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Calls for Presentations
Announcing the Second Annual CopyleftConf
Software Freedom Conservancy has announced the second annual CopyleftConf, to be held February 3 in Brussels, Belgium, right after FOSDEM. "Participants from throughout the copyleft world — developers, strategists, enforcement organizations, scholars and critics — will be welcomed for an in-depth, high bandwidth, and expert-level discussion about the day-to-day details of using copyleft licensing, obstacles facing copyleft and the future of copyleft as a strategy to advance and defend software freedom for users and developers around the world." The call for papers closes November 3.
Call for Sessions - linux.conf.au 2020 Kernel Miniconf
The Kernel Miniconf at linux.conf.au will take place January 14 in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. "The Kernel Miniconf will focus on a variety of kernel-related topics - technical presentations on up-and-coming kernel developments, the future direction of the kernel, and kernel development community and process matters. Past Kernel Miniconfs have included technical talks on topics such as memory management, RCU, scheduling and filesystems, as well as talks on Linux kernel community topics such as licensing and Linux kernel development process." The call for sessions has an early close date of November 17 and a final deadline of December 8.
openSUSE to have Summit in Dublin
The openSUSE Community has announced the openSUSE Summit Dublin, to be held March 27-28 in Dublin, Ireland. The summit follows SUSECON (March 23-27). "There is an openSUSE and open source track. There are three talks that can be submitted for the summit. One is a short talk with a 15-minute limit;a normal talk with a with a 30-minute limit and a long talk with a 45-minute limit." The call for papers is open until February 14.
CFP Deadlines: October 17, 2019 to December 16, 2019
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| December 4 | March 30 April 2 |
POSTPONED: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2020 | Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| December 8 | January 13 | Open ISA (RISC-V, OpenPOWER, etc) Miniconf at Linux.conf.au | Gold Coast, Australia |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
Google Code-in 2019 Org Applications are Open
Google is accepting applications from mentoring organizations for Google Code-in (GCI). Pre-university students ages 13-17 are invited to learn hands-on by contributing to open source software. "Each year we have heard inspiring stories from the participating mentors about their commitment to working with young students. We only select organizations that have participated in Google Summer of Code because they have gained experience in mentorship and know how to provide a support system for these new, young contributors." Organizations must apply by October 28.
Events: October 17, 2019 to December 16, 2019
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| October 15 October 18 |
PostgreSQL Conference Europe | Milan, Italy |
| October 19 October 20 |
OGGCAMP 19 | Manchester, UK |
| October 19 | GNU/LinuxDay in Vorarlberg | Dornbirn, Austria |
| 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 November 1 |
GStreamer Conference 2019 | Lyon, France |
| October 31 | Automated Testing Summit 2019 | Lyon, France |
| October 31 | Real-time Linux Summit - At ELCE 2019 | Lyon, France |
| October 31 November 1 |
Linux Security Summit | 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 8 |
Tcl 2019 - 26th Annual Tcl/Tk Conference | Houston, TX, USA |
| November 4 November 6 |
Open Infrastructure Summit | Shanghai, China |
| November 4 November 7 |
Open Source Monitoring Conference | Nuremberg, Germany |
| 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 |
| December 9 | Open FinTech Forum | New York, NY, USA |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Event Reports
Tracing Summit 2019 videos available
The Tracing Summit was held August 20 in San Diego, CA. Videos are available on YouTube.
Security updates
Alert summary October 10, 2019 to October 16, 2019
| Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arch Linux | ASA-201910-7 | chromium | 2019-10-11 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201910-8 | sdl | 2019-10-11 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201910-6 | unbound | 2019-10-11 | |
| Debian | DSA-4509-3 | stable | apache2 | 2019-10-15 |
| Debian | DLA-1953-1 | LTS | clamav | 2019-10-10 |
| Debian | DLA-1953-2 | LTS | clamav | 2019-10-14 |
| Debian | DLA-1958-1 | LTS | libdatetime-timezone-perl | 2019-10-14 |
| Debian | DLA-1951-1 | LTS | libtomcrypt | 2019-10-09 |
| Debian | DLA-1954-1 | LTS | lucene-solr | 2019-10-10 |
| Debian | DSA-4539-3 | stable | openssl | 2019-10-13 |
| Debian | DLA-1952-1 | LTS | rsyslog | 2019-10-09 |
| Debian | DLA-1956-1 | LTS | ruby-openid | 2019-10-11 |
| Debian | DSA-4543-1 | stable | sudo | 2019-10-14 |
| Debian | DLA-1955-1 | LTS | tcpdump | 2019-10-11 |
| Debian | DLA-1957-1 | LTS | tzdata | 2019-10-14 |
| Debian | DSA-4544-1 | stable | unbound | 2019-10-16 |
| Debian | DLA-1959-1 | LTS | xtrlock | 2019-10-14 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-8ef33a69ca | F29 | SDL2 | 2019-10-10 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-b3de19c346 | F30 | cutter-re | 2019-10-12 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-b171554877 | F30 | jackson-annotations | 2019-10-12 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-b171554877 | F30 | jackson-bom | 2019-10-12 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-b171554877 | F30 | jackson-core | 2019-10-12 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-b171554877 | F30 | jackson-databind | 2019-10-12 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-b171554877 | F30 | jackson-parent | 2019-10-12 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-dc4e1d0fb6 | F29 | krb5 | 2019-10-10 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-7fbe8a9a06 | F30 | libapreq2 | 2019-10-12 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-03aa4f746c | F29 | ming | 2019-10-12 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-5139453028 | F30 | ming | 2019-10-12 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-e1f0417a24 | F29 | opendmarc | 2019-10-12 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-24b3f84f6e | F30 | opendmarc | 2019-10-15 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-b3de19c346 | F30 | radare2 | 2019-10-12 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-3fc86a518b | F29 | runc | 2019-10-15 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-96946c39dd | F30 | runc | 2019-10-15 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-9cb221f2be | F30 | sudo | 2019-10-15 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-ded15d6582 | F29 | suricata | 2019-10-09 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-fddfb520ec | F30 | suricata | 2019-10-09 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-14af6fde2e | F30 | thunderbird | 2019-10-13 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:2317-1 | 15.0 15.1 | GraphicsMagick | 2019-10-16 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:2313-1 | chromium | 2019-10-14 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:2314-1 | chromium | 2019-10-14 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:2311-1 | 15.0 | chromium | 2019-10-12 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:2312-1 | 15.1 | chromium | 2019-10-12 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:2318-1 | 15.0 15.1 | epiphany | 2019-10-16 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:2307-1 | 15.0 | kernel | 2019-10-11 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:2308-1 | 15.1 | kernel | 2019-10-11 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:2319-1 | 15.0 | libopenmpt | 2019-10-16 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:2306-1 | 15.1 | libopenmpt | 2019-10-10 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:2316-1 | 15.1 | sudo | 2019-10-15 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2019-4823 | OL6 | kernel | 2019-10-16 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2019-4820 | OL7 | kernel | 2019-10-11 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2019-4820 | OL7 | kernel | 2019-10-11 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2019-4823 | OL7 | kernel | 2019-10-16 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2019-4821 | OL7 | sudo | 2019-10-15 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2019-4821 | OL7 | sudo | 2019-10-15 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2019-4822 | OL8 | sudo | 2019-10-15 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:3044-01 | EL6 | Single Sign-On | 2019-10-14 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:3045-01 | EL7 | Single Sign-On | 2019-10-14 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:3046-01 | EL8 | Single Sign-On | 2019-10-14 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:3128-01 | EL7 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2019-10-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:3067-01 | EL7 | jss | 2019-10-15 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:3055-01 | EL7 | kernel | 2019-10-15 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:3089-01 | EL7 | kernel-rt | 2019-10-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:3076-01 | EL7 | kpatch-patch | 2019-10-15 |
| Slackware | SSA:2019-287-01 | sudo | 2019-10-14 | |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:1373-2 | SLE15 | axis | 2019-10-11 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:2650-1 | OS7 OS8 SLE12 SES4 SES5 | binutils | 2019-10-14 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:2671-1 | OS7 SES4 | crowbar-core, crowbar-openstack, grafana, novnc, openstack-keystone, openstack-neutron, openstack-neutron-lbaas, openstack-nova, openstack-tempest, python-pysaml2, python-urllib3, rubygem-chef, rubygem-easy_diff, sleshammer | 2019-10-15 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:2657-1 | SLE15 | dhcp | 2019-10-14 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:1299-2 | SLE15 | ffmpeg | 2019-10-14 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:1212-2 | SLE15 | jakarta-commons-fileupload | 2019-10-11 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:2648-1 | SLE12 | kernel | 2019-10-12 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:2651-1 | SLE15 | kernel | 2019-10-14 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:2658-1 | SLE15 | kernel | 2019-10-14 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:2655-1 | kubernetes-salt | 2019-10-14 | |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:2622-1 | SLE15 | libopenmpt | 2019-10-09 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:2669-1 | OS7 OS8 SLE12 SES4 SES5 | libpcap | 2019-10-15 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:2673-1 | SLE15 | libpcap | 2019-10-15 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:1487-2 | SLE15 | python-requests | 2019-10-09 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:1368-2 | SLE15 | sles12sp3-docker-image, sles12sp4-image, system-user-root | 2019-10-11 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:2667-1 | OS7 SLE12 SES4 | sudo | 2019-10-15 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:2666-1 | OS8 SLE12 SES5 | sudo | 2019-10-15 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:2668-1 | SLE12 | sudo | 2019-10-15 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:2656-1 | SLE15 | sudo | 2019-10-14 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:14191-1 | SLE11 | tcpdump | 2019-10-15 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:2674-1 | SLE15 | tcpdump | 2019-10-15 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:2345-2 | OS7 OS8 SLE12 SES4 SES5 | webkit2gtk3 | 2019-10-11 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4155-1 | 12.04 14.04 16.04 18.04 19.04 | aspell | 2019-10-15 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4156-1 | 16.04 18.04 | libsdl1.2 | 2019-10-15 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4152-1 | 18.04 19.04 | libsoup2.4 | 2019-10-09 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4153-1 | 19.04 | octavia | 2019-10-10 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4151-2 | 12.04 14.04 | python2.7, python3.4 | 2019-10-10 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4154-1 | 12.04 14.04 16.04 18.04 19.04 | sudo | 2019-10-14 |
Kernel patches of interest
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sched/nohz: Make kcpustat's CPUTIME_SYSTEM vtime aware v2 (Partially fix kcpustat on nohz_full)
Oct 16
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