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Calls for Presentations
Final call for proposals for the containers and checkpoint/restore microconference at LPC 2019
This is the final call for proposals for the containers and checkpoint/restore microconference at the Linux Plumbers Conference; the deadline is Friday, August 2. LPC will take place September 9-11 in Lisbon, Portugal.Final reminder: LPC 2019 Networking Track CFP
This is the final call for proposals for the 3 day networking track at the Linux Plumbers Conference; the deadline is Friday, August 2. LPC will take place September 9-11 in Lisbon, Portugal. "Any kind of advanced networking-related topic will be considered."
linux.conf.au proposal deadline extended
For those didn't quite get around to putting in a proposal for linux.conf.au 2020 (Gold Coast, January 13 to 17), there's another chance: the proposal deadline has been extended to August 11. "We have heard that some of you would like a bit more time to submit your proposals for linux.conf.au 2020. So, we have decided to extend the due date by two weeks to help everyone have a chance to submit."
CFP Deadlines: August 1, 2019 to September 30, 2019
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| August 2 | September 9 September 11 |
Linux Plumbers Conference | Lisbon, Portugal |
| August 3 | September 23 September 24 |
Lustre Administrator and Developer Workshop 2019 | Paris, France |
| August 11 | January 13 January 17 |
linux.conf.au | Gold Coast, Australia |
| August 17 | November 1 November 2 |
Ohio LinuxFest 2019 | Columbus, OH, USA |
| August 18 | November 19 November 20 |
DevOpsDays Galway 2019 | Galway, Ireland |
| August 30 | October 10 October 11 |
PyCon ZA 2019 | Johannesburg, South Africa |
| August 31 | November 12 November 15 |
Linux Application Summit | Barcelona, Spain |
| August 31 | November 7 | Open Source Camp | #4 Foreman | Nuremberg, Germany |
| September 2 | October 3 | PostgresqlConf South Africa | Cape Town, South Africa |
| September 9 | October 26 | FOSS XR Conference | Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| September 13 | October 26 | The Future is Open | Rochester, NY, USA |
| September 14 | October 31 | Real-time Linux Summit - At ELCE 2019 | Lyon, France |
| September 16 | November 4 November 8 |
Tcl 2019 - 26th Annual Tcl/Tk Conference | Houston, TX, USA |
| September 22 | December 9 | Open FinTech Forum | New York, NY, USA |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
Tracing Summit 2019 - Schedule Release
The schedule for the Tracing Summit 2019 has been released. "We are going to have an amazing conference with diverse topics such as trace analysis, GPU tracing, distributed systems tracing and more." The Tracing Summit will be held in San Diego, CA on August 20.
Events: August 1, 2019 to September 30, 2019
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| August 2 August 3 |
DEVCONF.in | Bengaluru, India |
| August 2 August 4 |
Linux Developer Conference Brazil | São Paulo, Brazil |
| August 6 August 10 |
PyCon Africa | Accra, Ghana |
| August 8 August 11 |
Flock To Fedora | Budapest, Hungary |
| August 10 August 11 |
FrOSCon 2019 | St. Augustin (near Cologne), Germany |
| August 17 | FOSScon 2019 | Philadelphia, PA, USA |
| August 17 August 18 |
Conference for Open Source Coders, Users & Promoters | Taipei, Taiwan |
| August 19 August 21 |
Linux Security Summit | San Diego, CA, USA |
| August 20 | Tracing Summit 2019 | San Diego, CA, USA |
| August 21 August 23 |
Open Source Summit North America | San Diego, CA, USA |
| August 21 August 23 |
Embedded Linux Conference NA | San Diego, CA, USA |
| August 21 August 25 |
Chaos Communication Camp | Zehdenick, Germany |
| August 22 August 23 |
Rust Conf | Portland, Oregon, USA |
| August 23 August 28 |
GNOME User and Developer Conference | Thessaloniki, Greece |
| August 26 August 30 |
FOSS4G 2019 | Bucharest, Romania |
| September 2 September 6 |
EuroSciPy 2019 | Bilbao, Spain |
| September 3 September 6 |
Open Source Firmware Conference 2019 | Sunnyvale & Menlo Park, CA, USA |
| September 4 September 6 |
GNU Hackers Meet | Madrid, Spain |
| September 6 September 9 |
PyColorado | Denver, CO, USA |
| September 7 September 13 |
Akademy 2019 | Milan, Italy |
| September 9 September 11 |
Linux Plumbers Conference | Lisbon, Portugal |
| September 9 September 11 |
HashiConf 2019 | Seattle, WA, USA |
| September 11 September 12 |
Cloud Foundry Summit Europe | The Hague, The Netherlands |
| September 11 September 13 |
LibreOffice Conference | Almeria, Spain |
| September 11 September 13 |
PostgresOpen | Orlando, FL, USA |
| September 12 September 15 |
GNU Tools Cauldron | Montreal, Canada |
| September 12 | Kernel Maintainer Summit | Lisbon, Portugal |
| September 16 September 20 |
GNU Radio Conference 2019 | Huntsville, AL, USA |
| September 19 September 20 |
DPDK Userspace 2019 | Bordeaux, France |
| September 20 September 22 |
All Systems Go! 2019 | Berlin, Germany |
| September 21 September 23 |
State of the Map | Heidelberg, Germany |
| September 21 | Central Pennsylvania Open Source Conference | Lancaster, PA, USA |
| September 23 September 24 |
Lustre Administrator and Developer Workshop 2019 | Paris, France |
| September 23 September 25 |
Open Networking Summit | Antwerp, Belgium |
| September 25 September 27 |
Kernel Recipes | Paris, France |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Event Reports
DebConf19 closes in Curitiba and DebConf20 dates announced
The Debian project looks back the recently concluded DebConf, the annual Debian Developers and Contributors Conference. "The actual Debian Developers Conference started on Sunday 21 July 2019. Together with plenaries such as the the traditional 'Bits from the DPL', lightning talks, live demos and the announcement of next year's DebConf (DebConf20 in Haifa, Israel), there were several sessions related to the recent release of Debian 10 buster and some of its new features, as well as news updates on several projects and internal Debian teams, discussion sessions (BoFs) from the language, ports, infrastructure, and community teams, along with many other events of interest regarding Debian and free software."
Security updates
Alert summary July 25, 2019 to July 31, 2019
| Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CentOS | CESA-2019:1896 | C7 | 389-ds-base | 2019-07-31 |
| CentOS | CESA-2019:1880 | C7 | curl | 2019-07-31 |
| CentOS | CESA-2019:1840 | C6 | java-1.7.0-openjdk | 2019-07-24 |
| CentOS | CESA-2019:1839 | C7 | java-1.7.0-openjdk | 2019-07-24 |
| CentOS | CESA-2019:1811 | C6 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2019-07-24 |
| CentOS | CESA-2019:1815 | C7 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2019-07-24 |
| CentOS | CESA-2019:1810 | C7 | java-11-openjdk | 2019-07-24 |
| CentOS | CESA-2019:1873 | C7 | kernel | 2019-07-31 |
| Debian | DSA-4488-1 | stable | exim4 | 2019-07-25 |
| Debian | DLA-1730-3 | LTS | libssh2 | 2019-07-25 |
| Debian | DLA-1730-4 | LTS | libssh2 | 2019-07-30 |
| Debian | DLA-1864-1 | LTS | patch | 2019-07-25 |
| Debian | DSA-4489-1 | stable | patch | 2019-07-27 |
| Debian | DLA-1865-1 | LTS | sdl-image1.2 | 2019-07-27 |
| Debian | DLA-1846-2 | LTS | unzip | 2019-07-28 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-2a16e1ab93 | F30 | cutter-re | 2019-07-30 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-3d418f349c | F30 | deepin-clone | 2019-07-28 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-3d418f349c | F30 | dtkcore | 2019-07-28 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-3d418f349c | F30 | dtkwidget | 2019-07-28 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-f27e187c76 | F29 | java-latest-openjdk | 2019-07-25 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-97bb9c43b9 | F30 | java-latest-openjdk | 2019-07-25 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-3dbfaeac73 | F29 | kernel | 2019-07-31 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-9d3fe6fd5b | F30 | kernel | 2019-07-26 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-3dbfaeac73 | F29 | kernel-headers | 2019-07-31 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-9d3fe6fd5b | F30 | kernel-headers | 2019-07-26 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-5409bb5e68 | F29 | oniguruma | 2019-07-31 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-3f3d0953db | F30 | oniguruma | 2019-07-31 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-2a16e1ab93 | F30 | radare2 | 2019-07-30 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-02b81266b7 | F30 | sqlite | 2019-07-27 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0216 | 6, 7 | virtualbox | 2019-07-27 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0215 | 6 | vlc | 2019-07-25 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:1815-1 | chromium | 2019-07-30 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:1815-1 | 15.0 15.1 | chromium | 2019-07-30 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:1811-1 | 15.0 | firefox | 2019-07-29 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:1800-1 | oSB-15 | libsass | 2019-07-24 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:1816-1 | 15.0 | openexr | 2019-07-30 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:1813-1 | 15.0 15.1 | thunderbird | 2019-07-30 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:1808-1 | 15.1 | tomcat | 2019-07-25 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:1805-1 | 15.0 | ucode-intel | 2019-07-24 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:1806-1 | 15.1 | ucode-intel | 2019-07-24 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:1814-1 | 15.0 15.1 | virtualbox | 2019-07-30 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2019-1896 | OL7 | 389-ds-base | 2019-07-30 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2019-1896 | OL7 | 389-ds-base | 2019-07-30 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2019-1880 | OL7 | curl | 2019-07-30 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2019-1880 | OL7 | curl | 2019-07-30 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2019-1898 | OL7 | httpd | 2019-07-30 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2019-1898 | OL7 | httpd | 2019-07-30 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2019-1840 | OL6 | java-1.7.0-openjdk | 2019-07-24 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2019-4729 | OL6 | kernel | 2019-07-30 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2019-4729 | OL7 | kernel | 2019-07-30 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2019-1873 | OL7 | kernel | 2019-07-30 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2019-1884 | OL7 | libssh2 | 2019-07-30 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2019-1884 | OL7 | libssh2 | 2019-07-30 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2019-1883 | OL7 | qemu-kvm | 2019-07-30 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2019-1777 | OL6 | thunderbird | 2019-07-24 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:1896-01 | EL7 | 389-ds-base | 2019-07-29 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:1930-01 | EL6 | chromium-browser | 2019-07-29 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:1880-01 | EL7 | curl | 2019-07-29 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:1910-01 | EL7 | docker | 2019-07-29 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:1898-01 | EL7 | httpd | 2019-07-29 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:1945-01 | EL7.4 | keepalived | 2019-07-30 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:1931-01 | EL5 | kernel | 2019-07-29 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:1932-01 | EL5.9 | kernel | 2019-07-29 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:1873-01 | EL7 | kernel | 2019-07-29 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:1946-01 | EL7.4 | kernel | 2019-07-30 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:1959-01 | EL8 | kernel | 2019-07-30 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:1973-01 | EL7 | kernel-alt | 2019-07-30 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:1891-01 | EL7 | kernel-rt | 2019-07-29 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:1971-01 | EL8 | kernel-rt | 2019-07-30 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:1884-01 | EL7 | libssh2 | 2019-07-29 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:1943-01 | EL7.4 | libssh2 | 2019-07-30 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:1951-01 | EL8 | nss and nspr | 2019-07-30 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:1942-01 | EL7.4 | perl | 2019-07-30 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:1907-01 | EL7 | podman | 2019-07-29 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:1944-01 | EL7.4 | procps-ng | 2019-07-30 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:1883-01 | EL7 | qemu-kvm | 2019-07-29 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:1881-01 | EL7 | qemu-kvm-ma | 2019-07-29 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:1860-01 | SCL | rh-redis32-redis | 2019-07-25 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:1948-01 | EL7.4 | ruby | 2019-07-30 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:1972-01 | EL8 | ruby:2.5 | 2019-07-30 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:1967-01 | EL6 | samba | 2019-07-30 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:1966-01 | EL7 | samba | 2019-07-30 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:1947-01 | EL7.4 | vim | 2019-07-30 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:1896-1 | SL7 | 389-ds-base | 2019-07-29 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:1880-1 | SL7 | curl | 2019-07-29 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:1898-1 | SL7 | httpd | 2019-07-30 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:1873-1 | SL7 | kernel | 2019-07-30 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:1884-1 | SL7 | libssh2 | 2019-07-29 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:1883-1 | SL7 | qemu-kvm | 2019-07-29 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:14134-1 | SLE11 | OpenEXR | 2019-07-24 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:2013-1 | OS7 OS8 SLE12 SES4 SES5 | bzip2 | 2019-07-29 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:1990-1 | SLE12 | cronie | 2019-07-26 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:1861-2 | firefox | 2019-07-29 | |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:2021-1 | SLE15 | java-1_8_0-openjdk | 2019-07-30 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:1971-1 | SLE15 | libgcrypt | 2019-07-25 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:1972-1 | OS8 SLE12 SES5 | libsolv, libzypp, zypper | 2019-07-25 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:2020-1 | SLE15 | mariadb, mariadb-connector-c | 2019-07-30 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:2014-1 | SLE12 | openexr | 2019-07-29 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:2018-1 | SLE15 | polkit | 2019-07-30 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:2027-1 | OS7 | python-requests | 2019-07-31 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:1973-1 | SLE15 | rmt-server | 2019-07-25 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:1961-1 | SLE12 | spamassassin | 2019-07-24 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:1960-1 | SLE15 | thunderbird | 2019-07-24 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4072-1 | 16.04 18.04 19.04 | ansible | 2019-07-24 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4075-1 | 16.04 18.04 19.04 | exim4 | 2019-07-25 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4054-2 | 16.04 18.04 19.04 | firefox | 2019-07-25 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4073-1 | 16.04 18.04 | libebml | 2019-07-25 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4076-1 | 16.04 | linux, linux-aws, linux-kvm, linux-raspi2 | 2019-07-25 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4080-1 | 16.04 | openjdk-8 | 2019-07-30 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4078-1 | 16.04 18.04 19.04 | openldap | 2019-07-30 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4071-2 | 14.04 | patch | 2019-07-24 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3990-2 | 14.04 | python-urllib3 | 2019-07-29 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4079-1 | 16.04 | sox | 2019-07-30 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4077-1 | 16.04 18.04 | tmpreaper | 2019-07-29 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4074-1 | 18.04 19.04 | vlc | 2019-07-25 |
Kernel patches of interest
Kernel releases
Architecture-specific
Reinette Chatre
x86/CPU and x86/resctrl: Support pseudo-lock regions spanning L2 and L3 cache
Jul 30
Core kernel
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Device-driver infrastructure
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