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Calls for Presentations
2nd Call For Papers - 24th Annual Tcl/Tk Conference (Tcl'2017)
Tcl'2017 will take place October 16-20 in Houston, Texas. The call for papers closes August 21. "Slots for Works-in-Progress (WIP) presentations and Birds-of-a-Feather sessions (BOFs) are available on a first-come, first-served basis starting in July 24, 2017. Specific instructions for reserving WIP and BOF time slots will be provided in the registration information available in July 24, 2017. Some WIP and BOF time slots will be held open for on-site reservation. All attendees with an interesting work in progress should consider reserving a WIP slot."
CFP Deadlines: June 2, 2017 to August 1, 2017
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| June 5 | September 25 September 26 |
Open Source Backup Conference 2017 | Köln, Germany |
| June 5 | September 14 September 15 |
Linux Security Summit | Los Angeles, CA, USA |
| June 5 | September 8 September 9 |
PyCon Japan | Tokyo, Japan |
| June 8 | August 25 August 27 |
GNU Hackers' Meeting 2017 | Kassel, Germany |
| June 11 | August 6 August 12 |
DebConf 2017 | Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| June 15 | October 25 October 27 |
KVM Forum 2017 | Prague, Czech Republic |
| June 15 | August 9 August 11 |
The Perl Conference | Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| June 16 | October 31 November 2 |
API Strategy & Practice Conference | Portland, OR, USA |
| June 20 | June 26 June 28 |
19th German Perl Workshop 2017 in Hamburg | Hamburg, Germany |
| June 24 | August 28 September 1 |
10th European Conference on Python in Science | Erlangen, Germany |
| June 30 | November 21 November 24 |
Open Source Monitoring Conference 2017 | Nürnberg, Germany |
| June 30 | October 21 | 7th Real-Time Summit | Prague, Czech Republic |
| June 30 | September 8 September 10 |
GNU Tools Cauldron 2017 | Prague, Czech Republic |
| July 8 | October 23 October 25 |
Open Source Summit Europe | Prague, Czech Republic |
| July 8 | October 23 October 25 |
Embedded Linux Conference Europe | Prague, Czech Republic |
| July 10 | August 26 | FOSSCON | Philadelphia, PA, USA |
| July 14 | September 29 September 30 |
Ohio LinuxFest | Columbus, OH, USA |
| July 14 | November 6 November 8 |
OpenStack Summit | Sydney, Australia |
| July 15 | November 4 November 5 |
Free Society Conference and Nordic Summit | Oslo, Norway |
| July 18 | October 6 October 8 |
PyGotham | New York, NY, USA |
| July 30 | October 25 October 27 |
PyCon DE | Karlsruhe, Germany |
| July 31 | December 4 December 6 |
PGconf.ASIA 2017 | Tokyo, Japan |
| July 31 | August 25 August 26 |
Swiss Perl Workshop | Villars-sur-Ollon, Switzerland |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
EuroSciPy 2017
EuroSciPy will take place August 28-September 1 in Erlangen, Germany. "The EuroSciPy meeting is a cross-disciplinary gathering focused on the use and development of the Python language in scientific research. This event strives to bring together both users and developers of scientific tools, as well as academic research and state of the art industry."
Events: June 2, 2017 to August 1, 2017
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| May 31 June 2 |
Open Source Summit Japan | Tokyo, Japan |
| June 1 June 2 |
Automotive Linux Summit | Tokyo, Japan |
| June 3 | Madrid Perl Workshop | Madrid, Spain |
| June 5 June 7 |
coreboot Denver2017 | Denver, CO, USA |
| June 9 | PgDay Argentina 2017 | Santa Fe, Argentina |
| June 9 June 10 |
Hong Kong Open Source Conference 2017 | Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
| June 9 June 11 |
SouthEast LinuxFest | Charlotte, NC, USA |
| June 12 June 14 |
PyCon Israel | Ramat Gan, Israel |
| June 12 June 15 |
OPNFV Summit | Beijing, China |
| June 18 June 23 |
The Perl Conference | Washington, DC, USA |
| June 19 June 20 |
LinuxCon + ContainerCon + CloudOpen China | Beijing, China |
| June 20 June 22 |
O’Reilly Fluent Conference | San Jose, CA, USA |
| June 20 June 22 |
O'Reilly Velocity Conference | San Jose, CA, USA |
| June 20 June 23 |
Open Source Bridge | Portland, OR, USA |
| June 23 June 24 |
QtDay 2017 | Florence, Italy |
| June 24 | Tuebix: Linux Conference | Tuebingen, Germany |
| June 24 June 25 |
Enlightenment Developer Days 2017 | Valletta, Malta |
| June 26 June 28 |
Deutsche Openstack Tage 2017 | München, Germany |
| June 26 June 28 |
19th German Perl Workshop 2017 in Hamburg | Hamburg, Germany |
| June 26 June 29 |
Postgres Vision | Boston, MA, USA |
| June 27 June 29 |
O’Reilly Artificial Intelligence Conference | New York, NY, USA |
| June 30 | Swiss PGDay | Rapperswil, Switzerland |
| July 3 July 7 |
13th Netfilter Workshop | Faro, Portugal |
| July 9 July 16 |
EuroPython 2017 | Rimini, Italy |
| July 10 July 16 |
SciPy 2017 | Austin, TX, USA |
| July 16 July 21 |
IETF 99 | Prague, Czech Republic |
| July 16 July 23 |
CoderCruise | New Orleans et. al., USA/Caribbean |
| July 22 July 27 |
Akademy 2017 | Almería, Spain |
| July 28 August 2 |
GNOME Users And Developers European Conference 2017 | Manchester, UK |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Security updates
Alert summary May 26, 2017 to June 1, 2017
| Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arch Linux | ASA-201705-21 | lib32-nss | 2017-05-30 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201705-23 | postgresql | 2017-05-30 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201705-24 | postgresql-libs | 2017-05-30 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201705-22 | samba | 2017-05-30 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201705-25 | sudo | 2017-05-30 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201706-1 | vlc | 2017-06-01 | |
| CentOS | CESA-2017:1372 | C6 | kernel | 2017-05-31 |
| CentOS | CESA-2017:1308 | C7 | kernel | 2017-05-26 |
| CentOS | CESA-2017:1364 | C6 | nss | 2017-05-31 |
| CentOS | CESA-2017:1365 | C7 | nss | 2017-05-31 |
| CentOS | CESA-2017:1270 | C6 | samba | 2017-05-25 |
| CentOS | CESA-2017:1270 | C7 | samba | 2017-05-25 |
| CentOS | CESA-2017:1271 | C6 | samba4 | 2017-05-25 |
| CentOS | CESA-2017:1382 | C6 | sudo | 2017-05-31 |
| CentOS | CESA-2017:1382 | C7 | sudo | 2017-05-31 |
| Debian | DLA-957-1 | LTS | bind9 | 2017-05-28 |
| Debian | DLA-963-1 | LTS | exiv2 | 2017-05-30 |
| Debian | DSA-3864-1 | stable | fop | 2017-05-28 |
| Debian | DLA-967-1 | LTS | gajim | 2017-05-30 |
| Debian | DLA-953-1 | LTS | graphicsmagick | 2017-05-26 |
| Debian | DLA-960-1 | LTS | imagemagick | 2017-05-28 |
| Debian | DSA-3863-1 | stable | imagemagick | 2017-05-25 |
| Debian | DLA-952-1 | LTS | kde4libs | 2017-05-25 |
| Debian | DLA-959-1 | LTS | libical | 2017-05-28 |
| Debian | DLA-958-1 | LTS | libonig | 2017-05-28 |
| Debian | DLA-968-1 | LTS | libpodofo | 2017-05-30 |
| Debian | DLA-956-1 | LTS | libsndfile | 2017-05-28 |
| Debian | DLA-961-1 | LTS | mosquitto | 2017-05-30 |
| Debian | DSA-3865-1 | stable | mosquitto | 2017-05-29 |
| Debian | DLA-971-1 | LTS | nss | 2017-05-31 |
| Debian | DLA-954-1 | LTS | openjdk-7 | 2017-05-26 |
| Debian | DSA-3868-1 | stable | openldap | 2017-05-30 |
| Debian | DLA-966-1 | LTS | pngquant | 2017-05-30 |
| Debian | DSA-3862-1 | stable | puppet | 2017-05-25 |
| Debian | DLA-965-1 | LTS | qemu-kvm | 2017-05-31 |
| Debian | DLA-955-1 | LTS | rzip | 2017-05-26 |
| Debian | DSA-3866-1 | stable | strongswan | 2017-05-30 |
| Debian | DLA-970-1 | LTS | sudo | 2017-05-31 |
| Debian | DSA-3867-1 | stable | sudo | 2017-05-30 |
| Debian | DLA-969-1 | LTS | tiff | 2017-05-30 |
| Debian | DLA-962-1 | LTS | tnef | 2017-05-29 |
| Debian | DSA-3869-1 | stable | tnef | 2017-06-01 |
| Debian | DSA-3870-1 | stable | wordpress | 2017-06-01 |
| Debian | DLA-964-1 | LTS | xen | 2017-06-01 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-607352ce5f | F24 | FlightCrew | 2017-05-26 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-40a6d19c7b | F25 | FlightCrew | 2017-05-26 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-01a7989fc0 | F24 | git | 2017-05-28 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-85744f8aa9 | F24 | kernel | 2017-05-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-273b67d5ee | F25 | kernel | 2017-05-26 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-6f06be3fe9 | F25 | kernel | 2017-06-01 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-dd5d2381e4 | F24 | libvncserver | 2017-05-26 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-0e08170fd3 | F25 | libvncserver | 2017-05-26 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-3f2d5790d2 | F24 | lxterminal | 2017-05-30 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-c3ce061ea7 | F24 | lynis | 2017-05-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-8d625a8d2b | F25 | lynis | 2017-05-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-3f2d5790d2 | F24 | menu-cache | 2017-05-30 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-1f15fde598 | F24 | moodle | 2017-05-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-4cc8d795e0 | F25 | moodle | 2017-05-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-5135c91b36 | F25 | mupdf | 2017-05-28 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-3f2d5790d2 | F24 | pcmanfm | 2017-05-30 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-8ad8d1bd86 | F25 | puppet | 2017-06-01 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-570c0071c4 | F24 | samba | 2017-05-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-642a0eca75 | F25 | samba | 2017-05-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-8ff992386d | F25 | systemd | 2017-05-29 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-98bc28ae9e | F25 | webkitgtk4 | 2017-05-28 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-46fcfd8c98 | F24 | wordpress | 2017-05-26 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-d968f5a95f | F25 | wordpress | 2017-05-26 |
| Gentoo | 201705-12 | adobe-flash | 2017-05-26 | |
| Gentoo | 201705-14 | smb4k | 2017-05-26 | |
| Gentoo | 201705-15 | sudo | 2017-05-30 | |
| Gentoo | 201705-13 | teeworlds | 2017-05-26 | |
| Gentoo | 201705-11 | xen | 2017-05-26 | |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0149 | 5 | kernel | 2017-05-26 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0148 | 5 | kernel-linus | 2017-05-26 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0147 | 5 | kernel-tmb | 2017-05-26 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0146 | 5 | perl-CGI-Emulate-PSGI | 2017-05-26 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0151 | 5 | perl-Image-Info | 2017-05-29 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0145 | 5 | samba | 2017-05-25 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0150 | 5 | vlc | 2017-05-28 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:1413-1 | 42.2 | GraphicsMagick | 2017-05-26 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:1402-1 | 42.2 | bash | 2017-05-24 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:1433-1 | 42.2 | ffmpeg2 | 2017-05-29 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:1422-1 | 42.2 | git | 2017-05-27 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:1429-1 | 42.2 | java-1_7_0-openjdk | 2017-05-28 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:1426-1 | 42.2 | libplist | 2017-05-28 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:1460-1 | 42.2 | libraw | 2017-05-31 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:1427-1 | 42.2 | libsndfile | 2017-05-28 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:1459-1 | 42.2 | miniupnpc | 2017-05-31 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:1412-1 | 42.2 | rpcbind | 2017-05-26 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:1415-1 | 42.1 | samba | 2017-05-26 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:1401-1 | 42.2 | samba | 2017-05-24 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:1455-1 | 42.2 | sudo | 2017-05-31 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-3576 | OL5 | kernel | 2017-05-25 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-3576 | OL6 | kernel | 2017-05-25 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-3575 | OL6 | kernel | 2017-05-25 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-3574 | OL6 | kernel | 2017-05-25 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-1372 | OL6 | kernel | 2017-05-30 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-3575 | OL7 | kernel | 2017-05-25 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-3574 | OL7 | kernel | 2017-05-25 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-1308 | OL7 | kernel | 2017-05-26 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-1308-1 | OL7 | kernel | 2017-05-26 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-1364 | OL6 | nss | 2017-05-30 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-1365 | OL7 | nss | 2017-05-30 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-1270 | OL6 | samba | 2017-05-24 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-1270 | OL7 | samba | 2017-05-24 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-1272 | OL5 | samba3x | 2017-05-26 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-1271 | OL6 | samba4 | 2017-05-24 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-1382 | OL6 | sudo | 2017-05-30 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-1382 | OL7 | sudo | 2017-05-30 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:1372-01 | EL6 | kernel | 2017-05-31 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:1308-01 | EL7 | kernel | 2017-05-25 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:1298-01 | EL7 | kernel-rt | 2017-05-25 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:1297-01 | MRG EL6 | kernel-rt | 2017-05-25 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:1364-01 | EL6 | nss | 2017-05-30 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:1365-03 | EL7 | nss | 2017-05-30 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:1381-01 | EL5 | sudo | 2017-05-30 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:1382-01 | EL6 EL7 | sudo | 2017-05-30 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2017:1372-1 | SL6 | kernel | 2017-05-31 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2017:1308-1 | SL7 | kernel | 2017-05-25 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2017:1364-1 | SL6 | nss | 2017-05-30 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2017:1365-3 | SL7 | nss | 2017-05-30 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2017:1382-1 | SL6 SL7 | sudo | 2017-05-30 |
| Slackware | SSA:2017-144-01 | samba | 2017-05-24 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2017-150-01 | sudo | 2017-05-30 | |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:1404-1 | SLE12 | ghostscript | 2017-05-24 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:1444-1 | SLE11 | java-1_6_0-ibm | 2017-05-30 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:1400-1 | SLE12 | java-1_7_0-openjdk | 2017-05-24 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:1445-1 | SLE12 | java-1_8_0-openjdk | 2017-05-30 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:1468-1 | SLE11 | libtirpc, rpcbind | 2017-05-31 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:1443-1 | OS7 | openstack-components | 2017-05-30 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:1446-1 | SLE12 | sudo | 2017-05-30 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:1450-1 | SLE12 | sudo | 2017-05-30 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3299-1 | 14.04 16.04 16.10 17.04 | firefox | 2017-05-25 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3302-1 | 14.04 16.04 16.10 17.04 | imagemagick | 2017-05-30 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3300-1 | 14.04 16.04 16.10 17.04 | juju-core | 2017-05-26 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3306-1 | 14.04 16.04 16.10 17.04 | libsndfile | 2017-06-01 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3212-2 | 14.04 16.04 16.10 | libtiff | 2017-05-30 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3305-1 | 14.04 16.04 16.10 17.04 | nvidia-graphics-drivers-375 | 2017-05-31 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3307-1 | 14.04 16.04 16.10 17.04 | openldap | 2017-06-01 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3296-2 | 12.04 | samba | 2017-05-24 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3301-1 | 14.04 16.04 16.10 17.04 | strongswan | 2017-05-30 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3304-1 | 14.04 16.04 16.10 17.04 | sudo | 2017-05-30 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3303-1 | 16.04 16.10 17.04 | webkit2gtk | 2017-05-30 |
Kernel patches of interest
Kernel releases
Architecture-specific
Core kernel
David Howells
[RFC PATCH] KEYS: Allow a live daemon in a namespace to service
request_key upcalls
May 30
Development tools
Device drivers
sean.wang@mediatek.com
dmaengine: mtk-hsdma: add support for Mediatek High-Speed DMA controller on MT7623 SoC
May 25
Device-driver infrastructure
Filesystems and block layer
Memory management
Security-related
Virtualization and containers
Miscellaneous
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