Announcements
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Distributions and system administration
- CentOS Pulse Newsletter (March)
- Bits from the Debian Project Leader (February)
- DistroWatch Weekly (March 4)
- LineageOS Changelog 22 (March 1)
- Linux Mint Monthly News (February)
- Lunar Linux Weekly News (March 1)
- openSUSE Tumbleweed Review of the Week (March 1)
- Reproducible Builds Weekly Report (March 5)
- SparkyLinux News (February 28)
- Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter (March 2)
Development
- Emacs News (March 4)
- These Weeks in Firefox (March 5)
- What's cooking in git.git (March 6)
- Koha Community Newsletter (February)
- LibreOffice monthly recap (February 28)
- LLVM Weekly (March 4)
- LXC/LXD/LXCFS Weekly Status (March 5)
- OCaml Weekly News (March 5)
- Perl Weekly (March 4)
- Weekly changes in and around Perl 6 (March 4)
- PostgreSQL Weekly News (March 3)
- Python Steering Council update (February 26)
- Python Weekly Newsletter (February 28)
- Ruby Weekly News (February 28)
- This Week in Rust (March 5)
- Wikimedia Tech News (March 4)
Meeting minutes
- Fedora FESCO meeting minutes (March 4)
- GNOME Foundation Board Minutes (February 1)
- GNOME Foundation Board Minutes (February 5)
- GNOME Foundation Board Minutes (February 11)
- GNOME Foundation Board Minutes (February 25)
- openSUSE board meeting minutes (February 19)
Miscellaneous
- Free Software Supporter (March)
Calls for Presentations
CFP Deadlines: March 7, 2019 to May 6, 2019
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| March 10 | April 6 | Pi and More 11½ | Krefeld, Germany |
| March 17 | June 4 June 5 |
UK OpenMP Users' Conference | Edinburgh, UK |
| March 19 | October 13 October 15 |
All Things Open | Raleigh, NC, USA |
| March 24 | July 17 July 19 |
Automotive Linux Summit | Tokyo, Japan |
| March 24 | July 17 July 19 |
Open Source Summit | Tokyo, Japan |
| March 25 | May 3 May 4 |
PyDays Vienna 2019 | Vienna, Austria |
| April 1 | June 3 June 4 |
PyCon Israel 2019 | Ramat Gan, Israel |
| April 2 | August 21 August 23 |
Open Source Summit North America | San Diego, CA, USA |
| April 2 | August 21 August 23 |
Embedded Linux Conference NA | San Diego, CA, USA |
| April 12 | July 9 July 11 |
Xen Project Developer and Design Summit | Chicago, IL, USA |
| April 15 | August 26 August 30 |
FOSS4G 2019 | Bucharest, Romania |
| April 15 | May 18 May 19 |
Open Source Conference Albania | Trana, Albania |
| April 21 | May 25 May 26 |
Mini-DebConf Marseille | Marseille, France |
| April 24 | October 27 October 30 |
27th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles | Huntsville, Ontario, Canada |
| April 25 | September 21 September 23 |
State of the Map | Heidelberg, Germany |
| April 28 | September 2 September 6 |
EuroSciPy 2019 | Bilbao, Spain |
| May 1 | August 2 August 4 |
Linux Developer Conference Brazil | São Paulo, Brazil |
| May 1 | August 2 August 3 |
DEVCONF.in | Bengaluru, India |
| May 1 | July 6 | Tübix 2019 | Tübingen, Germany |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
Debian Bug Squashing in Portland
There will be a Bug Squashing Party in Portland, OR on March 10. "Help with debugging, patching, compiling, triaging, confirming or even, dare I say it, finding bugs... all appreciated!"
Events: March 7, 2019 to May 6, 2019
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| March 12 March 14 |
Open Source Leadership Summit | Half Moon Bay, CA, USA |
| March 14 | Icinga Camp Berlin | Berlin, Germany |
| March 14 | pgDay Israel 2019 | Tel Aviv, Israel |
| March 14 March 17 |
FOSSASIA | Singapore, Singapore |
| March 19 March 21 |
PGConf APAC | Singapore, Singapore |
| March 20 | Open Source Roundtable at Game Developers Conference | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| March 20 March 22 |
Netdev 0x13 | Prague, Czech Republic |
| March 21 | gRPC Conf | Sunnyvale, CA, USA |
| March 23 | Kubernetes Day | Bengaluru, India |
| March 23 March 24 |
LibrePlanet | Cambridge, MA, USA |
| March 23 March 26 |
Linux Audio Conference | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| March 29 March 31 |
curl up 2019 | Prague, Czech Republic |
| April 1 April 5 |
SUSECON 2019 | Nashville, TN, USA |
| April 1 April 4 |
‹Programming› 2019 | Genova, Italy |
| April 2 April 4 |
Cloud Foundry Summit | Philadelphia, PA, USA |
| April 3 April 5 |
Open Networking Summit | San Jose, CA, USA |
| April 5 April 7 |
Devuan Conference | Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| April 5 April 6 |
openSUSE Summit | Nashville, TN, USA |
| April 6 | Pi and More 11½ | Krefeld, Germany |
| April 7 April 10 |
FOSS North | Gothenburg, Sweden |
| April 10 April 12 |
DjangoCon Europe | Copenhagen, Denmark |
| April 13 | OpenCamp Bratislava | Bratislava, Slovakia |
| April 13 April 17 |
ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS Conference on Virtual Execution Environments | Providence, RI, USA |
| April 18 | Open Source 101 | Columbia, SC, USA |
| April 26 April 27 |
Grazer Linuxtage | Graz, Austria |
| April 26 April 27 |
KiCad Conference 2019 | Chicago, IL, USA |
| April 28 April 30 |
Check_MK Conference #5 | Munich, Germany |
| April 29 May 1 |
Open Infrastructure Summit | Denver, CO, USA |
| April 30 May 2 |
Linux Storage, Filesystem & Memory Management Summit | San Juan, Puerto Rico |
| May 1 May 9 |
PyCon 2019 | Cleveland, OH, USA |
| May 2 May 4 |
Linuxwochen Österreich 2019 - Wien | Wien, Austria |
| May 3 May 4 |
PyDays Vienna 2019 | Vienna, Austria |
| May 4 May 5 |
Latch-Up 2019 | Portland, OR, USA |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Security updates
Alert summary February 28, 2019 to March 6, 2019
| Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arch Linux | ASA-201903-1 | chromium | 2019-03-03 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201903-5 | file | 2019-03-04 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201903-3 | gdm | 2019-03-04 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201903-6 | lib32-openssl-1.0 | 2019-03-04 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201903-2 | openssl-1.0 | 2019-03-04 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201903-4 | pcre | 2019-03-04 | |
| CentOS | CESA-2019:0464 | C7 | java-1.7.0-openjdk | 2019-03-06 |
| CentOS | CESA-2019:0436 | C7 | java-11-openjdk | 2019-03-06 |
| Debian | DLA-1702-1 | LTS | advancecomp | 2019-03-02 |
| Debian | DLA-1697-1 | LTS | bind9 | 2019-02-28 |
| Debian | DLA-1696-1 | LTS | ceph | 2019-03-01 |
| Debian | DLA-1698-1 | LTS | file | 2019-02-28 |
| Debian | DLA-1693-1 | LTS | gpac | 2019-02-27 |
| Debian | DSA-4399-1 | stable | ikiwiki | 2019-02-28 |
| Debian | DLA-1703-1 | LTS | jackson-databind | 2019-03-04 |
| Debian | DLA-1699-1 | LTS | ldb | 2019-03-01 |
| Debian | DSA-4397-1 | stable | ldb | 2019-02-28 |
| Debian | DSA-4402-1 | stable | mumble | 2019-03-05 |
| Debian | DLA-1704-1 | LTS | nss | 2019-03-04 |
| Debian | DSA-4387-2 | stable | openssh | 2019-03-02 |
| Debian | DLA-1701-1 | LTS | openssl | 2019-03-01 |
| Debian | DSA-4400-1 | stable | openssl1.0 | 2019-02-28 |
| Debian | DSA-4398-1 | stable | php7.0 | 2019-02-28 |
| Debian | DLA-1694-1 | LTS | qemu | 2019-02-28 |
| Debian | DLA-1705-1 | LTS | sox | 2019-03-05 |
| Debian | DLA-1695-1 | LTS | sox | 2019-02-28 |
| Debian | DLA-1700-1 | LTS | uw-imap | 2019-03-01 |
| Debian | DSA-4401-1 | stable | wordpress | 2019-03-01 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-6092f8c0dc | F28 | SDL | 2019-03-02 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-7d1a63acc8 | F29 | ansible | 2019-03-01 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-21b76d179e | F28 | community-mysql | 2019-03-01 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-2c2dfc65d1 | F28 | distcc | 2019-03-02 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-dfef0af227 | F29 | distcc | 2019-03-02 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-82df33e428 | F28 | drupal7 | 2019-03-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-0c1d62bf5b | F29 | drupal7 | 2019-03-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-ff4e1a73a5 | F28 | drupal7-link | 2019-03-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-55788aeb71 | F29 | drupal7-link | 2019-03-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-15f5147b27 | F29 | file | 2019-03-01 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-7ad9201e59 | F29 | firefox | 2019-03-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-a5f616808e | F28 | flatpak | 2019-02-28 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-e3b2885a25 | F29 | freerdp | 2019-03-02 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-caab5920f2 | F29 | gdm | 2019-03-02 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-e3b2885a25 | F29 | gnome-boxes | 2019-03-02 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-9a6906a128 | F29 | gpsd | 2019-03-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-541e91b477 | F28 | ignition | 2019-03-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-4debb6711a | F29 | ignition | 2019-03-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-7462acf8ba | F29 | kernel | 2019-03-01 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-7462acf8ba | F29 | kernel-headers | 2019-03-01 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-02e13cb1a8 | F28 | libexif | 2019-03-01 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-4fdf19459d | F28 | ming | 2019-03-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-e0d49261b9 | F29 | ming | 2019-03-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-f0add5eed0 | F28 | openocd | 2019-03-02 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-0a5e82cea8 | F29 | openocd | 2019-03-02 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-d248c5aa39 | F28 | php-Smarty | 2019-03-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-e595e8a7d7 | F29 | php-Smarty | 2019-03-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-009fdcfb60 | F28 | php-erusev-parsedown | 2019-03-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-b02e9bf467 | F29 | php-erusev-parsedown | 2019-03-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-e3b2885a25 | F29 | pidgin-sipe | 2019-03-02 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-ec55814c1c | F29 | python-django | 2019-03-01 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-e3b2885a25 | F29 | remmina | 2019-03-02 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-b3aec99d2c | F29 | xpdf | 2019-03-03 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:0294-1 | 15.0 | hiawatha | 2019-03-06 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:0274-1 | 42.3 | kernel | 2019-03-01 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:0275-1 | 42.3 | kernel-firmware | 2019-03-01 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:0265-1 | 15.0 | libqt5-qtbase | 2019-02-27 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:0276-1 | 42.3 | php5 | 2019-03-01 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:0291-1 | 42.3 | procps | 2019-03-04 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:0292-1 | 42.3 | python | 2019-03-06 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:0293-1 | 15.0 | supportutils | 2019-03-06 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:0268-1 | 42.3 | systemd | 2019-03-01 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2019-0462 | OL6 | java-1.7.0-openjdk | 2019-03-05 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2019-0464 | OL7 | java-1.7.0-openjdk | 2019-03-06 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2019-0464 | OL7 | java-1.7.0-openjdk | 2019-03-05 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2019-0435 | OL7 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2019-03-02 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2019-0435 | OL7 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2019-03-03 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2019-0436 | OL7 | java-11-openjdk | 2019-03-02 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2019-0436 | OL7 | java-11-openjdk | 2019-03-03 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:0462-01 | EL6 | java-1.7.0-openjdk | 2019-03-05 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:0464-01 | EL7 | java-1.7.0-openjdk | 2019-03-05 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:0435-01 | EL7 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2019-02-28 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:0436-01 | EL7 | java-11-openjdk | 2019-02-28 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:0457-01 | EL7 | redhat-virtualization-host | 2019-03-05 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:0461-01 | EL7 | rhvm-appliance | 2019-03-05 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:0458-01 | EL7 | vdsm | 2019-03-05 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:0462-1 | SL6 | java-1.7.0-openjdk | 2019-03-05 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:0464-1 | SL7 | java-1.7.0-openjdk | 2019-03-05 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:0435-1 | SL7 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2019-02-28 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:0436-1 | SL7 | java-11-openjdk | 2019-02-28 |
| Slackware | SSA:2019-060-01 | infozip | 2019-03-01 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2019-062-01 | python | 2019-03-03 | |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:0510-1 | SLE12 | bluez | 2019-02-28 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:0537-1 | caasp-container-manifests, changelog-generator-data-sles12sp3-velum, kubernetes-salt, rubygem-aes_key_wrap, rubygem-json-jwt, sles12sp3-velum-image, velum | 2019-03-02 | |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:0539-1 | SLE15 | freerdp | 2019-03-04 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:0527-1 | SLE15 | gdm | 2019-03-01 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:0541-1 | SLE12 | kernel | 2019-03-04 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:0540-1 | SLE15 | obs-service-tar_scm | 2019-03-04 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:0512-1 | SLE12 | openssl-1_1 | 2019-02-28 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:0511-1 | OS7 SLE12 | webkit2gtk3 | 2019-02-28 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3900-1 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 18.10 | libgd2 | 2019-02-28 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3901-1 | 18.04 | linux, linux-aws, linux-gcp, linux-kvm, linux-oem, linux-oracle, linux-raspi2 | 2019-03-05 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3901-2 | 14.04 16.04 | linux-hwe, linux-aws-hwe, linux-azure, linux-gcp, linux-oracle | 2019-03-05 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3898-2 | 12.04 | nss | 2019-02-27 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3898-1 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 18.10 | nss | 2019-02-27 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3885-2 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 18.10 | openssh | 2019-03-04 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3899-1 | 16.04 18.04 18.10 | openssl, openssl1.0 | 2019-02-27 |
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