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Calls for Presentations

CFP Deadlines: April 21, 2022 to June 20, 2022

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

DeadlineEvent Dates EventLocation
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
June 15 July 22
July 24		 TUG 2022 - Online Presentations Covering the World of TeX Online
June 19 October 1
October 7		 Akademy 2022 Barcelona, Spain
June 19 September 12
September 14		 Linux Plumbers Conference Dublin, Ireland

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

Upcoming Events

Events: April 21, 2022 to June 20, 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 3		 Kernel Recipes Paris, France
June 1
June 4		 BSDCan Online
June 2 Devconf.CZ Mini IRL Brno, Czech
June 2
June 4		 openSUSE Conference 2022 Nürnberg, Germany
June 7
June 9		 Open Infrastructure Summit Berlin, Germany
June 7
June 9		 SUSECON 2022 Online
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
June 17
June 18		 CentOS Dojo Summer Online 2022 Online

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

Security updates

Alert summary April 14, 2022 to April 20, 2022

Dist. ID Release Package Date
Debian DLA-2983-1 LTS abcm2ps 2022-04-17
Debian DSA-5121-1 stable chromium 2022-04-16
Debian DLA-2984-1 LTS condor 2022-04-19
Debian DLA-2974-1 LTS fribidi 2022-04-14
Debian DSA-5122-1 stable gzip 2022-04-18
Debian DLA-2981-1 LTS lrzip 2022-04-13
Debian DLA-2982-1 LTS python-django 2022-04-14
Debian DSA-5123-1 stable xz-utils 2022-04-18
Fedora FEDORA-2022-e619e3d5d0 F34 cacti 2022-04-17
Fedora FEDORA-2022-6a7e259e15 F35 cacti 2022-04-17
Fedora FEDORA-2022-e619e3d5d0 F34 cacti-spine 2022-04-17
Fedora FEDORA-2022-6a7e259e15 F35 cacti-spine 2022-04-17
Fedora FEDORA-2022-43217f0ba7 F34 community-mysql 2022-04-13
Fedora FEDORA-2022-be015e0331 F35 community-mysql 2022-04-13
Fedora FEDORA-2022-a88218de5c F35 dhcp 2022-04-18
Fedora FEDORA-2022-aac057a550 F34 expat 2022-04-13
Fedora FEDORA-2022-ea66694ce2 F34 firefox 2022-04-13
Fedora FEDORA-2022-764c8c6b1c F34 fribidi 2022-04-17
Fedora FEDORA-2022-5cd9d787dc F34 kernel 2022-04-13
Fedora FEDORA-2022-91633399ff F35 kernel 2022-04-13
Fedora FEDORA-2022-2d112d4480 F34 mingw-openjpeg2 2022-04-13
Fedora FEDORA-2022-ea66694ce2 F34 nss 2022-04-13
Fedora FEDORA-2022-2d112d4480 F34 openjpeg2 2022-04-13
Fedora FEDORA-2022-1151f65e9a F35 postgresql-jdbc 2022-04-14
Fedora FEDORA-2022-413a80a102 F35 rsync 2022-04-18
Fedora FEDORA-2022-e244ad73d6 F34 stargz-snapshotter 2022-04-14
Fedora FEDORA-2022-a7d438b30b F35 stargz-snapshotter 2022-04-14
Fedora FEDORA-2022-57f0bf1034 F35 thunderbird 2022-04-14
Mageia MGASA-2022-0138 8 ceph 2022-04-13
Mageia MGASA-2022-0146 8 chromium-browser-stable 2022-04-18
Mageia MGASA-2022-0141 8 crun 2022-04-15
Mageia MGASA-2022-0144 8 docker-containerd 2022-04-15
Mageia MGASA-2022-0142 8 libarchive 2022-04-15
Mageia MGASA-2022-0145 8 mediawiki 2022-04-18
Mageia MGASA-2022-0143 8 ruby 2022-04-15
Mageia MGASA-2022-0140 8 subversion 2022-04-13
Mageia MGASA-2022-0139 8 webkit2 2022-04-13
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2022:0112-1 15.3 chromium 2022-04-13
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2022:0114-1 15.3 SLE15 chromium 2022-04-19
Oracle ELSA-2022-9276 OL8 httpd:2.4 2022-04-13
Red Hat RHSA-2022:1410-01 EL8.4 389-ds:1.4 2022-04-19
Red Hat RHSA-2022:1407-01 EL8.4 container-tools:2.0 2022-04-19
Red Hat RHSA-2022:1417-01 EL6 kernel 2022-04-19
Red Hat RHSA-2022:1413-01 EL8.4 kernel-rt 2022-04-19
Red Hat RHSA-2022:1373-01 EL7.7 kpatch-patch 2022-04-13
Red Hat RHSA-2022:1418-01 EL8.4 kpatch-patch 2022-04-19
Slackware SSA:2022-104-01 git 2022-04-14
Slackware SSA:2022-104-02 gzip 2022-04-14
Slackware SSA:2022-103-01 ruby 2022-04-13
Slackware SSA:2022-104-03 xz 2022-04-14
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:1218-1 MP4.1 MP4.2 SLE15 SES7 SDL2 2022-04-14
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:1218-1 MP4.1 MP4.2 SLE15 SES7 SDL2 2022-04-14
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:0845-2 SLEm15 chrony 2022-04-20
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:0720-2 SLEm15 containerd 2022-04-20
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:0844-2 SLEm15 expat 2022-04-20
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:1260-1 MP4.1 SLE15 SES6 SES7 git 2022-04-19
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:1260-1 MP4.1 SLE15 SES6 SES7 git 2022-04-19
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:1250-1 SLE15 SES6 gzip 2022-04-17
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:1259-1 MP4.2 SLE15 icedtea-web 2022-04-19
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:1259-1 MP4.2 SLE15 icedtea-web 2022-04-19
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:1265-1 MP4.1 MP4.2 SLE15 SES7 jsoup, jsr-305 2022-04-19
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:1265-1 MP4.1 MP4.2 SLE15 SES7 jsoup, jsr-305 2022-04-19
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:1256-1 MP4.0 SLE15 SES6 kernel 2022-04-19
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:1256-1 MP4.0 SLE15 SES6 kernel 2022-04-19
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:1197-1 MP4.1 SLE15 SES7 kernel 2022-04-14
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:1183-1 MP4.2 SLE15 kernel 2022-04-13
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:1183-1 MP4.2 SLE15 kernel 2022-04-13
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:1267-1 OS9 SLE12 kernel 2022-04-19
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:1196-1 SLE12 kernel 2022-04-14
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:1266-1 SLE12 kernel 2022-04-19
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:1257-1 SLE15 kernel 2022-04-19
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:1255-1 SLE15 kernel 2022-04-19
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:0727-2 SLE-m5.2 libeconf, shadow and util-linux 2022-04-20
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:1184-1 SLE12 netatalk 2022-04-13
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:1252-1 MP4.1 MP4.2 SLE15 SES6 SES7 openjpeg2 2022-04-19
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:1252-1 MP4.1 MP4.2 SLE15 SES6 SES7 openjpeg2 2022-04-19
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:1040-2 SLE-m5.2 protobuf 2022-04-20
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:0802-2 SLE-m5.2 python-libxml2-python 2022-04-20
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:0942-2 SLE-m5.2 python3 2022-04-20
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:0943-2 SLE-m5.2 slirp4netns 2022-04-20
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:1258-1 OS9 SLE12 sssd 2022-04-19
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:1217-1 OS9 SLE12 tomcat 2022-04-14
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:0736-2 SLE-m5.2 vim 2022-04-20
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:0716-2 SLE-m5.2 wpa_supplicant 2022-04-20
SUSE SUSE-SU-2022:1254-1 SLE12 zabbix 2022-04-19
Ubuntu USN-5380-1 14.04 16.04 18.04 20.04 bash 2022-04-20
Ubuntu USN-5378-4 14.04 16.04 gzip 2022-04-13
Ubuntu USN-5378-1 18.04 20.04 21.10 gzip 2022-04-13
Ubuntu USN-5379-1 14.04 16.04 18.04 20.04 klibc 2022-04-18
Ubuntu USN-5378-3 14.04 16.04 xz-utils 2022-04-13
Ubuntu USN-5378-2 18.04 20.04 21.10 xz-utils 2022-04-13
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Kernel patches of interest

Kernel releases

Linus Torvalds Linux 5.18-rc3 Apr 17
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.17.4 Apr 20
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.15.35 Apr 20
Clark Williams 5.15.34-rt40 Apr 18
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.10.112 Apr 20
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.4.190 Apr 20
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.4.189 Apr 15
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 4.19.239 Apr 20
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 4.19.238 Apr 15
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 4.14.276 Apr 20
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 4.9.311 Apr 20

Architecture-specific

Arnd Bergmann OMAP1 full multiplatform conversion Apr 19
Arnd Bergmann ARM: PXA multiplatform support Apr 19
Wupeng Ma introduce mirrored memory support for arm64 Apr 14
Zhen Lei support reserving crashkernel above 4G on arm64 kdump Apr 14
Xu Kuohai bpf trampoline for arm64 Apr 14
Mark Brown arm64/sme: Initial support for the Scalable Matrix Extension Apr 19
Marc Zyngier arm64: Add initial support for FEAT_WFxT Apr 19
Anup Patel RISC-V IPI Improvements Apr 18
Thomas Gleixner x86/cpu: Consolidate APERF/MPERF code Apr 15
ira.weiny@intel.com PKS/PMEM: Add Stray Write Protection Apr 19
Max Filippov xtensa: support coprocessors on SMP Apr 15

Build system

Josh Poimboeuf objtool: Interface overhaul Apr 13

Core kernel

Kurt Kanzenbach tracing: Introduce trace clock tai Apr 14
Palmer Dabbelt Generic Ticket Spinlocks Apr 14
Donghai Qiao smp: cross CPU call interface Apr 14
Jens Axboe io_uring: Allow cancelation based on fd Apr 14
Stefan Roesch add large CQE support for io-uring Apr 19
Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi Introduce typed pointer support in BPF maps Apr 15
Joanne Koong Dynamic pointers Apr 15
Aaron Tomlin module: Introduce module unload taint tracking Apr 19
Jason A. Donenfeld random: add fork_event sysctl for polling VM forks Apr 19

Development tools

David Vernet cgroup: Introduce cpu controller test suite Apr 19

Device drivers

Samuel Holland drm/rockchip: Rockchip EBC ("E-Book Controller") display driver Apr 13
Yuji Ishikawa Visconti: Add Toshiba Visconti Video Input Interface driver Apr 14
Liu Ying phy: phy-fsl-imx8-mipi-dphy: Add i.MX8qxp LVDS PHY mode support Apr 14
Herve Codina RZN1 USB Host support Apr 14
Clément Léger add support for Renesas RZ/N1 ethernet subsystem devices Apr 14
Kartik Add watchdog timer support for Tegra186/194/234 SoCs Apr 14
Sankeerth Billakanti Add support for the eDP panel over aux_bus Apr 14
Satya Priya Add Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. PM8008 regulator driver Apr 14
Srinivasa Rao Mandadapu Add lpass pin control support for audio on sc7280 based targets Apr 14
Markuss Broks Add support for Silicon Mitus SM5703 MFD Apr 14
周琰杰 (Zhou Yanjie) Add SMP/SMT support for Ingenic sysost driver. Apr 15
Chris Packham arm64: mvebu: Support for Marvell 98DX2530 (and variants) Apr 15
Qi Liu Add Support for HiSilicon CPA PMU Apr 15
Andrea Merello Add support for Bosch BNO055 IMU Apr 15
Sven Peter Apple M1 (Pro/Max) NVMe driver Apr 15
Paul Kocialkowski Allwinner A31/A83T MIPI CSI-2 and A31 ISP / MIPI CSI-2 Support Apr 15
Muhammad Usama Anjum platform: x86: Add ChromeOS ACPI device driver Apr 15
Qi Liu Add support for UltraSoc System Memory Buffer Apr 16
Peter Geis Enable rk356x PCIe controller Apr 16
jason-jh.lin Add Mediatek Soc DRM (vdosys0) support for mt8195 Apr 15
Nancy.Lin Add MediaTek SoC DRM (vdosys1) support for mt8195 Apr 16
Frank Wunderlich RK3568 PCIe V3 support Apr 16
Samuel Holland Pine64 PinePhone keyboard support Apr 16
Dmitry Osipenko Add generic memory shrinker to VirtIO-GPU and Panfrost DRM drivers Apr 18
Moudy Ho media: mediatek: support mdp3 on mt8183 platform Apr 18
Moudy Ho Add mutex support for MDP Apr 18
Srinivasa Rao Mandadapu Add pin control support for lpass sc7280 Apr 18
Srinivasa Rao Mandadapu Add soundcard support for sc7280 based platforms. Apr 18
Wenli Looi ath9k: add support for QCN550x Apr 18
Patrick Rudolph Add support for cy8c95x0 pinctrl Apr 19
Yuji Ishikawa Add Toshiba Visconti AFFINE image processing accelerator driver Apr 19
Cosmin Tanislav AD4130 Apr 19
Patrick Rudolph Add support for Maxim MAX735x/MAX736x variants Apr 19
Guangbin Huang drivers/perf: hisi: Add driver for HNS3 PMU Apr 19
Cai Huoqing drm/nvdla: Add driver support for NVDLA Apr 19
Rokosov Dmitry Dmitrievich iio: accel: add MSA311 accelerometer driver Apr 19
Tony Luck Introduce In Field Scan driver Apr 19
Charles Mirabile Raspberry Pi Sense HAT driver Apr 19
Javier Martinez Canillas drm/solomon: Add SSD130x OLED displays SPI support Apr 19
Jane Chu DAX poison recovery Apr 19
Kohei Tarumizu Add hardware prefetch control driver for A64FX and x86 Apr 20
Biju Das Add support for RZ/G2L VSPD Apr 19
Yoshihiro Shimoda treewide: scsi: ufs: Add support for Renesas R-Car UFS controller Apr 19

Device-driver infrastructure

Russ Weight Extend FW framework for user FW uploads Apr 15
Puranjay Mohan Introduce PRU remoteproc consumer API Apr 18

Documentation

Fabio M. De Francesco Documentation/vm: Rework and extend highmem.rst Apr 16

Filesystems and block layer

Yu Kuai improve tag allocation under heavy load Apr 15
Jeffle Xu fscache,erofs: fscache-based on-demand read semantics Apr 15
Yu Kuai support concurrent sync io for bfq on a specail occasion Apr 16
Christoph Hellwig use block_device based APIs in block layer consumers v3 Apr 15
Damien Le Moal zonefs improvements Apr 18
Luís Henriques ceph: add support for snapshot names encryption Apr 18
Shiyang Ruan fsdax: introduce fs query to support reflink Apr 19
Gabriel Krisman Bertazi shmem: Allow userspace monitoring of tmpfs for lack of space. Apr 18

Memory management

Hyeonggon Yoo common kmalloc for SLUB and SLAB v2 Apr 14
Roman Gushchin mm: introduce shrinker sysfs interface Apr 15
Davidlohr Bueso mm: proactive reclaim and memory tiering topics Apr 15
Zach O'Keefe mm: userspace hugepage collapse Apr 14
Song Liu vmalloc: bpf: introduce VM_ALLOW_HUGE_VMAP Apr 14
Tong Tiangen mm: page_table_check: add support on arm64 and riscv Apr 18
Kent Overstreet Printbufs & shrinker OOM reporting Apr 19

Networking

Eric Dumazet tcp: drop reason additions Apr 15
Chuck Lever Implement a TLS handshake upcall Apr 18
Chuck Lever Prototype implementation of RPC-with-TLS Apr 18

Security-related

Ahmad Fatoum KEYS: trusted: Introduce support for NXP CAAM-based trusted keys Apr 15
Casey Schaufler LSM: Module stacking for AppArmor Apr 15
He Zhe hardened usercopy and stacktrace improvement Apr 18
Alexander Kozhevnikov SELinux-namespace Apr 18
Matthias Kaehlcke LoadPin: Enable loading from trusted dm-verity devices Apr 18
Jason A. Donenfeld archs/random: fallback to best raw ktime when no cycle counter Apr 19
joao@overdrivepizza.com Kernel FineIBT Support Apr 19
Stanislav Fomichev bpf: cgroup_sock lsm flavor Apr 19

Virtualization and containers

Claudio Imbrenda KVM: s390: pv: implement lazy destroy for reboot Apr 14
Vitaly Kuznetsov KVM: x86: hyper-v: Fine-grained TLB flush + L2 TLB flush feature Apr 14
Oleksandr Tyshchenko virtio: Solution to restrict memory access under Xen using xen-virtio DMA ops layer Apr 14
Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan Add TDX Guest Attestation support Apr 15
Oliver Upton KVM: arm64: Parallelize stage 2 fault handling Apr 15
Reiji Watanabe KVM: arm64: Make CPU ID registers writable by userspace Apr 18

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