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Development
- What's cooking in git.git (August 4)
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Meeting minutes
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- Fedora FESCO meeting minutes (August 11)
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Calls for Presentations
CFP Deadlines: August 10, 2017 to October 9, 2017
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| October 7 | November 11 | Linux Developer Conference Brazil | São Paulo, Brazil |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
Events: August 10, 2017 to October 9, 2017
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| August 6 August 12 |
DebConf 2017 | Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| August 9 August 11 |
The Perl Conference | Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| August 9 August 13 |
Wikimania | Montréal, Canada |
| 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 |
MesosCon North America | Los Angeles, CA, USA |
| September 13 September 15 |
Linux Plumbers Conference 2017 | 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 19 |
OpenMP Conference | Stony Brook, NY, USA |
| September 18 September 20 |
O’Reilly Artificial Intelligence Conference | San Francisco, CA, 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 |
Alpine Linux Persistence and Storage Summit | Lizumerhuette, Austria |
| September 27 September 29 |
Kernel Recipes 2017 | Paris, France |
| September 29 September 30 |
Ohio LinuxFest | Columbus, OH, USA |
| September 30 October 1 |
RustFest Zürich | Zurich, Switzerland |
| October 2 October 4 |
O'Reilly Velocity Conference | New York, NY, USA |
| October 3 | PostgresqlConf South Africa | Cape Town, South Africa |
| October 4 October 5 |
Lustre Administrator and Developer Workshop | Paris, France |
| October 5 October 6 |
PyCon South Africa | Cape Town, South Africa |
| October 5 | Open Hardware Summit 2017 | Denver, CO, USA |
| October 6 October 7 |
Seattle GNU/Linux Conference | Seattle, WA, USA |
| October 6 October 8 |
PyGotham | New York, NY, USA |
| October 6 October 8 |
Festival of the Commons | Athens, Greece |
| October 7 October 8 |
Silicon Valley Code Camp | San Jose, CA, USA |
| October 7 October 8 |
MiniDebConf Prishtina | Prishtina, Kosovo |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Security updates
Alert summary August 3, 2017 to August 9, 2017
| Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | DSA-3926-1 | stable | chromium-browser | 2017-08-04 |
| Debian | DSA-3927-1 | stable | kernel | 2017-08-07 |
| Debian | DLA-1049-1 | LTS | libsndfile | 2017-08-07 |
| Debian | DSA-3925-1 | stable | qemu | 2017-08-04 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-6833997d76 | F26 | cacti | 2017-08-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-06c1422db8 | F24 | evince | 2017-08-03 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-ed31e1f941 | F25 | freerdp | 2017-08-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-2ec83f11c1 | F25 | glpi | 2017-08-02 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-fd9d2dd019 | F26 | glpi | 2017-08-02 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-4b4154d6f6 | F25 | open-vm-tools | 2017-08-02 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-ab55648aa7 | F26 | php-PHPMailer | 2017-08-04 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-e58a762c3f | F26 | qpdf | 2017-08-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-5b199bf121 | F24 | qt5-qtwebengine | 2017-08-04 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-21c0e9b25b | F24 | qt5-qtwebkit | 2017-08-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-c844713925 | F25 | qt5-qtwebkit | 2017-08-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-ed31e1f941 | F25 | remmina | 2017-08-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-2b7c896551 | F24 | rt | 2017-08-03 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-01ce69c6bf | F25 | rt | 2017-08-03 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-475aed1bd1 | F26 | rt | 2017-08-03 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-f16ba664e7 | F24 | ruby | 2017-08-04 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-7faa3d2e78 | F25 | ruby | 2017-08-04 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-cd5d8cac23 | F25 | seamonkey | 2017-08-02 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-e4e6928969 | F26 | seamonkey | 2017-08-02 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-b9e4c24094 | F25 | subversion | 2017-08-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-713430fb15 | F24 | supervisor | 2017-08-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-85eb9f7a36 | F25 | supervisor | 2017-08-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-307eab89e1 | F26 | supervisor | 2017-08-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-9d572cc64a | F24 | webkitgtk4 | 2017-08-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-f1f3dafb50 | F26 | wireshark | 2017-08-07 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0236 | 5 | R-base | 2017-08-03 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0251 | 5, 6 | atril | 2017-08-08 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0240 | 5, 6 | catdoc | 2017-08-03 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0244 | 5, 6 | evince | 2017-08-05 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0243 | 6 | freerdp | 2017-08-03 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0248 | 5 | gdm | 2017-08-08 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0235 | 5, 6 | gnupg | 2017-08-03 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0242 | 5 | kernel | 2017-08-03 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0247 | 5, 6 | librsvg | 2017-08-08 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0249 | 5, 6 | mpg123 | 2017-08-08 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0252 | 5 | perl-SOAP-Lite | 2017-08-09 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0246 | 5, 6 | php, libgd | 2017-08-08 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0237 | 5, 6 | qpdf | 2017-08-03 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0239 | 5, 6 | spice | 2017-08-03 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0238 | 5, 6 | sqlite3 | 2017-08-03 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0245 | 5 | swftools | 2017-08-08 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0241 | 5, 6 | tcpdump | 2017-08-03 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0250 | 5, 6 | virtualbox | 2017-08-08 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:2087-1 | 42.2 42.3 | cacti, cacti-spine | 2017-08-08 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:2053-1 | 42.2 42.3 | icoutils | 2017-08-05 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:2110-1 | 42.2 | kernel | 2017-08-09 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:2112-1 | 42.3 | kernel | 2017-08-09 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:2111-1 | 42.2 | libzypp, zypper | 2017-08-09 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:2056-1 | 42.2 42.3 | poppler | 2017-08-05 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-2285 | OL7 | authconfig | 2017-08-08 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-1931 | OL7 | bash | 2017-08-08 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-2016 | OL7 | curl | 2017-08-08 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-2128 | OL7 | gdm and gnome-session | 2017-08-08 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-2180 | OL7 | ghostscript | 2017-08-08 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-2004 | OL7 | git | 2017-08-08 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-1916 | OL7 | glibc | 2017-08-08 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-2292 | OL7 | gnutls | 2017-08-08 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-2258 | OL7 | gtk-vnc | 2017-08-08 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-1842 | OL7 | kernel | 2017-08-08 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-1975 | OL7 | libreoffice | 2017-08-08 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-1860 | OL7 | libtasn1 | 2017-08-08 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-2192 | OL7 | mariadb | 2017-08-08 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-1852 | OL7 | openldap | 2017-08-08 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-2029 | OL7 | openssh | 2017-08-08 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-1854 | OL7 | pidgin | 2017-08-08 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-1983 | OL7 | postgresql | 2017-08-08 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-1868 | OL7 | python | 2017-08-08 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-1856 | OL7 | qemu-kvm | 2017-08-08 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-1950 | OL7 | samba | 2017-08-08 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-1871 | OL7 | tcpdump | 2017-08-08 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-2000 | OL7 | tigervnc and fltk | 2017-08-08 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-2247 | OL7 | tomcat | 2017-08-08 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:1758-01 | CME | CloudForms | 2017-08-02 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2424-01 | EL6 EL7 | java-1.7.0-openjdk | 2017-08-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2428-01 | EL6.5 | kernel | 2017-08-08 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2429-01 | EL6.7 | kernel | 2017-08-08 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2437-01 | EL7.3 | kernel | 2017-08-08 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2444-01 | MRG for EL6 | kernel-rt | 2017-08-08 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2423-01 | EL7 | log4j | 2017-08-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2448-01 | OSP10.0 | openstack-neutron | 2017-08-08 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2449-01 | OSP11.0 | openstack-neutron | 2017-08-08 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2452-01 | OSP6.0/EL7 | openstack-neutron | 2017-08-08 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2450-01 | OSP7.0/EL7 | openstack-neutron | 2017-08-08 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2451-01 | OSP8.0 | openstack-neutron | 2017-08-08 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2447-01 | OSP9.0 | openstack-neutron | 2017-08-08 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2418-01 | EL7 | openvswitch | 2017-08-03 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2445-01 | EL7 | qemu-kvm | 2017-08-08 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:2042-1 | OS6 SLE12 | kernel | 2017-08-04 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:2041-1 | SLE12 | kernel | 2017-08-03 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:2074-1 | SLE12 | kernel | 2017-08-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:2040-1 | SLE12 | libzypp, zypper | 2017-08-03 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:2035-1 | OS6 SLE12 | mariadb | 2017-08-03 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:2034-1 | SLE12 | mariadb | 2017-08-03 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:2113-1 | SLE12 | puppet | 2017-08-09 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:2109-1 | SLE12 | tcmu-runner | 2017-08-09 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3380-1 | 14.04 16.04 17.04 | freerdp | 2017-08-07 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3381-1 | 14.04 | kernel | 2017-08-07 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3378-1 | 16.04 | linux, linux-aws, linux-gke, linux-raspi2, linux-snapdragon | 2017-08-03 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3377-1 | 17.04 | linux, linux-raspi2 | 2017-08-03 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3377-2 | 16.04 | linux-hwe | 2017-08-03 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3381-2 | 12.04 | linux-lts-trusty | 2017-08-07 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3378-2 | 14.04 | linux-lts-xenial | 2017-08-03 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3339-2 | 12.04 | openvpn | 2017-08-07 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3379-1 | 14.04 16.04 17.04 | shotwell | 2017-08-07 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3212-4 | 12.04 | tiff | 2017-08-07 |
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