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- openSUSE Tumbleweed Review of the Week (October 13)
- This Week in Solus (October 16)
- Tails Report (September)
- Ubuntu Kernel Team Weekly Summary (October 17)
- Ubuntu Server Development Summary (October 11)
- Ubuntu Server Development Summary (October 17)
Development
- These Weeks in Firefox (October 11)
- What's cooking in git.git (October 16)
- LLVM Weekly (October 16)
- LXC/LXD/LXCFS Weekly Status (October 16)
- OCaml Weekly News (October 17)
- OpenStack Developer Mailing List Digest (October 6)
- OpenStack Technical Committee Status Update (October 13)
- OpenStack Technical Committee Report (October 17)
- Perl Weekly (October 16)
- Weekly changes in and around Perl 6 (October 16)
- PostgreSQL Weekly News (October 15)
- Python Weekly Newsletter (October 12)
- Ruby Weekly News (October 12)
- This Week in Rust (October 17)
- Wikimedia Tech News (October 16)
Meeting minutes
- Fedora FESCO meeting minutes (October 13)
Calls for Presentations
Submit a LibrePlanet talk
LibrePlanet will take place March 24-25, 2018 in Cambridge, MA. The call for sessions closes November 2. New speakers are encouraged and some experienced speakers are volunteering their time to provide feedback and support.Call for Papers - linux.conf.au Kernel Miniconf
There will be a kernel miniconf at linux.conf.au (lca) in Sydney, Australia. The miniconf will take place on January 22, the first day of lca. The call for papers is open and submissions are due by November 30. "Wanted: anything interesting to kernel hackers! Speakers from diverse backgrounds encouraged!"
CFP Deadlines: October 19, 2017 to December 18, 2017
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| October 24 | October 26 October 27 |
Free Software and Open Source Symposium [CANCELLED] | Toronto, Canada |
| October 31 | March 8 March 11 |
SCALE 16x | Pasadena, CA, USA |
| November 2 | March 24 March 25 |
LibrePlanet | Cambridge, MA, USA |
| November 3 | February 3 February 4 |
FOSDEM 2018 | Brussels, Belgium |
| November 17 | January 26 January 28 |
DevConf.cz | Brno, Czech Republic |
| November 30 | January 22 | Kernel Miniconf at lca | Sydney, Australia |
| November 30 | March 8 | Icinga Camp Berlin 2018 | Berlin, Germany |
| December 3 | January 22 | Sysadmin Miniconf at lca | Sydney, Australia |
| December 9 | April 16 April 18 |
Power Management and Scheduling Summit | Pisa, Italy |
| December 11 | June 12 June 14 |
O'Reilly Fluent Conference | San Jose, CA, USA |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
SFLC 2017 Annual Conference at Columbia Law School
Software Freedom Law Center's annual conference at Columbia Law School will take place November 3, in New York, NY. "We have assembled what we think will be a very lively and interesting program, which you can find summarized below. The ideas are free as in freedom, and---as always---attendance, NYS continuing legal education credits, lunch, and the various drinks are free as in beer."
Events: October 19, 2017 to December 18, 2017
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| October 16 October 20 |
Tcl/Tk Conference 2017 | Houston, TX, USA |
| October 18 October 20 |
Plone Conference 2017 | Barcelona, Spain |
| October 18 October 20 |
14º Congresso Latino-americano de Software Livre e Tecnologias Abertas | Foz do Iguacu, Brazil |
| October 18 October 20 |
O'Reilly Velocity Conference | London, UK |
| October 21 October 22 |
GStreamer Conference 2017 | Prague, Czech Republic |
| October 21 October 22 |
All Systems Go! | Berlin, Germany |
| October 21 | 7th Real-Time Summit | Prague, Czech Republic |
| October 21 October 22 |
Datenspuren | Dresden, Germany |
| October 21 October 22 |
openSUSE.Asia Summit 2017 | Tokyo, Japan |
| October 23 October 25 |
Open Source Summit Europe | Prague, Czech Republic |
| October 23 October 28 |
FOSS4G + SoTM Argentina 2017 | Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| October 23 October 25 |
Embedded Linux Conference Europe | Prague, Czech Republic |
| October 23 October 24 |
All Things Open | Raleigh, NC, USA |
| October 23 October 29 |
Privacyweek | Vienna (Wien), Austria |
| October 24 October 27 |
Linux Kernel Summit | Prague, Czech Republic |
| October 24 October 27 |
PostgreSQL Conference Europe 2017 | Warsaw, Poland |
| October 25 October 27 |
KVM Forum 2017 | Prague, Czech Republic |
| October 25 October 27 |
PyCon DE | Karlsruhe, Germany |
| October 26 October 29 |
European Coreboot Conference 2017 | Bochum, Germany |
| October 26 October 27 |
OpenWrt Summit | Prague, Czech Republic |
| October 26 October 27 |
Free Software and Open Source Symposium [CANCELLED] | Toronto, Canada |
| October 27 October 29 |
Mozilla Festival | London, UK |
| October 27 | Tracing Summit 2017 | Prague, Czech Republic |
| October 28 October 29 |
freenode #live | Bristol, UK |
| October 28 October 29 |
Wine Project Annual Conference 2017 | Wrocław, Poland |
| October 30 November 1 |
O'Reilly Security Conference | New York, NY, USA |
| October 31 November 2 |
API Strategy & Practice Conference | Portland, OR, USA |
| November 3 | SFLC’s Fall Conference | New York, NY, USA |
| November 3 November 4 |
Linux Piter #3 | Saint-Petersburg, Russia |
| November 4 November 5 |
Sonoj Convention | Cologne, Germany |
| November 4 November 5 |
Free Society Conference and Nordic Summit | Oslo, Norway |
| November 4 November 5 |
PyCon HK 2017 | Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
| November 4 November 5 |
PyCon India 2017 | Delhi, India |
| November 4 November 5 |
OpenFest 2017 | Sofia, Bulgaria |
| November 6 November 8 |
OpenStack Summit | Sydney, Australia |
| November 7 November 9 |
Cuban Free Technologies Conferences | Havana, Cuba |
| November 8 November 10 |
Netdev 2.2 | Seoul, South Korea |
| November 9 November 10 |
International Hacking & Information Security Conference | Bucharest, Romania |
| November 11 | Linux Developer Conference Brazil | São Paulo, Brazil |
| November 11 November 12 |
Intel® HPC Developer Conference | Denver, CO, USA |
| November 12 November 17 |
Supercomputing 17 | Denver, CO, USA |
| November 18 November 19 |
Technical Dutch Open Source Event | Eindhoven, Netherlands |
| November 18 November 19 |
Capitole du Libre 2017 | Toulouse, France |
| November 18 November 19 |
Toulouse mini-DebConf 2017 | Toulouse, France |
| November 21 November 24 |
Open Source Monitoring Conference 2017 | Nürnberg, Germany |
| November 23 November 26 |
Mini-DebConf | Cambridge, UK |
| November 28 November 30 |
7th RISC-V Workshop | Milpitas, CA, USA |
| December 2 | LinuxDay in Vorarlberg/Österreich | Dornbirn, Austria |
| December 4 December 6 |
PGconf.ASIA 2017 | Tokyo, Japan |
| December 6 December 7 |
Paris Open Source Summit | Paris, France |
| December 6 December 7 |
Linux-Lab | Firenze, Italy |
| December 6 December 8 |
CloudNativeCon + KubeCon North America 2017 | Austin, TX, USA |
| December 13 | Code Europe 2017 - Wrocław | Wrocław, Poland |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Security updates
Alert summary October 12, 2017 to October 18, 2017
| Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arch Linux | ASA-201710-17 | botan | 2017-10-13 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201710-20 | flashplugin | 2017-10-16 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201710-13 | flyspray | 2017-10-12 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201710-15 | go | 2017-10-13 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201710-16 | go-pie | 2017-10-13 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201710-23 | hostapd | 2017-10-17 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201710-26 | kernel | 2017-10-17 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201710-21 | lib32-flashplugin | 2017-10-16 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201710-25 | linux-hardened | 2017-10-17 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201710-24 | linux-zen | 2017-10-17 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201710-18 | pcre2 | 2017-10-13 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201710-19 | thunderbird | 2017-10-13 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201710-14 | wireshark-cli | 2017-10-12 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201710-22 | wpa_supplicant | 2017-10-17 | |
| CentOS | CESA-2017:2882 | C7 | httpd | 2017-10-11 |
| CentOS | CESA-2017:2885 | C6 | thunderbird | 2017-10-12 |
| CentOS | CESA-2017:2885 | C7 | thunderbird | 2017-10-12 |
| CentOS | CESA-2017:2907 | C7 | wpa_supplicant | 2017-10-17 |
| Debian | DSA-3998-1 | stable | nss | 2017-10-11 |
| Debian | DLA-1134-1 | LTS | sdl-image1.2 | 2017-10-16 |
| Debian | DSA-3999-1 | stable | wpa | 2017-10-16 |
| Debian | DSA-4000-1 | stable | xorg-server | 2017-10-17 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-efeb59171d | F26 | chromium | 2017-10-12 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-601b4c20a4 | F26 | curl | 2017-10-16 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-66aa5d1d33 | F25 | git | 2017-10-11 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-ccb10391ad | F25 | mingw-poppler | 2017-10-12 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-9d9d8173df | F26 | mingw-poppler | 2017-10-12 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-45625fecca | F26 | openvswitch | 2017-10-16 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-2008fdd7e2 | F25 | perl | 2017-10-13 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-4dfebebd39 | F25 | recode | 2017-10-13 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-f244168d7f | F26 | recode | 2017-10-13 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-88b6a06bce | F26 | selinux-policy | 2017-10-17 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-1179268a20 | F26 | tor | 2017-10-13 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-89efe409a2 | F25 | weechat | 2017-10-17 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-5c2a294fba | F26 | weechat | 2017-10-16 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-12e76e8364 | F25 | wpa_supplicant | 2017-10-17 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-60bfb576b7 | F26 | wpa_supplicant | 2017-10-16 |
| Gentoo | 201710-10 | elfutils | 2017-10-13 | |
| Gentoo | 201710-15 | gnutls | 2017-10-15 | |
| Gentoo | 201710-13 | graphite2 | 2017-10-13 | |
| Gentoo | 201710-19 | libarchive | 2017-10-17 | |
| Gentoo | 201710-11 | libtasn1 | 2017-10-13 | |
| Gentoo | 201710-20 | nagios-core | 2017-10-17 | |
| Gentoo | 201710-12 | puppet-agent | 2017-10-13 | |
| Gentoo | 201710-18 | ruby | 2017-10-17 | |
| Gentoo | 201710-16 | shadow | 2017-10-15 | |
| Gentoo | 201710-14 | webkit-gtk | 2017-10-13 | |
| Gentoo | 201710-17 | xen | 2017-10-17 | |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0368 | 5, 6 | pjproject | 2017-10-13 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0370 | 5, 6 | thunderbird | 2017-10-13 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0369 | 5, 6 | weechat | 2017-10-13 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:2735-1 | 42.2 42.3 | GraphicsMagick | 2017-10-17 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:2739-1 | 42.2 | kernel | 2017-10-17 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:2741-1 | 42.3 | kernel | 2017-10-17 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:2712-1 | 42.2 42.3 | krb5 | 2017-10-12 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:2708-1 | 42.2 | libvirt | 2017-10-12 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:2731-1 | mbedtls | 2017-10-17 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:2736-1 | 42.2 42.3 | mbedtls | 2017-10-17 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:2713-1 | 42.2 | samba | 2017-10-12 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:2706-1 | 42.3 | samba | 2017-10-12 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:2710-1 | 42.2 42.3 | thunderbird | 2017-10-12 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:2707-1 | SPH | thunderbird | 2017-10-12 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:2730-1 | 42.2 42.3 | wireshark | 2017-10-17 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:2755-1 | 42.2 42.3 | wpa_supplicant | 2017-10-18 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-2882 | OL7 | httpd | 2017-10-11 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-2885 | OL6 | thunderbird | 2017-10-12 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-2885 | OL7 | thunderbird | 2017-10-12 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-2907 | OL7 | wpa_supplicant | 2017-10-17 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2889-01 | JBoss | Red Hat JBoss BPM Suite 6.4.6 | 2017-10-12 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2888-01 | JBoss | Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6.4.6 | 2017-10-12 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2906-01 | Red Hat Single Sign-On | 2017-10-17 | |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2899-01 | EL6 | flash-plugin | 2017-10-17 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2882-01 | EL7 | httpd | 2017-10-11 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2886-01 | SCL | rh-mysql57-mysql | 2017-10-12 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2908-01 | SCL | rh-nodejs6-nodejs | 2017-10-18 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2904-01 | EL6 | rh-sso7-keycloak | 2017-10-17 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2905-01 | EL7 | rh-sso7-keycloak | 2017-10-17 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2885-01 | EL6 EL7 | thunderbird | 2017-10-11 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2907-01 | EL7 | wpa_supplicant | 2017-10-17 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2017:2882-1 | SL7 | httpd | 2017-10-11 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2017:2885-1 | SL6 SL7 | thunderbird | 2017-10-12 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2017:2907-1 | SL7 | wpa_supplicant | 2017-10-18 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:2747-1 | OS6 SLE12 | git | 2017-10-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:2717-1 | SLE11 | git | 2017-10-12 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:2723-1 | SLE11 | kernel | 2017-10-13 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:2725-1 | SLE11 | kernel | 2017-10-14 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:2745-1 | OS6 SLE12 | wpa_supplicant | 2017-10-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:2752-1 | SLE11 | wpa_supplicant | 2017-10-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:2751-1 | SLE12 | xen | 2017-10-17 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3452-1 | 14.04 | ceph | 2017-10-11 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3454-1 | 14.04 | libffi | 2017-10-12 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3455-1 | 14.04 16.04 17.04 | wpa | 2017-10-16 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3453-1 | 14.04 16.04 17.04 | xorg-server, xorg-server-hwe-16.04, xorg-server-lts-xenial | 2017-10-12 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3456-1 | 14.04 16.04 17.04 | xorg-server, xorg-server-hwe-16.04, xorg-server-lts-xenial | 2017-10-17 |
Kernel patches of interest
Kernel releases
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Yasunari.Takiguchi@sony.com
[dt-bindings] [media] Add document file and driver for Sony CXD2880 DVB-T2/T tuner + demodulator
Oct 13
Device-driver infrastructure
Documentation
Filesystems and block layer
Memory management
changbin.du@intel.com
mm, thp: introduce dedicated transparent huge page allocation interfaces
Oct 16
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