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Calls for Presentations
CFP Deadlines: September 27, 2018 to November 26, 2018
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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
Thermal microconference accepted into 2018 Linux Plumbers Conference
A microconference on thermal issues has been accepted into LPC, which takes place November 13-15 in Vancouver, Canada. "As the energy density of computer systems has increased, thermal issues have become an increasingly hot topic across the spectrum from hand-held systems to internet datacenters. Because the need for thermal management is relatively new, there is a wide variety of hardware and firmware mechanisms, to say nothing of a wide variety of independently developed software to interact with these mechanisms. This in turn results in complex and almost-duplicate code to manage and control thermal excursions. This microconference will therefore look to see if it is possible to consolidate or at least to better align the Linux kernel's thermal subsystems."
Linux Plumbers Conference Regular Registration Quota Reached
Regular registration for Linux Plumbers Conference is sold out. A limited number of registrations will be available on a first come first serve basis. "We will process people as quickly as possible as slots initially allocated to sponsors, microconferences, and speakers get released." LPC will be held November 13-15 in Vancouver, Canada.
Events: September 27, 2018 to November 26, 2018
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| September 24 September 27 |
ApacheCon North America | Montreal, Canada |
| 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 |
Embedded Linux Conference Europe | Edinburgh, UK |
| October 22 October 24 |
Open Source Summit 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 | Tracing Summit 2018 | Edinburgh, UK |
| October 25 | Real-Time Summit | Edinburgh, UK |
| October 25 October 26 |
Linux Security Summit | Edinburgh, UK |
| October 25 October 26 |
GStreamer Conference 2018 | Edinburgh, Scotland, UK |
| October 25 October 26 |
Free Software and Open Source Symposium | Toronto, Canada |
| 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 November 11 |
QtCon Brazil 2018 | São Paulo, Brazil |
| November 8 | Open Source Camp | Nürnberg, Germany |
| November 9 | August Penguin Conference 2018 | Tel Aviv, Israel |
| November 9 November 13 |
PyCon Canada 2018 | Toronto, Canada |
| November 9 November 10 |
Seattle GNU/Linux | Seattle, WA, USA |
| November 12 November 15 |
Linux Kernel Summit | Vancouver, Canada |
| November 12 | RabbitMQ Summit 2018 | London, UK |
| November 12 | Ceph Day Berlin | Berlin, Germany |
| November 13 November 15 |
Linux Plumbers Conference | Vancouver, BC, Canada |
| November 13 November 15 |
OpenStack Summit | Berlin, Germany |
| November 14 November 15 |
KubeCon+CloudNativeCon China | Shanghai, China |
| November 15 | NLUUG (fall conference) | Utrecht, The Netherlands |
| November 19 November 20 |
DevOpsDays Galway | Galway, Ireland |
| November 24 November 25 |
DebUtsav Kochi 2018 | Kerala, India |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Event Reports
Summary of the Arm ports BoF at DebConf18
Steve McIntyre has a report from the Arm ports Birds of Feather session at DebConf, which was held July 29-August 5 in Hsinchu, China.
Security updates
Alert summary September 20, 2018 to September 26, 2018
| Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arch Linux | ASA-201809-1 | bitcoin-daemon | 2018-09-22 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201809-2 | bitcoin-qt | 2018-09-22 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201809-4 | strongswan | 2018-09-25 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201809-3 | zsh | 2018-09-25 | |
| Debian | DLA-1517-1 | LTS | dom4j | 2018-09-24 |
| Debian | DSA-4304-1 | stable | firefox-esr | 2018-09-23 |
| Debian | DLA-1510-1 | LTS | glusterfs | 2018-09-20 |
| Debian | DLA-1515-1 | LTS | hylafax | 2018-09-22 |
| Debian | DSA-4298-1 | stable | hylafax | 2018-09-20 |
| Debian | DSA-4300-1 | stable | libarchive-zip-perl | 2018-09-22 |
| Debian | DSA-4301-1 | stable | mediawiki | 2018-09-22 |
| Debian | DLA-1516-1 | LTS | okular | 2018-09-23 |
| Debian | DSA-4303-1 | stable | okular | 2018-09-23 |
| Debian | DLA-1513-1 | LTS | openafs | 2018-09-21 |
| Debian | DSA-4302-1 | stable | openafs | 2018-09-23 |
| Debian | DLA-1509-1 | LTS | php5 | 2018-09-19 |
| Debian | DLA-1518-1 | LTS | polarssl | 2018-09-25 |
| Debian | DLA-1519-1 | LTS | python2.7 | 2018-09-25 |
| Debian | DLA-1520-1 | LTS | python3.4 | 2018-09-25 |
| Debian | DLA-1511-1 | LTS | reportbug | 2018-09-20 |
| Debian | DSA-4305-1 | stable | strongswan | 2018-09-24 |
| Debian | DLA-1508-1 | LTS | suricata | 2018-09-19 |
| Debian | DLA-1512-1 | LTS | sympa | 2018-09-21 |
| Debian | DLA-1514-1 | LTS | texlive-bin | 2018-09-22 |
| Debian | DSA-4299-1 | stable | texlive-bin | 2018-09-21 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-ba443bcb6d | F27 | curl | 2018-09-20 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-7993dea41b | F27 | gitolite3 | 2018-09-22 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-dc060c6f2a | F28 | gitolite3 | 2018-09-21 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-e820fccd83 | F28 | kernel-headers | 2018-09-22 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-6ac39c63c4 | F29 | lcms2 | 2018-09-22 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0376 | 6 | bouncycastle | 2018-09-21 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0384 | 6 | dropbear | 2018-09-21 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0378 | 6 | ghostscript | 2018-09-21 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0391 | 6 | kernel | 2018-09-22 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0387 | 6 | lcms2 | 2018-09-21 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0380 | 6 | libcgroup | 2018-09-21 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0388 | 6 | libextratcor | 2018-09-21 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0377 | 6 | libx11 | 2018-09-21 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0383 | 6 | mailman | 2018-09-21 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0386 | 6 | mpg123 | 2018-09-21 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0389 | 6 | okular | 2018-09-21 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0390 | 6 | php | 2018-09-21 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0385 | 6 | soundtouch | 2018-09-21 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0379 | 6 | unixODBC | 2018-09-21 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0382 | 6 | webkit2 | 2018-09-21 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0381 | 6 | xml-security-c | 2018-09-21 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2516-2 | GraphicsMagick | 2018-09-22 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2742-2 | GraphicsMagick | 2018-09-22 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2833-1 | 42.3 | GraphicsMagick | 2018-09-24 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2811-1 | 42.3 | ImageMagick | 2018-09-24 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2856-1 | 42.3 | apache2 | 2018-09-25 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2810-1 | aubio | 2018-09-22 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2820-1 | 42.3 | bouncycastle | 2018-09-24 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2753-1 | chromium | 2018-09-20 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2664-2 | chromium | 2018-09-22 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2728-2 | chromium | 2018-09-22 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2754-2 | chromium | 2018-09-22 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2754-1 | 15.0 42.3 | chromium | 2018-09-20 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2764-1 | 42.3 | exempi | 2018-09-20 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2723-2 | ffmpeg-4 | 2018-09-22 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2817-1 | 15.0 42.3 | firefox | 2018-09-24 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2851-1 | 42.3 | gd | 2018-09-25 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2818-1 | 15.0 | gdm | 2018-09-24 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2854-1 | 42.3 | gnutls | 2018-09-25 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2797-2 | hylafax+ | 2018-09-22 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2797-1 | 15.0 42.3 | hylafax+ | 2018-09-21 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2827-1 | 15.0 42.3 | jhead | 2018-09-24 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2819-1 | 42.3 | liblouis | 2018-09-24 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2806-1 | nemo-extensions | 2018-09-22 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2521-2 | nextcloud | 2018-09-22 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2816-1 | 42.3 | nodejs6 | 2018-09-24 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2855-1 | 15.0 | nodejs8 | 2018-09-25 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2801-2 | obs-service-refresh_patches | 2018-09-22 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2801-1 | 15.0 42.3 | obs-service-refresh_patches | 2018-09-21 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2733-2 | okular | 2018-09-22 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2813-1 | 42.3 | openslp | 2018-09-24 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2790-1 | 15.0 | pango | 2018-09-21 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2859-1 | 42.3 | php5-smarty3 | 2018-09-25 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2849-1 | 15.0 | php7 | 2018-09-25 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2525-2 | phpMyAdmin | 2018-09-22 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2488-2 | python-Django | 2018-09-22 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2809-1 | python-Django1 | 2018-09-22 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2807-1 | seamonkey | 2018-09-22 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2852-1 | 15.0 | shadow | 2018-09-25 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:2781-1 | 15.0 | webkit2gtk3 | 2018-09-21 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-2757 | OL7 | 389-ds-base | 2018-09-25 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-2766 | OL7 | flatpak | 2018-09-25 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-2748 | OL7 | kernel | 2018-09-26 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-2737 | OL6 | mod_perl | 2018-09-24 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-2768 | OL7 | nss | 2018-09-25 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-2731 | OL7 | spice and spice-gtk | 2018-09-20 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-2731 | OL7 | spice and spice-gtk | 2018-09-21 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-2732 | OL6 | spice-gtk and spice-server | 2018-09-20 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:2757-01 | EL7 | 389-ds-base | 2018-09-25 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:2818-01 | EL6 | chromium-browser | 2018-09-26 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:2766-01 | EL7 | flatpak | 2018-09-25 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:2791-01 | EL6.4 | kernel | 2018-09-25 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:2748-01 | EL7 | kernel | 2018-09-25 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:2790-01 | EL7.2 | kernel | 2018-09-25 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:2785-01 | EL7.3 | kernel | 2018-09-25 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:2776-01 | EL7.4 | kernel | 2018-09-25 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:2772-01 | EL7 | kernel-alt | 2018-09-25 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:2763-01 | EL7 | kernel-rt | 2018-09-25 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:2789-01 | MRG2 | kernel-rt | 2018-09-25 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:2737-01 | EL6 | mod_perl | 2018-09-24 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:2768-01 | EL7 | nss | 2018-09-25 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:2729-01 | OSP12.0 | openstack-rabbitmq-container | 2018-09-20 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:2762-01 | EL7 | qemu-kvm-ma | 2018-09-25 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:2733-01 | EL7 | rubygem-smart_proxy_dynflow | 2018-09-20 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:2731-01 | EL7 | spice and spice-gtk | 2018-09-20 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:2732-01 | EL6 | spice-gtk and spice-server | 2018-09-20 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2018:2737-1 | SL6 | mod_perl | 2018-09-24 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2018:2731-1 | SL7 | spice and spice-gtk | 2018-09-20 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2018:2732-1 | SL6 | spice-gtk and spice-server | 2018-09-20 |
| Slackware | SSA:2018-265-01 | firefox | 2018-09-22 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2018-264-01 | 14.2 | kernel | 2018-09-21 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2778-1 | SLE12 | ImageMagick | 2018-09-21 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2761-1 | OS8 | OpenStack | 2018-09-20 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2789-1 | SLE11 | ant | 2018-09-21 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2838-1 | SLE12 | ant | 2018-09-24 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2866-1 | SLE15 | ant | 2018-09-26 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2815-1 | OS7 SLE12 | apache2 | 2018-09-24 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2765-1 | couchdb | 2018-09-20 | |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2762-1 | crowbar, crowbar-core, crowbar-ha, crowbar-init, crowbar-openstack, crowbar-ui | 2018-09-20 | |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2861-1 | dom4j | 2018-09-25 | |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2863-1 | dom4j | 2018-09-25 | |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2837-1 | SLE12 | gd | 2018-09-24 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2771-1 | SLE15 | gdm | 2018-09-20 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2825-1 | OS7 SLE12 | gnutls | 2018-09-24 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2842-1 | SLE12 | gnutls | 2018-09-24 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2839-1 | OS7 SLE12 | java-1_8_0-ibm | 2018-09-24 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2775-1 | SLE12 | kernel | 2018-09-21 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2776-1 | SLE12 | kernel | 2018-09-21 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2858-1 | SLE12 | kernel | 2018-09-25 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2862-1 | SLE12 | kernel | 2018-09-25 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2841-1 | SLE12 | libXcursor | 2018-09-24 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2780-1 | SLE12 | liblouis | 2018-09-21 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2814-1 | SLE12 | libzypp, zypper | 2018-09-24 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2850-1 | SLE11 | mgetty | 2018-09-25 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2796-1 | OS7 SLE12 | nodejs6 | 2018-09-21 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2812-1 | SLE15 | nodejs8 | 2018-09-24 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2779-1 | OS7 SLE12 | openslp | 2018-09-21 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2843-1 | SLE11 | pam_pkcs11 | 2018-09-24 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2763-1 | SLE15 | pango | 2018-09-20 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2840-1 | SLE15 | php7 | 2018-09-24 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2853-1 | python-paramiko | 2018-09-25 | |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2777-1 | SLE12 | python-paramiko | 2018-09-21 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2835-1 | SLE12 | shadow | 2018-09-24 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2834-1 | SLE15 | shadow | 2018-09-24 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2836-1 | SLE12 | tiff | 2018-09-24 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2752-1 | SLE15 | webkit2gtk3 | 2018-09-19 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2872-1 | SLE11 | wireshark | 2018-09-26 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2791-1 | SLE11 | xorg-x11-libs | 2018-09-21 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3769-1 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 | bind9 | 2018-09-20 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3770-2 | 12.04 | lcms, lcms2 | 2018-09-20 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3770-1 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 | lcms2 | 2018-09-20 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3771-1 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 | strongswan | 2018-09-25 |
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[PATCH bpf-next 1/9] bpf: extend cgroup bpf core to allow multiple
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