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Development
- Emacs News (November 6)
- These Weeks in Firefox (November 7)
- GCC 8.0.0 Status Report (November 3)
- What's cooking in git.git (November 6)
- What's cooking in git.git (November 8)
- Koha Community Newsletter (October)
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- LXC/LXD/LXCFS Weekly Status (November 6)
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- This Week in Rust (November 7)
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- Fedora Council minutes (November 8)
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Miscellaneous
- Free Software Supporter (November)
Calls for Presentations
CFP Deadlines: November 9, 2017 to January 8, 2018
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| December 27 | March 22 March 25 |
FOSSASIA Summit | Singapore, Singapore |
| December 31 | March 8 March 11 |
AsiaBSDCon 2018 | Tokyo, Japan |
| January 7 | March 12 March 14 |
Embedded Linux Conference | Portland, OR, USA |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
Events: November 9, 2017 to January 8, 2018
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| December 27 December 30 |
Chaos Computer Congress | Leipzig, Germany |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Event Reports
Videos from the Tracing Summit 2017
The videos from the Tracing Summit 2017 are available through the schedule or on YouTube.
Security updates
Alert summary November 2, 2017 to November 8, 2017
| Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arch Linux | ASA-201711-12 | chromium | 2017-11-07 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201711-6 | curl | 2017-11-06 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201711-7 | lib32-curl | 2017-11-06 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201711-8 | lib32-libcurl-compat | 2017-11-06 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201711-9 | lib32-libcurl-gnutls | 2017-11-06 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201711-10 | libcurl-compat | 2017-11-06 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201711-11 | libcurl-gnutls | 2017-11-06 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201711-2 | libmupdf | 2017-11-06 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201711-13 | libzip | 2017-11-08 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201711-4 | mupdf | 2017-11-06 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201711-1 | mupdf-gl | 2017-11-06 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201711-3 | mupdf-tools | 2017-11-06 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201711-14 | openssl | 2017-11-08 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201711-5 | zathura-pdf-mupdf | 2017-11-06 | |
| CentOS | CESA-2017:3111 | C7 | liblouis | 2017-11-03 |
| Debian | DLA-1162-1 | LTS | apr | 2017-11-06 |
| Debian | DLA-1163-1 | LTS | apr-util | 2017-11-06 |
| Debian | DLA-1158-1 | LTS | bchunk | 2017-11-03 |
| Debian | DSA-4020-1 | stable | chromium-browser | 2017-11-07 |
| Debian | DSA-4024-1 | stable | chromium-browser | 2017-11-08 |
| Debian | DLA-1159-1 | LTS | graphicsmagick | 2017-11-03 |
| Debian | DSA-4019-1 | stable | imagemagick | 2017-11-05 |
| Debian | DSA-4016-1 | stable | irssi | 2017-11-03 |
| Debian | DLA-1165-1 | LTS | libpam4j | 2017-11-07 |
| Debian | DLA-1164-1 | LTS | mupdf | 2017-11-07 |
| Debian | DSA-4015-1 | stable | openjdk-8 | 2017-11-02 |
| Debian | DSA-4018-1 | stable | openssl | 2017-11-03 |
| Debian | DSA-4017-1 | stable | openssl1.0 | 2017-11-03 |
| Debian | DSA-4021-1 | stable | otrs2 | 2017-11-07 |
| Debian | DLA-1161-1 | LTS | redis | 2017-11-05 |
| Debian | DSA-4023-1 | stable | slurm-llnl | 2017-11-07 |
| Debian | DSA-4014-1 | stable | thunderbird | 2017-11-01 |
| Debian | DLA-1166-1 | LTS | tomcat7 | 2017-11-07 |
| Debian | DLA-1160-1 | LTS | wordpress | 2017-11-04 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-95327e44ec | F25 | community-mysql | 2017-11-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-50c790aaed | F26 | community-mysql | 2017-11-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-150762f6be | F25 | glusterfs | 2017-11-01 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-e3bf383b11 | F25 | gnome-shell | 2017-11-01 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-b1492e4844 | F25 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2017-11-01 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-ebab38baf6 | F25 | kernel | 2017-11-03 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-38b37120a2 | F25 | kernel | 2017-11-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-10faeda281 | F26 | kernel | 2017-11-03 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-9fbb35aeda | F26 | kernel | 2017-11-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-bcdeca9d41 | F26 | libgcrypt | 2017-11-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-005f8f7f7d | F25 | lucene | 2017-11-01 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-8258f76154 | F25 | modulemd | 2017-11-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-94a173c491 | F26 | modulemd | 2017-11-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-c582c1e728 | F25 | nodejs | 2017-11-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-2aa4d11993 | F25 | openvpn | 2017-11-01 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-cdaaf6ea12 | F25 | php | 2017-11-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-0af85ae851 | F26 | php | 2017-11-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-805d9423f8 | F25 | poppler | 2017-11-01 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-51ff8fe326 | F26 | poppler | 2017-11-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-9149114fba | F26 | qemu | 2017-11-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-9232eac8e8 | F26 | rpm | 2017-11-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-6e2071419d | F25 | seamonkey | 2017-11-03 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-2e7badfe67 | F26 | seamonkey | 2017-11-03 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-f0b3231763 | F26 | wget | 2017-11-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-d4709b0d8b | F25 | xen | 2017-11-01 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0399 | 5, 6 | ansible | 2017-11-02 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0404 | 6 | git | 2017-11-07 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0403 | 6 | lucene | 2017-11-06 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0402 | 5, 6 | poppler | 2017-11-06 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0398 | 5, 6 | sdl2 | 2017-11-02 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0397 | 5, 6 | sdl2_image, mingw | 2017-11-02 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0400 | 5, 6 | tomcat | 2017-11-02 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0401 | 6 | x11-server | 2017-11-06 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:2940-1 | 42.2 42.3 | SuSEfirewall2 | 2017-11-07 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:2953-1 | 42.2 42.3 | chromium | 2017-11-08 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:2939-1 | 42.2 42.3 | libsass | 2017-11-07 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:2943-1 | 42.2 42.3 | libwpd | 2017-11-07 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:2941-1 | 42.2 | qemu | 2017-11-07 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:2938-1 | 42.3 | qemu | 2017-11-07 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:2942-1 | 42.2 42.3 | sssd | 2017-11-07 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:2916-1 | 42.2 | xen | 2017-11-01 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-3637 | OL5 | kernel | 2017-11-02 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-3637 | OL6 | kernel | 2017-11-02 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-3636 | OL6 | kernel | 2017-11-02 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-3635 | OL6 | kernel | 2017-11-02 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-3636 | OL7 | kernel | 2017-11-02 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-3635 | OL7 | kernel | 2017-11-02 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-3111 | OL7 | liblouis | 2017-11-02 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:3124-01 | JBEAP7 | Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0 | 2017-11-06 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:3123-01 | EL6, EL7 | Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform | 2017-11-06 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:3151-01 | EL6 | chromium-browser | 2017-11-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:3111-01 | EL7 | liblouis | 2017-11-02 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:3141-01 | EL7 | rhvm-appliance | 2017-11-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:3110-01 | EL6 | samba | 2017-11-02 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2017:3111-1 | SL7 | liblouis | 2017-11-02 |
| Slackware | SSA:2017-306-01 | mariadb | 2017-11-02 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2017-306-02 | openssl | 2017-11-02 | |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:2922-1 | ceph | 2017-11-02 | |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:2920-1 | SLE12 | kernel | 2017-11-02 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:2948-1 | SLE12 | krb5 | 2017-11-08 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:2931-1 | SLE12 | libwpd | 2017-11-06 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:2946-1 | OS6 SLE12 | qemu | 2017-11-08 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:2924-1 | SLE12 | qemu | 2017-11-03 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:2936-1 | SLE12 | qemu | 2017-11-06 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:2933-1 | SLE12 | webkit2gtk3 | 2017-11-06 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3474-1 | 14.04 | liblouis | 2017-11-06 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3472-1 | 14.04 | libreoffice | 2017-11-02 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3473-1 | 16.04 17.04 17.10 | openjdk-8 | 2017-11-07 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3475-1 | 14.04 16.04 17.04 17.10 | openssl | 2017-11-06 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3426-2 | 12.04 | samba | 2017-11-02 |
Kernel patches of interest
Kernel releases
Architecture-specific
Build system
Core kernel
Steven Rostedt
[PATCH v3] printk: Add console owner and waiter logic to load
balance console writes
Nov 02
Development tools
Device drivers
Device-driver infrastructure
Filesystems and block layer
Memory management
Networking
Security-related
James Morris
[RFC v0.1][PATCH] selinuxns: extend namespace support to security.selinux
xattrs
Oct 30
Virtualization and containers
Miscellaneous
Greg Kroah-Hartman
[PATCH v2] USB: add SPDX identifiers to all remaining files in
drivers/usb/
Nov 03
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