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Calls for Presentations

CFP Deadlines: September 7, 2023 to November 6, 2023

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

DeadlineEvent Dates EventLocation
September 10 December 5
December 6		 Open Source Summit Japan Tokyo, Japan
September 15 December 2
December 3		 EmacsConf 2023 Online
September 17 November 4
November 5		 OpenFest 2023 Sofia, Bulgaria
September 21 February 27
February 29		 22nd USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies Santa Clara, CA, US
September 28 November 28 NLUUG Fall Conference Utrecht, The Netherlands
October 2 October 6
October 8		 Qubes OS Summit Berlin, Germany
October 10 October 28 China Linux Kernel conference 2023 Shenzhen, China
November 1 November 11 Clang-built Linux Meetup Richmond, VA, US
November 1 March 14
March 17		 SCALE 21x Pasadena, CA, US

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

Upcoming Events

Events: September 7, 2023 to November 6, 2023

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

Date(s)EventLocation
September 6
September 7		 WasmCon Bellevue, Washington, US
September 7
September 8		 PyCon Estonia Tallinn, Estonia
September 8
September 9		 OLF Conference 2023 Columbus, OH, US
September 10
September 17		 DebConf 23 Kochi, India
September 12
September 15		 RustConf Albuquerque, New Mexico, US
September 13 eBPF Summit 2023 online
September 13
September 14		 stackconf 2023 Berlin, Germany
September 13
September 14		 All Systems Go! 2023 Berlin, Germany
September 14
September 16		 Kieler Open Source und Linux Tage Kiel, Germany
September 17
September 18		 Tracing Summit Bilbao, Spain
September 19
September 21		 Open Source Summit, Europe Bilbao, Spain
September 20
September 21		 Linux Security Summit Europe Bilbao, Spain
September 21
September 23		 LibreOffice Conference Bucharest, Romania
September 22
September 24		 GNU Tools Cauldron Cambridge, UK
September 22
September 24		 Jesień Linuksowa 2023 Gliwice, Poland
September 22
September 24		 VideoLAN Dev Days 2023 Dublin, Ireland
September 25
September 27		 Kernel Recipes 2023 Paris, France
September 25
September 26		 GStreamer Conference 2023 A Coruña, Spain
September 26
September 29		 Alpine Linux Persistence and Storage Summit Lizumerhuette, Austria
September 27 GNU Project 40th Anniversary celebration Biel, Switzerland
October 1 Hackday celebrating forty years of GNU at the Free Software Foundation Boston, US
October 3
October 5		 PGConf NYC New York, US
October 5
October 6		 PyConZA Durban, South Africa
October 6
October 8		 LibreOffice Conf Asia x UbuCon Asia 2023 Surakarta, Indonesia
October 6
October 8		 Qubes OS Summit Berlin, Germany
October 7
October 8		 LibreOffice - Ubuntu Conference Asia 2023 Surakarta, Indonesia
October 15
October 17		 All Things Open 2023 Raleigh, NC, US
October 17 Icinga Camp Milan Milan, Italy
October 17
October 19		 X.Org Developers Conference 2023 A Coruña, Spain
October 20
October 22		 Linux Fest Northwest 2023 Bellingham, WA, US
October 21
October 23		 openSUSE.Asia Summit 2023 Chongqing, China
October 24
October 26		 Linux Foundation Member Summit Monterey, CA, USA
October 28 China Linux Kernel conference 2023 Shenzhen, China
October 30
November 3		 Netdev 0x17 Vancouver, Canada
November 3
November 4		 Seattle GNU/Linux Conference 2023 Seattle, US
November 3
November 5		 Ubuntu Summit Riga, Latvia
November 4
November 5		 OpenFest 2023 Sofia, Bulgaria

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Security updates

Alert summary August 31, 2023 to September 6, 2023

Dist. ID Release Package Date
Debian DLA-3556-1 LTS aom 2023-09-06
Debian DSA-5490-1 stable aom 2023-09-05
Debian DSA-5487-1 stable chromium 2023-08-31
Debian DSA-5489-1 stable file 2023-09-04
Debian DLA-3553-1 LTS firefox-esr 2023-09-01
Debian DSA-5485-1 stable firefox-esr 2023-08-30
Debian DLA-3552-1 LTS gst-plugins-ugly1.0 2023-08-31
Debian DSA-5486-1 stable json-c 2023-08-30
Debian DLA-3550-1 LTS opendmarc 2023-08-30
Debian DLA-3551-1 LTS otrs2 2023-08-31
Debian DLA-3555-1 LTS php7.3 2023-09-05
Debian DLA-3554-1 LTS thunderbird 2023-09-05
Debian DSA-5488-1 stable thunderbird 2023-09-03
Fedora FEDORA-2023-af2e3d1c18 F37 exercism 2023-09-05
Fedora FEDORA-2023-e82fd2abcb F38 exercism 2023-09-05
Fedora FEDORA-2023-80549d73b9 F37 firefox 2023-09-02
Fedora FEDORA-2023-c679c55cf8 F38 firefox 2023-09-01
Fedora FEDORA-2023-a8b26b910d F38 freeimage 2023-09-06
Fedora FEDORA-2023-a1ca0ef4d6 F37 kernel 2023-09-03
Fedora FEDORA-2023-da8b7c1ca3 F38 kernel 2023-09-03
Fedora FEDORA-2023-a3fcc0751f F38 kubernetes 2023-09-02
Fedora FEDORA-2023-6432bb65ae F38 libeconf 2023-09-01
Fedora FEDORA-2023-69b85312f0 F38 libtommath 2023-09-05
Fedora FEDORA-2023-6a87c003c4 F38 libwebsockets 2023-09-01
Fedora FEDORA-2023-d8ae3c122e F37 mediawiki 2023-09-02
Fedora FEDORA-2023-1fcaba0998 F38 mediawiki 2023-09-02
Fedora FEDORA-2023-a8b26b910d F38 mingw-freeimage 2023-09-06
Fedora FEDORA-2023-cf3551046d F37 moby-engine 2023-09-05
Fedora FEDORA-2023-e7ed15ab9e F37 mosquitto 2023-09-01
Fedora FEDORA-2023-6a87c003c4 F38 mosquitto 2023-09-01
Fedora FEDORA-2023-b213d84a16 F38 python-pyramid 2023-09-05
Fedora FEDORA-2023-6ef5f2fbf3 F37 rust-rustls-webpki 2023-09-01
Fedora FEDORA-2023-7cb316a73b F38 rust-rustls-webpki 2023-09-01
Mageia MGASA-2023-0252 8 openldap 2023-09-03
Oracle ELSA-2023-4766 OL7 cups 2023-09-05
Oracle ELSA-2023-4766 OL7 cups 2023-09-05
Oracle ELSA-2023-4864 OL8 cups 2023-09-05
Oracle ELSA-2023-4838 OL9 cups 2023-09-04
Oracle ELSA-2023-12759 OL6 kernel 2023-09-05
Oracle ELSA-2023-4819 OL7 kernel 2023-09-05
Oracle ELSA-2023-12759 OL7 kernel 2023-09-05
Red Hat RHSA-2023:4952-01 EL8 firefox 2023-09-04
Red Hat RHSA-2023:4949-01 EL8.1 firefox 2023-09-04
Red Hat RHSA-2023:4951-01 EL8.2 firefox 2023-09-04
Red Hat RHSA-2023:4957-01 EL8.4 firefox 2023-09-04
Red Hat RHSA-2023:4959-01 EL8.6 firefox 2023-09-04
Red Hat RHSA-2023:4958-01 EL9 firefox 2023-09-04
Red Hat RHSA-2023:4950-01 EL9.0 firefox 2023-09-04
Red Hat RHSA-2023:4876-01 EL7 java-1.8.0-ibm 2023-08-30
Red Hat RHSA-2023:4877-01 EL8 java-1.8.0-ibm 2023-08-30
Red Hat RHSA-2023:4962-01 EL8.4 kernel 2023-09-05
Red Hat RHSA-2023:4961-01 EL8.4 kernel-rt 2023-09-05
Red Hat RHSA-2023:4967-01 EL8.4 kpatch-patch 2023-09-05
Red Hat RHSA-2023:4888-01 EL8.6 kpatch-patch 2023-08-31
Red Hat RHSA-2023:4945-01 EL7 thunderbird 2023-09-04
Red Hat RHSA-2023:4954-01 EL8 thunderbird 2023-09-04
Red Hat RHSA-2023:4948-01 EL8.1 thunderbird 2023-09-04
Red Hat RHSA-2023:4946-01 EL8.2 thunderbird 2023-09-04
Red Hat RHSA-2023:4956-01 EL8.4 thunderbird 2023-09-04
Red Hat RHSA-2023:4953-01 EL8.6 thunderbird 2023-09-04
Red Hat RHSA-2023:4955-01 EL9 thunderbird 2023-09-04
Red Hat RHSA-2023:4947-01 EL9.0 thunderbird 2023-09-04
Scientific Linux SLSA-2023:4819-1 SL7 kernel 2023-08-30
Scientific Linux SLSA-2023:4945-1 SL7 thunderbird 2023-09-05
Slackware SSA:2023-242-01 mozilla 2023-08-30
Slackware SSA:2023-242-02 mozilla 2023-08-30
SUSE SUSE-SU-2023:3522-1 MP4.0 MP4.1 MP4.2 MP4.3 SLE15 oS15.4 oS15.5 amazon-ecs-init 2023-09-05
SUSE SUSE-SU-2023:3537-1 MP4.0 MP4.1 MP4.2 MP4.3 SLE15 oS15.4 oS15.5 amazon-ssm-agent 2023-09-05
SUSE SUSE-SU-2023:3501-1 SLE12 amazon-ssm-agent 2023-08-31
SUSE SUSE-SU-2023:3531-1 MP4.3 SLE15 oS15.4 buildah 2023-09-05
SUSE SUSE-SU-2023:3529-1 MP4.3 SLE15 oS15.4 oS15.5 busybox 2023-09-05
SUSE openSUSE-SU-2023:0244-1 osB15 chromium 2023-09-06
SUSE SUSE-SU-2023:3539-1 MP4.3 SLE15 SES7 SES7.1 container-suseconnect 2023-09-05
SUSE SUSE-SU-2023:3520-1 MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 SLE-m5.5 oS15.4 oS15.5 djvulibre 2023-09-05
SUSE SUSE-SU-2023:3536-1 MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.1 SLE-m5.2 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 SES7.1 oS15.4 oS15.5 docker 2023-09-05
SUSE SUSE-SU-2023:3518-1 MP4.3 SLE15 oS15.4 oS15.5 exempi 2023-09-05
SUSE SUSE-SU-2023:3519-1 MP4.3 SLE15 SES7 SES7.1 oS15.4 oS15.5 firefox 2023-09-05
SUSE SUSE-SU-2023:3535-1 SLE15 SES6 glib2 2023-09-05
SUSE SUSE-SU-2023:3527-1 SLE15 oS15.4 oS15.5 gsl 2023-09-05
SUSE SUSE-SU-2023:3490-1 MP4.1 MP4.2 SLE15 haproxy 2023-08-30
SUSE SUSE-SU-2023:3525-1 MP4.3 SLE15 oS15.4 oS15.5 keylime 2023-09-05
SUSE SUSE-SU-2023:3532-1 MP4.3 SLE15 SES7 SES7.1 oS15.4 oS15.5 kubernetes1.18 2023-09-05
SUSE SUSE-SU-2023:3507-1 MP4.2 MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.1 SLE-m5.2 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 SES7.1 oS15.4 oS15.5 open-vm-tools 2023-08-31
SUSE SUSE-SU-2023:3506-1 SLE12 open-vm-tools 2023-08-31
SUSE SUSE-SU-2023:3504-1 SLE15 open-vm-tools 2023-08-31
SUSE SUSE-SU-2023:3505-1 SLE15 SES7 open-vm-tools 2023-08-31
SUSE SUSE-SU-2023:3541-1 MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 SLE-m5.5 oS15.4 oS15.5 php7 2023-09-05
SUSE SUSE-SU-2023:3528-1 MP4.3 SLE15 oS15.4 oS15.5 php7 2023-09-05
SUSE SUSE-SU-2023:3498-1 SLE15 SES7 SES7.1 oS15.4 php7 2023-08-31
SUSE SUSE-SU-2023:3533-1 OS9 SLE12 python-Django1 2023-09-05
SUSE SUSE-SU-2023:3534-1 OS8 OS9 SLE12 rubygem-rails-html-sanitizer 2023-09-05
SUSE SUSE-SU-2023:3526-1 MP4.3 SLE15 oS15.4 oS15.5 sccache 2023-09-05
SUSE SUSE-SU-2023:3516-1 MP4.0 SLE15 terraform 2023-09-04
SUSE SUSE-SU-2023:3508-1 MP4.0 SLE15 terraform-provider-helm 2023-09-01
SUSE SUSE-SU-2023:3497-1 SLE15 oS15.5 vim 2023-08-30
SUSE SUSE-SU-2023:3495-1 SLE12 xen 2023-08-30
SUSE SUSE-SU-2023:3494-1 SLE15 xen 2023-08-30
SUSE SUSE-SU-2023:3496-1 SLE15 SES7 xen 2023-08-30
Ubuntu USN-6334-1 16.04 18.04 20.04 atftp 2023-09-04
Ubuntu USN-6335-1 14.04 16.04 18.04 busybox 2023-09-04
Ubuntu USN-6336-1 16.04 18.04 20.04 22.04 23.04 docker-registry 2023-09-05
Ubuntu USN-6322-1 14.04 16.04 18.04 20.04 elfutils 2023-08-30
Ubuntu USN-6323-1 22.04 23.04 frr 2023-08-30
Ubuntu USN-6341-1 14.04 kernel 2023-09-05
Ubuntu USN-6340-1 18.04 20.04 linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.4, linux-gcp, linux-hwe-5.4, linux-ibm, linux-iot, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-5.4 2023-09-05
Ubuntu USN-6338-1 22.04 23.04 linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-6.2, linux-hwe-6.2, linux-kvm, linux-lowlatency, linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2, linux-raspi 2023-09-05
Ubuntu USN-6342-1 16.04 18.04 linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-hwe, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-4.15, linux-hwe, linux-kvm, linux-oracle 2023-09-05
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Ubuntu USN-6332-1 20.04 22.04 linux-azure, linux-azure-5.15, linux-azure-fde 2023-08-31
Ubuntu USN-6331-1 20.04 linux-azure 2023-08-31
Ubuntu USN-6337-1 18.04 linux-azure-5.4 2023-09-04
Ubuntu USN-6321-1 23.04 linux-gcp, linux-starfive 2023-08-30
Ubuntu USN-6330-1 20.04 linux-gcp-5.15 2023-08-31
Ubuntu USN-6329-1 18.04 linux-gcp-5.4, linux-oracle-5.4 2023-08-31
Ubuntu USN-6324-1 20.04 linux-gkeop 2023-08-31
Ubuntu USN-6325-1 20.04 22.04 linux-gkeop-5.15, linux-intel-iotg 2023-08-31
Ubuntu USN-6327-1 16.04 linux-kvm 2023-08-31
Ubuntu USN-6328-1 23.04 linux-oracle 2023-08-31
Ubuntu USN-6326-1 14.04 16.04 18.04 20.04 22.04 23.04 python-git 2023-08-31
Ubuntu USN-6333-1 20.04 22.04 23.04 thunderbird 2023-09-04
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Kernel patches of interest

Kernel releases

Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 6.5.2 Sep 06
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 6.5.1 Sep 02
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 6.4.15 Sep 06
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 6.4.14 Sep 02
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 6.1.52 Sep 06
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 6.1.51 Sep 02
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.15.131 Sep 06
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.15.130 Sep 02
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.10.194 Sep 02
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.4.256 Sep 02
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 4.19.294 Sep 02
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 4.14.325 Sep 02

Architecture-specific

Puranjay Mohan arm32, bpf: add support for cpuv4 insns Sep 05
Douglas Anderson arm64: Add IPI for backtraces / kgdb; try to use NMI for some IPIs Sep 06
Tianrui Zhao Add KVM LoongArch support Aug 31
Puranjay Mohan bpf, riscv: use BPF prog pack allocator in BPF JIT Aug 31
Charlie Jenkins riscv: Add fine-tuned checksum functions Sep 05
Manali Shukla Implement support for IBS virtualization Sep 04

Core kernel

Daniel Bristot de Oliveira SCHED_DEADLINE server infrastructure Aug 31
Waiman Long cgroup/cpuset: Support remote partitions Sep 05
Mathieu Desnoyers sched/eevdf: Rate limit task migration Sep 05

Device drivers

Utkarsh Patel Displayport Alternate Mode 2.1 Support Aug 30
Thomas Weißschuh hwmon: add POWER-Z driver Aug 31
Shravan Kumar Ramani Updates to Mellanox PMC driver Aug 31
Terry Bowman cxl/pci: Add support for RCH RAS error handling Aug 31
Ekansh Gupta Add multimode invoke request IOCTl support Aug 31
Tinghan Shen Add support for MT8195 SCP 2nd core Sep 01
Luo Jie add clock controller of qca8386/qca8084 Sep 01
Wentong Wu Add Intel LJCA device driver Sep 01
Alain Volmat Add support for DCMIPP camera interface of STMicroelectronics STM32 SoC series Sep 01
André Apitzsch leds: Add a driver for KTD202x Sep 01
Henry Shi Add Silicom Platform Driver Sep 01
Dmitry Baryshkov drm,usb/typec: uABI for USB-C DisplayPort connectors Sep 04
Linu Cherian Coresight for Kernel panic and watchdog reset Sep 04
Oleksij Rempel net: dsa: microchip: Add partial ACL support for ksz9477 switches Sep 04
wangweidong.a@awinic.com ASoC: codecs: Add aw87390 amplifier driver Sep 04
Wolfram Sang i2c: rcar: add FastMode+ support Sep 04
Junfeng Guo Introduce the Parser Library Sep 04
Rohit Agarwal Add USB Support on Qualcomm's SDX75 Platform Sep 05
Meng Li amd-pstate preferred core Sep 05
wenkai mfd: eiois200: Add core driver for Advantech EIO-IS200. Sep 05
Rohit Agarwal Add interconnect driver for SDX75 Sep 05
Kartik soc/tegra: fuse: Add ACPI support Sep 05
Frank Li I3C Slave Mode support Sep 05
Paul Elder media: i2c: Add driver for THine THP7312 ISP Sep 06
Jyan Chou Add DesignWare Mobile mmc driver Sep 06
Sarah Walker Imagination Technologies PowerVR DRM driver Sep 06
Matti Vaittinen Support ROHM BM1390 pressure sensor Sep 06
Radu Pirea (NXP OSS) Add MACsec support for TJA11XX C45 PHYs Sep 06
Stefan x Nilsson Add st7735s drm driver and Winstar panel Sep 06

Device-driver infrastructure

Wenchao Hao scsi: scsi_error: Introduce new error handle mechanism Sep 01
Benjamin Gaignard Add DELETE_BUF ioctl Sep 01
Dmitry Osipenko Add generic memory shrinker to VirtIO-GPU and Panfrost DRM drivers Sep 03
Mike Christie scsi: Allow scsi_execute users to control retries Sep 05

Documentation

Jakub Kicinski docs: netdev: document patchwork patch states Aug 30
Carlos Bilbao docs: security: Confidential computing intro and threat model for x86 virtualization Sep 05
Mike Rapoport docs/mm: Physical Memory: add "Memory map" section Sep 06

Filesystems and block layer

Eric Biggers fscrypt: add support for data_unit_size < fs_block_size Sep 04
Omar Sandoval xfs: CPU usage optimizations for realtime allocator Sep 05

Memory management

Yosry Ahmed memcg: non-unified flushing for userspace stats Aug 31
Michal Clapinski fcntl: add fcntl(F_CHECK_ORIGINAL_MEMFD) Aug 31
Joel Fernandes (Google) Optimize mremap during mutual alignment within PMD Sep 03
Feng Tang mm/slub: reduce contention for per-node list_lock for large systems Sep 05
Peter Xu mm/userfaultfd/poll: Scale userfaultfd wakeups Sep 05
Mike Kravetz Batch hugetlb vmemmap modification operations Sep 05

Networking

Evan Quan Enable Wifi RFI interference mitigation feature support Aug 31
Daan De Meyer Add cgroup sockaddr hooks for unix sockets Aug 31
Miquel Raynal ieee802154: Associations between devices Sep 01
Liu Jian add BPF_F_PERMANENT flag for sockmap skmsg redirect Sep 02
Breno Leitao io_uring: Initial support for {s,g}etsockopt commands Sep 04
Aurelien Aptel nvme-tcp receive offloads Sep 06

Security-related

Dan Williams configfs-tsm: Attestation Report ABI Aug 30
Roberto Sassu security: Move IMA and EVM to the LSM infrastructure Aug 31
Jari Ruusu Announce loop-AES-v3.8b file/swap crypto package Sep 01
Sweet Tea Dorminy fscrypt: add extent encryption Sep 02

Miscellaneous

Namhyung Kim perf lock contention: Add cgroup support (v1) Aug 30
James Clark perf vendor events arm64: Update V1 events using Arm telemetry repo Aug 31
David Sterba Btrfs progs release 6.5 Sep 01
Aditya Gupta Introduce perf check subcommand Sep 03
Stephen Hemminger iproute2 6.5 release Sep 06

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