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Calls for Presentations
CFP Deadlines: January 3, 2019 to March 4, 2019
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| February 22 | June 24 June 26 |
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit | Shanghai , China |
| February 28 | May 16 | Open Source Camp | #3 Ansible | Berlin, Germany |
| February 28 | June 4 June 6 |
sambaXP 2019 | Goettingen, Germany |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
Debian BSP in Cambridge, UK
There will be a bug squashing party March 9-10 in Cambridge, UK. Please register if you wish to attend.Events: January 3, 2019 to March 4, 2019
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| February 25 February 26 |
Vault Linux Storage and Filesystems Conference | Boston, MA, USA |
| February 26 February 28 |
16th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation | Boston, MA, USA |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Security updates
Alert summary December 27, 2018 to January 2, 2019
| Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arch Linux | ASA-201812-11 | go | 2018-12-29 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201812-12 | go-pie | 2018-12-29 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201812-10 | webkit2gtk | 2018-12-29 | |
| CentOS | CESA-2018:3831 | C6 | firefox | 2018-12-21 |
| CentOS | CESA-2018:3833 | C7 | firefox | 2018-12-21 |
| CentOS | CESA-2018:3854 | C6 | ntp | 2018-12-19 |
| Debian | DLA-1621-1 | LTS | c3p0 | 2018-12-28 |
| Debian | DLA-1622-1 | LTS | debian-security-support | 2018-12-30 |
| Debian | DLA-1620-1 | LTS | ghostscript | 2018-12-27 |
| Debian | DSA-4346-2 | stable | ghostscript | 2018-12-23 |
| Debian | DLA-1619-1 | LTS | graphicsmagick | 2018-12-27 |
| Debian | DSA-4357-1 | stable | libapache-mod-jk | 2018-12-20 |
| Debian | DLA-1612-1 | LTS | libarchive | 2018-12-21 |
| Debian | DSA-4360-1 | stable | libarchive | 2018-12-27 |
| Debian | DLA-1611-1 | LTS | libav | 2018-12-20 |
| Debian | DLA-1611-2 | LTS | libav | 2018-12-21 |
| Debian | DLA-1616-1 | LTS | libextractor | 2018-12-24 |
| Debian | DSA-4361-1 | stable | libextractor | 2018-12-28 |
| Debian | DLA-1591-2 | LTS | libphp-phpmailer | 2018-12-28 |
| Debian | DLA-1618-1 | LTS | libsndfile | 2018-12-26 |
| Debian | DLA-1617-1 | LTS | libvncserver | 2018-12-27 |
| Debian | DLA-1615-1 | LTS | nagios3 | 2018-12-24 |
| Debian | DSA-4356-1 | stable | netatalk | 2018-12-20 |
| Debian | DLA-1614-1 | LTS | openjpeg2 | 2018-12-22 |
| Debian | DSA-4355-1 | stable | openssl1.0 | 2018-12-19 |
| Debian | DSA-4358-1 | stable | ruby-sanitize | 2018-12-27 |
| Debian | DLA-1613-1 | LTS | sqlite3 | 2018-12-22 |
| Debian | DLA-1623-1 | LTS | tar | 2018-12-31 |
| Debian | DSA-4362-1 | stable | thunderbird | 2019-01-01 |
| Debian | DSA-4359-1 | stable | wireshark | 2018-12-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-801432b551 | F29 | LibRaw | 2018-12-29 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-4b8a18767b | F28 | adplug | 2018-12-25 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-de3a0ba76e | F29 | adplug | 2018-12-25 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-7d6590724e | F29 | electron-cash | 2018-12-31 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-6e8c330d50 | F28 | kernel-headers | 2018-12-21 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-6e8c330d50 | F28 | kernel-tools | 2018-12-21 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-7db7ccda4d | F29 | krb5 | 2018-12-24 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-93a16d053f | F28 | leptonica | 2018-12-29 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-4db33b3753 | F29 | leptonica | 2018-12-30 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-242f6c1a41 | F29 | mariadb | 2018-12-22 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-a55f292297 | F28 | mariadb-connector-c | 2018-12-22 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-93a16d053f | F28 | mingw-leptonica | 2018-12-29 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-4db33b3753 | F29 | mingw-leptonica | 2018-12-30 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-200c84e08a | F28 | mingw-openjpeg2 | 2018-12-29 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-87c15da28c | F29 | mingw-openjpeg2 | 2018-12-24 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-6b9320d9c9 | F29 | mingw-podofo | 2018-12-25 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-12b934e224 | F28 | mingw-poppler | 2018-12-29 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-679f8aba03 | F29 | mingw-poppler | 2018-12-30 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-5acdf115df | F28 | mosquitto | 2018-12-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-f80b495582 | F29 | mosquitto | 2018-12-28 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-f7d9989c42 | F28 | nettle | 2018-12-29 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-200c84e08a | F28 | openjpeg2 | 2018-12-29 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-87c15da28c | F29 | openjpeg2 | 2018-12-24 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-50e3877b63 | F28 | php-pear | 2018-12-30 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-b4f6179eae | F29 | php-pear | 2018-12-30 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-5aeca60933 | F28 | phpMyAdmin | 2018-12-21 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-088802878a | F29 | phpMyAdmin | 2018-12-21 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-6b9320d9c9 | F29 | podofo | 2018-12-25 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-4be0428ab2 | F29 | python-lxml | 2018-12-21 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-ccbe8b931c | F29 | spatialite-tools | 2018-12-21 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-5f91fbf4fd | F28 | sqlite | 2018-12-29 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-ccbe8b931c | F29 | sqlite | 2018-12-21 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-714298460e | F29 | squid | 2018-12-24 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-27f957ae8e | F28 | terminology | 2019-01-01 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-1bd545ef39 | F29 | terminology | 2019-01-01 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-31c2a0b2ea | F28 | tinc | 2018-12-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-afae5e8438 | F29 | tinc | 2018-12-28 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-ea05fcd378 | F28 | vcftools | 2018-12-30 |
| Gentoo | 201812-10 | GKSu | 2018-12-30 | |
| Gentoo | 201812-09 | go | 2018-12-21 | |
| Gentoo | 201812-11 | rust | 2018-12-30 | |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0496 | 6 | graphicsmagick | 2018-12-31 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0494 | 6 | keepalived | 2018-12-30 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0487 | 6 | kernel | 2018-12-21 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0493 | 6 | libtiff | 2018-12-30 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0490 | 6 | monit | 2018-12-27 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0485 | 6 | netty, jctools | 2018-12-20 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0484 | 6 | php | 2018-12-20 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0486 | 6 | phpmyadmin | 2018-12-20 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0498 | 6 | poppler | 2018-12-31 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0495 | 6 | python | 2018-12-31 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0497 | 6 | python-lxml | 2018-12-31 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0491 | 6 | ruby-i18n | 2018-12-28 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0489 | 6 | sqlite3 | 2018-12-27 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0492 | 6 | tcpdump | 2018-12-28 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0488 | 6 | thunderbird | 2018-12-27 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:0003-1 | GraphicsMagick | 2019-01-01 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:1-1 | 15.0 | GraphicsMagick | 2019-01-01 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:4313-1 | 42.3 | GraphicsMagick | 2018-12-29 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:4259-1 | 15.0 | bluez | 2018-12-23 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:4306-1 | 15.0 | containerd, docker, go | 2018-12-29 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:4257-1 | 15.0 | git | 2018-12-23 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:4302-1 | go | 2018-12-29 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:4255-1 | 42.3 | go1.10 | 2018-12-23 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:4213-1 | keepalived | 2018-12-21 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:4212-1 | 15.0 42.3 | keepalived | 2018-12-21 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:4260-1 | 15.0 | libnettle | 2018-12-23 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:4261-1 | 42.3 | libqt5-qtbase | 2018-12-23 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:4299-1 | 42.3 | libraw | 2018-12-29 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:4283-1 | 15.0 | mozilla-nspr and mozilla-nss | 2018-12-28 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:4287-1 | 42.3 | netatalk | 2018-12-28 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:4240-1 | 15.0 | ovmf | 2018-12-22 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:4254-1 | 42.3 | ovmf | 2018-12-22 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:4262-1 | 42.3 | pdns | 2018-12-23 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:4258-1 | 15.0 | perl | 2018-12-23 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:4282-1 | 42.3 | polkit | 2018-12-28 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:4197-1 | 42.3 | salt | 2018-12-19 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:4252-1 | 42.3 | tcpdump | 2018-12-22 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:4256-1 | 42.3 | tiff | 2018-12-23 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:4242-1 | 15.0 | tryton | 2018-12-22 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:4248-1 | 42.3 | tryton | 2018-12-22 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:4307-1 | 15.0 | wireshark | 2018-12-29 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:4304-1 | 15.0 | xen | 2018-12-29 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:4272-1 | 15.0 | yast2-rmt | 2018-12-23 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-3833 | OL7 | firefox | 2018-12-19 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-3834 | OL7 | ghostscript | 2018-12-19 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-3854 | OL6 | ntp | 2018-12-19 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:3854-01 | EL6 | ntp | 2018-12-19 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:3853-01 | EL6.7 | ntp | 2018-12-19 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:0001-01 | SCL | rh-perl526-perl | 2019-01-02 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2018:3854-1 | SL6 | ntp | 2018-12-20 |
| Slackware | SSA:2018-355-01 | netatalk | 2018-12-21 | |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:4188-1 | SLE12 | bluez | 2018-12-19 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:4189-1 | SLE15 | bluez | 2018-12-19 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:4218-1 | buildah, caasp-cli, caasp-dex, cni-plugins, container-feeder, containerd-kubic, cri-o, cri-tools, docker-kubic, docker-runc-kubic, etcd, flannel, golang-github-docker-libnetwork-kubic, helm, kubernetes, kubernetes-dns, libcontainers-storage, podman, runc, skopeo, umoci | 2018-12-21 | |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:4297-1 | SLE15 | containerd, docker, go | 2018-12-29 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:4215-1 | SLE15 | enigmail | 2018-12-21 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:4236-1 | OS7 SLE12 | firefox, nspr, nss | 2018-12-22 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:4235-1 | SLE15 | firefox, nspr, nss | 2018-12-22 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:4190-1 | SLE15 | git | 2018-12-19 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:4193-1 | SLE15 | libnettle | 2018-12-19 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:4210-1 | SLE12 | libqt5-qtbase | 2018-12-21 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:4294-1 | SLE12 | libqt5-qtbase | 2018-12-29 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:4296-1 | OS7 SLE12 | mailman | 2018-12-29 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:4211-1 | SLE12 | mariadb | 2018-12-21 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:4214-1 | SLE11 | netatalk | 2018-12-21 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:4217-1 | SLE12 | netatalk | 2018-12-21 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:4274-1 | SLE11 | openssl | 2018-12-27 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:4207-1 | SLE12 | ovmf | 2018-12-20 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:4194-1 | SLE12 | ovmf | 2018-12-19 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:4237-1 | OS7 SLE12 | qemu | 2018-12-22 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:4191-1 | SLE12 | tiff | 2018-12-19 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:4298-1 | SLE12 | wireshark | 2018-12-29 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:4295-1 | SLE15 | wireshark | 2018-12-29 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:4300-1 | SLE15 | xen | 2018-12-29 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:4209-1 | SLE15 | yast2-rmt | 2018-12-21 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3849-1 | 14.04 | kernel | 2018-12-20 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3846-1 | 18.10 | linux, linux-aws, linux-azure, linux-gcp, linux-kvm, linux-raspi2 | 2018-12-20 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3848-1 | 16.04 | linux, linux-aws, linux-kvm, linux-raspi2, linux-snapdragon | 2018-12-20 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3847-3 | 14.04 | linux-azure | 2018-12-20 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3847-2 | 16.04 | linux-hwe, linux-aws-hwe, linux-azure, linux-gcp | 2018-12-20 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3849-2 | 12.04 | linux-lts-trusty | 2018-12-20 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3848-2 | 14.04 | linux-lts-xenial, linux-aws | 2018-12-20 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3847-1 | 18.04 | linux-raspi2 | 2018-12-20 |
Kernel patches of interest
Kernel releases
Architecture-specific
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