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Calls for Presentations

CFP Deadlines: February 17, 2022 to April 18, 2022

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

DeadlineEvent Dates EventLocation
February 22 May 13 PostgreSQL Conference Germany Leipzig, Germany
March 1 May 2
May 4		 Linux Storage, Filesystem, and Memory-Management Summit Palm Springs CA, USA
March 1 June 21
June 25		 The Perl and Raku Conference 2022 Houston, Texas, USA
March 14 June 21
June 24		 Open Source Summit North America Austin, TX, USA
March 18 April 29
May 1		 Linux Application Summit 2022 Rovereto, Italy
March 30 June 23
June 24		 Linux Security Summit North America Austin, TX, USA
March 31 May 31
June 2		 sambaXP Göttingen, Germany
March 31 July 19
July 20		 stackconf 2022 Berlin, Germany
March 31 July 20
July 25		 GUADEC 2022 Guadalajara, Mexico
April 14 June 2
June 4		 openSUSE Conference 2022 Nürnberg, Germany
April 15 July 17
July 24		 Debconf 2022 Prizren, Kosovo
April 15 July 7
July 9		 Free Silicon Conference 2022 Paris, France

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

Upcoming Events

Events: February 17, 2022 to April 18, 2022

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

Date(s)EventLocation
February 19
February 20		 Online Guix Days 2022 online
March 4
March 6		 Binary T00ls Summit Online
March 7
March 11		 Mozilla Festival 2022 Online
March 19
March 20		 LibrePlanet 2022 Online
March 22 Nordic PGDay 2022 Helsinki, Finland
March 24 pgDay Paris Paris, France
March 29 Open Source 101 Online
April 1
April 3		 Fedora and openSUSE Mentors Summit 2022 Online
April 5
April 7		 Cephalocon 2022 Portland, OR, US
April 7
April 9		 FOSSASIA Summit Online

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

Security updates

Alert summary February 10, 2022 to February 16, 2022

Dist. ID Release Package Date
CentOS CESA-2022:0514 C7 firefox 2022-02-15
CentOS CESA-2022:0538 C7 thunderbird 2022-02-15
Debian DSA-5070-1 stable cryptsetup 2022-02-10
Debian DLA-2918-1 LTS debian-edu-config 2022-02-12
Debian DSA-5072-1 stable debian-edu-config 2022-02-11
Debian DSA-5073-1 stable expat 2022-02-12
Debian DLA-2916-1 LTS firefox-esr 2022-02-09
Debian DSA-5069-1 stable firefox-esr 2022-02-09
Debian DLA-2923-1 LTS h2database 2022-02-15
Debian DSA-5076-1 stable h2database 2022-02-15
Debian DSA-5077-1 stable librecad 2022-02-15
Debian DLA-2924-1 LTS libxstream-java 2022-02-15
Debian DSA-5075-1 stable minetest 2022-02-13
Debian DLA-2917-1 LTS openjdk-8 2022-02-10
Debian DLA-2922-1 LTS pgbouncer 2022-02-14
Debian DLA-2919-1 LTS python2.7 2022-02-12
Debian DSA-5071-1 stable samba 2022-02-11
Debian DLA-2921-1 LTS thunderbird 2022-02-14
Debian DSA-5074-1 stable thunderbird 2022-02-13
Debian DLA-2920-1 LTS varnish 2022-02-14
Debian DSA-5078-1 stable zsh 2022-02-16
Fedora FEDORA-2022-e21253df87 F34 dotnet-build-reference-packages 2022-02-15
Fedora FEDORA-2022-e49dbaa4e5 F35 dotnet-build-reference-packages 2022-02-12
Fedora FEDORA-2022-e21253df87 F34 dotnet3.1 2022-02-15
Fedora FEDORA-2022-e49dbaa4e5 F35 dotnet3.1 2022-02-12
Fedora FEDORA-2022-7884684e5a F35 dotnet6.0 2022-02-12
Fedora FEDORA-2022-fc643339ef F34 expat 2022-02-16
Fedora FEDORA-2022-c4786825dd F35 expat 2022-02-16
Fedora FEDORA-2022-52cf882b08 F34 firefox 2022-02-15
Fedora FEDORA-2022-f044a6dede F35 firefox 2022-02-11
Fedora FEDORA-2022-da8222a1bc F35 hostapd 2022-02-13
Fedora FEDORA-2022-b706eef225 F34 java-1.8.0-openjdk 2022-02-11
Fedora FEDORA-2022-416be040a8 F35 java-1.8.0-openjdk 2022-02-11
Fedora FEDORA-2022-08d7ee21f7 F34 libdxfrw 2022-02-12
Fedora FEDORA-2022-08d7ee21f7 F34 librecad 2022-02-12
Fedora FEDORA-2022-7306c2f9b1 F35 microcode_ctl 2022-02-11
Fedora FEDORA-2022-d2abd0858e F34 mingw-expat 2022-02-12
Fedora FEDORA-2022-88f6a3d290 F35 mingw-expat 2022-02-12
Fedora FEDORA-2022-a16e5d72fc F34 mingw-gdk-pixbuf 2022-02-12
Fedora FEDORA-2022-725db8230b F35 mingw-gdk-pixbuf 2022-02-12
Fedora FEDORA-2022-8f968eea82 F35 phoronix-test-suite 2022-02-10
Fedora FEDORA-2022-a42e97d8e8 F34 php-laminas-form 2022-02-10
Fedora FEDORA-2022-c138fbb8e0 F35 php-laminas-form 2022-02-10
Fedora FEDORA-2022-47293b1d23 F34 php-twig2 2022-02-13
Fedora FEDORA-2022-58abb323f0 F35 php-twig2 2022-02-13
Fedora FEDORA-2022-167b9becef F34 php-twig3 2022-02-13
Fedora FEDORA-2022-7d871d7583 F35 php-twig3 2022-02-13
Fedora FEDORA-2022-e7fd530688 F35 python-django 2022-02-11
Fedora FEDORA-2022-8761120127 F34 rlwrap 2022-02-11
Fedora FEDORA-2022-15decf791f F35 rlwrap 2022-02-11
Fedora FEDORA-2022-06569a0a60 F34 rust-afterburn 2022-02-13
Fedora FEDORA-2022-b7de97d0a9 F35 util-linux 2022-02-16
Fedora FEDORA-2022-2f14ec7663 F35 varnish-modules 2022-02-16
Fedora FEDORA-2022-da2fb07efb F35 vim 2022-02-11
Fedora FEDORA-2022-cbd155f714 F35 webkit2gtk3 2022-02-12
Fedora FEDORA-2022-ad5cf1c0dd F34 xstream 2022-02-12
Fedora FEDORA-2022-983a78275c F35 xstream 2022-02-12
Fedora FEDORA-2022-965978ed67 F34 xterm 2022-02-16
Fedora FEDORA-2022-9bf751cdf7 F35 xterm 2022-02-16
Fedora FEDORA-2022-adf0c6d196 F35 zsh 2022-02-16
Mageia MGASA-2022-0065 8 Intel-nonfree 2022-02-15
Mageia MGASA-2022-0058 8 bluez 2022-02-12
Mageia MGASA-2022-0053 8 epiphany 2022-02-09
Mageia MGASA-2022-0057 8 firefox 2022-02-12
Mageia MGASA-2022-0055 8 firejail 2022-02-09
Mageia MGASA-2022-0062 8 kernel 2022-02-15
Mageia MGASA-2022-0063 8 kernel-linus 2022-02-15
Mageia MGASA-2022-0060 8 libarchive 2022-02-12
Mageia MGASA-2022-0064 8 microcode 2022-02-15
Mageia MGASA-2022-0056 8 php-adodb 2022-02-12
Mageia MGASA-2022-0054 8 samba 2022-02-09
Mageia MGASA-2022-0061 8 thunderbird 2022-02-12
Mageia MGASA-2022-0059 8 webkit2 2022-02-12
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2022:0104-2 15.4 SDL2 2022-02-14
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2022:0088-2 15.4 ghostscript 2022-02-14
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2022:0363-1 15.3 kernel 2022-02-10
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2022:0366-1 15.3 15.4 kernel 2022-02-10
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2022:0370-1 15.3 15.4 kernel 2022-02-11
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2022:0062-2 15.4 openexr 2022-02-14
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2022:0141-2 15.4 permissions 2022-02-14
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2022:0375-1 15.3 wireshark 2022-02-14
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2022:0036-1 15.3 zabbix 2022-02-16
Oracle ELSA-2022-0495 OL8 .NET 5.0 2022-02-14
Oracle ELSA-2022-0473 OL7 aide 2022-02-09
Oracle ELSA-2022-0473 OL7 aide 2022-02-09
Oracle ELSA-2022-0514 OL7 firefox 2022-02-14
Oracle ELSA-2022-0510 OL8 firefox 2022-02-14
Oracle ELSA-2022-9141 OL7 kernel 2022-02-09
Oracle ELSA-2022-9147 OL7 kernel 2022-02-14
Oracle ELSA-2022-9141 OL8 kernel 2022-02-09
Oracle ELSA-2022-9141 OL8 kernel 2022-02-09
Oracle ELSA-2022-9147 OL8 kernel 2022-02-14
Oracle ELSA-2022-9147 OL8 kernel 2022-02-14
Oracle ELSA-2022-9142 OL7 kernel-container 2022-02-09
Oracle ELSA-2022-9148 OL7 kernel-container 2022-02-14
Oracle ELSA-2022-9142 OL8 kernel-container 2022-02-09
Oracle ELSA-2022-9148 OL8 kernel-container 2022-02-14
Oracle ELSA-2022-9123 OL7 qemu 2022-02-09
Red Hat RHSA-2022:0499-01 EL7 .NET 5.0 on RHEL 7 2022-02-09
Red Hat RHSA-2022:0500-01 EL7 .NET 6.0 on RHEL 7 2022-02-09
Red Hat RHSA-2022:0540-01 EL8 Red Hat Virtualization Host 2022-02-15
Red Hat RHSA-2022:0514-01 EL7 firefox 2022-02-14
Red Hat RHSA-2022:0510-01 EL8 firefox 2022-02-14
Red Hat RHSA-2022:0513-01 EL8.1 firefox 2022-02-14
Red Hat RHSA-2022:0512-01 EL8.2 firefox 2022-02-14
Red Hat RHSA-2022:0511-01 EL8.4 firefox 2022-02-14
Red Hat RHSA-2022:0529-01 EL7.3 kernel 2022-02-15
Red Hat RHSA-2022:0530-01 EL7.4 kernel 2022-02-15
Red Hat RHSA-2022:0531-01 EL7.6 kernel 2022-02-15
Red Hat RHSA-2022:0533-01 EL7.6 kpatch-patch 2022-02-15
Red Hat RHSA-2022:0538-01 EL7 thunderbird 2022-02-15
Red Hat RHSA-2022:0535-01 EL8 thunderbird 2022-02-15
Red Hat RHSA-2022:0539-01 EL8.1 thunderbird 2022-02-15
Red Hat RHSA-2022:0537-01 EL8.2 thunderbird 2022-02-15
Red Hat RHSA-2022:0536-01 EL8.4 thunderbird 2022-02-15
Scientific Linux SLSA-2022:0473-1 SL7 aide 2022-02-09
Scientific Linux SLSA-2022:0514-1 SL7 firefox 2022-02-14
Scientific Linux SLSA-2022:0538-1 SL7 thunderbird 2022-02-15
Slackware SSA:2022-044-01 mariadb 2022-02-13
Slackware SSA:2022-040-01 mozilla 2022-02-09
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:0104-2 SLE15 SDL2 2022-02-14
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:0135-2 SLE15 busybox 2022-02-14
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:0358-1 OS8 OS9 SLE12 clamav 2022-02-09
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:14884-1 SLE11 expat 2022-02-09
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:0088-2 SLE15 ghostscript 2022-02-14
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:0366-1 MP4.0 SLE15 SES6 kernel 2022-02-10
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:0365-1 MP4.1 SLE15 SES7 kernel 2022-02-10
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:0363-1 MP4.2 SLE15 kernel 2022-02-10
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:0370-1 MP4.2 SLE15 kernel 2022-02-11
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:0362-1 OS8 SLE12 kernel 2022-02-10
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:0371-1 OS9 SLE12 kernel 2022-02-11
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:0364-1 SLE12 kernel 2022-02-10
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:0372-1 SLE12 kernel 2022-02-11
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:0367-1 SLE15 kernel 2022-02-10
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:0361-1 SES7 ldb, samba 2022-02-10
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:0062-2 SLE15 openexr 2022-02-14
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:0141-2 SLE15 permissions 2022-02-14
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:0176-2 SLE15 unbound 2022-02-15
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:0375-1 MP4.1 MP4.2 SLE15 SES6 SES7 wireshark 2022-02-14
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:0359-1 OS8 SLE12 xen 2022-02-09
Ubuntu USN-5286-1 20.04 21.10 cryptsetup 2022-02-15
Ubuntu USN-5284-1 18.04 20.04 21.10 firefox 2022-02-14
Ubuntu USN-5280-1 16.04 18.04 20.04 21.10 speex 2022-02-10
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Kernel patches of interest

Kernel releases

Linus Torvalds Linux 5.17-rc4 Feb 13
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior v5.17-rc3-rt6 Feb 10
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.16.10 Feb 16
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.16.9 Feb 11
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.15.24 Feb 16
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.15.23 Feb 11
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.10.101 Feb 16
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.10.100 Feb 11
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.4.180 Feb 16
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.4.179 Feb 11
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 4.19.230 Feb 16
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 4.19.229 Feb 11
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 4.14.267 Feb 16
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 4.14.266 Feb 11
Luis Claudio R. Goncalves 4.14.266-rt129 Feb 12
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 4.9.302 Feb 16
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 4.9.301 Feb 11

Architecture-specific

Mark Rutland arm64 / sched/preempt: support PREEMPT_DYNAMIC with static keys Feb 14
Mark Brown arm64/mte: Asymmetric MTE support in userspace Feb 16
Anup Patel RISC-V CPU Idle Support Feb 10
Atish Patra Provide a fraemework for RISC-V ISA extensions Feb 10
Mayuresh Chitale Risc-V Svinval support Feb 16
Yang Weijiang Introduce Architectural LBR for vPMU Feb 15

Build system

Miguel Ojeda Rust support Feb 12
Mark Rutland linkage: better symbol aliasing Feb 16

Core kernel

Masami Hiramatsu fprobe: Introduce fprobe function entry/exit probe Feb 11
T.J. Mercier Proposal for a GPU cgroup controller Feb 11
Kees Cook exit: Introduce __WCHILDSIGINFO for waitid Feb 14
Liam Howlett Introducing the Maple Tree Feb 15
Arnd Bergmann clean up asm/uaccess.h, kill set_fs for good Feb 16

Development tools

Daniel Bristot de Oliveira The Runtime Verification (RV) interface Feb 14

Device drivers

Guodong Liu pinctrl: mediatek: Support pinctrl driver on mt8186 Feb 10
Vinod Koul drm/msm: Add Display Stream Compression Support Feb 10
Mohan Kumar Add Tegra234 HDA support Feb 10
Kunihiko Hayashi PCI: Introduce UniPhier NX1 PCI endpoint controller support Feb 10
Kane Jiang About i.MX GPT input capture patches Feb 10
Tanmay Shah Add Xilinx RPU subsystem support Feb 10
Sankeerth Billakanti Add support for the eDP panel on sc7280 CRD Feb 10
Srinivasa Rao Mandadapu Machine driver to support LPASS SC7280 sound card registration Feb 10
Markuss Broks Add support for Imagis touchscreens Feb 10
Radha Mohan Chintakuntla soc: Add support for Marvell OcteonTX2 SDP block Feb 09
Javier Martinez Canillas drm: Add driver for Solomon SSD130x OLED displays Feb 11
Jiaxin Yu ASoC: mediatek: Add support for MT8186 SoC Feb 11
Antoniu Miclaus Add support for ADA4250 Programmable Instrumentation Amplifier Feb 11
Javier Martinez Canillas drm: Add driver for Solomon SSD130x OLED displays Feb 11
Joseph CHAMG ADD DM9051 ETHERNET DRIVER Feb 11
Bharat Bhushan cn10k DDR Performance monitor support Feb 11
Noralf Trønnes drm/panel: Add MIPI DBI compatible SPI driver Feb 11
Hugo Villeneuve rtc: pcf2127: add PCF2131 driver Feb 11
David E. Box Intel Software Defined Silicon Feb 11
Antoniu Miclaus iio:amplifiers:ada4250: add support for ADA4250 Feb 12
Srinivasa Rao Mandadapu Add support for audio on SC7280 based targets Feb 12
Manivannan Sadhasivam Add initial support for MHI endpoint stack Feb 12
Liam Beguin iio: afe: add temperature rescaling support Feb 12
Alexander Usyskin Add driver for GSC controller Feb 13
Sui Jingfeng drm/lsdc: add drm driver for loongson display controller Feb 13
Cristian Marussi Add SCMI Virtio & Clock atomic support Feb 13
Cédric Le Goater spi: spi-mem: Add driver for Aspeed SMC controllers Feb 14
Cosmin Tanislav Add ADXL367 driver Feb 14
Samuel Holland usb: typec: WUSB3801 devicetree bindings and driver Feb 13
Jagath Jog J iio: potentiometer: Add support for DS3502 Feb 14
Caleb Connolly iio: adc: introduce Qualcomm SPMI Round Robin ADC Feb 11
Marcello Sylvester Bauer Support pli1209bc Digital Supervisor Feb 14
Satya Priya Add Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. PM8008 regulator driver Feb 15
Srinivas Kandagatla misc: fastrpc: Add more DSP FastRPC features Feb 14
Ilkka Koskinen ACPI: Arm Generic Diagnostic Dump and Reset device Feb 14
Tony Krowiak s390/vfio-ap: dynamic configuration support Feb 14
ektor5 Add SECO CEC driver for MEC Based boards Feb 15
Shawn Guo Add Qualcomm MPM irqchip driver support Feb 16
Srinivasa Rao Mandadapu Add pin control support for lpass sc7280 Feb 16

Device-driver infrastructure

Peter Ujfalusi ASoC: SOF: IPC client infrastructure Feb 10
Xuan Zhuo virtio pci support VIRTIO_F_RING_RESET Feb 14
Geert Uytterhoeven drm: Add support for low-color frame buffer formats Feb 15

Documentation

Thorsten Leemhuis docs: add two texts covering regressions Feb 16

Filesystems and block layer

Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Filesystem folio conversions for 5.18 Feb 09
Dai Ngo nfsd: Initial implementation of NFSv4 Courteous Server Feb 09
Alexander V. Buev implement direct IO with integrity Feb 10
Omar Sandoval btrfs: add ioctls and send/receive support for reading/writing compressed data Feb 10
Mike Snitzer dm: improve bio-based IO accounting Feb 10
Eric Biggers make statx() return I/O alignment information Feb 10
Stefan Roesch Support sync buffered writes for io-uring Feb 14
Ming Lei block: improve iops limit throttle Feb 15
Wang Jianchao (Kuaishou) blk: make blk-rq-qos policies pluggable and modular Feb 16
Ritesh Harjani ext4: fast_commit fixes, stricter block checking & cleanups Feb 16
Allison Henderson xfs: Log Attribute Replay Feb 15

Memory management

Shakeel Butt memcg: robust enforcement of memory.high Feb 10
David Hildenbrand drivers/base/memory: determine and store zone for single-zone memory blocks Feb 10
Joao Martins sparse-vmemmap: memory savings for compound devmaps (device-dax) Feb 10
Hugh Dickins mm/munlock: rework of mlock+munlock page handling Feb 14
Mike Kravetz Add hugetlb MADV_DONTNEED support Feb 14
Mel Gorman Follow-up on high-order PCP caching Feb 15
Muchun Song Use obj_cgroup APIs to charge the LRU pages Feb 16

Networking

Tobias Waldekranz net: bridge: vlan: Multiple Spanning Trees Feb 16
Dust Li net/smc: Add autocork support Feb 16
Hangbin Liu bonding: add IPv6 NS/NA monitor support Feb 16
Vladimir Oltean Support PTP over UDP with the ocelot-8021q DSA tagging protocol Feb 16

Security-related

Nathan Huckleberry crypto: HCTR2 support Feb 10
zhenwei pi Support akcipher for virtio-crypto Feb 11
Jason A. Donenfeld random: block in /dev/urandom Feb 11
Roberto Sassu bpf-lsm: Extend interoperability with IMA Feb 15
Igor Baranov SELinux-namespaces Feb 16

Virtualization and containers

Kalesh Singh KVM: arm64: Hypervisor stack enhancements Feb 10
Reiji Watanabe KVM: arm64: Make CPU ID registers writable by userspace Feb 13

Miscellaneous

Andrii Nakryiko libbpf v0.7 release Feb 10
Florian Westphal libnetfilter_conntrack 1.0.9 release Feb 14
Eric Sandeen xfsdump 3.1.10 released Feb 11
Karel Zak util-linux v2.37.4 Feb 14
Daniel Lezcano tools/lib/thermal: Add a thermal library Feb 14
Samuel Pitoiset libdrm 2.4.110 Feb 16

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