Announcements
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Distributions and system administration
- Arch monthly November (December 8)
- DistroWatch Weekly (December 11)
- Lunar Linux Weekly News (December 8)
- Mageia Weekly Roundup (December 11)
- openSUSE Tumbleweed Review of the Week (December 8)
- Ubuntu Server Development Summary (December 12)
Development
- Emacs News (December 11)
- LLVM Weekly (December 11)
- LXC/LXD/LXCFS Weekly Status (December 11)
- OCaml Weekly News (December 12)
- OpenStack Technical Committee Report (December 12)
- OpenStack Technical Committee Status Update (December 8)
- Perl Weekly (December 10)
- Weekly changes in and around Perl 6 (December 11)
- PostgreSQL Weekly News (December 10)
- Python Weekly Newsletter (December 7)
- Ruby Weekly News (December 7)
- This Week in Rust (December 12)
- Wikimedia Tech News (December 11)
Meeting minutes
- Fedora Council minutes (December 13)
- Fedora FESCO meeting minutes (December 8)
Calls for Presentations
PGCon 2018 call for papers
PGCon 2018 will take place May 29-June 1 in Ottawa, Canada. The call for proposals closes January 19. "If you are doing something interesting with PostgreSQL, please submit a proposal. You might be one of the backend hackers or work on a PostgreSQL related project and want to share your know-how with others. You might be developing an interesting system using PostgreSQL as the foundation. Perhaps you migrated from another database to PostgreSQL and would like to share details. These, and other stories are welcome. Both users and developers are encouraged to share their experiences."
CFP Deadlines: December 14, 2017 to February 12, 2018
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| January 14 | June 8 June 9 |
Texas Linux Fest | Austin, TX, USA |
| January 17 | June 11 June 14 |
O'Reilly Velocity Conf | San Jose, CA, USA |
| January 19 | May 29 June 1 |
PGCon 2018 | Ottawa, Canada |
| January 21 | March 6 March 8 |
Open Source Leadership Summit | Sonoma Valley, CA, USA |
| January 22 | March 19 March 23 |
Linaro Connect | Hong Kong, China |
| January 23 | April 9 April 11 |
QCon.ai Applied AI for Developers | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| January 26 | February 15 | Linux FAST Summit '18 | Oakland, CA, USA |
| January 30 | April 14 April 15 |
Prague Makerfaire | Prague, Czech Republic |
| January 30 | July 16 July 19 |
OSCON 2018 | Portland, OR, USA |
| January 31 | May 21 May 22 |
OpenMP UK Users' Conference | Oxford, UK |
| January 31 | June 12 June 13 |
Open Source Data Center Conference | Berlin, Germany |
| January 31 | April 11 April 14 |
MiniDebConf Curitiba 2018 | Curitiba, Brazil |
| January 31 | April 28 April 29 |
LinuxFest Northwest | Bellingham, WA, USA |
| January 31 | April 23 April 25 |
Storage, Filesystem and Memory-Management Summit | Park City, UT, USA |
| February 1 | May 23 May 27 |
DjangoCon Europe 2018 | Heidelberg, Germany |
| February 3 | February 9 February 10 |
LVEE Winter 2017 | Minsk, Belarus |
| February 8 | May 21 May 24 |
OpenStack Summit | Vancouver, Canada |
| February 9 | April 16 April 17 |
LLVM European Developers Meeting | Bristol, UK |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
Linux Plumbers Conference 2018 site and dates
The 2018 edition of the Linux Plumbers Conference will take place November 13-15 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.Events: December 14, 2017 to February 12, 2018
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| December 27 December 30 |
Chaos Computer Congress | Leipzig, Germany |
| January 22 | Sysadmin Miniconf at lca | Sydney, Australia |
| January 22 | Kernel Miniconf at lca | Sydney, Australia |
| January 22 January 26 |
linux.conf.au | Sydney, Australia |
| January 26 January 28 |
DevConf.cz | Brno, Czech Republic |
| February 3 February 4 |
FOSDEM 2018 | Brussels, Belgium |
| February 9 February 10 |
LVEE Winter 2017 | Minsk, Belarus |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Security updates
Alert summary December 7, 2017 to December 13, 2017
| Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arch Linux | ASA-201712-5 | chromium | 2017-12-07 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201712-4 | vlc | 2017-12-07 | |
| CentOS | CESA-2017:3382 | C6 | firefox | 2017-12-06 |
| CentOS | CESA-2017:3382 | C7 | firefox | 2017-12-06 |
| CentOS | CESA-2017:3392 | C6 | java-1.7.0-openjdk | 2017-12-06 |
| CentOS | CESA-2017:3392 | C7 | java-1.7.0-openjdk | 2017-12-06 |
| CentOS | CESA-2017:3315 | C7 | kernel | 2017-12-06 |
| CentOS | CESA-2017:3384 | C7 | liblouis | 2017-12-06 |
| CentOS | CESA-2017:3402 | C7 | postgresql | 2017-12-09 |
| CentOS | CESA-2017:3368 | C7 | qemu-kvm | 2017-12-06 |
| CentOS | CESA-2017:3379 | C7 | sssd | 2017-12-06 |
| CentOS | CESA-2017:3372 | C6 | thunderbird | 2017-12-06 |
| CentOS | CESA-2017:3372 | C7 | thunderbird | 2017-12-06 |
| Debian | DSA-4064-1 | stable | chromium-browser | 2017-12-12 |
| Debian | DSA-4057-1 | stable | erlang | 2017-12-08 |
| Debian | DLA-1204-1 | LTS | evince | 2017-12-11 |
| Debian | DLA-1202-1 | LTS | firefox-esr | 2017-12-10 |
| Debian | DSA-4062-1 | stable | firefox-esr | 2017-12-10 |
| Debian | DSA-4055-1 | stable | heimdal | 2017-12-07 |
| Debian | DLA-1200-1 | LTS | kernel | 2017-12-10 |
| Debian | DLA-1201-1 | LTS | libxcursor | 2017-12-10 |
| Debian | DSA-4059-1 | stable | libxcursor | 2017-12-08 |
| Debian | DSA-4056-1 | stable | nova | 2017-12-07 |
| Debian | DSA-4058-1 | stable | optipng | 2017-12-08 |
| Debian | DSA-4063-1 | stable | pdns-recursor | 2017-12-11 |
| Debian | DLA-1205-1 | LTS | simplesamlphp | 2017-12-12 |
| Debian | DLA-1199-1 | LTS | thunderbird | 2017-12-09 |
| Debian | DSA-4061-1 | stable | thunderbird | 2017-12-10 |
| Debian | DLA-1206-1 | LTS | tiff | 2017-12-13 |
| Debian | DSA-4060-1 | stable | wireshark | 2017-12-09 |
| Debian | DLA-1203-1 | LTS | xrdp | 2017-12-11 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-7b0a42338c | F26 | borgbackup | 2017-12-10 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-81115c3047 | F27 | borgbackup | 2017-12-10 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-7f8abb1866 | F25 | ca-certificates | 2017-12-09 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-3a8cbd86a1 | F26 | ca-certificates | 2017-12-09 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-fba4c155be | F27 | ca-certificates | 2017-12-10 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-97b730736f | F27 | ceph | 2017-12-12 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-d7ab32cc23 | F25 | collectd | 2017-12-09 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-f9cfcef9d6 | F26 | collectd | 2017-12-09 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-f47206eae4 | F27 | collectd | 2017-12-10 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-d0a336a2a3 | F26 | couchdb | 2017-12-09 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-a20d92573b | F27 | couchdb | 2017-12-10 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-0c062324cd | F26 | curl | 2017-12-09 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-45bdf4dace | F27 | curl | 2017-12-10 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-efbe206b58 | F26 | dhcp | 2017-12-11 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-d0046bc0ae | F27 | dhcp | 2017-12-12 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-3976710f1e | F26 | docker | 2017-12-09 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-93b6236635 | F26 | erlang | 2017-12-12 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-9e6df1e099 | F27 | erlang | 2017-12-12 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-d0a336a2a3 | F26 | erlang-jiffy | 2017-12-09 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-a20d92573b | F27 | erlang-jiffy | 2017-12-10 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-0032baa7d7 | F26 | exim | 2017-12-12 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-0053bb9719 | F27 | exim | 2017-12-12 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-62f44716bb | F25 | fedora-arm-installer | 2017-12-12 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-0e4021062c | F26 | fedora-arm-installer | 2017-12-12 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-c8712c7fc3 | F27 | fedora-arm-installer | 2017-12-10 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-2c15e19fb5 | F25 | firefox | 2017-12-12 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-1be05999bb | F26 | firefox | 2017-12-09 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-bfd2d4afce | F27 | firefox | 2017-12-10 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-cdfd888e2e | F25 | git | 2017-12-09 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-b16cdbdc34 | F27 | libvirt | 2017-12-12 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-a253644369 | F26 | linux-firmware | 2017-12-09 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-355ac8a91a | F27 | linux-firmware | 2017-12-10 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-9ae6e39bde | F25 | mupdf | 2017-12-10 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-78f0991378 | F25 | openssh | 2017-12-12 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-96d1995b70 | F27 | openssh | 2017-12-10 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-81fe39ad9f | F25 | pdns-recursor | 2017-12-12 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-1585789772 | F26 | pdns-recursor | 2017-12-12 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-608b6f5945 | F27 | pdns-recursor | 2017-12-12 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-ca05b30e86 | F25 | rubygem-yard | 2017-12-12 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-c6c6e9beae | F26 | rubygem-yard | 2017-12-12 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-386e856a4f | F27 | rubygem-yard | 2017-12-12 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-463cb2af78 | F26 | thunderbird | 2017-12-12 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-7d33609b3d | F27 | thunderbird | 2017-12-10 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-b0b4cc40c1 | F26 | transfig | 2017-12-09 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-c448cf31d6 | F27 | transfig | 2017-12-10 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-7cbd8a00b7 | F26 | wildmidi | 2017-12-09 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-dabf9a64d9 | F27 | wildmidi | 2017-12-10 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-9fd430dba0 | F27 | wireshark | 2017-12-10 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-994ff5ced8 | F26 | wordpress | 2017-12-12 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-15ce66d344 | F27 | wordpress | 2017-12-12 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-f2577f2108 | F25 | xen | 2017-12-12 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-4bfcd57172 | F27 | xen | 2017-12-10 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-1fb805bfc2 | F25 | xrdp | 2017-12-09 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-f67f3ffb5d | F26 | xrdp | 2017-12-09 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-b891f919c5 | F27 | xrdp | 2017-12-10 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0446 | 6 | ffmpeg | 2017-12-07 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0448 | 5, 6 | firefox | 2017-12-10 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0447 | 5, 6 | optipng | 2017-12-10 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0444 | 5, 6 | tor | 2017-12-07 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0445 | 6 | wireshark | 2017-12-07 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:3270-1 | 42.2 42.3 | GraphicsMagick | 2017-12-12 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:3259-1 | 42.2 42.3 | OBS toolchain | 2017-12-09 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:3245-1 | chromium | 2017-12-08 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:3244-1 | 42.2 42.3 | chromium | 2017-12-08 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:3255-1 | erlang | 2017-12-09 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:3257-1 | 42.2 42.3 | erlang | 2017-12-09 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:3272-1 | 42.2 42.3 | firefox | 2017-12-12 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:3271-1 | 42.2 42.3 | fossil | 2017-12-12 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:3256-1 | 42.2 | libXfont | 2017-12-09 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:3268-1 | 42.2 42.3 | libheimdal | 2017-12-12 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:3241-1 | 42.2 42.3 | opensaml | 2017-12-08 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:3243-1 | 42.2 42.3 | openssh | 2017-12-08 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:3238-1 | 42.3 | openvswitch | 2017-12-08 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:3240-1 | 42.2 42.3 | php7 | 2017-12-08 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:3229-1 | 42.2 42.3 | shibboleth-sp | 2017-12-07 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-3392 | OL6 | java-1.7.0-openjdk | 2017-12-06 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-3392 | OL7 | java-1.7.0-openjdk | 2017-12-06 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-3658 | OL5 | kernel | 2017-12-08 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-3651 | OL6 | kernel | 2017-12-08 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-3657 | OL6 | kernel | 2017-12-08 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-3658 | OL6 | kernel | 2017-12-08 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-3651 | OL7 | kernel | 2017-12-08 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-3657 | OL7 | kernel | 2017-12-08 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-3402 | OL7 | postgresql | 2017-12-08 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:3389-01 | RHOSE | Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise | 2017-12-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:3401-01 | EL6 | chromium-browser | 2017-12-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:3402-01 | EL7 | postgresql | 2017-12-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:3451-01 | SCL | rh-java-common-lucene | 2017-12-12 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:3452-01 | SCL | rh-java-common-lucene5 | 2017-12-12 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:3442-01 | SCL | rh-mysql57-mysql | 2017-12-12 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:3403-01 | RHSC | rh-postgresql94-postgresql | 2017-12-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:3404-01 | RHSC | rh-postgresql95-postgresql | 2017-12-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:3405-01 | RHSC | rh-postgresql96-postgresql | 2017-12-07 |
| Scientific Linux | OPENAFS-SA-2017-001 | SL6 SL7 | openafs | 2017-12-06 |
| Slackware | SSA:2017-342-01 | openssl | 2017-12-08 | |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:3253-1 | SLE12 | OBS toolchain | 2017-12-08 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:3233-1 | SLE11 | firefox | 2017-12-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:3235-1 | SLE12 | java-1_6_0-ibm | 2017-12-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:3265-1 | SLE11 | kernel | 2017-12-11 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:3226-1 | SLE12 | kernel | 2017-12-06 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:3225-1 | SLE12 | kernel | 2017-12-06 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:3267-1 | SLE12 | kernel | 2017-12-12 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:3249-1 | SLE12 | kernel | 2017-12-08 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:3234-1 | SLE12 | opensaml | 2017-12-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:3236-1 | OS6 SLE12 | xen | 2017-12-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:3242-1 | SLE11 | xen | 2017-12-08 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:3239-1 | SLE12 | xen | 2017-12-08 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3510-1 | 14.04 | kernel | 2017-12-07 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3513-2 | 12.04 | libxml2 | 2017-12-13 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3513-1 | 14.04 16.04 17.04 17.10 | libxml2 | 2017-12-13 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3509-1 | 16.04 | linux, linux-aws, linux-kvm, linux-raspi2, linux-snapdragon | 2017-12-07 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3508-1 | 17.04 | linux, linux-raspi2 | 2017-12-07 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3507-1 | 17.10 | linux, linux-raspi2 | 2017-12-07 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3511-1 | 16.04 | linux-azure | 2017-12-07 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3507-2 | 16.04 | linux-gcp | 2017-12-07 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3508-2 | 16.04 | linux-hwe | 2017-12-07 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3510-2 | 12.04 | linux-lts-trusty | 2017-12-07 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3509-2 | 14.04 | linux-lts-xenial, linux-aws | 2017-12-07 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3512-1 | 16.04 17.04 17.10 | openssl | 2017-12-11 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3506-2 | 12.04 | rsync | 2017-12-07 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3506-1 | 14.04 16.04 17.04 17.10 | rsync | 2017-12-07 |
Kernel patches of interest
Kernel releases
Architecture-specific
Core kernel
Development tools
Device drivers
Device-driver infrastructure
Filesystems and block layer
Memory management
Networking
Virtualization and containers
Miscellaneous
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