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Calls for Presentations
CFP: Linux Security Summit North America 2019
The Linux Security Summit (LSS) will be held August 19-21 in San Diego, CA. The call for papers closes May 31.CFP Deadlines: April 11, 2019 to June 10, 2019
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| May 6 | August 17 August 18 |
Conference for Open Source Coders, Users & Promoters | Taipei, Taiwan |
| May 9 | September 6 September 9 |
PyColorado | Denver, CO, USA |
| May 12 | July 21 July 28 |
DebConf 2019 | Curitiba, Brazil |
| May 12 | July 8 July 14 |
EuroPython 2019 | Basel, Switzerland |
| May 13 | August 23 August 28 |
GNOME User and Developer Conference | Thessaloniki, Greece |
| May 23 | August 10 August 11 |
FrOSCon 2019 | St. Augustin (near Cologne), Germany |
| May 26 | June 8 June 9 |
MiniDebConf Hamburg | Hamburg, Germany |
| May 26 | June 28 June 30 |
Akademy-es 2019 | Vigo, Spain |
| May 28 | May 28 May 29 |
Czech and Slovak Network Operators Group | Brno, Czech Republic |
| May 31 | September 11 September 12 |
Cloud Foundry Summit Europe | The Hague, The Netherlands |
| May 31 | August 19 August 21 |
Linux Security Summit | San Diego, CA, USA |
| May 31 | September 7 September 13 |
Akademy 2019 | Milan, Italy |
| May 31 | October 19 October 20 |
OGGCAMP 19 | Manchester, UK |
| May 31 | September 19 September 20 |
DPDK Userspace 2019 | Bordeaux, France |
| June 1 | September 3 September 6 |
Open Source Firmware Conference 2019 | Sunnyvale & Menlo Park, CA, USA |
| June 8 | June 21 June 22 |
GNU Guile & Guix Days | Strasbourg, France |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
Events: April 11, 2019 to June 10, 2019
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| May 14 May 15 |
Open Source Data Center Conference | Berlin, Germany |
| May 16 | Open Source Camp | #3 Ansible | Berlin, Germany |
| May 17 May 18 |
BSDCan - The BSD Conference | Ottawa, Canada |
| May 18 May 19 |
Linuxwochen Linz 2019 | Linz, Austria |
| May 18 May 19 |
Open Source Conference Albania | Trana, Albania |
| May 19 May 20 |
Cephalocon Barcelona 2019 | Barcelona, Spain |
| May 20 May 23 |
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe | Barcelona, Spain |
| May 20 May 24 |
Annual Conference of the Koha Library System Community | Dublin, Ireland |
| May 24 May 26 |
openSUSE Conference | Nürnberg, Germany |
| May 25 May 26 |
Mini-DebConf Marseille | Marseille, France |
| May 28 May 30 |
Percona Live Open Source Database Conference | Austin, TX, USA |
| May 28 May 29 |
Czech and Slovak Network Operators Group | Brno, Czech Republic |
| May 29 May 30 |
DevOps Days Toronto 2019 | Toronto, Canada |
| May 29 June 2 |
Libre Graphics Meeting | Saarbrücken, Germany |
| May 30 May 31 |
PGCon 2019 | Ottawa, Canada |
| May 31 June 1 |
Texas Linux Fest | Dallas, TX, USA |
| June 3 June 4 |
PyCon Israel 2019 | Ramat Gan, Israel |
| June 4 June 5 |
UK OpenMP Users' Conference | Edinburgh, UK |
| June 4 June 6 |
sambaXP 2019 | Goettingen, Germany |
| June 8 June 9 |
MiniDebConf Hamburg | Hamburg, Germany |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Event Reports
Results from the 2018 Linux Plumbers Conference survey
After the 2018 LPC attendees were asked to take a survey. There were 134 responses out of around 492 attendees. "Overall: 85% of respondents were positive about the event, with only 2% actually saying they were dissatisfied. Co-locating with Kernel Summit proved popular, so we will be co-locating with Kernel Summit in 2019. Co-locating with Networking Summit was also well received, so we will be doing that again this year, too. Conference participation was up from 2017 and we sold out again this year. 98% of those that registered were able to attend." LPC 2019 will be held September 9-11 in Lisbon, Portugal.
Reports from Netdev 0x13
The Netdev 0x13 networking conference was held in March. The conference team has provided a brief introduction. Participants at the event have put together a set of reports of the conference proceedings. Tutorials and workshops were held on Day1, Day 2 covers 20 talks, including the keynote by Alissa Cooper, while Day 3 includes another 12 topics.LibrePlanet 2019 wrap-up
The Free Software Foundation takes a look at the 2019 LibrePlanet conference, which was held March 23-24. "Every year, the LibrePlanet conference brings together many members of that movement to celebrate our achievements, strategize how to deal with our setbacks, show off new ideas, and decide what new frontiers we will trailblaze together next. The 2019 conference included many introductions to, and updates from, new and familiar projects, discussions on copyleft and security, and explorations of free software in the business world, but one compelling theme was woven through both days of the conference: how do we maintain and increase the health of our all-important community?"
Security updates
Alert summary April 4, 2019 to April 10, 2019
| Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | DLA-1748-1 | LTS | apache2 | 2019-04-03 |
| Debian | DLA-1749-1 | LTS | golang | 2019-04-03 |
| Debian | DSA-4424-1 | stable | pdns | 2019-04-04 |
| Debian | DLA-1752-1 | LTS | poppler | 2019-04-08 |
| Debian | DLA-1753-1 | LTS | proftpd-dfsg | 2019-04-09 |
| Debian | DSA-4423-1 | stable | putty | 2019-04-03 |
| Debian | DLA-1750-1 | LTS | roundup | 2019-04-07 |
| Debian | DLA-1754-1 | LTS | samba | 2019-04-09 |
| Debian | DSA-4427-1 | stable | samba | 2019-04-08 |
| Debian | DSA-4429-1 | stable | spip | 2019-04-10 |
| Debian | DLA-1751-1 | LTS | suricata | 2019-04-08 |
| Debian | DSA-4428-1 | stable | systemd | 2019-04-08 |
| Debian | DSA-4426-1 | stable | tryton-server | 2019-04-07 |
| Debian | DSA-4425-1 | stable | wget | 2019-04-05 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-3a2cc6a0b9 | F29 | evolution-data-server | 2019-04-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-3a2cc6a0b9 | F29 | evolution-ews | 2019-04-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-a51d6c2384 | F28 | firefox | 2019-04-05 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-b2d986c3e9 | F28 | freerdp | 2019-04-05 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-9f28451404 | F28 | ghostscript | 2019-04-05 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-a66789a334 | F29 | glpi | 2019-04-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-b2d986c3e9 | F28 | gnome-boxes | 2019-04-05 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-46df367eed | F28 | gnutls | 2019-04-05 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-be9add5b77 | F29 | kernel | 2019-04-09 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-65c6d11eba | F28 | kernel-headers | 2019-04-09 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-be9add5b77 | F29 | kernel-headers | 2019-04-09 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-65c6d11eba | F28 | kernel-tools | 2019-04-09 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-be9add5b77 | F29 | kernel-tools | 2019-04-09 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-c595a93536 | F28 | libarchive | 2019-04-05 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-3348cb4934 | F28 | libssh2 | 2019-04-05 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-694e3aa4e8 | F28 | ntp | 2019-04-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-f781d5c4c6 | F29 | ntp | 2019-04-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-b2d986c3e9 | F28 | pidgin-sipe | 2019-04-05 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-13ba3be562 | F28 | poppler | 2019-04-05 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-d04944813d | F29 | poppler | 2019-04-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-817ff2201f | F29 | pspp | 2019-04-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-b2d986c3e9 | F28 | remmina | 2019-04-05 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-9f891cd83a | F28 | wget | 2019-04-09 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-7a0497cbc2 | F29 | wget | 2019-04-08 |
| Gentoo | 201904-12 | clamav | 2019-04-08 | |
| Gentoo | 201904-11 | emerge-delta-webrsync | 2019-04-08 | |
| Gentoo | 201904-10 | mailman | 2019-04-08 | |
| Gentoo | 201904-09 | xen | 2019-04-04 | |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0127 | 6 | SDL12 | 2019-04-05 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0128 | 6 | advancecomp | 2019-04-05 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0133 | 6 | cfitsio | 2019-04-05 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0131 | 6 | firefox | 2019-04-05 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0130 | 6 | ghostscript | 2019-04-05 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0134 | 6 | gnutls | 2019-04-05 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0132 | 6 | libjpeg | 2019-04-05 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0126 | 6 | libpng | 2019-04-05 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0124 | 6 | ocaml | 2019-04-05 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0125 | 6 | python-yaml | 2019-04-05 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0123 | 6 | ruby-ox | 2019-04-05 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0129 | 6 | thunderbird | 2019-04-05 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:1141-1 | 15.0 | ImageMagick | 2019-04-05 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:1174-1 | 42.3 | adcli, sssd | 2019-04-08 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:1178-1 | 42.3 | bash | 2019-04-09 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:1148-1 | 15.0 | gd | 2019-04-04 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:1140-1 | 42.3 | gd | 2019-04-05 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:1164-1 | 15.0 | go1.11 | 2019-04-05 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:1163-1 | 15.0 | ldb | 2019-04-05 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:1144-1 | 15.0 | libcaca | 2019-04-05 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:1160-1 | 15.0 | liblouis | 2019-04-05 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:1173-1 | 42.3 | nodejs6 | 2019-04-08 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:1143-1 | 15.0 | ntp | 2019-04-05 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:1158-1 | 42.3 | ntp | 2019-04-05 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:1147-1 | 15.0 | openssl-1_1 | 2019-04-04 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:1175-1 | 42.3 | openssl | 2019-04-08 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:1172-1 | 15.0 | ovmf | 2019-04-08 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:1139-1 | 42.3 | ovmf | 2019-04-05 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:1180-1 | 15.0 | samba | 2019-04-10 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:1159-1 | 15.0 | sqlite3 | 2019-04-05 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:1176-1 | 15.0 | sysstat | 2019-04-08 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:1162-1 | 15.0 | thunderbird | 2019-04-05 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:1152-1 | 42.3 | thunderbird | 2019-04-04 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:1161-1 | 15.0 | tiff | 2019-04-05 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:1142-1 | 42.3 | w3m | 2019-04-05 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:1145-1 | 15.0 | wavpack | 2019-04-05 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:1166-1 | 15.0 42.3 | znc | 2019-04-05 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:1166-1 | 15.0 42.3 | znc | 2019-04-05 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:0708-01 | EL6 | chromium-browser | 2019-04-08 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:0737-01 | EL6 | flash-plugin | 2019-04-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:0717-01 | EL6 | kernel | 2019-04-09 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:0711-01 | EL6 | openssh | 2019-04-09 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:0710-01 | EL7 | python | 2019-04-08 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:0717-1 | SL6 | kernel | 2019-04-09 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:0711-1 | SL6 | openssh | 2019-04-09 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:0710-1 | SL7 | python | 2019-04-08 |
| Slackware | SSA:2019-096-01 | httpd | 2019-04-06 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2019-095-01 | openjpeg | 2019-04-05 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2019-095-02 | wget | 2019-04-05 | |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:0899-1 | SLE12 | SDL | 2019-04-08 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:0878-1 | OS7 SLE12 | apache2 | 2019-04-05 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:0888-1 | SLE12 | apache2 | 2019-04-05 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:0889-1 | SLE12 | apache2 | 2019-04-05 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:0898-1 | SLE12 | bash | 2019-04-08 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:0897-1 | OS7 SLE12 | clamav | 2019-04-08 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:14015-1 | SLE11 | clamav | 2019-04-09 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:0861-1 | SLE15 | clamav | 2019-04-04 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:0900-1 | OS7 SLE12 | dovecot22 | 2019-04-08 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:0871-1 | SLE15 | firefox | 2019-04-04 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:0904-1 | SLE15 | gnuplot | 2019-04-08 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:0901-1 | SLE12 | kernel | 2019-04-08 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:14014-1 | SLE11 | libtcnative-1-0 | 2019-04-09 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:0553-1 | OS7 SLE12 | libvirt | 2019-04-05 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:14013-1 | SLE11 | php53 | 2019-04-05 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:0913-1 | OS7 SLE12 | sqlite3 | 2019-04-09 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:0921-1 | OS7 SLE12 | xen | 2019-04-10 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:0891-1 | SLE12 | xen | 2019-04-05 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3936-1 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 18.10 | advancecomp | 2019-04-04 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3937-2 | 12.04 | apache2 | 2019-04-10 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3937-1 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 18.10 | apache2 | 2019-04-04 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3940-2 | 12.04 | clamav | 2019-04-08 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3940-1 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 18.10 | clamav | 2019-04-08 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3941-1 | 16.04 18.04 18.10 | lua5.3 | 2019-04-08 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3942-1 | 14.04 | openjdk-7 | 2019-04-08 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3939-2 | 12.04 | samba | 2019-04-08 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3939-1 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 18.10 | samba | 2019-04-08 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3938-1 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 18.10 | systemd | 2019-04-08 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3943-2 | 12.04 | wget | 2019-04-09 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3943-1 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 18.10 | wget | 2019-04-09 |
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Brendan Higgins
[PATCH v1 00/17] kunit: introduce KUnit, the Linux kernel unit
testing framework
Apr 04
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