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3rd Call For Papers - 26th Annual Tcl/Tk Conference (Tcl'2019)

Tcl'2019 will take place November 4-8 in Houston, TX. The call for papers closes September 9. The keynote speaker, Will Duquette, will talk about "Tcl, Rust, and the Death of Rube Goldberg".

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CFP Deadlines: August 15, 2019 to October 14, 2019

The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.

DeadlineEvent Dates EventLocation
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
October 2 November 2
November 3		 OpenFest 2019 Sofia, Bulgaria
October 4 November 2
November 3		 Konference OpenAlt Brno, Czechia
October 6 November 16
November 17		 Capitole du Libre 2019 Toulouse, France

If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.

Upcoming Events

Events: August 15, 2019 to October 14, 2019

The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.

Date(s)EventLocation
August 17
August 18		 Conference for Open Source Coders, Users & Promoters Taipei, Taiwan
August 17 FOSScon 2019 Philadelphia, PA, USA
August 19
August 21		 Linux Security Summit San Diego, CA, USA
August 20 Tracing Summit 2019 San Diego, CA, USA
August 21
August 23		 Embedded Linux Conference NA San Diego, CA, USA
August 21
August 23		 Open Source Summit North America 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		 PostgresOpen Orlando, FL, USA
September 11
September 13		 LibreOffice Conference Almeria, Spain
September 12 Kernel Maintainer Summit Lisbon, Portugal
September 12
September 15		 GNU Tools Cauldron Montreal, Canada
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 Central Pennsylvania Open Source Conference Lancaster, PA, USA
September 21
September 23		 State of the Map Heidelberg, Germany
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
October 1
October 4		 Alpine Linux Persistence and Storage Summit Lizumerhütte, Tyrol, Austria
October 2 OpenInfra Days Italy 2019 Milan, Italy
October 2
October 4		 X.Org Developer's Conference Montreal, Canada
October 3 OpenInfra Days Italy 2019 Rome, Italy
October 4
October 5		 Linux Piter 2019 Saint Petersburg, Russia
October 5
October 6		 openSUSE.Asia Summit Bali, Indonesia
October 7
October 9		 LinuxConf [ZA] Johannesburg, South Africa
October 8
October 11		 Zeek Week (formerly BroCon) Seattle, WA, USA
October 8 Introduction to Coccinelle Munich, Germany
October 8
October 9		 PostgresConf South Africa 2019 Johannesburg, South Africa
October 10
October 11		 PyCon ZA 2019 Johannesburg, South Africa
October 10
October 13		 Ubucon Europe 2019 Sintra, Portugal
October 12
October 13		 WineConf 2019 Toronto, Canada
October 13
October 15		 All Things Open Raleigh, NC, USA

If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.

Security updates

Alert summary August 8, 2019 to August 14, 2019

Dist. ID Release Package Date
Arch Linux ASA-201908-6 chromium 2019-08-12
Arch Linux ASA-201908-4 exim 2019-08-07
Arch Linux ASA-201908-8 postgresql 2019-08-12
Arch Linux ASA-201908-7 postgresql-libs 2019-08-12
Arch Linux ASA-201908-2 python-django 2019-08-07
Arch Linux ASA-201908-3 python2-django 2019-08-07
Arch Linux ASA-201908-5 sdl2 2019-08-07
Debian DLA-1882-1 LTS atril 2019-08-13
Debian DSA-4500-1 stable chromium 2019-08-13
Debian DLA-1881-1 LTS evince 2019-08-13
Debian DLA-1875-1 LTS fusiondirectory 2019-08-11
Debian DLA-1880-1 LTS ghostscript 2019-08-13
Debian DSA-4499-1 stable ghostscript 2019-08-12
Debian DLA-1876-1 LTS gosa 2019-08-11
Debian DLA-1879-1 LTS jackson-databind 2019-08-12
Debian DSA-4494-1 stable kconfig 2019-08-09
Debian DLA-1884-1 LTS kernel 2019-08-14
Debian DSA-4495-1 stable kernel 2019-08-10
Debian DSA-4497-1 stable kernel 2019-08-13
Debian DLA-1885-1 LTS linux-4.9 2019-08-14
Debian DLA-1877-1 LTS otrs2 2019-08-14
Debian DSA-4496-1 stable pango1.0 2019-08-11
Debian DLA-1878-1 LTS php5 2019-08-12
Debian DSA-4493-1 stable postgresql-11 2019-08-08
Debian DLA-1874-1 LTS postgresql-9.4 2019-08-09
Debian DSA-4492-1 stable postgresql-9.6 2019-08-08
Debian DLA-1873-1 LTS proftpd-dfsg 2019-08-07
Debian DSA-4498-1 stable python-django 2019-08-12
Debian DLA-1883-1 LTS tomcat8 2019-08-13
Fedora FEDORA-2019-b1157fdfdc F29 aubio 2019-08-12
Fedora FEDORA-2019-00ca0acb47 F30 aubio 2019-08-12
Fedora FEDORA-2019-60553d5a18 F30 exiv2 2019-08-09
Fedora FEDORA-2019-efb92eed7a F29 icedtea-web 2019-08-11
Fedora FEDORA-2019-2e349753ed F30 icedtea-web 2019-08-11
Fedora FEDORA-2019-5d52865475 F29 igraph 2019-08-14
Fedora FEDORA-2019-060e7b383c F30 igraph 2019-08-14
Fedora FEDORA-2019-3854a1727e F29 java-1.8.0-openjdk 2019-08-11
Fedora FEDORA-2019-146b81efba F30 java-1.8.0-openjdk 2019-08-11
Fedora FEDORA-2019-441c2fb0d1 F29 jhead 2019-08-14
Fedora FEDORA-2019-17b95fecd3 F30 jhead 2019-08-14
Fedora FEDORA-2019-6bda4c81f4 F29 kernel 2019-08-11
Fedora FEDORA-2019-e37c348348 F30 kernel 2019-08-11
Fedora FEDORA-2019-6bda4c81f4 F29 kernel-headers 2019-08-11
Fedora FEDORA-2019-e37c348348 F30 kernel-headers 2019-08-11
Fedora FEDORA-2019-6bda4c81f4 F29 kernel-tools 2019-08-11
Fedora FEDORA-2019-e37c348348 F30 kernel-tools 2019-08-11
Fedora FEDORA-2019-48b691092f F30 kf5-kconfig 2019-08-13
Fedora FEDORA-2019-77bafc4454 F30 libslirp 2019-08-11
Fedora FEDORA-2019-49f80a78bc F29 mingw-sqlite 2019-08-13
Fedora FEDORA-2019-c404576415 F30 openqa 2019-08-11
Fedora FEDORA-2019-c404576415 F30 os-autoinst 2019-08-11
Fedora FEDORA-2019-cd8f4b9568 F29 pam-u2f 2019-08-13
Fedora FEDORA-2019-f07db8f031 F29 php 2019-08-08
Fedora FEDORA-2019-ec40d89812 F30 php 2019-08-08
Fedora FEDORA-2019-8729e0edf5 F29 poppler 2019-08-13
Fedora FEDORA-2019-69ec14786b F30 poppler 2019-08-13
Fedora FEDORA-2019-3377813d18 F29 sqlite 2019-08-08
Fedora FEDORA-2019-bf4633142b F29 upx 2019-08-11
Fedora FEDORA-2019-9a0f02c8c8 F30 upx 2019-08-11
Gentoo 201908-03 JasPer 2019-08-09
Gentoo 201908-05 libvncserver 2019-08-09
Gentoo 201908-04 redis 2019-08-09
Mageia MGASA-2019-0219 6, 7 cyrus-imapd 2019-08-10
Mageia MGASA-2019-0221 6 kernel 2019-08-12
Mageia MGASA-2019-0220 7 kernel 2019-08-12
Mageia MGASA-2019-0218 7 php 2019-08-10
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2019:1854-1 GraphicsMagick 2019-08-14
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2019:1858-1 ansible 2019-08-14
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2019:1852-1 aubio 2019-08-13
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2019:1853-1 chromium 2019-08-13
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2019:1848-1 15.0 chromium 2019-08-13
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2019:1849-1 15.1 chromium 2019-08-13
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2019:1851-1 kconfig, kdelibs4 2019-08-13
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2019:1851-2 kconfig, kdelibs4 2019-08-14
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2019:1855-1 kconfig, kdelibs4 2019-08-13
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2019:1851-1 15.0 15.1 kconfig, kdelibs4 2019-08-13
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2019:1880-1 live555 2019-08-14
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2019:1876-1 mumble 2019-08-14
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2019:1846-1 15.1 nodejs10 2019-08-13
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2019:1844-1 15.1 osc 2019-08-12
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2019:1861-1 phpMyAdmin 2019-08-14
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2019:1870-1 proftpd 2019-08-14
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2019:1836-1 15.0 15.1 proftpd 2019-08-08
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2019:1872-1 python-Django 2019-08-14
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2019:1839-1 15.1 python-Django 2019-08-08
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2019:1840-1 15.1 vlc 2019-08-08
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2019:1859-1 znc 2019-08-14
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2019:1845-1 15.1 zstd 2019-08-12
Oracle ELSA-2019-4742 OL5 kernel 2019-08-11
Oracle ELSA-2019-4739 OL6 kernel 2019-08-08
Oracle ELSA-2019-4741 OL6 kernel 2019-08-11
Oracle ELSA-2019-4742 OL6 kernel 2019-08-11
Oracle ELSA-2019-2473 OL6 kernel 2019-08-14
Oracle ELSA-2019-4739 OL7 kernel 2019-08-08
Oracle ELSA-2019-4741 OL7 kernel 2019-08-11
Oracle ELSA-2019-2471 OL6 openssl 2019-08-14
Red Hat RHSA-2019:2437-01 EL7 Red Hat Virtualization 2019-08-12
Red Hat RHSA-2019:2427-01 EL6 chromium-browser 2019-08-12
Red Hat RHSA-2019:2433-01 EL7 cockpit-ovirt 2019-08-12
Red Hat RHSA-2019:2462-01 EL7 ghostscript 2019-08-12
Red Hat RHSA-2019:2465-01 EL8 ghostscript 2019-08-12
Red Hat RHSA-2019:2473-01 EL6 kernel 2019-08-13
Red Hat RHSA-2019:2476-01 EL6.6 kernel 2019-08-13
Red Hat RHSA-2019:2411-01 EL8 kernel 2019-08-07
Red Hat RHSA-2019:2471-01 EL6 openssl 2019-08-13
Red Hat RHSA-2019:2425-01 OSP10.0 qemu-kvm-rhev 2019-08-08
Red Hat RHSA-2019:2484-01 SCL rh-mysql80-mysql 2019-08-14
Red Hat RHSA-2019:2439-01 EL7 rhvm-appliance 2019-08-12
Scientific Linux SLSA-2019:2473-1 SL6 kernel 2019-08-13
Scientific Linux SLSA-2019:2471-1 SL6 openssl 2019-08-13
Slackware SSA:2019-220-01 kdelibs 2019-08-07
Slackware SSA:2019-226-01 kernel 2019-08-13
SUSE SUSE-SU-2019:2106-1 SLE15 ImageMagick 2019-08-09
SUSE SUSE-SU-2019:2119-1 OS6 SLE12 containerd, docker, docker-runc, golang-github-docker-libnetwork 2019-08-13
SUSE SUSE-SU-2019:2117-1 SLE15 containerd, docker, docker-runc, golang-github-docker-libnetwork 2019-08-13
SUSE SUSE-SU-2019:2098-1 SLE12 evince 2019-08-09
SUSE SUSE-SU-2019:2105-1 OS7 SLE12 SES4 libvirt 2019-08-09
SUSE SUSE-SU-2019:2118-1 SLE12 mariadb-100 2019-08-13
SUSE SUSE-SU-2019:2099-1 SLE12 nodejs10 2019-08-09
SUSE SUSE-SU-2019:2081-1 SLE15 nodejs10 2019-08-07
SUSE SUSE-SU-2019:2091-1 OS7 OS8 SLE12 SES4 SES5 python 2019-08-08
SUSE SUSE-SU-2019:14142-1 SLE11 python 2019-08-08
SUSE SUSE-SU-2019:2114-1 SLE15 python 2019-08-12
SUSE SUSE-SU-2019:2089-1 OS7 OS8 SLE12 SES4 SES5 squid 2019-08-08
SUSE SUSE-SU-2019:2092-1 SLE15 squid 2019-08-08
SUSE SUSE-SU-2019:2088-1 SLE12 tcpdump 2019-08-08
SUSE SUSE-SU-2019:2087-1 SLE15 tcpdump 2019-08-08
SUSE SUSE-SU-2019:2104-1 SLE12 wireshark 2019-08-09
SUSE SUSE-SU-2019:2103-1 SLE15 wireshark 2019-08-09
Ubuntu USN-4070-2 18.04 MariaDB 2019-08-12
Ubuntu USN-4070-3 19.04 MariaDB 2019-08-13
Ubuntu USN-4092-1 16.04 18.04 19.04 ghostscript 2019-08-12
Ubuntu USN-4095-1 16.04 linux, linux-aws, linux-kvm, linux-raspi2, linux-snapdragon 2019-08-13
Ubuntu USN-4096-1 16.04 18.04 19.04 linux-aws, linux-aws-hwe 2019-08-13
Ubuntu USN-4095-2 14.04 linux-lts-xenial, linux-aws 2019-08-13
Ubuntu USN-4094-1 16.04 18.04 linux-oem, linux-oracle, linux-raspi2, linux-snapdragon 2019-08-13
Ubuntu USN-4093-1 18.04 19.04 linux-snapdragon 2019-08-13
Ubuntu USN-4088-1 12.04 14.04 php5 2019-08-07
Ubuntu USN-4097-2 12.04 14.04 php5 2019-08-13
Ubuntu USN-4097-1 16.04 18.04 19.04 php7.0, php7.2 2019-08-13
Ubuntu USN-4091-1 18.04 19.04 poppler 2019-08-12
Ubuntu USN-4090-1 16.04 18.04 19.04 postgresql-10, postgresql-11, postgresql-9.5 2019-08-08
Ubuntu USN-4089-1 16.04 18.04 ruby-rack 2019-08-07
Ubuntu USN-4098-1 18.04 19.04 wpa 2019-08-14
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Kernel patches of interest

Kernel releases

Linus Torvalds Linux 5.3-rc4 Aug 11
Greg KH Linux 5.2.8 Aug 09
Greg KH Linux 4.19.66 Aug 09
Greg KH Linux 4.14.138 Aug 09
Greg KH Linux 4.9.189 Aug 11
Greg KH Linux 4.4.189 Aug 11
Ben Hutchings Linux 3.16.72 Aug 13

Architecture-specific

Santosh Sivaraj powerpc: implement machine check safe memcpy Aug 12
Christoph Hellwig RISC-V nommu support v3 Aug 13
Yu-cheng Yu Control-flow Enforcement: Shadow Stack Aug 13
Yu-cheng Yu Control-flow Enforcement: Branch Tracking, PTRACE Aug 13
Yang Weijiang Enable Sub-page Write Protection Support Aug 14

Core kernel

John Ogness printk: new ringbuffer implementation Aug 08
Daniel Jordan padata: use unbound workqueues for parallel jobs Aug 12
Adrian Reber fork: extend clone3() to support setting a PID Aug 12
Matthias Maennich Symbol namespaces - RFC Aug 13

Development tools

Knut Omang Integration of Kernel Test Framework (KTF) into the kernel tree Aug 13
John Kacur rt-tests-1.5 Aug 14

Device drivers

David Lechner counter: new TI eQEP driver Aug 07
Jordan Crouse iommu/arm-smmu: Split pagetable support Aug 07
Srinivas Kandagatla ASoC: codecs: Add WSA881x Smart Speaker amplifier support Aug 08
Nagarjuna Kristam Tegra XUSB gadget driver support Aug 08
Vidya Sagar PCI: tegra: Add Tegra194 PCIe support Aug 09
Dmitry Osipenko memory: tegra: Introduce Tegra30 EMC driver Aug 12
Alexandru Ardelean net: phy: adin: add support for Analog Devices PHYs Aug 09
Niklas Söderlund max9286: Add MAX9286 driver with single camera support Aug 09
Guido Günther drm: bridge: Add NWL MIPI DSI host controller support Aug 09
Antoine Tenart net: mscc: PTP Hardware Clock (PHC) support Aug 12
Yangtao Li add thermal driver for h6 Aug 10
Yong Wu MT8183 IOMMU SUPPORT Aug 10
Jitao Shi Add drivers for auo,kd101n80-45na and boe,tv101wum-nl6 panels Aug 11
Mika Westerberg thunderbolt: Intel Ice Lake support Aug 12
Andrey Smirnov crypto: caam - Add i.MX8MQ support Aug 12
Srinivas Kandagatla soundwire: Add support to Qualcomm SoundWire master Aug 13
Chunfeng Yun add USB GPIO based connection detection driver Aug 13
Leonard Crestez PM / devfreq: Add initial imx support Aug 12
Laurent Pinchart DRM panel drivers for omapdrm Aug 13
Hugues Fruchet DCMI bridge support Aug 14

Device-driver infrastructure

Saravana Kannan Introduce Bandwidth OPPs for interconnects Aug 07
Boris Brezillon drm: Add support for bus-format negotiation Aug 08
Hans Verkuil Stateful/stateless codec core support Aug 12
Matthew Auld [PATCH v3 00/37] Introduce memory region concept (including device local memory) Aug 09
Akinobu Mita introduce LED block device activity trigger Aug 11
Arnd Bergmann compat_ioctl.c removal, part 2/3 Aug 14

Filesystems and block layer

Carlos Maiolino New ->fiemap infrastructure and ->bmap removal Aug 08
Naohiro Aota btrfs zoned block device support Aug 08
Harshad Shirwadkar ext4: add support fast commit Aug 08
Matthew Bobrowski ext4: direct IO via iomap infrastructure Aug 12
Allison Collins XFS Delayed Attributes Aug 09
Boaz Harrosh zuf: ZUFS Zero-copy User-mode FileSystem Aug 12
Gao Xiang erofs: promote erofs from staging Aug 13
Sascha Hauer Add quota support to UBIFS Aug 14

Memory management

Alexandre Ghiti Provide generic top-down mmap layout functions Aug 08
Mina Almasry hugetlb_cgroup: Add hugetlb_cgroup reservation limits Aug 08
ira.weiny@intel.com RDMA/FS DAX truncate proposal V1,000,002 ;-) Aug 09
Nitesh Narayan Lal mm: Support for page reporting Aug 12
Khalid Aziz Add predictive memory reclamation and compaction Aug 12

Networking

Ido Schimmel Add drop monitor for offloaded data paths Aug 13
Toshiaki Makita xdp_flow: Flow offload to XDP Aug 13

Security-related

Matthew Garrett security: Add support for locking down the kernel Aug 07
Casey Schaufler LSM: Module stacking for AppArmor Aug 07
Casey Schaufler LSM: Full module stacking Aug 07

Virtualization and containers

Alexander Duyck [PATCH v4 0/6] mm / virtio: Provide support for unused page reporting Aug 07
Adalbert Lazăr VM introspection Aug 09

Miscellaneous

Eric Sandeen xfsprogs v5.2.0 released Aug 09

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