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Calls for Presentations
CFP reminder Mini-DebConf Hamburg 2019
There will be a Mini-DebConf June 5-9 in Hamburg, Germany. The call for proposals closes May 26.CFP: Linux Security Summit Europe 2019
The Linux Security Summit will take place October 31-November 1 in Lyon, France. The call for papers closes July 31.CFP Deadlines: May 9, 2019 to July 8, 2019
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
---|---|---|---|
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 |
June 15 | October 30 November 1 |
KVM Forum 2019 | Lyon, France |
June 16 | September 23 September 25 |
Open Networking Summit | Antwerp, Belgium |
June 18 | October 28 October 30 |
USENIX 33rd Large Installation System Administration Conference | Portland, OR, USA |
June 22 | October 5 October 6 |
openSUSE.Asia Summit | Bali, Indonesia |
June 30 | October 8 October 9 |
PostgresConf South Africa 2019 | Johannesburg, South Africa |
June 30 | September 11 September 13 |
PostgresOpen | Orlando, FL, USA |
June 30 | September 11 September 13 |
LibreOffice Conference | Almeria, Spain |
July 1 | October 28 October 30 |
Open Source Summit Europe | Lyon, France |
July 1 | October 28 October 30 |
Embedded Linux Conference | Lyon, France |
July 1 | August 20 | Tracing Summit 2019 | San Diego, CA, USA |
July 1 | August 8 August 11 |
Flock To Fedora | Budapest, Hungary |
July 2 | November 4 November 6 |
Open Infrastructure Summit | Shanghai, China |
July 7 | October 2 October 4 |
X.Org Developer's Conference | Montreal, Canada |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
BPF microconference accepted into 2019 Linux Plumbers Conference
There will be a BPF microconference at LPC, which will be held September 9-11 in Lisbon, Portugal.Events: May 9, 2019 to July 8, 2019
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
Date(s) | Event | Location |
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May 1 May 9 |
PyCon 2019 | Cleveland, OH, 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 |
Open Source Conference Albania | Trana, Albania |
May 18 May 19 |
Linuxwochen Linz 2019 | Linz, Austria |
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 June 2 |
Libre Graphics Meeting | Saarbrücken, Germany |
May 29 May 30 |
DevOps Days Toronto 2019 | Toronto, Canada |
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 6 |
sambaXP 2019 | Goettingen, Germany |
June 4 June 5 |
UK OpenMP Users' Conference | Edinburgh, UK |
June 8 June 9 |
MiniDebConf Hamburg | Hamburg, Germany |
June 14 June 15 |
Hong Kong Open Source Conference 2019 | Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
June 14 June 16 |
Southeast Linux Fest | Charlotte, NC, USA |
June 21 June 22 |
GNU Guile & Guix Days | Strasbourg, France |
June 24 June 26 |
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit | Shanghai , China |
June 28 June 30 |
Akademy-es 2019 | Vigo, Spain |
July 6 | Tübix 2019 | Tübingen, Germany |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Event Reports
Netdev 0x13 slides and papers
Netdev 0x13 was held March 20-22. Slides and papers are available; videos to follow.
Security updates
Alert summary May 2, 2019 to May 8, 2019
Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
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Arch Linux | ASA-201905-6 | dovecot | 2019-05-07 | |
Arch Linux | ASA-201905-2 | kernel | 2019-05-07 | |
Arch Linux | ASA-201905-4 | linux-zen | 2019-05-07 | |
Arch Linux | ASA-201905-1 | munin | 2019-05-07 | |
Arch Linux | ASA-201905-3 | nautilus | 2019-05-07 | |
Arch Linux | ASA-201905-7 | perl-email-address | 2019-05-07 | |
Arch Linux | ASA-201905-5 | tcpreplay | 2019-05-07 | |
Debian | DLA-1779-1 | LTS | 389-ds-base | 2019-05-06 |
Debian | DSA-4438-1 | stable | atftp | 2019-05-07 |
Debian | DLA-1780-1 | LTS | firefox-esr | 2019-05-07 |
Debian | DLA-1777-1 | LTS | jquery | 2019-05-06 |
Debian | DLA-1776-1 | LTS | librecad | 2019-05-05 |
Debian | DLA-1771-1 | LTS | linux-4.9 | 2019-05-03 |
Debian | DLA-1774-1 | LTS | otrs2 | 2019-05-03 |
Debian | DLA-1775-1 | LTS | phpbb3 | 2019-05-04 |
Debian | DLA-1753-2 | LTS | proftpd-dfsg | 2019-05-01 |
Debian | DLA-1773-1 | LTS | signing-party | 2019-05-01 |
Debian | DLA-1778-1 | LTS | symfony | 2019-05-06 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2019-a658c47a7a | F30 | bubblewrap | 2019-05-04 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2019-902786bc1e | F28 | gradle | 2019-05-03 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2019-c701e6605a | F28 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2019-05-03 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2019-ec644ec323 | F29 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2019-05-03 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2019-5557661da8 | F30 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2019-05-03 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2019-a8996fb898 | F30 | java-11-openjdk | 2019-05-04 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2019-d9f867cb65 | F28 | jetty | 2019-05-03 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2019-8219efa9f6 | F29 | kernel | 2019-05-03 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2019-87d807d7cb | F30 | kernel | 2019-05-03 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2019-b3bfc61567 | F29 | libvirt | 2019-05-05 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2019-0f4190cdb0 | F30 | openssh | 2019-05-04 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2019-e71f6f36ac | F28 | pacemaker | 2019-05-04 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2019-1911b73cee | F30 | perl-YAML | 2019-05-08 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2019-a975e52e95 | F28 | php-horde-horde | 2019-05-02 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2019-4226584eef | F29 | php-horde-horde | 2019-05-02 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2019-146df522df | F28 | php-horde-turba | 2019-05-02 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2019-6119518602 | F29 | php-horde-turba | 2019-05-02 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2019-3193a75b06 | F28 | poppler | 2019-05-07 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2019-a155364f3c | F29 | ruby | 2019-05-03 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2019-6174b47003 | F29 | runc | 2019-05-03 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2019-bc70b381ad | F30 | runc | 2019-05-03 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2019-d29e04fa11 | F30 | teeworlds | 2019-05-07 |
Mageia | MGASA-2019-0155 | 6 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2019-05-07 |
Mageia | MGASA-2019-0152 | 6 | ldb | 2019-05-07 |
Mageia | MGASA-2019-0154 | 6 | libsolv | 2019-05-07 |
Mageia | MGASA-2019-0153 | 6 | putty/filezilla/wxgtk | 2019-05-07 |
Mageia | MGASA-2019-0151 | 6 | virtualbox | 2019-05-04 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:1331-1 | 15.0 | ImageMagick | 2019-05-04 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:1320-1 | 42.3 | ImageMagick | 2019-05-03 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:1325-1 | 15.0 | chromium | 2019-05-04 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:1324-1 | 42.3 | chromium | 2019-05-04 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:1312-1 | 15.0 | dovecot23 | 2019-05-02 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:1346-1 | 15.0 | freeradius-server | 2019-05-08 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:1315-1 | 15.0 | jasper | 2019-05-03 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:1327-1 | 15.0 | java-11-openjdk | 2019-05-04 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:1343-1 | 42.3 | libjpeg-turbo | 2019-05-08 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:1310-1 | 15.0 | libsoup | 2019-05-03 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:1314-1 | 15.0 | ntfs-3g_ntfsprogs | 2019-05-02 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:1313-1 | 42.3 | ntfs-3g_ntfsprogs | 2019-05-02 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:1342-1 | 42.3 | pacemaker | 2019-05-08 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:1344-1 | 15.0 | rubygem-actionpack-5_1 | 2019-05-08 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:1316-1 | 42.3 | webkit2gtk3 | 2019-05-03 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:1345-1 | 42.3 | wpa_supplicant | 2019-05-08 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:1341-1 | 15.0 | yubico-piv-tool | 2019-05-08 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2019:1021-01 | EL6 | chromium-browser | 2019-05-07 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2019:0975-01 | EL8 | container-tools:rhel8 | 2019-05-07 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2019:0968-01 | EL8 | edk2 | 2019-05-07 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2019:0966-01 | EL8 | firefox | 2019-05-07 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2019:1024-01 | EL7 | flatpak | 2019-05-07 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2019:1017-01 | EL7 | ghostscript | 2019-05-07 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2019:0971-01 | EL8 | ghostscript | 2019-05-07 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2019:0980-01 | EL8 | httpd:2.4 | 2019-05-07 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2019:0985-01 | EL8 | mod_auth_mellon | 2019-05-07 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2019:0972-01 | EL8 | openwsman | 2019-05-07 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2019:1022-01 | EL7 | python-jinja2 | 2019-05-07 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2019:0981-01 | EL8 | python27:2.7 | 2019-05-07 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2019:0997-01 | EL8 | python3 | 2019-05-07 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2019:0984-01 | EL8 | python36:3.6 | 2019-05-07 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2019:1116-01 | EL7 | redhat-virtualization-host | 2019-05-08 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2019:0990-01 | EL8 | systemd | 2019-05-07 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2019:0983-01 | EL8 | wget | 2019-05-07 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:1166-1 | SLE12 | audit | 2019-05-07 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:1181-1 | SLE12 | freeradius-server | 2019-05-07 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:1141-1 | SLE12 | openssl-1_1 | 2019-05-03 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:1136-1 | OS7 SLE12 | openssl | 2019-05-03 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:1157-1 | SLE12 | ovmf | 2019-05-06 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:1155-1 | OS7 SLE12 | webkit2gtk3 | 2019-05-06 |
Ubuntu | USN-3967-1 | 18.04 18.10 19.04 | FFmpeg | 2019-05-06 |
Ubuntu | USN-3965-1 | 18.10 19.04 | aria2 | 2019-05-06 |
Ubuntu | USN-3970-1 | 16.04 18.04 18.10 19.04 | ghostscript | 2019-05-08 |
Ubuntu | USN-3966-1 | 18.04 18.10 | gnome-shell | 2019-05-06 |
Ubuntu | USN-3953-2 | 12.04 14.04 | php5 | 2019-05-01 |
Ubuntu | USN-3964-1 | 18.04 18.10 19.04 | python-gnupg | 2019-05-02 |
Ubuntu | USN-3968-1 | 16.04 | sudo | 2019-05-06 |
Ubuntu | USN-3969-1 | 16.04 18.04 18.10 19.04 | wpa | 2019-05-07 |
Kernel patches of interest
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[PATCH v2 00/17] kunit: introduce KUnit, the Linux kernel unit
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