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CFP Deadlines: March 14, 2024 to May 13, 2024
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| May 9 | May 9 May 12 |
LUG Camp 2024 | Wipperfürth, Germany |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
Events: March 14, 2024 to May 13, 2024
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| May 7 May 8 |
DevOpsDays Berlin | Berlin, Germany |
| May 9 May 12 |
Libre Graphics Meeting | Rennes, France |
| May 9 May 12 |
LUG Camp 2024 | Wipperfürth, Germany |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Security updates
Alert summary March 7, 2024 to March 13, 2024
| Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | DSA-5636-1 | stable | chromium | 2024-03-06 |
| Debian | DLA-3754-1 | LTS | fontforge | 2024-03-08 |
| Debian | DSA-5638-1 | stable | libuv1 | 2024-03-10 |
| Debian | DLA-3757-1 | LTS | nss | 2024-03-11 |
| Debian | DLA-3759-1 | LTS | qemu | 2024-03-11 |
| Debian | DSA-5637-1 | stable | squid | 2024-03-08 |
| Debian | DLA-3755-1 | LTS | tar | 2024-03-09 |
| Debian | DLA-3758-1 | LTS | tiff | 2024-03-11 |
| Debian | DLA-3756-1 | LTS | wordpress | 2024-03-10 |
| Debian | DLA-3753-1 | LTS | yard | 2024-03-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-f781c993fe | F38 | chromium | 2024-03-09 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-80032b2fed | F39 | chromium | 2024-03-08 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-d76e37ba62 | F38 | cpp-jwt | 2024-03-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-56fbd2cbfa | F39 | cpp-jwt | 2024-03-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-a9dead34c5 | F39 | edk2 | 2024-03-13 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-cafa04a149 | F39 | exercism | 2024-03-10 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-bbfef02415 | F38 | freeipa | 2024-03-13 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-826453ad39 | F39 | freeipa | 2024-03-13 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-0d4d9925a2 | F38 | golang-github-tdewolff-argp | 2024-03-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-c3e32c5635 | F39 | golang-github-tdewolff-argp | 2024-03-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-0d4d9925a2 | F38 | golang-github-tdewolff-minify | 2024-03-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-c3e32c5635 | F39 | golang-github-tdewolff-minify | 2024-03-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-0d4d9925a2 | F38 | golang-github-tdewolff-parse | 2024-03-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-c3e32c5635 | F39 | golang-github-tdewolff-parse | 2024-03-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-097eb22907 | F39 | grub2 | 2024-03-11 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-38faa9a2a8 | F38 | iwd | 2024-03-08 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-fdce971b84 | F39 | iwd | 2024-03-08 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-5db5954a5e | F38 | kernel | 2024-03-13 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-f797f1540e | F39 | kernel | 2024-03-13 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-38faa9a2a8 | F38 | libell | 2024-03-08 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-fdce971b84 | F39 | libell | 2024-03-08 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-ef8c8a8b37 | F38 | liblas | 2024-03-13 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-34301311f8 | F39 | liblas | 2024-03-13 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-daa7df59d6 | F38 | qpdf | 2024-03-10 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-8762164e47 | F39 | qpdf | 2024-03-10 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-7b063bce0a | F38 | suricata | 2024-03-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-bd4eed8466 | F39 | suricata | 2024-03-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-3699706b25 | F39 | thunderbird | 2024-03-08 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-36d2be00d0 | F38 | wpa_supplicant | 2024-03-10 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2024-0055 | 9 | libtiff | 2024-03-12 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2024-0054 | 9 | thunderbird | 2024-03-12 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2024-0053 | 9 | wpa_supplicant | 2024-03-06 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2024-1150 | OL9 | buildah | 2024-03-08 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2024-1129 | OL9 | curl | 2024-03-07 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2024-1063 | OL8 | edk2 | 2024-03-07 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2024-1075 | OL9 | edk2 | 2024-03-11 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2024-1131 | OL9 | golang | 2024-03-07 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2024-1142 | OL9 | haproxy | 2024-03-07 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2024-0897 | OL8 | kernel | 2024-03-08 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2024-12208 | OL8 | kernel | 2024-03-13 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2024-0461 | OL9 | kernel | 2024-03-08 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2024-12208 | OL9 | kernel | 2024-03-13 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2024-12208 | OL9 | kernel | 2024-03-13 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2024-1139 | OL9 | keylime | 2024-03-07 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2024-1141 | OL9 | mysql | 2024-03-07 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2024-1239 | OL9 | opencryptoki | 2024-03-11 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2024-1130 | OL9 | openssh | 2024-03-07 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2024-1147 | OL9 | rear | 2024-03-07 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2024-1149 | OL9 | skopeo | 2024-03-08 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2024-1134 | OL9 | tomcat | 2024-03-08 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1270-01 | EL7 | docker | 2024-03-12 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1305-01 | EL8.4 | edk2 | 2024-03-13 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1249-01 | EL7 | kernel | 2024-03-12 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1268-01 | EL8.2 | kernel | 2024-03-12 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1188-01 | EL8.6 | kernel | 2024-03-06 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1248-01 | EL9 | kernel | 2024-03-12 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1250-01 | EL9.0 | kernel | 2024-03-12 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1304-01 | EL9.2 | kernel | 2024-03-13 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1269-01 | EL8.2 | kernel-rt | 2024-03-12 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1303-01 | EL9.2 | kernel-rt | 2024-03-13 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1278-01 | EL8.2 | kpatch-patch | 2024-03-12 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1251-01 | EL9 | kpatch-patch | 2024-03-12 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1253-01 | EL9.0 | kpatch-patch | 2024-03-12 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1239-01 | EL9 | opencryptoki | 2024-03-08 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1240-01 | EL9.0 | postgresql | 2024-03-11 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1241-01 | EL9.2 | postgresql | 2024-03-11 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1195-01 | EL8.4 | postgresql:12 | 2024-03-06 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1244-01 | EL7 | rhc-worker-script | 2024-03-11 |
| Slackware | SSA:2024-067-01 | 15.0 | ghostscript | 2024-03-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0851-1 | SLE12 | axis | 2024-03-12 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0852-1 | SLE15 oS15.5 | axis | 2024-03-12 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0840-1 | SLE12 | compat-openssl098 | 2024-03-12 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0799-1 | SLE12 | containerd | 2024-03-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0825-1 | SLE12 | cpio | 2024-03-08 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0824-1 | SLE15 SLE-m5.1 SLE-m5.2 SES7.1 | cpio | 2024-03-08 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0863-1 | SLE12 | fontforge | 2024-03-13 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0864-1 | SLE15 SES7.1 oS15.5 | fontforge | 2024-03-13 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0786-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 SES7.1 oS15.5 | giflib | 2024-03-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0860-1 | SLE15 SLE-m5.1 SLE-m5.2 SES7.1 | gnutls | 2024-03-13 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0800-1 | SLE12 | go1.21 | 2024-03-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0811-1 | SLE15 oS15.5 | go1.21 | 2024-03-08 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0812-1 | SLE15 oS15.5 | go1.22 | 2024-03-08 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0806-1 | oS15.5 | google-oauth-java-client | 2024-03-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0779-1 | SLE12 | gstreamer-plugins-bad | 2024-03-06 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0780-1 | SLE15 | gstreamer-plugins-bad | 2024-03-06 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0793-1 | SLE15 SES7.1 oS15.3 | gstreamer-plugins-bad | 2024-03-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0804-1 | SLE12 | java-1_8_0-openjdk | 2024-03-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0847-1 | SLE15 SES7.1 oS15.5 | java-1_8_0-openjdk | 2024-03-12 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0817-1 | SLE15 SES7.1 oS15.5 | jetty-minimal | 2024-03-08 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0857-1 | MP4.2 SLE15 SLE-m5.1 SLE-m5.2 SES7.1 oS15.3 | kernel | 2024-03-13 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0856-1 | SLE15 SLE-m5.1 SLE-m5.2 | kernel | 2024-03-13 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0858-1 | SLE15 SLE-m5.5 oS15.5 | kernel | 2024-03-13 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0855-1 | SLE15 oS15.5 | kernel | 2024-03-12 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0814-1 | SLE12 | openssl-1_0_0 | 2024-03-08 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0831-1 | SLE15 SES7.1 oS15.5 | openssl-1_0_0 | 2024-03-11 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0833-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 oS15.4 osM5.3 osM5.4 | openssl-1_1 | 2024-03-11 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0813-1 | SLE12 | openssl-1_1 | 2024-03-08 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0832-1 | SLE15 SLE-m5.1 SLE-m5.2 SES7.1 | openssl-1_1 | 2024-03-11 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0815-1 | SLE15 oS15.5 | openssl-3 | 2024-03-08 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0842-1 | SLE11 | openssl | 2024-03-12 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0841-1 | SLE11 | openssl1 | 2024-03-12 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2024:0077-1 | osB15 | python-Django | 2024-03-11 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2024:0080-1 | osB15 | python-Django1 | 2024-03-12 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0785-1 | SLE12 | python3 | 2024-03-06 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0850-1 | SLE15 SLE-m5.1 | python3 | 2024-03-12 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0820-1 | SLE15 oS15.4 oS15.5 | python310 | 2024-03-08 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0782-1 | SLE15 oS15.4 oS15.5 | python311 | 2024-03-06 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0784-1 | SLE15 SES7.1 oS15.3 oS15.5 | python39 | 2024-03-06 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0795-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 oS15.4 osM5.3 osM5.4 | sudo | 2024-03-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0795-2 | MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 osM5.3 osM5.4 | sudo | 2024-03-08 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0797-1 | SLE12 | sudo | 2024-03-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0797-2 | SLE12 | sudo | 2024-03-08 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0796-1 | SLE15 | sudo | 2024-03-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0796-2 | SLE15 | sudo | 2024-03-08 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0834-1 | SLE15 SLE-m5.1 SLE-m5.2 SES7.1 oS15.3 | sudo | 2024-03-12 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0794-1 | SLE15 SLE-m5.5 oS15.5 | sudo | 2024-03-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0794-2 | SLE15 SLE-m5.5 oS15.5 | sudo | 2024-03-08 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0829-1 | SLE12 | tomcat | 2024-03-11 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0783-1 | SLE12 | vim | 2024-03-06 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0819-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.1 SLE-m5.2 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 SES7.1 osM5.3 osM5.4 | wpa_supplicant | 2024-03-08 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0818-1 | SLE12 | wpa_supplicant | 2024-03-08 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0830-1 | SLE15 SLE-m5.5 oS15.5 | xen | 2024-03-11 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0808-1 | SLE15 oS15.5 | xmlgraphics-batik | 2024-03-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0862-1 | SLE12 | zabbix | 2024-03-13 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6687-1 | 20.04 22.04 | accountsservice | 2024-03-11 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6693-1 | 22.04 23.10 | dotnet7, dotnet8 | 2024-03-12 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6679-1 | 22.04 23.10 | frr | 2024-03-06 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6692-1 | 16.04 18.04 20.04 22.04 | libgoogle-gson-java | 2024-03-12 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6683-1 | 18.04 20.04 22.04 | libhtmlcleaner-java | 2024-03-07 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6658-2 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 | libxml2 | 2024-03-11 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6686-1 | 20.04 22.04 | linux, linux-azure, linux-azure-5.15, linux-azure-fde, linux-azure-fde-5.15, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.15, linux-gke, linux-gkeop, linux-gkeop-5.15, linux-hwe-5.15, linux-ibm, linux-ibm-5.15, linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15, linux-nvidia | 2024-03-07 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6681-1 | 18.04 20.04 | linux, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.4, linux-gkeop, linux-hwe-5.4, linux-iot, linux-kvm, linux-raspi | 2024-03-06 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6680-1 | 22.04 23.10 | linux, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-6.5, linux-laptop, linux-lowlatency, linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5, linux-oem-6.5, linux-oracle, linux-raspi, linux-starfive, linux-starfive-6.5 | 2024-03-06 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6680-2 | 22.04 23.10 | linux-azure, linux-azure-6.5, linux-hwe-6.5 | 2024-03-07 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6681-2 | 18.04 20.04 | linux-bluefield, linux-raspi-5.4, linux-xilinx-zynqmp | 2024-03-11 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6688-1 | 22.04 | linux-oem-6.1 | 2024-03-11 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6685-1 | 16.04 18.04 20.04 | mqtt-client | 2024-03-07 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6684-1 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 | ncurses | 2024-03-07 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6663-2 | 16.04 | openssl | 2024-03-13 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6690-1 | 20.04 22.04 23.10 | openvswitch | 2024-03-12 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6691-1 | 20.04 22.04 23.10 | ovn | 2024-03-12 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6656-2 | 16.04 | postgresql-9.5 | 2024-03-12 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6682-1 | 20.04 22.04 | puma | 2024-03-07 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6689-1 | 23.10 | ruby-rack | 2024-03-12 |
Kernel patches of interest
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Théo Lebrun
Add Mobileye EyeQ5 support to the Nomadik I2C controller & use hrtimers for timeouts
Mar 06
Rahul Rameshbabu
net/mlx5e: Improve ethtool coalesce support and support per-queue configuration
Mar 06
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