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Calls for Presentations
Call for Submissions for Netdev 0x14 open
Netdev Society has opened the call for submissions for Netdev 0x14, a conference that focuses on networking based on the Linux kernel and its associated user APIs. Netdev will take place March 17-20 in Vancouver, Canada. The submission deadline is January 15.CFP Deadlines: October 24, 2019 to December 23, 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 |
| December 20 | March 19 March 22 |
[CANCELED] FOSSASIA OpenTechSummit | Singapore, Singapore |
| December 22 | January 14 | lca Kernel Miniconf | Gold Coast, Australia |
| December 22 | January 13 | LCA Creative Arts Miniconf | Gold Coast, Australia |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
Ohio LinuxFest
Ohio LinuxFest will take place November 1-2 in Columbus, OH. The schedule is available. Enthusiast level admission is free; professional training and certification exams are available for a fee. See the registration page for more information.linux.conf.au 2020 - Conference schedule available
The schedule for LCA (January 13-17 in Gold Coast, Australia) has been announced. "The first two days include 12 miniconfs covering an array of interesting subject areas. Following this, we will be running 80 talks plus eight tutorials across Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of the main conference. The sessions cover a wide variety of topics, including open source software, open hardware, Linux kernel, documentation and community. This is overlayed with our theme for linux.conf.au 2020 of "Who's Watching", focusing on security, privacy and ethics." All of the miniconfs are accepting proposals for sessions until December 8.
Events: October 24, 2019 to December 23, 2019
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| October 25 October 27 |
NixCon | Brno, Czech Republic |
| October 26 | The Future is Open | Rochester, NY, USA |
| October 26 October 27 |
Sonoj Convention | Cologne, Germany |
| October 26 | FOSS XR Conference | Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| October 27 October 30 |
27th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles | Huntsville, Ontario, Canada |
| October 28 October 30 |
USENIX 33rd Large Installation System Administration Conference | Portland, OR, USA |
| October 28 October 30 |
Open Source Summit Europe | Lyon, France |
| October 28 October 30 |
Embedded Linux Conference | Lyon, France |
| October 30 November 1 |
KVM Forum 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 |
| October 31 November 1 |
GStreamer Conference 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 |
| December 9 | Open FinTech Forum | New York, NY, USA |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Security updates
Alert summary October 17, 2019 to October 23, 2019
| Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arch Linux | ASA-201910-12 | go | 2019-10-23 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201910-11 | go-pie | 2019-10-23 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201910-13 | pacman | 2019-10-23 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201910-9 | sudo | 2019-10-16 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201910-10 | xpdf | 2019-10-23 | |
| CentOS | CESA-2019:3158 | C6 | java-1.7.0-openjdk | 2019-10-22 |
| CentOS | CESA-2019:3157 | C7 | java-1.7.0-openjdk | 2019-10-23 |
| CentOS | CESA-2019:3136 | C6 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2019-10-22 |
| CentOS | CESA-2019:3128 | C7 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2019-10-23 |
| CentOS | CESA-2019:3127 | C7 | java-11-openjdk | 2019-10-23 |
| CentOS | CESA-2019:3067 | C7 | jss | 2019-10-21 |
| CentOS | CESA-2019:3055 | C7 | kernel | 2019-10-21 |
| CentOS | CESA-2019:2964 | C7 | patch | 2019-10-23 |
| Debian | DLA-1966-1 | LTS | aspell | 2019-10-19 |
| Debian | DLA-1962-1 | LTS | graphite-web | 2019-10-21 |
| Debian | DLA-1968-1 | LTS | imagemagick | 2019-10-21 |
| Debian | DLA-1967-1 | LTS | libpcap | 2019-10-22 |
| Debian | DLA-1713-2 | LTS | libsdl1.2 | 2019-10-17 |
| Debian | DLA-1714-2 | LTS | libsdl2 | 2019-10-17 |
| Debian | DSA-4545-1 | stable | mediawiki | 2019-10-18 |
| Debian | DLA-1961-1 | LTS | milkytracker | 2019-10-21 |
| Debian | DLA-1965-1 | LTS | nfs-utils | 2019-10-19 |
| Debian | DSA-4546-1 | stable | openjdk-11 | 2019-10-20 |
| Debian | DSA-4548-1 | stable | openjdk-8 | 2019-10-21 |
| Debian | DLA-1963-1 | LTS | poppler | 2019-10-18 |
| Debian | DLA-1963-2 | LTS | poppler | 2019-10-18 |
| Debian | DLA-1964-1 | LTS | sudo | 2019-10-17 |
| Debian | DSA-4547-1 | stable | tcpdump | 2019-10-21 |
| Debian | DLA-1960-1 | LTS | wordpress | 2019-10-17 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-f36ac0db92 | F30 | java-11-openjdk | 2019-10-21 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-057d691fd4 | F30 | kernel | 2019-10-18 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-057d691fd4 | F30 | kernel-headers | 2019-10-18 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-057d691fd4 | F30 | kernel-tools | 2019-10-18 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-c4cdd73c74 | F30 | mediawiki | 2019-10-18 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-65c33bdc2a | F29 | radare2 | 2019-10-19 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0296 | 7 | e2fsprogs | 2019-10-17 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0295 | 7 | kernel | 2019-10-17 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0297 | 7 | libpcap and tcpdump | 2019-10-17 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0294 | 7 | nmap | 2019-10-17 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0298 | 7 | sudo | 2019-10-17 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:2321-1 | GraphicsMagick | 2019-10-16 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:2340-1 | 15.0 | dhcp | 2019-10-20 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:2341-1 | 15.1 | dhcp | 2019-10-20 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:2365-1 | 15.0 | gcc7 | 2019-10-23 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:2364-1 | 15.1 | gcc7 | 2019-10-22 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:2343-1 | 15.0 | libpcap | 2019-10-21 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:2345-1 | 15.1 | libpcap | 2019-10-21 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:2361-1 | 15.0 | libreoffice | 2019-10-22 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:2347-1 | 15.0 15.1 | lighttpd | 2019-10-21 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:2333-1 | 15.0 | sudo | 2019-10-17 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:2344-1 | 15.0 | tcpdump | 2019-10-21 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:2348-1 | 15.1 | tcpdump | 2019-10-21 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2019-3158 | OL6 | java-1.7.0-openjdk | 2019-10-21 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2019-3157 | OL7 | java-1.7.0-openjdk | 2019-10-21 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2019-3157 | OL7 | java-1.7.0-openjdk | 2019-10-21 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2019-3136 | OL6 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2019-10-17 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2019-3128 | OL7 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2019-10-16 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2019-3128 | OL7 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2019-10-16 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2019-3127 | OL7 | java-11-openjdk | 2019-10-16 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2019-3127 | OL7 | java-11-openjdk | 2019-10-16 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2019-3067 | OL7 | jss | 2019-10-16 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2019-3067 | OL7 | jss | 2019-10-16 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2019-3055 | OL7 | kernel | 2019-10-17 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:3193-01 | EL7 | firefox | 2019-10-23 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:3158-01 | EL6 | java-1.7.0-openjdk | 2019-10-21 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:3157-01 | EL7 | java-1.7.0-openjdk | 2019-10-21 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:3136-01 | EL6 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2019-10-17 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:3134-01 | EL8 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2019-10-17 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:3127-01 | EL7 | java-11-openjdk | 2019-10-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:3135-01 | EL8 | java-11-openjdk | 2019-10-17 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:3187-01 | EL7.4 | kernel | 2019-10-23 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:3170-01 | EL7.4 | python | 2019-10-22 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:3179-01 | EL7 | qemu-kvm-rhev | 2019-10-22 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:3168-01 | EL7.4 | wget | 2019-10-22 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:3158-1 | SL6 | java-1.7.0-openjdk | 2019-10-22 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:3157-1 | SL7 | java-1.7.0-openjdk | 2019-10-22 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:3136-1 | SL6 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2019-10-21 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:3128-1 | SL7 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2019-10-17 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:3127-1 | SL7 | java-11-openjdk | 2019-10-17 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:3067-1 | SL7 | jss | 2019-10-16 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:3055-1 | SL7 | kernel | 2019-10-18 |
| Slackware | SSA:2019-295-01 | mozilla | 2019-10-22 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2019-293-01 | python | 2019-10-20 | |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:1353-2 | SLE15 | bluez | 2019-10-18 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:2736-1 | SLE15 SES6 | ceph, ceph-iscsi, ses-manual_en | 2019-10-22 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:2727-1 | SLE12 | dhcp | 2019-10-21 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:2702-1 | SLE15 | gcc7 | 2019-10-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:2710-1 | SLE15 | kernel | 2019-10-18 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:2706-1 | SLE15 | kernel | 2019-10-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:2710-1 | SLE15 | kernel | 2019-10-18 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:2738-1 | SLE15 | kernel | 2019-10-22 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:2745-1 | SLE12 | libcaca | 2019-10-22 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:2686-1 | SLE15 | libreoffice | 2019-10-16 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:2744-1 | SLE12 | openconnect | 2019-10-22 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:2737-1 | SLE15 | openconnect | 2019-10-22 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:2707-1 | SLE15 | postgresql10 | 2019-10-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:2730-1 | SLE15 | procps | 2019-10-21 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:2748-1 | SLE12 SES5 | python | 2019-10-23 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:2743-1 | SLE15 | python | 2019-10-22 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:2719-1 | SLE12 | python-xdg | 2019-10-18 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:2752-1 | SLE12 | sysstat | 2019-10-23 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:2750-1 | SLE15 | zziplib | 2019-10-23 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4155-2 | 19.10 | aspell | 2019-10-21 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4159-1 | 16.04 18.04 19.04 19.10 | exiv2 | 2019-10-21 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4156-2 | 12.04 14.04 | libsdl1.2 | 2019-10-16 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4164-1 | 12.04 14.04 16.04 18.04 19.04 19.10 | libxslt | 2019-10-22 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4157-1 | 19.04 | linux, linux-aws, linux-azure, linux-gcp, linux-kvm, linux-raspi2, linux-snapdragon | 2019-10-17 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4161-1 | 19.10 | linux, linux-aws, linux-azure, linux-gcp, linux-kvm, linux-raspi2 | 2019-10-21 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4163-1 | 16.04 | linux, linux-aws, linux-kvm, linux-raspi2, linux-snapdragon | 2019-10-22 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4162-2 | 14.04 | linux-azure | 2019-10-22 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4157-2 | 18.04 | linux-hwe, linux-azure, linux-gcp, linux-gke-5.0 | 2019-10-22 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4163-2 | 14.04 | linux-lts-xenial, linux-aws | 2019-10-22 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4162-1 | 16.04 18.04 | linux-snapdragon | 2019-10-22 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4158-1 | 16.04 18.04 19.04 | tiff | 2019-10-17 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4160-1 | 16.04 18.04 19.04 | uw-imap | 2019-10-21 |
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