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Calls for Presentations
4th Call For Papers - 25th Annual Tcl/Tk Conference (Tcl'2018)
The Tcl/Tk Conference will take place October 15-19 in Houston, TX. This is a reminder that the call for papers deadline is August 20. Also, registration is open, Andrea Casotto will be a keynote speaker, and the tutorials have been announced.CFP Deadlines: August 2, 2018 to October 1, 2018
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| September 10 | November 9 November 13 |
PyCon Canada 2018 | Toronto, Canada |
| September 10 | October 25 | Tracing Summit 2018 | Edinburgh, UK |
| September 15 | November 8 | Open Source Camp | Nürnberg, Germany |
| September 17 | November 3 November 4 |
OpenFest 2018 | Sofia, Bulgaria |
| September 20 | September 21 September 23 |
Orconf | Gdansk, Poland |
| September 30 | December 7 | PGDay Down Under 2018 | Melbourne, Australia |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
Events: August 2, 2018 to October 1, 2018
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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 12 |
openSUSE.Asia Summit | Taipei, Taiwan |
| August 11 August 12 |
GNOME.Asia Summit | Taipei, Taiwan |
| August 11 August 12 |
Conference for Open Source Coders, Users and Promoters 2018 | Taipei, Taiwan |
| August 11 August 17 |
Akademy | Vienna, Austria |
| 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 |
Free and Open Source Software Conference | Sankt Augustin, Germany |
| August 25 August 26 |
Nextcloud Conference | Berlin, Germany |
| August 25 | FOSScon | Philadelphia, PA, USA |
| August 25 August 31 |
Linux Bier Wanderung | Jedovnice, Moravia, Czech Republic |
| August 27 September 2 |
FOSS4G Dar es Salaam 2018 | Dar es Salaam, Tanzania |
| August 27 August 28 |
Linux Security Summit | Vancouver, Canada |
| 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 |
| September 11 September 14 |
Alpine Linux Persistence and Storage Summit | Lizumerhuette, Austria |
| September 12 September 13 |
Devopsdays Berlin 2018 | Berlin, Germany |
| September 17 September 21 |
Linaro Connect | Vancouver, Canada |
| September 17 September 21 |
GNU Radio Conference 2018 | Henderson, NV, USA |
| September 20 September 23 |
EuroBSDcon 2018 | Bucharest, Romania |
| September 21 September 23 |
Video Dev Days 2018 | Paris, France |
| September 21 September 23 |
Orconf | Gdansk, Poland |
| September 24 September 27 |
ApacheCon North America | Montreal, Canada |
| September 24 September 25 |
Embedded Recipes 2018 | Paris, France |
| September 26 | Open Source Backup Conference 2018 | Cologne , Germany |
| September 26 September 28 |
Kernel Recipes 2018 | Paris, France |
| September 26 September 28 |
X.org Developer Conference | A Coruña, Spain |
| September 26 September 28 |
LibreOffice Conference | Tirana, Albania |
| September 28 September 30 |
All Systems Go! 2018 | Berlin, Germany |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Event Reports
Netdev 0x12 Conference Papers and Slides posted
Netdev was held in Montreal, Canada from July 11-13. The papers and slides from the conference are now available.
Security updates
Alert summary July 26, 2018 to August 1, 2018
| Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arch Linux | ASA-201807-14 | jenkins | 2018-07-26 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201807-16 | libextractor | 2018-07-28 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201807-15 | wesnoth | 2018-07-28 | |
| CentOS | CESA-2018:2241 | C6 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2018-07-25 |
| CentOS | CESA-2018:2242 | C7 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2018-07-25 |
| CentOS | CESA-2018:2240 | C7 | openslp | 2018-07-25 |
| CentOS | CESA-2018:2251 | C6 | thunderbird | 2018-07-25 |
| CentOS | CESA-2018:2252 | C7 | thunderbird | 2018-07-25 |
| Debian | DLA-1445-1 | LTS | busybox | 2018-07-27 |
| Debian | DSA-4256-1 | stable | chromium-browser | 2018-07-27 |
| Debian | DSA-4258-1 | stable | ffmpeg | 2018-07-29 |
| Debian | DSA-4257-1 | stable | fuse | 2018-07-28 |
| Debian | DLA-1446-1 | LTS | intel-microcode | 2018-07-27 |
| Debian | DLA-1447-1 | LTS | libidn | 2018-07-27 |
| Debian | DLA-1442-2 | LTS | mailman | 2018-07-27 |
| Debian | DLA-1414-2 | LTS | mercurial | 2018-07-27 |
| Debian | DLA-1454-1 | LTS | network-manager-vpnc | 2018-07-31 |
| Debian | DLA-1449-1 | LTS | openssl | 2018-07-28 |
| Debian | DLA-1448-1 | LTS | policykit-1 | 2018-07-28 |
| Debian | DSA-4259-1 | stable | ruby2.3 | 2018-07-31 |
| Debian | DLA-1453-1 | LTS | tomcat7 | 2018-07-30 |
| Debian | DLA-1450-1 | LTS | tomcat8 | 2018-07-29 |
| Debian | DLA-1444-1 | LTS | vim-syntastic | 2018-07-26 |
| Debian | DLA-1451-1 | LTS | wireshark | 2018-07-29 |
| Debian | DLA-1452-1 | LTS | wordpress | 2018-07-30 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-ac02463f82 | F27 | NetworkManager-vpnc | 2018-07-26 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-ae1ced8fb6 | F27 | dcraw | 2018-07-25 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-49d3b42425 | F28 | httpd | 2018-07-25 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-d4bfa98f6a | F27 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2018-07-31 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-4d58785bcd | F28 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2018-07-29 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-877fdbb3f0 | F27 | java-openjdk | 2018-07-31 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-0b6ccd1c68 | F28 | java-openjdk | 2018-07-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-3e04e9fe54 | F27 | libpng10 | 2018-07-29 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-04eded822e | F28 | libpng10 | 2018-07-29 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-6f37f99641 | F27 | php | 2018-07-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-9438795217 | F28 | php | 2018-07-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-c8c7d35b83 | F28 | poppler | 2018-07-31 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-06c24068c6 | F27 | python-cryptography | 2018-07-31 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-57a9f93beb | F28 | sox | 2018-07-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-6227e1ff4c | F27 | suricata | 2018-07-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-747d000693 | F28 | suricata | 2018-07-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-d56c428f9e | F28 | wireshark | 2018-07-30 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-237e9b550c | F28 | zziplib | 2018-07-31 |
| Gentoo | 201807-04 | curl | 2018-07-29 | |
| Gentoo | 201807-03 | znc | 2018-07-29 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2135-1 | Chromium | 2018-07-29 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2134-1 | 15.0 42.3 | Chromium | 2018-07-29 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2123-1 | 15.0 | ImageMagick | 2018-07-28 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2131-1 | 15.0 | bouncycastle | 2018-07-28 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2121-1 | 15.0 | cinnamon | 2018-07-28 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2125-1 | 42.3 | cinnamon | 2018-07-28 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2133-1 | 15.0 | e2fsprogs | 2018-07-28 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2119-1 | 15 15.0 | kernel | 2018-07-28 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2118-1 | 42.3 | kernel | 2018-07-28 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2122-1 | 15.0 | libgcrypt | 2018-07-28 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2132-1 | 15.0 | mercurial | 2018-07-28 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2128-1 | 42.3 | openssh | 2018-07-28 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2129-1 | 15.0 | openssl-1_0_0 | 2018-07-28 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2117-1 | 15.0 | openssl-1_1 | 2018-07-28 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2126-1 | 42.3 | python | 2018-07-28 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2120-1 | 15.0 | qutebrowser | 2018-07-28 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2130-1 | 42.3 | qutebrowser | 2018-07-28 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2124-1 | 15.0 | rubygem-sprockets | 2018-07-28 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2127-1 | 42.3 | shadow | 2018-07-28 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2116-1 | 15.0 | xen | 2018-07-28 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-2283 | OL6 | java-1.7.0-openjdk | 2018-07-30 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-2286 | OL7 | java-1.7.0-openjdk | 2018-07-30 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-2286 | OL7 | java-1.7.0-openjdk | 2018-07-30 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-2242 | OL7 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2018-07-25 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-2308 | OL6 | openslp | 2018-07-31 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-2252 | OL7 | thunderbird | 2018-07-25 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-2284 | OL6 | yum-utils | 2018-07-30 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-2285 | OL7 | yum-utils | 2018-07-30 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-2285 | OL7 | yum-utils | 2018-07-30 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:2321-01 | EL7 | Red Hat Virtualization | 2018-07-31 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:2282-01 | EL6 | chromium-browser | 2018-07-30 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:2283-01 | EL6 | java-1.7.0-openjdk | 2018-07-30 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:2286-01 | EL7 | java-1.7.0-openjdk | 2018-07-30 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:2290-01 | OSP10.0/EL7 | memcached | 2018-07-30 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:2268-01 | EL6.6 | procps | 2018-07-26 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:2267-01 | EL6.7 | procps | 2018-07-26 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:2289-01 | OSP10 | qemu-kvm-rhev | 2018-07-30 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:2284-01 | EL6 | yum-utils | 2018-07-30 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:2285-01 | EL7 | yum-utils | 2018-07-30 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2018:2283-1 | SL6 | java-1.7.0-openjdk | 2018-07-30 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2018:2286-1 | SL7 | java-1.7.0-openjdk | 2018-07-30 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2018:2251-1 | SL6 | thunderbird | 2018-07-25 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2018:2252-1 | SL7 | thunderbird | 2018-07-25 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2018:2284-1 | SL6 | yum-utils | 2018-07-30 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2018:2285-1 | SL7 | yum-utils | 2018-07-30 |
| Slackware | SSA:2018-212-01 | file | 2018-07-31 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2018-208-01 | kernel | 2018-07-27 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2018-212-02 | seamonkey | 2018-07-31 | |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2067-1 | SLE11 | exempi | 2018-07-26 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2145-1 | SLE12 | gdk-pixbuf | 2018-07-31 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2083-1 | SLE15 | java-10-openjdk | 2018-07-27 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2068-1 | SLE15 | java-1_8_0-ibm | 2018-07-26 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2062-1 | SLE11 | kernel | 2018-07-26 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2150-1 | SLE12 | kernel | 2018-07-31 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2092-1 | SLE15 | kernel | 2018-07-27 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2143-1 | SLE12 | libcgroup | 2018-07-31 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2142-1 | SLE11 | libcgroup1 | 2018-07-31 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2089-1 | SLE12 | libgcrypt | 2018-07-27 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2064-1 | SLE12 | libofx | 2018-07-26 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2065-1 | SLE12 | libsndfile | 2018-07-26 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2074-1 | SLE15 | libsndfile | 2018-07-26 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2141-1 | SLE12 | libvirt | 2018-07-31 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2082-1 | SLE12 | libvirt | 2018-07-27 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2076-1 | SLE11 | microcode_ctl | 2018-07-26 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2084-1 | SLE12 | mutt | 2018-07-27 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2085-1 | SLE15 | mutt | 2018-07-27 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2070-1 | SLE11 | ntfs-3g | 2018-07-26 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2072-1 | SLE15 | ovmf | 2018-07-26 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2073-1 | SLE15 | rpm | 2018-07-26 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2144-1 | SLE15 | sssd | 2018-07-31 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2071-1 | SLE12 | util-linux | 2018-07-26 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2066-1 | SLE15 | util-linux | 2018-07-26 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2075-1 | SLE15 | webkit2gtk3 | 2018-07-26 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2081-1 | OS7 SLE12 | xen | 2018-07-27 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2069-1 | SLE12 | xen | 2018-07-26 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3722-2 | 12.04 | clamav | 2018-07-25 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3722-4 | 12.04 | clamav | 2018-07-26 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3722-3 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 | clamav | 2018-07-26 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3724-1 | 14.04 16.04 | evolution-data-server | 2018-07-26 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3725-1 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 | mysql-5.5, mysql-5.7 | 2018-07-30 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3725-2 | 12.04 | mysql-5.5 | 2018-07-30 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3723-1 | 14.04 16.04 | tomcat7, tomcat8 | 2018-07-25 |
Kernel patches of interest
Kernel releases
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