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NetDev 2.2 Call for Papers Announced
NetDev 2.2 will take place November 8-10 in Seoul, Korea. The call for papers deadline is September 20.CFP Deadlines: August 3, 2017 to October 2, 2017
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| September 8 | September 8 September 10 |
ORConf 2017 | Hebden Bridge, UK |
| September 15 | November 4 November 5 |
OpenFest 2017 | Sofia, Bulgaria |
| September 20 | November 8 November 10 |
Netdev 2.2 | Seoul, South Korea |
| September 30 | November 18 November 19 |
Technical Dutch Open Source Event | Eindhoven, Netherlands |
| September 30 | November 18 November 19 |
Toulouse mini-DebConf 2017 | Toulouse, France |
| October 1 | December 6 December 7 |
Linux-Lab | Firenze, Italy |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
Events: August 3, 2017 to October 2, 2017
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| September 6 September 9 |
Radare conference 2017 | Barcelona, Spain |
| September 6 September 8 |
PostgresOpen | Silicon Valley, CA, USA |
| September 7 | ML Family Workshop | Oxford, UK |
| September 8 September 9 |
PyCon Japan | Tokyo, Japan |
| September 8 | OCaml Users and Developers Workshop | Oxford, UK |
| September 8 September 10 |
GNU Tools Cauldron 2017 | Prague, Czech Republic |
| September 8 September 10 |
ORConf 2017 | Hebden Bridge, UK |
| September 11 September 14 |
Open Source Summit NA 2017 | Los Angeles, CA, USA |
| September 13 September 15 |
Linux Plumbers Conference 2017 | Los Angeles, CA, USA |
| September 13 September 15 |
MesosCon North America | Los Angeles, CA, USA |
| September 14 September 15 |
Linux Security Summit | Los Angeles, CA, USA |
| September 15 September 17 |
Balkan Computer Congress | Vojvodina, Serbia |
| September 18 September 20 |
O’Reilly Artificial Intelligence Conference | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| September 18 September 19 |
OpenMP Conference | Stony Brook, NY, USA |
| September 20 September 22 |
X.org Developers Conference | Mountain View, CA, USA |
| September 21 September 22 |
International Workshop on OpenMP | Stony Brook, NY, USA |
| September 21 September 24 |
EuroBSDcon 2017 | Paris, France |
| September 22 September 24 |
VideoLAN developers days | Paris, France |
| September 25 September 26 |
Open Source Backup Conference 2017 | Köln, Germany |
| September 26 | OpenStack Days UK | London, UK |
| September 26 | Embedded Recipes 2017 | Paris, France |
| September 27 September 29 |
Kernel Recipes 2017 | Paris, France |
| September 27 September 29 |
Alpine Linux Persistence and Storage Summit | Lizumerhuette, Austria |
| September 29 September 30 |
Ohio LinuxFest | Columbus, OH, USA |
| September 30 October 1 |
RustFest Zürich | Zurich, Switzerland |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Security updates
Alert summary July 27, 2017 to August 2, 2017
| Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arch Linux | ASA-201707-30 | cacti | 2017-07-28 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201707-29 | chromium | 2017-07-28 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201707-27 | lib32-expat | 2017-07-27 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201707-25 | webkit2gtk | 2017-07-26 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201707-28 | wireshark-cli | 2017-07-27 | |
| CentOS | CESA-2017:1809 | C7 | tomcat | 2017-07-27 |
| Debian | DLA-841-2 | LTS | apache2 | 2017-07-29 |
| Debian | DSA-3921-1 | stable | enigmail | 2017-07-28 |
| Debian | DSA-3923-1 | stable | freerdp | 2017-08-01 |
| Debian | DLA-1048-1 | LTS | ghostscript | 2017-08-01 |
| Debian | DLA-1045-1 | LTS | graphicsmagick | 2017-07-30 |
| Debian | DLA-1044-1 | LTS | ipsec-tools | 2017-07-29 |
| Debian | DLA-1042-1 | LTS | libquicktime | 2017-07-28 |
| Debian | DLA-1046-1 | LTS | lucene-solr | 2017-07-30 |
| Debian | DLA-1043-1 | LTS | mysql-5.5 | 2017-07-28 |
| Debian | DSA-3922-1 | stable | mysql-5.5 | 2017-07-28 |
| Debian | DLA-1041-1 | LTS | nasm | 2017-07-28 |
| Debian | DLA-1040-1 | LTS | resiprocate | 2017-07-26 |
| Debian | DLA-613-2 | LTS | roundcube | 2017-07-27 |
| Debian | DLA-1047-1 | LTS | supervisor | 2017-07-31 |
| Debian | DSA-3924-1 | stable | varnish | 2017-08-02 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-59127a606c | F24 | bind99 | 2017-07-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-59127a606c | F24 | dhcp | 2017-07-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-24c64c531a | F25 | freeradius | 2017-07-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-0d726dbed3 | F26 | freeradius | 2017-07-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-4bc09c2364 | F26 | freerdp | 2017-07-31 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-32a4a94c72 | F25 | gcc | 2017-08-01 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-32a4a94c72 | F25 | gcc-python-plugin | 2017-08-01 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-8f018a3d39 | F26 | golang | 2017-07-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-8df9efed5f | F24 | jackson-databind | 2017-07-31 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-735e2ae663 | F25 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2017-07-26 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-fe57cf60c3 | F26 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2017-07-26 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-544eef948f | F24 | kernel | 2017-07-26 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-39b5facda0 | F25 | kernel | 2017-07-26 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-32a4a94c72 | F25 | libtool | 2017-08-01 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-05254795cf | F25 | mingw-c-ares | 2017-08-01 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-7c9a5b4791 | F26 | mingw-c-ares | 2017-08-01 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-0b8c45ebf7 | F24 | mingw-librsvg2 | 2017-07-28 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-bcf1bc0775 | F25 | mingw-librsvg2 | 2017-07-28 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-ee04231942 | F26 | mingw-librsvg2 | 2017-07-28 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-93868169a0 | F24 | mingw-poppler | 2017-07-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-9fa2cefa7a | F25 | mingw-poppler | 2017-07-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-bbb664e0a0 | F26 | mingw-poppler | 2017-07-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-31af7a849d | F24 | minicom | 2017-07-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-90cf7a82de | F25 | minicom | 2017-07-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-0642394b5a | F26 | minicom | 2017-07-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-60410804eb | F24 | moodle | 2017-07-31 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-b0918e3905 | F25 | moodle | 2017-07-31 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-33ae36adb3 | F26 | moodle | 2017-07-31 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-08ec8b6dc4 | F26 | open-vm-tools | 2017-07-26 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-0bc23764e7 | F24 | php-PHPMailer | 2017-08-01 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-f838eb0c5e | F25 | php-PHPMailer | 2017-07-28 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-4fcbd8a4c3 | F26 | php-symfony | 2017-07-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-4bc09c2364 | F26 | remmina | 2017-07-31 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-20cdb2063a | F25 | runc | 2017-07-31 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-73d6a0dfbb | F25 | webkitgtk4 | 2017-07-31 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-24bddb96b5 | F26 | webkitgtk4 | 2017-07-27 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0232 | 5, 6 | freeradius | 2017-07-30 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0227 | 6 | gdk-pixbuf2.0 | 2017-07-30 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0229 | 5, 6 | graphicsmagick | 2017-07-30 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0233 | 5, 6 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2017-07-30 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0234 | 6 | kernel | 2017-07-30 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0225 | 5 | libmtp, libgphoto | 2017-07-28 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0223 | 5 | libraw | 2017-07-28 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0231 | 5, 6 | nginx | 2017-07-30 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0224 | 5 | openvpn | 2017-07-28 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0230 | 5 | postgresql9.4 | 2017-07-30 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0222 | 5 | valgrind | 2017-07-28 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0228 | 6 | webkit2 | 2017-07-30 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0226 | 6 | wireshark | 2017-07-28 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:1985-1 | 42.2 42.3 | GraphicsMagick | 2017-07-28 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:2016-1 | 42.2 42.3 | apache2 | 2017-07-29 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:1994-1 | chromium | 2017-07-28 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:1993-1 | 42.2 42.3 | chromium | 2017-07-28 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:1966-1 | 42.1 42.2 | containerd, docker, runc | 2017-07-26 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:1967-1 | 12.3 13.1 | gnu-efi, pesign, shim | 2017-07-26 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:2002-1 | 42.2 42.3 | libical | 2017-07-29 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:2011-1 | 42.2 42.3 | mysql-community-server | 2017-07-29 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:2003-1 | 42.2 | nginx | 2017-07-29 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:1984-1 | 42.2 42.3 | the_silver_searcher | 2017-07-28 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-3595 | OL6 | kernel | 2017-07-28 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-3596 | OL6 | kernel | 2017-07-28 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-3597 | OL6 | kernel | 2017-07-28 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-3595 | OL7 | kernel | 2017-07-28 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-3596 | OL7 | kernel | 2017-07-28 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-1809 | OL7 | tomcat | 2017-07-27 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2060-01 | EL7 | GStreamer | 2017-08-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2299-01 | EL7 | NetworkManager and libnl3 | 2017-08-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:1865-01 | EL7 | X.org X11 libraries | 2017-08-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2285-01 | EL7 | authconfig | 2017-08-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:1931-01 | EL7 | bash | 2017-08-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:1833-01 | EL6 | chromium-browser | 2017-07-31 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2016-01 | EL7 | curl | 2017-08-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:1840-01 | RHSCL | devtoolset-4-jackson-databind | 2017-07-31 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:1837-01 | EL6 EL7 | eap7-jboss-ec2-eap | 2017-07-31 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2388-01 | EL7 | evince | 2017-08-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2389-01 | EL7 | freeradius | 2017-08-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2128-01 | EL7 | gdm and gnome-session | 2017-08-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2180-01 | EL7 | ghostscript | 2017-08-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2004-01 | EL7 | git | 2017-08-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:1916-01 | EL7 | glibc | 2017-08-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2292-01 | EL7 | gnutls | 2017-08-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:1859-01 | EL7 | golang | 2017-08-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2258-01 | EL7 | gtk-vnc | 2017-08-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2412-01 | EL5 | kernel | 2017-08-02 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:1842-01 | EL7 | kernel | 2017-08-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2077-01 | EL7 | kernel-rt | 2017-08-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:1975-01 | EL7 | libreoffice | 2017-08-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:1860-01 | EL7 | libtasn1 | 2017-08-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2192-01 | EL7 | mariadb | 2017-08-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:1852-01 | EL7 | openldap | 2017-08-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2029-01 | EL7 | openssh | 2017-08-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:1854-01 | EL7 | pidgin | 2017-08-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2335-01 | EL7 | pki-core | 2017-08-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:1983-01 | EL7 | postgresql | 2017-08-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:1868-01 | EL7 | python | 2017-08-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:1856-01 | EL7 | qemu-kvm | 2017-08-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2390-01 | EL7 | qemu-kvm-rhev | 2017-08-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2392-01 | EL7 | qemu-kvm-rhev | 2017-08-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2408-01 | OSP6.0/EL7 | qemu-kvm-rhev | 2017-08-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:1839-01 | RHSCL | rh-eclipse46-jackson-databind | 2017-07-31 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2338-01 | EL7 | samba | 2017-08-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:1950-01 | EL7 | samba | 2017-08-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:1871-01 | EL7 | tcpdump | 2017-08-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2000-01 | EL7 | tigervnc and fltk | 2017-08-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:1809-01 | EL7 | tomcat | 2017-07-27 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2247-01 | EL7 | tomcat | 2017-08-01 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2017:1809-1 | SL7 | tomcat | 2017-07-27 |
| Slackware | SSA:2017-213-01 | gnupg | 2017-08-02 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2017-209-01 | squashfs | 2017-07-28 | |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:1990-1 | SLE12 | kernel | 2017-07-28 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3373-1 | 12.04 | apache2 | 2017-07-31 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3370-2 | 12.04 | apache2 | 2017-08-01 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3370-1 | 14.04 16.04 17.04 | apache2 | 2017-07-27 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3294-2 | 12.04 | bash | 2017-08-01 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3369-1 | 14.04 16.04 17.04 | freeradius | 2017-07-27 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3367-1 | 14.04 16.04 17.04 | gdb | 2017-07-26 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3363-2 | 14.04 16.04 | imagemagick | 2017-07-31 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3368-1 | 14.04 16.04 17.04 | libiberty | 2017-07-26 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3371-1 | 16.04 | linux-hwe | 2017-07-28 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3375-1 | 14.04 | lxc | 2017-08-02 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3372-1 | 12.04 | nss | 2017-07-31 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3366-1 | 16.04 17.04 | openjdk-8 | 2017-07-26 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3366-2 | 16.04 17.04 | openjdk-8 | 2017-07-31 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3374-1 | 14.04 16.04 | rabbitmq-server | 2017-07-31 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3376-1 | 16.04 17.04 | webkit2gtk | 2017-08-02 |
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