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CFP Deadlines: January 4, 2024 to March 4, 2024
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
---|---|---|---|
January 14 | April 16 April 18 |
Open Source Summit North America | Seattle, US |
January 15 | May 28 May 31 |
PostgreSQL Development Conference | Vancouver, Canada |
January 21 | April 18 April 19 |
Linux Security Summit North America | Seattle, WA, US |
January 26 | May 9 May 12 |
Libre Graphics Meeting | Rennes, France |
January 31 | May 7 May 8 |
DevOpsDays Berlin | Berlin, Germany |
January 31 | April 25 April 26 |
Eco Compute 2024 - Engineering Conference on Sustainability in Hardware & Software | Munich, Germany |
January 31 | April 8 April 10 |
FOSSASIA Summit | Hanoi, Vietnam |
January 31 | March 7 March 8 |
Open Source Day 2024 | Florence, Italy |
January 31 | April 26 April 28 |
Penguicon 2024 | Ann Arbor, Michigan, US |
February 18 | July 19 July 24 |
GNOME Users and Developer Conference | Denver, CO, US |
February 19 | May 30 May 31 |
Power Management and Scheduling in the Linux Kernel (OSPM-summit) | Toulouse, France |
February 21 | May 21 | NLUUG Spring Conference 2024 | Utrecht, The Netherlands |
March 1 | May 13 May 15 |
LSFMM+BPF | Salt Lake City, US |
March 1 | April 20 | Augsburger Linux-Infotag | Augsburg, Germany |
March 1 | June 7 June 9 |
SouthEast Linux Fest | Charlotte, NC, US |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
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Events: January 4, 2024 to March 4, 2024
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January 23 January 25 |
Creative Freedom Summit | Online |
February 6 February 7 |
State of Open Con 24 | London, UK |
February 27 | Open Source Camp on Kubernetes | Nuremberg, Germany |
February 27 February 29 |
22nd USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies | Santa Clara, CA, US |
March 3 March 9 |
MiniDebCamp Hamburg | Hamburg, Germany |
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Security updates
Alert summary December 28, 2023 to January 3, 2024
Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
---|---|---|---|---|
Debian | DLA-3695-1 | LTS | ansible | 2023-12-28 |
Debian | DLA-3696-1 | LTS | asterisk | 2023-12-29 |
Debian | DSA-5584-1 | stable | bluez | 2023-12-21 |
Debian | DSA-5585-1 | stable | chromium | 2023-12-21 |
Debian | DLA-3700-1 | LTS | cjson | 2023-12-30 |
Debian | DLA-3692-1 | LTS | curl | 2023-12-22 |
Debian | DSA-5587-1 | stable | curl | 2023-12-23 |
Debian | DLA-3697-1 | LTS | firefox-esr | 2023-12-29 |
Debian | DSA-5581-1 | stable | firefox-esr | 2023-12-20 |
Debian | DSA-5583-1 | stable | gst-plugins-bad1.0 | 2023-12-21 |
Debian | DSA-5590-1 | stable | haproxy | 2023-12-28 |
Debian | DSA-5593-1 | stable | kernel | 2024-01-01 |
Debian | DSA-5594-1 | stable | kernel | 2024-01-02 |
Debian | DLA-3699-1 | LTS | libde265 | 2023-12-30 |
Debian | DLA-3703-1 | LTS | libreoffice | 2023-12-31 |
Debian | DLA-3702-1 | LTS | libspreadsheet-parseexcel-perl | 2023-12-31 |
Debian | DSA-5592-1 | stable | libspreadsheet-parseexcel-perl | 2023-12-30 |
Debian | DSA-5591-1 | stable | libssh | 2023-12-28 |
Debian | DSA-5589-1 | stable | nodejs | 2023-12-27 |
Debian | DLA-3694-1 | LTS | openssh | 2023-12-25 |
Debian | DSA-5586-1 | stable | openssh | 2023-12-22 |
Debian | DLA-3693-1 | LTS | osslsigncode | 2023-12-23 |
Debian | DLA-3705-1 | LTS | php-guzzlehttp-psr7 | 2023-12-31 |
Debian | DSA-5588-1 | stable | putty | 2023-12-24 |
Debian | DLA-3698-1 | LTS | thunderbird | 2023-12-29 |
Debian | DSA-5582-1 | stable | thunderbird | 2023-12-21 |
Debian | DLA-3701-1 | LTS | tinyxml | 2023-12-31 |
Debian | DLA-3704-1 | LTS | xerces-c | 2023-12-31 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2023-ed327967b4 | F38 | chromium | 2023-12-24 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2023-1de2fe25c4 | F39 | chromium | 2023-12-22 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2023-7934efb5e3 | F38 | filezilla | 2023-12-23 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2023-7141950083 | F39 | filezilla | 2023-12-27 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2023-983329cf45 | F38 | firefox | 2023-12-22 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2023-9de52d46bd | F39 | firefox | 2023-12-22 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2023-dcee14345b | F38 | kernel | 2023-12-22 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2023-26ffe7d3c7 | F39 | kernel | 2023-12-21 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2023-7934efb5e3 | F38 | libfilezilla | 2023-12-23 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2023-0733306be9 | F39 | libssh | 2023-12-22 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2023-0984b63b23 | F38 | mingw-gstreamer1 | 2023-12-25 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2023-0984b63b23 | F38 | mingw-gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free | 2023-12-25 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2023-0984b63b23 | F38 | mingw-gstreamer1-plugins-base | 2023-12-25 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2023-0984b63b23 | F38 | mingw-gstreamer1-plugins-good | 2023-12-25 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2023-2ca76c3aae | F38 | minizip-ng | 2023-12-27 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2023-5aa1ebc5e9 | F39 | minizip-ng | 2023-12-27 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2023-983329cf45 | F38 | nss | 2023-12-22 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2023-9de52d46bd | F39 | nss | 2023-12-22 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2023-c7e4c9af51 | F38 | opensc | 2023-12-23 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2023-a854153d7a | F39 | opensc | 2023-12-22 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2023-cb8c606fbb | F38 | podman-tui | 2023-12-29 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2023-20feb865d8 | F39 | podman-tui | 2023-12-29 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2023-b87ec6cf47 | F38 | proftpd | 2023-12-30 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2023-153404713b | F39 | proftpd | 2023-12-30 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2023-e77300e4b5 | F39 | python-asyncssh | 2023-12-30 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2023-540de58d84 | F38 | slurm | 2024-01-03 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2023-9a74d212f8 | F39 | slurm | 2024-01-03 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2023-6317eaa767 | F38 | squid | 2023-12-29 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2023-ab77331a34 | F39 | squid | 2023-12-29 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2023-608dd04117 | F38 | thunderbird | 2023-12-22 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2023-7dee358171 | F39 | thunderbird | 2023-12-23 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2023-41f41fbb69 | F38 | unrealircd | 2023-12-26 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2023-7c6c696102 | F39 | unrealircd | 2023-12-26 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2023-52ba628e03 | F38 | xerces-c | 2023-12-31 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2023-817ecc703f | F39 | xerces-c | 2023-12-31 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2023-77c8903bcb | F38 | xorg-x11-server-Xwayland | 2023-12-25 |
Gentoo | 202312-04 | Arduino | 2023-12-22 | |
Gentoo | 202312-10 | Ceph | 2023-12-23 | |
Gentoo | 202312-06 | Exiv2 | 2023-12-22 | |
Gentoo | 202312-14 | FFmpeg | 2023-12-23 | |
Gentoo | 202312-12 | Flatpak | 2023-12-23 | |
Gentoo | 202312-15 | Git | 2023-12-27 | |
Gentoo | 202312-13 | Gitea | 2023-12-23 | |
Gentoo | 202401-01 | Joblib | 2024-01-02 | |
Gentoo | 202312-08 | LibRaw | 2023-12-22 | |
Gentoo | 202312-09 | NASM | 2023-12-22 | |
Gentoo | 202312-17 | OpenSSH | 2023-12-28 | |
Gentoo | 202312-07 | QtWebEngine | 2023-12-22 | |
Gentoo | 202312-11 | SABnzbd | 2023-12-23 | |
Gentoo | 202312-05 | libssh | 2023-12-22 | |
Gentoo | 202312-16 | libssh | 2023-12-28 | |
Mageia | MGASA-2023-0353 | 9 | bluez | 2023-12-20 |
Mageia | MGASA-2023-0355 | 9 | chromium-browser-stable | 2023-12-26 |
Mageia | MGASA-2023-0354 | 9 | gstreamer | 2023-12-22 |
Mageia | MGASA-2023-0357 | 9 | libssh | 2023-12-29 |
Mageia | MGASA-2023-0356 | 9 | proftpd | 2023-12-29 |
Oracle | ELSA-2023-7753 | OL9 | fence-agents | 2023-12-20 |
Oracle | ELSA-2023-7841 | OL8 | gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free | 2023-12-20 |
Oracle | ELSA-2023-7749 | OL9 | kernel | 2024-01-02 |
Oracle | ELSA-2023-7876 | OL8 | opensc | 2023-12-20 |
Oracle | ELSA-2023-7879 | OL9 | opensc | 2023-12-20 |
Oracle | ELSA-2023-7877 | OL8 | openssl | 2023-12-20 |
Oracle | ELSA-2023-7790 | OL8 | postgresql:10 | 2023-12-20 |
Oracle | ELSA-2023-7714 | OL8 | postgresql:12 | 2023-12-20 |
Oracle | ELSA-2023-7884 | OL8 | postgresql:15 | 2024-01-02 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2024:0026-01 | EL7 | firefox | 2024-01-02 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2024:0012-01 | EL8 | firefox | 2024-01-02 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2024:0023-01 | EL8.2 | firefox | 2024-01-02 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2024:0021-01 | EL8.4 | firefox | 2024-01-02 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2024:0024-01 | EL8.6 | firefox | 2024-01-02 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2024:0011-01 | EL8.8 | firefox | 2024-01-02 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2024:0025-01 | EL9 | firefox | 2024-01-02 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2024:0022-01 | EL9.0 | firefox | 2024-01-02 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2024:0019-01 | EL9.2 | firefox | 2024-01-02 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2024:0013-01 | EL7 | gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free | 2024-01-02 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2023:7884-01 | EL8 | postgresql:15 | 2023-12-20 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2023:7883-01 | EL8.8 | postgresql:15 | 2023-12-20 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2023:7885-01 | EL9.2 | postgresql:15 | 2023-12-20 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2024:0027-01 | EL7 | thunderbird | 2024-01-02 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2024:0003-01 | EL8 | thunderbird | 2024-01-02 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2024:0030-01 | EL8.2 | thunderbird | 2024-01-02 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2024:0028-01 | EL8.4 | thunderbird | 2024-01-02 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2024:0005-01 | EL8.6 | thunderbird | 2024-01-02 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2024:0004-01 | EL8.8 | thunderbird | 2024-01-02 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2024:0001-01 | EL9 | thunderbird | 2024-01-02 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2024:0002-01 | EL9.0 | thunderbird | 2024-01-02 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2024:0029-01 | EL9.2 | thunderbird | 2024-01-02 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2024:0006-01 | EL7 | tigervnc | 2024-01-02 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2024:0018-01 | EL8 | tigervnc | 2024-01-02 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2024:0017-01 | EL8.2 | tigervnc | 2024-01-02 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2024:0016-01 | EL8.4 | tigervnc | 2024-01-02 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2024:0015-01 | EL8.6 | tigervnc | 2024-01-02 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2024:0014-01 | EL8.8 | tigervnc | 2024-01-02 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2024:0010-01 | EL9 | tigervnc | 2024-01-02 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2024:0020-01 | EL9.0 | tigervnc | 2024-01-02 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2023:7886-01 | EL9.2 | tigervnc | 2023-12-20 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2024:0009-01 | EL7 | xorg-x11-server | 2024-01-02 |
Slackware | SSA:2023-359-01 | kernel | 2023-12-25 | |
Slackware | SSA:2023-356-01 | postfix | 2023-12-22 | |
Slackware | SSA:2023-354-01 | proftpd | 2023-12-20 | |
SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2023:0413-1 | osB15 | cppcheck | 2023-12-24 |
SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2023:0423-1 | osB15 | deepin-compressor | 2023-12-30 |
SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2023:0424-1 | osB15 | deepin-compressor | 2023-12-30 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4974-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 oS15.4 oS15.5 | distribution | 2023-12-26 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4936-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.1 SLE-m5.2 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 SLE-m5.5 SES7.1 oS15.4 oS15.5 osM5.3 osM5.4 | docker, rootlesskit | 2023-12-20 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4928-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 SES7.1 oS15.4 oS15.5 | firefox | 2023-12-20 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4929-1 | SLE15 | firefox | 2023-12-20 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4983-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.4 SLE-m5.5 oS15.4 oS15.5 osM5.4 | gnutls | 2023-12-28 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4952-1 | SLE15 | gnutls | 2023-12-21 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4986-1 | SLE15 SLE-m5.1 SLE-m5.2 SES7.1 | gnutls | 2023-12-28 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4930-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 oS15.4 oS15.5 | go1.20-openssl | 2023-12-20 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4931-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 oS15.4 oS15.5 | go1.21-openssl | 2023-12-20 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4982-1 | SLE12 | gstreamer | 2023-12-28 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4980-1 | SLE15 | gstreamer | 2023-12-27 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0005-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 oS15.4 | gstreamer-plugins-bad | 2024-01-02 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4972-1 | SLE12 | gstreamer-plugins-bad | 2023-12-26 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4944-1 | SLE15 | gstreamer-plugins-bad | 2023-12-21 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4947-1 | SLE15 | gstreamer-plugins-bad | 2023-12-22 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4971-1 | SLE15 SES7.1 oS15.3 | gstreamer-plugins-bad | 2023-12-25 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4943-1 | SLE15 SLE-m5.5 oS15.5 | gstreamer-plugins-bad | 2023-12-21 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4969-1 | SLE12 | jbigkit | 2023-12-25 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4968-1 | SLE15 SLE-m5.2 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 SLE-m5.5 oS15.4 oS15.5 osM5.3 osM5.4 | jbigkit | 2023-12-25 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4957-1 | oS15.4 | libcryptopp | 2023-12-21 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4950-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 oS15.4 | libqt5-qtbase | 2023-12-21 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4951-1 | SLE15 oS15.5 | libqt5-qtbase | 2023-12-21 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4932-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 SLE-m5.5 oS15.4 oS15.5 | libreoffice | 2023-12-20 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4984-1 | SLE12 | libreoffice | 2023-12-28 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0006-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.1 SLE-m5.2 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 SLE-m5.5 SES7.1 oS15.4 oS15.5 osM5.3 osM5.4 | libssh2_org | 2024-01-02 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4946-1 | SLE12 | libssh2_org | 2023-12-21 |
SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2024:0001-1 | oS15.4 | opera | 2024-01-01 |
SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2024:0002-1 | oS15.5 | opera | 2024-01-01 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0010-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.1 SLE-m5.2 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 oS15.4 osM5.3 osM5.4 | polkit | 2024-01-02 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4941-1 | SLE12 | poppler | 2023-12-21 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4942-1 | SLE12 | poppler | 2023-12-21 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0012-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 SES7.1 oS15.3 oS15.4 | postfix | 2024-01-02 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4981-1 | SLE15 oS15.5 | postfix | 2023-12-28 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4961-1 | SLE12 | ppp | 2023-12-22 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4965-1 | SLE15 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 SLE-m5.5 oS15.4 oS15.5 osM5.3 osM5.4 | ppp | 2023-12-22 |
SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2023:0421-1 | osB15 | proftpd | 2023-12-30 |
SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2023:0411-1 | osB15 | putty | 2023-12-20 |
SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2024:0005-1 | osB15 | putty | 2024-01-03 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4988-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 oS15.4 oS15.5 | python-pip | 2023-12-28 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4987-1 | SLE12 | python-pip | 2023-12-28 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4939-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 oS15.3 oS15.4 oS15.5 | rabbitmq-server | 2023-12-20 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4958-1 | SLE15 SLE-m5.5 oS15.4 oS15.5 | tinyxml | 2023-12-22 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0014-1 | SLE12 | w3m | 2024-01-02 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0004-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 oS15.4 oS15.5 | webkit2gtk3 | 2024-01-02 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4978-1 | SLE12 | webkit2gtk3 | 2023-12-27 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0002-1 | SLE15 | webkit2gtk3 | 2024-01-02 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0003-1 | SLE15 SES7.1 | webkit2gtk3 | 2024-01-02 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4938-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 oS15.4 oS15.5 | wireshark | 2023-12-20 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4945-1 | SLE15 SLE-m5.5 oS15.5 | xen | 2023-12-21 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4949-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 oS15.4 | xorg-x11-server | 2023-12-22 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4935-1 | SLE12 | xorg-x11-server | 2023-12-20 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4934-1 | SLE15 SES7.1 oS15.4 | xorg-x11-server | 2023-12-20 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4933-1 | SLE15 oS15.5 | xwayland | 2023-12-20 |
SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2023:0418-1 | osB15 | zabbix | 2023-12-28 |
SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2023:0419-1 | osB15 | zabbix | 2023-12-28 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4948-1 | SLE15 SLE-m5.5 oS15.3 oS15.4 oS15.5 | zbar | 2023-12-22 |
Ubuntu | USN-6562-1 | 20.04 | firefox | 2024-01-02 |
Ubuntu | USN-6564-1 | 22.04 | nodejs | 2024-01-03 |
Ubuntu | USN-6563-1 | 20.04 22.04 23.04 23.10 | thunderbird | 2024-01-02 |
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