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- Reproducible Builds Weekly Report (September 18)
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Development
- Emacs News (September 17)
- What's cooking in git.git (September 14)
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- LLVM Weekly (September 17)
- LXC/LXD/LXCFS Weekly Status (September 17)
- OCaml Weekly News (September 18)
- OpenStack Technical Committee Report (September 18)
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- Weekly changes in and around Perl 6 (September 17)
- PostgreSQL Weekly News (September 17)
- Python Weekly Newsletter (September 13)
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- This Week in Rust (September 18)
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Meeting minutes
- Fedora Council minutes (September 19)
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- GNOME Foundation Board Minutes (September 11)
- Python Governance Discussion #1 Notes (September 15)
- Python Governance Discussion #2 Notes (September 15)
Calls for Presentations
SCALE 17x Call For Papers Is Now Open
Southern California Linux Expo, SCALE 17X, will be held March 7-10 in Pasadena, CA. The call for papers is open until October 31.LAC 2019 : Call for Participation
Linux Audio Conference will take place March 23-26 in San Francisco, CA. "LAC 2019 invites submissions of papers, posters, and workshops addressing all areas of audio processing based on Linux and open source software. All submissions and presentations are in English. Submitted papers are expected to respect academic standards and must be complete (*a simple abstract is not enough*). Submissions can focus on technical, artistic, and/or scientific issues and can target developers and/or users." The submission deadline is December 7.
openSUSE Summit Nashville
An openSUSE Summit will be held April 5-6, 2019 in Nashville, TN. The call for papers closes January 15. "There is one openSUSE/open source track. There are three talks that can be submitted for the openSUSE SUmmit Nashville. One is a short talk with a 15-minute limit; the other talk that can be submitted is a long talk with a 45-minute limit. A 90-minute workshop is also an available option for people submitting a talk for the summit."
CFP Deadlines: September 20, 2018 to November 19, 2018
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| November 15 | February 25 February 26 |
Vault Linux Storage and Filesystems Conference | Boston, MA, USA |
| November 16 | March 19 March 21 |
PGConf APAC | Singapore, Singapore |
| November 18 | January 21 | LCA2019 System Administration Miniconf | Christchurch, New Zealand |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
RISC-V microconference accepted for LPC
There will be a RISC-V microconference at Linux Plumbers Conference, November 13-15 in Vancouver, Canada. "The primary objective of the RISC-V microconference at Plumbers is to initiate a community-wide discussion about the design problems/ideas for different Linux kernel features that will lead to a better, stable kernel for RISC-V."
Announcing Netdev 0x13 conference
The NetDev Society has announced that Netdev 0x13 will be held March 20-22, 2019 in Prague, Czech Republic. "At 0x12 we tried a new format where the first day constitutes developer working sessions via workshops and educational sessions via tutorials. We have received feedback which we are in the process of evaluating and we will be notifying you of any format changes. The window for suggestions is still open..."
Events: September 20, 2018 to November 19, 2018
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
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 | 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 |
| 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 | Real-Time Summit | Edinburgh, UK |
| October 25 | Tracing Summit 2018 | Edinburgh, UK |
| October 25 October 26 |
Linux Security Summit | Edinburgh, UK |
| October 25 October 26 |
GStreamer Conference 2018 | Edinburgh, Scotland, UK |
| October 27 October 28 |
Sonoj Convention | Cologne, Germany |
| October 29 October 31 |
LISA18 | Nashville, TN, USA |
| October 29 October 30 |
OpenWrt Summit | Lisbon, Portugal |
| 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 | August Penguin Conference 2018 | Tel Aviv, Israel |
| November 9 November 13 |
PyCon Canada 2018 | Toronto, Canada |
| November 12 November 15 |
Linux Kernel Summit | Vancouver, Canada |
| November 12 | Ceph Day Berlin | Berlin, Germany |
| November 12 | RabbitMQ Summit 2018 | London, UK |
| November 13 November 15 |
OpenStack Summit | Berlin, Germany |
| November 13 November 15 |
Linux Plumbers Conference | Vancouver, BC, Canada |
| November 14 November 15 |
KubeCon+CloudNativeCon China | Shanghai, China |
| November 15 | NLUUG (fall conference) | Utrecht, The Netherlands |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Security updates
Alert summary September 13, 2018 to September 19, 2018
| Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CentOS | CESA-2018:2693 | C6 | firefox | 2018-09-13 |
| CentOS | CESA-2018:2692 | C7 | firefox | 2018-09-13 |
| Debian | DSA-4297-1 | stable | chromium-browser | 2018-09-19 |
| Debian | DSA-4293-1 | stable | discount | 2018-09-14 |
| Debian | DLA-1504-1 | LTS | ghostscript | 2018-09-13 |
| Debian | DSA-4294-1 | stable | ghostscript | 2018-09-16 |
| Debian | DLA-1506-1 | LTS | intel-microcode | 2018-09-16 |
| Debian | DSA-4273-2 | stable | intel-microcode | 2018-09-16 |
| Debian | DLA-1507-1 | LTS | libapache2-mod-perl2 | 2018-09-18 |
| Debian | DSA-4296-1 | stable | mbedtls | 2018-09-16 |
| Debian | DLA-1500-2 | LTS | openssh | 2018-09-12 |
| Debian | DSA-4295-1 | stable | thunderbird | 2018-09-16 |
| Debian | DLA-1505-1 | LTS | zutils | 2018-09-15 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-0d0a652afe | F27 | firefox | 2018-09-13 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-f1b1ed38b3 | F27 | ghostscript | 2018-09-17 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-c39ae23dc8 | F28 | ghostscript | 2018-09-17 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-1a85045c79 | F27 | icu | 2018-09-17 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-40decc4158 | F27 | java-1.8.0-openjdk-aarch32 | 2018-09-14 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-c650019e9c | F28 | java-1.8.0-openjdk-aarch32 | 2018-09-14 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-59e4747e0f | F28 | kernel-headers | 2018-09-14 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-59e4747e0f | F28 | kernel-tools | 2018-09-14 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-ec9bc84fda | F27 | libzypp | 2018-09-17 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-6db422c637 | F28 | matrix-synapse | 2018-09-14 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-4a21a8ca59 | F27 | nspr | 2018-09-18 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-1a7a5c54c2 | F28 | nspr | 2018-09-14 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-4a21a8ca59 | F27 | nss | 2018-09-18 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-1a7a5c54c2 | F28 | nss | 2018-09-14 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-4a21a8ca59 | F27 | nss-softokn | 2018-09-18 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-1a7a5c54c2 | F28 | nss-softokn | 2018-09-14 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-4a21a8ca59 | F27 | nss-util | 2018-09-18 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-1a7a5c54c2 | F28 | nss-util | 2018-09-14 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-dbeb27d783 | F27 | okular | 2018-09-18 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-f56ded11c4 | F27 | openssh | 2018-09-13 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-83116f8692 | F27 | pango | 2018-09-13 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-8b1b2373b4 | F27 | zsh | 2018-09-14 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-ec9bc84fda | F27 | zypper | 2018-09-17 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-45183aab17 | F27 | zziplib | 2018-09-13 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0372 | 6 | flash-player-plugin | 2018-09-13 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0373 | 6 | kernel | 2018-09-14 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0375 | 6 | kernel-linus | 2018-09-14 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0374 | 6 | kernel-tmb | 2018-09-14 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0371 | 6 | ntp | 2018-09-13 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2742-1 | 15.0 42.3 | GraphicsMagick | 2018-09-17 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2724-1 | chromium | 2018-09-15 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2728-1 | 15.0 42.3 | chromium | 2018-09-15 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2731-1 | 15.0 | curl | 2018-09-15 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2736-1 | 42.3 | curl | 2018-09-15 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2734-1 | ffmpeg-4 | 2018-09-15 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2723-1 | 15.0 42.3 | ffmpeg-4 | 2018-09-15 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2738-1 | 42.3 | kernel | 2018-09-16 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2739-1 | 15.0 | libzypp, zypper | 2018-09-17 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2727-1 | okular | 2018-09-15 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2733-1 | 15.0 42.3 | okular | 2018-09-15 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2712-1 | 42.3 | python3 | 2018-09-14 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2730-1 | 15.0 | spice-gtk | 2018-09-15 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2740-1 | 42.3 | tomcat | 2018-09-17 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2741-1 | 15.0 | zsh | 2018-09-17 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-2692 | OL7 | firefox | 2018-09-12 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-2692 | OL7 | firefox | 2018-09-13 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-4219 | OL5 | kernel | 2018-09-18 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-4214 | OL5 | kernel | 2018-09-14 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-4215 | OL6 | kernel | 2018-09-13 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-4214 | OL6 | kernel | 2018-09-14 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-4216 | OL6 | kernel | 2018-09-14 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-4215 | OL7 | kernel | 2018-09-13 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-4216 | OL7 | kernel | 2018-09-14 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:2721-01 | OSP13.0 | OpenStack Platform | 2018-09-18 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:2707-01 | EL6 | flash-plugin | 2018-09-13 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:2712-01 | RHS 5.6 5.7 | java-1.7.1-ibm | 2018-09-17 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:2713-01 | RHS5.8 | java-1.8.0-ibm | 2018-09-17 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:2715-01 | OSP10.0 | openstack-neutron | 2018-09-17 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:2710-01 | OSP13.0 | openstack-neutron | 2018-09-17 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:2714-01 | OSP10.0 | openstack-nova | 2018-09-17 |
| Scientific Linux | OPENAFS-SA-2018-001:2:3 | SL6 SL7 | OpenAFS | 2018-09-12 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2018:2693-1 | SL6 | firefox | 2018-09-12 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2018:2692-1 | SL7 | firefox | 2018-09-12 |
| Slackware | SSA:2018-256-01 | ghostscript | 2018-09-13 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2018-257-01 | php | 2018-09-14 | |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2717-1 | SLE11 | curl | 2018-09-14 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2715-1 | SLE12 | curl | 2018-09-14 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2714-1 | SLE15 | curl | 2018-09-14 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2716-1 | OS7 SLE12 | libzypp, zypper | 2018-09-14 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2719-1 | SLE11 | openssh-openssl1 | 2018-09-14 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2704-1 | podman | 2018-09-13 | |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2709-1 | SLE15 | spice-gtk | 2018-09-14 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2699-1 | SLE12 | tomcat | 2018-09-13 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3722-6 | 12.04 | clamav | 2018-09-18 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3722-5 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 | clamav | 2018-09-18 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3765-2 | 12.04 | curl | 2018-09-17 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3765-1 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 | curl | 2018-09-17 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3761-2 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 | firefox | 2018-09-13 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3761-3 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 | firefox | 2018-09-17 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3768-1 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 | ghostscript | 2018-09-19 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3767-2 | 12.04 | glib2.0 | 2018-09-19 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3767-1 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 | glib2.0 | 2018-09-19 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3747-2 | 18.04 | openjdk-lts | 2018-09-12 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3766-1 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 | php5, php7.0, php7.2 | 2018-09-18 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3766-2 | 12.04 | php5 | 2018-09-19 |
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