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Netdev 0x12 Conference

The NetDev Society has announced that Netdev 0x12 will take place July 11-13 in Montreal, Canada. The call for papers closes May 1.

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CFP Deadlines: March 22, 2018 to May 21, 2018

The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.

DeadlineEvent Dates EventLocation
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
April 30 August 7
August 11		 JuliaCon 2018 London, UK
May 4 August 4
August 5		 DevConf India Bangalore, India
May 15 October 29
October 30		 OpenWrt Summit Lisbon, Portugal
May 16 October 18
October 19		 Osmocom Conference 2018 Berlin, Germany
May 20 August 11
August 12		 GNOME.Asia Summit Taipei, Taiwan
May 20 July 11
July 13		 Netdev 0x12 Montréal, Québec, Canada
May 20 July 23
July 29		 EuroPython 2018 Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.

Upcoming Events

Registration is now open for DebConf18

DebConf18 will take place July 29-August 5 in Hsinchu, Taiwan. It will be preceded by DebCamp, July 21-27 and Open Day on July 28. Registration is open and to receive bursaries (sponsorship) for food, accommodation, or travel, you must be registered by April 13.

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Events: March 22, 2018 to May 21, 2018

The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.

Date(s)EventLocation
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 12		 ‹Programming› 2018 Nice, France
April 9
April 11		 QCon.ai Applied AI for Developers San Francisco, CA, USA
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
May 2
May 4		 KubeCon+CloudNativeCon Copenhagen, Denmark
May 3
May 5		 Linuxwochen Wien 2018 Vienna, Austria
May 4
May 5		 PyDays Vienna Vienna, Austria
May 7
May 10		 8th RISC-V Workshop Barcelona, Spain
May 7
May 13		 Wireless-Meshup (Wireless Battle Mesh) Berlin, Germany
May 9
May 13		 PyCon Cleveland, OH, USA
May 16
May 20		 Mini-DebConf Hamburg, Germany
May 17
May 18		 Devopsdays Silicon Valley Mountain View, CA, USA
May 18
May 19		 French Perl Workshop 2018 Paris, France

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Event Reports

SCaLE 16x Wrap-Up

The SCALE Team wraps up Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE) 16X, which took place March 8-11 in Pasadena, CA. "Over 200 sessions. More than 100 exhibitors. Just north of 3,300 attendees took to the expo floor, speaker sessions, exams, installfest, and workshops over four days." Videos are being processed and will be posted to YouTube.

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Security updates

Alert summary March 15, 2018 to March 21, 2018

Dist. ID Release Package Date
Arch Linux ASA-201803-14 clamav 2018-03-20
Arch Linux ASA-201803-15 curl 2018-03-20
Arch Linux ASA-201803-13 firefox 2018-03-19
Arch Linux ASA-201803-16 lib32-curl 2018-03-20
Arch Linux ASA-201803-18 lib32-libcurl-compat 2018-03-20
Arch Linux ASA-201803-20 lib32-libcurl-gnutls 2018-03-20
Arch Linux ASA-201803-17 libcurl-compat 2018-03-20
Arch Linux ASA-201803-19 libcurl-gnutls 2018-03-20
Arch Linux ASA-201803-12 libvorbis 2018-03-19
Arch Linux ASA-201803-11 ntp 2018-03-18
Arch Linux ASA-201803-10 samba 2018-03-14
CentOS CESA-2018:0515 C6 389-ds-base 2018-03-14
CentOS CESA-2018:0526 C6 firefox 2018-03-15
CentOS CESA-2018:0549 C6 firefox 2018-03-20
CentOS CESA-2018:0527 C7 firefox 2018-03-15
CentOS CESA-2018:0549 C7 firefox 2018-03-20
CentOS CESA-2018:0512 C6 kernel 2018-03-14
CentOS CESA-2018:0517 C6 libreoffice 2018-03-14
CentOS CESA-2018:0504 C6 mailman 2018-03-14
CentOS CESA-2018:0516 C6 qemu-kvm 2018-03-14
Debian DLA-1307-1 LTS clamav 2018-03-16
Debian DLA-1309-1 LTS curl 2018-03-18
Debian DSA-4136-1 stable curl 2018-03-14
Debian DLA-1308-1 LTS firefox-esr 2018-03-15
Debian DSA-4139-1 stable firefox-esr 2018-03-15
Debian DSA-4143-1 stable firefox-esr 2018-03-17
Debian DSA-4145-1 stable gitlab 2018-03-18
Debian DSA-4137-1 stable libvirt 2018-03-14
Debian DSA-4140-1 stable libvorbis 2018-03-16
Debian DSA-4141-1 stable libvorbisidec 2018-03-16
Debian DSA-4138-1 stable mbedtls 2018-03-15
Debian DSA-4144-1 stable openjdk-8 2018-03-17
Debian DSA-4146-1 stable plexus-utils 2018-03-20
Debian DSA-4142-1 stable uwsgi 2018-03-17
Fedora FEDORA-2018-035a7a9ccc F27 ImageMagick 2018-03-19
Fedora FEDORA-2018-af30668257 F27 advancecomp 2018-03-15
Fedora FEDORA-2018-5649824f49 F27 calibre 2018-03-20
Fedora FEDORA-2018-ed907ef9a0 F27 ceph 2018-03-14
Fedora FEDORA-2018-5a249b4214 F26 cryptopp 2018-03-20
Fedora FEDORA-2018-66c96e0024 F26 curl 2018-03-20
Fedora FEDORA-2018-8877b4ccac F27 curl 2018-03-20
Fedora FEDORA-2018-fa0a676067 F26 dolphin-emu 2018-03-20
Fedora FEDORA-2018-1697970ac4 F27 dolphin-emu 2018-03-20
Fedora FEDORA-2018-7011a8b0da F26 firefox 2018-03-19
Fedora FEDORA-2018-9406d8e9aa F26 firefox 2018-03-20
Fedora FEDORA-2018-92031bb1ed F27 firefox 2018-03-15
Fedora FEDORA-2018-a068ade416 F27 firefox 2018-03-19
Fedora FEDORA-2018-c38e40a4bf F27 golang 2018-03-20
Fedora FEDORA-2018-fff755ee8e F26 jhead 2018-03-20
Fedora FEDORA-2018-bf60ec1389 F26 kernel 2018-03-16
Fedora FEDORA-2018-296bf0c332 F26 kernel 2018-03-20
Fedora FEDORA-2018-cf76003e1f F27 kernel 2018-03-16
Fedora FEDORA-2018-959aac67a3 F27 kernel 2018-03-20
Fedora FEDORA-2018-199e6065ee F26 libcdio 2018-03-20
Fedora FEDORA-2018-4fb7cdd27f F27 libgit2 2018-03-20
Fedora FEDORA-2018-c5c651ac44 F27 libldb 2018-03-14
Fedora FEDORA-2018-061bafe369 F27 libvorbis 2018-03-20
Fedora FEDORA-2018-55b7018374 F27 mailman 2018-03-16
Fedora FEDORA-2018-8be89d9ad6 F26 ming 2018-03-20
Fedora FEDORA-2018-38a0e1e6f5 F27 ming 2018-03-20
Fedora FEDORA-2018-5a5f51753c F26 net-snmp 2018-03-20
Fedora FEDORA-2018-71fac70309 F26 patch 2018-03-20
Fedora FEDORA-2018-2999cf6426 F26 postgresql 2018-03-14
Fedora FEDORA-2018-a32082df51 F27 postgresql 2018-03-14
Fedora FEDORA-2018-bd1147f152 F27 python-django 2018-03-15
Fedora FEDORA-2018-7d0acd608b F26 samba 2018-03-20
Fedora FEDORA-2018-c5c651ac44 F27 samba 2018-03-14
Fedora FEDORA-2018-0746dac335 F26 xen 2018-03-20
Fedora FEDORA-2018-9cdf18a850 F26 zsh 2018-03-20
Gentoo 201803-08 adobe-flash 2018-03-18
Gentoo 201803-07 jabberd2 2018-03-18
Gentoo 201803-06 oracle-jdk-bin 2018-03-18
Gentoo 201803-09 plasma-workspace 2018-03-18
Mageia MGASA-2018-0170 5, 6 SDL_image 2018-03-19
Mageia MGASA-2018-0173 6 bugzilla 2018-03-19
Mageia MGASA-2018-0169 6 clamav 2018-03-14
Mageia MGASA-2018-0172 6 kernel 2018-03-19
Mageia MGASA-2018-0175 6 leptonica 2018-03-19
Mageia MGASA-2018-0180 5, 6 libtiff 2018-03-19
Mageia MGASA-2018-0179 5, 6 libvorbis 2018-03-19
Mageia MGASA-2018-0165 6 memcached 2018-03-14
Mageia MGASA-2018-0176 6 microcode 2018-03-19
Mageia MGASA-2018-0167 5, 6 php 2018-03-14
Mageia MGASA-2018-0166 6 python-django 2018-03-14
Mageia MGASA-2018-0171 5, 6 python-pycrypto 2018-03-19
Mageia MGASA-2018-0177 5, 6 shadow-utils 2018-03-19
Mageia MGASA-2018-0174 6 sharutils 2018-03-19
Mageia MGASA-2018-0178 5 xerces-c 2018-03-19
Mageia MGASA-2018-0168 6 zsh 2018-03-14
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2018:0704-1 42.3 Chromium 2018-03-16
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2018:0733-1 42.3 GraphicsMagick 2018-03-18
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2018:0734-1 42.3 SDL2, SDL2_image 2018-03-18
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2018:0680-1 42.3 adminer 2018-03-15
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2018:0732-1 42.3 exempi 2018-03-18
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2018:0681-1 42.3 firefox 2018-03-15
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2018:0737-1 42.3 firefox 2018-03-18
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2018:0684-1 42.3 java-1_7_0-openjdk 2018-03-15
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2018:0684-1 42.3 java-1_7_0-openjdk 2018-03-15
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2018:0679-1 42.3 java-1_8_0-openjdk 2018-03-15
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2018:0703-1 42.3 kernel-firmware 2018-03-16
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2018:0735-1 42.3 libid3tag 2018-03-18
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2018:0731-1 42.3 libraw 2018-03-18
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2018:0730-1 42.3 mariadb 2018-03-17
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2018:0725-1 42.3 php5 2018-03-17
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2018:0688-1 42.3 postgresql94 2018-03-15
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2018:0736-1 42.3 postgresql95 2018-03-18
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2018:0710-1 42.3 ucode-intel 2018-03-16
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2018:0745-1 42.3 various KMPs 2018-03-20
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2018:0738-1 42.3 xmltooling 2018-03-18
Oracle ELSA-2018-0526 OL6 firefox 2018-03-15
Oracle ELSA-2018-0549 OL6 firefox 2018-03-19
Oracle ELSA-2018-0527 OL7 firefox 2018-03-15
Oracle ELSA-2018-0549 OL7 firefox 2018-03-19
Oracle ELSA-2018-0512 OL6 kernel 2018-03-15
Oracle ELSA-2018-0517 OL6 libreoffice 2018-03-14
Red Hat RHSA-2018:0548-01 ceph 2018-03-15
Red Hat RHSA-2018:0546-01 EL7 ceph 2018-03-15
Red Hat RHSA-2018:0560-01 RHEV4 collectd 2018-03-20
Red Hat RHSA-2018:0528-01 OSP9.0 erlang 2018-03-15
Red Hat RHSA-2018:0526-01 EL6 firefox 2018-03-15
Red Hat RHSA-2018:0549-01 EL6 EL7 firefox 2018-03-19
Red Hat RHSA-2018:0527-01 EL7 firefox 2018-03-15
Red Hat RHSA-2018:0520-01 EL6 flash-plugin 2018-03-14
Red Hat RHSA-2018:0521-01 EL6 java-1.7.1-ibm 2018-03-14
Red Hat RHSA-2018:0574-01 SCL rh-mariadb101-mariadb and rh-mariadb101-galera 2018-03-21
Scientific Linux SLSA-2018:0515-1 SL6 389-ds-base 2018-03-14
Scientific Linux SLSA-2018:0526-1 SL6 firefox 2018-03-15
Scientific Linux SLSA-2018:0549-1 SL6 SL7 firefox 2018-03-19
Scientific Linux SLSA-2018:0527-1 SL7 firefox 2018-03-15
Scientific Linux SLSA-2018:0512-1 SL6 kernel 2018-03-14
Scientific Linux SLSA-2018:0517-1 SL6 libreoffice 2018-03-14
Scientific Linux SLSA-2018:0516-1 SL6 qemu-kvm 2018-03-14
Slackware SSA:2018-074-01 curl 2018-03-15
Slackware SSA:2018-075-01 firefox 2018-03-16
Slackware SSA:2018-076-01 libvorbis 2018-03-17
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:0743-1 OS6 SLE12 java-1_7_1-ibm 2018-03-19
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:0694-1 SLE12 java-1_7_1-ibm 2018-03-15
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:0697-1 OS6 SLE12 mariadb 2018-03-15
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:0698-1 SLE12 mariadb 2018-03-15
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:0705-1 SLE11 microcode_ctl 2018-03-16
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:0708-1 OS6 SLE12 ucode-intel 2018-03-16
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:0678-1 SLE11 xen 2018-03-15
Ubuntu USN-3598-1 14.04 16.04 17.10 curl 2018-03-15
Ubuntu USN-3596-1 14.04 16.04 17.10 firefox 2018-03-14
Ubuntu USN-3599-1 14.04 16.04 17.10 firefox 2018-03-16
Ubuntu USN-3597-1 17.10 linux, linux-raspi2 2018-03-15
Ubuntu USN-3597-2 16.04 linux-hwe 2018-03-15
Ubuntu USN-3601-1 14.04 16.04 17.10 memcached 2018-03-19
Ubuntu USN-3603-2 12.04 paramiko 2018-03-20
Ubuntu USN-3603-1 14.04 16.04 17.10 paramiko 2018-03-20
Ubuntu USN-3600-1 14.04 16.04 17.10 php5, php7.0, php7.1 2018-03-19
Ubuntu USN-3602-1 14.04 16.04 tiff 2018-03-20
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Kernel patches of interest

Kernel releases

Linus Torvalds Linux 4.16-rc6 Mar 18
Greg KH Linux 4.15.12 Mar 21
Greg KH Linux 4.15.11 Mar 19
Greg KH Linux 4.15.10 Mar 15
Greg KH Linux 4.14.29 Mar 21
Greg KH Linux 4.14.28 Mar 19
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior v4.14.28-rt23 Mar 21
Greg KH Linux 4.14.27 Mar 15
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior v4.14.27-rt21 Mar 17
Greg KH Linux 4.9.88 Mar 18
Greg KH Linux 4.4.122 Mar 18
Greg KH Linux 3.18.100 Mar 18
Ben Hutchings Linux 3.16.56 Mar 19
Ben Hutchings Linux 3.2.101 Mar 19

Architecture-specific

Abbott Liu KASan for arm Mar 18
Guo Ren C-SKY(csky) Linux Kernel Port Mar 19
Michal Suchanek powerpc barrier_nospec Mar 15
Joerg Roedel PTI support for x32 Mar 16
Christoph Hellwig use generic dma-direct and swiotlb code for x86 V3 Mar 19
Luwei Kang Intel Processor Trace virtualization enabling Mar 20

Build system

Laura Abbott Salted build ids via linker sections Mar 20

Core kernel

Rafael J. Wysocki sched/cpuidle: Idle loop rework Mar 15
Vincent Guittot sched/rt: track rt rq utilization Mar 16
Peter Zijlstra sched/wait: Replace wait_on_atomic_t() with wait_var_event() Mar 15
Arnd Bergmann [v3] y2038: introduce struct __kernel_old_timeval Mar 15
Dietmar Eggemann Energy Aware Scheduling Mar 20
Christoph Hellwig aio poll and a new in-kernel poll API V6 Mar 21

Device drivers

sean.wang@mediatek.com add support for Mediatek High-Speed DMA controller on MT7622 and MT7623 SoC Mar 15
Jacopo Mondi drm: Add Thine THC63LVD1024 LVDS decoder bridge Mar 15
Karthikeyan Ramasubramanian Introduce GENI SE Controller Driver Mar 14
Antoine Tenart crypto: inside-secure - hmac(sha256/sha224) support Mar 15
Leo Yan Add support for Hi3660 mailbox driver Mar 16
Rajendra Nayak Add powerdomain driver for corners on msm8996 Mar 16
David Collins regulator: add QCOM RPMh regulator driver Mar 16
Manivannan Sadhasivam Add clock driver for Actions S900 SoC Mar 17
Paul Cercueil Ingenic JZ47xx Timer/Counter Unit drivers Mar 18
Matt Porter TDA7419 audio processor driver Mar 18
gabriel.fernandez@st.com Introduce STM32MP1 Reset driver Mar 19
Gerd Hoffmann Add udmabuf misc device Mar 16
Paolo Pisati Lattice MachXO2 Slave SPI FPGA Manager support Mar 16
Anirudh Venkataramanan Add ice driver Mar 15
Ken Chen i2c: muxes: pca9641: new driver Mar 20
Heikki Krogerus USB Type-C device-connection, mux and switch support Mar 20
Ruslan Bilovol USB Audio Device Class 3.0 support Mar 21
tali.perry1@gmail.com clk: npcm750: Add NPCM7XX Clock driver and binding Mar 20
Rajkumar Rampelli Implementation of Tegra Tachometer driver Mar 21
Andrey Smirnov RAVE SP EEPROM driver Mar 21
Mark Jonas Input: add bu21029 touch driver Mar 21

Device-driver infrastructure

Alex Williamson vfio/pci: ioeventfd support Mar 15
Rahul Lakkireddy kernel: add support for 256-bit IO access Mar 19
Matt Roper cgroup private data and DRM/i915 integration Mar 16
Nipun Gupta dma-mapping: move dma configuration to bus infrastructure Mar 21

Filesystems and block layer

Darrick J. Wong xfs-4.17: online repair support Mar 15
Christoph Hellwig io_pgetevents & aio fsync Mar 21
Martin Brandenburg orangefs: page cache Mar 20

Memory management

David Rientjes mm, memcg: introduce oom policies Mar 15
Kirill Tkhai [PATCH 00/10] Improve shrink_slab() scalability (old complexity was O(n^2), new is O(n)) Mar 21

Networking

Saeed Mahameed TLS offload, netdev & MLX5 support Mar 19

Security-related

Richard Guy Briggs audit: implement container id Mar 16
Thiago Jung Bauermann Appended signatures support for IMA appraisal Mar 16

Virtualization and containers

Vitaly Kuznetsov Enlightened VMCS support for KVM on Hyper-V Mar 16

Miscellaneous

Karel Zak util-linux v2.32 Mar 21

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