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Calls for Presentations
CFP Deadlines: March 7, 2024 to May 6, 2024
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| April 15 | June 27 June 29 |
openSUSE Conference 2024 | Nuremberg, Germany |
| April 22 | July 15 July 19 |
Netdev 0x18 | Silicon Valley, CA, US |
| April 30 | September 16 September 18 |
Open Source Summit Europe | Vienna, Austria |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
Events: March 7, 2024 to May 6, 2024
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| April 16 April 18 |
sambaXP 2024 | Online |
| April 16 April 18 |
Everything Open | Gladstone, Australia |
| April 16 April 18 |
Open Source Summit North America | Seattle, US |
| April 18 April 19 |
Linux Security Summit North America | Seattle, WA, US |
| April 20 | Augsburger Linux-Infotag | Augsburg, Germany |
| April 25 April 26 |
Eco Compute 2024 - Engineering Conference on Sustainability in Hardware & Software | Munich, Germany |
| April 26 April 28 |
Unix Friends and User Campus Kamp 2024 | Furtwangen, Germany |
| April 26 April 28 |
Penguicon 2024 | Ann Arbor, Michigan, US |
| April 26 April 28 |
Linux Fest Northwest | Bellingham, WA, US |
| May 4 May 5 |
LibrePlanet | Boston, US |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Security updates
Alert summary February 29, 2024 to March 6, 2024
| Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CentOS | CESA-2024:0976 | C7 | firefox | 2024-02-29 |
| CentOS | CESA-2024:0957 | C7 | thunderbird | 2024-02-29 |
| Debian | DSA-5634-1 | stable | chromium | 2024-02-28 |
| Debian | DLA-3747-1 | LTS | firefox-esr | 2024-03-04 |
| Debian | DLA-3745-1 | LTS | gsoap | 2024-02-29 |
| Debian | DLA-3751-1 | LTS | libapache2-mod-auth-openidc | 2024-03-05 |
| Debian | DLA-3752-1 | LTS | libuv1 | 2024-03-05 |
| Debian | DLA-3750-1 | LTS | php-phpseclib | 2024-03-05 |
| Debian | DLA-3749-1 | LTS | phpseclib | 2024-03-05 |
| Debian | DLA-3744-1 | LTS | python-django | 2024-02-29 |
| Debian | DLA-3748-1 | LTS | thunderbird | 2024-03-04 |
| Debian | DLA-3746-1 | LTS | wireshark | 2024-02-29 |
| Debian | DSA-5635-1 | stable | yard | 2024-03-04 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-b0e165ded6 | F38 | dotnet6.0 | 2024-03-04 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-b02e95ce83 | F39 | dotnet6.0 | 2024-03-04 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-04b568cd49 | F38 | dotnet7.0 | 2024-03-01 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-a66f05d20f | F39 | dotnet7.0 | 2024-03-01 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-b2db508cc2 | F38 | dotnet8.0 | 2024-03-02 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-a2b7ec0ba4 | F39 | dotnet8.0 | 2024-03-02 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-4672c1ff2d | F38 | gifsicle | 2024-03-01 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-5e50570506 | F39 | gifsicle | 2024-03-01 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-3c0f2a2771 | F39 | mod_auth_openidc | 2024-03-02 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-d2f180202f | F38 | moodle | 2024-02-29 |
| Gentoo | 202403-02 | Blender | 2024-03-03 | |
| Gentoo | 202403-01 | Tox | 2024-03-03 | |
| Gentoo | 202403-03 | UltraJSON | 2024-03-03 | |
| Mageia | MGASA-2024-0052 | 9 | sympa | 2024-02-29 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2024-12191 | OL8 | buildah | 2024-03-05 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2024-12193 | OL6 | kernel | 2024-03-04 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2024-12193 | OL7 | kernel | 2024-03-04 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2024-12187 | OL8 | kernel | 2024-03-01 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2024-0956 | OL8 | postgresql:10 | 2024-03-01 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2024-0974 | OL8 | postgresql:12 | 2024-03-01 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2024-0964 | OL8 | thunderbird | 2024-03-01 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2024-0963 | OL9 | thunderbird | 2024-03-01 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2024-0965 | OL8 | unbound | 2024-03-01 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2024-0977 | OL9 | unbound | 2024-03-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1074-01 | EL8.6 | 389-ds:1.4 | 2024-03-05 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1150-01 | EL9 | buildah | 2024-03-05 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1101-01 | EL8.6 | cups | 2024-03-05 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1129-01 | EL9 | curl | 2024-03-05 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1110-01 | EL8.6 | device-mapper-multipath | 2024-03-05 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1063-01 | EL8 | edk2 | 2024-03-04 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1075-01 | EL9 | edk2 | 2024-03-05 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1077-01 | EL9.0 | edk2 | 2024-03-05 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1076-01 | EL9.2 | edk2 | 2024-03-05 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1103-01 | EL8.6 | emacs | 2024-03-05 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1155-01 | EL9.0 | fence-agents | 2024-03-05 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1113-01 | EL8.6 | frr | 2024-03-05 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1152-01 | EL9.0 | frr | 2024-03-05 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1093-01 | EL9.2 | frr | 2024-03-05 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1106-01 | EL8.6 | fwupd | 2024-03-05 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1102-01 | EL8.6 | gmp | 2024-03-05 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1108-01 | EL8.6 | gnutls | 2024-03-05 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1082-01 | EL9.2 | gnutls | 2024-03-05 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1131-01 | EL9 | golang | 2024-03-05 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1142-01 | EL9 | haproxy | 2024-03-05 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1089-01 | EL9.2 | haproxy | 2024-03-05 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1018-01 | EL9.2 | kernel | 2024-02-28 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1019-01 | EL9.2 | kernel-rt | 2024-02-28 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1139-01 | EL9 | keylime | 2024-03-05 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1055-01 | EL9.2 | kpatch-patch | 2024-02-29 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1088-01 | EL9.2 | libX11 | 2024-03-05 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1154-01 | EL9.0 | libfastjson | 2024-03-05 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1086-01 | EL9.2 | libfastjson | 2024-03-05 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1109-01 | EL8.6 | libmicrohttpd | 2024-03-05 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1112-01 | EL8.6 | linux-firmware | 2024-03-05 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1141-01 | EL9 | mysql | 2024-03-05 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1130-01 | EL9 | openssh | 2024-03-05 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1071-01 | EL8.2 | postgresql:12 | 2024-03-04 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1070-01 | EL8.6 | postgresql:12 | 2024-03-04 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1069-01 | EL8.8 | postgresql:12 | 2024-03-04 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1017-01 | EL8.8 | postgresql:15 | 2024-02-28 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1059-01 | EL8.2 | python-pillow | 2024-02-29 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1060-01 | EL8.4 | python-pillow | 2024-02-29 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1058-01 | EL8.6 | python-pillow | 2024-02-29 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1147-01 | EL9 | rear | 2024-03-05 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1149-01 | EL9 | skopeo | 2024-03-05 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1107-01 | EL8.6 | sqlite | 2024-03-05 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1081-01 | EL9.2 | sqlite | 2024-03-05 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1153-01 | EL9.0 | squid | 2024-03-05 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1184-01 | EL9.2 | squid | 2024-03-06 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1085-01 | EL9.2 | squid | 2024-03-05 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1066-01 | EL8.6 | squid:4 | 2024-03-04 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1062-01 | EL8.8 | squid:4 | 2024-03-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1105-01 | EL8.6 | systemd | 2024-03-05 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1090-01 | EL9.2 | tcpdump | 2024-03-05 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1134-01 | EL9 | tomcat | 2024-03-05 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1092-01 | EL9.2 | tomcat | 2024-03-05 |
| Slackware | SSA:2024-065-01 | mozilla | 2024-03-05 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2024-059-01 | wpa_supplicant | 2024-02-28 | |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0726-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.5 SES7.1 oS15.5 | Java | 2024-02-29 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0757-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 SES7.1 oS15.5 | apache2-mod_auth_openidc | 2024-03-05 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0758-1 | SLE12 | apache2-mod_auth_openidc | 2024-03-05 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0759-1 | SLE11 | glibc | 2024-03-05 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0770-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 oS15.4 | kernel-firmware-nvidia-gspx-G06, nvidia-open- driver-G06-signed | 2024-03-05 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0772-1 | SLE15 SLE-m5.5 oS15.5 | kernel-firmware-nvidia-gspx-G06, nvidia-open- driver-G06-signed | 2024-03-05 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0733-1 | SLE15 SES7.1 | nodejs12 | 2024-02-29 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0732-1 | SLE15 SES7.1 | nodejs14 | 2024-02-29 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0731-1 | SLE12 | nodejs16 | 2024-02-29 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0729-1 | SLE15 SES7.1 oS15.3 | nodejs16 | 2024-03-01 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0728-1 | SLE15 oS15.4 | nodejs16 | 2024-03-01 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0730-1 | SLE15 oS15.4 oS15.5 | nodejs18 | 2024-03-01 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0738-1 | SLE15 SLE-m5.5 oS15.5 | openvswitch3 | 2024-03-01 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0773-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 oS15.4 oS15.5 | postgresql-jdbc | 2024-03-05 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0771-1 | SLE12 | postgresql-jdbc | 2024-03-05 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0769-1 | SLE15 SES7.1 oS15.3 | postgresql-jdbc | 2024-03-05 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0329-2 | MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 | python | 2024-03-05 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0763-1 | SLE15 oS15.4 oS15.5 | python-cryptography | 2024-03-05 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0657-1 | SLE15 oS15.5 | rear27a | 2024-02-28 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0765-1 | MP4.1 MP4.2 MP4.3 SLE15 oS15.5 | rubygem-rack | 2024-03-05 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0742-1 | SLE12 | sendmail | 2024-03-04 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0743-1 | SLE15 SLE-m5.5 oS15.5 | sendmail | 2024-03-04 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0764-1 | SLE15 SLE-m5.5 oS15.5 | wpa_supplicant | 2024-03-05 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0777-1 | SLE12 | xmlgraphics-batik | 2024-03-06 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2024:0064-1 | osB15 | zabbix | 2024-03-01 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6676-1 | 16.04 18.04 20.04 22.04 23.10 | c-ares | 2024-03-06 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6649-2 | 20.04 | firefox | 2024-03-06 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6667-1 | 20.04 22.04 | libcpanel-json-xs-perl | 2024-02-28 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6677-1 | 16.04 18.04 20.04 22.04 23.10 | libde265 | 2024-03-05 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6678-1 | 16.04 18.04 20.04 22.04 23.10 | libgit2 | 2024-03-05 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6666-1 | 20.04 22.04 23.10 | libuv1 | 2024-02-28 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6653-2 | 20.04 22.04 | linux-aws, linux-aws-5.15 | 2024-02-28 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6648-2 | 18.04 20.04 | linux-azure, linux-azure-5.4 | 2024-02-28 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6647-2 | 14.04 | linux-azure | 2024-02-29 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6653-4 | 22.04 | linux-gke | 2024-03-04 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6651-2 | 22.04 23.10 | linux-lowlatency, linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5, linux-oem-6.5 | 2024-02-28 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6653-3 | 22.04 | linux-lowlatency | 2024-02-29 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6651-3 | 22.04 | linux-starfive-6.5 | 2024-02-29 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6672-1 | 20.04 22.04 23.10 | nodejs | 2024-03-04 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6670-1 | 20.04 22.04 | php-guzzlehttp-psr7 | 2024-02-29 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6671-1 | 22.04 | php-nyholm-psr7 | 2024-02-29 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6673-1 | 18.04 20.04 22.04 23.10 | python-cryptography | 2024-03-04 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6674-2 | 18.04 | python-django | 2024-03-04 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6674-1 | 20.04 22.04 23.10 | python-django | 2024-03-04 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6668-1 | 20.04 22.04 | python-openstackclient | 2024-02-28 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6675-1 | 20.04 22.04 | ruby-image-processing | 2024-03-05 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6669-1 | 20.04 22.04 23.10 | thunderbird | 2024-03-04 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6665-1 | 20.04 22.04 23.10 | unbound | 2024-02-28 |
Kernel patches of interest
Kernel releases
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Masami Hiramatsu (Google)
tracing/probes: Support function parameter access from return probe
Mar 04
Development tools
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Théo Lebrun
Add Mobileye EyeQ5 support to the Nomadik I2C controller & use hrtimers for timeouts
Feb 29
Yang Xiwen via B4 Relay
net: hisi-femac: add support for Hi3798MV200, remove unmaintained compatibles
Mar 05
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