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Linux Plumbers Conference CFP announcements
The 2023 Linux Plumbers Conference (November 13-15, Richmond VA, USA) has put out its calls for proposals for the refereed track (due August 6) and the microconference track (June 1). Proposals are also being accepted for the kernel-summit track.CFP Deadlines: April 20, 2023 to June 19, 2023
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| April 21 | September 7 September 8 |
PyCon Estonia | Tallinn, Estonia |
| April 28 | June 14 | Ceph Days Korea 2023 | Seoul, South Korea |
| May 3 | June 15 | Ceph Days Vancounver | Vancouver, Canada |
| May 28 | July 13 July 16 |
Free and Open Source Yearly | Portland OR, US |
| June 4 | October 20 October 22 |
Linux Fest Northwest 2023 | Bellingham, WA, US |
| June 5 | September 20 September 21 |
Linux Security Summit Europe | Bilbao, Spain |
| June 12 | October 3 October 5 |
PGConf NYC | New York, US |
| June 16 | September 17 September 18 |
Tracing Summit | Bilbao, Spain |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
Events: April 20, 2023 to June 19, 2023
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| April 26 April 28 |
Linaro Connect | London, UK |
| April 29 | 19. Augsburger Linux-Infotag | Augsburg, Germany |
| May 5 | Ceph Days India 2023 | Bengaluru, India |
| May 8 May 10 |
Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management and BPF Summit | Vancouver, Canada |
| May 9 May 11 |
sambaXP | Goettingen, Germany |
| May 10 May 12 |
Linux Security Summit | Vancouver, Canada |
| May 10 May 12 |
Open Source Summit North America | Vancouver, Canada |
| May 11 | NLUUG Spring Conference | Utrecht, The Netherlands |
| May 12 | PGConf.BE | Haasrode, Belgium |
| May 17 | Icinga Camp Berlin | Berlin, Germany |
| May 17 May 20 |
BSDCan 2023 | Ottawa, Canada |
| May 23 May 30 |
Debian Reunion Hamburg 2023 | Hamburg, Germany |
| May 23 May 25 |
Red Hat Summit 2023 | Boston, US |
| May 26 May 28 |
openSUSE Conference 2023 | Nürnberg, Germany |
| May 30 June 2 |
PGCon 2023 | Ottawa, Canada |
| June 13 June 15 |
Beam Summit 2023 | New York City, US |
| June 13 June 15 |
Open Infrastructure Summit | Vancouver, Canada |
| June 14 June 15 |
KVM Forum 2023 | Brno, Czech Republic |
| June 14 | Ceph Days Korea 2023 | Seoul, South Korea |
| June 15 | Ceph Days Vancounver | Vancouver, Canada |
| June 15 June 17 |
Open Source Festival Africa | Lagos, Nigeria |
| June 16 June 18 |
Devconf.CZ 2023 | Brno, Czech Republic |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Security updates
Alert summary April 13, 2023 to April 19, 2023
| Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | DLA-3394-1 | LTS | asterisk | 2023-04-19 |
| Debian | DSA-5390-1 | stable | chromium | 2023-04-16 |
| Debian | DSA-5386-1 | stable | chromium | 2023-04-12 |
| Debian | DLA-3391-1 | LTS | firefox-esr | 2023-04-12 |
| Debian | DSA-5385-1 | stable | firefox-esr | 2023-04-12 |
| Debian | DSA-5388-1 | stable | haproxy | 2023-04-13 |
| Debian | DLA-3389-1 | LTS | lldpd | 2023-04-12 |
| Debian | DSA-5387-1 | stable | openvswitch | 2023-04-13 |
| Debian | DLA-3393-1 | LTS | protobuf | 2023-04-18 |
| Debian | DSA-5389-1 | stable | rails | 2023-04-14 |
| Debian | DLA-3392-1 | LTS | ruby-rack | 2023-04-17 |
| Debian | DLA-3390-1 | LTS | zabbix | 2023-04-12 |
| Debian | DLA-3390-1 | LTS | zabbix | 2023-04-12 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-3a821e6e73 | F36 | bzip3 | 2023-04-14 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-c08f9dfc16 | F37 | bzip3 | 2023-04-14 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-32c3bbbbc9 | F37 | ffmpeg | 2023-04-13 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-50f9eb7aca | F36 | firefox | 2023-04-15 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-1749adc275 | F37 | firefox | 2023-04-13 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-366850fc87 | F36 | ghostscript | 2023-04-15 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-1c172e3264 | F36 | libldb | 2023-04-16 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-a66bd67e34 | F37 | libpcap | 2023-04-18 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-dae7cc20ac | F37 | libxml2 | 2023-04-18 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-a521b917c8 | F38 | libxml2 | 2023-04-18 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-17aaa2187f | F36 | libyang | 2023-04-14 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-9887f01975 | F37 | libyang | 2023-04-14 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-88991d2713 | F38 | lldpd | 2023-04-19 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-f519fe8cda | F36 | mingw-glib2 | 2023-04-14 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-cfe20dbcab | F37 | mingw-glib2 | 2023-04-14 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-1176c8b10c | F37 | openssh | 2023-04-18 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-123647648e | F38 | openssh | 2023-04-19 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-0c1aaa76b6 | F37 | pdns-recursor | 2023-04-13 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-4936e4e7f1 | F37 | polkit | 2023-04-13 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-1c172e3264 | F36 | samba | 2023-04-16 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-a66bd67e34 | F37 | tcpdump | 2023-04-18 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-0e1ae0d5f6 | F36 | thunderbird | 2023-04-14 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-d365f19e05 | F37 | thunderbird | 2023-04-13 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-6f3f9ee721 | F36 | tigervnc | 2023-04-15 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-fe18ae3e85 | F36 | xorg-x11-server | 2023-04-14 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-239bae4b57 | F36 | xorg-x11-server-Xwayland | 2023-04-14 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2023-0139 | 8 | ceph | 2023-04-15 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2023-0141 | 8 | davmail | 2023-04-15 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2023-0146 | 8 | firefox | 2023-04-15 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2023-0145 | 8 | golang | 2023-04-15 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2023-0143 | 8 | jpegoptim | 2023-04-15 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2023-0148 | 8 | kernel | 2023-04-17 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2023-0149 | 8 | kernel-linus | 2023-04-17 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2023-0144 | 8 | libheif | 2023-04-15 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2023-0140 | 8 | python-certifi | 2023-04-15 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2023-0142 | 8 | python-flask-restx | 2023-04-15 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2023-0147 | 8 | thunderbird | 2023-04-15 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2023-0138 | 8 | tomcat | 2023-04-15 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-1791 | OL7 | firefox | 2023-04-18 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-1791 | OL7 | firefox | 2023-04-18 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-1787 | OL8 | firefox | 2023-04-14 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-1786 | OL9 | firefox | 2023-04-14 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-12255 | OL7 | kernel | 2023-04-18 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-12255 | OL8 | kernel | 2023-04-18 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-12255 | OL8 | kernel | 2023-04-18 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-1703 | OL9 | kernel | 2023-04-13 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-12256 | OL7 | kernel-container | 2023-04-18 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-12256 | OL8 | kernel-container | 2023-04-18 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-1743 | OL8 | nodejs:14 | 2023-04-13 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-1806 | OL7 | thunderbird | 2023-04-18 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-1802 | OL8 | thunderbird | 2023-04-18 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-1809 | OL9 | thunderbird | 2023-04-18 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:1842-01 | EL8.6 | curl | 2023-04-18 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:1791-01 | EL7 | firefox | 2023-04-14 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:1787-01 | EL8 | firefox | 2023-04-14 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:1792-01 | EL8.1 | firefox | 2023-04-14 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:1789-01 | EL8.2 | firefox | 2023-04-14 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:1790-01 | EL8.4 | firefox | 2023-04-14 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:1788-01 | EL8.6 | firefox | 2023-04-14 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:1786-01 | EL9 | firefox | 2023-04-14 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:1785-01 | EL9.0 | firefox | 2023-04-14 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:1841-01 | EL8.6 | kernel | 2023-04-18 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:1743-01 | EL8 | nodejs:14 | 2023-04-12 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:1742-01 | EL8.6 | nodejs:14 | 2023-04-12 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:1823-01 | EL8 | openvswitch2.13 | 2023-04-18 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:1765-01 | EL8 | openvswitch2.17 | 2023-04-13 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:1769-01 | EL9 | openvswitch2.17 | 2023-04-13 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:1766-01 | EL8 | openvswitch3.1 | 2023-04-13 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:1770-01 | EL9 | openvswitch3.1 | 2023-04-13 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:1747-01 | EL8.2 | pki-core:10.6 | 2023-04-12 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:1806-01 | EL7 | thunderbird | 2023-04-17 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:1802-01 | EL8 | thunderbird | 2023-04-17 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:1803-01 | EL8.1 | thunderbird | 2023-04-17 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:1805-01 | EL8.2 | thunderbird | 2023-04-17 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:1804-01 | EL8.4 | thunderbird | 2023-04-17 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:1811-01 | EL8.6 | thunderbird | 2023-04-17 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:1809-01 | EL9 | thunderbird | 2023-04-17 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:1810-01 | EL9.0 | thunderbird | 2023-04-17 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2023:1791-1 | SL7 | firefox | 2023-04-14 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2023:1806-1 | SL7 | thunderbird | 2023-04-17 |
| Slackware | SSA:2023-102-01 | mozilla | 2023-04-12 | |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:1849-1 | MP4.2 MP4.3 SLE15 SES7 SES7.1 oS15.4 | apache2-mod_auth_openidc | 2023-04-14 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:1844-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 oS15.4 | aws-nitro-enclaves-cli | 2023-04-14 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:1912-1 | SLE12 | compat-openssl098 | 2023-04-19 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:1851-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 SES7 SES7.1 | container-suseconnect | 2023-04-14 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:1855-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 SES7 SES7.1 oS15.4 | firefox | 2023-04-14 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:1910-1 | SLE12 | glib2 | 2023-04-19 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:1859-1 | MP4.2 MP4.3 oS15.4 | golang-github-prometheus-prometheus | 2023-04-14 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:1858-1 | SLE12 | golang-github-prometheus-prometheus | 2023-04-14 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:1857-1 | SLE15 oS15.4 oS15.5 | golang-github-prometheus-prometheus | 2023-04-14 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:1867-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 SES7 SES7.1 oS15.4 | gradle | 2023-04-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:1904-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 oS15.4 | grafana | 2023-04-19 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:1902-1 | SLE12 | grafana | 2023-04-19 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:1903-1 | SLE15 oS15.4 oS15.5 | grafana | 2023-04-19 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:1852-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 oS15.4 osM5.3 | harfbuzz | 2023-04-14 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:1901-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 oS15.4 | helm | 2023-04-18 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:1850-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 SES7 SES7.1 oS15.4 | java-1_8_0-ibm | 2023-04-14 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:1848-1 | MP4.0 SLE15 oS15.4 | kernel | 2023-04-14 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:1897-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 oS15.4 osM5.3 | kernel | 2023-04-18 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:1895-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 oS15.4 | kernel | 2023-04-18 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:1894-1 | SLE12 | kernel | 2023-04-18 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:1892-1 | SLE15 SLE-m5.1 SLE-m5.2 | kernel | 2023-04-18 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:1909-1 | SLE15 oS15.4 | libgit2 | 2023-04-19 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:1854-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 oS15.4 | liblouis | 2023-04-14 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2023:0090-1 | osB15 | nextcloud-desktop | 2023-04-12 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:1871-1 | SLE15 SES7 oS15.4 | nodejs10 | 2023-04-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:1876-1 | SLE15 SES7 SES7.1 oS15.4 | nodejs12 | 2023-04-18 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:1872-1 | SLE12 | nodejs14 | 2023-04-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:1875-1 | SLE15 SES7 SES7.1 oS15.4 | nodejs14 | 2023-04-18 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:1911-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 oS15.4 osM5.3 | openssl-1_1 | 2023-04-19 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:1908-1 | SLE15 | openssl-1_1 | 2023-04-19 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:1898-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 oS15.4 | openssl-3 | 2023-04-18 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:1907-1 | SLE12 | openssl | 2023-04-19 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:1877-1 | MP4.2 MP4.3 SLE15 SES7.1 oS15.4 | pgadmin4 | 2023-04-18 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:1846-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 oS15.4 | php7 | 2023-04-14 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:1847-1 | SLE12 | php7 | 2023-04-14 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:1869-1 | OS8 OS9 SLE12 | rubygem-rack | 2023-04-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:1856-1 | SLE12 | tftpboot-installation images | 2023-04-14 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:1853-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 SES7 SES7.1 oS15.4 | tomcat | 2023-04-14 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:1873-1 | MP4.2 SLE15 SLE-m5.2 SES7 SES7.1 | wayland | 2023-04-18 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:1860-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 oS15.4 osM5.3 | wayland | 2023-04-14 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:1874-1 | SLE15 | wayland | 2023-04-18 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6018-1 | 18.04 20.04 22.04 22.10 | apport | 2023-04-13 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6021-1 | 18.04 | chromium-browser | 2023-04-14 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6008-1 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 20.04 22.04 | exo | 2023-04-12 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6010-2 | 18.04 20.04 | firefox | 2023-04-18 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6017-1 | 16.04 18.04 20.04 22.04 22.10 | ghostscript | 2023-04-13 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5855-4 | 14.04 16.04 | imagemagick | 2023-04-17 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6022-1 | 16.04 18.04 20.04 | kamailio | 2023-04-14 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6023-1 | 18.04 20.04 | libreoffice | 2023-04-17 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6025-1 | 20.04 22.04 | linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.15, linux-azure, linux-azure-5.15, linux-azure-fde, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.15, linux-gke, linux-gke-5.15, linux-gkeop, linux-ibm, linux-kvm, linux-lowlatency, linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-5.15, linux-raspi | 2023-04-18 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6024-1 | 22.04 22.10 | linux, linux-aws, linux-azure, linux-gcp, linux-hwe-5.19, linux-kvm, linux-lowlatency, linux-oracle, linux-raspi | 2023-04-18 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6014-1 | 14.04 16.04 | linux, linux-kvm, linux-lts-xenial | 2023-04-12 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6013-1 | 14.04 | linux-aws | 2023-04-12 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6020-1 | 20.04 | linux-bluefield | 2023-04-14 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6016-1 | 18.04 20.04 | node-thenify | 2023-04-13 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6019-1 | 20.04 | python-flask-cors | 2023-04-13 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6012-1 | 22.04 22.10 | smarty3 | 2023-04-13 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6015-1 | 18.04 20.04 22.04 22.10 | thunderbird | 2023-04-13 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6026-1 | 14.04 18.04 20.04 22.04 | vim | 2023-04-19 |
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