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PostgresConf South Africa 2018

PostgresConf South Africa will take place October 9 in Johannesburg. The call for papers is open until June 30. "If you're using PostgreSQL or contributing to it, please submit a talk. All topics that relate to PostgreSQL will be considered, such as use cases, maintenance aspects, replication, inner-workings, upcoming features, performance tuning, etc. Talks are not restricted to speakers only from South Africa, but is open to anyone around the world."

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Linux Security Summit Europe 2018 - CFP

The Linux Security Summit takes place October 25-26 in Edinburgh, UK. The call for participation ends July 16.

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CFP Deadlines: May 17, 2018 to July 16, 2018

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

DeadlineEvent Dates EventLocation
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
June 30 September 12
September 13
Devopsdays Berlin 2018 Berlin, Germany
June 30 September 5
September 8
Radare conference 2018 Barcelona, Spain
June 30 September 26
September 28
LibreOffice Conference Tirana, Albania
June 30 October 9 PostgresConf South Africa 2018 Johannesburg, South Africa
July 1 October 22
October 24
Open Source Summit Europe Edinburgh, UK
July 1 October 22
October 24
Embedded Linux Conference Europe Edinburgh, UK
July 3 August 25 FOSScon Philadelphia, PA, USA
July 15 August 24
August 26
YAPC::Europe Cluj 2016 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
July 15 August 8
August 11
Flock to Fedora Dresden, Germany

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Upcoming Events

Netdev 0x12 Conference update

Netdev welcomes Cumulus as a gold sponsor, and announces more talks that have been accepted for the conference, which takes place July 11-13 in Montreal Canada.

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Events: May 17, 2018 to July 16, 2018

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

Date(s)EventLocation
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 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
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
June 25
June 27
LinuxCon+ContainerCon+Cloudopen China Beijing, China
June 29
July 1
WineConf 2018 The Hague, The Netherlands
July 2
July 4
Pass the SALT 2018 Lille, France
July 6
July 11
GUADEC Almería, Spain
July 7
July 12
Libre Software Meeting Strasbourg, France
July 9
July 15
SciPy 2018 Austin, TX, USA
July 11
July 13
Netdev 0x12 Montréal, Québec, Canada
July 14
July 15
Community Leadership Summit Portland, OR, USA

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Security updates

Alert summary May 10, 2018 to May 16, 2018

Dist. ID Release Package Date
Arch Linux ASA-201805-10 firefox 2018-05-14
Arch Linux ASA-201805-3 freetype2 2018-05-09
Arch Linux ASA-201805-6 libmupdf 2018-05-10
Arch Linux ASA-201805-2 libraw 2018-05-09
Arch Linux ASA-201805-8 llpp 2018-05-14
Arch Linux ASA-201805-4 mupdf 2018-05-10
Arch Linux ASA-201805-5 mupdf-gl 2018-05-10
Arch Linux ASA-201805-7 mupdf-tools 2018-05-10
Arch Linux ASA-201805-1 powerdns 2018-05-09
Arch Linux ASA-201805-9 webkit2gtk 2018-05-14
CentOS CESA-2018:1364 C6 389-ds-base 2018-05-09
CentOS CESA-2018:1454 C6 dhcp 2018-05-15
CentOS CESA-2018:1453 C7 dhcp 2018-05-15
CentOS CESA-2018:1319 C6 kernel 2018-05-10
Debian DLA-1374-1 LTS firebird2.5 2018-05-11
Debian DLA-1376-1 LTS firefox-esr 2018-05-11
Debian DSA-4199-1 stable firefox-esr 2018-05-10
Debian DSA-4200-1 stable kwallet-pam 2018-05-14
Debian DLA-1373-1 LTS php5 2018-05-09
Debian DSA-4198-1 stable prosody 2018-05-09
Debian DLA-1377-1 LTS tiff 2018-05-13
Debian DLA-1378-1 LTS tiff3 2018-05-13
Debian DSA-4197-1 stable wavpack 2018-05-09
Debian DLA-1375-1 LTS wget 2018-05-11
Debian DSA-4201-1 stable xen 2018-05-15
Fedora FEDORA-2018-08ea7a5f0b F27 LibRaw 2018-05-15
Fedora FEDORA-2018-8c4e0b4335 F28 LibRaw 2018-05-13
Fedora FEDORA-2018-1361f39801 F26 ckeditor 2018-05-10
Fedora FEDORA-2018-e29c7d10da F27 ckeditor 2018-05-10
Fedora FEDORA-2018-107dbc8cf4 F28 ckeditor 2018-05-09
Fedora FEDORA-2018-36058ed9f2 F27 dhcp 2018-05-15
Fedora FEDORA-2018-23ca7a6798 F28 dhcp 2018-05-15
Fedora FEDORA-2018-2359c2ae0e F26 drupal7 2018-05-10
Fedora FEDORA-2018-b9ad458866 F27 drupal7 2018-05-10
Fedora FEDORA-2018-58f23f45d7 F28 fftw 2018-05-09
Fedora FEDORA-2018-f00e9aa912 F28 firefox 2018-05-11
Fedora FEDORA-2018-46f48df07d F27 flac 2018-05-15
Fedora FEDORA-2018-6a378e32c3 F28 flac 2018-05-09
Fedora FEDORA-2018-f9e0f1caf7 F26 glusterfs 2018-05-12
Fedora FEDORA-2018-884a105c04 F26 kernel 2018-05-11
Fedora FEDORA-2018-ac3b4c7605 F28 kernel 2018-05-14
Fedora FEDORA-2018-389bc4e911 F28 knot-resolver 2018-05-09
Fedora FEDORA-2018-16c8fdf9b8 F27 kubernetes 2018-05-11
Fedora FEDORA-2018-9b965c4eed F28 kubernetes 2018-05-16
Fedora FEDORA-2018-c6e8b5f529 F28 leptonica 2018-05-16
Fedora FEDORA-2018-46f3f13c68 F27 libgxps 2018-05-16
Fedora FEDORA-2018-078b082cbe F28 libgxps 2018-05-12
Fedora FEDORA-2018-f513267ac5 F28 matrix-synapse 2018-05-15
Fedora FEDORA-2018-ccb2cc96be F27 mingw-LibRaw 2018-05-16
Fedora FEDORA-2018-d3b44e5574 F28 mingw-LibRaw 2018-05-16
Fedora FEDORA-2018-92f04c6b61 F26 mysql-mmm 2018-05-15
Fedora FEDORA-2018-e31f52c5ee F27 mysql-mmm 2018-05-15
Fedora FEDORA-2018-ca5321b5ff F28 mysql-mmm 2018-05-15
Fedora FEDORA-2018-a954bb958b F26 pam-kwallet 2018-05-14
Fedora FEDORA-2018-e56bdde239 F27 pam-kwallet 2018-05-14
Fedora FEDORA-2018-b8cbd331a1 F28 pam-kwallet 2018-05-14
Fedora FEDORA-2018-5f7b78636d F28 papi 2018-05-11
Fedora FEDORA-2018-88a4219528 F26 patch 2018-05-15
Fedora FEDORA-2018-23a1b5975a F27 patch 2018-05-15
Fedora FEDORA-2018-ed8d7c62c9 F28 patch 2018-05-09
Fedora FEDORA-2018-59eb033684 F27 perl-Dancer2 2018-05-10
Fedora FEDORA-2018-ded377a782 F28 perl-Dancer2 2018-05-09
Fedora FEDORA-2018-d1ba58394e F28 perl 2018-05-09
Fedora FEDORA-2018-08550a9006 F28 postgresql 2018-05-12
Fedora FEDORA-2018-5e8de70380 F26 quassel 2018-05-11
Fedora FEDORA-2018-bd73ec6f3a F27 quassel 2018-05-11
Fedora FEDORA-2018-9617cb1088 F28 quassel 2018-05-11
Fedora FEDORA-2018-cf8e6c1a35 F26 seamonkey 2018-05-13
Fedora FEDORA-2018-0e6e400e7a F27 seamonkey 2018-05-16
Fedora FEDORA-2018-1c5750c688 F28 seamonkey 2018-05-13
Fedora FEDORA-2018-97c58e29e4 F28 webkit2gtk3 2018-05-11
Fedora FEDORA-2018-93ba62d099 F27 webkitgtk4 2018-05-15
Fedora FEDORA-2018-f29459149a F26 wget 2018-05-13
Fedora FEDORA-2018-29ebba0906 F27 wget 2018-05-13
Fedora FEDORA-2018-11b37d7a68 F28 wget 2018-05-11
Fedora FEDORA-2018-eb69078020 F26 xen 2018-05-12
Fedora FEDORA-2018-98684f429b F27 xen 2018-05-16
Fedora FEDORA-2018-a7ac26523d F28 xen 2018-05-12
Gentoo 201805-05 mpv 2018-05-14
Mageia MGASA-2018-0245 6 389-ds-base 2018-05-16
Mageia MGASA-2018-0231 5, 6 afflib 2018-05-12
Mageia MGASA-2018-0224 5 cups 2018-05-09
Mageia MGASA-2018-0239 6 exempi 2018-05-16
Mageia MGASA-2018-0227 5, 6 flac 2018-05-09
Mageia MGASA-2018-0233 6 flash-player-plugin 2018-05-12
Mageia MGASA-2018-0238 6 golang 2018-05-16
Mageia MGASA-2018-0228 6 graphicsmagick 2018-05-09
Mageia MGASA-2018-0240 5, 6 graphite2 2018-05-16
Mageia MGASA-2018-0229 6 imagemagick 2018-05-12
Mageia MGASA-2018-0225 5 libcdio 2018-05-09
Mageia MGASA-2018-0223 5, 6 libid3tag 2018-05-09
Mageia MGASA-2018-0234 6 libpam4j 2018-05-16
Mageia MGASA-2018-0242 6 libraw 2018-05-16
Mageia MGASA-2018-0236 5, 6 libsndfile 2018-05-16
Mageia MGASA-2018-0246 5, 6 libtiff 2018-05-16
Mageia MGASA-2018-0226 6 nextcloud 2018-05-09
Mageia MGASA-2018-0247 5 perl 2018-05-16
Mageia MGASA-2018-0241 6 perl 2018-05-16
Mageia MGASA-2018-0232 5, 6 qpdf 2018-05-12
Mageia MGASA-2018-0243 5, 6 quassel 2018-05-16
Mageia MGASA-2018-0235 6 spring-ldap 2018-05-16
Mageia MGASA-2018-0230 6 transmission 2018-05-12
Mageia MGASA-2018-0237 6 util-linux 2018-05-16
Mageia MGASA-2018-0244 5, 6 wget 2018-05-16
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2018:1275-1 42.3 Chromium 2018-05-13
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2018:1205-1 42.3 ImageMagick 2018-05-11
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2018:1198-1 42.3 apache2 2018-05-10
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2018:1215-1 42.3 cairo 2018-05-11
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2018:1212-1 42.3 firefox 2018-05-11
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2018:1214-1 42.3 libapr1 2018-05-11
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2018:1209-1 42.3 nodejs6 2018-05-11
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2018:1271-1 opencv 2018-05-12
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2018:1265-1 42.3 opencv 2018-05-12
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2018:1207-1 42.3 php7 2018-05-11
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2018:1204-1 42.3 tiff 2018-05-11
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2018:1274-1 42.3 xen 2018-05-12
Oracle ELSA-2018-1364 OL6 389-ds-base 2018-05-09
Oracle ELSA-2018-1380 OL7 389-ds-base 2018-05-14
Oracle ELSA-2018-1454 OL6 dhcp 2018-05-15
Oracle ELSA-2018-1453 OL7 dhcp 2018-05-15
Oracle ELSA-2018-1414 OL6 firefox 2018-05-14
Oracle ELSA-2018-1415 OL7 firefox 2018-05-14
Oracle ELSA-2018-4110 OL5 kernel 2018-05-16
Oracle ELSA-2018-4108 OL6 kernel 2018-05-15
Oracle ELSA-2018-4109 OL6 kernel 2018-05-15
Oracle ELSA-2018-4110 OL6 kernel 2018-05-16
Oracle ELSA-2018-1318 OL7 kernel 2018-05-09
Oracle ELSA-2018-4108 OL7 kernel 2018-05-15
Oracle ELSA-2018-4109 OL7 kernel 2018-05-15
Oracle ELSA-2018-1396 OL7 libvirt 2018-05-14
Oracle ELSA-2018-1416 OL7 qemu-kvm 2018-05-14
Red Hat RHSA-2018:1364-01 EL6 389-ds-base 2018-05-09
Red Hat RHSA-2018:1380-01 EL7 389-ds-base 2018-05-15
Red Hat RHSA-2018:1446-01 EL6 chromium-browser 2018-05-15
Red Hat RHSA-2018:1454-01 EL6 dhcp 2018-05-15
Red Hat RHSA-2018:1461-01 EL6.4 dhcp 2018-05-15
Red Hat RHSA-2018:1460-01 EL6.5 dhcp 2018-05-15
Red Hat RHSA-2018:1459-01 EL6.6 dhcp 2018-05-15
Red Hat RHSA-2018:1458-01 EL6.7 dhcp 2018-05-15
Red Hat RHSA-2018:1453-01 EL7 dhcp 2018-05-15
Red Hat RHSA-2018:1457-01 EL7.2 dhcp 2018-05-15
Red Hat RHSA-2018:1456-01 EL7.3 dhcp 2018-05-15
Red Hat RHSA-2018:1455-01 EL7.4 dhcp 2018-05-15
Red Hat RHSA-2018:1427-01 EL7 docker-latest 2018-05-15
Red Hat RHSA-2018:1414-01 EL6 firefox 2018-05-15
Red Hat RHSA-2018:1415-01 EL7 firefox 2018-05-15
Red Hat RHSA-2018:1367-01 EL6 flash-plugin 2018-05-09
Red Hat RHSA-2018:1374-01 EL7 kernel-alt 2018-05-15
Red Hat RHSA-2018:1396-01 EL7 libvirt 2018-05-15
Red Hat RHSA-2018:1416-01 EL7 qemu-kvm 2018-05-15
Red Hat RHSA-2018:1369-01 EL7 qemu-kvm-rhev 2018-05-10
Red Hat RHSA-2018:1524-01 EL7 redhat-virtualization-host 2018-05-15
Red Hat RHSA-2018:1372-01 SCL rh-haproxy18-haproxy 2018-05-15
Red Hat RHSA-2018:1525-01 EL7 rhvm-appliance 2018-05-15
Scientific Linux SLSA-2018:1364-1 SL6 389-ds-base 2018-05-09
Scientific Linux SLSA-2018:1380-1 SL7 389-ds-base 2018-05-15
Scientific Linux SLSA-2018:1454-1 SL6 dhcp 2018-05-15
Scientific Linux SLSA-2018:1453-1 SL7 dhcp 2018-05-15
Scientific Linux SLSA-2018:1414-1 SL6 firefox 2018-05-15
Scientific Linux SLSA-2018:1415-1 SL7 firefox 2018-05-15
Scientific Linux SLSA-2018:1396-1 SL7 libvirt 2018-05-15
Scientific Linux SLSA-2018:1416-1 SL7 qemu-kvm 2018-05-15
Slackware SSA:2018-129-01 firefox 2018-05-09
Slackware SSA:2018-130-01 mariadb 2018-05-10
Slackware SSA:2018-129-02 wget 2018-05-09
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:1220-1 OS6 SLE12 kernel 2018-05-11
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:1217-1 SLE12 kernel 2018-05-11
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:1221-1 SLE12 kernel 2018-05-11
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:1202-1 OS6 SLE12 xen 2018-05-10
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:1216-1 OS7 SLE12 xen 2018-05-11
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:1181-1 SLE11 xen 2018-05-09
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:1203-1 SLE11 xen 2018-05-10
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:1177-1 SLE12 xen 2018-05-09
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:1184-1 SLE12 xen 2018-05-09
Ubuntu USN-3645-1 14.04 16.04 17.10 18.04 firefox 2018-05-11
Ubuntu USN-3644-1 16.04 17.10 openjdk-8 2018-05-10
Ubuntu USN-3646-1 14.04 16.04 17.10 18.04 php5, php7.0, php7.1, php7.2 2018-05-14
Ubuntu USN-3600-2 12.04 php5 2018-05-15
Ubuntu USN-3647-1 14.04 16.04 17.10 18.04 poppler 2018-05-15
Ubuntu USN-3643-2 12.04 wget 2018-05-09
Ubuntu USN-3643-1 14.04 16.04 17.10 18.04 wget 2018-05-09
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Kernel patches of interest

Kernel releases

Linus Torvalds Linux 4.17-rc5 May 13
Greg KH Linux 4.16.9 May 16
Greg KH Linux 4.14.41 May 16
Steven Rostedt 4.14.40-rt30 May 14
Greg KH Linux 4.9.100 May 16
Julia Cartwright 4.9.98-rt76 May 10
Greg KH Linux 4.4.132 May 16
Greg KH Linux 3.18.109 May 16

Architecture-specific

Steve Capper 52-bit kernel VAs for arm64 May 10
Jeremy Linton Support PPTT for ARM64 May 11
Yury Norov ILP32 for ARM64 May 15

Build system

Core kernel

Development tools

Device drivers

Chunfeng Yun Add MediaTek XS-PHY driver May 10
Eugen Hristev Add support for SAMA5D2 touchscreen May 10
Oleksandr Shamray JTAG driver introduction May 10
Heikki Krogerus usb: typec: Support for Alternate Modes May 11
Alexandre Belloni Microsemi Ocelot Ethernet switch support May 14
Neil Armstrong Add ChromeOS EC CEC Support May 15
Alex Deucher Vega20 support May 15
Srinivas Kandagatla slimbus: Add QCOM SLIMBus NGD driver May 16

Device-driver infrastructure

Filesystems and block layer

Goldwyn Rodrigues Enable holes in copy_file_range() May 09
Deepa Dinamani Transition vfs to 64-bit timestamps May 11
Lu Fengqi Btrfs In-band De-duplication May 15
Eric Sandeen xfs: online label May 14
Darrick J. Wong xfs-4.18: online repair support May 15

Memory management

Boaz Harrosh mm: Add new vma flag VM_LOCAL_CPU May 14
Christoph Hellwig vm_fault_t conversion, for real May 16

Networking

Security-related

Casey Schaufler LSM: Full security module stacking May 10
Stefan Berger ima: Namespacing IMA May 11

Virtualization and containers

Tiwei Bie virtio: support packed ring May 16
Jason Wang Packed ring layout for vhost May 16

Miscellaneous

Florian Westphal nftables 0.8.5 release May 10
Greg KH usbutils 010 release May 15

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