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CFP Deadlines: December 13, 2018 to February 11, 2019

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

DeadlineEvent Dates EventLocation
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
January 10 July 10
July 12		 2019 USENIX Annual Technical Conference Renton, WA, USA
January 15 April 5
April 6		 openSUSE Summit Nashville, TN, USA
January 15 March 20
March 22		 Netdev 0x13 Prague, Czech Republic
January 15 May 29
June 2		 Libre Graphics Meeting Saarbrücken, Germany
January 19 May 30
May 31		 PGCon 2019 Ottawa, Canada
January 19 May 17
May 18		 BSDCan - The BSD Conference Ottawa, Canada
January 23 April 29
May 1		 Open Infrastructure Summit Denver, CO, USA
January 31 May 14
May 15		 Open Source Data Center Conference Berlin, Germany
February 2 May 28
May 30		 Percona Live Open Source Database Conference Austin, TX, USA
February 3 May 24
May 26		 openSUSE Conference Nürnberg, Germany
February 4 April 18 Open Source 101 Columbia, SC, USA
February 8 April 26
April 27		 KiCad Conference 2019 Chicago, IL, USA
February 10 April 7
April 10		 FOSS North Gothenburg, Sweden

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

Upcoming Events

Debian Bug Squashing Party in Montréal

There will be a BSP in Montréal, Canada on January 19-20. "So yeah, come and squash bugs with us! Montreal in January can be cold, but it's usually snowy and beautiful too."

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Events: December 13, 2018 to February 11, 2019

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

Date(s)EventLocation
December 11
December 13		 Reproducible Builds workshop Paris, France
December 11
December 13		 KubeCon+CloudNativeCon Seattle, WA, USA
December 27
December 30		 34th Chaos Communication Congress Leipzig, Germany
January 21
January 25		 linux.conf.au 2019 Christchurch, New Zealand
January 21 LCA2019 System Administration Miniconf Christchurch, New Zealand
January 22 LCA Kernel Miniconf Christchurch, New Zealand
January 25
January 27		 DevConf.cz Brno, Czechia
January 28
January 30		 Enigma 2019 Security and Privacy Ideas That Matter Burlingame, CA, USA
January 31 FedGeoDay 2019 Washington D.C., USA
February 2
February 3		 FOSDEM Brussels, Belgium
February 4 The Annual International Copyleft Conference 2019 Brussels, Belgium

If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.

Security updates

Alert summary December 6, 2018 to December 12, 2018

Dist. ID Release Package Date
Arch Linux ASA-201812-2 chromium 2018-12-11
Arch Linux ASA-201812-9 firefox 2018-12-12
Arch Linux ASA-201812-1 jupyter-notebook 2018-12-06
Arch Linux ASA-201812-6 lib32-openssl 2018-12-11
Arch Linux ASA-201812-7 lib32-openssl-1.0 2018-12-11
Arch Linux ASA-201812-5 openssl 2018-12-11
Arch Linux ASA-201812-8 openssl-1.0 2018-12-11
Arch Linux ASA-201812-4 texlive-bin 2018-12-11
Arch Linux ASA-201812-3 wireshark-cli 2018-12-11
CentOS CESA-2018:3760 C6 ghostscript 2018-12-06
Debian DSA-4352-1 stable chromium-browser 2018-12-07
Debian DSA-4351-1 stable libphp-phpmailer 2018-12-07
Debian DLA-1604-1 LTS lxml 2018-12-10
Debian DSA-4353-1 stable php7.0 2018-12-10
Debian DSA-4350-1 stable policykit-1 2018-12-06
Fedora FEDORA-2018-8f0d2429d3 F28 bird 2018-12-07
Fedora FEDORA-2018-6aada550ca F29 bird 2018-12-07
Fedora FEDORA-2018-3a195026f5 F29 cairo 2018-12-10
Fedora FEDORA-2018-f1f44e4c6d F28 hadoop 2018-12-09
Fedora FEDORA-2018-beec9e3fda F29 hadoop 2018-12-09
Fedora FEDORA-2018-3fbc181b3e F29 keepalived 2018-12-11
Fedora FEDORA-2018-5904d0794d F29 kernel 2018-12-11
Fedora FEDORA-2018-a0914af224 F28 kernel-headers 2018-12-11
Fedora FEDORA-2018-5904d0794d F29 kernel-headers 2018-12-11
Fedora FEDORA-2018-a0914af224 F28 kernel-tools 2018-12-11
Fedora FEDORA-2018-5904d0794d F29 kernel-tools 2018-12-11
Fedora FEDORA-2018-96b48b34ae F28 mingw-uriparser 2018-12-11
Fedora FEDORA-2018-4003413459 F29 mingw-uriparser 2018-12-11
Fedora FEDORA-2018-ca03363d57 F28 perl 2018-12-12
Fedora FEDORA-2018-2f8696869e F29 polkit 2018-12-10
Fedora FEDORA-2018-a3ef0a026f F28 uriparser 2018-12-11
Fedora FEDORA-2018-c5c72a45ea F29 uriparser 2018-12-11
Gentoo 201812-05 ede 2018-12-06
Mageia MGASA-2018-0478 6 flash-player-plugin 2018-12-07
Mageia MGASA-2018-0477 6 kio-extras 2018-12-06
Mageia MGASA-2018-0479 6 tomcat 2018-12-09
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2018:4056-1 15.0 Chromium 2018-12-08
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2018:4054-1 42.3 ImageMagick 2018-12-08
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2018:4032-1 15.0 apache2-mod_jk 2018-12-08
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2018:4045-1 dom4j 2018-12-08
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2018:3998-1 15.0 dom4j 2018-12-07
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2018:4003-1 42.3 dpdk 2018-12-07
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2018:4005-1 15.0 glib2 2018-12-07
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2018:4051-1 15.0 libgit2 2018-12-08
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2018:4029-1 15.0 messagelib 2018-12-08
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2018:4055-1 15.0 ncurses 2018-12-08
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2018:4034-1 42.3 ncurses 2018-12-08
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2018:3999-1 nextcloud 2018-12-07
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2018:4002-1 15.0 42.3 nextcloud 2018-12-07
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2018:4050-1 15.0 openssl-1_0_0 2018-12-08
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2018:4046-1 15.0 otrs 2018-12-08
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2018:4043-1 15.0 pam 2018-12-08
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2018:4073-1 pdns 2018-12-12
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2018:4062-1 pdns-recursor 2018-12-10
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2018:4038-1 42.3 php5 2018-12-08
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2018:4030-1 42.3 php7 2018-12-08
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2018:4031-1 15.0 postgresql10 2018-12-08
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2018:4007-1 42.3 postgresql94 2018-12-07
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2018:4004-1 15.0 qemu 2018-12-07
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2018:4041-1 15.0 rubygem-activejob-5_1 2018-12-08
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2018:4053-1 15.0 tiff 2018-12-08
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2018:4042-1 15.0 tomcat 2018-12-08
Oracle ELSA-2018-4301 OL5 kernel 2018-12-10
Oracle ELSA-2018-4299 OL6 kernel 2018-12-07
Oracle ELSA-2018-4301 OL6 kernel 2018-12-10
Oracle ELSA-2018-4307 OL6 kernel 2018-12-12
Oracle ELSA-2018-4300 OL6 kernel 2018-12-07
Oracle ELSA-2018-4304 OL7 kernel 2018-12-12
Oracle ELSA-2018-4304 OL7 kernel 2018-12-12
Oracle ELSA-2018-4299 OL7 kernel 2018-12-07
Oracle ELSA-2018-4307 OL7 kernel 2018-12-12
Oracle ELSA-2018-4300 OL7 kernel 2018-12-07
Red Hat RHSA-2018:3803-01 EL6 chromium-browser 2018-12-10
Red Hat RHSA-2018:3795-01 EL6 flash-plugin 2018-12-06
Red Hat RHSA-2018:3822-01 EL5 kernel 2018-12-12
Red Hat RHSA-2018:3823-01 EL5.9 kernel 2018-12-12
Red Hat RHSA-2018:3792-01 OSP12.0 openstack-neutron 2018-12-05
Red Hat RHSA-2018:3800-01 SCL rh-git218-git 2018-12-10
Slackware SSA:2018-339-01 gnutls 2018-12-05
Slackware SSA:2018-345-01 mozilla 2018-12-11
Slackware SSA:2018-339-02 nettle 2018-12-05
Slackware SSA:2018-341-01 php 2018-12-07
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:3986-1 SLE11 aphp53 2018-12-05
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:4023-1 SLE12 ImageMagick 2018-12-07
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:4011-1 MGR3.1 MP3.2 OS9 SMS3.2 2018-12-07
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:3582-2 SLE12 apache2 2018-12-05
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:3970-1 SLE11 apache2-mod_jk 2018-12-03
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:3963-1 SLE12 apache2-mod_jk 2018-12-03
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:3969-1 SLE15 apache2-mod_jk 2018-12-03
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:3588-2 SLE12 audiofile 2018-12-10
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:3994-1 SLE11 compat-openssl097g 2018-12-06
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:4068-1 SLE12 compat-openssl098 2018-12-11
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:4020-1 cri-o and kubernetes packages 2018-12-07
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:4059-1 SLE15 cups 2018-12-10
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:3591-2 SLE12 firefox, llvm4, mozilla-nspr, mozilla-nss, apache2-mod_nss 2018-12-05
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:3749-2 SLE12 firefox 2018-12-07
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:3966-1 SLE11 glib2 2018-12-03
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:4067-1 SLE11 glibc 2018-12-11
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:4064-1 OS7 SLE12 java-1_8_0-ibm 2018-12-10
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:4069-1 SLE12 kernel 2018-12-11
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:4072-1 SLE12 kernel 2018-12-12
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:3975-1 SLE11 kvm 2018-12-04
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:3987-1 SLE11 kvm 2018-12-05
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:3640-2 SLE12 libarchive 2018-12-07
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:4009-1 SLE15 libgit2 2018-12-07
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:2485-2 SLE12 libreoffice 2018-12-07
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:3812-2 SLE12 libwpd 2018-12-10
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:3972-1 SLE12 mariadb 2018-12-04
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:3967-1 SLE12 ncurses 2018-12-03
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:4000-1 SLE15 ncurses 2018-12-07
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:3622-2 SLE12 opensc 2018-12-10
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:3989-1 SLE12 openssl-1_0_0 2018-12-05
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:4001-1 SLE15 openssl-1_0_0 2018-12-07
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:3964-1 SLE11 openssl1 2018-12-03
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:3965-1 SLE15 pam 2018-12-03
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:3995-1 SLE12 php5 2018-12-06
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:3988-1 SLE12 php7 2018-12-05
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:3770-2 SLE12 postgresql10 2018-12-12
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:3554-2 SLE12 python, python-base 2018-12-10
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:4063-1 OS6 OS7 SLE12 python-cryptography, python-pyOpenSSL 2018-12-10
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:3973-1 SLE12 qemu 2018-12-04
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:4086-1 SLE15 qemu 2018-12-12
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:3996-1 SLE15 rubygem-activejob-5_1 2018-12-06
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:4066-1 SLE15 samba 2018-12-10
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:3606-2 SLE12 soundtouch 2018-12-10
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:3771-2 SLE12 squid 2018-12-07
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:3767-2 SLE12 systemd 2018-12-10
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:3911-2 SLE12 tiff 2018-12-07
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:4008-1 SLE15 tiff 2018-12-07
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:3968-1 SLE15 tomcat 2018-12-03
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:3590-2 SLE12 wireshark 2018-12-05
SUSE SUSE-SU-2018:4070-1 SLE12 xen 2018-12-12
Ubuntu USN-3842-1 14.04 16.04 18.04 18.10 cups 2018-12-10
Ubuntu USN-3844-1 14.04 16.04 18.04 18.10 firefox 2018-12-11
Ubuntu USN-3845-1 14.04 16.04 18.04 18.10 freerdp, freerdp2 2018-12-12
Ubuntu USN-3831-2 14.04 16.04 18.04 18.10 ghostscript 2018-12-06
Ubuntu USN-3838-1 14.04 16.04 18.04 libraw 2018-12-06
Ubuntu USN-3841-2 12.04 lxml 2018-12-10
Ubuntu USN-3841-1 14.04 16.04 18.04 lxml 2018-12-10
Ubuntu USN-3840-1 14.04 16.04 18.04 18.10 openssl, openssl1.0 2018-12-06
Ubuntu USN-3843-2 12.04 pixman 2018-12-11
Ubuntu USN-3843-1 14.04 pixman 2018-12-11
Ubuntu USN-3837-2 14.04 16.04 18.04 18.10 poppler 2018-12-11
Ubuntu USN-3811-3 12.04 spamassassin 2018-12-05
Ubuntu USN-3839-1 14.04 16.04 18.04 18.10 wavpack 2018-12-06
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Kernel patches of interest

Kernel releases

Linus Torvalds Linux 4.20-rc6 Dec 09
Greg KH Linux 4.19.8 Dec 08
Greg KH Linux 4.14.87 Dec 08
Greg KH Linux 4.9.144 Dec 08

Architecture-specific

Andrey Konovalov kasan: add software tag-based mode for arm64 Dec 06
Kristina Martsenko ARMv8.3 pointer authentication userspace support Dec 07
David Abdurachmanov riscv: add support for SECCOMP and SECCOMP_FILTER Dec 06
Lendacky, Thomas [PATCH] x86/speculation: Add support for STIBP always-on preferred mode Dec 11

Core kernel

Christian Brauner signal: add taskfd_send_signal() syscall Dec 06
Steve Sistare steal tasks to improve CPU utilization Dec 06
Roman Gushchin freezer for cgroup v2 Dec 07
Arnd Bergmann y2038: further system call conversion Dec 07
Waiman Long cgroup: Introducing bypass mode Dec 10
Tom Zanussi tracing: Hist trigger snapshot and onchange additions Dec 10

Development tools

Bart Van Assche locking/lockdep: Add support for dynamic keys Dec 06
Darrick J. Wong xfstests: add copy/dedupe/clone to fsx/fsstress Dec 06

Device drivers

Kulkarni, Ganapatrao Add ThunderX2 SoC Performance Monitoring Unit driver Dec 06
Hanjie Lin add the Amlogic Meson PCIe controller driver Dec 06
Faiz Abbas Add driver Support for MMCSD on AM654x Dec 07
Gregory CLEMENT Add CPU clock support for Armada 7K/8K Dec 06
Tomasz Duszynski add support for Sensirion SPS30 PM sensor Dec 06
Kunihiko Hayashi Add new UniPhier PCIe host driver Dec 07
Andrei.Stefanescu@microchip.com add SAMA5D2 PIOBU GPIO driver Dec 07
Yong Zhi Intel IPU3 ImgU patchset Dec 06
james qian wang (Arm Technology China) Overview of Arm komeda display driver Dec 05
Manivannan Sadhasivam Add UFS controller support for HI3670 SoC Dec 07
Maruthi Srinivas Bayyavarapu Add Xilinx I2S driver Dec 08
Yong Wu MT8183 IOMMU SUPPORT Dec 08
Weiyi Lu Mediatek MT8183 clock and scpsys support Dec 10
Martin Blumenstingl Meson (32-bit): add support for the Mali GPU Dec 08
cezary.gapinski@gmail.com Add support for STM32F4 SPI Dec 09
Patrick LERDA Add ir-rcmm-driver Dec 07
Pawel Laszczak Introduced new Cadence USBSS DRD Driver. Dec 10
Nicolas Saenz Julienne input: driver for RPi's official 7" touchscreen Dec 10
Eddie James media: platform: Add Aspeed Video Engine driver Dec 10
Andrei.Stefanescu@microchip.com add support for MCP16502 PMIC Dec 11
Jerome Brunet ASoC: meson: add axg spdif input support Dec 11
Jean-Philippe Brucker Add virtio-iommu driver Dec 11

Device-driver infrastructure

Georgi Djakov Introduce on-chip interconnect API Dec 07
Christoph Hellwig avoid indirect calls for DMA direct mappings v2 Dec 07
Christoph Hellwig make the non-consistent DMA allocator more userful (resend) Dec 08
Christian Brauner binder: implement binderfs Dec 08
Keith Busch Heterogeneous memory node attributes Dec 10
Linus Walleij Regulator GPIO descriptors endgame Dec 11

Documentation

Mathieu Desnoyers Add rseq manpage Dec 06

Filesystems and block layer

Eric Sandeen xfs: add verifier context structure Dec 05
Gabriel Krisman Bertazi Ext4 Encoding and Case-insensitive support Dec 06
Mike Snitzer per-cpu in_flight counters for bio-based drivers Dec 05
Jens Axboe Support for polled aio (and more) Dec 07

Memory management

Huang Ying swap: Swapout/swapin THP in one piece Dec 07
Mike Rapoport memblock: simplify several early memory allocation Dec 09
Josef Bacik drop the mmap_sem when doing IO in the fault path Dec 11

Networking

Pablo Neira Ayuso add flow_rule infrastructure Dec 06
Björn Töpel Add XDP_ATTACH bind() flag to AF_XDP sockets Dec 07
Deepa Dinamani net: y2038-safe socket timestamps Dec 11
Florian Westphal sk_buff: add extension infrastructure Dec 10

Security-related

Tycho Andersen seccomp trap to userspace Dec 09
Mickaël Salaün Add support for O_MAYEXEC Dec 12
Casey Schaufler LSM: Module stacking for SARA and Landlock Dec 11

Virtualization and containers

Ahmed Abd El Mawgood KVM: X86: Introducing ROE Protection Kernel Hardening Dec 07
Vivek Goyal [RFC] virtio-fs: shared file system for virtual machines Dec 10

Miscellaneous

Jozsef Kadlecsik ipset 7.1 released Dec 11

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