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CFP Deadlines: September 19, 2024 to November 18, 2024
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| September 20 | December 7 December 8 |
EmacsConf | online |
| September 20 | November 7 November 9 |
Nerdearla Mexico | Mexico City, Mexico |
| September 22 | January 20 January 22 |
Everything Open 2025 | Adelaide, Australia |
| September 27 | November 15 November 16 |
OLF (Open Libre Free, formerly Ohio Linux Fest) | Columbus OH, US |
| October 7 | November 16 November 17 |
MiniDebConf Toulouse | Toulouse, France |
| November 1 | March 6 March 9 |
SCALE 22x | Pasadena, CA, US |
| November 13 | March 10 March 11 |
FOSS Backstage | Berlin, Germany |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
Events: September 19, 2024 to November 18, 2024
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| September 17 September 19 |
Reproducible Builds Workshop | Hamburg, Germany |
| September 18 September 20 |
Linux Plumbers Conference | Vienna, Austria |
| September 19 September 20 |
Git Merge | Berlin, Germany |
| September 20 September 22 |
Qubes OS Summit | Berlin, Germany |
| September 21 | Software Freedom Day | Global |
| September 22 September 23 |
KVM Forum 2024 | Brno, Czechia |
| September 23 September 25 |
Kernel Recipes | Paris, France |
| September 24 September 28 |
Nerdearla Argentina | Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| September 25 September 26 |
All Systems Go! 2024 | Berlin, Germany |
| October 3 October 4 |
PyConZA 2024 | Cape Town, South Africa |
| October 7 October 8 |
GStreamer Conference 2024 | Montréal, Canada |
| October 7 October 10 |
Community Over Code: The ASF Conference | Denver, US |
| October 9 October 10 |
oneAPI Devsummit Hosted by UXL Foundation | Everywhere |
| October 9 October 11 |
X.Org Developer's Conference 2024 | Montréal, Canada |
| October 10 October 12 |
LibreOffice Conference | Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg, Luxembourg |
| October 10 October 13 |
Cambridge mini-DebConf | Cambridge, United Kingdom |
| October 22 October 23 |
Secure Open Source Software Fusion | Atlanta, Georgia, US |
| October 22 October 24 |
LLVM Developers Meeting | Santa Clara, CA, US |
| October 22 October 25 |
PostgreSQL Conference Europe | Athens, Greece |
| October 25 October 27 |
Ubuntu Summit | The Hague, The Netherlands |
| October 27 October 29 |
All Things Open | Raleigh, NC, US |
| October 28 October 29 |
Open Source Summit Japan | Tokyo, Japan |
| November 2 November 3 |
VideoLAN Dev Days | Seoul, South Korea |
| November 2 November 4 |
openSUSE.Asia Summit | Tokyo, Japan |
| November 7 November 9 |
Nerdearla Mexico | Mexico City, Mexico |
| November 15 November 16 |
OLF (Open Libre Free, formerly Ohio Linux Fest) | Columbus OH, US |
| November 16 November 17 |
Capitole du Libre | Toulouse, France |
| November 16 November 17 |
MiniDebConf Toulouse | Toulouse, France |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Security updates
Alert summary September 12, 2024 to September 18, 2024
| Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AlmaLinux | ALSA-2024:6670 | 8 | pcs | 2024-09-17 |
| Debian | DSA-5768-1 | stable | chromium | 2024-09-11 |
| Debian | DSA-5770-1 | stable | expat | 2024-09-17 |
| Debian | DLA-3890-1 | LTS | galera-4 | 2024-09-17 |
| Debian | DSA-5769-1 | stable | git | 2024-09-13 |
| Debian | DSA-5772-1 | stable | libreoffice | 2024-09-17 |
| Debian | DLA-3891-1 | LTS | mariadb-10.5 | 2024-09-18 |
| Debian | DLA-3886-1 | LTS | nodejs | 2024-09-14 |
| Debian | DLA-3888-1 | LTS | php-twig | 2024-09-16 |
| Debian | DSA-5771-1 | stable | php-twig | 2024-09-17 |
| Debian | DLA-3889-1 | LTS | pymongo | 2024-09-16 |
| Debian | DLA-3885-1 | LTS | redis | 2024-09-10 |
| Debian | DLA-3887-1 | LTS | ring | 2024-09-14 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-318343049c | F39 | apr | 2024-09-14 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-03fd821ae2 | F39 | bubblewrap | 2024-09-15 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-37f95ce86b | F39 | chromium | 2024-09-18 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-0a4a65f805 | F40 | chromium | 2024-09-14 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-05d7ee197e | F39 | clamav | 2024-09-15 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-e8f7a74693 | F40 | clamav | 2024-09-14 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-03fd821ae2 | F39 | flatpak | 2024-09-15 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-39913e097a | F40 | haproxy | 2024-09-13 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-3dbf10c949 | F39 | linux-firmware | 2024-09-17 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-e6b5e38ae6 | F40 | microcode_ctl | 2024-09-17 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-e86a48cd72 | F39 | mingw-expat | 2024-09-14 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-c7b547bec5 | F40 | mingw-expat | 2024-09-14 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-bdac6de5ee | F39 | nextcloud | 2024-09-12 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-296a0db958 | F40 | nextcloud | 2024-09-12 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-18d9a6ba14 | F39 | osc | 2024-09-13 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-b11026f492 | F40 | osc | 2024-09-13 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-1d0cb3b43f | F40 | python3-docs | 2024-09-14 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-f750328c3b | F40 | python3.10 | 2024-09-12 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-f7f36c20a2 | F40 | python3.11 | 2024-09-13 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-1d0cb3b43f | F40 | python3.12 | 2024-09-14 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-f2fc325c40 | F39 | python3.13 | 2024-09-17 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-e887a10dee | F40 | python3.13 | 2024-09-12 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-02027448d8 | F40 | python3.6 | 2024-09-12 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-e77ad5f585 | F39 | thunderbird | 2024-09-14 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-055adf8e6f | F39 | vim | 2024-09-12 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-b73e44fe9d | F39 | wolfssl | 2024-09-12 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-ed1a50aa61 | F40 | wolfssl | 2024-09-12 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2024-0300 | 9 | assimp | 2024-09-13 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2024-0297 | 9 | botan2 | 2024-09-13 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2024-0307 | 9 | clamav | 2024-09-17 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2024-0294 | 9 | expat | 2024-09-11 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2024-0295 | 9 | libpcap | 2024-09-11 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2024-0296 | 9 | microcode | 2024-09-11 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2024-0302 | 9 | microcode | 2024-09-16 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2024-0301 | 9 | postgresql13 and postgresql15 | 2024-09-16 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2024-0299 | 9 | python-tqdm | 2024-09-13 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2024-0308 | 9 | python3-webob | 2024-09-17 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2024-0298 | 9 | radare2 | 2024-09-13 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2024-0306 | 9 | suricata | 2024-09-17 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2024-0305 | 9 | tcpreplay | 2024-09-16 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2024-0304 | 9 | tgt | 2024-09-16 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2024-0303 | 9 | wireshark | 2024-09-16 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2024-6569 | OL8 | 389-ds:1.4 | 2024-09-13 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2024-6529 | OL9 | dovecot | 2024-09-12 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2024-4943 | OL7 | httpd | 2024-09-17 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2024-4943 | OL7 | httpd | 2024-09-17 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2024-12611 | OL7 | kernel | 2024-09-12 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2024-12610 | OL8 | kernel | 2024-09-12 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2024-12610 | OL8 | kernel | 2024-09-12 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2024-12618 | OL8 | kernel | 2024-09-12 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2024-6567 | OL9 | kernel | 2024-09-12 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2024-12618 | OL9 | kernel | 2024-09-17 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2024-12618 | OL9 | kernel | 2024-09-17 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2024-12612 | OL8 | kernel-container | 2024-09-12 |
| Oracle | NotFoundHELP | linux-kernel | 2024-09-17 | |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:6682-01 | EL8 | firefox | 2024-09-17 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:6681-01 | EL9 | firefox | 2024-09-17 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:6197-01 | EL9 | ghostscript | 2024-09-18 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:6466-01 | EL9.2 | ghostscript | 2024-09-18 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:6610-01 | EL9.0 | git | 2024-09-18 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:6297-01 | EL8.6 | kernel | 2024-09-12 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:6567-01 | EL9 | kernel | 2024-09-11 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:6267-01 | EL9.2 | kernel | 2024-09-17 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:6268-01 | EL9.2 | kernel-rt | 2024-09-17 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:6166-01 | EL9 | krb5 | 2024-09-11 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:6670-01 | EL8 | pcs | 2024-09-17 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:6702-01 | EL8.6 | pcs | 2024-09-17 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:6703-01 | EL8.8 | pcs | 2024-09-17 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:6684-01 | EL8 | thunderbird | 2024-09-17 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:6683-01 | EL9 | thunderbird | 2024-09-17 |
| Slackware | SSA:2024-258-01 | libarchive | 2024-09-14 | |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:3218-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 oS15.4 | 389-ds | 2024-09-12 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:3257-1 | SLE15 SES7.1 oS15.3 | 389-ds | 2024-09-16 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:3266-1 | SLE12 | SUSE Manager Client Tools | 2024-09-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:3267-1 | SLE15 SLE-m5.0 SLE-m5.1 SLE-m5.2 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 SLE-m5.5 oS15.3 oS15.4 oS15.5 oS15.6 | SUSE Manager Client Tools | 2024-09-17 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2024:0302-1 | osB15 | chromium | 2024-09-16 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:3228-1 | SLE12 | clamav | 2024-09-12 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:3226-1 | SLE12 | colord | 2024-09-12 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:3219-1 | SLE15 oS15.6 | colord | 2024-09-12 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:3221-1 | SLE15 SLE-m5.1 SLE-m5.2 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 SLE-m5.5 SES7.1 oS15.5 oS15.6 osM5.5 | containerd | 2024-09-12 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:3080-2 | MP4.3 SLE15 | curl | 2024-09-13 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:3211-1 | SLE15 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 SLE-m5.5 oS15.4 oS15.5 osM5.5 | curl | 2024-09-11 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:3216-1 | SLE15 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 SLE-m5.5 oS15.4 oS15.5 oS15.6 osM5.5 | expat | 2024-09-12 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:3208-1 | SLE12 | glib2 | 2024-09-11 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:3213-1 | SLE15 oS15.5 oS15.6 | go1.22 | 2024-09-12 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:3214-1 | SLE15 oS15.5 oS15.6 | go1.23 | 2024-09-12 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:3288-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.5 oS15.5 oS15.6 | golang-github-prometheus-prometheus | 2024-09-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:3289-1 | SLE15 SLE-m5.5 oS15.5 | gstreamer-plugins-bad, libvpl | 2024-09-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:3295-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 oS15.4 | gstreamer-plugins-bad | 2024-09-18 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2024:0305-1 | oS15.5 | gstreamer-plugins-bad | 2024-09-17 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2024:0303-1 | osB15 | htmldoc | 2024-09-16 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2024:0304-1 | osB15 | htmldoc | 2024-09-16 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:3249-1 | MP4.2 SLE15 SLE-m5.1 SLE-m5.2 SES7.1 oS15.3 | kernel | 2024-09-16 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:3252-1 | SLE12 | kernel | 2024-09-16 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:3251-1 | SLE12 | kernel | 2024-09-16 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:3225-1 | SLE15 SLE-m5.1 SLE-m5.2 | kernel | 2024-09-12 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:3227-1 | SLE15 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 | kernel | 2024-09-12 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:3209-1 | SLE15 SLE-m5.5 oS15.5 osM5.5 | kernel | 2024-09-11 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:3210-1 | SLE15 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 SLE-m5.5 oS15.4 oS15.5 osM5.5 | libpcap | 2024-09-11 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:3217-1 | SLE15 oS15.6 | libpcap | 2024-09-12 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:3224-1 | SLE12 | postgresql16 | 2024-09-12 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:3158-2 | SLE15 | postgresql16 | 2024-09-12 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:3298-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 SLE-m5.5 SES7.1 oS15.5 osM5.5 | python-dnspython | 2024-09-18 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:3297-1 | SLE12 | python-dnspython | 2024-09-18 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:3294-1 | SLE12 | python3 | 2024-09-18 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:3293-1 | SLE12 | python36 | 2024-09-18 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:3229-1 | SLE12 | qemu | 2024-09-12 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:3222-1 | SLE15 SLE-m5.1 SLE-m5.2 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 SLE-m5.5 SES7.1 oS15.5 oS15.6 osM5.5 | runc | 2024-09-12 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:3250-1 | SLE15 oS15.6 | wireshark | 2024-09-16 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7011-2 | 16.04 18.04 | clamav | 2024-09-17 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7011-1 | 20.04 22.04 24.04 | clamav | 2024-09-16 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7012-1 | 20.04 22.04 24.04 | curl | 2024-09-16 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7010-1 | 16.04 18.04 20.04 22.04 24.04 | dcmtk | 2024-09-17 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7013-1 | 20.04 22.04 | dovecot | 2024-09-16 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7000-1 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 20.04 24.04 | expat | 2024-09-12 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7000-2 | 22.04 | expat | 2024-09-17 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7016-1 | 22.04 24.04 | frr | 2024-09-17 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7001-1 | 16.04 18.04 20.04 22.04 | libxmltok | 2024-09-12 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7001-2 | 24.04 | libxmltok | 2024-09-17 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7007-1 | 20.04 22.04 | linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.15, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.15, linux-gke, linux-gkeop, linux-gkeop-5.15, linux-hwe-5.15, linux-ibm, linux-intel-iotg, linux-intel-iotg-5.15, linux-kvm, linux-nvidia, linux-oracle, linux-raspi | 2024-09-13 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7003-1 | 20.04 | linux, linux-aws, linux-azure, linux-bluefield, linux-gcp, linux-gkeop, linux-ibm, linux-kvm, linux-oracle | 2024-09-12 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6999-1 | 24.04 | linux, linux-aws, linux-gcp, linux-gke, linux-ibm, linux-lowlatency, linux-oem-6.8, linux-oracle | 2024-09-11 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7003-2 | 18.04 | linux-aws-5.4, linux-azure-5.4, linux-gcp-5.4, linux-hwe-5.4, linux-ibm-5.4, linux-oracle-5.4, linux-raspi-5.4 | 2024-09-12 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7009-1 | 20.04 22.04 | linux-azure, linux-azure-5.15, linux-azure-fde | 2024-09-13 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7004-1 | 24.04 | linux-azure | 2024-09-12 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7006-1 | 20.04 | linux-iot | 2024-09-12 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7008-1 | 22.04 | linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.8 | 2024-09-13 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7005-1 | 24.04 | linux-nvidia, linux-nvidia-lowlatency | 2024-09-12 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7005-2 | 22.04 | linux-nvidia-6.8 | 2024-09-13 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7003-3 | 20.04 | linux-xilinx-zynqmp | 2024-09-13 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7019-1 | 22.04 | linux-xilinx-zynqmp | 2024-09-18 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7014-1 | 20.04 22.04 24.04 | nginx | 2024-09-16 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6560-3 | 16.04 | openssh | 2024-09-16 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7018-1 | 14.04 | openssl | 2024-09-18 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7002-1 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 20.04 22.04 24.04 | python-setuptools, setuptools | 2024-09-12 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7015-1 | 20.04 22.04 24.04 | python3.10, python3.12, python3.8 | 2024-09-16 |
| Ubuntu | USN-7017-1 | 20.04 | quagga | 2024-09-17 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6997-2 | 14.04 | tiff | 2024-09-11 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6998-1 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 20.04 22.04 24.04 | unbound | 2024-09-11 |
Kernel patches of interest
Kernel releases
Architecture-specific
Build system
Core kernel
Masami Hiramatsu (Google)
tracing: fprobe: function_graph: Multi-function graph and fprobe on fgraph
Sep 13
Development tools
Device drivers
Manivannan Sadhasivam via B4 Relay
PCI: qcom: Add 16.0 GT/s equalization and margining settings
Sep 11
Device-driver infrastructure
Rafael J. Wysocki
thermal: core: Updates related to thermal zone initialization, suspend and locking
Sep 14
Filesystems and block layer
Memory management
Networking
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Virtualization and containers
Miscellaneous
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