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Calls for Presentations
CFP Deadlines: April 26, 2018 to June 25, 2018
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| June 23 | June 23 June 24 |
Linuxwochen Linz | Linz, Austria |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
Netdev 0x12 Conference update
Netdev will take place July 11-13 in Montréal, Québec, Canada. Two talks have been announced; Alexander Krizhanosky on Kernel TLS handshakes for HTTPS DDoS mitigation, and Vikram Siwach on Subscriber Billing System Over Commodity. The conference location will be at the Hyatt Regency Montreal. The call for papers remains open until May 1.Events: April 26, 2018 to June 25, 2018
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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 22 |
OpenMP UK Users' Conference | Oxford, UK |
| May 21 May 24 |
OpenStack Summit | Vancouver, Canada |
| 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 14 |
O'Reilly Fluent Conference | San Jose, CA, USA |
| June 12 June 13 |
Open Source Data Center Conference | Berlin, Germany |
| June 13 June 14 |
FOSS Backstage | Berlin, Germany |
| June 16 June 17 |
Hong Kong Open Source Conference 2018 | Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
| June 20 June 22 |
Open Source Summit Japan | Tokyo, Japan |
| June 20 June 22 |
Automotive Linux Summit | Tokyo, Japan |
| June 22 June 24 |
XenProject Developer and Design Summit | Nanjing, China |
| June 23 June 24 |
Linuxwochen Linz | Linz, Austria |
| June 23 June 24 |
Prague Maker Faire | Prague, Czech Republic |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Event Reports
Summary of the Linux IPsec workshop 2018
A summary of the Linux IPsec workshop that was held March 26-28 in Dresden, Germany is available. "The page was created from the etherpad we used during the workshop, so don't expect anything fancy. It still does not cover all session notes, but it gets updated whenever new information comes in."
Security updates
Alert summary April 19, 2018 to April 25, 2018
| Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arch Linux | ASA-201804-8 | roundcubemail | 2018-04-23 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201804-9 | xfig | 2018-04-23 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201804-7 | zsh | 2018-04-23 | |
| Debian | DLA-1357-1 | LTS | gunicorn | 2018-04-22 |
| Debian | DLA-1356-1 | LTS | libreoffice | 2018-04-19 |
| Debian | DSA-4178-1 | stable | libreoffice | 2018-04-20 |
| Debian | DSA-4177-1 | stable | libsdl2-image | 2018-04-20 |
| Debian | DSA-4179-1 | stable | linux-tools | 2018-04-24 |
| Debian | DLA-1360-1 | LTS | lucene-solr | 2018-04-24 |
| Debian | DLA-1355-1 | LTS | mysql-5.5 | 2018-04-19 |
| Debian | DSA-4176-1 | stable | mysql-5.5 | 2018-04-20 |
| Debian | DLA-1354-1 | LTS | opencv | 2018-04-18 |
| Debian | DLA-1361-1 | LTS | psensor | 2018-04-24 |
| Debian | DLA-1359-1 | LTS | ruby1.8 | 2018-04-23 |
| Debian | DLA-1358-1 | LTS | ruby1.9.1 | 2018-04-23 |
| Debian | DLA-1353-1 | LTS | wireshark | 2018-04-18 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-d87e29047d | F26 | corosync | 2018-04-19 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-b0253649be | F27 | corosync | 2018-04-19 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-9aa8064e12 | F26 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2018-04-22 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-77533e644b | F27 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2018-04-23 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-b3f8bee2e0 | F26 | jgraphx | 2018-04-21 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-b268b5bbb5 | F27 | jgraphx | 2018-04-21 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-122ea355a7 | F26 | memcached | 2018-04-22 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-4e26c06aef | F27 | mingw-libid3tag | 2018-04-23 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-cec96a9c41 | F27 | nghttp2 | 2018-04-21 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-ce5d7106d8 | F26 | pcs | 2018-04-19 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-1c8b49fbc7 | F27 | perl | 2018-04-21 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-1c8b49fbc7 | F27 | perl-Module-CoreList | 2018-04-21 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-f6dc921a19 | F26 | roundcubemail | 2018-04-21 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-57fbdb1cb5 | F27 | roundcubemail | 2018-04-21 |
| Gentoo | 201804-22 | chromium | 2018-04-23 | |
| Gentoo | 201804-16 | clamav | 2018-04-22 | |
| Gentoo | 201804-21 | librelp | 2018-04-22 | |
| Gentoo | 201804-19 | mbedtls | 2018-04-22 | |
| Gentoo | 201804-17 | quagga | 2018-04-22 | |
| Gentoo | 201804-18 | tenshi | 2018-04-22 | |
| Gentoo | 201804-20 | unadf | 2018-04-22 | |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0210 | 6 | freeplane | 2018-04-22 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0209 | 6 | libcdio | 2018-04-22 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0208 | 5, 6 | libtiff | 2018-04-20 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0207 | 5 | thunderbird | 2018-04-20 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0206 | 6 | zsh | 2018-04-20 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:1049-1 | 42.3 | PackageKit | 2018-04-24 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:1038-1 | 42.3 | cfitsio | 2018-04-21 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:1042-1 | 42.3 | chromium | 2018-04-21 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:1051-1 | hdf5 | 2018-04-24 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:1056-1 | 42.3 | hdf5 | 2018-04-24 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:1041-1 | mbedtls | 2018-04-21 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:1039-1 | 42.3 | mbedtls | 2018-04-21 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:1040-1 | 42.3 | nextcloud | 2018-04-21 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:1062-1 | 42.3 | ocaml | 2018-04-24 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:1059-1 | phpMyAdmin | 2018-04-24 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:1058-1 | 42.3 | phpMyAdmin | 2018-04-24 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:1053-1 | 42.3 | salt | 2018-04-24 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:1057-1 | 42.3 | virtualbox | 2018-04-24 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-1224 | OL7 | PackageKit | 2018-04-24 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-1099 | OL7 | firefox | 2018-04-18 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-1188 | OL6 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2018-04-19 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-1191 | OL7 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2018-04-19 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-4071 | OL6 | kernel | 2018-04-18 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-4071 | OL7 | kernel | 2018-04-18 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-1225 | OL6 | librelp | 2018-04-24 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-1223 | OL7 | librelp | 2018-04-24 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-1055 | OL7 | libvncserver | 2018-04-18 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-1058 | OL7 | libvorbis | 2018-04-18 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-1199 | OL6 | patch | 2018-04-23 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-1200 | OL7 | patch | 2018-04-23 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:1224-01 | EL7 | PackageKit | 2018-04-24 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:1195-01 | EL6 | chromium-browser | 2018-04-23 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:1203-01 | EL6 | java-1.6.0-sun | 2018-04-23 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:1205-01 | EL7 | java-1.6.0-sun | 2018-04-23 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:1206-01 | EL6 | java-1.7.0-oracle | 2018-04-23 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:1201-01 | EL7 | java-1.7.0-oracle | 2018-04-23 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:1188-01 | EL6 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2018-04-19 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:1191-01 | EL7 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2018-04-19 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:1202-01 | EL6 | java-1.8.0-oracle | 2018-04-23 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:1204-01 | EL7 | java-1.8.0-oracle | 2018-04-23 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:1196-01 | EL5 | kernel | 2018-04-23 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:1216-01 | EL7.2 | kernel | 2018-04-24 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:1225-01 | EL6 | librelp | 2018-04-24 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:1223-01 | EL7 | librelp | 2018-04-24 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:1199-01 | EL6 | patch | 2018-04-23 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:1200-01 | EL7 | patch | 2018-04-23 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:1213-02 | EL7 | python-paramiko | 2018-04-24 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:1192-01 | SCL | rh-perl524-perl | 2018-04-23 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2018:1188-1 | SL6 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2018-04-19 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2018:1225-1 | SL6 | librelp | 2018-04-24 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2018:1199-1 | SL6 | patch | 2018-04-23 |
| Slackware | SSA:2018-108-01 | gd | 2018-04-18 | |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:1047-1 | SLE12 | PackageKit | 2018-04-23 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:0986-1 | SLE12 | kernel | 2018-04-19 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:1048-1 | SLE12 | kernel | 2018-04-23 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3627-1 | 14.04 16.04 17.10 | apache2 | 2018-04-19 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3631-1 | 16.04 | linux, linux-aws, linux-kvm, linux-raspi2, linux-snapdragon | 2018-04-23 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3630-1 | 17.10 | linux, linux-raspi2 | 2018-04-23 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3632-1 | 16.04 | linux-azure | 2018-04-23 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3633-1 | 16.04 | linux-euclid | 2018-04-23 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3630-2 | 16.04 | linux-hwe, linux-gcp, linux-oem | 2018-04-23 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3631-2 | 14.04 | linux-lts-xenial, linux-aws | 2018-04-23 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3629-1 | 14.04 16.04 17.10 | mysql-5.5, mysql-5.7 | 2018-04-23 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3629-2 | 12.04 | mysql-5.5 | 2018-04-25 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3628-2 | 12.04 | openssl | 2018-04-19 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3628-1 | 14.04 16.04 17.10 | openssl | 2018-04-19 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3634-1 | 17.10 | packagekit | 2018-04-24 |
Kernel patches of interest
Kernel releases
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