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CFP Deadlines: March 21, 2024 to May 20, 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 |
| May 19 | September 16 September 17 |
Linux Security Summit Europe | Vienna, Austria |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
Events: March 21, 2024 to May 20, 2024
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| May 13 May 15 |
LSFMM+BPF | Salt Lake City, US |
| May 14 May 17 |
Linaro Connect | Madrid, Spain |
| May 17 May 19 |
PyCon US 2024 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Security updates
Alert summary March 14, 2024 to March 20, 2024
| Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | DLA-3765-1 | LTS | cacti | 2024-03-18 |
| Debian | DSA-5639-1 | stable | chromium | 2024-03-13 |
| Debian | DSA-5632-1 | stable | composer | 2024-03-15 |
| Debian | DLA-3763-1 | LTS | curl | 2024-03-17 |
| Debian | DSA-5641-1 | stable | fontforge | 2024-03-19 |
| Debian | DLA-3767-1 | LTS | imagemagick | 2024-03-20 |
| Debian | DLA-3760-1 | LTS | node-xml2js | 2024-03-14 |
| Debian | DSA-5640-1 | stable | openvswitch | 2024-03-14 |
| Debian | DLA-3764-1 | LTS | postgresql-11 | 2024-03-18 |
| Debian | DLA-3761-1 | LTS | spip | 2024-03-15 |
| Debian | DLA-3762-1 | LTS | unadf | 2024-03-15 |
| Debian | DLA-3766-1 | LTS | zfs-linux | 2024-03-19 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-a15fe3f120 | F38 | baresip | 2024-03-15 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-e34efa1300 | F39 | baresip | 2024-03-15 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-ac1eb810c5 | F38 | chromium | 2024-03-16 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-99d177633f | F39 | chromium | 2024-03-14 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-7e71e9eaba | F38 | firefox | 2024-03-20 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-113454b56b | F39 | firefox | 2024-03-20 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-e6a35cd250 | F38 | freeimage | 2024-03-19 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-c0b61ab46b | F39 | freeimage | 2024-03-19 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-4ef5edfb2a | F39 | iwd | 2024-03-16 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-40b98c9ced | F38 | mingw-expat | 2024-03-19 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-4e6e660fae | F39 | mingw-expat | 2024-03-19 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-e6a35cd250 | F38 | mingw-freeimage | 2024-03-19 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-c0b61ab46b | F39 | mingw-freeimage | 2024-03-19 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-b92d44f141 | F38 | opensc | 2024-03-16 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-6460a03e29 | F39 | opensc | 2024-03-16 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-a4530e9bfe | F39 | openvswitch | 2024-03-16 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-09c7f715c9 | F38 | python-multipart | 2024-03-14 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-2e802cdb4b | F39 | python-multipart | 2024-03-14 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-ebb3c95344 | F38 | python3.6 | 2024-03-16 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-d1f1084584 | F39 | python3.6 | 2024-03-16 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-2aa28a4cfc | F38 | shim | 2024-03-18 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-2aa28a4cfc | F38 | shim-unsigned-aarch64 | 2024-03-18 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-2aa28a4cfc | F38 | shim-unsigned-x64 | 2024-03-18 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-325c1d1fce | F38 | thunderbird | 2024-03-14 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-0da80aa623 | F38 | xen | 2024-03-14 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-aca9ed1eb1 | F39 | xen | 2024-03-14 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2024-0070 | 9 | apache-mod_security-crs | 2024-03-18 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2024-0068 | 9 | batik | 2024-03-16 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2024-0074 | 9 | cherrytree | 2024-03-20 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2024-0072 | 9 | expat | 2024-03-18 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2024-0060 | 9 | fonttools | 2024-03-14 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2024-0064 | 9 | imagemagick | 2024-03-15 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2024-0063 | 9 | irssi | 2024-03-15 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2024-0069 | 9 | jackson-databind | 2024-03-16 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2024-0056 | 9 | java-17-openjdk | 2024-03-14 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2024-0067 | 9 | jupyter-notebook | 2024-03-16 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2024-0059 | 9 | libgit2 | 2024-03-14 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2024-0062 | 9 | mplayer | 2024-03-15 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2024-0071 | 9 | multipath-tools | 2024-03-18 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2024-0065 | 9 | ncurses | 2024-03-15 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2024-0058 | 9 | open-vm-tools | 2024-03-14 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2024-0061 | 9 | packages | 2024-03-15 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2024-0075 | 9 | python-django | 2024-03-20 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2024-0076 | 9 | qpdf | 2024-03-20 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2024-0057 | 9 | screen | 2024-03-14 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2024-0073 | 9 | sqlite3 | 2024-03-20 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2024-0066 | 9 | yajl | 2024-03-15 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2024-1308 | OL8 | .NET 7.0 | 2024-03-18 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2024-1309 | OL9 | .NET 7.0 | 2024-03-15 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2024-1311 | OL8 | .NET 8.0 | 2024-03-15 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2024-1310 | OL9 | .NET 8.0 | 2024-03-15 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2024-1335 | OL8 | dnsmasq | 2024-03-15 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2024-1334 | OL9 | dnsmasq | 2024-03-15 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2024-1248 | OL9 | kernel | 2024-03-19 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1308-01 | EL8 | .NET 7.0 | 2024-03-13 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1309-01 | EL9 | .NET 7.0 | 2024-03-13 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1311-01 | EL8 | .NET 8.0 | 2024-03-13 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1310-01 | EL9 | .NET 8.0 | 2024-03-13 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1406-01 | EL8.8 | bind | 2024-03-19 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1409-01 | EL8.8 | cups | 2024-03-19 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1335-01 | EL8 | dnsmasq | 2024-03-14 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1334-01 | EL9 | dnsmasq | 2024-03-14 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1408-01 | EL8.8 | emacs | 2024-03-19 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1403-01 | EL8.8 | fwupd | 2024-03-19 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1327-01 | EL8.2 | gimp:2.8 | 2024-03-14 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1412-01 | EL8.8 | gmp | 2024-03-19 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1367-01 | EL8.4 | kernel | 2024-03-19 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1404-01 | EL8.8 | kernel | 2024-03-19 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1332-01 | EL7 | kernel-rt | 2024-03-14 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1382-01 | EL8.4 | kernel-rt | 2024-03-19 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1306-01 | EL9.0 | kernel-rt | 2024-03-13 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1323-01 | EL7 | kpatch-patch | 2024-03-14 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1377-01 | EL8.4 | kpatch-patch | 2024-03-19 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1368-01 | EL8.8 | kpatch-patch | 2024-03-19 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1417-01 | EL8.8 | libX11 | 2024-03-19 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1427-01 | EL9 | libreoffice | 2024-03-19 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1423-01 | EL9.0 | libreoffice | 2024-03-19 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1425-01 | EL9.2 | libreoffice | 2024-03-19 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1424-01 | EL9.0 | nodejs | 2024-03-19 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1411-01 | EL8.8 | opencryptoki | 2024-03-19 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1435-01 | EL8 | postgresql-jdbc | 2024-03-20 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1436-01 | EL9 | postgresql-jdbc | 2024-03-20 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1422-01 | EL8.2 | postgresql:10 | 2024-03-19 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1429-01 | EL8.4 | postgresql:10 | 2024-03-19 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1348-01 | EL8.6 | postgresql:10 | 2024-03-18 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1428-01 | EL8.8 | postgresql:10 | 2024-03-19 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1437-01 | EL8.4 | postgresql:13 | 2024-03-20 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1315-01 | EL8.6 | postgresql:13 | 2024-03-13 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1426-01 | EL8.8 | postgresql:13 | 2024-03-19 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1314-01 | EL9.2 | postgresql:15 | 2024-03-13 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1431-01 | EL8 | ruby:3.1 | 2024-03-19 |
| Slackware | SSA:2024-073-01 | expat | 2024-03-13 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2024-079-01 | gnutls | 2024-03-19 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2024-079-02 | mozilla | 2024-03-19 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2024-079-03 | mozilla | 2024-03-19 | |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0908-1 | SLE15 oS15.5 | 389-ds | 2024-03-15 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2024:0084-1 | osB15 | chromium | 2024-03-18 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0899-1 | SLE15 SES7.1 | gdb | 2024-03-14 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0898-1 | SLE15 oS15.4 oS15.5 | gdb | 2024-03-15 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0870-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.1 SLE-m5.2 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 SLE-m5.5 SES7.1 oS15.3 oS15.5 osM5.3 osM5.4 | glibc | 2024-03-13 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0900-2 | MP4.3 SLE15 | kernel | 2024-03-15 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0900-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 oS15.4 osM5.3 osM5.4 | kernel | 2024-03-14 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0910-1 | SLE15 SLE-m5.5 oS15.5 | kernel | 2024-03-15 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0912-1 | SLE15 | openvswitch | 2024-03-18 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0875-1 | OS8 SLE12 | python-Django | 2024-03-13 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0902-1 | oS15.5 | python-Django | 2024-03-14 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0874-1 | OS9 SLE12 | python-Django1 | 2024-03-13 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2024:0082-1 | osB15 | python-rpyc | 2024-03-15 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0901-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.2 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 SLE-m5.5 SES7.1 oS15.3 oS15.5 osM5.3 osM5.4 | python3 | 2024-03-14 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0892-1 | SLE12 | python36-pip | 2024-03-15 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0884-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 SES7.1 oS15.5 | spectre-meltdown-checker | 2024-03-15 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0885-1 | SLE12 | spectre-meltdown-checker | 2024-03-15 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0877-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 oS15.4 osM5.3 osM5.4 | sudo | 2024-03-13 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0890-1 | SLE12 | sudo | 2024-03-15 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0889-1 | SLE15 | sudo | 2024-03-15 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0876-1 | SLE15 SLE-m5.5 oS15.5 | sudo | 2024-03-13 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0893-1 | SLE15 SLE-m5.5 oS15.5 | thunderbird | 2024-03-15 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0915-1 | SLE12 | tiff | 2024-03-18 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:0871-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.1 SLE-m5.2 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 SES7.1 osM5.3 osM5.4 | vim | 2024-03-13 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6697-1 | 22.04 | bash | 2024-03-18 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6694-1 | 22.04 23.10 | expat | 2024-03-14 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6703-1 | 20.04 | firefox | 2024-03-20 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6699-1 | 14.04 | kernel | 2024-03-18 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6701-1 | 16.04 18.04 | linux, linux-aws, linux-hwe, linux-kvm, linux-oracle | 2024-03-18 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6700-1 | 14.04 16.04 | linux, linux-aws, linux-kvm, linux-lts-xenial | 2024-03-18 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6702-1 | 18.04 20.04 | linux, linux-bluefield, linux-gcp, linux-gkeop, linux-hwe-5.4, linux-ibm, linux-ibm-5.4, linux-iot, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-5.4 | 2024-03-19 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6681-4 | 18.04 20.04 | linux-aws, linux-aws-5.4 | 2024-03-19 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6680-3 | 22.04 23.10 | linux-aws, linux-aws-6.5 | 2024-03-19 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6681-3 | 18.04 20.04 | linux-ibm, linux-ibm-5.4, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-5.4 | 2024-03-13 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6686-2 | 22.04 | linux-lowlatency, linux-raspi | 2024-03-13 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6686-3 | 20.04 22.04 | linux-oracle, linux-oracle-5.15 | 2024-03-19 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6696-1 | 18.04 20.04 22.04 23.10 | openjdk-8 | 2024-03-18 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6673-2 | 16.04 | python-cryptography | 2024-03-14 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6695-1 | 20.04 22.04 23.10 | texlive-bin | 2024-03-14 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6698-1 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 20.04 22.04 23.10 | vim | 2024-03-18 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6587-5 | 14.04 | xorg-server | 2024-03-13 |
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