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Calls for Presentations
CFP Deadlines: August 23, 2018 to October 22, 2018
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| October 1 | October 5 October 6 |
Open Source Days | Copenhagen, Denmark |
| October 5 | November 12 | Ceph Day Berlin | Berlin, Germany |
| October 7 | October 20 October 21 |
OSS Víkend | Košice, Slovakia |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
Two microconferences added to the Linux Plumbers Conference program
The Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC) has announced two microconferences that have been added. The BPF microconference: "This year's BPF Microconference event focuses on the core BPF infrastructure as well as its subsystems, therefore topics proposed for this year's event include improving verifier scalability, next steps on BPF type format, dynamic tracing without on the fly compilation, string and loop support, reuse of host JITs for offloads, LRU heuristics and timers, syscall interception, microkernels, and many more."
And the Containers
microconference: "There will also no doubt be some discussions
around performance to make
up for the overhead caused by the recent Spectre and Meltdown set of
mitigations that in some cases have had a significant impact on
container runtimes.
This year's edition will be combined with what was formerly the
Checkpoint-Restart microconference. Expect continued discussion about
integration of CRIU with
the container runtimes, addressing
performance issues of checkpoint and restart and possible
optimizations, as well as (in)stability of rarely used kernel ABIs.
Another hot new topic would be time namespacing and its usage for
container snapshotting and migration.
"
LPC will be held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada from Tuesday, November 13 through Thursday, November 15.
Events: August 23, 2018 to October 22, 2018
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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 26 |
Free and Open Source Software Conference | Sankt Augustin, 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 8 |
Radare conference 2018 | Barcelona, Spain |
| September 5 September 6 |
DPDK Userspace | Dublin, Ireland |
| 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 |
Orconf | Gdansk, Poland |
| September 21 September 23 |
Video Dev Days 2018 | Paris, France |
| September 24 September 27 |
ApacheCon North America | Montreal, Canada |
| September 24 September 25 |
Embedded Recipes 2018 | Paris, France |
| September 26 September 28 |
LibreOffice Conference | Tirana, Albania |
| 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 28 September 30 |
All Systems Go! 2018 | Berlin, Germany |
| October 5 October 6 |
Open Source Days | Copenhagen, Denmark |
| October 6 October 7 |
Linux Days 2018 | Prague, Czech Republic |
| October 9 | PostgresConf South Africa 2018 | Johannesburg, South Africa |
| October 10 October 12 |
PyCon ZA 2018 | Johannesburg, South Africa |
| October 12 October 13 |
Ohio LinuxFest 2018 | Columbus, OH, USA |
| October 15 October 18 |
Tcl/Tk Conference | Houston, TX, USA |
| October 18 October 19 |
Osmocom Conference 2018 | Berlin, Germany |
| October 20 October 21 |
OSS Víkend | Košice, Slovakia |
| October 21 October 23 |
All Things Open | Raleigh, NC, USA |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Security updates
Alert summary August 16, 2018 to August 22, 2018
| Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CentOS | CESA-2018:2439 | C7 | mariadb | 2018-08-21 |
| CentOS | CESA-2018:2526 | C6 | mutt | 2018-08-21 |
| CentOS | CESA-2018:2526 | C7 | mutt | 2018-08-21 |
| CentOS | CESA-2018:2462 | C7 | qemu-kvm | 2018-08-21 |
| Debian | DLA-1461-1 | LTS | clamav | 2018-08-20 |
| Debian | DLA-1470-1 | LTS | confuse | 2018-08-19 |
| Debian | DLA-1468-1 | LTS | fuse | 2018-08-15 |
| Debian | DSA-4273-1 | stable | intel-microcode | 2018-08-16 |
| Debian | DSA-4278-1 | stable | jetty9 | 2018-08-19 |
| Debian | DLA-1471-1 | LTS | kamailio | 2018-08-19 |
| Debian | DSA-4279-1 | stable | kernel | 2018-08-20 |
| Debian | DSA-4275-1 | stable | keystone | 2018-08-16 |
| Debian | DLA-1472-1 | LTS | libcgroup | 2018-08-20 |
| Debian | DLA-1469-1 | LTS | libxcursor | 2018-08-18 |
| Debian | DSA-4277-1 | stable | mutt | 2018-08-17 |
| Debian | DLA-1474-1 | LTS | openssh | 2018-08-21 |
| Debian | DSA-4280-1 | stable | openssh | 2018-08-22 |
| Debian | DLA-1473-1 | LTS | otrs2 | 2018-08-21 |
| Debian | DSA-4276-1 | stable | php-horde-image | 2018-08-17 |
| Debian | DSA-4274-1 | stable | xen | 2018-08-16 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-775d96b54b | F27 | blktrace | 2018-08-19 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-c75a37ae9b | F28 | blktrace | 2018-08-19 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-28f30efaf6 | F28 | cri-o | 2018-08-15 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-160b3d2f6c | F27 | docker-latest | 2018-08-19 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-6740c38cf4 | F28 | gdm | 2018-08-16 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-202c536f70 | F28 | gifsicle | 2018-08-22 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-1c80fea1cd | F27 | kernel-headers | 2018-08-16 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-f8cba144ae | F28 | kernel-headers | 2018-08-16 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-ca483ae3e0 | F27 | libgit2 | 2018-08-19 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-bc22d6c7bc | F28 | libldb | 2018-08-20 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-be770f97a6 | F28 | lighttpd | 2018-08-22 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-d8f5aea89d | F27 | postgresql | 2018-08-16 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-9829c6ddcf | F27 | quazip | 2018-08-22 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-2818fc5308 | F27 | rsyslog | 2018-08-16 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-8e4d871867 | F27 | samba | 2018-08-22 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-bc22d6c7bc | F28 | samba | 2018-08-20 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-f4f75985b8 | F28 | soundtouch | 2018-08-20 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-976ce10858 | F28 | units | 2018-08-16 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-41dfadd21a | F28 | wpa_supplicant | 2018-08-16 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-aa46eb30be | F27 | yubico-piv-tool | 2018-08-19 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-15da5380b5 | F28 | yubico-piv-tool | 2018-08-19 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0343 | 6 | chromium-browser-stable | 2018-08-18 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0349 | 6 | flash-player-plugin | 2018-08-19 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0338 | 6 | iceaepe | 2018-08-15 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0345 | 6 | kernel | 2018-08-19 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0341 | 6 | kernel-linus | 2018-08-15 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0347 | 6 | kernel-linus | 2018-08-19 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0340 | 6 | kernel-tmb | 2018-08-15 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0346 | 6 | kernel-tmb | 2018-08-19 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0339 | 6 | libtomcrypt | 2018-08-15 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0344 | 6 | microcode | 2018-08-19 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0342 | 5, 6 | openslp | 2018-08-18 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0348 | 6 | wpa_supplicant | 2018-08-19 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2439-1 | 42.3 | GraphicsMagick | 2018-08-19 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2399-1 | 15.0 42.3 | Security | 2018-08-17 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2433-1 | 15.0 | apache2 | 2018-08-19 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2397-1 | 42.3 | apache2 | 2018-08-17 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2343-1 | 15.0 42.3 | aubio | 2018-08-16 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2406-1 | 42.3 | clamav | 2018-08-17 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2431-1 | 15.0 | curl | 2018-08-19 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2407-1 | 15.0 | kernel | 2018-08-17 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2404-1 | 42.3 | kernel | 2018-08-17 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2376-1 | 42.3 | libheimdal | 2018-08-16 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2373-1 | 15.0 | nemo-extensions | 2018-08-16 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2438-1 | 15.0 | perl-Archive-Zip | 2018-08-19 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2405-1 | 15.0 42.3 | php7 | 2018-08-17 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2375-1 | 15.0 | python-Django1 | 2018-08-16 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2402-1 | 15.0 | qemu | 2018-08-17 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2400-1 | 15.0 | samba | 2018-08-17 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2396-1 | 42.3 | samba | 2018-08-17 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2436-1 | 15.0 | xen | 2018-08-19 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2434-1 | 42.3 | xen | 2018-08-19 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-4200 | OL6 | kernel | 2018-08-17 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-4200 | OL7 | kernel | 2018-08-17 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-2439 | OL7 | mariadb | 2018-08-16 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-2439 | OL7 | mariadb | 2018-08-17 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-2526 | OL6 | mutt | 2018-08-20 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-2526 | OL7 | mutt | 2018-08-20 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-2526 | OL7 | mutt | 2018-08-20 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-2462 | OL7 | qemu-kvm | 2018-08-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:2482-01 | EL7 | docker | 2018-08-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:2435-01 | EL6 | flash-plugin | 2018-08-15 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:2439-01 | EL7 | mariadb | 2018-08-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:2526-01 | EL6 EL7 | mutt | 2018-08-20 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:2533-01 | OSP13.0 | openstack-keystone | 2018-08-21 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:2462-01 | EL7 | qemu-kvm | 2018-08-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:2511-01 | RHSC | rh-postgresql95-postgresql | 2018-08-20 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2018:2439-1 | SL7 | mariadb | 2018-08-16 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2018:2526-1 | SL6 SL7 | mutt | 2018-08-21 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2018:2462-1 | SL7 | qemu-kvm | 2018-08-16 |
| Slackware | SSA:2018-233-01 | libX11 | 2018-08-21 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2018-229-01 | ntp | 2018-08-17 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2018-229-02 | samba | 2018-08-17 | |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2390-1 | SLE11 | GraphicsMagick | 2018-08-16 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2465-1 | SLE11 | ImageMagick | 2018-08-21 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2475-1 | SLE15 | ImageMagick | 2018-08-22 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2336-1 | SLE12 | apache2 | 2018-08-16 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2424-1 | SLE15 | apache2 | 2018-08-18 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2423-1 | SLE15 | curl | 2018-08-18 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2470-1 | SLE11 | gtk2 | 2018-08-21 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2344-1 | OS7 SLE12 | kernel | 2018-08-16 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2332-1 | SLE11 | kernel | 2018-08-15 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2366-1 | SLE11 | kernel | 2018-08-16 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2384-1 | SLE12 | kernel | 2018-08-16 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2362-1 | SLE12 | kernel | 2018-08-16 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2374-1 | SLE12 | kernel | 2018-08-16 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2380-1 | SLE15 | kernel | 2018-08-16 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2381-1 | SLE15 | kernel | 2018-08-16 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2450-1 | SLE15 | kernel | 2018-08-20 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2426-1 | SLE12 SLE15 | kernel-livepatch-tools | 2018-08-18 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2394-1 | SLE12 | kgraft | 2018-08-16 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2468-1 | SLE12 | libcgroup | 2018-08-21 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2452-1 | libgcrypt | 2018-08-20 | |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2469-1 | SLE15 | libgit2 | 2018-08-21 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2403-1 | SLE11 | mutt | 2018-08-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2411-1 | SLE11 | mysql | 2018-08-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2449-1 | openssl | 2018-08-20 | |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2447-1 | perl | 2018-08-20 | |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2388-1 | SLE11 | perl-Archive-Zip | 2018-08-16 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2385-1 | SLE12 | perl-Archive-Zip | 2018-08-16 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2386-1 | SLE15 | perl-Archive-Zip | 2018-08-16 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2333-1 | SLE12 | php7 | 2018-08-16 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2337-1 | SLE15 | php7 | 2018-08-16 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2451-1 | procps | 2018-08-20 | |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2408-1 | SLE11 | python | 2018-08-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2340-1 | SLE15 | qemu | 2018-08-16 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2453-1 | rsyslog | 2018-08-20 | |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2339-1 | OS7 SLE12 | samba | 2018-08-16 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2448-1 | shadow | 2018-08-20 | |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2331-1 | OS7 SLE12 | ucode-intel | 2018-08-15 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2335-1 | SLE11 | ucode-intel | 2018-08-16 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2338-1 | SLE15 | ucode-intel | 2018-08-16 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2412-1 | SLE11 | wireshark | 2018-08-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2410-1 | OS7 SLE12 | xen | 2018-08-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2401-1 | SLE12 | xen | 2018-08-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2409-1 | SLE15 | xen | 2018-08-17 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3746-1 | 18.04 | apt | 2018-08-20 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3748-1 | 18.04 | base-files | 2018-08-21 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3733-2 | 12.04 | gnupg | 2018-08-15 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3741-3 | 14.04 | kernel | 2018-08-17 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3742-3 | 12.04 | linux-lts-trusty | 2018-08-20 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3747-1 | 18.04 | openjdk-lts | 2018-08-20 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3744-1 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 | postgresql-10, postgresql-9.3, postgresql-9.5 | 2018-08-16 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3658-3 | 12.04 | procps | 2018-08-16 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3743-1 | 16.04 18.04 | webkit2gtk | 2018-08-16 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3745-1 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 | wpa | 2018-08-20 |
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