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CFP Deadlines: February 15, 2024 to April 15, 2024

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

DeadlineEvent Dates EventLocation
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
March 10 June 13
June 15		 DevConf.CZ Brno, Czech Republic
March 22 October 27
October 29		 All Things Open Raleigh, NC, US
March 23 May 14
May 17		 Linaro Connect Madrid, Spain
March 23 May 23
May 24		 Lund Linux Conference 2024 Lund, Sweden
March 29 April 26
April 28		 Unix Friends and User Campus Kamp 2024 Furtwangen, Germany
March 31 June 18
June 19		 stackconf 2024 Berlin, Germany
March 31 June 5
June 6		 Icinga Summit 2024 Berlin, Germany
April 13 August 31
September 2		 UbuCon Asia 2024 Jaipur, India

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Upcoming Events

Events: February 15, 2024 to April 15, 2024

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

Date(s)EventLocation
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
March 7
March 8		 Open Source Day 2024 Florence, Italy
March 14
March 17		 SCALE 21x Pasadena, CA, US
March 16
March 17		 Chemnitz Linux Days 2024 Chemnitz, Germany
April 6 Central PA Open Source Conference Lancaster, PA, USA
April 8
April 10		 FOSSASIA Summit Hanoi, Vietnam
April 12 PostgreSQL Conference Germany Munich, Germany
April 12
April 13		 Texas Linux Fest Austin, Texas, US
April 14
April 15		 foss-north 2024 Gothenburg, Sweden

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

Security updates

Alert summary February 8, 2024 to February 14, 2024

Dist. ID Release Package Date
Debian DSA-5621-1 stable bind9 2024-02-14
Debian DSA-5617-1 stable chromium 2024-02-08
Debian DSA-5619-1 stable libgit2 2024-02-09
Debian DSA-5620-1 stable unbound 2024-02-14
Debian DSA-5618-1 stable webkit2gtk 2024-02-08
Fedora FEDORA-2024-59a7d96d84 F38 atril 2024-02-09
Fedora FEDORA-2024-364516d49a F38 chromium 2024-02-12
Fedora FEDORA-2024-5745525066 F39 chromium 2024-02-09
Fedora FEDORA-2024-c42cf0e576 F38 clamav 2024-02-13
Fedora FEDORA-2024-3439911df6 F39 clamav 2024-02-14
Fedora FEDORA-2024-f2305d485f F38 firecracker 2024-02-14
Fedora FEDORA-2024-04877592b7 F39 firecracker 2024-02-10
Fedora FEDORA-2024-c43a6cc3f8 F38 gnutls 2024-02-09
Fedora FEDORA-2024-f2305d485f F38 libkrun 2024-02-14
Fedora FEDORA-2024-04877592b7 F39 libkrun 2024-02-10
Fedora FEDORA-2024-2aac54ebb7 F38 openssh 2024-02-12
Fedora FEDORA-2024-0ddda4c691 F38 python-aiohttp 2024-02-09
Fedora FEDORA-2024-1eb20f8ec3 F38 python-nikola 2024-02-12
Fedora FEDORA-2024-262ad83644 F39 python-nikola 2024-02-12
Fedora FEDORA-2024-9044c9eefa F38 runc 2024-02-11
Fedora FEDORA-2024-f2305d485f F38 rust-event-manager 2024-02-14
Fedora FEDORA-2024-04877592b7 F39 rust-event-manager 2024-02-10
Fedora FEDORA-2024-f2305d485f F38 rust-kvm-bindings 2024-02-14
Fedora FEDORA-2024-04877592b7 F39 rust-kvm-bindings 2024-02-10
Fedora FEDORA-2024-f2305d485f F38 rust-kvm-ioctls 2024-02-14
Fedora FEDORA-2024-04877592b7 F39 rust-kvm-ioctls 2024-02-10
Fedora FEDORA-2024-f2305d485f F38 rust-linux-loader 2024-02-14
Fedora FEDORA-2024-04877592b7 F39 rust-linux-loader 2024-02-10
Fedora FEDORA-2024-f2305d485f F38 rust-userfaultfd 2024-02-14
Fedora FEDORA-2024-04877592b7 F39 rust-userfaultfd 2024-02-10
Fedora FEDORA-2024-f2305d485f F38 rust-versionize 2024-02-14
Fedora FEDORA-2024-04877592b7 F39 rust-versionize 2024-02-10
Fedora FEDORA-2024-f2305d485f F38 rust-vhost 2024-02-14
Fedora FEDORA-2024-04877592b7 F39 rust-vhost 2024-02-10
Fedora FEDORA-2024-f2305d485f F38 rust-vhost-user-backend 2024-02-14
Fedora FEDORA-2024-04877592b7 F39 rust-vhost-user-backend 2024-02-10
Fedora FEDORA-2024-f2305d485f F38 rust-virtio-queue 2024-02-14
Fedora FEDORA-2024-04877592b7 F39 rust-virtio-queue 2024-02-10
Fedora FEDORA-2024-f2305d485f F38 rust-vm-memory 2024-02-14
Fedora FEDORA-2024-04877592b7 F39 rust-vm-memory 2024-02-10
Fedora FEDORA-2024-f2305d485f F38 rust-vm-superio 2024-02-14
Fedora FEDORA-2024-04877592b7 F39 rust-vm-superio 2024-02-10
Fedora FEDORA-2024-f2305d485f F38 rust-vmm-sys-util 2024-02-14
Fedora FEDORA-2024-04877592b7 F39 rust-vmm-sys-util 2024-02-10
Fedora FEDORA-2024-f2305d485f F38 virtiofsd 2024-02-14
Fedora FEDORA-2024-04877592b7 F39 virtiofsd 2024-02-10
Fedora FEDORA-2024-04877592b7 F39 virtiofsd 2024-02-10
Fedora FEDORA-2024-ca3f071aea F38 webkitgtk 2024-02-11
Fedora FEDORA-2024-97faaca23d F39 webkitgtk 2024-02-09
Fedora FEDORA-2024-fdc7dfb959 F38 wireshark 2024-02-11
Fedora FEDORA-2024-b72131479b F39 wireshark 2024-02-10
Gentoo 202402-11 libxml2 2024-02-09
Mageia MGASA-2024-0034 9 filezilla 2024-02-10
Mageia MGASA-2024-0031 9 gnutls 2024-02-09
Mageia MGASA-2024-0027 9 gpac 2024-02-09
Mageia MGASA-2024-0033 9 kernel 2024-02-09
Mageia MGASA-2024-0032 9 kernel-linus 2024-02-09
Mageia MGASA-2024-0028 9 microcode 2024-02-09
Mageia MGASA-2024-0030 9 pam 2024-02-09
Mageia MGASA-2024-0029 9 postfix 2024-02-09
Mageia MGASA-2024-0035 9 xpdf 2024-02-10
Oracle ELSA-2024-0675 OL9 gimp 2024-02-09
Oracle ELSA-2024-0675 OL9 gimp 2024-02-09
Red Hat RHSA-2024:0814-01 EL7 .NET 6.0 2024-02-14
Red Hat RHSA-2024:0758-01 EL8.2 container-tools:2.0 2024-02-09
Red Hat RHSA-2024:0760-01 EL8.4 container-tools:3.0 2024-02-09
Red Hat RHSA-2024:0748-01 EL8 container-tools:4.0 2024-02-09
Red Hat RHSA-2024:0757-01 EL8.6 container-tools:4.0 2024-02-09
Red Hat RHSA-2024:0752-01 EL8 container-tools:rhel8 2024-02-09
Red Hat RHSA-2024:0764-01 EL8.6 container-tools:rhel8 2024-02-09
Red Hat RHSA-2024:0759-01 EL8.8 container-tools:rhel8 2024-02-09
Red Hat RHSA-2024:0808-01 EL8 dotnet6.0 2024-02-14
Red Hat RHSA-2024:0807-01 EL9 dotnet6.0 2024-02-14
Red Hat RHSA-2024:0806-01 EL8 dotnet7.0 2024-02-14
Red Hat RHSA-2024:0805-01 EL9 dotnet7.0 2024-02-14
Red Hat RHSA-2024:0675-01 EL9 gimp 2024-02-09
Red Hat RHSA-2024:0716-01 EL9.0 gimp 2024-02-07
Red Hat RHSA-2024:0796-01 EL8.8 gnutls 2024-02-13
Red Hat RHSA-2024:0724-01 EL8.6 kernel 2024-02-07
Red Hat RHSA-2024:0723-01 EL9.2 kernel 2024-02-07
Red Hat RHSA-2024:0725-01 EL9.2 kernel-rt 2024-02-07
Red Hat RHSA-2024:0768-01 EL8 libmaxminddb 2024-02-12
Red Hat RHSA-2024:0751-01 EL8.6 libmaxminddb 2024-02-09
Red Hat RHSA-2024:0750-01 EL8.8 libmaxminddb 2024-02-09
Red Hat RHSA-2024:0753-01 EL7 linux-firmware 2024-02-09
Red Hat RHSA-2024:0786-01 EL8 nss 2024-02-12
Red Hat RHSA-2024:0785-01 EL8.8 nss 2024-02-12
Red Hat RHSA-2024:0790-01 EL9 nss 2024-02-12
Red Hat RHSA-2024:0791-01 EL9.2 nss 2024-02-12
Red Hat RHSA-2024:0754-01 EL8.8 python-pillow 2024-02-09
Red Hat RHSA-2024:0717-01 EL7 runc 2024-02-07
Red Hat RHSA-2024:0756-01 EL9.0 runc 2024-02-09
Red Hat RHSA-2024:0755-01 EL9.2 runc 2024-02-09
Red Hat RHSA-2024:0772-01 EL8.2 squid:4 2024-02-12
Red Hat RHSA-2024:0773-01 EL8.4 squid:4 2024-02-12
Red Hat RHSA-2024:0771-01 EL8.6 squid:4 2024-02-12
Red Hat RHSA-2024:0769-01 EL8 tcpdump 2024-02-12
Red Hat RHSA-2024:0749-01 EL8.6 unbound 2024-02-09
Slackware SSA:2024-044-01 bind 2024-02-13
Slackware SSA:2024-044-02 dnsmasq 2024-02-13
Slackware SSA:2024-038-01 expat 2024-02-07
Slackware SSA:2024-040-01 xpdf 2024-02-09
SUSE SUSE-SU-2024:0442-1 SLE15 SLE-m5.5 oS15.5 cdi-apiserver-container, cdi-cloner-container, cdi- controller-container, cdi-importer-container, cdi-operator-container, cdi- uploadproxy-container, cdi-uploadserver-container, cont 2024-02-09
SUSE SUSE-SU-2024:0430-1 SLE15 oS15.4 oS15.5 cosign 2024-02-08
SUSE SUSE-SU-2024:0441-1 SLE15 SLE-m5.5 oS15.5 kubevirt, virt-api-container, virt-controller-container, virt-exportproxy-container, virt-exportserver-container, virt-handler-container, virt-launcher-container, virt-libguestfs-t 2024-02-12
SUSE SUSE-SU-2024:0423-1 MP4.3 SLE15 oS15.4 oS15.5 libavif 2024-02-08
SUSE SUSE-SU-2024:0434-1 SLE12 netpbm 2024-02-08
SUSE SUSE-SU-2024:0435-1 SLE15 oS15.5 netpbm 2024-02-08
SUSE SUSE-SU-2024:0439-1 OS9 SLE12 python-Pillow 2024-02-09
SUSE SUSE-SU-2024:0437-1 SLE12 python 2024-02-08
SUSE SUSE-SU-2024:0438-1 SLE12 python3 2024-02-09
SUSE SUSE-SU-2024:0436-1 SLE12 python36 2024-02-08
SUSE SUSE-SU-2024:0455-1 MP4.3 SLE15 oS15.4 oS15.5 squid 2024-02-13
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Kernel patches of interest

Kernel releases

Linus Torvalds Linux 6.8-rc4 Feb 11
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior v6.8-rc4-rt4 Feb 14
Daniel Wagner 4.19.306-rt132 Feb 12

Architecture-specific

Ard Biesheuvel arm64: Add support for LPA2 and WXN at stage 1 Feb 14
Jiaxun Yang MIPS: Unify register numbering macros for uasm Feb 09
Christoph Müllner RISC-V: Add dynamic TSO support Feb 09
Charlie Jenkins riscv: Create and document PR_RISCV_SET_ICACHE_FLUSH_CTX prctl Feb 12
Nathan Chancellor s390: Support linking with ld.lld Feb 07
Kirill A. Shutemov x86/tdx: Add kexec support Feb 12
Ard Biesheuvel x86: Confine early 1:1 mapped startup code Feb 13
James Morse x86/resctrl: monitored closid+rmid together, separate arch/fs locking Feb 13
Thomas Gleixner x86/cpu: Rework topology evaluation Feb 13
Thomas Gleixner x86/topology: More cleanups and preparatory work Feb 13
Thomas Gleixner x86/apic: Rework APIC registration Feb 13
Pawan Gupta Delay VERW Feb 13

Build system

Breno Leitao x86/bugs: Separate config for mitigations (part 2) Feb 08
Max Kellermann Fast kernel headers: reduce header dependencies Feb 09

Core kernel

Waiman Long workqueue: Enable unbound cpumask update on ordered workqueues Feb 08
Vincent Donnefort Introducing trace buffer mapping by user-space Feb 09
Joe Damato Per epoll context busy poll support Feb 09
John Stultz Preparatory changes for Proxy Execution v8 Feb 09
Ankur Arora PREEMPT_AUTO: support lazy rescheduling Feb 12
Christian Brauner Move pidfd to tiny pseudo fs Feb 13
Jens Axboe Add support for batched min timeout Feb 13

Development tools

Łukasz Bartosik dyndbg: add support for writing debug logs to trace Feb 11
Suren Baghdasaryan Memory allocation profiling Feb 12
Oscar Salvador page_owner: print stacks and their outstanding allocations Feb 12

Device drivers

Arınç ÜNAL via B4 Relay MT7530 DSA Subdriver Improvements Act III Feb 08
Bhargav Raviprakash Add support for TI TPS65224 PMIC Feb 08
Shenghao Ding ASoc: PCM6240: Create PCM6240 Family driver code Feb 08
Shinas Rasheed add octeon_ep_vf driver Feb 08
Claudiu watchdog: rzg2l_wdt: Add support for RZ/G3S Feb 08
Claudiu clk: renesas: rzg2l: Add support for power domains Feb 08
Kory Maincent net: Add support for Power over Ethernet (PoE) Feb 08
Shannon Nelson ionic: add XDP support Feb 07
Saeed Mahameed mlx5 socket direct Feb 07
Inochi Amaoto riscv: sophgo: add clock support for Sophgo CV1800/SG2000 SoCs Feb 08
Andy Shevchenko auxdisplay: linedisp: Clean up and add new driver Feb 08
Alisa-Dariana Roman iio: adc: ad7192: Add support for AD7194 Feb 08
Wesley Cheng Introduce QC USB SND audio offloading support Feb 08
Christoph Winklhofer via B4 Relay w1: add UART w1 bus driver Feb 09
Théo Lebrun Add support for Mobileye EyeQ5 system controller Feb 09
Dharma Balasubiramani LVDS Controller Support for SAM9X75 SoC Feb 09
Alexei Starovoitov bpf: Introduce BPF arena. Feb 08
Mika Westerberg thunderbolt: DisplayPort and bandwidth allocation mode improvements Feb 09
Richard Acayan drm/panel: Pixel 3a Panel Feb 08
Karel Balej input/touchscreen: imagis: add support for IST3032C Feb 09
Jacopo Mondi media: raspberrypi: Add support for PiSP Back End Feb 09
Sebastian Reichel RK3588 USBDP support Feb 09
Stephen Boyd platform/chrome: Add DT USB/DP muxing/topology to Trogdor Feb 09
Adam Ford soc: imx8mp: Finish support for HDMI Feb 10
Paloma Arellano Add support for CDM over DP Feb 09
Karel Balej support for Marvell 88PM886 PMIC Feb 11
Mehdi Djait media: rockchip: Add a driver for Rockchip's camera interface Feb 11
Ondřej Jirman Add support for AF8133J magnetometer Feb 11
Cristian Marussi Add SCMI core checks for notification support. Feb 12
Paweł Anikiel Add Chameleon v3 video support Feb 12
Alexey Romanov Support more Amlogic SoC families in crypto driver Feb 12
Maxime Chevallier Introduce support for USGMII Inband Extensions Feb 12
Christophe Kerello Add MP25 FMC2 support Feb 12
Cristian Ciocaltea Add support for RK3588 HDMI/eDP Combo PHY Feb 12
Fabrizio Castro Add RZ/V2{M, MA} PWM driver support Feb 12
Balint Dobszay TEE driver for Trusted Services Feb 13
James Ogletree Add support for CS40L50 Feb 12
Chris Morgan Add Support for RK3566 Powkiddy RGB10MAX3 Feb 12
Uma Shankar Plane Color Pipeline support for Intel platforms Feb 13
Dimitri Fedrau net: phy: marvell-88q2xxx: add driver for the Marvell 88Q2220 PHY Feb 13
Yazen Ghannam FRU Memory Poison Manager Feb 13
Daniel Scally Add Arm Mali-C55 Image Signal Processor Driver Feb 14

Device-driver infrastructure

Bartosz Golaszewski gpio: rework locking and object life-time control Feb 08
Lukasz Luba Introduce runtime modifiable Energy Model Feb 08
Frank Li I3C target mode support Feb 08
Benjamin Tissoires allow HID-BPF to do device IOs Feb 09
Nuno Sa iio: add new backend framework Feb 09
Maxime Ripard drm/connector: Create HDMI Connector infrastructure Feb 12
Maxime Chevallier Introduce PHY listing and link_topology tracking Feb 13

Documentation

Ramona Gradinariu adis16475 driver documentation Feb 08
Alejandro Colomar man-pages-6.06 released Feb 12
Greg Kroah-Hartman Documentation: Document the Linux Kernel CVE process Feb 14

Filesystems and block layer

Amir Goldstein fuse: inode IO modes and mmap + parallel dio Feb 08
Stefan Hajnoczi virtiofs: export filesystem tags through sysfs Feb 08
Alice Ryhl File abstractions needed by Rust Binder Feb 09
Sergei Shtepa filtering and snapshots of a block devices Feb 09
Andrey Albershteyn fs-verity support for XFS Feb 12
Pankaj Raghav (Samsung) enable bs > ps in XFS Feb 13

Memory management

Byungchul Park Reduce TLB flushes by 94% by improving folio migration Feb 08
Alice Ryhl Memory management patches needed by Rust Binder Feb 08
Lokesh Gidra per-vma locks in userfaultfd Feb 08
David Hildenbrand mm/memory: optimize unmap/zap with PTE-mapped THP Feb 09
Zi Yan Split a folio to any lower order folios Feb 13

Networking

Eric Dumazet net: complete dev_base_lock removal Feb 08
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Use per-task storage for XDP-redirects on PREEMPT_RT Feb 13

Security-related

Stefan Berger Add support for NIST P521 to ecdsa and ecdh Feb 08
Roberto Sassu security: digest_cache LSM Feb 09
Günther Noack Landlock: IOCTL support Feb 09
Herbert Xu crypto: Add twopass lskcipher for adiantum Feb 13
Petr Tesarik Introduce SandBox Mode (SBM) Feb 14
Petr Tesarik x86_64 SandBox Mode arch hooks Feb 14
Roberto Sassu ima: Integrate with digest_cache LSM Feb 14
jeffxu@chromium.org Introduce mseal Feb 14

Virtualization and containers

Paolo Bonzini KVM: SEV: allow customizing VMSA features Feb 09
Oliver Upton KVM: arm64: Improvements to LPI injection Feb 13
Anup Patel KVM RISC-V report few more ISA extensions through ONE_REG Feb 14
Marc Zyngier KVM/arm64: VM configuration enforcement Feb 14

Miscellaneous

Adrian Hunter perf/core: Add ability for an event to "pause" or "resume" AUX area tracing Feb 08
Ian Rogers maps memory improvements and fixes Feb 09
Kees Cook overflow: Introduce wrapping helpers Feb 13
Ian Rogers perf vendor event and TMA 4.7 metric update Feb 13

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