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Calls for Presentations

CFP Deadlines: May 4, 2023 to July 3, 2023

The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.

DeadlineEvent Dates EventLocation
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
July 2 November 3
November 5		 Ubuntu Summit Riga, Latvia

If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.

Upcoming Events

Events: May 4, 2023 to July 3, 2023

The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.

Date(s)EventLocation
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
May 20		 BSDCan 2023 Ottawa, Canada
May 17 Icinga Camp Berlin Berlin, Germany
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 Ceph Days Korea 2023 Seoul, South Korea
June 14
June 15		 KVM Forum 2023 Brno, Czech Republic
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
June 20
June 22		 SUSECON München 2023 München, Germany
June 27 PostgreSQL Conference Germany Essen, Germany
June 28
June 30		 Embedded Open Source Summit Prague, Czech Republic

If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.

Security updates

Alert summary April 27, 2023 to May 3, 2023

Dist. ID Release Package Date
Debian DLA-3414-1 LTS avahi 2023-05-02
Debian DLA-3411-1 LTS distro-info-data 2023-04-30
Debian DSA-5394-1 stable ffmpeg 2023-04-30
Debian DLA-3407-1 LTS jackson-databind 2023-04-30
Debian DLA-3408-1 LTS jruby 2023-04-30
Debian DLA-3403-1 LTS kernel 2023-05-03
Debian DLA-3409-1 LTS libapache2-mod-auth-openidc 2023-05-01
Debian DLA-3413-1 LTS libdatetime-timezone-perl 2023-05-02
Debian DLA-3405-1 LTS libxml2 2023-04-30
Debian DLA-3404-1 LTS linux-5.10 2023-05-03
Debian DSA-5395-1 stable nodejs 2023-05-02
Debian DLA-3410-1 LTS openvswitch 2023-05-01
Debian DLA-3406-1 LTS sniproxy 2023-04-30
Debian DLA-3412-1 LTS tzdata 2023-05-02
Debian DSA-5396-1 stable webkit2gtk 2023-05-03
Debian DLA-3402-1 LTS wireshark 2023-04-29
Debian DSA-5397-1 stable wpewebkit 2023-05-03
Fedora FEDORA-2023-2b6ba1c253 F37 chromium 2023-04-27
Fedora FEDORA-2023-911c060ded F38 chromium 2023-05-02
Fedora FEDORA-2023-d84a75ea52 F37 git 2023-05-01
Fedora FEDORA-2023-eaf1bdd5ae F38 git 2023-04-28
Fedora FEDORA-2023-de10e674ae F36 libpcap 2023-04-28
Fedora FEDORA-2023-8b0938312e F36 libsignal-protocol-c 2023-04-29
Fedora FEDORA-2023-6cfe134db6 F37 libsignal-protocol-c 2023-04-29
Fedora FEDORA-2023-4e094d5297 F38 libsignal-protocol-c 2023-04-29
Fedora FEDORA-2022-15729fa33d F36 perl-Alien-ProtoBuf 2023-04-27
Fedora FEDORA-2023-8cf8786a16 F38 php-laminas-diactoros2 2023-04-28
Fedora FEDORA-2023-c29ae4c76f F37 php-nyholm-psr7 2023-04-28
Fedora FEDORA-2023-b0811dc6e4 F38 php-nyholm-psr7 2023-04-29
Fedora FEDORA-2023-9992b32c1f F36 python-setuptools 2023-04-30
Fedora FEDORA-2023-60e2b22be0 F37 python-setuptools 2023-05-01
Fedora FEDORA-2023-04239b5758 F36 redis 2023-04-27
Fedora FEDORA-2023-5b6510a584 F37 redis 2023-04-27
Fedora FEDORA-2023-e4e3393396 F38 redis 2023-04-27
Fedora FEDORA-2023-b37722768e F36 rust-askama 2023-04-29
Fedora FEDORA-2023-e9243281cb F37 rust-askama 2023-04-29
Fedora FEDORA-2023-035d5910b9 F38 rust-askama 2023-04-29
Fedora FEDORA-2023-b37722768e F36 rust-askama_shared 2023-04-29
Fedora FEDORA-2023-e9243281cb F37 rust-askama_shared 2023-04-29
Fedora FEDORA-2023-035d5910b9 F38 rust-askama_shared 2023-04-29
Fedora FEDORA-2023-b37722768e F36 rust-comrak 2023-04-29
Fedora FEDORA-2023-e9243281cb F37 rust-comrak 2023-04-29
Fedora FEDORA-2023-035d5910b9 F38 rust-comrak 2023-04-29
Fedora FEDORA-2023-de10e674ae F36 tcpdump 2023-04-28
Fedora FEDORA-2023-6c3278c87b F36 thunderbird 2023-04-30
Fedora FEDORA-2023-a4bbf02a57 F37 webkitgtk 2023-05-01
Fedora FEDORA-2023-d28433ead1 F38 xen 2023-04-28
Gentoo 202305-10 chromium, google-chrome, microsoft-edge 2023-05-03
Gentoo 202305-08 dbus 2023-05-03
Gentoo 202305-04 dbus-broker 2023-05-03
Gentoo 202305-22 dhcp 2023-05-03
Gentoo 202305-06 firefox 2023-05-03
Gentoo 202305-19 firejail-lts 2023-05-03
Gentoo 202305-20 libapreq2 2023-05-03
Gentoo 202305-17 libsdl 2023-05-03
Gentoo 202305-18 libsdl2 2023-05-03
Gentoo 202305-23 lua 2023-05-03
Gentoo 202305-03 proftpd 2023-05-03
Gentoo 202305-02 python, PyPy3 2023-05-03
Gentoo 202305-12 sudo 2023-05-03
Gentoo 202305-09 syslog-ng 2023-05-03
Gentoo 202305-15 systemd 2023-05-03
Gentoo 202305-11 tor 2023-05-03
Gentoo 202305-14 uptimed 2023-05-03
Gentoo 202305-16 vim 2023-05-03
Gentoo 202305-05 xfce4-settings 2023-05-03
Oracle ELSA-2023-12298 OL8 cloud-init 2023-04-27
Oracle ELSA-2023-12299 OL9 cloud-init 2023-04-27
Oracle ELSA-2023-2074 OL9 emacs 2023-05-02
Oracle ELSA-2023-1987 OL7 kernel 2023-04-26
Oracle ELSA-2023-2077 OL7 libwebp 2023-05-02
Oracle ELSA-2023-2077 OL7 libwebp 2023-05-02
Oracle ELSA-2023-2076 OL8 libwebp 2023-05-02
Oracle ELSA-2023-2078 OL9 libwebp 2023-05-02
Red Hat RHSA-2023:2074-01 EL9 emacs 2023-05-02
Red Hat RHSA-2023:2077-01 EL7 libwebp 2023-05-02
Red Hat RHSA-2023:2076-01 EL8 libwebp 2023-05-02
Red Hat RHSA-2023:2073-01 EL8.1 libwebp 2023-05-02
Red Hat RHSA-2023:2072-01 EL8.2 libwebp 2023-05-02
Red Hat RHSA-2023:2084-01 EL8.4 libwebp 2023-05-02
Red Hat RHSA-2023:2085-01 EL8.6 libwebp 2023-05-02
Red Hat RHSA-2023:2078-01 EL9 libwebp 2023-05-02
Red Hat RHSA-2023:2075-01 EL9.0 libwebp 2023-05-02
Scientific Linux SLSA-2023:1987-1 SL7 kernel 2023-04-28
Scientific Linux SLSA-2023:2077-1 SL7 libwebp 2023-05-02
Slackware SSA:2023-121-01 netatalk 2023-05-01
SUSE SUSE-SU-2023:1581-2 SLE-m5.4 ceph 2023-05-02
SUSE SUSE-SU-2023:1796-2 SLE-m5.4 conmon 2023-04-27
SUSE SUSE-SU-2023:2044-1 OS9 SLE12 dmidecode 2023-04-26
SUSE SUSE-SU-2023:0795-2 SLE-m5.4 docker 2023-04-27
SUSE SUSE-SU-2023:2087-1 MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 oS15.4 ffmpeg-4 2023-05-02
SUSE SUSE-SU-2023:2050-1 MP4.3 SLE15 oS15.4 fwupd 2023-04-27
SUSE SUSE-SU-2023:2038-2 MP4.2 SLE15 SES7.1 git 2023-05-02
SUSE SUSE-SU-2023:2062-1 OS8 OS9 SLE12 git 2023-04-28
SUSE SUSE-SU-2023:2060-1 MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 oS15.4 osM5.3 glib2 2023-04-27
SUSE SUSE-SU-2023:2076-1 SLE15 SLE-m5.1 SLE-m5.2 oS15.4 glib2 2023-04-28
SUSE SUSE-SU-2023:1718-2 SLE-m5.4 glibc 2023-04-27
SUSE SUSE-SU-2023:0668-2 SLE-m5.4 libX11 2023-04-27
SUSE SUSE-SU-2023:1686-2 SLE-m5.4 libmicrohttpd 2023-04-27
SUSE SUSE-SU-2023:2051-1 MP4.2 MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.1 SLE-m5.2 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 SES7.1 oS15.4 osM5.3 libtpms 2023-04-27
SUSE SUSE-SU-2023:2048-1 MP4.2 SLE15 SLE-m5.1 SLE-m5.2 SES7 SES7.1 oS15.4 libxml2 2023-04-26
SUSE SUSE-SU-2023:2053-1 MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 oS15.4 osM5.3 libxml2 2023-04-27
SUSE SUSE-SU-2023:2054-1 SLE12 libxml2 2023-04-27
SUSE openSUSE-SU-2023:0096-1 osB15 liferea 2023-04-27
SUSE SUSE-SU-2023:2046-1 MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.4 oS15.4 openssl-ibmca 2023-04-26
SUSE SUSE-SU-2023:2047-1 SLE12 openssl-ibmca 2023-04-26
SUSE openSUSE-SU-2023:0101-1 osB15 pdns-recursor 2023-05-02
SUSE SUSE-SU-2023:0868-2 SLE-m5.4 python3 2023-04-27
SUSE SUSE-SU-2023:0879-2 SLE-m5.4 qemu 2023-04-27
SUSE SUSE-SU-2023:2059-1 MP4.0 MP4.1 MP4.2 MP4.3 SLE15 oS15.4 rubygem-actionview-5_1 2023-04-27
SUSE SUSE-SU-2023:1961-1 SLE15 SLE-m5.1 SLE-m5.2 s390-tools 2023-04-27
SUSE SUSE-SU-2023:2070-1 MP4.2 SLE15 SLE-m5.1 SLE-m5.2 SES7.1 shadow 2023-04-28
SUSE SUSE-SU-2023:2066-1 MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.3 oS15.4 osM5.3 shadow 2023-04-28
SUSE SUSE-SU-2023:2069-1 OS9 SLE12 shadow 2023-04-28
SUSE SUSE-SU-2023:2067-1 SLE12 shadow 2023-04-28
SUSE SUSE-SU-2023:2068-1 SLE15 SES7 shadow 2023-04-28
SUSE SUSE-SU-2023:2091-1 OS9 SLE12 shim 2023-05-03
SUSE openSUSE-SU-2023:0097-1 osB15 stellarium 2023-04-27
SUSE SUSE-SU-2023:2064-1 MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 oS15.4 thunderbird 2023-04-28
SUSE SUSE-SU-2023:0781-2 SLE-m5.4 vim 2023-04-27
SUSE SUSE-SU-2023:2077-1 MP4.2 SLE15 SES7 SES7.1 oS15.4 webkit2gtk3 2023-05-01
SUSE SUSE-SU-2023:2065-1 MP4.3 SLE15 oS15.4 webkit2gtk3 2023-04-28
SUSE SUSE-SU-2023:2056-1 OS9 SLE12 webkit2gtk3 2023-04-27
SUSE SUSE-SU-2023:2078-1 SLE15 webkit2gtk3 2023-05-01
SUSE SUSE-SU-2023:0848-2 SLE-m5.4 xen 2023-04-27
Ubuntu USN-6037-1 16.04 18.04 20.04 22.04 22.10 Apache Commons Net 2023-04-28
Ubuntu USN-6048-1 14.04 16.04 18.04 20.04 ZenLib 2023-05-01
Ubuntu USN-6042-1 16.04 18.04 20.04 22.04 22.10 23.04 cloud-init 2023-04-26
Ubuntu USN-6017-2 23.04 ghostscript 2023-04-26
Ubuntu USN-6050-1 18.04 20.04 22.04 22.10 23.04 git 2023-05-01
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Kernel patches of interest

Kernel releases

Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 6.3.1 May 01
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior v6.3-rt11 Apr 27
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 6.2.14 May 01
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 6.1.27 May 01
Clark Williams 6.1.26-rt8 Apr 30
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.15.110 May 01

Architecture-specific

Jing Zhang Support writable CPU ID registers from userspace May 03
Youling Tang LoongArch: ftrace: Add direct call support and code simplification Apr 27
Tianrui Zhao Add KVM LoongArch support Apr 27
Drew Fustini RISC-V: Detect Ssqosid extension and handle sqoscfg CSR May 01
Hou Wenlong x86/pie: Make kernel image's virtual address flexible Apr 28

Core kernel

Masami Hiramatsu (Google) tracing: Add fprobe events Apr 27
Feng zhou Introduce a new kfunc of bpf_task_under_cgroup Apr 27
Chen Yu sched/fair: Introduce SIS_CURRENT to wake up short task on current CPU Apr 29
Alan Maguire tracing: additional filter predicates Apr 28
Pavel Begunkov Rethinking splice Apr 30
Ajay Kaher tracing: introducing eventfs May 02
Raghavendra K T sched/numa: Disjoint set vma scan improvements May 03
Juri Lelli sched/deadline: cpuset: Rework DEADLINE bandwidth restoration May 03
Andrii Nakryiko Centralize BPF permission checks May 02
Eric DeVolder crash: Kernel handling of CPU and memory hot un/plug May 03

Development tools

Frank Ch. Eigler SystemTap release 4.9 Apr 28
Eric Biggers New script that finds partially-backported patchsets Apr 29
Suren Baghdasaryan Memory allocation profiling May 01
Indu Bhagat SFrame based stack tracer for user space in the kernel May 01

Device drivers

Marijn Suijten drm/msm/dpu: Implement tearcheck support on INTF block Apr 27
Tao Zhang Add support to configure TPDM DSB subunit Apr 27
Emil Tantilov Introduce Intel IDPF driver Apr 26
Martin Kaistra wifi: rtl8xxxu: Add AP mode support for 8188f Apr 27
Reinette Chatre vfio/pci: Support dynamic allocation of MSI-X interrupts Apr 27
Jakob Hauser Add RT5033 charger device driver Apr 28
Yunfei Dong media: mediatek: vcodec: support stateless hevc decoder Apr 28
Yi-De Wu GenieZone hypervisor drivers Apr 28
Valentin Caron spi: stm32: add spi slave mode Apr 28
Mengyuan Lou Wangxun netdev features support Apr 28
Mario Limonciello Add dynamic boost control support Apr 28
Jonathan Neuschäfer Nuvoton WPCM450 clock and reset driver Apr 28
Tom Zanussi crypto: Add Intel Analytics Accelerator (IAA) crypto compression driver Apr 28
Kuogee Hsieh add DSC 1.2 dpu supports Apr 28
alison@she-devel.com support config of U-Blox Zed-F9P GNSS Apr 29
Cristian Ciocaltea Add RK3588 OTP memory support May 01
Bryan O'Donoghue Add Qualcomm PMIC TPCM support May 01
Krishna Kurapati Add multiport support for DWC3 controllers May 01
Rob Clark drm: fdinfo memory stats May 01
Artur Weber Add Samsung S6D7AA0 panel controller driver May 01
André Almeida Add AMDGPU_INFO_GUILTY_APP ioctl May 01
Judith Mendez Enable multiple MCAN on AM62x May 01
Okan Sahin Add DS4520 GPIO Expander Support May 02
MD Danish Anwar Introduce ICSSG based ethernet Driver May 02
Marvin Lin Support Nuvoton NPCM Video Capture/Encode Engine May 02
Biju Das Add RZ/{G2L,G2LC} and RZ/V2L Display Unit support May 02
minyard@acm.org watchdog: Add an IPMI watchdog driver in the watchdog framework May 02
Rohit Agarwal Add pinctrl support for SDX75 May 03
Benjamin Gaignard AV1 stateless decoder for RK3588 May 03
Matti Vaittinen Support ROHM BU27008 RGB sensor May 03
AngeloGioacchino Del Regno MediaTek DDP GAMMA - 12-bit LUT support May 03
Mukesh Ojha Add basic Minidump kernel driver support May 03
Shannon Nelson pds_vdpa driver May 03

Device-driver infrastructure

Christian Marangi leds: introduce new LED hw control APIs Apr 27
Shunsuke Mie Introduce a PCIe endpoint virtio console Apr 27
Wenchao Hao scsi:scsi_debug: Add error injection for single device Apr 28
Vadim Fedorenko Create common DPLL configuration API Apr 27

Filesystems and block layer

Ming Lei ublk: cleanup and support user copy Apr 27
Hou Tao blk-ioprio: Introduce promote-to-rt policy Apr 28
Christian Brauner fs: allow to mount beneath top mount Apr 29
Amir Goldstein Prepare for supporting more filesystems with fanotify May 02
Nhat Pham cachestat: a new syscall for page cache state of files May 02
Andreas Hindborg Rust null block driver May 03
Jeff Layton fs: implement multigrain timestamps May 03
Darrick J. Wong xfs: online repair for fs summary counters with exclusive fsfreeze May 02
Boris Burkov btrfs: simple quotas May 02
John Garry block atomic writes May 03
Bart Van Assche mq-deadline: Improve support for zoned block devices May 03

Memory management

Khalid Aziz Add support for sharing page tables across processes (Previously mshare) Apr 26
Anthony Yznaga Preserved-over-Kexec RAM Apr 26
Jiaqi Yan PAGE_SIZE Unmapping in Memory Failure Recovery for HugeTLB Pages Apr 28
Hou Tao Handle immediate reuse in bpf memory allocator Apr 29
Vishal Moola (Oracle) Split ptdesc from struct page May 01
Maarten Lankhorst Add support for DRM cgroup memory accounting. May 03

Networking

Jesper Dangaard Brouer page_pool: new approach for leak detection and shutdown phase Apr 27
Stefan Roesch io_uring: add napi busy polling support Apr 28
Boris Sukholitko netfilter: nftables: dscp modification offload May 03
Aditi Ghag bpf: Add socket destroy capability May 03

Security-related

Dongsoo Lee crypto: LEA block cipher implementation Apr 28
Casey Schaufler LSM: Three basic syscalls Apr 28
Günther Noack Landlock: ioctl support May 02

Virtualization and containers

Tianyu Lan x86/hyperv/sev: Add AMD sev-snp enlightened guest support on hyperv May 01

Miscellaneous

David Sterba Btrfs progs release 6.3 Apr 27
Stephen Hemminger iproute2 6.3 release Apr 27
Andrii Nakryiko libbpf v1.2 release May 01
Verma, Vishal L ndctl v77 May 02

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