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Calls for Presentations
Tracing Summit 2018 Call for Presentations
The Tracing Summit will be held October 25 in Edinburgh, UK, co-located with Open Source Summit Europe & Embedded Linux Conference Europe. The call for presentations closes September 1. "The Tracing Summit is single-day, single-track conference on the topic of tracing. The event focuses on the field of software and hardware tracing, gathering developers and end-users of tracing and trace analysis tools. The main goal of the Tracing Summit is to provide space for discussion between people of the various areas that benefit from tracing, namely parallel, distributed and/or real-time systems, as well as kernel development."
CFP Deadlines: July 12, 2018 to September 10, 2018
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| July 15 | August 24 August 26 |
YAPC::Europe Cluj 2016 | Cluj-Napoca, Romania |
| July 15 | August 8 August 11 |
Flock to Fedora | Dresden, Germany |
| July 16 | October 25 October 26 |
Linux Security Summit | Edinburgh, UK |
| July 23 | September 17 September 21 |
Linaro Connect | Vancouver, Canada |
| July 25 | September 26 September 28 |
X.org Developer Conference | A Coruña, Spain |
| July 27 | September 6 September 9 |
Libre Application Summit | Denver, CO, USA |
| July 27 | September 5 September 6 |
DPDK Userspace | Dublin, Ireland |
| July 30 | September 28 September 30 |
All Systems Go! 2018 | Berlin, Germany |
| July 30 | January 21 January 25 |
linux.conf.au 2019 | Christchurch, New Zealand |
| July 31 | November 5 November 8 |
Open Source Monitoring Conference | Nuremberg, Germany |
| July 31 | October 12 October 13 |
Ohio LinuxFest 2018 | Columbus, OH, USA |
| August 1 | November 15 | NLUUG (fall conference) | Utrecht, The Netherlands |
| August 1 | August 23 August 26 |
LVEE 2018 | Minsk, Belarus |
| August 6 | October 23 October 26 |
PostgreSQL Conference Europe 2018 | Lisbon, Portugal |
| August 7 | September 7 September 8 |
Swiss Perl Workshop | Bern, Switzerland |
| August 19 | February 4 | The Annual International Copyleft Conference 2019 | Brussels, Belgium |
| August 20 | October 15 October 18 |
Tcl/Tk Conference | Houston, TX, USA |
| August 27 | November 5 November 7 |
MesosCon 2018 | New York, NY, USA |
| August 31 | October 10 October 12 |
PyCon ZA 2018 | Johannesburg, South Africa |
| September 9 | November 13 November 15 |
Linux Plumbers Conference | Vancouver, BC, Canada |
| September 9 | October 25 | Real-Time Summit | Edinburgh, UK |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
EuroPython 2018: Women’s Django Workshop
EuroPython will take place July 23-29 in Edinburgh, UK. There will be a free Women’s Django Workshop on July 23.Alpine Linux Persistence and Storage Summit
Alpine Linux Persistence and Storage Summit (ALPSS) will be held September 11-14 at the Lizumerhuette in Austria. "The goal of this conference is to discuss the hot topics in Linux storage and file systems, such as persistent memory, NVMe, multi-pathing, raw or open channel flash and I/O scheduling in a cool and relaxed setting with spectacular views in the Austrian alps."
Events: July 12, 2018 to September 10, 2018
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| July 16 July 19 |
OSCON 2018 | Portland, OR, USA |
| July 17 July 18 |
International Faust Conference | Mainz, Germany |
| July 18 July 19 |
RISC-V Workshop in Chennai | Chennai, India |
| July 21 July 27 |
DebCamp 2018 | Hsinchu, Taiwan |
| July 23 July 29 |
EuroPython 2018 | Edinburgh, Scotland, UK |
| July 28 | DebConf18 Open Day | Hsinchu, Taiwan |
| July 28 July 30 |
State of the Map 2018 | Milan, Italy |
| July 29 August 5 |
DebConf18 | Hsinchu, Taiwan |
| August 4 August 5 |
DevConf India | Bangalore, India |
| August 7 August 11 |
JuliaCon 2018 | London, UK |
| August 8 August 11 |
Flock to Fedora | Dresden, Germany |
| August 11 August 17 |
Akademy | Vienna, Austria |
| August 11 August 12 |
GNOME.Asia Summit | Taipei, Taiwan |
| August 11 August 12 |
openSUSE.Asia Summit | Taipei, Taiwan |
| August 11 August 12 |
Conference for Open Source Coders, Users and Promoters 2018 | Taipei, Taiwan |
| August 17 August 19 |
DevConf.us 2018 | Boston, MA, USA |
| August 23 August 26 |
LVEE 2018 | Minsk, Belarus |
| August 24 August 28 |
PyCon AU 2018 | Sydney, Australia |
| August 25 August 26 |
Linux Developers Conference Brazil | Campinas, Brazil |
| August 25 August 26 |
Nextcloud Conference | Berlin, Germany |
| August 25 August 31 |
Linux Bier Wanderung | Jedovnice, Moravia, Czech Republic |
| August 25 | FOSScon | Philadelphia, PA, USA |
| August 25 August 26 |
Free and Open Source Software Conference | Sankt Augustin, Germany |
| August 27 August 28 |
Linux Security Summit | Vancouver, Canada |
| August 27 September 2 |
FOSS4G Dar es Salaam 2018 | Dar es Salaam, Tanzania |
| August 28 September 1 |
EuroSciPy 2018 | Trento, Italy |
| August 29 August 31 |
Open Source Summit | Vancouver, Canada |
| September 3 September 4 |
Research Software Engineers' Conference 2018 | Birmingham, UK |
| September 5 September 6 |
DPDK Userspace | Dublin, Ireland |
| September 5 September 8 |
Radare conference 2018 | Barcelona, Spain |
| September 6 September 9 |
Libre Application Summit | Denver, CO, USA |
| September 7 September 8 |
Swiss Perl Workshop | Bern, Switzerland |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Security updates
Alert summary July 5, 2018 to July 11, 2018
| Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | DLA-1418-1 | LTS | bouncycastle | 2018-07-07 |
| Debian | DLA-1417-1 | LTS | ca-certificates | 2018-07-07 |
| Debian | DSA-4243-1 | stable | cups | 2018-07-11 |
| Debian | DLA-1413-1 | LTS | dokuwiki | 2018-07-05 |
| Debian | DLA-1416-1 | LTS | libsoup2.4 | 2018-07-06 |
| Debian | DSA-4241-1 | stable | libsoup2.4 | 2018-07-05 |
| Debian | DLA-1414-1 | LTS | mercurial | 2018-07-05 |
| Debian | DSA-4240-1 | stable | php7.0 | 2018-07-05 |
| Debian | DLA-1415-1 | LTS | phpmyadmin | 2018-07-06 |
| Debian | DSA-4242-1 | stable | ruby-sprockets | 2018-07-09 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-4943b0505b | F27 | ant | 2018-07-05 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-9296823b6c | F27 | cantata | 2018-07-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-d1f6c8957f | F28 | cantata | 2018-07-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-c785c43a8f | F28 | cinnamon | 2018-07-08 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-69780fc4d7 | F27 | gnupg | 2018-07-05 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-94eb743dad | F27 | libgit2 | 2018-07-05 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-b10e54263a | F28 | libgit2 | 2018-07-05 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-c3838931e1 | F27 | libsoup | 2018-07-05 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-c8ddc44bbb | F27 | php-symfony3 | 2018-07-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-8da2d73634 | F28 | transifex-client | 2018-07-07 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:1895-1 | 15.0 | cairo | 2018-07-06 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:1909-1 | 15.0 | ghostscript | 2018-07-07 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:1897-1 | git-annex | 2018-07-06 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:1896-1 | 15.0 42.3 | git-annex | 2018-07-06 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:1906-1 | 42.3 | openssl | 2018-07-07 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:1912-1 | 15.0 | openvpn | 2018-07-07 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:1913-1 | 42.3 | php7 | 2018-07-07 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:1900-1 | 42.3 | postgresql95 | 2018-07-06 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:1908-1 | 42.3 | rubygem-yard | 2018-07-07 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:1907-1 | thunderbird | 2018-07-07 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:1905-1 | 15.0 42.3 | thunderbird | 2018-07-07 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:1904-1 | 15.0 42.3 | ucode-intel | 2018-07-06 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:1914-1 | 15.0 | unzip | 2018-07-07 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:1893-1 | 15.0 | zsh | 2018-07-06 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-2113 | OL7 | firefox | 2018-07-04 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-2164 | OL6 | kernel | 2018-07-10 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-4161 | OL6 | kernel | 2018-07-10 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-4164 | OL6 | kernel | 2018-07-10 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-4161 | OL7 | kernel | 2018-07-10 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-4164 | OL7 | kernel | 2018-07-10 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-2162 | OL6 | qemu-kvm | 2018-07-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:2150-01 | EL7 | ansible | 2018-07-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:2166-01 | EL7 | ansible | 2018-07-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:2151-01 | EL7 | ansible | 2018-07-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:2152-01 | EL7 | ansible | 2018-07-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:2164-01 | EL6 | kernel | 2018-07-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:2161-01 | EL7.3 | kernel | 2018-07-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:2165-01 | MRG2 | kernel-rt | 2018-07-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:2162-01 | EL6 | qemu-kvm | 2018-07-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:2147-01 | SCL | rh-git29-git | 2018-07-10 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2018:2112-1 | SL6 | firefox | 2018-07-09 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2018:2113-1 | SL7 | firefox | 2018-07-05 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2018:2164-1 | SL6 | kernel | 2018-07-10 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2018:2162-1 | SL6 | qemu-kvm | 2018-07-10 |
| Slackware | SSA:2018-186-01 | mozilla | 2018-07-05 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2018-191-01 | thunderbird | 2018-07-10 | |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:1920-1 | SES5 | ceph | 2018-07-10 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:1882-1 | SLE15 | exiv2 | 2018-07-05 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:1884-1 | SLE15 | ghostscript | 2018-07-05 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:1902-1 | SLE12 | libqt4 | 2018-07-06 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:1885-1 | SLE15 | libvorbis | 2018-07-05 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:1892-1 | OS7 SLE12 | nodejs6 | 2018-07-05 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:1918-1 | SLE15 | nodejs8 | 2018-07-09 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:1916-1 | SLE11 | openslp | 2018-07-09 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:1917-1 | SLE15 | openslp | 2018-07-09 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:1887-1 | OS7 SLE12 | openssl | 2018-07-05 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:1888-1 | SLE15 | openvpn | 2018-07-05 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:1886-1 | SLE12 | php7 | 2018-07-05 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:1890-1 | SLE12 | rubygem-yard | 2018-07-05 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:1889-1 | SLE15 | tiff | 2018-07-05 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:1883-1 | SLE15 | unzip | 2018-07-05 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3690-2 | 14.04 | AMD microcode | 2018-07-05 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3710-1 | 17.10 18.04 | curl | 2018-07-11 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3704-1 | 17.10 18.04 | devscripts | 2018-07-05 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3705-2 | 14.04 16.04 17.10 18.04 | firefox | 2018-07-10 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3705-1 | 14.04 16.04 17.10 18.04 | firefox | 2018-07-05 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3711-1 | 14.04 16.04 17.10 18.04 | imagemagick | 2018-07-11 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3703-2 | 12.04 | libarchive-zip-perl | 2018-07-04 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3703-1 | 14.04 16.04 17.10 18.04 | libarchive-zip-perl | 2018-07-04 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3706-2 | 12.04 | libjpeg-turbo | 2018-07-10 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3706-1 | 14.04 16.04 17.10 18.04 | libjpeg-turbo | 2018-07-09 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3707-1 | 14.04 16.04 17.10 18.04 | ntp | 2018-07-09 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3708-1 | 14.04 16.04 | openslp-dfsg | 2018-07-09 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3702-2 | 18.04 | php7.2 | 2018-07-05 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3709-1 | 17.10 18.04 | xapian-core | 2018-07-10 |
Kernel patches of interest
Kernel releases
Architecture-specific
Build system
Core kernel
Device drivers
Device-driver infrastructure
Documentation
Filesystems and block layer
Memory management
Networking
Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
[PATCH net-next v19 0/8] sched: Add Common Applications Kept
Enhanced (cake) qdisc
Jul 06
Alexander Duyck
[jkirsher/next-queue PATCH v2 0/7] Add support for L2 Fwd Offload
w/o ndo_select_queue
Jul 09
Security-related
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