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CFP Deadlines: April 14, 2022 to June 13, 2022

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

DeadlineEvent Dates EventLocation
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
May 26 September 15
September 18		 EuroBSDCon 2022 Vienna, Austria
May 30 September 13
September 16		 Open Source Summit Europe Dublin, Ireland
May 30 August 23
August 24		 Open Source Summit Latin America Online
June 9 October 19
October 21		 ROSCon 2022 Kyoto, Japan
June 10 September 21
September 22		 Open Mainframe Summit Philadelphia, US

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

Upcoming Events

Events: April 14, 2022 to June 13, 2022

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

Date(s)EventLocation
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		 HOT - Heidelberg OSADL Talks Online
May 10
May 11		 Red Hat Summit 2022 Boston, US
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
May 24
May 27		 PGCon Online
May 30
May 31		 Embedded Recipes Paris, France
May 31
June 2		 sambaXP Göttingen, Germany
June 1
June 4		 BSDCan Online
June 1
June 3		 Kernel Recipes Paris, France
June 2 Devconf.CZ Mini IRL Brno, Czech
June 2
June 4		 openSUSE Conference 2022 Nürnberg, Germany
June 7
June 9		 SUSECON 2022 Online
June 7
June 9		 Open Infrastructure Summit Berlin, Germany
June 8
June 9		 Zephyr Developer Summit 2022 Mountain View, CA, USA
June 10
June 12		 South East Linux Fest Charlotte, NC, USA
June 10
June 12		 OSFF Summer Hackathon 2022 Darmstadt, Germany

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

Security updates

Alert summary April 7, 2022 to April 13, 2022

Dist. ID Release Package Date
Arch Linux ASA-202204-5 bind 2022-04-07
Arch Linux ASA-202204-7 gzip 2022-04-12
Arch Linux ASA-202204-6 libtiff 2022-04-07
Arch Linux ASA-202204-9 python-django 2022-04-12
Arch Linux ASA-202204-8 xz 2022-04-12
Debian DSA-5114-1 stable chromium 2022-04-07
Debian DSA-5120-1 stable chromium 2022-04-13
Debian DLA-2971-1 LTS firefox-esr 2022-04-07
Debian DSA-5113-1 stable firefox-esr 2022-04-06
Debian DLA-2976-1 LTS gzip 2022-04-10
Debian DLA-2972-1 LTS libxml2 2022-04-08
Debian DLA-2973-1 LTS minidlna 2022-04-09
Debian DLA-2975-1 LTS openjpeg2 2022-04-10
Debian DSA-5119-1 stable subversion 2022-04-13
Debian DLA-2978-1 LTS thunderbird 2022-04-11
Debian DSA-5118-1 stable thunderbird 2022-04-10
Debian DLA-2979-1 LTS usbguard 2022-04-11
Debian DSA-5115-1 stable webkit2gtk 2022-04-08
Debian DSA-5116-1 stable wpewebkit 2022-04-08
Debian DSA-5117-1 stable xen 2022-04-10
Debian DLA-2977-1 LTS xz-utils 2022-04-10
Debian DLA-2980-1 LTS zabbix 2022-04-12
Fedora FEDORA-2022-e6388650ea F34 buildah 2022-04-07
Fedora FEDORA-2022-224a93852c F35 buildah 2022-04-07
Fedora FEDORA-2022-ba2c5339d4 F34 chromium 2022-04-07
Fedora FEDORA-2022-e960d7e1b6 F35 chromium 2022-04-07
Fedora FEDORA-2022-ed53f2439a F34 containerd 2022-04-11
Fedora FEDORA-2022-e9a09c1a7d F35 containerd 2022-04-11
Fedora FEDORA-2022-10fd054d40 F34 crun 2022-04-08
Fedora FEDORA-2022-3781e69ebd F35 firefox 2022-04-11
Fedora FEDORA-2022-d230620a58 F35 fribidi 2022-04-06
Fedora FEDORA-2022-cffca5dbf4 F34 gdal 2022-04-06
Fedora FEDORA-2022-de0f8beeb0 F34 golang-github-containerd-imgcrypt 2022-04-11
Fedora FEDORA-2022-5f746c8e5b F35 golang-github-containerd-imgcrypt 2022-04-11
Fedora FEDORA-2022-cffca5dbf4 F34 mingw-gdal 2022-04-06
Fedora FEDORA-2022-3781e69ebd F35 nss 2022-04-11
Fedora FEDORA-2022-f6d46280da F35 unrealircd 2022-04-10
Fedora FEDORA-2022-e62adccfca F34 vim 2022-04-11
Fedora FEDORA-2022-d776fcfe60 F35 vim 2022-04-08
Mageia MGASA-2022-0134 8 389-ds-base 2022-04-09
Mageia MGASA-2022-0135 8 busybox 2022-04-09
Mageia MGASA-2022-0131 8 flatpak 2022-04-09
Mageia MGASA-2022-0136 8 fribidi 2022-04-09
Mageia MGASA-2022-0137 8 gdal 2022-04-09
Mageia MGASA-2022-0132 8 python-paramiko 2022-04-09
Mageia MGASA-2022-0133 8 usbredir 2022-04-09
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2022:0104-1 15.3 SDL2 2022-04-07
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2022:1127-1 15.3 15.4 firefox 2022-04-07
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2022:0110-1 13.1 15.0 15.4 opera 2022-04-08
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2022:0105-1 15.3 SLE15 pdns-recursor 2022-04-07
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2022:0108-1 15.3 seamonkey 2022-04-08
Oracle ELSA-2022-1284 OL7 firefox 2022-04-11
Oracle ELSA-2022-1284 OL7 firefox 2022-04-11
Oracle ELSA-2022-1198 OL7 kernel 2022-04-06
Oracle ELSA-2022-9270 OL7 kernel 2022-04-08
Oracle ELSA-2022-9270 OL7 kernel 2022-04-08
Oracle ELSA-2022-9264 OL7 kernel 2022-04-08
Oracle ELSA-2022-9264 OL7 kernel 2022-04-08
Oracle ELSA-2022-9273 OL7 kernel 2022-04-11
Oracle ELSA-2022-9264 OL8 kernel 2022-04-08
Oracle ELSA-2022-9264 OL8 kernel 2022-04-08
Oracle ELSA-2022-9273 OL8 kernel 2022-04-11
Oracle ELSA-2022-9273 OL8 kernel 2022-04-11
Oracle ELSA-2022-9265 OL7 kernel-container 2022-04-08
Oracle ELSA-2022-9274 OL7 kernel-container 2022-04-11
Oracle ELSA-2022-9265 OL8 kernel-container 2022-04-08
Oracle ELSA-2022-9274 OL8 kernel-container 2022-04-11
Oracle ELSA-2022-1302 OL7 thunderbird 2022-04-11
Oracle ELSA-2022-1302 OL7 thunderbird 2022-04-11
Oracle ELSA-2022-1301 OL8 thunderbird 2022-04-11
Red Hat RHSA-2022:1309-01 EL6 expat 2022-04-12
Red Hat RHSA-2022:1284-01 EL7 firefox 2022-04-08
Red Hat RHSA-2022:1287-01 EL8 firefox 2022-04-08
Red Hat RHSA-2022:1283-01 EL8.1 firefox 2022-04-08
Red Hat RHSA-2022:1286-01 EL8.2 firefox 2022-04-08
Red Hat RHSA-2022:1285-01 EL8.4 firefox 2022-04-08
Red Hat RHSA-2022:1324-01 EL7.7 kernel 2022-04-12
Red Hat RHSA-2022:1302-01 EL7 thunderbird 2022-04-11
Red Hat RHSA-2022:1301-01 EL8 thunderbird 2022-04-11
Red Hat RHSA-2022:1303-01 EL8.1 thunderbird 2022-04-11
Red Hat RHSA-2022:1326-01 EL8.2 thunderbird 2022-04-12
Red Hat RHSA-2022:1305-01 EL8.4 thunderbird 2022-04-11
Scientific Linux SLSA-2022:1284-1 SL7 firefox 2022-04-08
Scientific Linux SLSA-2022:1302-1 SL7 thunderbird 2022-04-11
Slackware SSA:2022-098-01 libarchive 2022-04-08
Slackware SSA:2022-096-01 mozilla 2022-04-06
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:1139-1 SLE15 389-ds 2022-04-08
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:1127-1 MP4.1 MP4.2 SLE15 SES7 firefox 2022-04-07
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:1123-1 OS8 SLE12 glibc 2022-04-06
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:1164-1 MP4.1 MP4.2 SLE15 SES7 go1.16 2022-04-12
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:1164-1 MP4.1 MP4.2 SLE15 SES7 go1.16 2022-04-12
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:1167-1 MP4.1 MP4.2 SLE15 SES7 go1.17 2022-04-12
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:1167-1 MP4.1 MP4.2 SLE15 SES7 go1.17 2022-04-12
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:1163-1 MP4.2 SLE15 kernel 2022-04-12
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:1163-1 MP4.2 SLE15 kernel 2022-04-12
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:1148-1 MP4.1 MP4.2 SLE15 SES6 SES7 libexif 2022-04-11
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:1168-1 OS8 OS9 SLE12 libexif 2022-04-12
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:1131-1 MP4.0 SLE15 SES6 libsolv, libzypp, zypper 2022-04-08
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:1157-1 MP4.1 MP4.2 SLE15 SES7 libsolv, libzypp, zypper 2022-04-12
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:1157-1 MP4.1 MP4.2 SLE15 SES7 libsolv, libzypp, zypper 2022-04-12
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:1130-1 SLE15 libsolv, libzypp, zypper 2022-04-08
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:1128-1 SLE12 libsolv, libzypp 2022-04-07
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:1149-1 MP4.1 MP4.2 SLE15 SES6 SES7 mozilla-nss 2022-04-11
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:1142-1 OS8 OS9 SLE12 mysql-connector-java 2022-04-11
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:1129-1 OS8 OS9 SLE12 openjpeg2 2022-04-07
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:1156-1 MP4.2 SLE15 SES6 opensc 2022-04-12
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:1156-1 MP4.2 SLE15 SES6 opensc 2022-04-12
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:14937-1 SLE11 openvpn-openssl1 2022-04-06
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:1140-1 OS9 SLE12 python 2022-04-08
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:1151-1 SLE12 qemu 2022-04-11
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:1161-1 MP4.1 SLE15 SES6 SES7 subversion 2022-04-12
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:1162-1 MP4.2 SLE15 subversion 2022-04-12
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:1162-1 MP4.2 SLE15 subversion 2022-04-12
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:1176-1 MP4.2 SLE15 thunderbird 2022-04-13
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:1176-1 MP4.2 SLE15 thunderbird 2022-04-13
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:1158-1 MP4.1 MP4.2 SLE15 SES6 SES7 xz 2022-04-12
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:1158-1 MP4.1 MP4.2 SLE15 SES6 SES7 xz 2022-04-12
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:1160-1 OS8 OS9 SLE12 xz 2022-04-12
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:14938-1 SLE11 xz 2022-04-12
Ubuntu USN-5370-1 18.04 20.04 21.10 firefox 2022-04-07
Ubuntu USN-5366-1 18.04 20.04 21.10 fribidi 2022-04-07
Ubuntu USN-5376-1 18.04 20.04 21.10 git 2022-04-12
Ubuntu USN-5374-1 20.04 21.10 libarchive 2022-04-11
Ubuntu USN-5368-1 20.04 linux-azure-5.13, linux-oracle-5.13 2022-04-06
Ubuntu USN-5377-1 20.04 linux-bluefield 2022-04-12
Ubuntu USN-5371-1 16.04 18.04 20.04 21.10 nginx 2022-04-13
Ubuntu USN-5373-2 14.04 16.04 python-django 2022-04-11
Ubuntu USN-5373-1 18.04 20.04 21.10 python-django 2022-04-11
Ubuntu USN-5369-1 16.04 18.04 20.04 21.10 python-oslo.utils 2022-04-07
Ubuntu USN-5372-1 20.04 21.10 subversion 2022-04-12
Ubuntu USN-5331-2 18.04 20.04 tcpdump 2022-04-11
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Kernel patches of interest

Kernel releases

Linus Torvalds Linux 5.18-rc2 Apr 10
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.17.3 Apr 13
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.17.2 Apr 08
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.16.20 Apr 13
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.16.19 Apr 08
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.15.34 Apr 13
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.15.33 Apr 08
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.10.111 Apr 13
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.10.110 Apr 08
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 4.9.310 Apr 12

Architecture-specific

madvenka@linux.microsoft.com arm64: livepatch: Use DWARF Call Frame Information for frame pointer validation Apr 07
Mark Brown arm64/sme: Initial support for the Scalable Matrix Extension Apr 08
Ard Biesheuvel arm64: support WXN and entry with MMU enabled Apr 11
madvenka@linux.microsoft.com arm64: Reorganize the unwinder and implement stack trace reliability checks Apr 13
Xu Kuohai bpf trampoline for arm64 Apr 13
Marc Zyngier arm64: Add initial support for FEAT_WFxT Apr 12
Laurent Vivier m68k: Add Virtual M68k Machine Apr 06
Christophe Leroy Convert powerpc to default topdown mmap layout (v10) Apr 09
Li Zhengyu riscv: kexec: add kexec_file_load() support Apr 08
Anup Patel KVM RISC-V Sv57x4 support and HFENCE improvements Apr 12
Heiko Stuebner riscv: support for Svpbmt and D1 memory types Apr 13
Suravee Suthikulpanit Introducing AMD x2APIC Virtualization (x2AVIC) support Apr 12

Build system

Chen Zhongjin objtool: add base support for arm64 Apr 07

Core kernel

Liao Chang softirq: Introduce softirq throttling Apr 06
Artem Savkov Upper bound kernel timers Apr 07
Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi Introduce typed pointer support in BPF maps Apr 09
Abel Wu introduece sched-idle balance Apr 09
Dmitry Osipenko Introduce power-off+restart call chain API Apr 12
Vincent Donnefort feec() energy margin removal Apr 12
Jens Axboe Add io_uring socket(2) support Apr 12

Device drivers

H. Nikolaus Schaller MIPS: JZ4780 and CI20 HDMI Apr 06
Enric Balletbo i Serra platform: x86: Add ChromeOS ACPI device driver Apr 07
Yong Wu MT8195 IOMMU SUPPORT Apr 07
Liu Ying drm/imx: Introduce i.MX8qm/qxp DPU DRM Apr 07
Qi Liu Add Support for HiSilicon CPA PMU Apr 07
Lucas Stach consolidated i.MX8MP HSIO/MEDIA/HDMI blk-ctrl series Apr 06
Lucas Stach i.MX8MP HDMI support Apr 06
Miquel Raynal RZN1 DMA support Apr 06
jason-jh.lin Add Mediatek Soc DRM (vdosys0) support for mt8195 Apr 07
Alexander Usyskin GSC support for XeHP SDV and DG2 platforms Apr 07
Yicong Yang Add support for HiSilicon PCIe Tune and Trace device Apr 07
Ivan Bornyakov Microchip Polarfire FPGA manager Apr 07
Chuanhong Guo spi: add support for Mediatek SPI-NAND controller Apr 07
Jithu Joseph Introduce In Field Scan driver Apr 07
Javier Martinez Canillas drm/solomon: Add SSD130x OLED displays SPI support Apr 07
Johnson Wang Introduce MediaTek CCI devfreq driver Apr 08
Yunfei Dong media: mtk-vcodec: support for M8192 decoder Apr 08
Horatiu Vultur net: lan966x: Add support for FDMA Apr 08
Sudeep Holla tee: Add Arm FF-A TEE driver Apr 08
Ricardo Martinez net: wwan: t7xx: PCIe driver for MediaTek M.2 modem Apr 07
Sascha Hauer drm/rockchip: RK356x VOP2 support Apr 08
Sumit Saxena mpi3mr: add BSG interface support for controller management Apr 07
Jean-Jacques Hiblot ARM: r9a06g032: add support for the watchdogs Apr 08
Chris Morgan power: supply: Add Support for RK817 Charger Apr 08
Chun-Jie Chen MediaTek MT8186 clock support Apr 09
Moudy Ho Add mutex support for MDP Apr 11
Li-hao Kuo Add thermal control driver for Sunplus SP7021 SoC Apr 11
Douglas Gilbert sg: add v4 interface Apr 10
Wells Lu This is a patch series for Ethernet driver of Sunplus SP7021 SoC. Apr 12
Dmitry Osipenko Add generic memory shrinker to VirtIO-GPU and Panfrost DRM drivers Apr 12
Martin Povišer Apple ADMAC driver Apr 12
Samuel Holland drm/sun4i: Allwinner D1 Display Engine 2.0 Support Apr 11
Herve Codina RZN1 USB Host support Apr 12
Mao Jinlong Coresight: Add support for TPDM and TPDA Apr 12
alexandru.tachici@analog.com net: phy: adin1100: Add initial support for ADIN1100 industrial PHY Apr 12
Charles Mirabile Raspberry Pi Sense HAT driver Apr 12
Yunfei Dong add h264 decoder driver for mt8186 Apr 13
Yuji Ishikawa Visconti: Add Toshiba Visconti Video Input Interface driver Apr 13
Veerasenareddy Burru Add octeon_ep driver Apr 12
Yunfei Dong support mt8195 decoder Apr 13
Srinivasa Rao Mandadapu Add soundcard support for sc7280 based platforms. Apr 13
Javier Martinez Canillas drm/solomon: Add SSD130x OLED displays SPI support Apr 13
Miquel Raynal RZN1 DMA support Apr 12

Device-driver infrastructure

Lukasz Luba Introduce Cpufreq Active Stats Apr 06
Tomi Valkeinen v4l: subdev active state Apr 07
sven@svenschwermer.de Multicolor PWM LED support Apr 07
Logan Gunthorpe Userspace P2PDMA with O_DIRECT NVMe devices Apr 07
Tomi Valkeinen v4l: subdev active state Apr 12

Filesystems and block layer

David Howells cifs: Iterators, netfslib and folios Apr 07
Logan Gunthorpe Improve Raid5 Lock Contention Apr 07
Shiyang Ruan fsdax: introduce fs query to support reflink Apr 11
Amir Goldstein Evictable fanotify marks Apr 13
Ming Lei dm: io accounting & polling improvement Apr 12
Qu Wenruo btrfs: add subpage support for RAID56 Apr 12

Memory management

Zi Yan Use pageblock_order for cma and alloc_contig_range alignment. Apr 06
Yu Zhao Multi-Gen LRU Framework Apr 06
Yosry Ahmed memcg: introduce per-memcg proactive reclaim Apr 07
Huang Ying memory tiering: hot page selection Apr 08
Zach O'Keefe mm: userspace hugepage collapse Apr 10
Khalid Aziz Add support for shared PTEs across processes Apr 11
Muchun Song add hugetlb_optimize_vmemmap sysctl Apr 13

Networking

Jens Axboe Add support for no-lock sockets Apr 12

Security-related

Casey Schaufler LSM: Module stacking for AppArmor Apr 07
Jason A. Donenfeld archs/random: fallback to using ktime_read_raw_clock() if no cycle counter Apr 10
zhenwei pi Introduce akcipher service for virtio-crypto Apr 11
Nathan Huckleberry crypto: HCTR2 support Apr 12

Virtualization and containers

Raghavendra Rao Ananta KVM: arm64: Add support for hypercall services selection Apr 07
Vitaly Kuznetsov KVM: x86: hyper-v: Fine-grained TLB flush + Direct TLB flush feature Apr 07
Zeng Guang IPI virtualization support for VM Apr 11
Like Xu KVM: x86/pmu: Add basic support to enable guest PEBS via DS Apr 11
Ben Gardon KVM: x86: Add a cap to disable NX hugepages on a VM Apr 13

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