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Calls for Presentations
CFP Deadlines: October 26, 2017 to December 25, 2017
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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
Events: October 26, 2017 to December 25, 2017
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| October 23 October 29 |
Privacyweek | Vienna (Wien), Austria |
| October 23 October 28 |
FOSS4G + SoTM Argentina 2017 | Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| October 24 October 27 |
PostgreSQL Conference Europe 2017 | Warsaw, Poland |
| October 24 October 27 |
Linux Kernel Summit | Prague, Czech Republic |
| 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 |
Free Software and Open Source Symposium [CANCELLED] | Toronto, Canada |
| October 26 October 27 |
OpenWrt Summit | Prague, Czech Republic |
| 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 |
PyCon India 2017 | Delhi, India |
| 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 |
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 19, 2017 to October 25, 2017
| Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arch Linux | ASA-201710-27 | chromium | 2017-10-19 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201710-30 | irssi | 2017-10-22 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201710-28 | musl | 2017-10-21 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201710-29 | xorg-server | 2017-10-21 | |
| CentOS | CESA-2017:2972 | C6 | httpd | 2017-10-20 |
| CentOS | CESA-2017:2998 | C6 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2017-10-20 |
| CentOS | CESA-2017:2998 | C7 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2017-10-20 |
| CentOS | CESA-2017:2930 | C7 | kernel | 2017-10-23 |
| CentOS | CESA-2017:2911 | C6 | wpa_supplicant | 2017-10-18 |
| Debian | DLA-1143-1 | LTS | curl | 2017-10-24 |
| Debian | DLA-1135-1 | LTS | db | 2017-10-18 |
| Debian | DLA-1137-1 | LTS | db4.7 | 2017-10-18 |
| Debian | DLA-1136-1 | LTS | db4.8 | 2017-10-18 |
| Debian | DLA-1140-1 | LTS | graphicsmagick | 2017-10-19 |
| Debian | DLA-1139-1 | LTS | imagemagick | 2017-10-19 |
| Debian | DSA-4004-1 | stable | jackson-databind | 2017-10-20 |
| Debian | DLA-1142-1 | LTS | libav | 2017-10-21 |
| Debian | DSA-4003-1 | stable | libvirt | 2017-10-19 |
| Debian | DLA-1133-1 | LTS | ming | 2017-10-21 |
| Debian | DSA-4006-1 | stable | mupdf | 2017-10-24 |
| Debian | DLA-1141-1 | LTS | mysql-5.5 | 2017-10-19 |
| Debian | DSA-4002-1 | stable | mysql-5.5 | 2017-10-19 |
| Debian | DLA-1138-1 | LTS | nss | 2017-10-19 |
| Debian | DSA-4005-1 | stable | openjfx | 2017-10-20 |
| Debian | DSA-4001-1 | stable | yadifa | 2017-10-19 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-3c5282ada7 | F25 | ImageMagick | 2017-10-22 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-a62dd57720 | F26 | ImageMagick | 2017-10-18 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-ce403f01ce | F27 | SDL2 | 2017-10-24 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-15987a1b7f | F25 | SDL2_image | 2017-10-19 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-9b0095a6f2 | F26 | SDL2_image | 2017-10-19 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-6bbb922009 | F25 | check-mk | 2017-10-23 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-9f36da1aac | F26 | check-mk | 2017-10-23 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-515264ae24 | F25 | dnsmasq | 2017-10-23 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-0d3fdd3d1f | F27 | glibc | 2017-10-24 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-6e66393536 | F25 | libwpd | 2017-10-22 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-3c5282ada7 | F25 | rubygem-rmagick | 2017-10-22 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-a62dd57720 | F26 | rubygem-rmagick | 2017-10-18 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-65b543b628 | F26 | sssd | 2017-10-21 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-39c5f8cd7e | F27 | sssd | 2017-10-24 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-caafcbd6b9 | F25 | upx | 2017-10-18 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-d22c391318 | F26 | upx | 2017-10-18 |
| Gentoo | 201710-22 | adobe-flash | 2017-10-21 | |
| Gentoo | 201710-24 | chromium | 2017-10-22 | |
| Gentoo | 201710-27 | dnsmasq | 2017-10-22 | |
| Gentoo | 201710-23 | go | 2017-10-22 | |
| Gentoo | 201710-21 | kodi | 2017-10-21 | |
| Gentoo | 201710-25 | libpcre | 2017-10-22 | |
| Gentoo | 201710-26 | openjpeg | 2017-10-22 | |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0380 | 5, 6 | db53 | 2017-10-20 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0377 | 5, 6 | flash-player-plugin | 2017-10-18 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0386 | 5 | kernel | 2017-10-24 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0381 | 6 | kernel | 2017-10-20 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0387 | 5 | kernel-linus | 2017-10-24 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0383 | 6 | kernel-linus | 2017-10-24 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0388 | 5 | kernel-tmb | 2017-10-24 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0384 | 6 | kernel-tmb | 2017-10-24 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0373 | 5, 6 | libxfont | 2017-10-18 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0382 | 5, 6 | mysql-connector-java | 2017-10-24 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0372 | 6 | openvpn | 2017-10-18 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0378 | 5, 6 | poppler | 2017-10-19 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0385 | 5, 6 | recode | 2017-10-24 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0371 | 5, 6 | ruby | 2017-10-18 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0376 | 5, 6 | webmin | 2017-10-18 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0375 | 5 | wireshark | 2017-10-18 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0374 | 6 | wireshark | 2017-10-18 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0379 | 5, 6 | wpa_supplicant, hostapd | 2017-10-19 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:2810-1 | 42.2 42.3 | bluez | 2017-10-20 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:2765-1 | 42.2 42.3 | cacti | 2017-10-19 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:2818-1 | 42.2 42.3 | exiv2 | 2017-10-21 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:2757-1 | 42.2 | git | 2017-10-19 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:2835-1 | irssi | 2017-10-23 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:2832-1 | 42.2 42.3 | irssi | 2017-10-23 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:2834-1 | jq | 2017-10-23 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:2833-1 | 42.2 | jq | 2017-10-23 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:2820-1 | 42.3 | python3-PyJWT | 2017-10-21 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:2822-1 | 42.2 | salt | 2017-10-21 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:2824-1 | 42.3 | salt | 2017-10-21 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:2766-1 | 42.2 42.3 | upx | 2017-10-19 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:2821-1 | 42.3 | xen | 2017-10-21 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:2825-1 | 42.2 42.3 | xerces-j2 | 2017-10-21 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:2823-1 | 42.2 42.3 | xorg-x11-server | 2017-10-21 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-2972 | OL6 | httpd | 2017-10-19 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-2998 | OL6 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2017-10-20 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-2998 | OL7 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2017-10-20 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-2930-1 | OL7 | kernel | 2017-10-20 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-2911 | OL6 | wpa_supplicant | 2017-10-18 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2966-01 | EL7 | ansible | 2017-10-19 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2997-01 | EL6 | chromium-browser | 2017-10-20 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2972-01 | EL6 | httpd | 2017-10-19 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:3018-01 | RHSC | httpd24 | 2017-10-24 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:3047-01 | EL6 EL7 | java-1.6.0-sun | 2017-10-24 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:3046-01 | EL6 EL7 | java-1.7.0-oracle | 2017-10-24 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2998-01 | EL6 EL7 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2017-10-20 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2999-01 | EL6 EL7 | java-1.8.0-oracle | 2017-10-23 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2930-01 | EL7 | kernel | 2017-10-19 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2931-01 | EL7 | kernel-rt | 2017-10-19 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2918-01 | MRGRT6 | kernel-rt | 2017-10-19 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:3002-01 | RHSC | rh-nodejs4-nodejs | 2017-10-23 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2912-01 | EL6 EL7 | rh-nodejs4-nodejs-tough-cookie | 2017-10-18 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2913-01 | EL6 EL7 | rh-nodejs6-nodejs-tough-cookie | 2017-10-18 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2911-01 | EL6 | wpa_supplicant | 2017-10-18 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2017:2972-1 | SL6 | httpd | 2017-10-19 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2017:2998-1 | SL6 SL7 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2017-10-20 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2017:2930-1 | SL7 | kernel | 2017-10-19 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2017:2911-1 | SL6 | wpa_supplicant | 2017-10-18 |
| Slackware | SSA:2017-297-01 | curl | 2017-10-23 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2017-291-01 | libXres | 2017-10-18 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2017-291-02 | wpa_supplicant | 2017-10-18 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2017-291-03 | xorg | 2017-10-18 | |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:2839-1 | OS6 SLE12 | openvpn | 2017-10-24 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:2838-1 | SLE11 | openvpn | 2017-10-24 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3425-2 | 12.04 | apache2 | 2017-10-24 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3411-2 | 12.04 | bzr | 2017-10-24 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3441-2 | 12.04 | curl | 2017-10-23 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3457-1 | 14.04 16.04 17.04 17.10 | curl | 2017-10-23 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3458-2 | 12.04 | icu | 2017-10-23 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3458-1 | 14.04 16.04 17.04 17.10 | icu | 2017-10-23 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3454-2 | 12.04 | libffi | 2017-10-24 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3434-2 | 12.04 | libidn | 2017-10-23 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3459-1 | 14.04 16.04 17.04 17.10 | mysql-5.5, mysql-5.7 | 2017-10-23 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3461-1 | 14.04 16.04 17.04 | nvidia-graphics-drivers-384 | 2017-10-23 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3462-1 | 14.04 16.04 | pacemaker | 2017-10-24 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3388-2 | 12.04 | subversion | 2017-10-24 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3460-1 | 16.04 17.04 | webkit2gtk | 2017-10-23 |
Kernel patches of interest
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