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Calls for Presentations

CFP Deadlines: September 26, 2024 to November 25, 2024

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

DeadlineEvent Dates EventLocation
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

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Upcoming Events

Events: September 26, 2024 to November 25, 2024

The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.

Date(s)EventLocation
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 10
Community Over Code: The ASF Conference Denver, US
October 7
October 8
GStreamer Conference 2024 Montréal, Canada
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 25
PostgreSQL Conference Europe Athens, Greece
October 22
October 23
Secure Open Source Software Fusion Atlanta, Georgia, US
October 22
October 24
LLVM Developers Meeting Santa Clara, CA, US
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
November 19
November 21
Open Source Monitoring Conference 2024 Nuremberg, Germany

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Security updates

Alert summary September 19, 2024 to September 25, 2024

Dist. ID Release Package Date
AlmaLinux ALSA-2024:6754 9 expat 2024-09-20
AlmaLinux ALSA-2024:6726 9 fence-agents 2024-09-20
AlmaLinux ALSA-2024:6682 8 firefox 2024-09-20
AlmaLinux ALSA-2024:6681 9 firefox 2024-09-20
AlmaLinux ALSA-2024:6757 9 libnbd 2024-09-20
AlmaLinux ALSA-2024:6783 9 openssl 2024-09-20
AlmaLinux ALSA-2024:6837 8 pcp 2024-09-20
AlmaLinux ALSA-2024:6848 9 pcp 2024-09-20
AlmaLinux ALSA-2024:6784 8 ruby:3.3 2024-09-20
AlmaLinux ALSA-2024:6785 9 ruby:3.3 2024-09-20
AlmaLinux ALSA-2024:6684 8 thunderbird 2024-09-20
AlmaLinux ALSA-2024:6683 9 thunderbird 2024-09-20
Debian DLA-3894-1 LTS booth 2024-09-24
Debian DSA-5773-1 stable chromium 2024-09-19
Debian DLA-3893-1 LTS expat 2024-09-19
Debian DSA-5774-1 stable ruby-saml 2024-09-20
Debian DLA-3892-1 LTS tinyproxy 2024-09-18
Fedora FEDORA-2024-0ce77b8571 F39 aardvark-dns 2024-09-21
Fedora FEDORA-2024-acb9425c93 F41 bluez 2024-09-20
Fedora FEDORA-2024-3d29b1647b F39 chromium 2024-09-22
Fedora FEDORA-2024-d273b23c67 F40 chromium 2024-09-20
Fedora FEDORA-2024-527052ab76 F39 expat 2024-09-21
Fedora FEDORA-2024-2fff2b9a18 F39 frr 2024-09-20
Fedora FEDORA-2024-1b36a483cc F40 frr 2024-09-19
Fedora FEDORA-2024-acb9425c93 F41 iwd 2024-09-20
Fedora FEDORA-2024-a3a82a256d F40 jupyterlab 2024-09-22
Fedora FEDORA-2024-c94f884440 F39 less 2024-09-22
Fedora FEDORA-2024-acb9425c93 F41 libell 2024-09-20
Fedora FEDORA-2024-1d4155bd39 F39 microcode_ctl 2024-09-19
Fedora FEDORA-2024-d6726b5d75 F41 microcode_ctl 2024-09-19
Fedora FEDORA-2024-5cd6011cf7 F39 openssl 2024-09-23
Fedora FEDORA-2024-a3a82a256d F40 python-jupyterlab-server 2024-09-22
Fedora FEDORA-2024-a3a82a256d F40 python-notebook 2024-09-22
Fedora FEDORA-2024-e453a209e9 F39 python3-docs 2024-09-21
Fedora FEDORA-2024-39d459dd00 F39 python3.10 2024-09-19
Fedora FEDORA-2024-2b163f9201 F41 python3.10 2024-09-19
Fedora FEDORA-2024-37d9c902dd F39 python3.11 2024-09-20
Fedora FEDORA-2024-ae2925c3ae F41 python3.11 2024-09-20
Fedora FEDORA-2024-e453a209e9 F39 python3.12 2024-09-21
Fedora FEDORA-2024-6def755315 F41 python3.12 2024-09-19
Fedora FEDORA-2024-7dc0f381f1 F39 python3.6 2024-09-19
Fedora FEDORA-2024-091e2c7801 F41 python3.6 2024-09-19
Fedora FEDORA-2024-f652468298 F39 python3.8 2024-09-20
Fedora FEDORA-2024-6dedbc5cf9 F40 python3.8 2024-09-20
Fedora FEDORA-2024-7a069f48e4 F41 python3.8 2024-09-20
Fedora FEDORA-2024-7db9258d37 F39 python3.9 2024-09-20
Fedora FEDORA-2024-1e6d6f8452 F40 python3.9 2024-09-20
Fedora FEDORA-2024-308628ebb8 F41 python3.9 2024-09-20
Fedora FEDORA-2024-2fb325d068 F39 ruby 2024-09-20
Fedora FEDORA-2024-146ef211bc F40 ruby 2024-09-19
Gentoo 202409-19 Emacs, org-mode 2024-09-22
Gentoo 202409-09 Exo 2024-09-22
Gentoo 202409-22 GCC 2024-09-24
Gentoo 202409-03 GPL Ghostscript 2024-09-22
Gentoo 202409-21 Hunspell 2024-09-24
Gentoo 202409-14 Mbed TLS 2024-09-22
Gentoo 202409-08 OpenVPN 2024-09-22
Gentoo 202409-11 Oracle VirtualBox 2024-09-22
Gentoo 202409-05 PJSIP 2024-09-22
Gentoo 202409-01 Portage 2024-09-22
Gentoo 202409-02 PostgreSQL 2024-09-22
Gentoo 202409-07 Rust 2024-09-22
Gentoo 202409-16 Slurm 2024-09-22
Gentoo 202409-24 Tor 2024-09-24
Gentoo 202409-17 VLC 2024-09-22
Gentoo 202409-10 Xen 2024-09-22
Gentoo 202409-25 Xpdf 2024-09-25
Gentoo 202409-23 ZNC 2024-09-24
Gentoo 202409-04 calibre 2024-09-22
Gentoo 202409-20 curl 2024-09-23
Gentoo 202409-06 file 2024-09-22
Gentoo 202409-13 gst-plugins-good 2024-09-22
Gentoo 202409-18 liblouis 2024-09-22
Gentoo 202409-12 pypy, pypy3 2024-09-22
Gentoo 202409-15 stb 2024-09-22
Mageia MGASA-2024-0309 9 kernel, kmod-xtables-addons, and kmod-virtualbox 2024-09-19
Mageia MGASA-2024-0310 9 kernel-linus 2024-09-19
Oracle ELSA-2024-6754 OL9 expat 2024-09-19
Oracle ELSA-2024-6726 OL9 fence-agents 2024-09-18
Oracle ELSA-2024-6682 OL8 firefox 2024-09-19
Oracle ELSA-2024-6681 OL9 firefox 2024-09-19
Oracle ELSA-2024-4549 OL7 ghostscript 2024-09-18
Oracle ELSA-2024-4549 OL7 ghostscript 2024-09-18
Oracle ELSA-2024-6908 OL8 go-toolset:ol8 2024-09-24
Oracle ELSA-2024-6913 OL9 golang 2024-09-24
Oracle ELSA-2024-6947 OL9 grafana 2024-09-24
Oracle ELSA-2024-6946 OL9 grafana-pcp 2024-09-24
Oracle ELSA-2024-4560 OL7 java-1.8.0-openjdk 2024-09-18
Oracle ELSA-2024-4560 OL7 java-1.8.0-openjdk 2024-09-18
Oracle ELSA-2024-5259 OL7 kernel 2024-09-19
Oracle ELSA-2024-12684 OL7 kernel 2024-09-24
Oracle ELSA-2024-6757 OL9 libnbd 2024-09-24
Oracle ELSA-2024-6783 OL9 openssl 2024-09-24
Oracle ELSA-2024-6837 OL8 pcp 2024-09-24
Oracle ELSA-2024-6848 OL9 pcp 2024-09-24
Oracle ELSA-2024-6784 OL8 ruby:3.3 2024-09-24
Oracle ELSA-2024-6684 OL8 thunderbird 2024-09-19
Oracle ELSA-2024-6683 OL9 thunderbird 2024-09-19
Red Hat RHSA-2024:6969-01 EL8 container-tools:rhel8 2024-09-25
Red Hat RHSA-2024:6782-01 EL9.0 firefox 2024-09-19
Red Hat RHSA-2024:6786-01 EL9.2 firefox 2024-09-19
Red Hat RHSA-2024:6908-01 EL8 go-toolset:rhel8 2024-09-25
Red Hat RHSA-2024:6912-01 EL8.8 go-toolset:rhel8 2024-09-25
Red Hat RHSA-2024:6913-01 EL9 golang 2024-09-25
Red Hat RHSA-2024:6914-01 EL9.2 golang 2024-09-25
Red Hat RHSA-2024:7000-01 EL8 kernel 2024-09-25
Red Hat RHSA-2024:6753-01 EL8.6 kernel 2024-09-19
Red Hat RHSA-2024:6206-01 EL8.8 kernel 2024-09-19
Red Hat RHSA-2024:6744-01 EL9.2 kernel 2024-09-25
Red Hat RHSA-2024:7001-01 EL8 kernel-rt 2024-09-25
Red Hat RHSA-2024:6745-01 EL9.2 kernel-rt 2024-09-25
Red Hat RHSA-2024:6783-01 EL9 openssl 2024-09-19
Red Hat RHSA-2024:6784-01 EL8 ruby:3.3 2024-09-19
Red Hat RHSA-2024:6785-01 EL9 ruby:3.3 2024-09-19
Red Hat RHSA-2024:6723-01 EL8.2 thunderbird 2024-09-19
Red Hat RHSA-2024:6721-01 EL8.4 thunderbird 2024-09-19
Red Hat RHSA-2024:6816-01 EL8.6 thunderbird 2024-09-19
Red Hat RHSA-2024:6719-01 EL8.8 thunderbird 2024-09-19
Red Hat RHSA-2024:6722-01 EL9.0 thunderbird 2024-09-19
Red Hat RHSA-2024:6720-01 EL9.2 thunderbird 2024-09-19
SUSE SUSE-SU-2024:3429-1 SLE12 apr 2024-09-24
SUSE SUSE-SU-2024:3428-1 SLE15 oS15.5 oS15.6 apr 2024-09-24
SUSE openSUSE-SU-2024:14347-1 TW apr-devel 2024-09-20
SUSE openSUSE-SU-2024:14363-1 TW cargo-audit 2024-09-25
SUSE openSUSE-SU-2024:14359-1 TW cargo-c 2024-09-23
SUSE openSUSE-SU-2024:14357-1 TW chromedriver 2024-09-22
SUSE openSUSE-SU-2024:0311-1 osB15 chromium 2024-09-24
SUSE openSUSE-SU-2024:0312-1 osB15 chromium 2024-09-24
SUSE SUSE-SU-2024:3305-1 MP4.3 SLE15 SES7.1 oS15.5 clamav 2024-09-18
SUSE SUSE-SU-2024:3306-1 SLE15 oS15.6 clamav 2024-09-18
SUSE SUSE-SU-2024:3360-1 SLE15 SES7.1 container-suseconnect 2024-09-23
SUSE SUSE-SU-2024:3358-1 SLE15 SLE-m5.5 oS15.4 oS15.5 ffmpeg-4 2024-09-20
SUSE SUSE-SU-2024:3301-1 SLE15 oS15.6 ffmpeg-4 2024-09-18
SUSE openSUSE-SU-2024:14358-1 TW firefox 2024-09-23
SUSE SUSE-SU-2024:3408-1 MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 oS15.4 kernel 2024-09-24
SUSE SUSE-SU-2024:3304-1 SLE15 SLE-m5.1 SLE-m5.2 kernel 2024-09-18
SUSE SUSE-SU-2024:3403-1 SLE15 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 kernel 2024-09-23
SUSE SUSE-SU-2024:3337-1 SLE15 SLE-m5.5 oS15.5 osM5.5 kernel 2024-09-19
SUSE SUSE-SU-2024:3338-1 SLE15 oS15.6 kernel 2024-09-19
SUSE SUSE-SU-2024:3383-1 SLE15 oS15.6 kernel 2024-09-23
SUSE SUSE-SU-2024:3341-1 SLE15 oS15.4 kubernetes1.23 2024-09-19
SUSE SUSE-SU-2024:3343-1 SLE15 SES7.1 oS15.3 kubernetes1.24 2024-09-19
SUSE SUSE-SU-2024:3342-1 SLE15 oS15.5 oS15.6 kubernetes1.24 2024-09-19
SUSE SUSE-SU-2024:3344-1 SLE15 oS15.4 oS15.5 oS15.6 kubernetes1.25 2024-09-19
SUSE openSUSE-SU-2024:14361-1 TW libecpg6 2024-09-24
SUSE SUSE-SU-2024:3309-1 SLE12 libmfx 2024-09-18
SUSE SUSE-SU-2024:3339-1 SLE15 SLE-m5.5 oS15.5 libmfx 2024-09-19
SUSE SUSE-SU-2024:3397-1 oS15.4 libmfx 2024-09-23
SUSE SUSE-SU-2024:3355-1 SLE12 libpcap 2024-09-20
SUSE openSUSE-SU-2024:14364-1 TW obs-service-cargo 2024-09-25
SUSE openSUSE-SU-2024:14353-1 TW onefetch 2024-09-22
SUSE openSUSE-SU-2024:14348-1 TW postgresql12 2024-09-20
SUSE openSUSE-SU-2024:14349-1 TW postgresql13 2024-09-20
SUSE openSUSE-SU-2024:14350-1 TW postgresql14 2024-09-20
SUSE openSUSE-SU-2024:14351-1 TW postgresql15 2024-09-20
SUSE openSUSE-SU-2024:14360-1 TW postgresql16 2024-09-24
SUSE SUSE-SU-2024:3345-1 MP4.3 SLE15 oS15.4 oS15.5 oS15.6 python-azure-identity 2024-09-19
SUSE SUSE-SU-2024:3351-1 SLE-m5.1 python3 2024-09-20
SUSE SUSE-SU-2024:3384-1 SLE12 python3 2024-09-23
SUSE SUSE-SU-2024:3302-1 SLE15 SLE-m5.1 python3 2024-09-18
SUSE SUSE-SU-2024:3357-1 SLE15 oS15.4 oS15.5 oS15.6 python310 2024-09-20
SUSE openSUSE-SU-2024:14362-1 TW python310-azure-identity 2024-09-24
SUSE SUSE-SU-2024:3418-1 MP4.3 SLE15 oS15.4 oS15.5 python311 2024-09-24
SUSE SUSE-SU-2024:3427-1 SLE15 oS15.6 python311 2024-09-24
SUSE SUSE-SU-2024:3303-1 SLE15 oS15.6 python312 2024-09-18
SUSE SUSE-SU-2024:3353-1 SLE12 python36 2024-09-20
SUSE SUSE-SU-2024:3430-1 SLE12 python36 2024-09-24
SUSE SUSE-SU-2024:3411-1 SLE15 SES7.1 oS15.3 oS15.5 oS15.6 python39 2024-09-24
SUSE openSUSE-SU-2024:14352-1 TW python39 2024-09-20
SUSE SUSE-SU-2024:3396-1 MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 oS15.4 qemu 2024-09-23
SUSE SUSE-SU-2024:3426-1 SLE12 quagga 2024-09-24
SUSE SUSE-SU-2024:3433-1 SLE15 SES7.1 quagga 2024-09-25
SUSE SUSE-SU-2024:3404-1 SLE15 oS15.5 oS15.6 rage-encryption 2024-09-23
SUSE openSUSE-SU-2024:14354-1 TW rage-encryption 2024-09-22
SUSE SUSE-SU-2024:3324-1 SLE12 runc 2024-09-19
SUSE openSUSE-SU-2024:14355-1 TW stgit 2024-09-22
SUSE openSUSE-SU-2024:14356-1 TW system-user-zabbix 2024-09-22
SUSE openSUSE-SU-2024:14365-1 TW traefik 2024-09-25
SUSE SUSE-SU-2024:3332-1 MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.1 SLE-m5.2 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 SLE-m5.5 SES7.1 oS15.5 oS15.6 osM5.5 ucode-intel 2024-09-19
SUSE SUSE-SU-2024:3307-1 SLE12 ucode-intel 2024-09-18
SUSE SUSE-SU-2024:3323-1 SLE12 wireshark 2024-09-19
SUSE SUSE-SU-2024:3333-1 SLE15 oS15.5 wireshark 2024-09-19
SUSE SUSE-SU-2024:3354-1 SLE15 oS15.6 wpa_supplicant 2024-09-20
SUSE SUSE-SU-2024:3423-1 MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 oS15.4 xen 2024-09-24
SUSE SUSE-SU-2024:3422-1 SLE-m5.1 SLE-m5.2 oS15.3 xen 2024-09-24
SUSE SUSE-SU-2024:3432-1 SLE12 xen 2024-09-25
SUSE SUSE-SU-2024:3421-1 SLE15 SLE-m5.5 oS15.5 osM5.5 xen 2024-09-24
SUSE SUSE-SU-2024:3424-1 SLE15 oS15.6 xen 2024-09-24
Ubuntu USN-6885-3 16.04 18.04 apache2 2024-09-18
Ubuntu USN-7027-1 16.04 18.04 20.04 22.04 24.04 emacs, emacs24, emacs25 2024-09-19
Ubuntu USN-6992-2 20.04 firefox 2024-09-23
Ubuntu USN-7023-1 16.04 18.04 git 2024-09-19
Ubuntu USN-7033-1 16.04 18.04 20.04 22.04 24.04 intel-microcode 2024-09-25
Ubuntu USN-7029-1 22.04 kernel 2024-09-23
Ubuntu USN-7025-1 20.04 22.04 libreoffice 2024-09-19
Ubuntu USN-7021-1 20.04 22.04 linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.15, linux-azure, linux-azure-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 2024-09-18
Ubuntu USN-7022-1 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-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-5.4, linux-xilinx-zynqmp 2024-09-18
Ubuntu USN-7028-1 16.04 18.04 linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-hwe, linux-azure, linux-azure-4.15, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-4.15, linux-hwe, linux-kvm, linux-oracle 2024-09-23
Ubuntu USN-7020-1 22.04 24.04 linux, linux-aws, linux-gcp, linux-gke, linux-ibm, linux-lowlatency, linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.8, linux-nvidia, linux-nvidia-6.8, linux-nvidia-lowlatency, linux-oem-6.8, linux-oracle 2024-09-18
Ubuntu USN-7020-2 24.04 linux-azure 2024-09-23
Ubuntu USN-7009-2 20.04 linux-azure-fde-5.15 2024-09-25
Ubuntu USN-7021-2 20.04 22.04 linux-ibm-5.15, linux-oracle-5.15, linux-xilinx-zynqmp 2024-09-23
Ubuntu USN-7007-2 20.04 linux-ibm-5.15, linux-oracle-5.15 2024-09-23
Ubuntu USN-7007-3 20.04 22.04 linux-lowlatency, linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15 2024-09-23
Ubuntu USN-6999-2 24.04 linux-raspi 2024-09-23
Ubuntu USN-6968-2 16.04 postgresql-9.5 2024-09-19
Ubuntu USN-7031-2 20.04 22.04 puma 2024-09-24
Ubuntu USN-7031-1 24.04 puma 2024-09-24
Ubuntu USN-7030-1 22.04 py7zr 2024-09-24
Ubuntu USN-7015-2 16.04 18.04 20.04 22.04 python2.7, python3.5 2024-09-19
Ubuntu USN-7024-1 20.04 tgt 2024-09-19
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Kernel patches of interest

Kernel releases

Clark Williams 6.6.52-rt43 Sep 22
Daniel Wagner 4.19.322-rt138 Sep 23

Architecture-specific

Ritesh Harjani (IBM) powerpc/kfence: Improve kfence support Sep 19
Kai Huang TDX host: kexec() support Sep 25

Build system

Core kernel

Device drivers

edward.cree@amd.com sfc: per-queue stats Sep 18
Billy Tsai Add Aspeed G7 gpio support Sep 19
Andrei Stefanescu gpio: siul2-s32g2: add initial GPIO driver Sep 19
Kaustabh Chakraborty Samsung Exynos 7870 DECON driver support Sep 19
Andy Yan VOP Support for rk3576 Sep 20
Keguang Zhang via B4 Relay Add support for Loongson-1 NAND Sep 20
Alvaro (Al-vuh-roe) Reyes Extending features on DP83TG720 driver Sep 19
Sebastian Reichel rockchip: clk: add GATE_LINK support Sep 19
Linus Walleij leds: Add basic BCMBCA LEDs support Sep 20
Igor Prusov Add ES7243E ADC driver Sep 20
Md Sadre Alam Add QPIC SPI NAND driver Sep 22
Laurentiu Mihalcea Add support for imx8ulp's SIM Sep 22
Alex Lanzano Add driver for Sharp Memory LCD Sep 23
Chris Packham i2c: RTL9300 support Sep 24
Shivnandan Kumar qcom: sc7280: Enable cpucp mbox Sep 24
Antonino Maniscalco Preemption support for A7XX Sep 24
Raviteja Laggyshetty Add interconnect support for QCS615 SoC Sep 24

Device-driver infrastructure

Daniel Lezcano Add thermal user thresholds support Sep 23

Documentation

Filesystems and block layer

Memory management

Networking

Security-related

Virtualization and containers

Miscellaneous

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