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CFP Deadlines: February 9, 2023 to April 10, 2023
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| February 28 | May 17 | Icinga Camp Berlin | Berlin, Germany |
| March 1 | April 29 | 19. Augsburger Linux-Infotag | Augsburg, Germany |
| March 1 | April 26 April 28 |
Linaro Connect | London, UK |
| March 1 | May 10 May 12 |
Linux Security Summit | Vancouver, Canada |
| March 1 | May 8 May 10 |
Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management and BPF Summit | Vancouver, Canada |
| March 5 | April 23 April 26 |
foss-north 2023 | Göteborg, Sweden |
| March 20 | June 13 June 15 |
Beam Summit 2023 | New York City, US |
| March 22 | May 5 | Ceph Days India 2023 | Bengaluru, India |
| March 27 | July 26 July 31 |
GUADEC | Riga, Latvia |
| March 30 | May 12 | PGConf.BE | Haasrode, Belgium |
| March 30 | July 15 July 21 |
aKademy 2023 | Thessaloniki, Greece |
| March 31 | June 27 | PostgreSQL Conference Germany | Essen, Germany |
| March 31 | September 13 September 14 |
stackconf 2023 | Berlin, Germany |
| March 31 | October 15 October 17 |
All Things Open 2023 | Raleigh, NC, US |
| April 2 | June 14 June 15 |
KVM Forum 2023 | Brno, Czech Republic |
| April 2 | September 12 September 15 |
RustConf | Albuquerque, New Mexico, US |
| April 9 | May 26 May 28 |
openSUSE Conference 2023 | Nürnberg, Germany |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
Events: February 9, 2023 to April 10, 2023
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| February 21 | Ceph Days New York City | New York City, US |
| February 22 February 24 |
PGConf India | Bengaluru, India |
| March 9 | Ceph Days Southern California co-located with SCALE | Pasadena, CA, US |
| March 9 March 12 |
Southern California Linux Expo | Pasadena, CA, US |
| March 11 March 12 |
Chemnitzer Linux Tage 2023 | Chemnitz, Germany |
| March 13 March 14 |
FOSS Backstage | Berlin, Germany |
| March 14 March 16 |
Everything Open | Melbourne, Australia |
| March 14 March 16 |
Embedded World 2023 | Munich, Germany |
| March 17 | BOB 2023 | Berlin, Germany |
| March 18 March 19 |
LibrePlanet | Boston, US |
| March 20 March 24 |
Mozilla Festival 2023 | Online |
| March 21 | Nordic PGDay 2023 | Stockholm, Sweden |
| March 23 | Open Source 101 | Charlotte, SC, US |
| April 1 | Central PA Open Source Conference | Lancaster, PA, US |
| April 5 April 7 |
Mercurial Conference Paris | Paris, France |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Security updates
Alert summary February 2, 2023 to February 8, 2023
| Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | DSA-5338-1 | stable | cinder | 2023-02-01 |
| Debian | DSA-5336-1 | stable | glance | 2023-02-01 |
| Debian | DLA-3309-1 | LTS | graphite-web | 2023-02-06 |
| Debian | DLA-3311-1 | LTS | heimdal | 2023-02-08 |
| Debian | DSA-5344-1 | stable | heimdal | 2023-02-08 |
| Debian | DSA-5339-1 | stable | libhtml-stripscripts-perl | 2023-02-05 |
| Debian | DSA-5337-1 | stable | nova | 2023-02-01 |
| Debian | DLA-3307-1 | LTS | openjdk-11 | 2023-02-06 |
| Debian | DSA-5335-1 | stable | openjdk-17 | 2023-02-01 |
| Debian | DSA-5343-1 | stable | openssl | 2023-02-07 |
| Debian | DLA-3306-1 | LTS | python-django | 2023-02-01 |
| Debian | DLA-3312-1 | LTS | shim | 2023-02-08 |
| Debian | DLA-3308-1 | LTS | webkit2gtk | 2023-02-06 |
| Debian | DSA-5340-1 | stable | webkit2gtk | 2023-02-06 |
| Debian | DSA-5341-1 | stable | wpewebkit | 2023-02-06 |
| Debian | DLA-3310-1 | LTS | xorg-server | 2023-02-07 |
| Debian | DSA-5342-1 | stable | xorg-server | 2023-02-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-23047a5f4f | F36 | binwalk | 2023-02-05 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-32eb9d8ee7 | F37 | binwalk | 2023-02-05 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-0fff8bc164 | F36 | caddy | 2023-02-02 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-322314ad50 | F37 | caddy | 2023-02-02 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-fd4786cc83 | F37 | chromium | 2023-02-03 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-2663dc67d8 | F36 | git-credential-oauth | 2023-02-02 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-267503a090 | F37 | git-credential-oauth | 2023-02-02 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-e098cdb4a1 | F36 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2023-02-05 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-9220fd95ee | F37 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2023-02-05 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-327768681a | F36 | java-11-openjdk | 2023-02-05 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-d6bd6ec00b | F37 | java-11-openjdk | 2023-02-05 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-df5421d170 | F36 | java-17-openjdk | 2023-02-05 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-43bce108c7 | F36 | java-latest-openjdk | 2023-02-05 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-097f828f8c | F37 | java-latest-openjdk | 2023-02-05 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-c9ab30c8e3 | F36 | kernel | 2023-02-04 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-4006357f7e | F37 | kernel | 2023-02-04 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-528f07b5af | F36 | mingw-opusfile | 2023-02-02 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-9cdfc21898 | F37 | mingw-opusfile | 2023-02-02 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-0334c6000a | F36 | pgadmin4 | 2023-02-02 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-298c136eee | F36 | sudo | 2023-02-05 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-6d71ff268e | F36 | syncthing | 2023-02-04 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-70eb8ba61e | F37 | syncthing | 2023-02-04 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-340f1d6ab9 | F36 | vim | 2023-02-03 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2023-0041 | 8 | advancecomp | 2023-02-07 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2023-0032 | 8 | apache | 2023-02-07 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2023-0039 | 8 | dojo | 2023-02-07 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2023-0033 | 8 | git | 2023-02-07 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2023-0037 | 8 | java/timezone | 2023-02-07 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2023-0038 | 8 | libtiff | 2023-02-07 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2023-0031 | 8 | libxpm | 2023-02-07 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2023-0027 | 8 | netatalk | 2023-02-07 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2023-0035 | 8 | nodejs-minimist | 2023-02-07 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2023-0042 | 8 | opusfile | 2023-02-07 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2023-0026 | 8 | python-django | 2023-02-07 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2023-0030 | 8 | python-future | 2023-02-07 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2023-0036 | 8 | python-mechanize | 2023-02-07 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2023-0029 | 8 | ruby-sinatra | 2023-02-07 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2023-0040 | 8 | sofia-sip | 2023-02-07 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2023-0034 | 8 | thunderbird | 2023-02-07 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2023-0028 | 8 | tigervnc | 2023-02-07 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-0610 | OL8 | git | 2023-02-07 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-0611 | OL9 | git | 2023-02-07 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-12109 | OL6 | kernel | 2023-02-07 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-12109 | OL7 | kernel | 2023-02-07 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-0600 | OL7 | thunderbird | 2023-02-07 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-0600 | OL7 | thunderbird | 2023-02-07 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-0606 | OL8 | thunderbird | 2023-02-07 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-0608 | OL9 | thunderbird | 2023-02-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:0610-01 | EL8 | git | 2023-02-06 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:0599-01 | EL8.1 | git | 2023-02-06 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:0609-01 | EL8.2 | git | 2023-02-06 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:0596-01 | EL8.4 | git | 2023-02-06 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:0628-01 | EL8.6 | git | 2023-02-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:0611-01 | EL9 | git | 2023-02-06 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:0627-01 | EL9.0 | git | 2023-02-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:0625-01 | EL8 | libksba | 2023-02-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:0593-01 | EL8.1 | libksba | 2023-02-06 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:0592-01 | EL8.2 | libksba | 2023-02-06 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:0624-01 | EL8.4 | libksba | 2023-02-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:0594-01 | EL8.6 | libksba | 2023-02-06 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:0626-01 | EL9 | libksba | 2023-02-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:0629-01 | EL9.0 | libksba | 2023-02-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:0597-01 | EL7 | rh-git227-git | 2023-02-06 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:0612-01 | EL7 | rh-nodejs14-nodejs and rh-nodejs14-nodejs-nodemon | 2023-02-06 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:0639-01 | EL8.1 | samba | 2023-02-08 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:0638-01 | EL8.2 | samba | 2023-02-08 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:0637-01 | EL8.4 | samba | 2023-02-08 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:0600-01 | EL7 | thunderbird | 2023-02-06 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:0606-01 | EL8 | thunderbird | 2023-02-06 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:0601-01 | EL8.1 | thunderbird | 2023-02-06 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:0602-01 | EL8.2 | thunderbird | 2023-02-06 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:0603-01 | EL8.4 | thunderbird | 2023-02-06 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:0605-01 | EL8.6 | thunderbird | 2023-02-06 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:0608-01 | EL9 | thunderbird | 2023-02-06 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:0607-01 | EL9.0 | thunderbird | 2023-02-06 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:0622-01 | EL9 | tigervnc | 2023-02-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:0623-01 | EL9.0 | tigervnc | 2023-02-07 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2023:0600-1 | SL7 | thunderbird | 2023-02-07 |
| Slackware | SSA:2023-032-01 | apr | 2023-02-01 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2023-032-02 | apr | 2023-02-01 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2023-032-03 | mozilla | 2023-02-01 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2023-033-01 | openssh | 2023-02-02 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2023-038-01 | openssl | 2023-02-07 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2023-038-02 | xorg | 2023-02-07 | |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2023:0041-1 | osB15 | EternalTerminal | 2023-02-08 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:0294-1 | SLE15 SES6 | apache2 | 2023-02-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:0293-1 | SLE15 SES6 | nginx | 2023-02-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:0305-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 SES7 SES7.1 oS15.4 | openssl-1_0_0 | 2023-02-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:0306-1 | OS9 SLE12 | openssl-1_0_0 | 2023-02-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:0310-1 | MP4.2 SLE15 SLE-m5.1 SLE-m5.2 SES7 SES7.1 osM5.2 | openssl-1_1 | 2023-02-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:0311-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.3 oS15.4 osM5.3 | openssl-1_1 | 2023-02-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:0309-1 | OS9 SLE12 | openssl-1_1 | 2023-02-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:0308-1 | SLE15 | openssl-1_1 | 2023-02-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:0312-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 oS15.4 | openssl-3 | 2023-02-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:0307-1 | SLE11 | openssl1 | 2023-02-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:3198-2 | oS15.4 | php8-pear | 2023-02-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:0525-2 | SLE15 SES7 | polkit | 2023-02-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:0274-1 | MP4.2 SLE15 SES7 SES7.1 | redis | 2023-02-06 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:0295-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 oS15.4 | redis | 2023-02-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:0275-1 | MP4.0 MP4.1 MP4.2 MP4.3 SLE15 SES6 SES7 SES7.1 oS15.4 | rubygem-activesupport-5_1 | 2023-02-06 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:0276-1 | MP4.0 MP4.1 MP4.2 MP4.3 SLE15 SES6 SES7 SES7.1 oS15.4 | rubygem-rack | 2023-02-06 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:0301-1 | SLE12 | sssd | 2023-02-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:0292-1 | SLE15 SES6 | sssd | 2023-02-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:0300-1 | SLE15 SES7 | sssd | 2023-02-07 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2023:0040-1 | osB15 | syslog-ng | 2023-02-04 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:0285-1 | MP4.2 SLE15 SES7 SES7.1 oS15.4 | xorg-x11-server | 2023-02-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:0288-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 oS15.4 | xorg-x11-server | 2023-02-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:0282-1 | OS9 SLE12 | xorg-x11-server | 2023-02-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:0284-1 | SLE12 | xorg-x11-server | 2023-02-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:0286-1 | SLE12 | xorg-x11-server | 2023-02-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:0287-1 | SLE15 | xorg-x11-server | 2023-02-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:0289-1 | SLE15 oS15.4 | xwayland | 2023-02-07 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5839-2 | 16.04 | apache2 | 2023-02-02 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5842-1 | 16.04 18.04 20.04 22.04 22.10 | editorconfig-core | 2023-02-06 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5816-2 | 18.04 20.04 | firefox | 2023-02-06 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5810-3 | 16.04 | git | 2023-02-07 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5847-1 | 18.04 20.04 22.04 | grunt | 2023-02-07 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5849-1 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 20.04 | heimdal | 2023-02-08 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5840-1 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 20.04 22.04 22.10 | lrzip | 2023-02-02 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5845-2 | 14.04 16.04 | openssl | 2023-02-07 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5844-1 | 18.04 20.04 22.04 22.10 | openssl | 2023-02-07 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5845-1 | 18.04 | openssl1.0 | 2023-02-07 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5825-2 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 20.04 22.04 22.10 | pam | 2023-02-06 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5837-2 | 16.04 | python-django | 2023-02-01 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5824-1 | 18.04 20.04 22.04 22.10 | thunderbird | 2023-02-06 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5841-1 | 14.04 16.04 | tiff | 2023-02-02 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5843-1 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 20.04 22.04 22.10 | tmux | 2023-02-06 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5846-1 | 18.04 20.04 22.04 22.10 | xorg-server, xorg-server-hwe-18.04, xwayland | 2023-02-07 |
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