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CFP Deadlines: May 23, 2024 to July 22, 2024

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

DeadlineEvent Dates EventLocation
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
June 17 September 17 Kernel Maintainers Summit Vienna, Austria
June 23 September 18
September 20		 Linux Plumbers Conference Vienna, Austria
July 1 October 22
October 25		 PostgreSQL Conference Europe Athens, Greece
July 7 October 28
October 29		 Open Source Summit Japan Tokyo, Japan
July 12 October 22
October 23		 Secure Open Source Software Fusion Atlanta, Georgia, US
July 14 July 28
August 4		 DebConf24 Busan, South Korea

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Upcoming Events

Events: May 23, 2024 to July 22, 2024

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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
June 18
June 19		 stackconf 2024 Berlin, Germany
June 25
June 27		 BigBlueButton World 2024 online
June 27
June 29		 openSUSE Conference 2024 Nuremberg, Germany
July 5
July 6		 Hong Kong Open Source Conference 2024 Hong Kong, Hong Kong
July 10
July 12		 EuroPython 2024 Prague, Czechia
July 12
July 14		 Hackers on Planet Earth New York, NY, US
July 15
July 19		 Netdev 0x18 Silicon Valley, CA, US
July 19
July 24		 GNOME Users and Developer Conference Denver, CO, US

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Security updates

Alert summary May 16, 2024 to May 22, 2024

Dist. ID Release Package Date
AlmaLinux ALSA-2024:2843 9 .NET 7.0 2024-05-16
AlmaLinux ALSA-2024:2842 9 .NET 8.0 2024-05-16
AlmaLinux ALSA-2024:2883 9 firefox 2024-05-21
AlmaLinux ALSA-2024:2910 9 nodejs 2024-05-21
AlmaLinux ALSA-2024:2853 9 nodejs:20 2024-05-16
AlmaLinux ALSA-2024:2888 9 thunderbird 2024-05-21
Debian DLA-3816-1 LTS bind9 2024-05-17
Debian DSA-5689-1 stable chromium 2024-05-15
Debian DSA-5694-1 stable chromium 2024-05-17
Debian DLA-3815-1 LTS firefox-esr 2024-05-16
Debian DSA-5691-1 stable firefox-esr 2024-05-15
Debian DSA-5692-1 stable ghostscript 2024-05-15
Debian DSA-5690-1 stable libreoffice 2024-05-15
Debian DLA-3817-1 LTS thunderbird 2024-05-20
Debian DSA-5693-1 stable thunderbird 2024-05-17
Debian DSA-5695-1 stable webkit2gtk 2024-05-22
Fedora FEDORA-2024-c56e6ff1b5 F39 buildah 2024-05-19
Fedora FEDORA-2024-3a548f46a8 F38 chromium 2024-05-18
Fedora FEDORA-2024-382a7dba53 F39 chromium 2024-05-18
Fedora FEDORA-2024-c01c1f5f82 F40 chromium 2024-05-17
Fedora FEDORA-2024-e8b9bedd36 F38 djvulibre 2024-05-16
Fedora FEDORA-2024-891c09df97 F39 djvulibre 2024-05-16
Fedora FEDORA-2024-d20163632f F40 djvulibre 2024-05-16
Fedora FEDORA-2024-a2c6c8afa9 F39 firefox 2024-05-17
Fedora FEDORA-2024-eabe68b149 F40 firefox 2024-05-18
Fedora FEDORA-2024-49fcf86f58 F39 kernel 2024-05-22
Fedora FEDORA-2024-92664ae6fe F40 kernel 2024-05-22
Fedora FEDORA-2024-be032e564d F39 mingw-glib2 2024-05-16
Fedora FEDORA-2024-2ce1c754f7 F40 mingw-glib2 2024-05-16
Fedora FEDORA-2024-e609c057ad F39 mingw-python-jinja2 2024-05-16
Fedora FEDORA-2024-e3caf31c98 F40 mingw-python-jinja2 2024-05-16
Fedora FEDORA-2024-48123e7aae F38 mingw-python-werkzeug 2024-05-19
Fedora FEDORA-2024-8e8ff9d6ec F40 mingw-python-werkzeug 2024-05-16
Fedora FEDORA-2024-20393c122f F40 podman 2024-05-17
Fedora FEDORA-2024-aa2fdd75f7 F39 suricata 2024-05-19
Fedora FEDORA-2024-9cce1f4b49 F40 suricata 2024-05-19
Fedora FEDORA-2024-a7b8b6bfe2 F40 uriparser 2024-05-21
Mageia MGASA-2024-0178 9 chromium-browser-stable 2024-05-16
Mageia MGASA-2024-0190 9 chromium-browser-stable 2024-05-22
Mageia MGASA-2024-0183 9 djvulibre 2024-05-22
Mageia MGASA-2024-0182 9 gdk-pixbuf2.0 2024-05-22
Mageia MGASA-2024-0180 9 ghostscript 2024-05-16
Mageia MGASA-2024-0181 9 golang 2024-05-17
Mageia MGASA-2024-0179 9 java-1.8.0, java-11, java-17, java-latest 2024-05-16
Mageia MGASA-2024-0189 9 nss & firefox 2024-05-22
Mageia MGASA-2024-0184 9 postgresql15 & postgresql13 2024-05-22
Mageia MGASA-2024-0187 9 python-pymongo 2024-05-22
Mageia MGASA-2024-0185 9 python-sqlparse 2024-05-22
Mageia MGASA-2024-0186 9 stb 2024-05-22
Mageia MGASA-2024-0191 9 thunderbird 2024-05-22
Mageia MGASA-2024-0188 9 vim 2024-05-22
Oracle ELSA-2024-2843 OL9 .NET 7.0 2024-05-16
Oracle ELSA-2024-2842 OL9 .NET 8.0 2024-05-16
Oracle ELSA-2024-2881 OL7 firefox 2024-05-17
Oracle ELSA-2024-2881 OL7 firefox 2024-05-17
Oracle ELSA-2024-2883 OL9 firefox 2024-05-21
Oracle ELSA-2024-12385 OL8 kernel 2024-05-16
Oracle ELSA-2024-12385 OL9 kernel 2024-05-16
Oracle ELSA-2024-12385 OL9 kernel 2024-05-16
Oracle ELSA-2024-2779 OL9 nodejs:18 2024-05-16
Oracle ELSA-2024-2853 OL9 nodejs:20 2024-05-17
Oracle ELSA-2024-2913 OL7 thunderbird 2024-05-21
Oracle ELSA-2024-2913 OL7 thunderbird 2024-05-21
Oracle ELSA-2024-2888 OL9 thunderbird 2024-05-21
Red Hat RHSA-2024:2884-01 EL9.0 Firefox 2024-05-16
Red Hat RHSA-2024:2890-01 EL8.2 bind 2024-05-16
Red Hat RHSA-2024:2881-01 EL7 firefox 2024-05-16
Red Hat RHSA-2024:2882-01 EL8.2 firefox 2024-05-16
Red Hat RHSA-2024:2886-01 EL8.4 firefox 2024-05-16
Red Hat RHSA-2024:2887-01 EL8.6 firefox 2024-05-16
Red Hat RHSA-2024:2885-01 EL8.8 firefox 2024-05-16
Red Hat RHSA-2024:2883-01 EL9 firefox 2024-05-16
Red Hat RHSA-2024:2906-01 EL9.2 firefox 2024-05-20
Red Hat RHSA-2024:2889-01 EL9.2 gnutls 2024-05-16
Red Hat RHSA-2024:2935-01 EL8.6 go-toolset:rhel8 2024-05-21
Red Hat RHSA-2024:2936-01 EL8.8 go-toolset:rhel8 2024-05-21
Red Hat RHSA-2024:2907-01 EL8.6 httpd:2.4 2024-05-20
Red Hat RHSA-2024:2891-01 EL8.8 httpd:2.4 2024-05-16
Red Hat RHSA-2024:2910-01 EL9 nodejs 2024-05-20
Red Hat RHSA-2024:2937-01 EL9.2 nodejs 2024-05-21
Red Hat RHSA-2024:2853-01 EL9 nodejs:20 2024-05-15
Red Hat RHSA-2024:2913-01 EL7 thunderbird 2024-05-20
Red Hat RHSA-2024:2911-01 EL8.4 thunderbird 2024-05-20
Red Hat RHSA-2024:2912-01 EL8.6 thunderbird 2024-05-20
Red Hat RHSA-2024:2905-01 EL8.8 thunderbird 2024-05-20
Red Hat RHSA-2024:2888-01 EL9 thunderbird 2024-05-16
Red Hat RHSA-2024:2904-01 EL9.0 thunderbird 2024-05-20
Red Hat RHSA-2024:2903-01 EL9.2 thunderbird 2024-05-20
Red Hat RHSA-2024:2938-01 EL8.4 varnish:6 2024-05-21
Slackware SSA:2024-136-01 gdk 2024-05-15
Slackware SSA:2024-136-02 git 2024-05-15
Slackware SSA:2024-141-01 mariadb 2024-05-20
SUSE SUSE-SU-2024:1704-1 SLE15 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 SLE-m5.5 oS15.4 oS15.5 osM5.3 osM5.4 cairo 2024-05-20
SUSE SUSE-SU-2024:1676-1 SLE12 firefox 2024-05-17
SUSE SUSE-SU-2024:1699-1 SLE12 gdk-pixbuf 2024-05-20
SUSE openSUSE-SU-2024:0130-1 osB15 git-cliff 2024-05-18
SUSE openSUSE-SU-2024:0135-1 osB15 gitui 2024-05-22
SUSE SUSE-SU-2024:1728-1 SLE11 glibc 2024-05-21
SUSE SUSE-SU-2024:1675-1 SLE12 glibc 2024-05-17
SUSE SUSE-SU-2024:1648-2 SLE12 kernel 2024-05-21
SUSE SUSE-SU-2024:1702-1 SLE12 krb5 2024-05-20
SUSE SUSE-SU-2024:1700-1 SLE12 libosinfo 2024-05-20
SUSE openSUSE-SU-2024:0128-1 oS15.5 opera 2024-05-16
SUSE SUSE-SU-2024:1703-1 SLE12 postgresql14 2024-05-20
SUSE SUSE-SU-2024:1673-1 oS15.3 oS15.5 python-Pillow 2024-05-17
SUSE SUSE-SU-2024:1667-1 SLE12 python 2024-05-16
SUSE SUSE-SU-2024:1698-1 oS15.4 oS15.5 oS15.6 python310 2024-05-20
SUSE SUSE-SU-2024:1684-1 SLE12 ucode-intel 2024-05-20
Ubuntu USN-6773-1 22.04 23.10 24.04 dotnet7, dotnet8 2024-05-16
Ubuntu USN-6779-1 20.04 firefox 2024-05-21
Ubuntu USN-6781-1 14.04 16.04 18.04 20.04 22.04 libspreadsheet-parseexcel-perl 2024-05-21
Ubuntu USN-6776-1 18.04 20.04 linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.4, linux-azure, linux-azure-5.4, linux-bluefield, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.4, linux-gkeop, linux-hwe-5.4, linux-ibm, linux-ibm-5.4, linux-iot, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-5.4, linux-raspi, linux-raspi-5.4, linux-xilinx-zynqmp 2024-05-16
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Ubuntu USN-6777-1 16.04 18.04 linux, linux-aws, linux-azure-4.15, linux-gcp-4.15, linux-hwe, linux-kvm, linux-oracle 2024-05-16
Ubuntu USN-6778-1 14.04 16.04 linux, linux-aws, linux-kvm, linux-lts-xenial 2024-05-16
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Ubuntu USN-6775-2 20.04 22.04 linux-aws, linux-aws-5.15, linux-gke 2024-05-21
Ubuntu USN-6766-3 20.04 22.04 linux-aws, linux-aws-5.15 2024-05-20
Ubuntu USN-6777-2 14.04 16.04 linux-azure 2024-05-20
Ubuntu USN-6777-3 16.04 linux-gcp 2024-05-21
Ubuntu USN-6766-2 20.04 22.04 linux-hwe-5.15, linux-raspi 2024-05-15
Ubuntu USN-6780-1 16.04 18.04 20.04 22.04 23.10 24.04 python-idna 2024-05-21
Ubuntu USN-6782-1 20.04 22.04 23.10 thunderbird 2024-05-22
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Kernel patches of interest

Kernel releases

Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 6.9.1 May 17
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 6.8.10 May 17
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 6.6.31 May 17
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 6.1.91 May 17
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.15.159 May 17
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.10.217 May 17
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.4.276 May 17
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 4.19.314 May 17

Architecture-specific

Christophe Leroy Reimplement huge pages without hugepd on powerpc (8xx, e500, book3s/64) May 17
Clément Léger Add support for a few Zc* extensions, Zcmop and Zimop May 17
Björn Töpel riscv: Memory Hot(Un)Plug support May 21
Tony Luck Add support for Sub-NUMA cluster (SNC) systems May 15
Kirill A. Shutemov x86/tdx: Rewrite TDCALL wrappers May 17
Tony Luck New Intel CPUID families May 20

Core kernel

Costa Shulyupin sched: Adjust affinity according to change of housekeeping cpumask May 16
Kris Van Hees Generate address range data for built-in modules May 17
Alan Maguire bpf: support resilient split BTF May 17
Elizabeth Figura NT synchronization primitive driver May 19
Michal Koutný pids controller events rework May 21
Jiri Olsa uprobe: uretprobe speed up May 21
Kui-Feng Lee Enable BPF programs to declare arrays of kptr, bpf_rb_root, and bpf_list_head. May 20

Development tools

Kees Cook exec: Add KUnit test for bprm_stack_limits() May 19

Device drivers

Dmitry Rokosov clk: meson: introduce Amlogic A1 SoC Family CPU clock controller driver May 15
devi priya Add support for PCIe PHY in IPQ9574 May 16
Amit Singh Tomar firmware: imx: add driver for NXP EdgeLock Enclave May 16
Mohammad Rafi Shaik ASoC: codecs: wcd937x: add wcd937x audio codec support May 16
MD Danish Anwar Add multicast filtering support for ICSSG driver May 16
Yunfei Dong media: mediatek: add driver to support secure video decoder May 16
Louis Chauvet drm/vkms: Reimplement line-per-line pixel conversion for plane reading May 16
Louis Chauvet drm/vkms: Add support for multiple plane formats May 16
Louis Chauvet drm/vkms: Reimplement line-per-line pixel conversion for writeback May 16
Eddie James fsi: Add interrupt support May 16
Chris Lew Add support for hwspinlock bust May 16
Justin Lai Add Realtek automotive PCIe driver May 17
Dimitri Fedrau Add threshold events support May 17
Shengjiu Wang ASoC: fsl_mqs: Add i.MX95 platform support May 17
Sky Huang net: phy: mediatek: Introduce mtk-phy-lib and add 2.5Gphy support May 17
Alvin Šipraga Analog Devices Inc. Automotive Audio Bus (A2B) support May 17
Volodymyr Kharuk media: i2c: mlx7502x ToF camera support May 16
Devarsh Thakkar Add V4L2 M2M Driver for E5010 JPEG Encoder May 17
Siddharth Vadapalli Add CPSW Proxy Client driver May 18
Thomas Weißschuh ChromeOS Embedded Controller charge control driver May 19
Baojun Xu Add tas2781 driver for SPI. May 19
Sui Jingfeng drm/etnaviv: Add driver wrapper for vivante GPUs attached on PCI(e) device May 20
Krishna chaitanya chundru PCI: qcom: Add support for OPP May 18
Thomas Weißschuh ChromeOS Embedded Controller LED driver May 20
Bitterblue Smith wifi: rtlwifi: Add new rtl8192du driver May 18
Lorenzo Bianconi Introduce PCIe PHY driver for EN7581 SoC May 18
Yoshihiro Shimoda PCI: rcar-gen4: Add R-Car V4H support May 20
Sean Anderson PCI: xilinx-nwl: Add phy support May 20
Amelie Delaunay Introduce STM32 DMA3 support May 20
Aleksandr Shubin Add support for Allwinner PWM on D1/T113s/R329 SoCs May 20
Laurent Pinchart ADP5585 GPIO expander, PWM and keypad controller support May 20
John Meneghini nvme: queue-depth multipath iopolicy May 20
Jacky Huang Add support for nuvoton ma35d1 pin control May 21
keith drm/verisilicon : support DC8200 and inno hdmi May 21
David Dai Improve VM CPUfreq and task placement behavior May 20
AngeloGioacchino Del Regno drm/mediatek: Add support for OF graphs May 21
Arnaud Pouliquen Introduction of a remoteproc tee to load signed firmware May 21
Md Sadre Alam Add QPIC SPI NAND driver May 21
Joel Selvaraj via B4 Relay novatek-nvt-ts: add support for NT36672A touchscreen May 21
Gregor Herburger can: mcp251xfd: add gpio functionality May 21
Thomas Hellström TTM shrinker helpers and xe buffer object shrinker May 21
Conor Dooley dt-bindings: display: vop2: Add VP clock resets May 21
Zaid Alali Enable EINJv2 support May 21
Xianwei Zhao Add C3 SoC PLLs and Peripheral clock May 22
Victor Shih Add support UHS-II for GL9755 and GL9767 May 22
Harshitha Prem wifi: ath12k: Introduce device group abstraction May 22
Matteo Martelli ASoC: codecs: add support for everest-semi es8311 codec May 22

Device-driver infrastructure

Maxime Ripard dma-buf: heaps: Support carved-out heaps and ECC related-flags May 15
Elinor Montmasson ASoC: fsl-asoc-card: compatibility integration of a generic codec use case for use with S/PDIF controller May 15
Ilpo Järvinen PCI: Add PCIe bandwidth controller May 16
Danilo Krummrich [RFC] Device / Driver and PCI Rust abstractions May 20
Danilo Krummrich [RFC] DRM Rust abstractions and Nova May 20
Maxime Ripard drm/connector: Create HDMI Connector infrastructure May 21

Documentation

Alejandro Colomar man-pages-6.8 released May 19
Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) doc: mptcp: new general doc and fixes May 20

Filesystems and block layer

Ariel Miculas Rust PuzzleFS filesystem driver May 16
Alice Ryhl File abstractions needed by Rust Binder May 17
Zhang Yi ext4: support adding multi-delalloc blocks May 17
Jeff Layton fs: switch timespec64 fields in inode to discrete integers May 17
Harshad Shirwadkar Ext4 fast commit performance patch series May 20
Andrey Albershteyn Introduce FS_IOC_FSSETXATTRAT/FS_IOC_FSGETXATTRAT ioctls May 20
Andreas Hindborg Rust block device driver API and null block driver May 21
Håkon Bugge rds: rdma: Add ability to force GFP_NOIO May 22
fdmanana@kernel.org btrfs: avoid some unnecessary commit of empty transactions May 22

Memory management

Byungchul Park LUF(Lazy Unmap Flush) reducing tlb numbers over 90% May 20
Jonghyeon Kim Add NUMA-aware DAMOS watermarks May 20
Lance Yang Reclaim lazyfree THP without splitting May 21
Baolin Wang support large folio swap-out and swap-in for shmem May 21
Kairui Song mm/swap: clean up and optimize swap cache index May 22
David Hildenbrand mm/memory: cleanly support zeropage in vm_insert_page*(), vm_map_pages*() and vmf_insert_mixed() May 22

Networking

Lorenzo Bianconi netfilter: Add the capability to offload flowtable in XDP layer May 15
Xuewei Niu vsock/virtio: Add support for multi-devices May 17
Christian Hopps Add IP-TFS mode to xfrm May 20

Security-related

Jonathan Calmels Introduce user namespace capabilities May 16
KP Singh Reduce overhead of LSMs with static calls May 16
Jarkko Sakkinen Asymmetric TPM2 key type May 19
Herbert Xu crypto: acomp - Add interface to set parameters May 20
Jarkko Sakkinen KEYS: asymmetric: tpm2_key_rsa May 20
Jason A. Donenfeld implement getrandom() in vDSO May 21

Virtualization and containers

Sean Christopherson KVM: x86: CPUID overhaul, fixes, and caching May 17
David Woodhouse Cleaning up the KVM clock mess May 22

Miscellaneous

Lukas Hruska livepatch: klp-convert tool - Minimal version May 16
Carlos Maiolino xfsprogs v6.8.0 released May 17
Jakub Kicinski netdev development stats for 6.10 May 15
Stanislav Fomichev bpf development stats for 6.10 May 19
weilin.wang@intel.com TPEBS counting mode support May 21

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