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- CentOS Pulse Newsletter (January)
- DistroWatch Weekly (January 7)
- Linux Mint Monthly News (December)
- Lunar Linux Weekly News (January 4)
- openSUSE Tumbleweed Review of the Week (January 4)
- Reproducible Builds Weekly Report (January 8)
- Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter (January 5)
Development
- Emacs News (January 7)
- GCC 9 Status Report (January 7)
- What's cooking in git.git (January 7)
- LibreOffice monthly recap (January 3)
- LLVM Weekly (January 7)
- LXC/LXD/LXCFS Weekly Status (January 7)
- OCaml Weekly News (January 8)
- OSI license-review monthly summary (December)
- Perl Weekly (January 7)
- Weekly changes in and around Perl 6 (January 8)
- PostgreSQL Weekly News (January 6)
- Python Weekly Newsletter (January 3)
- Ruby Weekly News (January 3)
Meeting minutes
- Fedora Council meeting minutes (January 9)
- Fedora FESCO meeting minutes (January 7)
Calls for Presentations
CFP Deadlines: January 10, 2019 to March 11, 2019
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| March 4 | June 14 June 15 |
Hong Kong Open Source Conference 2019 | Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
| March 10 | April 6 | Pi and More 11½ | Krefeld, Germany |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
Events: January 10, 2019 to March 11, 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 |
| March 5 March 6 |
Automotive Grade Linux Member Meeting | Tokyo, Japan |
| March 7 March 8 |
Hyperledger Bootcamp | Hong Kong |
| March 7 March 10 |
SCALE 17x | Pasadena, CA, USA |
| March 9 | DPDK Summit Bangalore 2019 | Bangalore, India |
| March 10 | OpenEmbedded Summit | Pasadena, CA, USA |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Security updates
Alert summary January 3, 2019 to January 9, 2019
| Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arch Linux | ASA-201901-3 | elfutils | 2019-01-08 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201901-2 | polkit | 2019-01-08 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201901-1 | tar | 2019-01-08 | |
| CentOS | CESA-2019:0022 | C7 | keepalived | 2019-01-06 |
| Debian | DLA-1628-1 | LTS | jasper | 2019-01-02 |
| Debian | DLA-1630-1 | LTS | libav | 2019-01-07 |
| Debian | DLA-1626-1 | LTS | libdatetime-timezone-perl | 2019-01-02 |
| Debian | DLA-1629-1 | LTS | python-django | 2019-01-06 |
| Debian | DSA-4363-1 | stable | python-django | 2019-01-08 |
| Debian | DLA-1627-1 | LTS | qtbase-opensource-src | 2019-01-03 |
| Debian | DSA-4364-1 | stable | ruby-loofah | 2019-01-08 |
| Debian | DLA-1624-1 | LTS | thunderbird | 2019-01-02 |
| Debian | DLA-1625-1 | LTS | tzdata | 2019-01-02 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-d2cb69f11e | F29 | krb5 | 2019-01-08 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-166b220ff1 | F28 | tcpreplay | 2019-01-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-5f91054677 | F29 | tcpreplay | 2019-01-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-088875c43a | F29 | wget | 2019-01-04 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0023 | 6 | ansible | 2019-01-08 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0001 | 6 | apache-commons-compress | 2019-01-05 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0016 | 6 | aubio | 2019-01-06 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0026 | 6 | avidemux | 2019-01-08 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0022 | 6 | coreutils | 2019-01-08 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0017 | 6 | dcraw | 2019-01-06 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0020 | 6 | discount | 2019-01-08 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0012 | 6 | freerdp | 2019-01-05 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0006 | 6 | imagemagick | 2019-01-05 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0011 | 6 | ldb, talloc, samba | 2019-01-05 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0018 | 6 | libao | 2019-01-06 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0013 | 6 | libextractor | 2019-01-05 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0003 | 6 | libgxps | 2019-01-05 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0014 | 6 | libpgf | 2019-01-05 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0024 | 6 | nettle | 2019-01-08 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0021 | 6 | openafs | 2019-01-08 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0004 | 6 | openjpeg2 | 2019-01-05 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0019 | 6 | opensc | 2019-01-08 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0008 | 6 | pdns | 2019-01-05 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0009 | 6 | pdns-recursor | 2019-01-05 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0010 | 6 | php-phpmailer | 2019-01-05 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0005 | 6 | plexus-archiver | 2019-01-05 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0025 | 6 | qtbase5 | 2019-01-08 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0007 | 6 | units | 2019-01-05 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0015 | 6 | wget | 2019-01-05 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0002 | 6 | xmlrpc | 2019-01-05 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2019-0022 | OL7 | keepalived | 2019-01-04 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2019-4315 | OL6 | kernel | 2019-01-03 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2019-4316 | OL6 | kernel | 2019-01-04 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2019-4315 | OL7 | kernel | 2019-01-03 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2019-4316 | OL7 | kernel | 2019-01-04 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:0022-01 | EL7 | keepalived | 2019-01-03 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:0010-01 | SCL | rh-perl524-perl | 2019-01-02 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:0036-01 | SCL | source-to-image | 2019-01-08 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:0022-1 | SL7 | keepalived | 2019-01-03 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:13923-1 | SLE11 | GraphicsMagick | 2019-01-03 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:0023-1 | SLE15 | gpg2 | 2019-01-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:0024-1 | SLE12 | libgit2 | 2019-01-08 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:0002-1 | SLE12 | libraw | 2019-01-02 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:0005-1 | SLE15 | libraw | 2019-01-02 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:2204-2 | OS7 SLE12 | libsoup | 2019-01-08 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:13924-1 | SLE11 | mailman | 2019-01-04 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:0019-1 | OS7 SLE12 | polkit | 2019-01-04 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:0015-1 | SLE15 | polkit | 2019-01-03 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:0020-1 | OS7 SLE12 | xen | 2019-01-04 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:13921-1 | SLE11 | xen | 2019-01-02 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:0003-1 | SLE12 | xen | 2019-01-02 |
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