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Calls for Presentations
CFP Deadlines: February 23, 2023 to April 24, 2023
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| April 21 | September 7 September 8 |
PyCon Estonia | Tallinn, Estonia |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
Events: February 23, 2023 to April 24, 2023
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Embedded World 2023 | Munich, Germany |
| March 14 March 16 |
Everything Open | Melbourne, Australia |
| 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 |
| April 13 April 15 |
FOSS Asia Summit 2023 | Singapore, Asia |
| April 14 April 15 |
Grazer Linuxtage 2023 | Graz, Austria |
| April 16 April 18 |
Cephalocon Amsterdam 2023 co-located with KubeCon EU | Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| April 17 April 19 |
Power management and scheduling summit | Ancona, Italy |
| April 19 April 27 |
PyCon US -- 20th Anniversary Special | Salt Lake City, US |
| April 21 April 23 |
Linux Application Summit 2023 | Brno, Czechia |
| April 23 April 26 |
foss-north 2023 | Göteborg, Sweden |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Security updates
Alert summary February 16, 2023 to February 22, 2023
| Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CentOS | CESA-2023:0530 | C7 | libksba | 2023-02-20 |
| CentOS | CESA-2023:0600 | C7 | thunderbird | 2023-02-20 |
| CentOS | CESA-2023:0675 | C7 | tigervnc and xorg-x11-server | 2023-02-20 |
| Debian | DLA-3330-1 | LTS | amanda | 2023-02-21 |
| Debian | DLA-3332-1 | LTS | apr-util | 2023-02-21 |
| Debian | DLA-3323-1 | LTS | c-ares | 2023-02-18 |
| Debian | DLA-3328-1 | LTS | clamav | 2023-02-20 |
| Debian | DLA-3319-1 | LTS | firefox-esr | 2023-02-16 |
| Debian | DSA-5350-1 | stable | firefox-esr | 2023-02-15 |
| Debian | DLA-3321-1 | LTS | gnutls28 | 2023-02-18 |
| Debian | DLA-3322-1 | LTS | golang-github-opencontainers-selinux | 2023-02-18 |
| Debian | DLA-3326-1 | LTS | isc-dhcp | 2023-02-20 |
| Debian | DLA-3327-1 | LTS | nss | 2023-02-20 |
| Debian | DSA-5353-1 | stable | nss | 2023-02-17 |
| Debian | DLA-3325-1 | LTS | openssl | 2023-02-20 |
| Debian | DLA-3329-1 | LTS | python-django | 2023-02-20 |
| Debian | DSA-5354-1 | stable | snort | 2023-02-18 |
| Debian | DSA-5356-1 | stable | sox | 2023-02-20 |
| Debian | DLA-3324-1 | LTS | thunderbird | 2023-02-20 |
| Debian | DSA-5355-1 | stable | thunderbird | 2023-02-18 |
| Debian | DLA-3333-1 | LTS | tiff | 2023-02-21 |
| Debian | DLA-3320-1 | LTS | webkit2gtk | 2023-02-17 |
| Debian | DSA-5351-1 | stable | webkit2gtk | 2023-02-16 |
| Debian | DSA-5352-1 | stable | wpewebkit | 2023-02-16 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-c3d65c8f7b | F37 | OpenImageIO | 2023-02-22 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-677d58bb20 | F36 | apptainer | 2023-02-22 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-01ff262091 | F37 | apptainer | 2023-02-22 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-d686b8d48f | F37 | clamav | 2023-02-19 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-e449235964 | F36 | community-mysql | 2023-02-16 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-d332f0b6a3 | F37 | community-mysql | 2023-02-16 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-ddf6575695 | F37 | curl | 2023-02-19 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-e1ffb79ddf | F37 | edk2 | 2023-02-16 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-578506ae4b | F36 | firefox | 2023-02-17 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-75b98848b2 | F37 | firefox | 2023-02-16 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-2b3acb6cfd | F36 | git | 2023-02-22 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-5b372318ff | F37 | git | 2023-02-16 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-cb63c0f615 | F37 | gssntlmssp | 2023-02-22 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-457955ce13 | F36 | kernel | 2023-02-21 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-b67c3bf65d | F37 | kernel | 2023-02-21 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-a5564c0a3f | F36 | openssl | 2023-02-22 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-c713d12577 | F36 | phpMyAdmin | 2023-02-17 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-179053442b | F37 | phpMyAdmin | 2023-02-17 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-766cc7ab0f | F36 | thunderbird | 2023-02-21 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-50429a3169 | F37 | thunderbird | 2023-02-19 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-3a9674404c | F36 | tpm2-tools | 2023-02-17 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-3a9674404c | F36 | tpm2-tss | 2023-02-17 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-93fb5b08eb | F36 | vim | 2023-02-18 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-efe0594c2b | F36 | webkit2gtk3 | 2023-02-22 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-2dc87954d9 | F37 | webkitgtk | 2023-02-18 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-c69a2a8f8b | F37 | xen | 2023-02-20 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-fb5022e741 | F36 | xorg-x11-server | 2023-02-22 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-1ebf4507df | F36 | xorg-x11-server-Xwayland | 2023-02-22 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2023-0054 | 8 | curl | 2023-02-20 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2023-0056 | 8 | firefox | 2023-02-20 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2023-0053 | 8 | nodejs-qs | 2023-02-20 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2023-0051 | 8 | qtbase5 | 2023-02-20 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2023-0057 | 8 | thunderbird | 2023-02-20 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2023-0052 | 8 | upx | 2023-02-20 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2023-0055 | 8 | webkit2 | 2023-02-20 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-0812 | OL7 | firefox | 2023-02-21 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-0812 | OL7 | firefox | 2023-02-21 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-0808 | OL8 | firefox | 2023-02-21 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-0810 | OL9 | firefox | 2023-02-21 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-0817 | OL7 | thunderbird | 2023-02-21 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-0817 | OL7 | thunderbird | 2023-02-21 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-0821 | OL8 | thunderbird | 2023-02-21 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-0824 | OL9 | thunderbird | 2023-02-21 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:0859-01 | EL8 | Red Hat Virtualization Host 4.4.z SP 1 | 2023-02-21 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:0814-01 | EL8 | Red Hat build of Cryostat | 2023-02-20 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:0812-01 | EL7 | firefox | 2023-02-20 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:0808-01 | EL8 | firefox | 2023-02-20 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:0806-01 | EL8.1 | firefox | 2023-02-20 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:0811-01 | EL8.2 | firefox | 2023-02-20 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:0805-01 | EL8.4 | firefox | 2023-02-20 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:0807-01 | EL8.6 | firefox | 2023-02-20 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:0810-01 | EL9 | firefox | 2023-02-20 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:0809-01 | EL9.0 | firefox | 2023-02-20 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:0852-01 | EL8 | httpd:2.4 | 2023-02-21 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:0832-01 | EL8 | kernel | 2023-02-21 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:0856-01 | EL8.1 | kernel | 2023-02-21 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:0854-01 | EL8 | kernel-rt | 2023-02-21 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:0839-01 | EL8 | kpatch-patch | 2023-02-21 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:0858-01 | EL8.1 | kpatch-patch | 2023-02-21 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:0855-01 | EL8 | pcs | 2023-02-21 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:0857-01 | EL8.1 | pcs | 2023-02-21 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:0848-01 | EL8 | php:8.0 | 2023-02-21 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:0835-01 | EL8 | python-setuptools | 2023-02-21 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:0833-02 | EL8 | python3 | 2023-02-21 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:0838-01 | EL8 | samba | 2023-02-21 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:0837-01 | EL8 | systemd | 2023-02-21 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:0842-01 | EL8 | tar | 2023-02-21 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:0817-01 | EL7 | thunderbird | 2023-02-20 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:0821-01 | EL8 | thunderbird | 2023-02-20 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:0818-01 | EL8.1 | thunderbird | 2023-02-20 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:0819-01 | EL8.2 | thunderbird | 2023-02-20 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:0820-01 | EL8.4 | thunderbird | 2023-02-20 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:0822-01 | EL8.6 | thunderbird | 2023-02-20 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:0824-01 | EL9 | thunderbird | 2023-02-20 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:0823-01 | EL9.0 | thunderbird | 2023-02-20 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2023:0812-1 | SL7 | firefox | 2023-02-20 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2023:0817-1 | SL7 | thunderbird | 2023-02-20 |
| Slackware | SSA:2023-046-01 | curl | 2023-02-15 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2023-046-02 | git | 2023-02-15 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2023-048-01 | kernel | 2023-02-17 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2023-047-01 | mozilla | 2023-02-16 | |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:0428-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 oS15.4 | ImageMagick | 2023-02-15 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:0421-1 | OS9 SLE12 | ImageMagick | 2023-02-15 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:0424-1 | SLE15 SES7 SES7.1 oS15.4 | ImageMagick | 2023-02-15 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:0447-1 | MP4.2 SLE15 SES7 SES7.1 | apache2-mod_security2 | 2023-02-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:0431-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 oS15.4 | apache2-mod_security2 | 2023-02-15 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:0423-1 | MP4.0 MP4.1 MP4.2 MP4.3 SLE15 SES6 SES7 SES7.1 oS15.4 | aws-efs-utils | 2023-02-15 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:0427-1 | MP4.2 MP4.3 SLE15 SES7.1 oS15.4 | bind | 2023-02-15 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:0470-1 | MP4.2 MP4.3 SLE15 SES7 SES7.1 oS15.4 | clamav | 2023-02-21 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:0470-1 | MP4.2 MP4.3 SLE15 SES7 SES7.1 oS15.4 | clamav | 2023-02-21 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:0453-1 | OS9 SLE12 | clamav | 2023-02-20 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:0471-1 | SLE12 | clamav | 2023-02-21 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:0429-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.3 oS15.4 osM5.3 | curl | 2023-02-15 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:0425-1 | SLE12 | curl | 2023-02-15 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:0461-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 SES7 SES7.1 oS15.4 | firefox | 2023-02-20 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:0466-1 | SLE12 | firefox | 2023-02-21 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:0430-1 | MP4.2 MP4.3 SLE15 SES7.1 oS15.4 | git | 2023-02-15 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:0426-1 | OS8 OS9 SLE12 | git | 2023-02-15 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:0475-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 oS15.4 | gnutls | 2023-02-22 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2023:0048-1 | osB15 | gssntlmssp | 2023-02-18 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:0436-1 | SLE12 | java-11-openjdk | 2023-02-16 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:0435-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 oS15.4 | java-17-openjdk | 2023-02-16 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:0437-1 | OS9 SLE12 | java-1_8_0-openjdk | 2023-02-16 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2023:0054-1 | osB15 | jhead | 2023-02-20 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:0433-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.3 oS15.4 osM5.3 | kernel | 2023-02-16 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:0056-2 | MP4.2 SLE15 SES6 SES7 SES7.1 | libksba | 2023-02-16 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:0443-1 | MP4.2 SLE15 SLE-m5.1 SLE-m5.2 SES7 SES7.1 osM5.2 | mozilla-nss | 2023-02-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:0434-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.3 oS15.4 osM5.3 | mozilla-nss | 2023-02-16 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:0468-1 | OS9 SLE12 | mozilla-nss | 2023-02-21 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:0476-1 | SLE15 SES7 SES7.1 oS15.4 | php7 | 2023-02-22 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:0451-1 | SLE15 | postgresql-jdbc | 2023-02-20 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:0450-1 | SLE15 SES7 SES7.1 oS15.4 | postgresql12 | 2023-02-20 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:0460-1 | SLE15 | prometheus-ha_cluster_exporter | 2023-02-20 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:0465-1 | SLE15 oS15.4 | prometheus-ha_cluster_exporter | 2023-02-21 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2023:0057-1 | osB15 | python-Django | 2023-02-21 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:0442-1 | OS8 OS9 | rubygem-actionpack-4_2 | 2023-02-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:0444-1 | SLE15 oS15.4 | rubygem-actionpack-5_1 | 2023-02-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:0463-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.1 SLE-m5.2 SLE-m5.3 oS15.4 osM5.2 osM5.3 | tar | 2023-02-20 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:0441-1 | SLE12 | tar | 2023-02-17 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2023:0053-1 | osB15 | timescaledb | 2023-02-20 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:0455-1 | OS9 SLE12 | ucode-intel | 2023-02-20 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:0456-1 | SLE12 | ucode-intel | 2023-02-20 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:0454-1 | SLE15 | ucode-intel | 2023-02-20 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5881-1 | 18.04 | chromium-browser | 2023-02-21 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5880-1 | 18.04 20.04 | firefox | 2023-02-20 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5873-1 | 18.04 20.04 22.04 22.10 | golang-golang-x-text, golang-x-text | 2023-02-16 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5807-2 | 16.04 | libxpm | 2023-02-21 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5876-1 | 20.04 22.04 | linux-aws, linux-aws-5.15, linux-azure-fde, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.15, linux-intel-iotg | 2023-02-15 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5874-1 | 18.04 20.04 | linux-aws-5.4, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.4, linux-hwe-5.4, linux-ibm, linux-ibm-5.4, linux-oracle-5.4 | 2023-02-15 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5878-1 | 22.10 | linux-azure | 2023-02-16 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5875-1 | 20.04 | linux-gke | 2023-02-15 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5877-1 | 20.04 | linux-gke-5.15 | 2023-02-15 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5879-1 | 22.04 | linux-hwe-5.19 | 2023-02-16 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5739-2 | 20.04 22.04 22.10 | mariadb-10.3, mariadb-10.6 | 2023-02-22 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5872-1 | 14.04 16.04 | nss | 2023-02-15 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5778-2 | 14.04 16.04 | xorg-server, xorg-server-hwe-16.04 | 2023-02-16 |
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