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CFP Deadlines: April 18, 2024 to June 17, 2024
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| June 7 | September 22 September 23 |
KVM Forum 2024 | Brno, Czechia |
| June 11 | August 17 August 18 |
FrOSCon 19 | Sankt Augustin, Germany |
| June 14 | September 25 September 26 |
All Systems Go! 2024 | Berlin, Germany |
| June 14 | August 1 August 4 |
Free and Open Source Software Yearly conference | Portland, OR, US |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
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Events: April 18, 2024 to June 17, 2024
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| May 21 | NLUUG Spring Conference 2024 | Utrecht, The Netherlands |
| May 23 May 24 |
Lund Linux Conference 2024 | Lund, Sweden |
| May 28 May 31 |
PostgreSQL Development Conference | Vancouver, Canada |
| May 30 May 31 |
Power Management and Scheduling in the Linux Kernel (OSPM-summit) | Toulouse, France |
| June 5 June 6 |
Icinga Summit 2024 | Berlin, Germany |
| June 7 June 9 |
SouthEast Linux Fest | Charlotte, NC, US |
| June 13 June 15 |
DevConf.CZ | Brno, Czech Republic |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Security updates
Alert summary April 11, 2024 to April 17, 2024
| Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AlmaLinux | ALSA-2024:1782 | 8 | bind and dhcp | 2024-04-12 |
| AlmaLinux | ALSA-2024:1789 | 9 | bind | 2024-04-12 |
| AlmaLinux | ALSA-2024:1781 | 8 | bind9.16 | 2024-04-12 |
| AlmaLinux | ALSA-2024:1784 | 8 | gnutls | 2024-04-12 |
| AlmaLinux | ALSA-2024:1786 | 8 | httpd:2.4/mod_http2 | 2024-04-12 |
| AlmaLinux | ALSA-2024:1607 | 8 | kernel | 2024-04-10 |
| AlmaLinux | ALSA-2024:1692 | 9 | less | 2024-04-10 |
| AlmaLinux | ALSA-2024:1514 | 8 | libreoffice | 2024-04-10 |
| AlmaLinux | ALSA-2024:1503 | 9 | nodejs:18 | 2024-04-10 |
| AlmaLinux | ALSA-2024:1687 | 8 | nodejs:20 | 2024-04-10 |
| AlmaLinux | ALSA-2024:1688 | 9 | nodejs:20 | 2024-04-10 |
| AlmaLinux | ALSA-2024:1719 | 8 | rear | 2024-04-10 |
| AlmaLinux | ALSA-2024:1375 | 8 | squid:4 | 2024-04-12 |
| AlmaLinux | ALSA-2024:1494 | 8 | thunderbird | 2024-04-10 |
| AlmaLinux | ALSA-2024:1493 | 9 | thunderbird | 2024-04-10 |
| AlmaLinux | ALSA-2024:1751 | 8 | unbound | 2024-04-12 |
| AlmaLinux | ALSA-2024:1750 | 9 | unbound | 2024-04-12 |
| AlmaLinux | ALSA-2024:1690 | 8 | varnish | 2024-04-10 |
| AlmaLinux | ALSA-2024:1691 | 9 | varnish | 2024-04-10 |
| Debian | DSA-5662-1 | stable | apache2 | 2024-04-16 |
| Debian | DSA-5656-1 | stable | chromium | 2024-04-11 |
| Debian | DSA-5655-2 | stable | cockpit | 2024-04-16 |
| Debian | DSA-5658-1 | stable | kernel | 2024-04-13 |
| Debian | DSA-5660-1 | stable | php7.4 | 2024-04-15 |
| Debian | DSA-5661-1 | stable | php8.2 | 2024-04-15 |
| Debian | DLA-3786-1 | LTS | pillow | 2024-04-10 |
| Debian | DSA-5659-1 | stable | trafficserver | 2024-04-14 |
| Debian | DLA-3787-1 | LTS | xorg-server | 2024-04-15 |
| Debian | DSA-5657-1 | stable | xorg-server | 2024-04-12 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-d351e7318e | F38 | c-ares | 2024-04-16 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-835800b552 | F39 | c-ares | 2024-04-16 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-f94660c56d | F38 | chromium | 2024-04-14 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-fe9a675a37 | F39 | chromium | 2024-04-15 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-8fd3285bd9 | F38 | dotnet7.0 | 2024-04-11 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-121f5cec9f | F39 | firefox | 2024-04-17 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-a56a47ef1b | F38 | kernel | 2024-04-14 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-33a9ea72d1 | F39 | kernel | 2024-04-13 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-f93cdd8831 | F39 | kernel | 2024-04-17 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-6d35739db7 | F40 | kernel | 2024-04-13 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-85b6c6fa92 | F38 | libopenmpt | 2024-04-14 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-90b3798199 | F39 | libopenmpt | 2024-04-14 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-1249d56928 | F38 | mbedtls | 2024-04-17 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-666210bd74 | F39 | mbedtls | 2024-04-17 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-0c9aaeb447 | F38 | python-cbor2 | 2024-04-17 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-4bbd13d425 | F39 | python-cbor2 | 2024-04-17 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-6bc17db348 | F39 | rust | 2024-04-12 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-c5b42e6462 | F38 | rust-h2 | 2024-04-13 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-638f25a317 | F39 | rust-h2 | 2024-04-13 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-d0acf8d109 | F38 | trafficserver | 2024-04-12 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-b1e16b4335 | F39 | trafficserver | 2024-04-12 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-70ee97033b | F38 | upx | 2024-04-12 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-f644a5709c | F39 | wireshark | 2024-04-17 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-4691d60717 | F38 | yyjson | 2024-04-17 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-ef2e551fab | F39 | yyjson | 2024-04-17 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2024-0130 | 9 | apache-mod_jk | 2024-04-13 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2024-0128 | 9 | golang | 2024-04-13 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2024-0122 | 9 | indent | 2024-04-12 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2024-0135 | 9 | nghttp2 | 2024-04-17 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2024-0129 | 9 | openssl | 2024-04-13 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2024-0127 | 9 | perl-HTTP-Body | 2024-04-13 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2024-0132 | 9 | php | 2024-04-13 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2024-0120 | 9 | postgresql-jdbc | 2024-04-12 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2024-0133 | 9 | python-pillow | 2024-04-15 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2024-0131 | 9 | rear | 2024-04-13 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2024-0123 | 9 | ruby-rack | 2024-04-12 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2024-0126 | 9 | squid | 2024-04-12 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2024-0134 | 9 | upx | 2024-04-15 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2024-0124 | 9 | varnish | 2024-04-12 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2024-0121 | 9 | x11-server, x11-server-xwayland, tigervnc | 2024-04-12 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2024-0125 | 9 | xfig | 2024-04-12 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2024-1785 | OL7 | X.Org server | 2024-04-12 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2024-1785 | OL7 | X.Org server | 2024-04-12 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2024-1782 | OL8 | bind and dhcp | 2024-04-15 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2024-1789 | OL9 | bind | 2024-04-12 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2024-1781 | OL8 | bind9.16 | 2024-04-15 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2024-1786 | OL8 | httpd:2.4/mod_http2 | 2024-04-15 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2024-1607 | OL8 | kernel | 2024-04-15 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2024-1719 | OL8 | rear | 2024-04-15 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2024-1787 | OL7 | squid | 2024-04-12 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2024-1787 | OL7 | squid | 2024-04-12 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2024-1751 | OL8 | unbound | 2024-04-15 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2024-1750 | OL9 | unbound | 2024-04-12 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1782-01 | EL8 | bind and dhcp | 2024-04-12 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1789-01 | EL9 | bind | 2024-04-11 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1781-01 | EL8 | bind9.16 | 2024-04-11 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1784-01 | EL8 | gnutls | 2024-04-11 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1786-01 | EL8 | httpd:2.4 | 2024-04-11 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1831-01 | EL6 | kernel | 2024-04-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1836-01 | EL9.0 | kernel | 2024-04-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1840-01 | EL9.0 | kernel-rt | 2024-04-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1856-01 | EL9.2 | opencryptoki | 2024-04-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1841-01 | EL9.0 | pcs | 2024-04-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1846-01 | EL9.2 | pcs | 2024-04-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1834-01 | EL8.2 | shim | 2024-04-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1835-01 | EL9.0 | shim | 2024-04-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1787-01 | EL7 | squid | 2024-04-11 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1833-01 | EL9.0 | squid | 2024-04-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1832-01 | EL8.4 | squid:4 | 2024-04-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1751-01 | EL8 | unbound | 2024-04-11 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1804-01 | EL8.6 | unbound | 2024-04-15 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1802-01 | EL8.8 | unbound | 2024-04-15 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1801-01 | EL9.0 | unbound | 2024-04-15 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1780-01 | EL9.2 | unbound | 2024-04-11 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:1785-01 | EL7 | xorg-x11-server | 2024-04-11 |
| Slackware | SSA:2024-107-01 | firefox | 2024-04-16 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2024-105-01 | less | 2024-04-14 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2024-103-01 | php | 2024-04-12 | |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:1304-1 | SLE15 SLE-m5.5 SES7.1 oS15.5 | eclipse, maven-surefire, tycho | 2024-04-16 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:1317-1 | SLE12 | emacs | 2024-04-16 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:1294-1 | SLE15 oS15.4 oS15.5 | emacs | 2024-04-15 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:1319-1 | SLE12 | firefox | 2024-04-16 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:1271-1 | SLE15 SLE-m5.4 SLE-m5.5 oS15.4 oS15.5 osM5.4 | gnutls | 2024-04-12 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:1321-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 oS15.4 osM5.3 osM5.4 | kernel | 2024-04-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:1320-1 | SLE15 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 osM5.3 osM5.4 | kernel | 2024-04-16 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:1322-1 | SLE15 SLE-m5.5 oS15.5 | kernel | 2024-04-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:1311-1 | 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 | 2024-04-16 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:1305-1 | SLE12 | nodejs16 | 2024-04-16 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:1306-1 | SLE15 SES7.1 oS15.3 | nodejs16 | 2024-04-16 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:1308-1 | SLE15 oS15.4 | nodejs16 | 2024-04-16 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:1307-1 | SLE12 | nodejs18 | 2024-04-16 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:1309-1 | SLE15 oS15.4 oS15.5 | nodejs18 | 2024-04-16 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:1301-1 | SLE15 oS15.5 | nodejs20 | 2024-04-16 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:1256-1 | SLE15 oS15.5 | perl-Net-CIDR-Lite | 2024-04-12 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:1268-1 | OS8 SLE12 | python-Pillow | 2024-04-12 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:1267-1 | OS9 SLE12 | python-Pillow | 2024-04-12 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:1258-1 | SLE15 oS15.4 oS15.5 | python-Pillow | 2024-04-12 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2024:0106-1 | osB15 | sngrep | 2024-04-11 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:1296-1 | SLE12 | texlive | 2024-04-15 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:1310-1 | SLE15 oS15.4 oS15.5 | texlive | 2024-04-16 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:1203-1 | SLE12 | texlive-specs-k | 2024-04-11 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:1205-1 | SLE12 | tomcat | 2024-04-11 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:1204-1 | SLE15 oS15.5 | tomcat10 | 2024-04-11 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:1287-1 | SLE15 SLE-m5.5 oS15.5 | vim | 2024-04-15 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:1270-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 oS15.4 oS15.5 | webkit2gtk3 | 2024-04-12 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:1293-1 | SLE12 | webkit2gtk3 | 2024-04-15 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:1269-1 | SLE15 SES7.1 | webkit2gtk3 | 2024-04-12 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:1259-1 | SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 oS15.4 osM5.3 osM5.4 | xen | 2024-04-12 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:1295-1 | SLE15 SLE-m5.5 oS15.5 | xen | 2024-04-15 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:1260-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 oS15.4 | xorg-x11-server | 2024-04-12 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:1199-1 | SLE12 | xorg-x11-server | 2024-04-10 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:1263-1 | SLE12 | xorg-x11-server | 2024-04-12 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:1261-1 | SLE15 SES7.1 | xorg-x11-server | 2024-04-12 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:1262-1 | SLE15 oS15.5 | xorg-x11-server | 2024-04-12 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:1265-1 | SLE15 oS15.4 | xwayland | 2024-04-12 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:1264-1 | SLE15 oS15.5 | xwayland | 2024-04-12 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6729-1 | 20.04 22.04 23.10 | apache2 | 2024-04-11 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6733-1 | 20.04 22.04 23.10 | gnutls28 | 2024-04-15 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6736-1 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 20.04 22.04 23.10 | klibc | 2024-04-16 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6734-1 | 20.04 22.04 23.10 | libvirt | 2024-04-15 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6725-2 | 20.04 22.04 | linux-aws, linux-aws-5.15 | 2024-04-16 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6724-2 | 22.04 23.10 | linux-aws-6.5, linux-raspi | 2024-04-16 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6726-2 | 20.04 | linux-iot | 2024-04-16 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6730-1 | maven-shared-utils | 2024-04-11 | |
| Ubuntu | USN-6735-1 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 20.04 22.04 23.10 | nodejs | 2024-04-16 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6727-2 | 20.04 22.04 | nss | 2024-04-11 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6727-1 | 20.04 22.04 23.10 | nss | 2024-04-10 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6728-2 | 20.04 | squid | 2024-04-11 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6728-1 | 20.04 22.04 23.10 | squid | 2024-04-10 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6719-2 | 20.04 22.04 23.10 | util-linux | 2024-04-10 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6732-1 | 22.04 23.10 | webkit2gtk | 2024-04-15 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6731-1 | 16.04 18.04 20.04 22.04 23.10 | yard | 2024-04-15 |
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