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CFP Deadlines: April 19, 2018 to June 18, 2018
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
---|---|---|---|
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 |
May 23 | August 25 August 26 |
Free and Open Source Software Conference | Sankt Augustin, Germany |
May 24 | October 29 October 31 |
LISA18 | Nashville, TN, USA |
May 30 | July 18 July 19 |
RISC-V Workshop in Chennai | Chennai, India |
May 31 | August 28 September 1 |
EuroSciPy 2018 | Trento, Italy |
June 1 | April 1 April 4 |
‹Programming› 2019 | Genova, Italy |
June 1 | November 12 | RabbitMQ Summit 2018 | London, UK |
June 3 | August 27 August 28 |
Linux Security Summit | Vancouver, Canada |
June 3 | October 24 October 26 |
PyCon.DE 2018 | Karlsruhe, Germany |
June 7 | August 25 August 26 |
Linux Developers Conference Brazil | Campinas, Brazil |
June 9 | June 11 June 12 |
Czech and Slovak Network Operators Group | Brno, Czech Republic |
June 14 | September 26 | Open Source Backup Conference 2018 | Cologne , Germany |
June 14 | October 24 October 26 |
KVM Forum 2018 | Edinburgh, UK |
June 15 | August 11 August 12 |
openSUSE.Asia Summit | Taipei, Taiwan |
June 17 | July 29 August 5 |
DebConf18 | Hsinchu, Taiwan |
June 17 | September 20 September 23 |
EuroBSDcon 2018 | Bucharest, Romania |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
Events: April 19, 2018 to June 18, 2018
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
Date(s) | Event | Location |
---|---|---|
April 23 April 25 |
Storage, Filesystem and Memory-Management Summit | Park City, UT, USA |
April 23 | foss-north 2018 | Gothenburg, Sweden |
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 |
May 21 May 24 |
OpenStack Summit | Vancouver, Canada |
May 21 May 22 |
OpenMP UK Users' Conference | Oxford, UK |
May 22 May 23 |
Infoshare 2018 | Gdańsk, Poland |
May 23 May 27 |
DjangoCon Europe 2018 | Heidelberg, Germany |
May 25 May 27 |
openSUSE Conference 2018 | Prague, Czech Republic |
May 29 June 1 |
PGCon 2018 | Ottawa, Canada |
May 31 June 1 |
Netconf | Boston, MA, USA |
June 1 June 2 |
PyCon Taiwan | Taipei, Taiwan |
June 4 June 6 |
PyCon Israel 2018 | Israel |
June 5 June 7 |
SambaXP 2018 Conference | Göttingen, Germany |
June 7 June 10 |
Linux Audio Conference | Berlin, Germany |
June 8 June 9 |
Texas Linux Fest | Austin, TX, USA |
June 8 June 10 |
South East Linux Fest | Charlotte, NC, USA |
June 11 June 12 |
Czech and Slovak Network Operators Group | Brno, Czech Republic |
June 11 June 14 |
O'Reilly Velocity Conf | San Jose, CA, USA |
June 12 June 13 |
Open Source Data Center Conference | Berlin, Germany |
June 12 June 14 |
O'Reilly Fluent Conference | San Jose, CA, USA |
June 13 June 14 |
FOSS Backstage | Berlin, Germany |
June 16 June 17 |
Hong Kong Open Source Conference 2018 | Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Security updates
Alert summary April 12, 2018 to April 18, 2018
Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
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Arch Linux | ASA-201804-4 | apache | 2018-04-12 | |
Arch Linux | ASA-201804-6 | lib32-openssl | 2018-04-15 | |
Arch Linux | ASA-201804-5 | zsh | 2018-04-15 | |
Debian | DSA-4174-1 | stable | corosync | 2018-04-17 |
Debian | DSA-4175-1 | stable | freeplane | 2018-04-18 |
Debian | DLA-1352-1 | LTS | jruby | 2018-04-18 |
Debian | DLA-1349-1 | LTS | linux-tools | 2018-04-16 |
Debian | DLA-1348-1 | LTS | patch | 2018-04-16 |
Debian | DLA-1345-1 | LTS | perl | 2018-04-15 |
Debian | DSA-4172-1 | stable | perl | 2018-04-14 |
Debian | DSA-4079-2 | stable | poppler | 2018-04-12 |
Debian | DLA-1351-1 | LTS | qemu | 2018-04-17 |
Debian | DLA-1350-1 | LTS | qemu-kvm | 2018-04-17 |
Debian | DSA-4173-1 | stable | r-cran-readxl | 2018-04-16 |
Debian | DSA-4171-1 | stable | ruby-loofah | 2018-04-13 |
Debian | DLA-1344-1 | LTS | squirrelmail | 2018-04-16 |
Debian | DLA-1346-1 | LTS | tiff | 2018-04-15 |
Debian | DLA-1347-1 | LTS | tiff3 | 2018-04-15 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2018-3fc05e009d | F27 | gnupg2 | 2018-04-15 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2018-4ca01704a2 | F26 | kernel | 2018-04-18 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2018-81d3af3f36 | F26 | koji | 2018-04-11 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2018-4a2b875d6b | F26 | libofx | 2018-04-11 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2018-1b3a73b45f | F27 | libofx | 2018-04-11 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2018-e38f759144 | F27 | python-bleach | 2018-04-18 |
Gentoo | 201804-11 | adobe-flash | 2018-04-11 | |
Gentoo | 201804-15 | evince | 2018-04-17 | |
Gentoo | 201804-14 | gdk-pixbuf | 2018-04-17 | |
Gentoo | 201804-12 | go | 2018-04-15 | |
Gentoo | 201804-13 | ncurses | 2018-04-17 | |
Mageia | MGASA-2018-0202 | 6 | firefox | 2018-04-15 |
Mageia | MGASA-2018-0205 | 6 | flash-player-plugin | 2018-04-15 |
Mageia | MGASA-2018-0200 | 6 | nxagent | 2018-04-13 |
Mageia | MGASA-2018-0199 | 5, 6 | puppet | 2018-04-13 |
Mageia | MGASA-2018-0204 | 6 | python-paramiko | 2018-04-15 |
Mageia | MGASA-2018-0201 | 5, 6 | samba | 2018-04-13 |
Mageia | MGASA-2018-0203 | 6 | thunderbird | 2018-04-15 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:0960-1 | 42.3 | evince | 2018-04-17 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:0972-1 | 42.3 | kernel | 2018-04-17 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:0939-1 | 15.0 42.3 | libvirt | 2018-04-13 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:0968-1 | 42.3 | memcached | 2018-04-17 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:0967-1 | 42.3 | nodejs4 | 2018-04-17 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:0970-1 | 42.3 | ntp | 2018-04-17 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:0936-1 | 42.3 | openssl | 2018-04-13 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:0953-1 | pdns-recursor | 2018-04-16 | |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:0937-1 | 42.3 | policycoreutils | 2018-04-13 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:0965-1 | 42.3 | python-gunicorn, python3-gunicorn | 2018-04-17 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:0966-1 | 42.3 | python3 | 2018-04-17 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:0940-1 | 42.3 | zziplib | 2018-04-13 |
Oracle | ELSA-2018-1098 | OL6 | firefox | 2018-04-12 |
Oracle | ELSA-2018-0849 | OL7 | gcc | 2018-04-17 |
Oracle | ELSA-2018-0805 | OL7 | glibc | 2018-04-17 |
Oracle | ELSA-2018-4062 | OL6 | kernel | 2018-04-11 |
Oracle | ELSA-2018-4062 | OL7 | kernel | 2018-04-11 |
Oracle | ELSA-2018-1062 | OL7 | kernel | 2018-04-17 |
Oracle | ELSA-2018-0666 | OL7 | krb5 | 2018-04-17 |
Oracle | ELSA-2018-0855 | OL7 | ntp | 2018-04-17 |
Oracle | ELSA-2018-0980 | OL7 | openssh | 2018-04-17 |
Oracle | ELSA-2018-0998 | OL7 | openssl | 2018-04-17 |
Oracle | ELSA-2018-0913 | OL7 | policycoreutils | 2018-04-17 |
Oracle | ELSA-2018-1124 | OL6 | python-paramiko | 2018-04-12 |
Oracle | ELSA-2018-0816 | OL7 | qemu-kvm | 2018-04-17 |
Oracle | ELSA-2018-0842 | OL7 | xdg-user-dirs | 2018-04-17 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2018:1169-01 | EL7 | corosync | 2018-04-17 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2018:1119-01 | EL6 | flash-plugin | 2018-04-11 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2018:1137-01 | EL6 | glusterfs | 2018-04-18 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2018:1136-01 | EL7 | glusterfs | 2018-04-18 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2018:1129-01 | EL7.3 | kernel | 2018-04-17 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2018:1130-01 | EL7.4 | kernel | 2018-04-17 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2018:1170-01 | RHE-MRG | kernel-rt | 2018-04-17 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2018:1124-01 | EL6 | python-paramiko | 2018-04-12 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2018:1125-01 | EL6.4 EL6.5 EL6.6 EL6.7 | python-paramiko | 2018-04-12 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2018:1113-01 | OSP10.0 | qemu-kvm-rhev | 2018-04-11 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2018:1112-01 | OSP11.0/EL7 | sensu | 2018-04-11 |
Scientific Linux | SLSA-2018:1098-1 | SL6 | firefox | 2018-04-11 |
Scientific Linux | SLSA-2018:1124-1 | SL6 | python-paramiko | 2018-04-13 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:0975-1 | SLE11 | openssl | 2018-04-18 |
Ubuntu | USN-3611-2 | 12.04 | openssl | 2018-04-17 |
Ubuntu | USN-3624-2 | 12.04 | patch | 2018-04-16 |
Ubuntu | USN-3625-2 | 12.04 | perl | 2018-04-17 |
Ubuntu | USN-3625-1 | 14.04 16.04 17.10 | perl | 2018-04-16 |
Ubuntu | USN-3621-2 | 14.04 | ruby | 2018-04-13 |
Ubuntu | USN-3626-1 | 14.04 16.04 17.10 | ruby1.9.1, ruby2.0, ruby2.3 | 2018-04-16 |
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