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CFP Deadlines: May 12, 2022 to July 11, 2022
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| June 23 | July 23 July 24 |
IndiaFOSS 2022 | Bangalore, India |
| June 25 | September 19 September 21 |
Open Source Firmware Conference | Gothenburg, Sweden |
| June 27 | October 25 October 28 |
PostgreSQL Conference Europe | Berlin, Germany |
| June 30 | September 21 September 22 |
DevOpsDays Berlin 2022 | Berlin, Germany |
| July 1 | September 15 September 16 |
Linux Security Summit Europe | Dublin, Ireland |
| July 4 | October 4 October 6 |
X.Org Developers Conference | Minneapolis, MN, USA |
| July 8 | October 16 October 21 |
DjangoCon US 2022 | San Diego, USA |
| July 10 | September 14 September 15 |
Git Merge 2022 | Chicago, USA |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
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Events: May 12, 2022 to July 11, 2022
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| June 21 June 24 |
Open Source Summit North America | Austin, TX, USA |
| June 21 June 25 |
The Perl and Raku Conference 2022 | Houston, Texas, USA |
| June 23 June 24 |
Linux Security Summit North America | Austin, TX, USA |
| July 7 July 9 |
Free Silicon Conference 2022 | Paris, France |
| July 10 July 15 |
Debcamp 2022 | Prizren, Kosovo |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Security updates
Alert summary May 5, 2022 to May 11, 2022
| Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CentOS | CESA-2022:1703 | C7 | firefox | 2022-05-06 |
| CentOS | CESA-2022:1725 | C7 | thunderbird | 2022-05-06 |
| Debian | DSA-5130-1 | stable | dpdk | 2022-05-05 |
| Debian | DLA-2997-1 | LTS | ecdsautils | 2022-05-07 |
| Debian | DSA-5132-1 | stable | ecdsautils | 2022-05-08 |
| Debian | DLA-2994-1 | LTS | firefox-esr | 2022-05-05 |
| Debian | DSA-5129-1 | stable | firefox-esr | 2022-05-04 |
| Debian | DLA-2998-1 | LTS | kicad | 2022-05-09 |
| Debian | DLA-2993-1 | LTS | libz-mingw-w64 | 2022-05-07 |
| Debian | DLA-2996-1 | LTS | mruby | 2022-05-06 |
| Debian | DLA-2999-1 | LTS | mutt | 2022-05-11 |
| Debian | DSA-5131-1 | stable | openjdk-11 | 2022-05-05 |
| Debian | DSA-5133-1 | stable | qemu | 2022-05-09 |
| Debian | DLA-2995-1 | LTS | smarty3 | 2022-05-05 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-d9d630891d | F34 | blender | 2022-05-11 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-34de4f833d | F34 | cifs-utils | 2022-05-09 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-7fda04ab5a | F35 | cifs-utils | 2022-05-09 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-0f15da474c | F34 | firefox | 2022-05-08 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-63b1344b6d | F35 | firefox | 2022-05-04 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-2c4ed935d1 | F36 | firefox | 2022-05-04 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-b0a47f8060 | F34 | freerdp | 2022-05-11 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-a3e03a200b | F35 | freerdp | 2022-05-11 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-03350936ee | F35 | galera | 2022-05-08 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-2fec5f30be | F34 | git | 2022-05-08 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-3759ebabd2 | F35 | git | 2022-05-08 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-9cc421562b | F34 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2022-05-08 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-5a2e1ad72b | F35 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2022-05-05 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-9cc421562b | F34 | java-11-openjdk | 2022-05-08 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-5a2e1ad72b | F35 | java-11-openjdk | 2022-05-05 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-9cc421562b | F34 | java-17-openjdk | 2022-05-08 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-5a2e1ad72b | F35 | java-17-openjdk | 2022-05-05 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-9cc421562b | F34 | java-latest-openjdk | 2022-05-08 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-5a2e1ad72b | F35 | java-latest-openjdk | 2022-05-05 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-a0f65397a3 | F34 | kernel | 2022-05-11 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-fd85148be2 | F35 | kernel | 2022-05-11 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-e9378a3573 | F36 | kernel | 2022-05-11 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-a0f65397a3 | F34 | kernel-headers | 2022-05-11 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-fd85148be2 | F35 | kernel-headers | 2022-05-11 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-e9378a3573 | F36 | kernel-headers | 2022-05-11 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-a0f65397a3 | F34 | kernel-tools | 2022-05-11 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-fd85148be2 | F35 | kernel-tools | 2022-05-11 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-e9378a3573 | F36 | kernel-tools | 2022-05-11 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-5cfe372ab7 | F34 | mariadb | 2022-05-08 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-03350936ee | F35 | mariadb | 2022-05-08 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-5d6aaab56e | F34 | maven-shared-utils | 2022-05-08 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-0985b0cb9f | F35 | mingw-freetype | 2022-05-08 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-7ece4f6d74 | F36 | mingw-freetype | 2022-05-11 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-4e6bd7ca62 | F35 | recutils | 2022-05-04 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-a0a4c7eb31 | F34 | redis | 2022-05-08 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-44373f6778 | F35 | redis | 2022-05-08 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-7c0f2c2d67 | F35 | seamonkey | 2022-05-09 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-1b9f9b2993 | F35 | suricata | 2022-05-04 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-9e66cba2d8 | F35 | thunderbird | 2022-05-09 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-f0db3943d9 | F35 | vim | 2022-05-11 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-e92c3ce170 | F36 | vim | 2022-05-11 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-fef374d46f | F34 | zchunk | 2022-05-05 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2022-0160 | 8 | dcraw | 2022-05-06 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2022-0162 | 8 | firefox | 2022-05-06 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2022-0161 | 8 | lighttpd | 2022-05-06 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2022-0165 | 8 | rsyslog | 2022-05-08 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2022-0164 | 8 | ruby-nokogiri | 2022-05-08 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2022-0163 | 8 | thunderbird | 2022-05-06 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-9359 | OL6 | expat | 2022-05-09 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-1703 | OL7 | firefox | 2022-05-04 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-1703 | OL7 | firefox | 2022-05-04 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-1705 | OL8 | firefox | 2022-05-04 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-9348 | OL6 | kernel | 2022-05-04 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-9348 | OL7 | kernel | 2022-05-04 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-9365 | OL7 | kernel | 2022-05-10 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-9367 | OL7 | kernel | 2022-05-10 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-9367 | OL7 | kernel | 2022-05-10 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-9365 | OL8 | kernel | 2022-05-10 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-9365 | OL8 | kernel | 2022-05-10 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-9368 | OL7 | kernel-container | 2022-05-10 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-9368 | OL8 | kernel-container | 2022-05-10 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-1725 | OL7 | thunderbird | 2022-05-05 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-1725 | OL7 | thunderbird | 2022-05-05 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-1730 | OL8 | thunderbird | 2022-05-05 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:1808-01 | EL8 | aspell | 2022-05-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:2092-01 | EL8 | bind | 2022-05-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:2081-01 | EL8 | bluez | 2022-05-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:2043-01 | EL8 | c-ares | 2022-05-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:1961-01 | EL8 | cairo and pixman | 2022-05-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:2008-01 | EL8 | cockpit | 2022-05-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:1797-01 | EL8 | compat-exiv2-026 | 2022-05-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:1793-01 | EL8 | container-tools:3.0 | 2022-05-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:2143-01 | EL8 | container-tools:3.0 | 2022-05-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:1762-01 | EL8 | container-tools:rhel8 | 2022-05-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:1991-01 | EL8 | cpio | 2022-05-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:1950-01 | EL8 | dovecot | 2022-05-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:1842-01 | EL8 | exiv2 | 2022-05-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:1898-01 | EL8 | fapolicyd | 2022-05-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:1964-01 | EL8 | fetchmail | 2022-05-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:1703-01 | EL7 | firefox | 2022-05-04 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:1705-01 | EL8 | firefox | 2022-05-04 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:1701-01 | EL8.1 | firefox | 2022-05-04 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:1704-01 | EL8.2 | firefox | 2022-05-04 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:1702-01 | EL8.4 | firefox | 2022-05-04 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:1792-01 | EL8 | flatpak | 2022-05-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:1801-01 | EL8 | gfbgraph | 2022-05-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:1814-01 | EL8 | gnome-shell | 2022-05-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:1819-01 | EL8 | go-toolset:rhel8 | 2022-05-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:1781-01 | EL8 | grafana | 2022-05-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:2110-01 | EL8 | grub2 | 2022-05-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:1915-01 | EL8 | httpd:2.4 | 2022-05-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:1930-01 | EL8 | keepalived | 2022-05-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:1988-01 | EL8 | kernel | 2022-05-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:1975-01 | EL8 | kernel-rt | 2022-05-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:1891-01 | EL8 | libpq | 2022-05-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:1766-01 | EL8 | libreoffice | 2022-05-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:1968-01 | EL8 | libsndfile | 2022-05-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:2031-01 | EL8 | libssh | 2022-05-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:1810-01 | EL8 | libtiff | 2022-05-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:2129-01 | EL8 | lynx | 2022-05-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:1861-01 | EL8 | maven:3.5 | 2022-05-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:1860-01 | EL8 | maven:3.6 | 2022-05-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:1934-01 | EL8 | mod_auth_mellon | 2022-05-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:1823-01 | EL8 | mod_auth_openidc:2.3 | 2022-05-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:2013-01 | EL8 | openssh | 2022-05-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:1935-01 | EL8 | php:7.4 | 2022-05-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:1851-01 | EL8 | pki-core:10.6 | 2022-05-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:1830-01 | EL8 | postgresql:10 | 2022-05-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:1932-01 | EL8 | python-lxml | 2022-05-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:1821-01 | EL8 | python27:2.7 | 2022-05-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:1986-01 | EL8 | python3 | 2022-05-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:1764-01 | EL8 | python38:3.8 python38-devel:3.8 | 2022-05-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:1763-01 | EL8 | python39:3.9 python39-devel:3.9 | 2022-05-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:1796-01 | EL8 | qt5-qtbase | 2022-05-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:1920-01 | EL8 | qt5-qtsvg | 2022-05-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:1894-01 | EL8 | rust-toolset:rhel8 | 2022-05-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:1756-01 | EL8 | samba | 2022-05-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:2074-01 | EL8 | samba | 2022-05-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:1939-01 | EL8 | squid:4 | 2022-05-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:1725-01 | EL7 | thunderbird | 2022-05-05 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:1730-01 | EL8 | thunderbird | 2022-05-05 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:1727-01 | EL8.1 | thunderbird | 2022-05-05 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:1724-01 | EL8.2 | thunderbird | 2022-05-05 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:1726-01 | EL8.4 | thunderbird | 2022-05-05 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:1820-01 | EL8 | udisks2 | 2022-05-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:1759-01 | EL8 | virt:rhel virt-devel:rhel | 2022-05-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:1777-01 | EL8 | webkit2gtk3 | 2022-05-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:1917-01 | EL8 | xorg-x11-server xorg-x11-server-Xwayland | 2022-05-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:2120-01 | EL8 | zsh | 2022-05-10 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2022:1703-1 | SL7 | firefox | 2022-05-05 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2022:1725-1 | SL7 | thunderbird | 2022-05-06 |
| Slackware | SSA:2022-129-01 | kernel | 2022-05-09 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2022-124-01 | mozilla | 2022-05-04 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2022-124-02 | openssl | 2022-05-04 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2022-124-03 | seamonkey | 2022-05-04 | |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:1524-1 | MP4.1 MP4.2 SLE15 SES7 oS15.3 oS15.4 | apache2-mod_auth_mellon | 2022-05-04 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2022:0125-1 | osB15 | chromium | 2022-05-06 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:1582-1 | OS8 OS9 SLE12 | firefox | 2022-05-09 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:1579-1 | SLE15 | firefox | 2022-05-09 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:1577-1 | SLE15 SES6 | firefox | 2022-05-09 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:1565-1 | MP4.2 SLE15 oS15.3 oS15.4 | giflib | 2022-05-06 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:1617-1 | MP4.1 MP4.2 SLE15 SLE-m5.0 SLE-m5.1 SLE-m5.2 SES7 oS15.3 oS15.4 | gzip | 2022-05-10 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2022:0131-1 | oS15.3 oS15.4 | kernel | 2022-05-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:1576-1 | MP4.2 SLE15 SLE-m5.1 SLE-m5.2 SES7.1 oS15.3 | ldb | 2022-05-09 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:1549-1 | MP4.2 SLE15 SLE-m5.1 SLE-m5.2 oS15.3 oS15.4 | libvirt | 2022-05-05 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:1540-1 | SLE12 | libvirt | 2022-05-04 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:1560-1 | SLE12 | libwmf | 2022-05-06 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:1541-1 | MP4.2 SLE15 oS15.3 oS15.4 | pgadmin4 | 2022-05-04 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2022:0132-1 | osB15 | php-composer | 2022-05-10 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:1546-1 | OS8 OS9 SLE12 | python-Twisted | 2022-05-05 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:1583-1 | MP4.1 MP4.2 SLE15 SES7 oS15.3 | rsyslog | 2022-05-09 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:1548-1 | MP4.2 SLE15 SLE-m5.0 SLE-m5.1 SLE-m5.2 oS15.3 | tar | 2022-05-05 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5179-2 | 16.04 | busybox | 2022-05-10 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5407-1 | 16.04 | cairo | 2022-05-10 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5259-3 | 16.04 18.04 | cron | 2022-05-10 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5259-2 | 18.04 | cron | 2022-05-06 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5244-2 | 18.04 20.04 | dbus | 2022-05-09 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5408-1 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 20.04 21.10 22.04 | dnsmasq | 2022-05-10 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5401-1 | 20.04 21.10 22.04 | dpdk | 2022-05-04 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5405-1 | 16.04 | jbig2dec | 2022-05-05 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5409-1 | 16.04 | libsndfile | 2022-05-10 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5400-2 | 16.04 | mysql-5.7 | 2022-05-04 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5395-2 | 18.04 20.04 21.10 22.04 | networkd-dispatcher | 2022-05-04 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5410-1 | 18.04 20.04 | nss | 2022-05-11 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5402-1 | 18.04 20.04 21.10 22.04 | openssl, openssl1.0 | 2022-05-04 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5404-1 | 18.04 20.04 21.10 22.04 | rsyslog | 2022-05-06 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5403-1 | 18.04 20.04 21.10 | sqlite3 | 2022-05-05 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5354-2 | 14.04 16.04 22.04 | twisted | 2022-05-05 |
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