL7 binutils 2021-11-02
Oracle ELSA-2021-4059 OL8 curl 2021-11-02
Oracle ELSA-2021-4044 OL7 flatpak 2021-11-01
Oracle ELSA-2021-4044 OL7 flatpak 2021-11-01
Oracle ELSA-2021-4042 OL8 flatpak 2021-11-01
Oracle ELSA-2021-9534 OL6 kernel 2021-11-02
Oracle ELSA-2021-9534 OL7 kernel 2021-11-02
Oracle ELSA-2021-4056 OL8 kernel 2021-11-03
Oracle ELSA-2021-4060 OL8 libsolv 2021-11-02
Oracle ELSA-2021-4057 OL8 python3 2021-11-02
Oracle ELSA-2021-4058 OL8 samba 2021-11-02
Oracle ELSA-2021-4097 OL8 webkit2gtk3 2021-11-02
Red Hat RHSA-2021:4033-01 EL7 binutils 2021-11-01
Red Hat RHSA-2021:4038-01 EL7.2 binutils 2021-11-01
Red Hat RHSA-2021:4037-01 EL7.3 binutils 2021-11-01
Red Hat RHSA-2021:4036-01 EL7.4 binutils 2021-11-01
Red Hat RHSA-2021:4035-01 EL7.6 binutils 2021-11-01
Red Hat RHSA-2021:4034-01 EL7.7 binutils 2021-11-01
Red Hat RHSA-2021:4059-01 EL8 curl 2021-11-02
Red Hat RHSA-2021:4039-01 SCL devtoolset-10-gcc 2021-11-01
Red Hat RHSA-2021:4044-01 EL7 flatpak 2021-11-01
Red Hat RHSA-2021:4042-01 EL8 flatpak 2021-11-01
Red Hat RHSA-2021:4106-01 EL8.1 flatpak 2021-11-02
Red Hat RHSA-2021:4107-01 EL8.2 flatpak 2021-11-02
Red Hat RHSA-2021:4089-01 EL8 java-1.8.0-ibm 2021-11-02
Red Hat RHSA-2021:4056-01 EL8 kernel 2021-11-02
Red Hat RHSA-2021:4088-01 EL8 kernel-rt 2021-11-02
Red Hat RHSA-2021:4060-01 EL8 libsolv 2021-11-02
Red Hat RHSA-2021:4057-01 EL8 python3 2021-11-02
Red Hat RHSA-2021:4058-01 EL8 samba 2021-11-02
Red Hat RHSA-2021:4097-01 EL8 webkit2gtk3 2021-11-02
Scientific Linux SLSA-2021:4033-1 SL7 binutils 2021-11-02
Scientific Linux SLSA-2021:4044-1 SL7 flatpak 2021-11-02
Slackware SSA:2021-300-01 bind 2021-10-27
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:3593-1 OS8 OS9 SLE12 binutils 2021-11-02
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:3586-1 SLE15 libvirt 2021-10-29
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:3582-1 OS8 OS9 SLE12 opensc 2021-10-29
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:14835-1 SLE11 opensc 2021-10-29
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:3575-1 SLE12 qemu 2021-10-28
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:3550-1 SLE12 salt 2021-10-27
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:3557-1 SLE15 salt 2021-10-27
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:3556-1 SLE15 salt 2021-10-27
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:3553-1 SLE15 salt 2021-10-27
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:3555-1 SLE15 SES6 salt 2021-10-27
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:3585-1 OS8 OS9 SLE12 transfig 2021-10-29
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:14836-1 SLE11 transfig 2021-11-02
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:3584-1 SLE15 transfig 2021-10-29
Ubuntu USN-5126-2 14.04 16.04 bind9 2021-10-28
Ubuntu USN-5126-1 18.04 20.04 21.04 21.10 bind9 2021-10-28
Ubuntu USN-5128-1 18.04 21.04 ceph 2021-11-01
Ubuntu USN-5121-2 20.04 mailman 2021-11-01
Ubuntu USN-5125-1 14.04 16.04 18.04 20.04 21.04 21.10 php5, php7.0, php7.2, php7.4, php8.0 2021-10-27
Ubuntu USN-5127-1 20.04 21.04 21.10 webkit2gtk 2021-11-01
Full Story (comments: none)

Kernel patches of interest

Kernel releases

Linus Torvalds Linux 5.15 Oct 31
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior v5.15-rt17 Nov 02
Alexandre Oliva GNU Linux-libre 5.15-gnu Oct 31
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior v5.15-rc7-rt15 Oct 29
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.14.16 Nov 02
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.10.77 Nov 02
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.4.157 Nov 02
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 4.19.215 Nov 02
Clark Williams 4.19.214-rt93 Oct 29
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 4.14.254 Nov 02
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 4.9.289 Nov 02
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 4.4.291 Nov 02

Architecture-specific

Rob Herring Another version of arm64 userspace counter access support. Oct 27
Christophe Leroy Implement livepatch on PPC32 Oct 28
Liao Chang riscv: kexec: add kexec_file_load() support Oct 30
Naveen Krishna Chatradhi x86/edac/amd64: Add heterogeneous node support Oct 28
Yazen Ghannam AMD MCA Address Translation Updates Oct 28

Core kernel

Dmitry Osipenko Introduce power-off+restart call chain API Oct 28
Joanne Koong Implement bloom filter map Oct 27
Kris Van Hees RELEASE: DTrace for Linux 2.0.0-1.8 Oct 28
Daniel Bristot de Oliveira osnoise: Support multiple instances (for RTLA) Oct 28
ebiederm@xmission.com signal: Add SA_IMMUTABLE to ensure forced siganls do not get changed Oct 29
Joe Burton Introduce BPF map tracing capability Nov 02
Nick Alcock kallsyms: new /proc/kallmodsyms with builtin modules Nov 02

Development tools

Daniel Bristot de Oliveira RTLA: An interface for osnoise/timerlat tracers Oct 29

Device drivers

Emmanuel Gil Peyrot rtc: nintendo: Add a RTC driver for the GameCube, Wii and Wii U Oct 28
Richard Zhu add the imx8m pcie phy driver and imx8mm pcie support Oct 28
Nathan Rossi Driver for TI INA238 I2C Power Monitor Oct 28
Andrea Merello Add support for Bosch BNO055 IMU Oct 28
Akhil R Add NVIDIA Tegra GPC-DMA driver Oct 28
Bryan O'Donoghue Add pm8150b TPCM driver Oct 28
Prasanna Vengateshan net: dsa: microchip: DSA driver support for LAN937x switch Oct 28
Sam Protsenko watchdog: s3c2410: Add Exynos850 support Oct 28
Jarrett Schultz platform: surface: Introduce Surface XBL Driver Oct 28
LH.Kuo Add SD/SDIO control driver for Sunplus SP7021 SoC Oct 29
Qin Jian Add Sunplus SP7021 SoC Support Oct 29
Wu Zongyong vDPA driver for Alibaba ENI Oct 29
Qi Liu drivers/perf: hisi: Add support for PCIe PMU Oct 29
Satya Priya Add Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. PM8008 regulator driver Oct 28
Bharat Bhushan cn10k DDR Performance monitor support Oct 29
Huang Rui cpufreq: introduce a new AMD CPU frequency control mechanism Oct 29
Nancy.Lin Add MediaTek SoC DRM (vdosys1) support for mt8195 Oct 29
Alexandre Bailon Add a generic virtual thermal sensor Oct 29
Charles Mirabile Raspberry Pi Sense HAT driver Oct 29
Hans de Goede power-suppy/i2c/extcon: Add support for cht-wc PMIC without USB-PD support Oct 30
Srinivasan Raju wireless: New Driver submission for pureLiFi STA devices Oct 31
LH.Kuo Add SPI control driver for Sunplus SP7021 SoC Nov 01
Vincent Shih Add OTP driver for Sunplus SP7021 SoC Nov 01
hammer.hsieh Add UART driver for Suplus SP7021 SoC Nov 01
Wells Lu This is a patch series for pinctrl driver for Sunplus SP7021 SoC. Nov 01
Wells Lu This is a patch series of ethernet driver for Sunplus SP7021 SoC. Nov 03
LH.Kuo Add THERMAL control driver for Sunplus SP7021 SoC Nov 01
Gerhard Engleder TSN endpoint Ethernet MAC driver Oct 29
Taehee Yoo amt: add initial driver for Automatic Multicast Tunneling (AMT) Oct 30
Ricardo Martinez net: wwan: t7xx: PCIe driver for MediaTek M.2 modem Oct 31
Matt Johnston MCTP I2C driver Nov 01
kyrie.wu Support jpeg encoder for MT8195 Nov 01
Richard Zhu Add the imx8m pcie phy driver and imx8mm pcie support Nov 02
Srinivasa Rao Mandadapu Add support for audio on SC7280 based targets Nov 02
Taniya Das Add support for LPASS Core and Audio Clock for SC7280 Nov 02
Rakesh Pillai Add support for sc7280 WPSS PIL loading Nov 02
Hans de Goede Add support for X86/ACPI camera sensor/PMIC setup with clk and regulator platform data Nov 02
Antoniu Miclaus Add support for AD7293 Power Amplifier Nov 02
Daniel Scally Add support for OV5693 sensor Nov 01
amirmizi6@gmail.com Add tpm i2c ptp driver Nov 02
Emil Renner Berthing Basic StarFive JH7100 RISC-V SoC support Nov 02
James Lo Add SPMI support for Mediatek SoC IC Nov 03
Kavyasree Kotagiri Add driver for lan966x Generic Clock Controller Nov 03
Jens Wiklander Asynchronous notifications from secure world Nov 03
Keerthy thermal: k3_j72xx_bandgap: Add the bandgap driver support Nov 03
Clément Léger Add FDMA support on ocelot switch driver Nov 03
Chen Yu Introduce Platform Firmware Runtime Update and Telemetry drivers Nov 03

Device-driver infrastructure

Jakub Kicinski devlink: add an explicit locking API Oct 30

Filesystems and block layer

Alexander V. Buev implement direct IO with integrity Oct 28
David Howells fscache: Replace and remove old I/O API Oct 29
Amir Goldstein Report more information in fanotify dirent events Oct 29
Shiyang Ruan fsdax: introduce fs query to support reflink Oct 31
Jeffle Xu fuse,virtiofs: support per-file DAX Nov 02
Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) iomap/xfs folio patches Nov 01
David Howells netfs, 9p, afs, ceph: Support folios, at least partially Nov 02

Memory management

Aneesh Kumar K.V mm: add new syscall set_mempolicy_home_node Oct 28
Ning Zhang Reclaim zero subpages of thp to avoid memory bloat Oct 28
Muchun Song Free the 2nd vmemmap page associated with each HugeTLB page Nov 01
Nicolas Saenz Julienne mm/page_alloc: Remote per-cpu page list drain support Nov 03

Networking

Leonard Crestez tcp: Initial support for RFC5925 auth option Nov 01

Virtualization and containers

Raghavendra Rao Ananta KVM: arm64: Add support for hypercall services selection Nov 02

Miscellaneous

Andrii Nakryiko libbpf: add unified bpf_prog_load() low-level API Oct 29
Stephen Hemminger iproute2 5.15 Nov 01

Page editor: Rebecca Sobol


Copyright © 2021, Eklektix, Inc.
Comments and public postings are copyrighted by their creators.
Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds