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Calls for Presentations

CFP Deadlines: March 24, 2022 to May 23, 2022

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

DeadlineEvent Dates EventLocation
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
April 26 May 17
May 19		 Yocto Project Summit 2022.05 Online
May 1 June 10
June 12		 South East Linux Fest Charlotte, NC, USA
May 2 September 6
September 8		 Research Software Engineers' Conference 2022 Newcastle, UK
May 15 July 21 Icinga Camp Berlin Berlin, Germany

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

Upcoming Events

Events: March 24, 2022 to May 23, 2022

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

Date(s)EventLocation
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
April 20
April 22		 foss-north Online 2022 Online
April 22
April 23		 Grazer Linuxtage 2022 Graz, Austria
April 22
April 24		 LinuxFest Northwest 2022 Online
April 23
April 24		 FLISOL 2022 Latinoamérica
April 27
May 3		 PyCon Salt Lake City, UT, US
April 29
May 1		 Linux Application Summit 2022 Rovereto, Italy
May 2
May 4		 Linux Storage, Filesystem, and Memory-Management Summit Palm Springs CA, USA
May 10
May 11		 Red Hat Summit 2022 Boston, US
May 10
May 11		 HOT - Heidelberg OSADL Talks Online
May 13 PostgreSQL Conference Germany Leipzig, Germany
May 13
May 14		 Fedora Linux 36 Release Party
May 17
May 19		 Yocto Project Summit 2022.05 Online

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Security updates

Alert summary March 17, 2022 to March 23, 2022

Dist. ID Release Package Date
Debian DLA-2960-1 LTS apache2 2022-03-22
Debian DLA-2955-1 LTS bind9 2022-03-19
Debian DLA-2955-2 LTS bind9 2022-03-19
Debian DSA-5105-1 stable bind9 2022-03-18
Debian DSA-5104-1 stable chromium 2022-03-18
Debian DLA-2951-1 LTS flac 2022-03-17
Debian DLA-2936-1 LTS libgit2 2022-03-21
Debian DLA-2957-1 LTS libpano13 2022-03-20
Debian DLA-2952-1 LTS openssl 2022-03-17
Debian DLA-2953-1 LTS openssl1.0 2022-03-17
Debian DLA-2959-1 LTS paramiko 2022-03-21
Debian DLA-2954-1 LTS python-treq 2022-03-18
Debian DLA-2961-1 LTS thunderbird 2022-03-22
Debian DSA-5106-1 stable thunderbird 2022-03-21
Debian DLA-2958-1 LTS usbredir 2022-03-21
Debian DLA-2956-1 LTS wordpress 2022-03-21
Fedora FEDORA-2022-6b46927596 F34 abcm2ps 2022-03-22
Fedora FEDORA-2022-68d22975a4 F35 abcm2ps 2022-03-22
Fedora FEDORA-2022-dc35dd101f F34 containerd 2022-03-22
Fedora FEDORA-2022-230f2b024b F35 containerd 2022-03-22
Fedora FEDORA-2022-3b24db8072 F34 dotnet6.0 2022-03-22
Fedora FEDORA-2022-61d4028014 F35 dotnet6.0 2022-03-22
Fedora FEDORA-2022-07ff33f237 F34 expat 2022-03-18
Fedora FEDORA-2022-10be3957a4 F35 expat 2022-03-22
Fedora FEDORA-2022-bc43bafcfd F35 ghc-cmark-gfm 2022-03-22
Fedora FEDORA-2022-9342e59a98 F34 kernel 2022-03-18
Fedora FEDORA-2022-de4474b89d F35 kernel 2022-03-18
Fedora FEDORA-2022-4801b2d09b F34 moodle 2022-03-22
Fedora FEDORA-2022-09abde662f F35 moodle 2022-03-22
Fedora FEDORA-2022-62adf9a1e0 F34 nbd 2022-03-16
Fedora FEDORA-2022-807e431d5f F35 nbd 2022-03-16
Fedora FEDORA-2022-5cdfa7faa5 F35 openexr 2022-03-18
Fedora FEDORA-2022-a5f51502f0 F35 openssl 2022-03-22
Fedora FEDORA-2022-a9bd17092d F35 openvpn 2022-03-17
Fedora FEDORA-2022-32c39ab8c0 F34 pesign 2022-03-17
Fedora FEDORA-2022-e0c366b141 F35 pesign 2022-03-17
Fedora FEDORA-2022-ceb3e03c5e F34 rust-regex 2022-03-17
Fedora FEDORA-2022-8436ac4c39 F35 rust-regex 2022-03-17
Fedora FEDORA-2022-f202d1a045 F34 thunderbird 2022-03-18
Fedora FEDORA-2022-01f0553b59 F35 thunderbird 2022-03-17
Fedora FEDORA-2022-4b3079c1be F34 wordpress 2022-03-18
Fedora FEDORA-2022-956b6078fb F35 wordpress 2022-03-18
Fedora FEDORA-2022-5fab125c08 F34 zabbix 2022-03-22
Fedora FEDORA-2022-d714c0d39c F35 zabbix 2022-03-22
Mageia MGASA-2022-0106 8 389-ds-base 2022-03-21
Mageia MGASA-2022-0105 8 apache 2022-03-21
Mageia MGASA-2022-0108 8 bind 2022-03-21
Mageia MGASA-2022-0107 8 chromium-browser-stable 2022-03-21
Mageia MGASA-2022-0111 8 cyrus-sasl 2022-03-23
Mageia MGASA-2022-0103 8 nodejs-tar 2022-03-21
Mageia MGASA-2022-0113 8 openssl 2022-03-23
Mageia MGASA-2022-0104 8 python-django/python-asgiref 2022-03-21
Mageia MGASA-2022-0110 8 sphinx 2022-03-23
Mageia MGASA-2022-0109 8 stunnel 2022-03-21
Mageia MGASA-2022-0112 8 swtpm 2022-03-23
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2022:0923-1 15.3 15.4 SUSE:SLE-15-SP4:Update (security) 2022-03-22
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2022:0081-1 15.3 SLE15 ansible 2022-03-16
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2022:0085-1 15.3 SLE15 chromium 2022-03-20
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2022:0901-1 15.3 15.4 frr 2022-03-18
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2022:0087-1 icingaweb2 2022-03-21
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2022:0873-1 15.3 15.4 java-1_8_0-openjdk 2022-03-16
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2022:0915-1 15.3 15.4 lapack 2022-03-21
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2022:0886-1 15.3 15.4 libreoffice 2022-03-17
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2022:0930-1 15.3 qemu 2022-03-22
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2022:0872-1 15.3 15.4 stunnel 2022-03-16
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2022:0906-1 15.3 15.4 thunderbird 2022-03-21
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2022:0083-1 15.3 SLE15 weechat 2022-03-18
Oracle ELSA-2022-9227 OL7 expat 2022-03-17
Oracle ELSA-2022-9227 OL7 expat 2022-03-17
Oracle ELSA-2022-0951 OL8 expat 2022-03-17
Oracle ELSA-2022-9232 OL8 expat 2022-03-17
Oracle ELSA-2022-0896 OL8 glibc 2022-03-17
Oracle ELSA-2022-9224 OL7 openssl 2022-03-21
Oracle ELSA-2022-9224 OL7 openssl 2022-03-21
Oracle ELSA-2022-0886 OL8 virt:ol and virt-devel:rhel 2022-03-16
Red Hat RHSA-2022:0951-01 EL8 expat 2022-03-16
Red Hat RHSA-2022:1012-01 EL8.4 expat 2022-03-22
Red Hat RHSA-2022:0969-01 EL7 java-1.7.1-ibm 2022-03-21
Red Hat RHSA-2022:0968-01 EL7 java-1.8.0-ibm 2022-03-21
Red Hat RHSA-2022:0970-01 EL8 java-1.8.0-ibm 2022-03-21
Red Hat RHSA-2022:0958-01 EL8.1 kpatch-patch-4_18_0-147_58_1 2022-03-17
Red Hat RHSA-2022:0952-01 EL8 redhat-ds:11.3 2022-03-16
Red Hat RHSA-2022:1010-01 RHSC rh-mariadb103-mariadb 2022-03-22
Red Hat RHSA-2022:1007-01 RHSC rh-mariadb105-mariadb 2022-03-22
Red Hat RHSA-2022:0949-01 EL8.5 virt:av and virt-devel:av 2022-03-16
Slackware SSA:2022-076-01 bind 2022-03-17
Slackware SSA:2022-080-01 bind 2022-03-21
Slackware SSA:2022-076-02 openssl 2022-03-17
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:0918-1 OS8 OS9 SLE12 apache2 2022-03-21
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:14924-1 SLE11 apache2 2022-03-21
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:0928-1 SLE12 apache2 2022-03-22
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:0929-1 SLE15 SES6 apache2 2022-03-22
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:0881-1 SLE12 atftp 2022-03-16
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:0908-1 OS9 SLE12 bind 2022-03-21
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:0934-1 SLE15 binutils 2022-03-22
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:0901-1 MP4.2 SLE15 frr 2022-03-18
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:0909-1 OS8 SLE12 glibc 2022-03-21
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:14923-1 SLE11 glibc 2022-03-21
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:14926-1 SLE11 java-1_7_0-ibm 2022-03-23
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:0873-1 MP4.1 MP4.2 SLE15 SES6 SES7 java-1_8_0-openjdk 2022-03-16
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:0871-1 OS8 OS9 SLE12 java-1_8_0-openjdk 2022-03-16
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:0910-1 OS9 SLE12 kernel-firmware 2022-03-21
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:0933-1 SLE15 kernel-firmware 2022-03-22
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:0915-1 MP4.2 SLE15 lapack 2022-03-21
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:0913-1 SLE12 lapack 2022-03-21
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:0886-1 MP4.2 SLE15 libreoffice 2022-03-17
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:0050-2 MP4.1 SLE15 SES7 net-snmp 2022-03-21
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:0935-1 SLE12 nodejs12 2022-03-22
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:0895-1 OS8 SLE12 python-lxml 2022-03-17
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:0882-1 SLE12 python3 2022-03-16
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:0930-1 MP4.2 SLE15 qemu 2022-03-22
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:0872-1 MP4.1 MP4.2 SLE15 SES7 stunnel 2022-03-16
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:0906-1 MP4.2 SLE15 thunderbird 2022-03-21
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:0931-1 SLE15 SES6 xen 2022-03-22
Ubuntu USN-5333-2 14.04 16.04 apache2 2022-03-17
Ubuntu USN-5333-1 18.04 20.04 21.10 apache2 2022-03-17
Ubuntu USN-5332-2 14.04 16.04 bind9 2022-03-17
Ubuntu USN-5332-1 18.04 20.04 21.10 bind9 2022-03-17
Ubuntu USN-5341-1 16.04 binutils 2022-03-22
Ubuntu USN-5340-1 18.04 20.04 21.10 ckeditor 2022-03-22
Ubuntu USN-5321-2 18.04 20.04 21.10 firefox 2022-03-17
Ubuntu USN-5326-1 16.04 fuse 2022-03-16
Ubuntu USN-5335-1 16.04 imagemagick 2022-03-21
Ubuntu USN-5337-1 20.04 21.10 linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.13, linux-gcp, linux-hwe-5.13, linux-kvm, linux-raspi 2022-03-22
Ubuntu USN-5338-1 18.04 20.04 linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.4, linux-azure, linux-azure-5.4, linux-gke, linux-gkeop, linux-hwe-5.4, linux-ibm, linux-ibm-5.4, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-5.4 2022-03-22
Ubuntu USN-5339-1 14.04 16.04 18.04 linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-hwe, linux-azure, linux-azure-4.15, linux-dell300x, linux-hwe, linux-gcp-4.15, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-snapdragon 2022-03-22
Ubuntu USN-5343-1 14.04 16.04 linux, linux-aws, linux-kvm, linux-lts-xenial 2022-03-22
Ubuntu USN-5334-1 16.04 man-db 2022-03-17
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Kernel patches of interest

Kernel releases

Linus Torvalds Linux 5.17 Mar 20
Alexandre Oliva GNU Linux-libre 5.17-gnu Mar 21
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.16.17 Mar 23
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.16.16 Mar 19
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.15.31 Mar 23
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.15.30 Mar 19
Clark Williams 5.15.29-rt37 Mar 22
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.10.108 Mar 23
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.10.107 Mar 19
Luis Claudio R. Goncalves 5.10.106-rt64 Mar 16
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.4.187 Mar 23
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.4.186 Mar 19
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 4.19.236 Mar 23
Daniel Wagner 4.19.235-rt106 Mar 21
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 4.14.273 Mar 23
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 4.9.308 Mar 23

Architecture-specific

Arnd Bergmann ARM: remove support for NOMMU ARMv4/v5 Mar 16
Mark Brown arm64: Automatic system register definition generation Mar 16
Huacai Chen arch: Add basic LoongArch support Mar 19
guoren@kernel.org riscv: compat: Add COMPAT Kbuild skeletal support Mar 22
Sandipan Das perf/x86/amd/core: Add AMD PerfMonV2 support Mar 17
Kirill A. Shutemov TDX Guest: TDX core support Mar 18
Stephane Eranian perf/x86/amd: Add AMD Fam19h Branch Sampling support Mar 22

Build system

Miguel Ojeda Rust support Mar 17

Core kernel

Palmer Dabbelt Generic Ticket Spinlocks Mar 16
Lukasz Luba Introduce support for artificial Energy Model Mar 16
Pierre Gondois Enable EAS for CPPC/ACPI based systems Mar 17
Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi Introduce typed pointer support in BPF maps Mar 17
Yafang Shao bpf: Allow not to charge bpf memory Mar 19
Artem Savkov Upper bound mode for kernel timers Mar 23
Rasmus Villemoes RT scheduling policies for workqueues Mar 23

Device drivers

Lad Prabhakar Renesas RZ/G2L IRQC support Mar 17
Medad CChien EDAC: nuvoton: Add nuvoton NPCM memory controller driver Mar 17
Johnson Wang Add support for MediaTek PMIC MT6366 Mar 17
Raju Lakkaraju net: lan743x: PCI11010 / PCI11414 devices Mar 17
Nicolas Belin drm: bridge: it66121: Add audio support Mar 16
Horatiu Vultur net: lan966x: Add support for FDMA Mar 17
Moudy Ho media: mediatek: support mdp3 on mt8183 platform Mar 17
Simon Horman nfp: support for NFP-3800 Mar 18
Tony Huang Add mmc driver for Sunplus SP7021 SOC Mar 19
Hammer Hsieh Add PWM driver for Suplus SP7021 SoC Mar 22
Qin Jian Add Sunplus SP7021 SoC Support Mar 22
Srinivasa Rao Mandadapu Add lpass pin control support for audio on sc7280 based targets Mar 21
Richard Fitzgerald ASoC: Add a driver for the Cirrus Logic CS35L45 Smart Amplifier Mar 18
alexandru.tachici@analog.com iio: adc: ad_sigma_delta: Add sequencer support Mar 18
Jianjun Wang phy: mediatek: Add PCIe PHY driver Mar 18
Prasanna Vengateshan net: dsa: microchip: DSA driver support for LAN937x switch Mar 18
Nancy.Lin Add MediaTek SoC DRM (vdosys1) support for mt8195 Mar 18
Quan Nguyen Add Ampere's Altra SMPro MFD and its child drivers Mar 21
Veerasenareddy Burru Add octeon_ep driver Mar 20
frank zago WCH CH341 GPIO and SPI support Mar 20
Jens Wiklander OP-TEE RPC argument cache Mar 21
Christophe Branchereau Ingenic DRM bridge_atomic_enable proposal Mar 21
Yusuf Khan drivers: ddcci: upstream DDCCI driver Mar 20
Pavel Pisa CTU CAN FD open-source IP core SocketCAN driver, PCI, platform integration and documentation Mar 22
Sven Peter Apple M1 (Pro/Max) NVMe driver Mar 21
Sui Jingfeng drm/lsdc: add drm driver for loongson display controller Mar 22
John Garry blk-mq/libata/scsi: SCSI driver tagging improvements Mar 22
shruthi.sanil@intel.com Add the driver for Intel Keem Bay SoC timer block Mar 22
Sumit Saxena mpi3mr: add BSG interface support for controller management Mar 22
Ivan Bornyakov Microchip Polarfire FPGA manager Mar 22
Alistair Francis Add support for the Cypress cyttsp5 Mar 23
Aswath Govindraju AM62: Add support for AM62 USB wrapper driver Mar 23
ryan_chen Add ASPEED AST2600 I2C new controller driver Mar 23
Lucas Tanure Support external boost at CS35l41 ASoC driver Mar 22

Device-driver infrastructure

Ian Pilcher Introduce block device LED trigger Mar 18
Benjamin Tissoires Introduce eBPF support for HID devices Mar 18
Clément Léger introduce fwnode in the I2C subsystem Mar 18

Documentation

frowand.list@gmail.com Documentation: dev-tools: begin KTAP spec v2 process Mar 16
Paolo Bonzini Documentation: KVM: add a place to document API quirks and (x86) CPU errata Mar 22

Filesystems and block layer

Imran Khan kernfs: Introduce interface to access global kernfs_open_file_mutex. Mar 17
Dai Ngo NFSD: Initial implementation of NFSv4 Courteous Server Mar 17
Omar Sandoval btrfs: add send/receive support for reading/writing compressed data Mar 17
Jane Chu DAX poison recovery Mar 19
Chandan Babu R xfs: Extend per-inode extent counters Mar 21
Dharmendra Singh FUSE: Implement atomic lookup + open Mar 22
Jeff Layton ceph+fscrypt : full support Mar 22
Miklos Szeredi getvalues(2) prototype Mar 22
Gabriel Krisman Bertazi shmem: Allow userspace monitoring of tmpfs for lack of space. Mar 22

Memory management

Zi Yan Use pageblock_order for cma and alloc_contig_range alignment. Mar 17
Yang Shi Make khugepaged collapse readonly FS THP more consistent Mar 17
Zi Yan Split a huge page to any lower order pages Mar 21
Yinan Zhang mm/page_owner.c: introduce vmalloc allocator for page_owner Mar 22
Muchun Song add hugetlb_free_vmemmap sysctl Mar 23

Networking

Sun Shouxin net:bonding:Add support for IPV6 RLB to balance-alb mode Mar 17
Mattias Forsblad bridge: dsa: switchdev: mv88e6xxx: Implement bridge flood flags Mar 17
Miquel Raynal ieee802154: Better Tx error handling Mar 18
Sun Shouxin Add support for IPV6 RLB to balance-alb mode Mar 21
menglong8.dong@gmail.com net: icmp: add skb drop reasons to icmp Mar 22

Security-related

Mimi Zohar ima: support fs-verity digests and signatures Mar 18
Coiby Xu Support kdump with LUKS encryption by reusing LUKS master key Mar 18
Jason A. Donenfeld random: allow writes to /dev/urandom to influence fast init Mar 22
zhenwei pi Support akcipher for virtio-crypto Mar 23

Virtualization and containers

Chenyi Qiang Introduce Notify VM exit Mar 18
Ben Gardon KVM: x86: Add a cap to disable NX hugepages on a VM Mar 21
Gavin Shan Support SDEI Virtualization Mar 22

Miscellaneous

Phillip Lougher Squashfs-tools 4.5.1 released Mar 17
Ammar Faizi Add dynamic memory allocator support for nolibc Mar 22

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