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Distributions and system administration
- CentOS Pulse Newsletter (September)
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- openSUSE Tumbleweed Review of the Week (September 7)
- Reproducible Builds Weekly Report (September 10)
- Tails Report (August)
- Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter (September 10)
Development
- What's cooking in git.git (September 11)
- LLVM Weekly (September 10)
- LXC/LXD/LXCFS Weekly Status (September 10)
- OCaml Weekly News (September 11)
- Perl Weekly (September 10)
- Weekly changes in and around Perl 6 (September 11)
- PostgreSQL Weekly News (September 9)
- Python Weekly Newsletter (September 6)
- Last week in RISC-V (September 7)
- Ruby Weekly News (September 6)
- This Week in Rust (September 11)
- Wikimedia Tech News (September 10)
Meeting minutes
- Document Foundation Board of Directors minutes (August 31)
- Fedora Council minutes (September 12)
- Fedora FESCO meeting minutes (September 10)
- GNOME Foundation Board Minutes (September 4)
- openSUSE board meeting minutes (September 4)
Calls for Presentations
Tech Topics for the Kernel Summit at LPC
The Kernel Summit will be held at the Linux Plumbers Conference, which takes place November 13-15 in Vancouver, Canada. A call for kernel-related topics for the Kernel Summit is open, and if your topic is accepted before September 21 you will receive free admission to LPC.CFP Deadlines: September 13, 2018 to November 12, 2018
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| October 22 | December 3 December 4 |
DPDK Summit North America 2018 | San Jose, CA, USA |
| October 26 | January 25 January 27 |
DevConf.cz | Brno, Czechia |
| October 31 | March 7 March 10 |
SCALE 17x | Pasadena, CA, USA |
| October 31 | November 24 November 25 |
DebUtsav Kochi 2018 | Kerala, India |
| November 3 | February 2 February 3 |
FOSDEM | Brussels, Belgium |
| November 9 | March 23 March 24 |
LibrePlanet | Cambridge, MA, USA |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
Android Microconference Accepted into 2018 LPC
An Android microconference has been added to Linux Plumbers Conference, which will be held November 13-15 in Vancouver, Canada. "Android continues to find interesting new applications and problems to solve, both within and outside the mobile arena. Mainlining continues to be an area of focus, as do a number of areas of core Android functionality, including the kernel. Other topics include low memory killer, dynamically-allocated Binder devices, kernel namespaces, EAS, userdata filesystem checkpointing and DT."
Devicetree Microconference Accepted into 2018 LPC
There will be a Devicetree Microconference at the Linux Plumbers Conference, November 13-15 in Vancouver, Canada. "Devicetree provides hardware description for many platforms, such as Linux, U-Boot, BSD, and Zephyr. Devicetree continues to evolve to become more robust and attempt to provide the features desired by the varied users."
Looking forward to the Kernel Summit at LPC 2018
The LPC program committee has a reminder that the Kernel Summit track will be held at LPC and the call for topics is open until September 21. Linux Plumbers Conference will take place November 13-15 in Vancouver, Canada. The invitation-only Maintainers Summit will not be held at LPC, as originally planned, and it has been moved to October 22 in Edinburgh, UK.Events: September 13, 2018 to November 12, 2018
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
GNU Radio Conference 2018 | Henderson, NV, USA |
| September 17 September 21 |
Linaro Connect | Vancouver, Canada |
| 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 25 |
Embedded Recipes 2018 | Paris, France |
| September 24 September 27 |
ApacheCon North America | Montreal, Canada |
| September 26 September 28 |
X.org Developer Conference | A Coruña, Spain |
| September 26 | Open Source Backup Conference 2018 | Cologne , Germany |
| September 26 September 28 |
Kernel Recipes 2018 | Paris, France |
| September 26 September 28 |
LibreOffice Conference | Tirana, Albania |
| 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 |
| October 22 October 24 |
Open Source Summit Europe | Edinburgh, UK |
| October 22 October 24 |
Embedded Linux Conference Europe | Edinburgh, UK |
| October 23 October 26 |
PostgreSQL Conference Europe 2018 | Lisbon, Portugal |
| October 24 | Proxtalks 2018 | Frankfurt am Main, Germany |
| October 24 October 26 |
KVM Forum 2018 | Edinburgh, UK |
| October 24 October 26 |
PyCon.DE 2018 | Karlsruhe, Germany |
| October 25 October 26 |
Free Software and Open Source Symposium | Toronto, Canada |
| October 25 October 26 |
GStreamer Conference 2018 | Edinburgh, Scotland, UK |
| October 25 | Real-Time Summit | Edinburgh, UK |
| October 25 | Tracing Summit 2018 | Edinburgh, UK |
| October 25 October 26 |
Linux Security Summit | Edinburgh, UK |
| October 27 October 28 |
Sonoj Convention | Cologne, Germany |
| October 29 October 30 |
OpenWrt Summit | Lisbon, Portugal |
| October 29 October 31 |
LISA18 | Nashville, TN, USA |
| November 2 | Software Freedom Law Center’s Fall Conference | New York, NY, USA |
| November 3 November 4 |
OpenFest 2018 | Sofia, Bulgaria |
| November 5 November 7 |
MesosCon 2018 | New York, NY, USA |
| November 5 November 8 |
Open Source Monitoring Conference | Nuremberg, Germany |
| November 8 | Open Source Camp | Nürnberg, Germany |
| November 8 November 11 |
QtCon Brazil 2018 | São Paulo, Brazil |
| November 9 November 10 |
Seattle GNU/Linux | Seattle, WA, USA |
| November 9 November 13 |
PyCon Canada 2018 | Toronto, Canada |
| November 9 | August Penguin Conference 2018 | Tel Aviv, Israel |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Event Reports
Akademy 2018 videos are now online
Akademy, the annual KDE conference, was held August 11-17 in Vienna, Austria. Videos are available online.Padovan: linuxdev-br: a Linux international conference in Brazil
Gustavo Padovan covers the Linux Developer Conference Brazil which took place August 25-26 in Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil. "Be international is one of the main goals of the linuxdev-br, it wants to attract the Linux community from all over the world to integrate with the Brazilian community to share their experiences about many different subjects with the goal to promote more engagement from the Brazilian community to the Open Source world."
Security updates
Alert summary September 6, 2018 to September 12, 2018
| Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | DSA-4289-1 | stable | chromium-browser | 2018-09-07 |
| Debian | DLA-1498-1 | LTS | curl | 2018-09-08 |
| Debian | DSA-4286-1 | stable | curl | 2018-09-05 |
| Debian | DLA-1499-1 | LTS | discount | 2018-09-08 |
| Debian | DSA-4287-1 | stable | firefox-esr | 2018-09-07 |
| Debian | DLA-1494-1 | LTS | gdm3 | 2018-09-05 |
| Debian | DSA-4288-1 | stable | ghostscript | 2018-09-07 |
| Debian | DLA-1495-1 | LTS | git-annex | 2018-09-05 |
| Debian | DLA-1503-1 | LTS | kamailio | 2018-09-12 |
| Debian | DSA-4292-1 | stable | kamailio | 2018-09-11 |
| Debian | DLA-1496-1 | LTS | lcms2 | 2018-09-06 |
| Debian | DLA-1501-1 | LTS | libextractor | 2018-09-11 |
| Debian | DSA-4290-1 | stable | libextractor | 2018-09-10 |
| Debian | DLA-1502-1 | LTS | mgetty | 2018-09-12 |
| Debian | DSA-4291-1 | stable | mgetty | 2018-09-11 |
| Debian | DLA-1500-1 | LTS | openssh | 2018-09-10 |
| Debian | DLA-1497-1 | LTS | qemu | 2018-09-06 |
| Debian | DSA-4285-1 | stable | sympa | 2018-09-05 |
| Debian | DLA-1493-1 | LTS | xen | 2018-09-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-f67fda3db6 | F28 | community-mysql | 2018-09-11 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-111044d435 | F28 | curl | 2018-09-09 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-38bdbafa96 | F28 | discount | 2018-09-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-fe437a98d6 | F27 | dolphin-emu | 2018-09-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-c07238c0ff | F28 | firefox | 2018-09-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-5bf744beee | F28 | gd | 2018-09-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-28447b6f2e | F27 | ghostscript | 2018-09-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-56221eb24b | F28 | ghostscript | 2018-09-11 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-c1ef35a4f9 | F27 | glibc | 2018-09-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-4e660226e7 | F28 | glusterfs | 2018-09-11 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-6121f427e5 | F27 | godot | 2018-09-11 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-a2316e0baf | F27 | iniparser | 2018-09-11 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-9e60953b74 | F28 | iniparser | 2018-09-11 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-a94668408d | F27 | mod_perl | 2018-09-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-fac5420dd1 | F27 | obs-build | 2018-09-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-de7ad09860 | F28 | okular | 2018-09-11 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-fac5420dd1 | F27 | osc | 2018-09-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-4f0b7d1251 | F27 | tcpflow | 2018-09-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-5ad77cc979 | F28 | tcpflow | 2018-09-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-be22632a02 | F28 | thunderbird | 2018-09-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-9565c0bc9a | F28 | unixODBC | 2018-09-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-7626df1731 | F27 | yara | 2018-09-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-8344cb89ac | F28 | yara | 2018-09-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-16bb8b00c5 | F28 | zsh | 2018-09-11 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0369 | 6 | libxkbcommon | 2018-09-07 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0368 | 6 | sleuthkit | 2018-09-07 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0370 | 6 | wireshark | 2018-09-07 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2672-1 | 42.3 | GraphicsMagick | 2018-09-08 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2645-1 | 15.0 | apache-pdfbox | 2018-09-07 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2659-1 | chromium | 2018-09-08 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2664-1 | 15.0 42.3 | chromium | 2018-09-08 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2695-1 | 42.3 | compat-openssl098 | 2018-09-12 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2642-1 | 42.3 | dovecot22 | 2018-09-07 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2674-1 | 15.0 42.3 | firefox | 2018-09-08 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2667-1 | 42.3 | nodejs4 | 2018-09-08 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2694-1 | 42.3 | php5 | 2018-09-12 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2648-1 | 42.3 | php7 | 2018-09-07 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2693-1 | 15.0 | qemu | 2018-09-12 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2658-1 | 15.0 42.3 | thunderbird | 2018-09-08 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2628-1 | 15.0 | wireshark | 2018-09-05 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-4211 | OL6 | kernel | 2018-09-10 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-4210 | OL6 | kernel | 2018-09-07 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-4211 | OL7 | kernel | 2018-09-10 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-4210 | OL7 | kernel | 2018-09-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:2669-01 | RHF | Fuse 7.1 | 2018-09-11 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:2666-01 | EL6 | chromium-browser | 2018-09-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:2693-01 | EL6 | firefox | 2018-09-12 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:2692-01 | EL7 | firefox | 2018-09-12 |
| Slackware | SSA:2018-249-01 | curl | 2018-09-06 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2018-249-03 | firefox | 2018-09-06 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2018-249-02 | ghostscript | 2018-09-06 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2018-249-04 | thunderbird | 2018-09-06 | |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2630-1 | SLE15 | apache-pdfbox | 2018-09-06 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2683-1 | SLE12 | compat-openssl098 | 2018-09-10 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2629-1 | curl | 2018-09-05 | |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2632-1 | OS7 SLE12 | dovecot22 | 2018-09-06 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2641-1 | SLE15 | enigmail | 2018-09-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2649-1 | OS7 SLE12 | java-1_7_1-ibm | 2018-09-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2637-1 | SLE11 | kernel | 2018-09-06 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2650-1 | SLE11 | kvm | 2018-09-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2631-1 | OS7 SLE12 | libvirt | 2018-09-06 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2688-1 | SLE12 | libzypp, zypper | 2018-09-11 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2690-1 | SLE15 | libzypp, zypper | 2018-09-11 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2647-1 | SLE12 | nodejs4 | 2018-09-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2685-1 | SLE12 | openssh | 2018-09-11 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2682-1 | SLE12 | php5 | 2018-09-10 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2681-1 | SLE11 | php53 | 2018-09-10 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2640-1 | SLE12 | php7 | 2018-09-06 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2696-1 | SLE12 | python3 | 2018-09-12 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2679-1 | SLE15 | qemu | 2018-09-10 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2689-1 | spark | 2018-09-11 | |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2676-1 | SLE11 | tiff | 2018-09-10 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2686-1 | SLE15 | zsh | 2018-09-11 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3761-1 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 | firefox | 2018-09-06 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3763-1 | 12.04 | kernel | 2018-09-10 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3759-2 | 12.04 | libtirpc | 2018-09-05 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3759-1 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 | libtirpc | 2018-09-05 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3762-1 | 18.04 | linux, linux-aws, linux-azure, linux-gcp, linux-kvm, linux-raspi2 | 2018-09-10 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3762-2 | 16.04 | linux-hwe, linux-azure, linux-gcp | 2018-09-10 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3760-1 | 14.04 16.04 | transfig | 2018-09-06 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3764-1 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 | zsh | 2018-09-11 |
Kernel patches of interest
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