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The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| July 7 | September 13 September 14 |
All Systems Go! 2023 | Berlin, Germany |
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Events: May 18, 2023 to July 17, 2023
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| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| May 17 May 20 |
BSDCan 2023 | Ottawa, Canada |
| May 23 May 25 |
Red Hat Summit 2023 | Boston, US |
| May 23 May 30 |
Debian Reunion Hamburg 2023 | Hamburg, Germany |
| May 26 May 28 |
openSUSE Conference 2023 | Nürnberg, Germany |
| May 30 June 2 |
PGCon 2023 | Ottawa, Canada |
| June 13 June 15 |
Open Infrastructure Summit | Vancouver, Canada |
| June 13 June 15 |
Beam Summit 2023 | New York City, US |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| July 13 July 16 |
Free and Open Source Yearly | Portland OR, US |
| July 15 July 21 |
aKademy 2023 | Thessaloniki, Greece |
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Security updates
Alert summary May 11, 2023 to May 17, 2023
| Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | DLA-3423-1 | LTS | epiphany-browser | 2023-05-15 |
| Debian | DLA-3417-1 | LTS | firefox-esr | 2023-05-11 |
| Debian | DSA-5400-1 | stable | firefox-esr | 2023-05-10 |
| Debian | DLA-3420-1 | LTS | golang-websocket | 2023-05-14 |
| Debian | DSA-5402-1 | stable | kernel | 2023-05-13 |
| Debian | DLA-3426-1 | LTS | netatalk | 2023-05-17 |
| Debian | DLA-3418-1 | LTS | nvidia-graphics-drivers-legacy-390xx | 2023-05-11 |
| Debian | DLA-3422-1 | LTS | postgresql-11 | 2023-05-15 |
| Debian | DSA-5401-1 | stable | postgresql-13 | 2023-05-11 |
| Debian | DLA-3424-1 | LTS | python-ipaddress | 2023-05-16 |
| Debian | DLA-3425-1 | LTS | sqlparse | 2023-05-16 |
| Debian | DLA-3421-1 | LTS | thunderbird | 2023-05-15 |
| Debian | DSA-5403-1 | stable | thunderbird | 2023-05-14 |
| Debian | DLA-3419-1 | LTS | webkit2gtk | 2023-05-12 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-fb8f800cb7 | F37 | LibRaw | 2023-05-11 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-45b3c1d9ed | F37 | firefox | 2023-05-13 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-2a5256e2a3 | F38 | firefox | 2023-05-11 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-003e7d2867 | F36 | git | 2023-05-12 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-2a2edeb67e | F36 | java-11-openjdk | 2023-05-11 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-812132bc09 | F37 | java-11-openjdk | 2023-05-11 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-00393126a0 | F36 | kernel | 2023-05-14 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-dfd4a6e8f2 | F37 | kernel | 2023-05-14 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-26325e5399 | F38 | kernel | 2023-05-14 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-30f824b8b8 | F36 | libreswan | 2023-05-13 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-60faf77aca | F37 | libreswan | 2023-05-13 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-19046bf703 | F38 | libreswan | 2023-05-13 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-741d5f1fd3 | F38 | libssh | 2023-05-14 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-49eb814ccc | F36 | moodle | 2023-05-11 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-60a90b6e6a | F37 | moodle | 2023-05-11 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-0ab503de3d | F38 | moodle | 2023-05-11 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-8f9d949dbc | F37 | python-django3 | 2023-05-16 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-0d20d09f2d | F38 | python-django3 | 2023-05-11 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-e5a35f7197 | F38 | qemu | 2023-05-16 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-7ffeed7339 | F36 | tcpreplay | 2023-05-15 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-96ffd40fd4 | F37 | tcpreplay | 2023-05-15 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-37bdea9241 | F38 | tcpreplay | 2023-05-15 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-816c142f3b | F37 | thunderbird | 2023-05-14 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-2cf9dd7d52 | F37 | vtk | 2023-05-11 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2023-0167 | 8 | connman | 2023-05-16 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2023-0171 | 8 | firefox/nss/rootcerts | 2023-05-16 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2023-0170 | 8 | freeimage | 2023-05-16 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2023-0169 | 8 | golang | 2023-05-16 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2023-0168 | 8 | indent | 2023-05-16 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2023-0166 | 8 | kernel | 2023-05-16 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2023-0165 | 8 | python-django | 2023-05-16 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2023-0164 | 8 | python-pillow | 2023-05-16 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2023-0172 | 8 | thunderbird | 2023-05-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:2780-01 | EL8 | Image Builder | 2023-05-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:3145-01 | EL7 | apr-util | 2023-05-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:3109-01 | EL8 | apr-util | 2023-05-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:3147-01 | EL9 | apr-util | 2023-05-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:3146-01 | EL9.0 | apr-util | 2023-05-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:3067-01 | EL8 | autotrace | 2023-05-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:3002-01 | EL8 | bind | 2023-05-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:2792-01 | EL8 | bind9.16 | 2023-05-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:2802-01 | EL8 | container-tools:4.0 | 2023-05-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:2758-01 | EL8 | container-tools:rhel8 | 2023-05-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:2863-01 | EL8 | ctags | 2023-05-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:3106-01 | EL8 | curl | 2023-05-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:2963-01 | EL8 | curl | 2023-05-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:2948-01 | EL8 | device-mapper-multipath | 2023-05-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:3000-01 | EL8 | dhcp | 2023-05-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:2932-01 | EL8 | edk2 | 2023-05-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:3104-01 | EL8 | emacs | 2023-05-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:3042-01 | EL8 | emacs | 2023-05-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:3137-01 | EL7 | firefox | 2023-05-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:3138-01 | EL8.1 | firefox | 2023-05-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:3139-01 | EL8.2 | firefox | 2023-05-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:3140-01 | EL8.4 | firefox | 2023-05-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:3141-01 | EL8.6 | firefox | 2023-05-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:3143-01 | EL9 | firefox | 2023-05-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:3142-01 | EL9.0 | firefox | 2023-05-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:2870-01 | EL8 | freeradius:3.0 | 2023-05-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:2851-01 | EL8 | freerdp | 2023-05-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:2801-01 | EL8 | frr | 2023-05-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:2873-01 | EL8 | gcc-toolset-12-binutils | 2023-05-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:2859-01 | EL8 | git | 2023-05-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:2866-01 | EL8 | git-lfs | 2023-05-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:3083-01 | EL8 | go-toolset:rhel8 | 2023-05-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:2784-01 | EL8 | grafana | 2023-05-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:2785-01 | EL8 | grafana-pcp | 2023-05-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:3097-01 | EL8 | gssntlmssp | 2023-05-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:3136-01 | EL7 | java-1.8.0-ibm | 2023-05-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:2951-01 | EL8 | kernel | 2023-05-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:2736-01 | EL8 | kernel-rt | 2023-05-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:3018-01 | EL8 | libarchive | 2023-05-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:3095-01 | EL8 | libreswan | 2023-05-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:3107-01 | EL8 | libreswan | 2023-05-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:3148-01 | EL9 | libreswan | 2023-05-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:2898-01 | EL8 | libtar | 2023-05-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:2883-01 | EL8 | libtiff | 2023-05-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:3068-01 | EL8 | mingw-expat | 2023-05-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:3087-01 | EL8 | mysql:8.0 | 2023-05-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:2969-01 | EL8 | net-snmp | 2023-05-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:3082-01 | EL8 | pcs | 2023-05-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:2903-01 | EL8 | php:7.4 | 2023-05-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:2810-01 | EL8 | poppler | 2023-05-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:2867-01 | EL8 | postgresql-jdbc | 2023-05-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:2893-01 | EL8 | python-mako | 2023-05-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:2860-01 | EL8 | python27:2.7 | 2023-05-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:2763-01 | EL8 | python38:3.8 and python38-devel:3.8 | 2023-05-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:2764-01 | EL8 | python39:3.9 and python39-devel:3.9 | 2023-05-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:2987-01 | EL8 | samba | 2023-05-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:2800-01 | EL8 | sysstat | 2023-05-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:3151-01 | EL7 | thunderbird | 2023-05-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:3152-01 | EL8.1 | thunderbird | 2023-05-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:3153-01 | EL8.2 | thunderbird | 2023-05-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:3154-01 | EL8.4 | thunderbird | 2023-05-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:3155-01 | EL8.6 | thunderbird | 2023-05-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:3150-01 | EL9 | thunderbird | 2023-05-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:3149-01 | EL9.0 | thunderbird | 2023-05-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:2830-01 | EL8 | tigervnc | 2023-05-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:2771-01 | EL8 | unbound | 2023-05-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:2757-01 | EL8 | virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel | 2023-05-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:2786-01 | EL8 | wayland | 2023-05-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:3108-01 | EL8 | webkit2gtk3 | 2023-05-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:2834-01 | EL8 | webkit2gtk3 | 2023-05-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:2806-01 | EL8 | xorg-x11-server | 2023-05-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:2805-01 | EL8 | xorg-x11-server-Xwayland | 2023-05-16 |
| Slackware | SSA:2023-130-01 | mozilla | 2023-05-10 | |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:2178-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 oS15.4 | buildah | 2023-05-11 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:2177-1 | SLE15 SES7 | buildah | 2023-05-11 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:2164-1 | SLE12 | cloud-init | 2023-05-10 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:2221-1 | SLE15 SLE-m5.1 SLE-m5.2 SES7.1 | conmon | 2023-05-16 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:2174-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 SES7 SES7.1 | container-suseconnect | 2023-05-11 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:2224-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 oS15.4 osM5.3 | curl | 2023-05-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:2225-1 | SLE12 | curl | 2023-05-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:2226-1 | SLE15 SES6 | curl | 2023-05-17 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2023:0108-1 | osB15 | dcmtk | 2023-05-15 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:2215-1 | MP4.2 SLE15 SLE-m5.1 SLE-m5.2 SES7 SES7.1 | dmidecode | 2023-05-16 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:2173-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 SES7 SES7.1 oS15.4 | firefox | 2023-05-11 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:2176-1 | OS9 SLE12 | firefox | 2023-05-11 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:2175-1 | SLE15 | firefox | 2023-05-11 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:2172-1 | MP4.2 MP4.3 oS15.4 | golang-github-prometheus-prometheus | 2023-05-11 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:2203-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 oS15.4 | gradle | 2023-05-15 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:2179-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 SES7.1 oS15.4 | helm | 2023-05-11 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:2222-1 | MP4.2 MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 SES7 SES7.1 oS15.4 | java-11-openjdk | 2023-05-16 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:2163-1 | SLE12 | kernel | 2023-05-11 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:2162-1 | SLE12 | kernel | 2023-05-10 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:2223-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 oS15.4 | libheif | 2023-05-16 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:2194-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 oS15.4 | libraw | 2023-05-15 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:2196-1 | SLE12 | libraw | 2023-05-15 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:2195-1 | SLE15 oS15.4 | libraw | 2023-05-15 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:2171-1 | SLE12 | ntp | 2023-05-11 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:2200-1 | SLE12 | postgresql12 | 2023-05-15 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:2198-1 | SLE15 | postgresql12 | 2023-05-15 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:2199-1 | SLE15 SES7 SES7.1 oS15.4 | postgresql12 | 2023-05-15 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:2219-1 | MP4.2 MP4.3 SLE15 SES7 SES7.1 oS15.4 | postgresql13 | 2023-05-16 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:2201-1 | SLE12 | postgresql13 | 2023-05-15 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:2205-1 | MP4.2 MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 SES7 SES7.1 oS15.4 | postgresql14 | 2023-05-15 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:2202-1 | SLE12 | postgresql14 | 2023-05-15 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:2207-1 | MP4.2 MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 SES7 SES7.1 oS15.4 | postgresql15 | 2023-05-15 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:2206-1 | OS9 SLE12 | postgresql15 | 2023-05-15 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:2213-1 | SLE15 | prometheus-sap_host_exporter | 2023-05-16 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:2212-1 | SLE15 oS15.4 | prometheus-sap_host_exporter | 2023-05-16 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:2218-1 | OS9 SLE12 | python-cryptography | 2023-05-16 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:2210-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 oS15.4 | rekor | 2023-05-16 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:2180-1 | MP4.2 MP4.3 SLE15 SES7 SES7.1 oS15.4 | skopeo | 2023-05-11 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:2211-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 oS15.4 | thunderbird | 2023-05-16 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6073-1 | 20.04 22.04 22.10 23.04 | cinder | 2023-05-11 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6074-1 | 18.04 20.04 | firefox | 2023-05-15 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6074-2 | 18.04 20.04 | firefox | 2023-05-16 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6066-1 | 18.04 20.04 | heat | 2023-05-10 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6078-1 | 18.04 20.04 22.04 22.10 23.04 | libwebp | 2023-05-16 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6080-1 | 20.04 22.04 | linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.15, linux-azure, linux-azure-5.15, linux-azure-fde, linux-azure-fde-5.15, linux-hwe-5.15, linux-ibm, linux-kvm, linux-lowlatency, linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15, linux-oracle | 2023-05-16 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6081-1 | 16.04 18.04 | linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-hwe, linux-kvm | 2023-05-16 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6079-1 | 22.04 22.10 | linux, linux-aws, linux-azure, linux-azure-5.19, linux-kvm, linux-lowlatency, linux-raspi | 2023-05-16 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6070-1 | 20.04 22.04 | linux-azure-fde-5.15, linux-raspi | 2023-05-10 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6071-1 | 22.04 | linux-oem-5.17 | 2023-05-10 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6072-1 | 22.04 | linux-oem-6.0 | 2023-05-10 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6069-1 | 18.04 20.04 | linux-raspi, linux-raspi-5.4, linux-raspi2 | 2023-05-10 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6076-1 | 18.04 | matrix-synapse | 2023-05-16 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6060-3 | 20.04 22.04 22.10 23.04 | mysql-8.0 | 2023-05-15 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6067-1 | 18.04 20.04 22.04 | neutron | 2023-05-10 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6082-1 | 16.04 18.04 20.04 22.04 | node-eventsource | 2023-05-17 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6073-5 | 20.04 | nova | 2023-05-14 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6073-3 | 20.04 22.04 22.10 23.04 | nova | 2023-05-11 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6077-1 | 16.04 18.04 20.04 22.04 22.10 23.04 | openjdk-8, openjdk-lts, openjdk-17, openjdk-20 | 2023-05-16 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6068-1 | 18.04 20.04 22.04 22.10 | openvswitch | 2023-05-10 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6073-2 | 20.04 22.04 22.10 23.04 | python-glance-store | 2023-05-11 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6073-4 | 20.04 22.04 22.10 23.04 | python-os-brick | 2023-05-11 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6064-1 | 18.04 20.04 22.04 22.10 23.04 | sqlparse | 2023-05-10 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6075-1 | 18.04 20.04 22.04 22.10 23.04 | thunderbird | 2023-05-15 |
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