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Calls for Presentations

CFS for Netdev 0x13 open

The call for submissions for Netdev 0x13 is open until January 15. The conference will take place March 20-22 in Prague, Czech Republic.

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CFP Deadlines: November 8, 2018 to January 7, 2019

The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.

DeadlineEvent Dates EventLocation
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
November 30 December 1 Central Pennsylvania Open Source Conference Lancaster, PA, USA
December 16 January 22 LCA Kernel Miniconf Christchurch, New Zealand
December 20 March 23
March 26		 Linux Audio Conference San Francisco, CA, USA
December 22 March 14
March 17		 FOSSASIA Singapore, Singapore
December 31 March 14 Icinga Camp Berlin Berlin, Germany
January 3 May 1
May 9		 PyCon 2019 Cleveland, OH, USA

If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.

Upcoming Events

Sold out LPC 2018 starts in a week — info for attendees

The Linux Plumbers Conference, beginning November 13 in Vancouver, Canada, is completely sold out. Click below for some information for conference attendees. "Pre-registration will open Monday from 3:00pm to 5:00pm. General Registration will be open from 8:00am to 5:00pm Tuesday to Thursday."

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Events: November 8, 2018 to January 7, 2019

The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.

Date(s)EventLocation
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
November 13		 PyCon Canada 2018 Toronto, Canada
November 9 August Penguin Conference 2018 Tel Aviv, Israel
November 9
November 10		 Seattle GNU/Linux Seattle, WA, USA
November 12 Ceph Day Berlin Berlin, Germany
November 12 RabbitMQ Summit 2018 London, UK
November 12
November 15		 Linux Kernel Summit Vancouver, Canada
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
November 19
November 20		 DevOpsDays Galway Galway, Ireland
November 24
November 25		 DebUtsav Kochi 2018 Kerala, India
December 1 Central Pennsylvania Open Source Conference Lancaster, PA, USA
December 3
December 4		 DPDK Summit North America 2018 San Jose, CA, USA
December 3
December 4		 LinuxLab Florence, Italy
December 7 PGDay Down Under 2018 Melbourne, Australia
December 8 Open Source Conference 2018 Fukuoka, Japan
December 11
December 13		 KubeCon+CloudNativeCon Seattle, WA, USA
December 11
December 13		 Reproducible Builds workshop Paris, France
December 27
December 30		 34th Chaos Communication Congress Leipzig, Germany

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Security updates

Alert summary November 1, 2018 to November 7, 2018

Dist. ID Release Package Date
Arch Linux ASA-201811-3 ghostscript 2018-11-07
Arch Linux ASA-201811-1 kernel 2018-11-01
Arch Linux ASA-201811-2 linux-lts 2018-11-01
Debian DSA-4330-1 stable chromium-browser 2018-11-02
Debian DLA-1568-1 LTS curl 2018-11-06
Debian DSA-4331-1 stable curl 2018-11-02
Debian DLA-1565-1 LTS glusterfs 2018-11-05
Debian DLA-1567-1 LTS gthumb 2018-11-05
Debian DSA-4333-1 stable icecast2 2018-11-04
Debian DLA-1564-1 LTS mono 2018-11-01
Debian DSA-4334-1 stable mupdf 2018-11-04
Debian DLA-1566-1 LTS mysql-5.5 2018-11-05
Debian DLA-1561-1 LTS phpldapadmin 2018-10-31
Debian DLA-1562-1 LTS poppler 2018-10-31
Debian DSA-4332-1 stable ruby2.3 2018-11-03
Debian DLA-1563-1 LTS tzdata 2018-11-01
Fedora FEDORA-2018-71d85bc8cd F29 NetworkManager 2018-11-04
Fedora FEDORA-2018-7785911c9e F29 curl 2018-11-07
Fedora FEDORA-2018-343ab5abbd F27 firefox 2018-10-31
Fedora FEDORA-2018-ce61c1147d F28 java-11-openjdk 2018-10-31
Fedora FEDORA-2018-369ab0efc9 F29 java-11-openjdk 2018-10-31
Fedora FEDORA-2018-7734354526 F29 libarchive 2018-10-31
Fedora FEDORA-2018-06d56c8c9d F29 lldpad 2018-11-03
Fedora FEDORA-2018-6fa1017c1d F29 python-django 2018-11-03
Fedora FEDORA-2018-d527206a77 F27 roundcubemail 2018-11-04
Fedora FEDORA-2018-928e15e1db F28 roundcubemail 2018-11-04
Fedora FEDORA-2018-f2f8571abd F27 sos-collector 2018-10-31
Fedora FEDORA-2018-1f3a47bfbb F28 sos-collector 2018-10-31
Fedora FEDORA-2018-b24201fc50 F27 teeworlds 2018-10-31
Fedora FEDORA-2018-63465e1846 F28 teeworlds 2018-10-31
Fedora FEDORA-2018-5702dc9bdf F29 teeworlds 2018-10-31
Fedora FEDORA-2018-2a33c35fea F28 thunderbird 2018-11-06
Fedora FEDORA-2018-c38dfccae3 F29 thunderbird 2018-11-05
Fedora FEDORA-2018-a1f37d2f08 F29 webkit2gtk3 2018-11-04
Fedora FEDORA-2018-a24754252a F29 xen 2018-11-04
Fedora FEDORA-2018-4ab08fedd6 F29 xorg-x11-server 2018-11-05
Fedora FEDORA-2018-7d138cfd7b F29 zchunk 2018-11-07
Mageia MGASA-2018-0431 6 axis 2018-11-03
Mageia MGASA-2018-0438 6 cimg, gmic 2018-11-03
Mageia MGASA-2018-0427 6 dnsmasq 2018-11-03
Mageia MGASA-2018-0434 6 gitolite 2018-11-03
Mageia MGASA-2018-0435 6 gnutls 2018-11-03
Mageia MGASA-2018-0436 6 java-1.8.0-openjdk 2018-11-03
Mageia MGASA-2018-0430 6 lighttpd 2018-11-03
Mageia MGASA-2018-0432 6 mbedtls 2018-11-03
Mageia MGASA-2018-0433 6 mediawiki 2018-11-03
Mageia MGASA-2018-0428 6 perl-Dancer2 2018-11-03
Mageia MGASA-2018-0429 6 python-cryptography 2018-11-03
Mageia MGASA-2018-0437 6 virtualbox 2018-11-03
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2018:3646-1 15.0 42.3 thunderbird 2018-11-07
Oracle ELSA-2018-3127 OL7 389-ds-base 2018-11-06
Oracle ELSA-2018-3032 OL7 binutils 2018-11-06
Oracle ELSA-2018-3157 OL7 curl and nss-pem 2018-11-06
Oracle ELSA-2018-3006 OL6 firefox 2018-11-01
Oracle ELSA-2018-3242 OL7 glusterfs 2018-11-06
Oracle ELSA-2018-3050 OL7 gnutls 2018-11-06
Oracle ELSA-2018-3253 OL7 jasper 2018-11-06
Oracle ELSA-2018-4265 OL6 kernel 2018-11-07
Oracle ELSA-2018-3083 OL7 kernel 2018-11-06
Oracle ELSA-2018-4265 OL7 kernel 2018-11-07
Oracle ELSA-2018-3071 OL7 krb5 2018-11-06
Oracle ELSA-2018-3246 OL7 libcdio 2018-11-06
Oracle ELSA-2018-3065 OL7 libkdcraw 2018-11-06
Oracle ELSA-2018-3327 OL7 libmspack 2018-11-06
Oracle ELSA-2018-3113 OL7 libvirt 2018-11-06
Oracle ELSA-2018-3221 OL7 openssl 2018-11-06
Oracle ELSA-2018-3090 OL7 ovmf 2018-11-06
Oracle ELSA-2018-3041 OL7 python 2018-11-06
Oracle ELSA-2018-3056 OL7 samba 2018-11-06
Oracle ELSA-2018-3249 OL7 setup 2018-11-06
Oracle ELSA-2018-3158 OL7 sssd 2018-11-06
Oracle ELSA-2018-3052 OL7 wget 2018-11-06
Oracle ELSA-2018-3107 OL7 wpa_supplicant 2018-11-06
Oracle ELSA-2018-3335 OL7 xerces-c 2018-11-06
Oracle ELSA-2018-3073 OL7 zsh 2018-11-06
Oracle ELSA-2018-3229 OL7 zziplib 2018-11-06
Red Hat RHSA-2018:3507-01 EL7.5 389-ds-base 2018-11-06
Red Hat RHSA-2018:3470-01 EL7 Red Hat Virtualization 2018-11-05
Red Hat RHSA-2018:3459-01 EL7.5 kernel 2018-11-06
Red Hat RHSA-2018:3500-01 EL7 openvswitch 2018-11-05
Red Hat RHSA-2018:3458-01 EL7 thunderbird 2018-11-05
Red Hat RHSA-2018:3514-01 EL7.4 xerces-c 2018-11-06
Red Hat RHSA-2018:3506-01 EL7.5 xerces-c 2018-11-06
Scientific Linux SLSA-2018:3409-1 SL6 java-1.7.0-openjdk 2018-10-31
Scientific Linux SLSA-2018:3406-1 SL6 python-paramiko 2018-10-31
Scientific Linux SLSA-2018:3403-1 SL6 thunderbird 2018-10-31
Slackware SSA:2018-304-01 curl 2018-10-31
Slackware SSA:2018-309-01 mariadb 2018-11-05
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:3591-1 OS7 SLE12 MozillaFirefox, MozillaFirefox-branding-SLE, llvm4, mozilla-nspr, mozilla-nss, apache2-mod_nss 2018-10-31
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:3625-1 SLE15 accountsservice 2018-11-05
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:3607-1 curl 2018-11-02
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:3608-1 SLE12 curl 2018-11-02
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:3624-1 SLE15 curl 2018-11-05
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:3609-1 SLE15 ffmpeg 2018-11-02
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:3620-1 icinga 2018-11-05
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:3618-1 SLE11 kernel 2018-11-05
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:3589-1 SLE15 kernel 2018-10-31
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:3593-1 SLE15 kernel 2018-10-31
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:3640-1 SLE12 libarchive 2018-11-07
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:3621-1 SLE11 opensc 2018-11-05
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:3622-1 SLE12 opensc 2018-11-05
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:3606-1 SLE12 soundtouch 2018-11-02
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:3610-1 SLE15 soundtouch 2018-11-02
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:3644-1 SLE15 systemd 2018-11-07
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:3590-1 OS7 SLE12 wireshark 2018-10-31
Ubuntu USN-3805-2 12.04 curl 2018-11-01
Ubuntu USN-3786-2 18.04 libxkbcommon 2018-11-06
Ubuntu USN-3807-1 16.04 18.04 18.10 network-manager 2018-11-05
Ubuntu USN-3809-1 14.04 16.04 18.04 openssh 2018-11-06
Ubuntu USN-3810-1 14.04 16.04 18.04 ppp 2018-11-06
Ubuntu USN-3808-1 14.04 16.04 18.04 18.10 ruby1.9.1, ruby2.0, ruby2.3, ruby2.5 2018-11-05
Ubuntu USN-3811-1 14.04 16.04 18.04 spamassassin 2018-11-06
Ubuntu USN-3806-1 16.04 18.04 18.10 systemd 2018-11-05
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Kernel patches of interest

Kernel releases

Linus Torvalds Linux 4.20-rc1 Nov 04
Greg KH Linux 4.19.1 Nov 04
Greg KH Linux 4.18.17 Nov 04
Greg KH Linux 4.14.79 Nov 04
Steven Rostedt 4.14.78-rt47 Nov 05

Architecture-specific

Ard Biesheuvel ARM: smp: add support for per-task stack canaries Nov 04
Andrey Konovalov kasan: add software tag-based mode for arm64 Nov 06
Vincent Chen nds32 FPU port Nov 01
Atish Patra Add RISC-V cpu topology Nov 01
Jarkko Sakkinen Intel SGX1 Nov 03
Moger, Babu arch/x86: AMD QoS support Nov 06

Core kernel

Mathieu Desnoyers rseq updates, new cpu_opv system call (v2) Nov 01
Mathieu Desnoyers [RELEASE] LTTng-modules 2.9.11, 2.10.8, 2.11.0-rc2 (Linux kernel tracer) Nov 01
Tetsuo Handa printk: Add line-buffered printk() API. Nov 02
Masami Hiramatsu tracing: Unifying dynamic event interface Nov 05
Daniel Jordan ktask: multithread CPU-intensive kernel work Nov 05
Steve Sistare steal tasks to improve CPU utilization Nov 05
Elvira Khabirova ptrace: add PTRACE_GET_SYSCALL_INFO request Nov 07
Rafael J. Wysocki cpuidle: New timer events oriented governor for tickless systems Nov 04
Song Liu reveal invisible bpf programs Nov 06

Device drivers

Song Qiang Add support for PNI RM3100 magnetometer Nov 02
Marek Behún bus: Add support for Moxtet bus Nov 02
Kieran Bingham MAX9286 GMSL Support Nov 02
Pawel Laszczak Introduced new Cadence USBSS DRD Driver Nov 03
Jernej Skrabec Allwinner H6 DE3 and HDMI support Nov 04
Wendy Liang Xilinx ZynqMP IPI Mailbox Controller Driver Nov 05
Maxime Jourdan Add Amlogic video decoder driver Nov 06
Lokesh Vutla Add support for TISCI irqchip drivers Nov 06
richard.gong@linux.intel.com Add Intel Stratix10 FPGA manager and service layer Nov 06
Alex Elder net: introduce Qualcomm IPA driver Nov 06
Abel Vesa Add i.MX8MQ clock driver Nov 07
Jyri Sarha drm/tidss: new display driver for TI's DSS6 & DSS7 Nov 07
Manivannan Sadhasivam Add initial pinctrl support for MT6797 SoC Nov 07

Device-driver infrastructure

shuah@kernel.org Media Device Allocator API Nov 01
Lu Baolu vfio/mdev: IOMMU aware mediated device Nov 05
Heikki Krogerus device property: Introducing software nodes Nov 05
Niklas Söderlund v4l: add support for multiplexed streams Nov 02
Kieran Bingham Asynchronous UVC Nov 06
Jacek Anaszewski Add generic support for composing LED class device name Nov 06

Filesystems and block layer

Long Li CIFS: Add support for direct I/O read Oct 31
Olga Kornievskaia client-side support for "inter" SSC copy Oct 29
Carlos Maiolino New ->fiemap infrastructure and ->bmap removal Oct 30
Dave Chinner xfs: Block size > PAGE_SIZE support Nov 07
Matthew Bobrowski [PATCH v6 0/4] fanotify: introduce new event masks FAN_OPEN_EXEC and FAN_OPEN_EXEC_PERM Nov 07
Lu Fengqi Btrfs In-band De-duplication Nov 06

Memory management

Alexander Duyck Add NUMA aware async_schedule calls Nov 05
Alexander Duyck Deferred page init improvements Nov 05
Mel Gorman Fragmentation avoidance improvements v2 Nov 07

Networking

Paolo Abeni udp: implement GRO support Oct 30
Matthieu Baerts [mptcp-dev] MPTCP v0.93.2 maintenance release based on Linux v4.9.131 Nov 05
Christoph Paasch [RFC 0/2] Delayed binding of UDP sockets for Quic per-connection sockets Oct 31
Stefano Brivio ICMP error handling for UDP tunnels Nov 06

Security-related

Eric Biggers fs-verity: read-only file-based authenticity protection Nov 01
Rick Edgecombe KASLR feature to randomize each loadable module Nov 02
Casey Schaufler LSM: Support ptrace sidechannel access checks Nov 05
Eric Biggers crypto: Adiantum support Nov 05
Vitaly Chikunov crypto: streebog - add Streebog hash function Nov 07
mortonm@chromium.org LSM: add SafeSetID module that gates setid calls Oct 31

Virtualization and containers

Michael Kelley Subject: Enable Linux guests on Hyper-V on ARM64 Nov 03
Ahmed Abd El Mawgood KVM: X86: Introducing ROE Protection Kernel Hardening Nov 04
Vitaly Mayatskikh vhost: add vhost_blk driver Nov 02

Miscellaneous

Karel Zak util-linux v2.33 Nov 06

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