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CFP Deadlines: May 26, 2022 to July 25, 2022
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| July 15 | September 16 September 18 |
Ten Years of Guix | Paris, France |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
Events: May 26, 2022 to July 25, 2022
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| July 11 July 17 |
SciPy 2022 | Austin, TX, USA |
| July 17 July 24 |
Debconf 2022 | Prizren, Kosovo |
| July 19 July 20 |
stackconf 2022 | Berlin, Germany |
| July 20 July 25 |
GUADEC 2022 | Guadalajara, Mexico |
| July 21 | Icinga Camp Berlin | Berlin, Germany |
| July 22 July 24 |
TUG 2022 - Online Presentations Covering the World of TeX | Online |
| July 23 July 24 |
IndiaFOSS 2022 | Bangalore, India |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Security updates
Alert summary May 19, 2022 to May 25, 2022
| Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CentOS | CESA-2022:4642 | C7 | kernel | 2022-05-19 |
| Debian | DLA-3019-1 | LTS | admesh | 2022-05-23 |
| Debian | DLA-3015-1 | LTS | ark | 2022-05-20 |
| Debian | DSA-5144-1 | stable | condor | 2022-05-22 |
| Debian | DLA-3021-1 | LTS | firefox-esr | 2022-05-24 |
| Debian | DSA-5143-1 | stable | firefox-esr | 2022-05-22 |
| Debian | DLA-3018-1 | LTS | libpgjava | 2022-05-20 |
| Debian | DSA-5142-1 | stable | libxml2 | 2022-05-22 |
| Debian | DSA-5145-1 | stable | lrzip | 2022-05-24 |
| Debian | DLA-3017-1 | LTS | openldap | 2022-05-24 |
| Debian | DSA-5140-1 | stable | openldap | 2022-05-19 |
| Debian | DSA-5146-1 | stable | puma | 2022-05-24 |
| Debian | DLA-3016-1 | LTS | rsyslog | 2022-05-20 |
| Debian | DLA-3020-1 | LTS | thunderbird | 2022-05-23 |
| Debian | DSA-5141-1 | stable | thunderbird | 2022-05-19 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-8277bef335 | F34 | curl | 2022-05-24 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-256d559f0c | F34 | dotnet6.0 | 2022-05-21 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-d69fee9f38 | F35 | dotnet6.0 | 2022-05-21 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-9a1d5ea33c | F36 | dotnet6.0 | 2022-05-21 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-5e45671294 | F34 | freetype | 2022-05-20 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-80e1724780 | F35 | freetype | 2022-05-20 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-bbb5ec21b2 | F36 | libarchive | 2022-05-23 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-e718888c8b | F34 | microcode_ctl | 2022-05-19 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-44f5e9e219 | F34 | php-openpsa-universalfeedcreator | 2022-05-22 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-59f0ad964c | F35 | php-openpsa-universalfeedcreator | 2022-05-22 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-a66124e04f | F36 | php-openpsa-universalfeedcreator | 2022-05-22 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-fda9f1f7bd | F35 | plantuml | 2022-05-25 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-e6c09a89eb | F36 | plantuml | 2022-05-25 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-1cf3c9578f | F34 | plib | 2022-05-25 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-bcc0df5180 | F35 | plib | 2022-05-25 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-08022e9452 | F36 | plib | 2022-05-25 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-0e5d64ce65 | F34 | rubygem-nokogiri | 2022-05-19 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-e9b2e1c1ac | F35 | rubygem-nokogiri | 2022-05-19 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-0071328464 | F36 | rubygem-nokogiri | 2022-05-19 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-9ce9716352 | F34 | thunderbird | 2022-05-23 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-d044e7e0b4 | F34 | vim | 2022-05-23 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-74b9e404c1 | F35 | vim | 2022-05-21 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-d20b51de9c | F36 | vim | 2022-05-19 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-d6d1ac4ca7 | F36 | vim | 2022-05-20 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2022-0199 | 8 | ffmpeg | 2022-05-22 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2022-0191 | 8 | htmldoc | 2022-05-19 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2022-0194 | 8 | kernel | 2022-05-21 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2022-0195 | 8 | kernel-linus | 2022-05-21 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2022-0193 | 8 | microcode | 2022-05-21 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2022-0196 | 8 | netatalk | 2022-05-22 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2022-0198 | 8 | nvidia-current | 2022-05-22 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2022-0197 | 8 | nvidia390 | 2022-05-22 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2022-0192 | 8 | opencontainers-runc | 2022-05-21 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2022-0201 | 8 | postgresql | 2022-05-22 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2022-0190 | 8 | python-django | 2022-05-19 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2022-0189 | 8 | python-oslo-utils | 2022-05-19 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2022-0200 | 8 | ruby-nokogiri | 2022-05-22 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-2200 | OL8 | .NET 5.0 | 2022-05-19 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-2199 | OL8 | .NET 6.0 | 2022-05-19 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-2202 | OL8 | .NET Core 3.1 | 2022-05-19 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-2143 | OL8 | container-tools:3.0 | 2022-05-19 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-9358 | OL7 | glibc | 2022-05-19 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-9358 | OL7 | glibc | 2022-05-19 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-9422 | OL6 | kernel | 2022-05-24 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-4642 | OL7 | kernel | 2022-05-19 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-9409 | OL7 | kernel | 2022-05-23 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-9410 | OL7 | kernel | 2022-05-23 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-9410 | OL7 | kernel | 2022-05-23 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-9425 | OL7 | kernel | 2022-05-24 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-9423 | OL7 | kernel | 2022-05-24 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-9423 | OL7 | kernel | 2022-05-24 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-9422 | OL7 | kernel | 2022-05-24 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-9425 | OL8 | kernel | 2022-05-24 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-9425 | OL8 | kernel | 2022-05-24 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-9413 | OL7 | kernel-container | 2022-05-23 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-9426 | OL7 | kernel-container | 2022-05-24 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-9413 | OL8 | kernel-container | 2022-05-23 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-9426 | OL8 | kernel-container | 2022-05-24 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-2201 | OL8 | rsync | 2022-05-19 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-2234 | OL8 | subversion:1.10 | 2022-05-19 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:4651-01 | EL8.2 | container-tools:2.0 | 2022-05-19 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:4729-01 | EL7 | firefox | 2022-05-24 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:4642-01 | EL7 | kernel | 2022-05-19 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:4717-01 | EL7.7 | kernel | 2022-05-24 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:4644-01 | EL7 | kernel-rt | 2022-05-19 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:4655-01 | EL7 | kpatch-patch | 2022-05-19 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:4721-01 | EL7.7 | kpatch-patch | 2022-05-24 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:4699-01 | EL8.1 | maven:3.5 | 2022-05-23 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:4661-01 | EL8 | pcs | 2022-05-19 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:4722-01 | EL8.4 | subversion:1.14 | 2022-05-24 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:4730-01 | EL7 | thunderbird | 2022-05-24 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2022:4729-1 | SL7 | firefox | 2022-05-25 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2022:4642-1 | SL7 | kernel | 2022-05-19 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2022:4730-1 | SL7 | thunderbird | 2022-05-25 |
| Slackware | SSA:2022-141-01 | mariadb | 2022-05-21 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2022-140-01 | mozilla | 2022-05-20 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2022-140-02 | mozilla | 2022-05-20 | |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:1762-1 | MP4.2 SLE15 oS15.3 oS15.4 | ImageMagick | 2022-05-20 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:1729-1 | OS9 | ardana-barbican, grafana, openstack-barbican, openstack-cinder, openstack-heat-gbp, openstack-horizon-plugin-gbp-ui, openstack-ironic, openstack-keystone, openstack-neutron-gbp, python-lxml, release-notes-suse-openstack-cloud | 2022-05-18 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2022:0141-1 | oS15.3 osB15 | autotrace | 2022-05-18 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2022:0145-1 | SLE12 osB15 | cacti, cacti-spine | 2022-05-24 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2022:0145-1 | osB15 | cacti, cacti-spine | 2022-05-24 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:1733-1 | OS8 SLE12 | curl | 2022-05-18 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:1805-1 | SLE12 | curl | 2022-05-23 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:1749-1 | SLE12 | dcraw | 2022-05-19 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:1748-1 | MP4.1 MP4.2 SLE15 SES7 oS15.3 oS15.4 | firefox | 2022-05-19 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:1830-1 | MP4.1 MP4.2 SLE15 SES7 oS15.3 oS15.4 | firefox | 2022-05-24 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:1757-1 | OS8 OS9 SLE12 | firefox | 2022-05-19 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:1808-1 | OS8 OS9 SLE12 | firefox | 2022-05-23 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:1731-1 | SLE15 SES6 | firefox | 2022-05-18 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:1818-1 | SLE15 SES6 | firefox | 2022-05-23 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:1758-1 | SLE12 | glib2 | 2022-05-19 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:1829-1 | MP4.2 SLE15 oS15.3 oS15.4 | go1.18 | 2022-05-24 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:1751-1 | MP4.1 SLE15 SES6 SES7 | kernel-firmware | 2022-05-19 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:1840-1 | MP4.2 SLE15 SLE-m5.1 SLE-m5.2 oS15.3 | kernel-firmware | 2022-05-25 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:1803-1 | MP4.2 SLE15 oS15.3 | libarchive | 2022-05-23 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2022:0143-1 | osB15 | librecad | 2022-05-23 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:1730-1 | MP4.2 SLE15 SLE-m5.1 SLE-m5.2 oS15.3 oS15.4 | libslirp | 2022-05-18 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2022:0142-1 | osB15 | libxls | 2022-05-21 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:1750-1 | MP4.1 MP4.2 SLE15 SLE-m5.1 SLE-m5.2 SES6 SES7 oS15.3 oS15.4 | libxml2 | 2022-05-19 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:1833-1 | OS8 OS9 SLE12 | libxml2 | 2022-05-24 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:1746-1 | SLE12 | libyajl | 2022-05-19 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:1771-1 | OS9 SLE12 | openldap2 | 2022-05-20 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:1832-1 | SLE15 SES6 | openldap2 | 2022-05-24 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:1836-1 | OS8 OS9 SLE12 | pcre2 | 2022-05-25 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:1768-1 | MP4.2 SLE15 oS15.3 oS15.4 | php7 | 2022-05-20 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:1764-1 | SLE12 | php7 | 2022-05-20 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:1755-1 | SLE15 oS15.4 | php7 | 2022-05-19 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:1725-1 | oS15.4 | php7 | 2022-05-18 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:1723-1 | SLE12 | poppler | 2022-05-18 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:1724-1 | SLE12 | poppler | 2022-05-18 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:1804-1 | OS8 OS9 SLE12 | postgresql10 | 2022-05-23 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:1835-1 | SLE12 | postgresql13 | 2022-05-25 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:1819-1 | OS8 OS9 SLE12 | python-requests | 2022-05-23 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:1817-1 | SLE15 SES6 | rsyslog | 2022-05-23 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:1726-1 | SLE12 | slurm_20_11 | 2022-05-18 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:1815-1 | SLE15 | slurm_20_11 | 2022-05-23 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:1831-1 | SLE15 oS15.3 oS15.4 | slurm_20_11 | 2022-05-24 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:1727-1 | MP4.1 MP4.2 SLE15 SLE-m5.1 SLE-m5.2 SES7 oS15.3 oS15.4 | ucode-intel | 2022-05-18 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:1747-1 | OS8 OS9 SLE12 | ucode-intel | 2022-05-19 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:1744-1 | SLE12 | ucode-intel | 2022-05-19 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:1732-1 | SLE15 | ucode-intel | 2022-05-18 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:1728-1 | SLE15 SES6 | ucode-intel | 2022-05-18 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:1760-1 | SLE12 | unrar | 2022-05-19 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5439-1 | 22.04 | accountsservice | 2022-05-24 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5429-1 | 22.04 | bind9 | 2022-05-18 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5434-1 | 18.04 20.04 21.10 | firefox | 2022-05-23 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5430-1 | 22.04 | gnome-control-center | 2022-05-18 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5438-1 | 18.04 20.04 | htmldoc | 2022-05-23 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5432-1 | 16.04 | libpng | 2022-05-23 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5437-1 | 16.04 | libxfixes | 2022-05-23 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5428-1 | 16.04 | libxrandr | 2022-05-18 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5436-1 | 16.04 | libxrender | 2022-05-23 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5424-2 | 14.04 16.04 | openldap | 2022-05-19 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5440-1 | 18.04 20.04 21.10 22.04 | postgresql-10, postgresql-12, postgresql-13, postgresql-14 | 2022-05-24 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5404-2 | 16.04 | rsyslog | 2022-05-24 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5435-1 | 18.04 20.04 21.10 22.04 | thunderbird | 2022-05-23 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5433-1 | 16.04 | vim | 2022-05-23 |
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Frederic Weisbecker
rcu/context-tracking: Merge RCU eqs-dynticks counter to context tracking v3
May 19
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Souradeep Chowdhury
Add driver support for Data Capture and Compare Engine(DCC) for SM8150,SC7280,SC7180,SDM845
May 25
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