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Calls for Presentations
DebConf 18: Call for Proposals
DebConf will take place July 29-August 5 in Hsinchu, Taiwan. The call for proposals deadline is June 17.1st Call For Papers - 25th Annual Tcl/Tk Conference (Tcl'2018)
Tcl'2018 will take place October 15-19 in Houston, TX. The call for papers ends August 20.CFP Deadlines: February 8, 2018 to April 9, 2018
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| February 8 | May 21 May 24 |
OpenStack Summit | Vancouver, Canada |
| February 9 | April 16 April 17 |
LLVM European Developers Meeting | Bristol, UK |
| February 15 | July 9 July 15 |
SciPy 2018 | Austin, TX, USA |
| February 16 | April 9 April 13 |
OpenFabrics Alliance Workshop 2018 | Boulder, CO, USA |
| February 18 | June 13 June 14 |
FOSS Backstage | Berlin, Germany |
| February 18 | July 28 July 30 |
State of the Map 2018 | Milan, Italy |
| February 28 | March 30 April 2 |
Easterhegg 2018 | Würzburg, Germany |
| February 28 | March 8 | Glustered 2018 | Bologna, Italy |
| March 2 | July 17 July 18 |
International Faust Conference | Mainz, Germany |
| March 4 | June 25 June 27 |
LinuxCon+ContainerCon+Cloudopen China | Beijing, China |
| March 5 | June 1 June 2 |
PyCon Taiwan | Taipei, Taiwan |
| March 8 | June 5 June 7 |
SambaXP 2018 Conference | Göttingen, Germany |
| March 11 | April 23 | foss-north 2018 | Gothenburg, Sweden |
| March 12 | August 11 August 17 |
Akademy | Vienna, Austria |
| March 15 | June 7 June 10 |
Linux Audio Conference | Berlin, Germany |
| March 18 | June 20 June 22 |
Automotive Linux Summit | Tokyo, Japan |
| March 18 | June 20 June 22 |
Open Source Summit Japan | Tokyo, Japan |
| March 19 | May 3 May 5 |
Linuxwochen Wien 2018 | Vienna, Austria |
| March 21 | May 4 May 5 |
PyDays Vienna | Vienna, Austria |
| March 25 | May 7 May 10 |
8th RISC-V Workshop | Barcelona, Spain |
| March 30 | May 22 May 23 |
Infoshare 2018 | Gdańsk, Poland |
| March 30 | September 24 September 27 |
ApacheCon North America | Montreal, Canada |
| March 31 | July 2 July 4 |
Pass the SALT 2018 | Lille, France |
| April 3 | August 17 August 19 |
DevConf.us 2018 | Boston, MA, USA |
| April 4 | June 4 June 6 |
PyCon Israel 2018 | Israel |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
Events: February 8, 2018 to April 9, 2018
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| February 9 February 10 |
LVEE Winter 2017 | Minsk, Belarus |
| February 15 | Linux FAST Summit '18 | Oakland, CA, USA |
| February 20 February 21 |
Automotive Grade Linux | Tokyo, Japan |
| March 6 March 8 |
Open Source Leadership Summit | Sonoma Valley, CA, USA |
| March 8 March 11 |
AsiaBSDCon 2018 | Tokyo, Japan |
| March 8 | Icinga Camp Berlin 2018 | Berlin, Germany |
| March 8 | Glustered 2018 | Bologna, Italy |
| March 8 March 11 |
SCALE 16x | Pasadena, CA, USA |
| March 9 | Incontro Devops Italia 2018 | Bologna, Italy |
| March 12 March 14 |
Embedded Linux Conference | Portland, OR, USA |
| March 12 March 14 |
OpenIoT Summit | Portland, OR, USA |
| March 19 March 23 |
Linaro Connect | Hong Kong, China |
| March 22 March 25 |
FOSSASIA Summit | Singapore, Singapore |
| March 23 March 25 |
LibreOffice Conference Indonesia | Surabaya, Indonesia |
| March 24 March 25 |
LibrePlanet | Cambridge, MA, USA |
| March 26 March 28 |
Open Networking Summit | Los Angeles, CA, USA |
| March 30 April 2 |
Easterhegg 2018 | Würzburg, Germany |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Security updates
Alert summary February 1, 2018 to February 7, 2018
| Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CentOS | CESA-2018:0260 | C7 | systemd | 2018-02-01 |
| CentOS | CESA-2018:0262 | C6 | thunderbird | 2018-02-01 |
| CentOS | CESA-2018:0262 | C7 | thunderbird | 2018-02-01 |
| Debian | DSA-4103-1 | stable | chromium-browser | 2018-01-31 |
| Debian | DLA-1269-1 | LTS | dokuwiki | 2018-02-04 |
| Debian | DLA-1265-1 | LTS | krb5 | 2018-01-31 |
| Debian | DSA-4105-1 | stable | mpv | 2018-02-07 |
| Debian | DLA-1268-1 | LTS | p7zip | 2018-02-02 |
| Debian | DSA-4104-1 | stable | p7zip | 2018-02-04 |
| Debian | DLA-1249-2 | LTS | smarty3 | 2018-02-01 |
| Debian | DLA-1267-1 | LTS | squid | 2018-02-02 |
| Debian | DLA-1266-1 | LTS | squid3 | 2018-02-02 |
| Debian | DLA-1270-1 | LTS | xen | 2018-02-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-bfb9835edd | F26 | GraphicsMagick | 2018-01-31 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-7c61d08c4f | F27 | GraphicsMagick | 2018-01-31 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-958b22c73f | F26 | clamav | 2018-02-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-d553b29a30 | F27 | community-mysql | 2018-02-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-9780220f7d | F26 | dnsmasq | 2018-02-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-d9706e9f1f | F26 | firefox | 2018-02-01 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-79db828bff | F27 | firefox | 2018-01-31 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-b5ecac9405 | F26 | flatpak | 2018-02-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-bd651734da | F27 | flatpak | 2018-02-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-bbf8c38b51 | F26 | jackson-databind | 2018-02-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-e4b025841e | F27 | jackson-databind | 2018-02-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-d82b617d6c | F26 | kernel | 2018-02-02 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-d09a73ce72 | F27 | kernel | 2018-02-02 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-ef303deec6 | F26 | libtasn1 | 2018-02-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-7e086e3309 | F26 | moodle | 2018-01-31 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-c587c0a62d | F27 | moodle | 2018-01-31 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-7151603128 | F26 | mupdf | 2018-02-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-7982ad5f2a | F27 | mupdf | 2018-02-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-cd4311d4d6 | F26 | p7zip | 2018-02-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-f8ad787538 | F27 | p7zip | 2018-02-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-d7c0748c1b | F27 | pdns | 2018-02-02 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-034101216d | F26 | rsync | 2018-02-05 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-d0ebfab3f3 | F27 | rsync | 2018-02-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-4fabf63492 | F27 | squid | 2018-02-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-74bb00f644 | F27 | thunderbird | 2018-02-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-0b48740047 | F27 | tomcat | 2018-02-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-a10a19e06a | F26 | unbound | 2018-02-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-43712163de | F26 | webkitgtk4 | 2018-02-02 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-a24be2586d | F27 | zziplib | 2018-02-06 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0117 | 6 | clamav | 2018-02-06 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0110 | 6 | curl | 2018-02-06 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0114 | 5, 6 | dovecot | 2018-02-06 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0116 | 6 | ffmpeg | 2018-02-06 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0120 | 6 | flash-player-plugin | 2018-02-07 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0111 | 5, 6 | gcab | 2018-02-06 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0104 | 5, 6 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2018-02-02 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0107 | 5 | kernel | 2018-02-05 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0106 | 6 | kernel | 2018-02-05 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0109 | 6 | libtiff | 2018-02-06 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0112 | 5, 6 | libvpx | 2018-02-06 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0113 | 5, 6 | libvpx | 2018-02-06 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0118 | 5, 6 | php-smarty | 2018-02-06 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0108 | 6 | pure-ftpd | 2018-02-06 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0119 | 6 | redis | 2018-02-06 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0103 | 5, 6 | rsync | 2018-01-31 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0105 | 5, 6 | sox | 2018-02-02 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0115 | 5, 6 | thunderbird | 2018-02-06 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:0328-1 | 42.3 | GraphicsMagick | 2018-02-01 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:0370-1 | 42.3 | apache-commons-email | 2018-02-06 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:0323-1 | 42.3 | bind | 2018-02-01 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:0359-1 | chromium | 2018-02-04 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:0313-1 | chromium | 2018-01-31 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:0313-1 | chromium | 2018-01-31 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:0360-1 | 42.3 | chromium | 2018-02-04 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:0344-1 | 42.3 | ecryptfs-utils | 2018-02-02 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:0329-1 | 42.3 | freeimage | 2018-02-01 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:0316-1 | 42.3 | gd | 2018-02-01 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:0343-1 | 42.3 | libXfont | 2018-02-02 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:0324-1 | 42.3 | libtasn1 | 2018-02-01 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:0322-1 | 42.3 | libvirt | 2018-02-01 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:0315-1 | 42.3 | nodejs6 | 2018-02-01 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:0318-1 | 42.3 | php7 | 2018-02-01 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:0320-1 | 42.3 | systemd | 2018-02-01 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:0364-1 | 42.3 | translate-toolkit | 2018-02-05 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:0326-1 | 42.3 | webkit2gtk3 | 2018-02-01 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-0260 | OL7 | systemd | 2018-02-01 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-0262 | OL6 | thunderbird | 2018-02-01 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-0262 | OL7 | thunderbird | 2018-02-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:0273-01 | EL6 EL7 | Red Hat Satellite 6 | 2018-02-05 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:0265-01 | EL6 | chromium-browser | 2018-02-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:0275-01 | EL6 | jboss-ec2-eap | 2018-02-05 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:0279-01 | SCL | rh-mariadb100-mariadb | 2018-02-06 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:0260-01 | EL7 | systemd | 2018-01-31 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:0262-01 | EL6 EL7 | thunderbird | 2018-02-01 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2018:0260-1 | SL7 | systemd | 2018-01-31 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2018:0262-1 | SL6 SL7 | thunderbird | 2018-02-01 |
| Slackware | SSA:2018-037-01 | kernel | 2018-02-06 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2018-034-01 | php | 2018-02-03 | |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:0362-1 | SLE11 | bind | 2018-02-05 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:0374-1 | OS6 SLE12 | firefox | 2018-02-06 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:0361-1 | SLE11 | firefox | 2018-02-05 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3550-2 | 12.04 | clamav | 2018-02-05 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3554-2 | 12.04 | curl | 2018-01-31 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3554-1 | 14.04 16.04 17.10 | curl | 2018-01-31 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3556-2 | 12.04 | dovecot | 2018-02-01 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3556-1 | 14.04 16.04 17.10 | dovecot | 2018-02-01 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3552-1 | 14.04 16.04 17.10 | firefox | 2018-01-31 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3559-1 | 17.10 | python-django | 2018-02-07 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3553-1 | 16.04 17.10 | ruby2.3 | 2018-01-31 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3557-1 | 14.04 16.04 17.10 | squid3 | 2018-02-05 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3558-1 | 14.04 16.04 | systemd | 2018-02-05 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3555-2 | 12.04 | w3m | 2018-02-01 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3555-1 | 14.04 16.04 17.10 | w3m | 2018-02-01 |
Kernel patches of interest
Kernel releases
Architecture-specific
Core kernel
Development tools
Device drivers
sean.wang@mediatek.com
add support for Mediatek High-Speed DMA controller on MT7622 and MT7623 SoC
Feb 01
Device-driver infrastructure
Documentation
Filesystems and block layer
Memory management
Networking
Christoph Paasch
[RFC v2 00/14] Generic TCP-option framework and adoption for TCP-SMC
and TCP-MD5
Jan 31
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Virtualization and containers
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