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Calls for Presentations
CFP Deadlines: December 20, 2018 to February 18, 2019
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| February 14 | April 13 | OpenCamp Bratislava | Bratislava, Slovakia |
| February 15 | April 30 May 2 |
Linux Storage, Filesystem & Memory Management Summit | San Juan, Puerto Rico |
| February 16 | May 29 May 30 |
DevOps Days Toronto 2019 | Toronto, Canada |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
Events: December 20, 2018 to February 18, 2019
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| December 27 December 30 |
34th Chaos Communication Congress | Leipzig, Germany |
| January 21 | LCA2019 System Administration Miniconf | Christchurch, New Zealand |
| January 21 January 25 |
linux.conf.au 2019 | 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 13, 2018 to December 19, 2018
| Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CentOS | CESA-2018:3665 | C7 | NetworkManager | 2018-12-13 |
| CentOS | CESA-2018:3650 | C7 | ghostscript | 2018-12-13 |
| CentOS | CESA-2018:3761 | C7 | ghostscript | 2018-12-13 |
| CentOS | CESA-2018:3834 | C7 | ghostscript | 2018-12-19 |
| CentOS | CESA-2018:3408 | C7 | git | 2018-12-13 |
| CentOS | CESA-2018:3350 | C7 | java-1.7.0-openjdk | 2018-12-13 |
| CentOS | CESA-2018:3521 | C7 | java-11-openjdk | 2018-12-13 |
| CentOS | CESA-2018:3651 | C7 | kernel | 2018-12-13 |
| CentOS | CESA-2018:3347 | C7 | python-paramiko | 2018-12-13 |
| CentOS | CESA-2018:3738 | C7 | ruby | 2018-12-13 |
| CentOS | CESA-2018:3663 | C7 | sos-collector | 2018-12-13 |
| CentOS | CESA-2018:3532 | C7 | thunderbird | 2018-12-13 |
| CentOS | CESA-2018:3410 | C7 | xorg-x11-server | 2018-12-13 |
| Debian | DLA-1605-1 | LTS | firefox-esr | 2018-12-13 |
| Debian | DSA-4354-1 | stable | firefox-esr | 2018-12-12 |
| Debian | DLA-1606-1 | LTS | gcc-4.9 | 2018-12-14 |
| Debian | DLA-1609-1 | LTS | libapache-mod-jk | 2018-12-17 |
| Debian | DLA-1608-1 | LTS | php5 | 2018-12-16 |
| Debian | DLA-1562-3 | LTS | poppler | 2018-12-14 |
| Debian | DLA-1607-1 | LTS | samba | 2018-12-15 |
| Debian | DLA-1610-1 | LTS | sleuthkit | 2018-12-17 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-af82e7c863 | F29 | ansible | 2018-12-19 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-6bb9c011c8 | F28 | firefox | 2018-12-15 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-8f3f0ac88c | F29 | firefox | 2018-12-15 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-2645eb8dab | F29 | kernel | 2018-12-18 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-2645eb8dab | F29 | kernel-headers | 2018-12-18 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-1f6ca69276 | F28 | mbedtls | 2018-12-17 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-571ea64f3d | F29 | mbedtls | 2018-12-17 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-c42a144c65 | F29 | nbdkit | 2018-12-16 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-c341b70641 | F28 | pdns-recursor | 2018-12-16 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-e14840a7f5 | F29 | pdns-recursor | 2018-12-16 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-dfe1f0bac6 | F28 | php | 2018-12-17 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-7ebfe1e6f2 | F29 | php | 2018-12-17 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-8c06b6defd | F28 | php-symfony | 2018-12-17 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-b38a4dd0c7 | F29 | php-symfony | 2018-12-17 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-66547a8c14 | F28 | php-symfony3 | 2018-12-17 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-8d3a9bdff1 | F29 | php-symfony3 | 2018-12-17 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-6edf04d9d6 | F28 | php-symfony4 | 2018-12-17 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-84a1f77d89 | F29 | php-symfony4 | 2018-12-17 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-ae8d35651b | F28 | singularity | 2018-12-13 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-6189ba2d87 | F29 | singularity | 2018-12-13 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-1b6cb1df72 | F28 | wireshark | 2018-12-19 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-cb410a3812 | F29 | wireshark | 2018-12-18 |
| Gentoo | 201812-06 | CouchDB | 2018-12-15 | |
| Gentoo | 201812-08 | scala | 2018-12-15 | |
| Gentoo | 201812-07 | spamassassin | 2018-12-15 | |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0483 | 6 | firefox | 2018-12-15 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0481 | 6 | libwpd | 2018-12-15 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0482 | 6 | nss | 2018-12-15 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0480 | 6 | thunderbird | 2018-12-15 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:4143-1 | Chromium | 2018-12-15 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:4122-1 | 15.0 | Chromium | 2018-12-14 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:4142-1 | 42.3 | Chromium | 2018-12-15 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:4104-1 | 42.3 | compat-openssl098 | 2018-12-13 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:4105-1 | 15.0 | cups | 2018-12-13 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:4141-1 | 42.3 | cups | 2018-12-15 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:4112-1 | 15.0 42.3 | firefox | 2018-12-13 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:4138-1 | 15.0 | ghostscript | 2018-12-15 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:4140-1 | 42.3 | ghostscript | 2018-12-15 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:4181-1 | 15.0 42.3 | go1.11 | 2018-12-19 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:4133-1 | 15.0 | kernel | 2018-12-15 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:4132-1 | 42.3 | kernel | 2018-12-15 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:4117-1 | 15.0 42.3 | mozilla-nss | 2018-12-13 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:4148-1 | 42.3 | openvswitch | 2018-12-16 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:4175-1 | pdns | 2018-12-18 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:4156-1 | 15.0 | pdns | 2018-12-17 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:4177-1 | pdns-recursor | 2018-12-18 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:4152-1 | 15.0 | pdns-recursor | 2018-12-17 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:4151-1 | 42.3 | pdns-recursor | 2018-12-17 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:4125-1 | phpMyAdmin | 2018-12-14 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:4124-1 | 15.0 42.3 | phpMyAdmin | 2018-12-14 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:4135-1 | 15.0 | qemu | 2018-12-15 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:4147-1 | 42.3 | qemu | 2018-12-16 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:4174-1 | 15.0 | salt | 2018-12-18 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:4144-1 | 15.0 | tcpdump | 2018-12-15 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:4111-1 | 42.3 | xen | 2018-12-13 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-3831 | OL6 | firefox | 2018-12-18 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-3833 | OL7 | firefox | 2018-12-18 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-3834 | OL7 | ghostscript | 2018-12-18 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:3829-01 | EL7 | RHGS WA | 2018-12-17 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:3838-01 | AE2 | ansible | 2018-12-18 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:3835-01 | AE2.5 | ansible | 2018-12-18 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:3836-01 | AE2.6 | ansible | 2018-12-18 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:3837-01 | AE2.7 | ansible | 2018-12-18 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:3831-01 | EL6 | firefox | 2018-12-17 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:3833-01 | EL7 | firefox | 2018-12-17 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:3834-01 | EL7 | ghostscript | 2018-12-17 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:3852-01 | RHS5.8 | java-1.8.0-ibm | 2018-12-18 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:3843-01 | EL7.5 | kernel | 2018-12-18 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2018:3831-1 | SL6 | firefox | 2018-12-18 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2018:3833-1 | SL7 | firefox | 2018-12-17 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2018:3834-1 | SL7 | ghostscript | 2018-12-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:4121-1 | SLE11 | amanda | 2018-12-14 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:4130-1 | OS8 | ansible | 2018-12-14 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:4182-1 | SLE11 | crash | 2018-12-19 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:4089-1 | SLE12 | cups | 2018-12-12 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:3882-2 | SLE12 | exiv2 | 2018-12-12 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:4090-1 | OS7 SLE12 | ghostscript | 2018-12-12 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:4087-1 | SLE15 | ghostscript | 2018-12-12 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:4088-1 | OS7 OS8 SLE12 | git | 2018-12-12 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:4183-1 | OS7 SLE12 | libqt5-qtbase | 2018-12-19 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:4179-1 | SLE12 | libqt5-qtbase | 2018-12-18 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:3587-2 | SLE12 | ntfs-3g_ntfsprogs | 2018-12-13 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:4150-1 | SLE12 | openldap2 | 2018-12-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:4128-1 | SLE12 | openvswitch | 2018-12-14 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:4155-1 | SLE15 | ovmf | 2018-12-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:4187-1 | SLE15 | perl | 2018-12-19 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:4185-1 | SLE12 | qemu | 2018-12-19 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:4129-1 | SLE12 | qemu | 2018-12-14 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:4149-1 | SLE12 | tcpdump | 2018-12-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:4131-1 | SLE15 | tcpdump | 2018-12-14 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:4120-1 | SLE11 | tiff | 2018-12-14 |
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