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CFP Deadlines: December 22, 2022 to February 20, 2023
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 1 | February 21 | Ceph Days New York City | New York City, US |
| January 10 | June 13 June 15 |
Open Infrastructure Summit | Vancouver, Canada |
| January 15 | March 14 March 16 |
Everything Open | Melbourne, Australia |
| January 19 | May 30 June 2 |
PGCon 2023 | Ottawa, Canada |
| January 19 | May 17 May 20 |
BSDCan 2023 | Ottawa, Canada |
| February 1 | May 11 | NLUUG Spring Conference | Utrecht, The Netherlands |
| February 2 | March 9 | Ceph Days Southern California co-located with SCALE | Pasadena, CA, US |
| February 5 | May 10 May 12 |
Open Source Summit North America | Vancouver, Canada |
| February 12 | June 28 June 30 |
Embedded Open Source Summit | Prague, Czech Republic |
| February 19 | April 16 April 18 |
Cephalocon Amsterdam 2023 co-located with KubeCon EU | Amsterdam, Netherlands |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
Events: December 22, 2022 to February 20, 2023
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| February 4 February 5 |
Free and Open Source Developers’ European Meeting | Brussels, Belgium |
| February 7 February 8 |
State of Open Con 2023 | London, UK |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Security updates
Alert summary December 15, 2022 to December 21, 2022
| Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | DSA-5302-1 | stable | chromium | 2022-12-16 |
| Debian | DLA-3241-1 | LTS | firefox-esr | 2022-12-15 |
| Debian | DSA-5301-1 | stable | firefox-esr | 2022-12-14 |
| Debian | DLA-3239-2 | LTS | git | 2022-12-14 |
| Debian | DLA-3240-1 | LTS | libde265 | 2022-12-15 |
| Debian | DLA-3243-1 | LTS | php7.3 | 2022-12-15 |
| Debian | DLA-3242-1 | LTS | thunderbird | 2022-12-15 |
| Debian | DSA-5303-1 | stable | thunderbird | 2022-12-16 |
| Debian | DSA-5304-1 | stable | xorg-server | 2022-12-20 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-3ae298b728 | F37 | firefox | 2022-12-16 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-98832b2cc2 | F36 | freeradius | 2022-12-16 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-fd6e43dec8 | F36 | freerdp | 2022-12-16 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-076b1c9978 | F37 | freerdp | 2022-12-16 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-8ad3246cc0 | F36 | keylime | 2022-12-19 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-7a312cde45 | F37 | keylime | 2022-12-19 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-e15be0091f | F37 | libarchive | 2022-12-19 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-3f9ee1ad91 | F36 | libtasn1 | 2022-12-18 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-c4b56e4400 | F37 | mujs | 2022-12-20 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-2d5a6f48e1 | F37 | pgadmin4 | 2022-12-18 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-acff3f54b2 | F36 | rubygem-nokogiri | 2022-12-18 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-b5c325caad | F37 | rubygem-nokogiri | 2022-12-18 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-7f9021ead1 | F36 | samba | 2022-12-21 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-cb92b4ea21 | F37 | samba | 2022-12-19 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-8a4e8aa190 | F36 | snakeyaml | 2022-12-21 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-c01dd659fa | F37 | snakeyaml | 2022-12-21 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-ec24876dcb | F36 | thunderbird | 2022-12-21 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-d9231be2fd | F37 | thunderbird | 2022-12-18 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-1f2fbb087e | F36 | wireshark | 2022-12-17 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-9d4aa8a486 | F37 | wireshark | 2022-12-17 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-c3a65f7c65 | F37 | xorg-x11-server | 2022-12-16 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-3d88188071 | F37 | xorg-x11-server | 2022-12-21 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-721a78b7e5 | F37 | xorg-x11-server-Xwayland | 2022-12-19 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-08d2138578 | F36 | xrdp | 2022-12-21 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-6fe4046ae9 | F37 | xrdp | 2022-12-21 |
| Gentoo | 202212-01 | curl | 2022-12-19 | |
| Gentoo | 202212-04 | libreoffice | 2022-12-19 | |
| Gentoo | 202212-05 | nss | 2022-12-19 | |
| Gentoo | 202212-02 | unbound | 2022-12-19 | |
| Gentoo | 202212-03 | virtualbox | 2022-12-18 | |
| Mageia | MGASA-2022-0479 | 8 | advancecomp | 2022-12-18 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2022-0466 | 8 | couchdb | 2022-12-17 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2022-0475 | 8 | firefox | 2022-12-17 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2022-0474 | 8 | freerdp | 2022-12-17 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2022-0473 | 8 | golang | 2022-12-17 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2022-0468 | 8 | heimdal | 2022-12-17 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2022-0477 | 8 | kernel | 2022-12-18 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2022-0478 | 8 | kernel-linus | 2022-12-18 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2022-0467 | 8 | krb5 | 2022-12-17 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2022-0472 | 8 | leptonica | 2022-12-17 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2022-0470 | 8 | libetpan | 2022-12-17 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2022-0469 | 8 | python-slixmpp | 2022-12-17 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2022-0476 | 8 | thunderbird | 2022-12-17 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2022-0471 | 8 | xfce4-settings | 2022-12-17 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-9072-1 | OL7 | firefox | 2022-12-15 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-9072-1 | OL7 | firefox | 2022-12-15 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-9067-1 | OL8 | firefox | 2022-12-16 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-9065-1 | OL9 | firefox | 2022-12-16 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-9073-1 | OL8 | nodejs:16 | 2022-12-16 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-9058-1 | OL8 | prometheus-jmx-exporter | 2022-12-15 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-9079-1 | OL7 | thunderbird | 2022-12-15 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-9079-1 | OL7 | thunderbird | 2022-12-15 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-9074-1 | OL8 | thunderbird | 2022-12-16 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-9080-1 | OL9 | thunderbird | 2022-12-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:9072-01 | EL7 | firefox | 2022-12-15 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:9067-01 | EL8 | firefox | 2022-12-15 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:9071-01 | EL8.1 | firefox | 2022-12-15 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:9070-01 | EL8.2 | firefox | 2022-12-15 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:9069-01 | EL8.4 | firefox | 2022-12-15 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:9068-01 | EL8.6 | firefox | 2022-12-15 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:9065-01 | EL9 | firefox | 2022-12-15 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:9066-01 | EL9.0 | firefox | 2022-12-15 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:9073-01 | EL8 | nodejs:16 | 2022-12-15 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:9058-01 | EL8 | prometheus-jmx-exporter | 2022-12-15 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:9079-01 | EL7 | thunderbird | 2022-12-15 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:9074-01 | EL8 | thunderbird | 2022-12-15 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:9077-01 | EL8.1 | thunderbird | 2022-12-15 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:9076-01 | EL8.2 | thunderbird | 2022-12-15 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:9075-01 | EL8.4 | thunderbird | 2022-12-15 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:9078-01 | EL8.6 | thunderbird | 2022-12-15 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:9080-01 | EL9 | thunderbird | 2022-12-15 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:9081-01 | EL9.0 | thunderbird | 2022-12-15 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2022:9072-1 | SL7 | firefox | 2022-12-16 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2022:9079-1 | SL7 | thunderbird | 2022-12-16 |
| Slackware | SSA:2022-354-01 | libksba | 2022-12-20 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2022-348-02 | mozilla | 2022-12-14 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2022-348-01 | mozilla | 2022-12-14 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2022-351-01 | samba | 2022-12-17 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2022-354-02 | sdl | 2022-12-20 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2022-348-03 | xorg | 2022-12-14 | |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:4488-1 | MP4.0 MP4.1 MP4.2 MP4.3 SLE15 SES6 SES7 SES7.1 oS15.3 oS15.4 | apache2-mod_wsgi | 2022-12-14 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:4478-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 oS15.4 | capnproto | 2022-12-14 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:4501-1 | MP4.2 SLE15 SLE-m5.1 SLE-m5.2 SES7.1 oS15.3 osM5.2 | ceph | 2022-12-15 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2022:10244-1 | osB15 | chromium | 2022-12-16 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2022:10245-1 | osB15 | chromium | 2022-12-16 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:4592-1 | MP4.0 MP4.1 MP4.2 MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.1 SLE-m5.2 SLE-m5.3 SES6 SES7 SES7.1 oS15.3 oS15.4 osM5.2 osM5.3 | cni | 2022-12-20 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:4593-1 | MP4.0 MP4.1 MP4.2 MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.1 SLE-m5.2 SLE-m5.3 SES6 SES7 SES7.1 oS15.3 oS15.4 osM5.2 osM5.3 | cni-plugins | 2022-12-20 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:4591-1 | OS9 SLE12 | java-1_7_1-ibm | 2022-12-20 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:4574-1 | MP4.0 SLE15 SES6 oS15.3 oS15.4 | kernel | 2022-12-19 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:4589-1 | MP4.1 SLE15 SES7 | kernel | 2022-12-20 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:4503-1 | MP4.2 SLE15 SES7.1 oS15.3 | kernel | 2022-12-16 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:4585-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.3 oS15.4 osM5.3 | kernel | 2022-12-20 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:4504-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 oS15.4 | kernel | 2022-12-16 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:4505-1 | SLE12 | kernel | 2022-12-16 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:4561-1 | SLE12 | kernel | 2022-12-19 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:4566-1 | SLE12 | kernel | 2022-12-19 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:4573-1 | SLE15 | kernel | 2022-12-19 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:4586-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 oS15.4 | openssl-3 | 2022-12-20 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:4594-1 | MP4.1 SLE15 SES6 SES7 | supportutils | 2022-12-20 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:4579-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 oS15.3 oS15.4 | thunderbird | 2022-12-20 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:4480-1 | MP4.1 MP4.2 SLE15 SES7 SES7.1 oS15.3 oS15.4 | xorg-x11-server | 2022-12-14 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:4479-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 oS15.4 | xorg-x11-server | 2022-12-14 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:4484-1 | OS9 SLE12 | xorg-x11-server | 2022-12-14 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:4483-1 | SLE12 | xorg-x11-server | 2022-12-14 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:4485-1 | SLE12 | xorg-x11-server | 2022-12-14 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:4482-1 | SLE15 | xorg-x11-server | 2022-12-14 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:4481-1 | SLE15 SES6 | xorg-x11-server | 2022-12-14 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:4487-1 | SLE15 oS15.4 | xwayland | 2022-12-14 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:4477-1 | OS9 SLE12 | zabbix | 2022-12-14 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5781-1 | 16.04 | emacs24 | 2022-12-14 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5782-1 | 18.04 20.04 | firefox | 2022-12-15 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5779-1 | 20.04 22.04 | linux-azure, linux-azure-5.15, linux-azure-fde | 2022-12-14 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5783-1 | 22.04 | linux-oem-5.17 | 2022-12-16 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5780-1 | 22.04 | linux-oem-6.0 | 2022-12-14 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5778-1 | 18.04 20.04 22.04 22.10 | xorg-server, xorg-server-hwe-18.04, xwayland | 2022-12-14 |
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