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Calls for Presentations
PyCon Taiwan 2018 is calling for proposals
PyCon Taiwan will take place June 1-2 in Taipei, Taiwan. The call for proposals closes March 5.CFP Deadlines: March 1, 2018 to April 30, 2018
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| April 15 | July 7 July 12 |
Libre Software Meeting | Strasbourg, France |
| April 15 | June 22 June 24 |
XenProject Developer and Design Summit | Nanjing, China |
| April 18 | May 18 May 19 |
French Perl Workshop 2018 | Paris, France |
| April 20 | May 25 May 27 |
openSUSE Conference 2018 | Prague, Czech Republic |
| April 20 | June 8 June 10 |
South East Linux Fest | Charlotte, NC, USA |
| April 29 | August 29 August 31 |
Open Source Summit | Vancouver, Canada |
| April 29 | July 6 July 11 |
GUADEC | Almería, Spain |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
Events: March 1, 2018 to April 30, 2018
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| March 6 March 8 |
Open Source Leadership Summit | Sonoma Valley, CA, USA |
| March 8 | Icinga Camp Berlin 2018 | Berlin, Germany |
| March 8 | Glustered 2018 | Bologna, Italy |
| March 8 March 11 |
SCALE 16x | Pasadena, CA, USA |
| March 8 March 11 |
AsiaBSDCon 2018 | Tokyo, Japan |
| 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 |
| April 9 April 11 |
QCon.ai Applied AI for Developers | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| April 9 April 12 |
‹Programming› 2018 | Nice, France |
| April 9 April 13 |
OpenFabrics Alliance Workshop 2018 | Boulder, CO, USA |
| April 11 April 14 |
MiniDebConf Curitiba 2018 | Curitiba, Brazil |
| April 14 April 15 |
Prague Makerfaire | Prague, Czech Republic |
| April 14 April 15 |
curl up 2018 | Stockholm, Sweden |
| April 16 April 17 |
LLVM European Developers Meeting | Bristol, UK |
| April 16 April 18 |
Power Management and Scheduling Summit | Pisa, Italy |
| April 23 | foss-north 2018 | Gothenburg, Sweden |
| April 23 April 25 |
Storage, Filesystem and Memory-Management Summit | Park City, UT, USA |
| April 26 April 27 |
FLOSSUK – Spring Conference | Edinburgh, Scotland |
| April 27 April 28 |
Grazer Linuxtage 2018 | Graz, Austria |
| April 28 April 29 |
LinuxFest Northwest | Bellingham, WA, USA |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Security updates
Alert summary February 22, 2018 to February 28, 2018
| Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arch Linux | ASA-201802-13 | lib32-wavpack | 2018-02-24 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201802-15 | mbedtls | 2018-02-28 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201802-11 | phpmyadmin | 2018-02-24 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201802-10 | strongswan | 2018-02-22 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201802-14 | unixodbc | 2018-02-24 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201802-12 | wavpack | 2018-02-24 | |
| CentOS | CESA-2018:0350 | C7 | gcab | 2018-02-28 |
| CentOS | CESA-2018:0349 | C6 | java-1.7.0-openjdk | 2018-02-28 |
| CentOS | CESA-2018:0349 | C7 | java-1.7.0-openjdk | 2018-02-28 |
| Debian | DLA-1288-1 | LTS | cups | 2018-02-22 |
| Debian | DLA-1295-1 | LTS | drupal7 | 2018-02-28 |
| Debian | DSA-4123-1 | stable | drupal7 | 2018-02-24 |
| Debian | DSA-4121-1 | stable | gcc-6 | 2018-02-22 |
| Debian | DLA-1294-1 | LTS | golang | 2018-02-25 |
| Debian | DLA-1293-1 | LTS | imagemagick | 2018-02-25 |
| Debian | DLA-1289-1 | LTS | irssi | 2018-02-22 |
| Debian | DSA-4120-1 | stable | kernel | 2018-02-22 |
| Debian | DLA-1292-1 | LTS | libdatetime-timezone-perl | 2018-02-24 |
| Debian | DLA-1290-1 | LTS | libvpx | 2018-02-24 |
| Debian | DSA-4124-1 | stable | lucene-solr | 2018-02-27 |
| Debian | DSA-4122-1 | stable | squid3 | 2018-02-22 |
| Debian | DLA-1291-1 | LTS | tzdata | 2018-02-24 |
| Debian | DSA-4125-1 | stable | wavpack | 2018-02-27 |
| Debian | DSA-4126-1 | stable | xmltooling | 2018-02-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-2f1f243787 | F27 | dnsmasq | 2018-02-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-25a7ba3cb6 | F26 | exim | 2018-02-26 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-5aec14e125 | F27 | exim | 2018-02-26 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-c54ced412e | F26 | gcab | 2018-02-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-ccef1ced42 | F26 | gimp | 2018-02-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-6f08b79a09 | F26 | golang | 2018-02-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-cbc52e8812 | F26 | irssi | 2018-02-26 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-433d2dc3c7 | F27 | irssi | 2018-02-26 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-03a6606cb5 | F26 | kernel | 2018-02-23 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-7a62047e30 | F27 | kernel | 2018-02-23 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-844a1e9778 | F26 | knot-resolver | 2018-02-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-fe5a6ed3b7 | F27 | knot-resolver | 2018-02-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-3915878e18 | F26 | ldns | 2018-02-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-418e67c843 | F27 | libsamplerate | 2018-02-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-7d90e269a4 | F26 | milkytracker | 2018-02-25 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-2331a462fb | F27 | milkytracker | 2018-02-25 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-f5d2f4ec0d | F26 | mingw-OpenEXR | 2018-02-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-b152c791cc | F27 | mingw-OpenEXR | 2018-02-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-e23d2dae46 | F26 | mingw-poppler | 2018-02-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-da6f76b446 | F27 | mupdf | 2018-02-22 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-a1650ed14f | F27 | php-phpmyadmin-motranslator | 2018-02-26 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-a1650ed14f | F27 | php-phpmyadmin-sql-parser | 2018-02-26 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-a1650ed14f | F27 | phpMyAdmin | 2018-02-26 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-913c225b49 | F27 | python-crypto | 2018-02-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-c0d3db441f | F26 | qt5-qtwebengine | 2018-02-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-e08d828ed9 | F27 | qt5-qtwebengine | 2018-02-25 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-4367d984c1 | F26 | sblim-sfcb | 2018-02-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-9d6a122887 | F27 | sblim-sfcb | 2018-02-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-b2d76ba048 | F26 | seamonkey | 2018-02-26 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-c6cb18d057 | F27 | seamonkey | 2018-02-26 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-ee417c4b28 | F27 | suricata | 2018-02-23 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-eea8cb8b0e | F27 | systemd | 2018-02-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-b3de6c389e | F26 | torbrowser-launcher | 2018-02-21 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-cb1f26bd2c | F27 | unbound | 2018-02-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-3ba1be2e79 | F27 | wavpack | 2018-02-27 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0152 | 5, 6 | TiMidity++ | 2018-02-28 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0141 | 6 | advancecomp | 2018-02-25 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0136 | 6 | apache-commons-email | 2018-02-25 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0147 | 5 | cups | 2018-02-27 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0143 | 6 | flatpak | 2018-02-26 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0140 | 6 | freetype2 | 2018-02-25 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0142 | 5, 6 | ghostscript | 2018-02-25 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0135 | 6 | glpi | 2018-02-25 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0144 | 6 | golang | 2018-02-26 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0148 | 6 | ioquake3 | 2018-02-28 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0132 | 6 | irssi | 2018-02-22 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0138 | 6 | jackson-databind | 2018-02-25 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0146 | 6 | jhead | 2018-02-27 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0134 | 6 | kernel | 2018-02-23 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0139 | 5 | mariadb | 2018-02-25 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0130 | 6 | mpv | 2018-02-22 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0137 | 5, 6 | postgresql | 2018-02-25 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0145 | 5 | qpdf | 2018-02-26 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0131 | 6 | qpdf | 2018-02-22 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0133 | 6 | quagga | 2018-02-22 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0149 | 6 | tomcat | 2018-02-28 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0150 | 6 | tomcat-native | 2018-02-28 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0151 | 6 | wireshark | 2018-02-28 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:0542-1 | 42.3 | GraphicsMagick | 2018-02-26 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:0537-1 | 42.3 | dhcp | 2018-02-24 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:0543-1 | lame | 2018-02-26 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:0544-1 | 42.3 | lame | 2018-02-26 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:0519-1 | 42.3 | libdb-4_5 | 2018-02-22 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:0520-1 | 42.3 | libdb-4_8 | 2018-02-22 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:0527-1 | libmad | 2018-02-23 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:0528-1 | 42.3 | libmad | 2018-02-23 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:0538-1 | 42.3 | php5 | 2018-02-24 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:0534-1 | phpMyAdmin | 2018-02-24 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:0536-1 | 42.3 | phpMyAdmin | 2018-02-24 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:0529-1 | 42.3 | postgresql95 | 2018-02-23 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:0523-1 | 42.3 | postgresql96 | 2018-02-22 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:0522-1 | 42.3 | python3-openpyxl | 2018-02-22 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:0560-1 | 42.3 | systemd | 2018-02-28 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:0535-1 | 42.3 | timidity | 2018-02-24 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:0540-1 | 42.3 | wireshark | 2018-02-25 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:0517-1 | 42.3 | xv | 2018-02-21 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:0561-1 | 42.3 | zziplib | 2018-02-28 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-0350 | OL7 | gcab | 2018-02-26 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-0349 | OL6 | java-1.7.0-openjdk | 2018-02-26 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-0349 | OL7 | java-1.7.0-openjdk | 2018-02-26 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-4041 | OL5 | kernel | 2018-02-27 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-0292 | OL5 | kernel | 2018-02-23 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-4040 | OL6 | kernel | 2018-02-27 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-4041 | OL6 | kernel | 2018-02-27 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-4040 | OL7 | kernel | 2018-02-27 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:0368-01 | OSP10.0 | erlang | 2018-02-27 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:0350-01 | EL7 | gcab | 2018-02-26 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:0349-01 | EL6 EL7 | java-1.7.0-openjdk | 2018-02-26 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:0352-01 | EL6 | java-1.8.0-ibm | 2018-02-26 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:0351-01 | EL7 | java-1.8.0-ibm | 2018-02-26 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:0369-01 | OSP10.0 | openstack-nova and python-novaclient | 2018-02-27 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:0342-01 | RHSC | rh-maven35-jackson-databind | 2018-02-22 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2018:0350-1 | SL7 | gcab | 2018-02-26 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2018:0349-1 | SL6 SL7 | java-1.7.0-openjdk | 2018-02-26 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:0525-1 | OS6 SLE12 | kernel | 2018-02-22 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:0555-1 | SLE11 | kernel | 2018-02-27 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:0530-1 | SLE12 | php5 | 2018-02-23 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3580-1 | 12.04 | kernel | 2018-02-21 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3583-1 | 14.04 | kernel | 2018-02-23 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3581-1 | 17.10 | kernel | 2018-02-22 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3579-1 | 14.04 16.04 17.10 | libreoffice | 2018-02-21 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3582-1 | 16.04 | linux, linux-aws, linux-kvm, linux-raspi2, linux-snapdragon | 2018-02-22 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3581-2 | 16.04 | linux-hwe, linux-azure, linux-gcp, linux-oem | 2018-02-22 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3583-2 | 12.04 | linux-lts-trusty | 2018-02-23 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3582-2 | 14.04 | linux-lts-xenial, linux-aws | 2018-02-22 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3581-3 | 17.10 | linux-raspi2 | 2018-02-22 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3584-1 | 14.04 16.04 17.10 | sensible-utils | 2018-02-26 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3578-1 | 17.10 | wavpack | 2018-02-22 |
Kernel patches of interest
Kernel releases
Architecture-specific
Core kernel
Development tools
Device drivers
Device-driver infrastructure
Filesystems and block layer
Memory management
Security-related
Virtualization and containers
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