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CFP Deadlines: September 1, 2022 to October 31, 2022
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| September 1 | October 15 October 16 |
OpenFest 2022 | Sofia, Bulgaria |
| September 1 | October 11 October 13 |
Tracing Summit 2022 | London, UK |
| September 7 | October 24 October 28 |
Netdev 0x16 | Lisbon, Portugal |
| September 28 | November 26 November 27 |
UbuCon Asia 2022 | Seoul, South Korea |
| September 30 | November 7 November 9 |
Ubuntu Summit 2022 | Prague, Czech Republic |
| September 30 | October 20 October 21 |
Netfilter workshop | Seville, Spain |
| October 15 | December 2 December 3 |
OLF Conference 2022 | Columbus, OH, USA |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
Events: September 1, 2022 to October 31, 2022
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| September 6 September 8 |
Research Software Engineers' Conference 2022 | Newcastle, UK |
| September 7 | Kangrejos Rust for Linux Workshop | Oviedo, Spain |
| September 9 September 11 |
Qubes OS Summit | Berlin, Germany |
| September 10 September 11 |
Clang-built Linux Meetup | Dublin, Ireland |
| September 12 September 14 |
Linux Plumbers Conference | Dublin, Ireland |
| September 13 September 16 |
Open Source Summit Europe | Dublin, Ireland |
| September 14 September 15 |
Git Merge 2022 | Chicago, USA |
| September 15 September 16 |
Linux Security Summit Europe | Dublin, Ireland |
| September 15 September 18 |
EuroBSDCon 2022 | Vienna, Austria |
| September 16 September 18 |
GNU Tools Cauldron | Prague, CZ |
| September 16 September 18 |
Ten Years of Guix | Paris, France |
| September 19 September 21 |
Open Source Firmware Conference | Gothenburg, Sweden |
| September 21 September 22 |
Open Mainframe Summit | Philadelphia, US |
| September 21 September 22 |
DevOpsDays Berlin 2022 | Berlin, Germany |
| September 26 October 2 |
openSUSE Asia Summit 2022 | Online |
| September 28 October 1 |
LibreOffice Conference 2022 | Milan, Italy |
| October 1 October 7 |
Akademy 2022 | Barcelona, Spain |
| October 4 October 6 |
X.Org Developers Conference | Minneapolis, MN, USA |
| October 11 October 13 |
Tracing Summit 2022 | London, UK |
| October 13 October 14 |
PyConZA 2022 | Durban, South Africa |
| October 15 October 16 |
OpenFest 2022 | Sofia, Bulgaria |
| October 16 October 21 |
DjangoCon US 2022 | San Diego, USA |
| October 19 October 21 |
ROSCon 2022 | Kyoto, Japan |
| October 20 October 21 |
Netfilter workshop | Seville, Spain |
| October 24 October 28 |
Netdev 0x16 | Lisbon, Portugal |
| October 24 October 28 |
KubeCon / CloudNativeCon North America | Detroit, United States |
| October 25 October 28 |
PostgreSQL Conference Europe | Berlin, Germany |
| October 29 | PyCon Hong Kong 2022 | Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
| October 29 | Minsk Linux User Group meeting | Minsk, Belarus |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Security updates
Alert summary August 25, 2022 to August 31, 2022
| Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | DLA-3085-1 | LTS | curl | 2022-08-29 |
| Debian | DSA-5222-1 | stable | dpdk | 2022-08-30 |
| Debian | DLA-3082-1 | LTS | exim4 | 2022-08-27 |
| Debian | DLA-3080-1 | LTS | firefox-esr | 2022-08-24 |
| Debian | DSA-5217-1 | stable | firefox-esr | 2022-08-24 |
| Debian | DSA-5216-1 | stable | libxslt | 2022-08-24 |
| Debian | DLA-3086-1 | LTS | maven-shared-utils | 2022-08-29 |
| Debian | DLA-3084-1 | LTS | ndpi | 2022-08-28 |
| Debian | DLA-3088-1 | LTS | net-snmp | 2022-08-30 |
| Debian | DLA-3081-1 | LTS | open-vm-tools | 2022-08-25 |
| Debian | DSA-5215-1 | stable | open-vm-tools | 2022-08-24 |
| Debian | DLA-3089-1 | LTS | php-horde-mime-viewer | 2022-08-31 |
| Debian | DLA-3090-1 | LTS | php-horde-turba | 2022-08-31 |
| Debian | DLA-3083-1 | LTS | puma | 2022-08-28 |
| Debian | DSA-5221-1 | stable | thunderbird | 2022-08-29 |
| Debian | DLA-3087-1 | LTS | webkit2gtk | 2022-08-30 |
| Debian | DSA-5219-1 | stable | webkit2gtk | 2022-08-27 |
| Debian | DSA-5220-1 | stable | wpewebkit | 2022-08-27 |
| Debian | DSA-5218-1 | stable | zlib | 2022-08-25 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-d9f1bb102d | F35 | OpenImageIO | 2022-08-30 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-eaeeb0ca2b | F36 | OpenImageIO | 2022-08-30 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-d9f1bb102d | F35 | ctk | 2022-08-30 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-eaeeb0ca2b | F36 | ctk | 2022-08-30 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-d9f1bb102d | F35 | dcmtk | 2022-08-30 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-eaeeb0ca2b | F36 | dcmtk | 2022-08-30 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-c358d6206b | F35 | dotnet3.1 | 2022-08-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-21f203cd70 | F36 | dotnet3.1 | 2022-08-26 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-f2ba9be204 | F35 | dotnet6.0 | 2022-08-25 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-0eded912f0 | F36 | dotnet6.0 | 2022-08-24 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-ee0d54e824 | F35 | firefox | 2022-08-26 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-02d2625a01 | F36 | firefox | 2022-08-24 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-74ff7f9e74 | F37 | firefox | 2022-08-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-29943d5ec5 | F35 | java-1.8.0-openjdk-aarch32 | 2022-08-25 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-bada1dbc10 | F36 | java-1.8.0-openjdk-aarch32 | 2022-08-25 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-15da0cf165 | F35 | rsync | 2022-08-31 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-33dd0f2f3e | F36 | thunderbird | 2022-08-26 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-99702d9bdd | F36 | varnish-modules | 2022-08-30 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-eada5f24a0 | F36 | webkit2gtk3 | 2022-08-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-b58a85e167 | F35 | zlib | 2022-08-26 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2022-0306 | 8 | canna | 2022-08-25 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2022-0307 | 8 | chromium-browser-stable | 2022-08-25 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2022-0312 | 8 | clamav | 2022-08-29 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2022-0296 | 8 | dovecot | 2022-08-25 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2022-0309 | 8 | firefox/nss | 2022-08-25 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2022-0293 | 8 | freeciv | 2022-08-25 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2022-0297 | 8 | freetype2 | 2022-08-25 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2022-0301 | 8 | gnutls | 2022-08-25 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2022-0305 | 8 | kernel | 2022-08-25 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2022-0308 | 8 | kernel-linus | 2022-08-25 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2022-0295 | 8 | kicad | 2022-08-25 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2022-0299 | 8 | ldb/samba/sssd | 2022-08-25 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2022-0298 | 8 | libgsasl | 2022-08-25 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2022-0314 | 8 | mariadb | 2022-08-29 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2022-0304 | 8 | microcode | 2022-08-25 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2022-0311 | 8 | net-snmp | 2022-08-29 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2022-0294 | 8 | nodejs | 2022-08-25 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2022-0313 | 8 | postgresql | 2022-08-29 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2022-0310 | 8 | python-ldap | 2022-08-29 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2022-0302 | 8 | rsync | 2022-08-25 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2022-0300 | 8 | thunderbird | 2022-08-25 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2022-0315 | 8 | thunderbird | 2022-08-29 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2022-0303 | 8 | unbound | 2022-08-25 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-6159 | OL8 | curl | 2022-08-25 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-6157 | OL9 | curl | 2022-08-25 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-6179 | OL7 | firefox | 2022-08-25 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-6179 | OL7 | firefox | 2022-08-25 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-6175 | OL8 | firefox | 2022-08-25 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-6174 | OL9 | firefox | 2022-08-25 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-6224 | OL9 | openssl | 2022-08-30 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-6158 | OL8 | php:7.4 | 2022-08-25 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-6170 | OL7 | rsync | 2022-08-25 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-6170 | OL7 | rsync | 2022-08-25 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-6180 | OL8 | rsync | 2022-08-25 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-6181 | OL9 | rsync | 2022-08-25 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-6160 | OL7 | systemd | 2022-08-25 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-6160 | OL7 | systemd | 2022-08-25 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-6206 | OL8 | systemd | 2022-08-30 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-6169 | OL7 | thunderbird | 2022-08-25 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-6169 | OL7 | thunderbird | 2022-08-25 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-6164 | OL8 | thunderbird | 2022-08-25 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-6165 | OL9 | thunderbird | 2022-08-25 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:6250-01 | EL8.4 | booth | 2022-08-31 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:6159-01 | EL8 | curl | 2022-08-25 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:6157-01 | EL9 | curl | 2022-08-24 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:6179-01 | EL7 | firefox | 2022-08-25 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:6175-01 | EL8 | firefox | 2022-08-25 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:6178-01 | EL8.1 | firefox | 2022-08-25 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:6177-01 | EL8.2 | firefox | 2022-08-25 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:6176-01 | EL8.4 | firefox | 2022-08-25 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:6174-01 | EL9 | firefox | 2022-08-25 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:6243-01 | EL8.4 | kernel | 2022-08-31 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:6248-01 | EL8.4 | kernel-rt | 2022-08-31 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:6224-01 | EL9 | openssl | 2022-08-30 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:6158-01 | EL8 | php:7.4 | 2022-08-25 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:6170-01 | EL7 | rsync | 2022-08-25 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:6180-01 | EL8 | rsync | 2022-08-25 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:6173-01 | EL8.1 | rsync | 2022-08-25 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:6172-01 | EL8.2 | rsync | 2022-08-25 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:6171-01 | EL8.4 | rsync | 2022-08-25 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:6181-01 | EL9 | rsync | 2022-08-25 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:6160-01 | EL7 | systemd | 2022-08-25 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:6206-01 | EL8 | systemd | 2022-08-30 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:6163-01 | EL8.1 | systemd | 2022-08-24 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:6162-01 | EL8.2 | systemd | 2022-08-25 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:6161-01 | EL8.4 | systemd | 2022-08-25 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:6169-01 | EL7 | thunderbird | 2022-08-25 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:6164-01 | EL8 | thunderbird | 2022-08-25 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:6167-01 | EL8.1 | thunderbird | 2022-08-25 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:6168-01 | EL8.2 | thunderbird | 2022-08-25 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:6166-01 | EL8.4 | thunderbird | 2022-08-25 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:6165-01 | EL9 | thunderbird | 2022-08-25 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2022:6179-1 | SL7 | firefox | 2022-08-25 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2022:6170-1 | SL7 | rsync | 2022-08-25 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2022:6160-1 | SL7 | systemd | 2022-08-25 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2022:6169-1 | SL7 | thunderbird | 2022-08-25 |
| Slackware | SSA:2022-237-01 | vim | 2022-08-25 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2022-242-01 | vim | 2022-08-30 | |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:2948-1 | MP4.1 SLE15 SES7 | bluez | 2022-08-31 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:2883-1 | MP4.2 SLE15 oS15.3 | bluez | 2022-08-24 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:2900-1 | OS9 SLE12 | bluez | 2022-08-26 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2022:10099-1 | osB15 | chromium | 2022-08-25 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2022:10102-1 | osB15 | freeciv | 2022-08-27 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:2891-1 | MP4.2 SLE15 oS15.3 | freerdp | 2022-08-25 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:2890-1 | SLE12 | freerdp | 2022-08-25 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:2886-1 | SLE12 | glibc | 2022-08-24 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:2882-1 | MP4.1 MP4.2 SLE15 SLE-m5.1 SLE-m5.2 SES7 oS15.3 | gnutls | 2022-08-24 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:2919-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 oS15.4 | gnutls | 2022-08-26 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:2911-1 | OS9 SLE12 | gstreamer-plugins-good | 2022-08-26 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:2898-1 | OS9 SLE12 | java-1_7_1-ibm | 2022-08-26 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:2949-1 | MP4.1 MP4.2 MP4.3 SLE15 SES6 SES7 oS15.3 oS15.4 | java-1_8_0-ibm | 2022-08-31 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:2899-1 | OS9 SLE12 | java-1_8_0-ibm | 2022-08-26 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:2923-1 | MP4.0 MP4.1 MP4.2 SLE15 oS15.3 | keepalived | 2022-08-26 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:2910-1 | SLE12 | kernel | 2022-08-26 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:2892-1 | SLE15 SLE-m5.1 SLE-m5.2 | kernel | 2022-08-25 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:2909-1 | OS9 SLE12 | libcroco | 2022-08-26 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:2941-1 | MP4.2 MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.1 SLE-m5.2 oS15.3 oS15.4 | libslirp | 2022-08-30 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:2922-1 | MP4.2 MP4.3 SLE15 oS15.3 oS15.4 | libyang | 2022-08-26 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2022:10101-1 | osB15 | nim | 2022-08-27 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:2936-1 | MP4.2 MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.1 SLE-m5.2 oS15.3 oS15.4 | open-vm-tools | 2022-08-29 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:2935-1 | OS9 SLE12 | open-vm-tools | 2022-08-29 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:2940-1 | SLE12 | open-vm-tools | 2022-08-29 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2022:10108-1 | oS15.3 | opera | 2022-08-29 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2022:10109-1 | oS15.4 | opera | 2022-08-29 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:2946-1 | MP4.1 MP4.2 SLE15 SES6 SES7 oS15.3 oS15.4 | postgresql10 | 2022-08-31 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:2914-1 | OS9 SLE12 | postgresql10 | 2022-08-26 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:2893-1 | SLE15 SES6 | postgresql10 | 2022-08-25 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:2912-1 | SLE12 | postgresql13 | 2022-08-26 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2022:10103-1 | osB15 | python-Django | 2022-08-27 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:2908-1 | MP4.1 MP4.2 MP4.3 SLE15 SES7 oS15.3 oS15.4 | python-lxml | 2022-08-26 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:2896-1 | MP4.2 MP4.3 SLE15 oS15.3 oS15.4 | raptor | 2022-08-25 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:2895-1 | SLE12 | raptor | 2022-08-25 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:2885-1 | OS8 OS9 | rubygem-rails-html-sanitizer | 2022-08-24 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:2881-1 | MP4.2 SLE15 SLE-m5.2 oS15.3 | spice | 2022-08-24 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2022:10104-1 | osB15 | varnish | 2022-08-27 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:2915-1 | OS9 SLE12 | webkit2gtk3 | 2022-08-26 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:2947-1 | MP4.1 MP4.2 MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.1 SLE-m5.2 SES6 SES7 oS15.3 oS15.4 | zlib | 2022-08-31 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5581-1 | 18.04 20.04 | firefox | 2022-08-24 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5585-1 | 18.04 20.04 22.04 | jupyter-notebook | 2022-08-30 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5588-1 | 14.04 | kernel | 2022-08-30 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5586-1 | 16.04 | libsdl1.2 | 2022-08-29 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5579-1 | 14.04 16.04 | linux, linux-kvm, linux-lts-xenial | 2022-08-24 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5589-1 | 20.04 | linux, linux-raspi | 2022-08-30 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5572-2 | 14.04 | linux-aws | 2022-08-30 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5580-1 | 16.04 | linux-aws | 2022-08-24 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5582-1 | 20.04 | linux-azure-fde | 2022-08-24 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5590-1 | 20.04 | linux-oem-5.14 | 2022-08-30 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5578-2 | 16.04 | open-vm-tools | 2022-08-24 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5584-1 | 16.04 18.04 20.04 22.04 | schroot | 2022-08-29 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5583-1 | 18.04 | systemd | 2022-08-30 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5474-2 | 20.04 | varnish | 2022-08-24 |
Kernel patches of interest
Kernel releases
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Badhri Jagan Sridharan
usb: typec: tcpm: Add callbacks to mitigate wakeups due to contaminant
Aug 26
Kumaravel Thiagarajan
8250: microchip: pci1xxxx: Add driver for the pci1xxxx's quad-uart function.
Aug 30
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