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Calls for Presentations
The linux.conf.au 2018 CFP is open
The call for presentations for the 2018 linux.conf.au event is now open. "linux.conf.au is one of the best-known community driven Free and Open Source Software conferences in the world. In 2018 we welcome you to join us in Sydney, New South Wales on Monday 22 January through to Friday 26 January." The submission deadline is August 6.
CFP Deadlines: July 6, 2017 to September 4, 2017
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| August 1 | April 9 April 12 |
‹Programming› 2018 | Nice, France |
| August 1 | August 22 August 29 |
Nextcloud Conference | Berlin, Germany |
| August 1 | September 26 | OpenStack Days UK | London, UK |
| August 2 | September 20 September 22 |
X.org Developers Conference | Mountain View, CA, USA |
| August 2 | October 4 October 5 |
Lustre Administrator and Developer Workshop | Paris, France |
| August 6 | October 6 October 7 |
Seattle GNU/Linux Conference | Seattle, WA, USA |
| August 6 | January 22 January 26 |
linux.conf.au | Sydney, Australia |
| August 7 | October 24 October 27 |
PostgreSQL Conference Europe 2017 | Warsaw, Poland |
| August 9 | September 30 October 1 |
RustFest Zürich | Zurich, Switzerland |
| August 13 | October 21 October 22 |
GStreamer Conference 2017 | Prague, Czech Republic |
| August 14 | October 21 October 22 |
openSUSE.Asia Summit 2017 | Tokyo, Japan |
| August 15 | October 11 October 13 |
LibreOffice Conference 2017 | Rome, Italy |
| August 15 | October 14 October 16 |
GNOME.Asia Summit | Chongqing, China |
| August 18 | November 11 November 12 |
Intel® HPC Developer Conference | Denver, CO, USA |
| August 21 | December 6 December 8 |
CloudNativeCon + KubeCon North America 2017 | Austin, TX, USA |
| August 21 | October 16 October 20 |
Tcl/Tk Conference 2017 | Houston, TX, USA |
| August 24 | November 4 November 5 |
PyCon HK 2017 | Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
| August 27 | October 21 October 22 |
Datenspuren | Dresden, Germany |
| August 31 | November 7 November 9 |
Cuban Free Technologies Conferences | Havana, Cuba |
| August 31 | November 4 November 5 |
PyCon India 2017 | Delhi, India |
| August 31 | October 28 October 29 |
freenode #live | Bristol, UK |
| August 31 | October 26 October 27 |
OpenWrt Summit | Prague, Czech Republic |
| September 1 | October 5 October 6 |
PyCon South Africa | Cape Town, South Africa |
| September 1 | October 27 | Tracing Summit 2017 | Prague, Czech Republic |
| September 3 | October 21 October 22 |
All Systems Go! | Berlin, Germany |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
Containers microconference accepted into Linux Plumbers Conference
A microconference on containers will be featured at this year's Linux Plumbers Conference, which will be held in Los Angeles, CA, US on 13-15 September in conjunction with The Linux Foundation Open Source Summit. "The agenda for this year will focus on unsolved issues and other problem areas in the Linux kernel container interfaces with the goal of allowing all container runtimes and orchestration systems to provide enhanced services. Of particular interest is the unprivileged use of container APIs in which we can use both to enable self-containerising applications as well as to deprivilege (make more secure) container orchestration systems. In addition we will be discussing the potential addition of new namespaces: (LSM for per-container security modules; IMA for per-container integrity and appraisal, file capabilities to allow setcap binaries to run within unprivileged containers)".
Events: July 6, 2017 to September 4, 2017
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| August 3 August 8 |
PyCon Australia 2017 | Melbourne, Australia |
| August 5 August 6 |
Conference for Open Source Coders, Users and Promoters | Taipei, Taiwan |
| August 6 August 12 |
DebConf 2017 | Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| August 9 August 13 |
Wikimania | Montréal, Canada |
| August 9 August 11 |
The Perl Conference | Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| August 11 August 12 |
PGConf US | Seattle, WA, USA |
| August 13 August 18 |
DjangoCon US | Spokane, WA, USA |
| August 16 August 18 |
Golang UK conference | London, UK |
| August 18 August 20 |
State of the Map | Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima, Japan |
| August 18 August 20 |
QtCon Brasil 2017 | São Paulo, Brasil |
| August 19 August 20 |
Free and Open Source Software Conference | St. Augustin (near Cologne), Germany |
| August 22 August 29 |
Nextcloud Conference | Berlin, Germany |
| August 23 August 25 |
JupyterCon | New York, NY, USA |
| August 25 August 26 |
Swiss Perl Workshop | Villars-sur-Ollon, Switzerland |
| August 25 August 27 |
GNU Hackers' Meeting 2017 | Kassel, Germany |
| August 26 | FOSSCON | Philadelphia, PA, USA |
| August 28 September 1 |
10th European Conference on Python in Science | Erlangen, Germany |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Security updates
Alert summary June 29, 2017 to July 5, 2017
| Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arch Linux | ASA-201706-34 | apache | 2017-06-28 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201707-3 | bind | 2017-07-04 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201707-1 | libgcrypt | 2017-07-03 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201706-35 | libnl | 2017-06-28 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201707-4 | qt5-webengine | 2017-07-04 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201707-2 | systemd | 2017-07-03 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201707-5 | systemd | 2017-07-04 | |
| CentOS | CESA-2017:1581 | C7 | freeradius | 2017-06-29 |
| CentOS | CESA-2017:1615 | C7 | kernel | 2017-06-29 |
| CentOS | CESA-2017:1576 | C6 | mercurial | 2017-06-28 |
| CentOS | CESA-2017:1576 | C7 | mercurial | 2017-06-29 |
| Debian | DLA-1009-1 | LTS | apache2 | 2017-07-02 |
| Debian | DLA-1004-1 | LTS | drupal7 | 2017-06-28 |
| Debian | DLA-1013-1 | LTS | graphite2 | 2017-07-05 |
| Debian | DLA-1007-1 | LTS | icedove | 2017-07-03 |
| Debian | DLA-1006-1 | LTS | libarchive | 2017-06-30 |
| Debian | DSA-3901-1 | stable | libgcrypt20 | 2017-07-02 |
| Debian | DLA-1008-1 | LTS | libxml2 | 2017-06-30 |
| Debian | DLA-1005-1 | LTS | mercurial | 2017-06-29 |
| Debian | DLA-1012-1 | LTS | puppet | 2017-07-03 |
| Debian | DLA-1011-1 | LTS | sudo | 2017-07-03 |
| Debian | DLA-1010-1 | LTS | vorbis-tools | 2017-07-03 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-ba1399832b | F25 | c-ares | 2017-06-28 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-a66e2c5b62 | F25 | chromium-native_client | 2017-06-30 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-e8a2017b3c | F24 | drupal7 | 2017-07-04 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-38113758e7 | F25 | drupal7 | 2017-07-04 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-5f8ebbd2b1 | F24 | globus-ftp-client | 2017-07-04 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-7591a8e2c9 | F25 | globus-ftp-client | 2017-07-04 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-5f8ebbd2b1 | F24 | globus-gass-cache-program | 2017-07-04 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-7591a8e2c9 | F25 | globus-gass-cache-program | 2017-07-04 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-5f8ebbd2b1 | F24 | globus-gass-copy | 2017-07-04 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-7591a8e2c9 | F25 | globus-gass-copy | 2017-07-04 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-5f8ebbd2b1 | F24 | globus-gram-job-manager | 2017-07-04 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-7591a8e2c9 | F25 | globus-gram-job-manager | 2017-07-04 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-5f8ebbd2b1 | F24 | globus-gridftp-server | 2017-07-04 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-7591a8e2c9 | F25 | globus-gridftp-server | 2017-07-04 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-5f8ebbd2b1 | F24 | globus-gssapi-gsi | 2017-07-04 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-7591a8e2c9 | F25 | globus-gssapi-gsi | 2017-07-04 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-5f8ebbd2b1 | F24 | globus-io | 2017-07-04 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-7591a8e2c9 | F25 | globus-io | 2017-07-04 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-5f8ebbd2b1 | F24 | globus-net-manager | 2017-07-04 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-7591a8e2c9 | F25 | globus-net-manager | 2017-07-04 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-5f8ebbd2b1 | F24 | globus-xio | 2017-07-04 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-7591a8e2c9 | F25 | globus-xio | 2017-07-04 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-5f8ebbd2b1 | F24 | globus-xio-gsi-driver | 2017-07-04 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-7591a8e2c9 | F25 | globus-xio-gsi-driver | 2017-07-04 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-5f8ebbd2b1 | F24 | globus-xio-pipe-driver | 2017-07-04 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-7591a8e2c9 | F25 | globus-xio-pipe-driver | 2017-07-04 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-5f8ebbd2b1 | F24 | globus-xio-udt-driver | 2017-07-04 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-7591a8e2c9 | F25 | globus-xio-udt-driver | 2017-07-04 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-a348b32eb5 | F25 | libgcrypt | 2017-07-04 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-5f8ebbd2b1 | F24 | myproxy | 2017-07-04 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-7591a8e2c9 | F25 | myproxy | 2017-07-04 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-5596f2f94d | F24 | openvpn | 2017-06-30 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-72f0c1ea9c | F24 | systemd | 2017-07-03 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-29d909f5ec | F25 | systemd | 2017-06-30 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-e4638a345c | F24 | tomcat | 2017-06-29 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-63789c8c29 | F25 | tomcat | 2017-06-30 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-b3bdaf58bc | F24 | xen | 2017-07-02 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-d191fb7fce | F24 | zabbix | 2017-07-03 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-63aca509fb | F25 | zabbix | 2017-07-03 |
| Gentoo | 201707-01 | icedtea-bin | 2017-07-05 | |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0200 | 5 | bitlbee | 2017-07-01 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0198 | 5 | drupal | 2017-06-29 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0195 | 5 | golang | 2017-06-29 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0194 | 5 | libmwaw | 2017-06-29 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0197 | 5 | libsndfile | 2017-06-29 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0199 | 5 | libtiff | 2017-07-01 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0193 | 5 | rxvt-unicode | 2017-06-29 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0196 | 5 | tomcat | 2017-06-29 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:1765-1 | ffmpeg | 2017-07-04 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:1756-1 | kdepim, messagelib | 2017-07-02 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:1748-1 | 42.2 | kdepim, messagelib | 2017-07-02 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:1749-1 | 42.2 | kdepim4 | 2017-07-02 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:1746-1 | 42.2 | libxml2 | 2017-07-01 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:1757-1 | 42.2 | php5 | 2017-07-03 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:1772-1 | 42.2 | postgresql94 | 2017-07-04 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-1581 | OL7 | freeradius | 2017-06-28 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-3591 | OL5 | kernel | 2017-07-01 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-3587 | OL6 | kernel | 2017-06-28 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-3589 | OL6 | kernel | 2017-07-01 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-3590 | OL6 | kernel | 2017-07-01 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-3591 | OL6 | kernel | 2017-07-01 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-3587 | OL7 | kernel | 2017-06-28 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-1615 | OL7 | kernel | 2017-06-29 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-1615-1 | OL7 | kernel | 2017-06-29 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-3589 | OL7 | kernel | 2017-07-01 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-3590 | OL7 | kernel | 2017-07-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:1679-01 | EL6 | bind | 2017-07-05 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:1680-01 | EL7 | bind | 2017-07-05 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:1681-01 | EL7 | qemu-kvm | 2017-07-05 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:1682-01 | RHV | qemu-kvm-rhev | 2017-07-05 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:1678-01 | RHSCL | rh-postgresql94-postgresql | 2017-07-05 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:1677-01 | RHSCL | rh-postgresql95-postgresql | 2017-07-05 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2017:1679-1 | SL6 | bind | 2017-07-05 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2017:1680-1 | SL7 | bind | 2017-07-05 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2017:1615-1 | SL7 | kernel | 2017-06-28 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2017:1681-1 | SL7 | qemu-kvm | 2017-07-05 |
| Slackware | SSA:2017-180-02 | bind | 2017-06-29 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2017-181-01 | glibc | 2017-06-30 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2017-180-03 | httpd | 2017-06-29 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2017-180-01 | kernel | 2017-06-29 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2017-181-02 | kernel | 2017-06-30 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2017-184-01 | kernel | 2017-07-03 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2017-180-04 | libgcrypt | 2017-06-29 | |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:1736-1 | OS6 SLE12 | bind | 2017-06-30 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:1737-1 | SLE11 | bind | 2017-06-30 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:1738-1 | SLE12 | bind | 2017-06-30 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:1716-1 | SLE12 | clamav | 2017-06-29 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:1735-1 | SLE12 | kernel | 2017-06-30 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:1718-1 | SLE11 | openvpn-openssl1 | 2017-06-29 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:1709-1 | SLE11 | php53 | 2017-06-28 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:1744-1 | SLE11 | python-pycrypto | 2017-06-30 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:1774-1 | SLE12 | qemu | 2017-07-04 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:1778-1 | OS6 SLE12 | sudo | 2017-07-04 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:1745-1 | OS6 SLE12 | unrar | 2017-06-30 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:1760-1 | SLE11 | unrar | 2017-07-03 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:1715-1 | SLE11 | xen | 2017-06-29 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:1770-1 | SLE11 | xen | 2017-07-04 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:1742-1 | SLE12 | xen | 2017-06-30 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3346-1 | 14.04 16.04 16.10 17.04 | bind9 | 2017-06-29 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3323-2 | 12.04 | eglibc | 2017-06-29 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3338-2 | 12.04 | kernel | 2017-06-29 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3343-1 | 14.04 | kernel | 2017-06-29 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3347-1 | 14.04 16.04 16.10 17.04 | libgcrypt11, libgcrypt20 | 2017-07-03 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3344-1 | 16.04 | linux, linux-aws, linux-gke, linux-raspi2, linux-snapdragon | 2017-06-29 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3342-1 | 16.10 | linux, linux-raspi2 | 2017-06-29 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3345-1 | 17.04 | linux, linux-raspi2 | 2017-06-29 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3342-2 | 16.04 | linux-hwe | 2017-06-29 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3343-2 | 12.04 | linux-lts-trusty | 2017-06-29 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3344-2 | 14.04 | linux-lts-xenial | 2017-06-29 |
Kernel patches of interest
Kernel releases
Architecture-specific
Core kernel
Device drivers
Device-driver infrastructure
Filesystems and block layer
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Networking
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