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Calls for Presentations
CFP Deadlines: October 3, 2019 to December 2, 2019
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| October 4 | November 2 November 3 |
Konference OpenAlt | Brno, Czechia |
| October 6 | November 16 November 17 |
Capitole du Libre 2019 | Toulouse, France |
| October 25 | March 23 March 27 |
[CANCELED] SUSECON 2020 | was Dublin, Online only |
| November 8 | February 1 February 2 |
FOSDEM 2020 | Brussels, Belgium |
| November 17 | February 3 | Copyleft Conference | Brussels, Belgium |
| November 20 | March 14 March 15 |
[CANCELED] LibrePlanet | Boston, MA, USA |
| November 22 | March 23 March 27 |
[CANCELED] Postgres Conference 2020 | New York, NY, USA |
| November 30 | March 5 March 8 |
Southern California Linux Expo | Pasadena, CA, USA |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
Events: October 3, 2019 to December 2, 2019
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| October 1 October 4 |
Alpine Linux Persistence and Storage Summit | Lizumerhütte, Tyrol, Austria |
| 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 | Introduction to Coccinelle | Munich, Germany |
| October 8 October 9 |
PostgresConf South Africa 2019 | Johannesburg, South Africa |
| October 8 October 11 |
Zeek Week (formerly BroCon) | Seattle, WA, USA |
| October 10 October 13 |
Ubucon Europe 2019 | Sintra, Portugal |
| October 10 October 11 |
PyCon ZA 2019 | Johannesburg, South Africa |
| October 12 October 13 |
WineConf 2019 | Toronto, Canada |
| October 13 October 15 |
All Things Open | Raleigh, NC, USA |
| October 15 October 18 |
PostgreSQL Conference Europe | Milan, Italy |
| October 19 | GNU/LinuxDay in Vorarlberg | Dornbirn, Austria |
| October 19 October 20 |
OGGCAMP 19 | Manchester, UK |
| October 22 October 23 |
LLVM Dev Mtg | San Jose, CA, USA |
| October 25 October 27 |
NixCon | Brno, Czech Republic |
| October 26 | FOSS XR Conference | Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| October 26 | The Future is Open | Rochester, NY, USA |
| October 26 October 27 |
Sonoj Convention | Cologne, Germany |
| October 27 October 30 |
27th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles | Huntsville, Ontario, Canada |
| October 28 October 30 |
Open Source Summit Europe | Lyon, France |
| October 28 October 30 |
Embedded Linux Conference | Lyon, France |
| October 28 October 30 |
USENIX 33rd Large Installation System Administration Conference | Portland, OR, USA |
| October 30 November 1 |
KVM Forum 2019 | Lyon, France |
| October 31 | Real-time Linux Summit - At ELCE 2019 | Lyon, France |
| October 31 November 1 |
Linux Security Summit | Lyon, France |
| October 31 November 1 |
GStreamer Conference 2019 | Lyon, France |
| October 31 | Automated Testing Summit 2019 | Lyon, France |
| November 1 November 2 |
Ohio LinuxFest 2019 | Columbus, OH, USA |
| November 2 November 3 |
OpenFest 2019 | Sofia, Bulgaria |
| November 2 November 3 |
North Bay Python 2019 | Petaluma, CA, USA |
| November 2 November 3 |
Konference OpenAlt | Brno, Czechia |
| November 4 November 6 |
Open Infrastructure Summit | Shanghai, China |
| November 4 November 7 |
Open Source Monitoring Conference | Nuremberg, Germany |
| November 4 November 8 |
Tcl 2019 - 26th Annual Tcl/Tk Conference | Houston, TX, USA |
| November 7 | Open Source Camp | #4 Foreman | Nuremberg, Germany |
| November 9 November 10 |
VideoLAN Dev Days 2019 | Tokyo, Japan |
| November 12 November 15 |
Linux Application Summit | Barcelona, Spain |
| November 16 November 17 |
Capitole du Libre 2019 | Toulouse, France |
| November 17 November 22 |
Supercomputing | Denver, CO, USA |
| November 19 November 20 |
DevOpsDays Galway 2019 | Galway, Ireland |
| November 19 November 21 |
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon | San Diego, CA, USA |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Security updates
Alert summary September 26, 2019 to October 2, 2019
| Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CentOS | CESA-2019:2885 | C6 | dovecot | 2019-09-27 |
| CentOS | CESA-2019:2836 | C7 | dovecot | 2019-09-26 |
| CentOS | CESA-2019:2863 | C6 | kernel | 2019-09-27 |
| CentOS | CESA-2019:2892 | C6 | qemu-kvm | 2019-09-27 |
| Debian | DLA-1900-2 | LTS | apache2 | 2019-09-30 |
| Debian | DLA-1934-1 | LTS | cimg | 2019-09-28 |
| Debian | DLA-1936-1 | LTS | cups | 2019-09-28 |
| Debian | DLA-1935-1 | LTS | e2fsprogs | 2019-09-28 |
| Debian | DSA-4535-1 | stable | e2fsprogs | 2019-09-27 |
| Debian | DSA-4536-1 | stable | exim4 | 2019-09-28 |
| Debian | DLA-1938-1 | LTS | file-roller | 2019-09-30 |
| Debian | DSA-4537-1 | stable | file-roller | 2019-09-28 |
| Debian | DSA-4534-1 | stable | golang-1.11 | 2019-09-27 |
| Debian | DLA-1937-1 | LTS | httpie | 2019-09-28 |
| Debian | DSA-4533-1 | stable | lemonldap-ng | 2019-09-25 |
| Debian | DLA-1940-1 | LTS | linux-4.9 | 2019-10-01 |
| Debian | DLA-1941-1 | LTS | netty | 2019-09-30 |
| Debian | DLA-1932-1 | LTS | openssl | 2019-09-25 |
| Debian | DSA-4539-1 | stable | openssl | 2019-10-01 |
| Debian | DSA-4540-1 | stable | openssl1.0 | 2019-10-01 |
| Debian | DLA-1942-1 | LTS | phpbb3 | 2019-10-01 |
| Debian | DLA-1939-1 | LTS | poppler | 2019-09-30 |
| Debian | DLA-1933-1 | LTS | ruby-nokogiri | 2019-09-26 |
| Debian | DSA-4538-1 | stable | wpa | 2019-09-29 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-f2a520135e | F29 | curl | 2019-09-29 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-4349fc0afb | F29 | dcmtk | 2019-09-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-12650a34d8 | F30 | dcmtk | 2019-09-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-672ae0f060 | F29 | expat | 2019-10-02 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-ebd6c4f15a | F29 | ghostscript | 2019-09-28 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-5bf13218a5 | F29 | ibus | 2019-09-29 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-a570a92d5a | F29 | kernel | 2019-10-02 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-a570a92d5a | F29 | kernel-headers | 2019-10-02 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-a570a92d5a | F29 | kernel-tools | 2019-10-02 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-320a5a6a68 | F30 | krb5 | 2019-09-30 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-e00c65ec6f | F29 | mod_md | 2019-09-30 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-1b30db2125 | F30 | nbdkit | 2019-09-29 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-3b5a7abe17 | F29 | phpMyAdmin | 2019-10-02 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-6404181bf9 | F30 | phpMyAdmin | 2019-10-02 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0289 | 7 | chromium-browser-stable | 2019-09-27 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0290 | 7 | libheif | 2019-09-27 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0291 | 6, 7 | nghttp2 | 2019-09-28 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:2224-1 | 15.0 | SDL2 | 2019-10-01 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:2226-1 | 15.1 | SDL2 | 2019-10-01 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:2228-1 | chromium | 2019-10-01 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:2229-1 | chromium | 2019-10-01 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:2217-1 | 15.0 | djvulibre | 2019-09-30 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:2219-1 | 15.1 | djvulibre | 2019-09-30 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:2204-1 | 15.0 | expat | 2019-09-28 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:2205-1 | 15.1 | expat | 2019-09-28 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:2188-1 | 15.1 | fish3 | 2019-09-25 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:2222-1 | 15.0 | ghostscript | 2019-09-30 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:2223-1 | 15.1 | ghostscript | 2019-09-30 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:2199-1 | 15.1 | ibus | 2019-09-26 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:2212-1 | 15.0 | libopenmpt | 2019-09-29 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:2213-1 | 15.1 | libopenmpt | 2019-09-29 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:2206-1 | 15.1 | mosquitto | 2019-09-28 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:2234-1 | 15.0 | nghttp2 | 2019-10-01 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:2232-1 | 15.1 | nghttp2 | 2019-10-01 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:2198-1 | 15.0 | nmap | 2019-09-26 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:2200-1 | 15.1 | nmap | 2019-09-26 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:2189-1 | 15.0 | openssl-1_1 | 2019-09-25 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:2211-1 | phpMyAdmin | 2019-09-28 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:2211-1 | 15.0 15.1 | phpMyAdmin | 2019-09-28 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:2225-1 | 15.0 | python-numpy | 2019-10-01 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:2227-1 | 15.1 | python-numpy | 2019-10-01 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:2203-1 | 15.1 | rust | 2019-09-27 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:2235-1 | 15.0 | u-boot | 2019-10-01 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:2233-1 | 15.1 | u-boot | 2019-10-01 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:2221-1 | varnish | 2019-09-30 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:2207-1 | 15.0 | webkit2gtk3 | 2019-09-28 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:2208-1 | 15.1 | webkit2gtk3 | 2019-09-28 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2019-4808 | OL6 | kernel | 2019-10-01 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2019-4808 | OL7 | kernel | 2019-10-01 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2019-2925 | OL8 | nodejs:10 | 2019-10-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:2949-01 | SCL | httpd24-httpd and httpd24-nghttp2 | 2019-10-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:2945-01 | EL7 | kpatch-patch | 2019-10-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:2925-01 | EL8 | nodejs:10 | 2019-09-30 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:2924-01 | EL7.6 | redhat-virtualization-host | 2019-09-27 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:2939-01 | SCL | rh-nodejs10-nodejs | 2019-09-30 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:2955-01 | SCL | rh-nodejs8-nodejs | 2019-10-02 |
| Slackware | SSA:2019-274-01 | libpcap | 2019-10-01 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2019-268-01 | mozilla | 2019-09-25 | |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:2463-1 | SLE15 | SDL2 | 2019-09-25 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:2502-1 | SLE12 | bind | 2019-10-01 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:2478-1 | OS7 OS8 SLE12 SES4 SES5 | ghostscript | 2019-09-26 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:2480-1 | SLE12 | gpg2 | 2019-09-27 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:14184-1 | SLE11 | jasper | 2019-10-01 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:2513-1 | SLE12 | jasper | 2019-10-02 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:2510-1 | OS7 OS8 SLE12 SES4 SES5 | libgcrypt | 2019-10-01 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:2461-1 | OS8 | mariadb | 2019-09-25 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:2473-1 | SLE15 | nghttp2 | 2019-09-26 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:2504-1 | SLE12 | openssl-1_0_0 | 2019-10-01 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:2503-1 | SLE15 | php7 | 2019-10-01 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:2462-1 | SLE15 | python-numpy | 2019-09-25 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:2475-1 | SLE15 | u-boot | 2019-09-26 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:2474-1 | SLE15 | u-boot | 2019-09-26 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4143-1 | 16.04 18.04 19.04 | SDL 2.0 | 2019-09-30 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4146-1 | 16.04 18.04 19.04 | clamav | 2019-10-02 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4142-2 | 12.04 14.04 | e2fsprogs | 2019-09-30 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4142-1 | 16.04 18.04 19.04 | e2fsprogs | 2019-09-30 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4141-1 | 19.04 | exim4 | 2019-09-28 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4140-1 | 16.04 18.04 19.04 | firefox | 2019-09-25 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4145-1 | 16.04 | linux, linux-aws, linux-kvm, linux-raspi2, linux-snapdragon | 2019-09-30 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4144-1 | 16.04 18.04 | linux-oem, linux-oracle, linux-raspi2, linux-snapdragon | 2019-09-30 |
Kernel patches of interest
Kernel releases
Architecture-specific
Core kernel
Development tools
Device drivers
Device-driver infrastructure
Filesystems and block layer
Memory management
Networking
Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
[PATCH bpf-next 0/9] xdp: Support multiple programs on a single
interface through chain calls
Oct 02
Matthieu Baerts
[mptcp-dev] MPTCP v0.94.7 maintenance release based on Linux
v4.14.146 and new repo
Oct 01
Security-related
Virtualization and containers
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