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Deadline	Event Dates	Event	Location
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
December 27	February 18 February 20	PyCon Namibia	Windhoek, Namibia

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Events: October 31, 2019 to December 30, 2019

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
October 30 November 1	KVM Forum 2019	Lyon, France
October 31	Automated Testing Summit 2019	Lyon, France
October 31 November 1	Linux Security Summit	Lyon, France
October 31 November 1	GStreamer Conference 2019	Lyon, France
October 31	Real-time Linux Summit - At ELCE 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 7	Open Source Monitoring Conference	Nuremberg, Germany
November 4 November 6	Open Infrastructure Summit	Shanghai, China
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.

Alert summary October 24, 2019 to October 30, 2019

Dist.	ID	Release	Package	Date
Arch Linux	ASA-201910-17		chromium	2019-10-28
Arch Linux	ASA-201910-16		firefox	2019-10-28
Arch Linux	ASA-201910-14		php	2019-10-28
Arch Linux	ASA-201910-15		thunderbird	2019-10-28
Debian	DLA-1969-1	LTS	file	2019-10-23
Debian	DSA-4550-1	stable	file	2019-10-25
Debian	DSA-4549-1	stable	firefox-esr	2019-10-24
Debian	DSA-4551-1	stable	golang-1.11	2019-10-25
Debian	DLA-1976-1	LTS	imapfilter	2019-10-30
Debian	DLA-1971-1	LTS	libarchive	2019-10-26
Debian	DLA-1977-1	LTS	libvncserver	2019-10-30
Debian	DLA-1973-1	LTS	libxslt	2019-10-27
Debian	DLA-1972-1	LTS	mosquitto	2019-10-26
Debian	DSA-4555-1	stable	pam-python	2019-10-29
Debian	DLA-1970-1	LTS	php5	2019-10-26
Debian	DSA-4552-1	stable	php7.0	2019-10-28
Debian	DSA-4553-1	stable	php7.3	2019-10-28
Debian	DLA-1974-1	LTS	proftpd-dfsg	2019-10-27
Debian	DSA-4554-1	stable	ruby-loofah	2019-10-28
Debian	DLA-1975-1	LTS	spip	2019-10-28
Fedora	FEDORA-2019-c96a8d12b0	F30	apache-commons-compress	2019-10-25
Fedora	FEDORA-2019-78aa18e571	F30	chromium	2019-10-25
Fedora	FEDORA-2019-a87aba290f	F29	java-1.8.0-openjdk	2019-10-25
Fedora	FEDORA-2019-d03db48dca	F30	java-1.8.0-openjdk	2019-10-25
Fedora	FEDORA-2019-4bafcdb85f	F29	java-11-openjdk	2019-10-25
Fedora	FEDORA-2019-4d33c62860	F29	jss	2019-10-25
Fedora	FEDORA-2019-68c2fbcf82	F30	jss	2019-10-25
Fedora	FEDORA-2019-41e28660ae	F29	kernel	2019-10-25
Fedora	FEDORA-2019-41e28660ae	F29	kernel-headers	2019-10-25
Fedora	FEDORA-2019-41e28660ae	F29	kernel-tools	2019-10-25
Fedora	FEDORA-2019-b92ce3144a	F29	libpcap	2019-10-27
Fedora	FEDORA-2019-eaa681d33e	F30	libpcap	2019-10-27
Fedora	FEDORA-2019-23638d42f3	F29	mod_auth_openidc	2019-10-25
Fedora	FEDORA-2019-7b06f18a10	F30	mod_auth_openidc	2019-10-25
Fedora	FEDORA-2019-7559f29ace	F30	proftpd	2019-10-29
Fedora	FEDORA-2019-85d92df70f	F29	tcpdump	2019-10-25
Fedora	FEDORA-2019-d06bc63433	F30	tcpdump	2019-10-28
Fedora	FEDORA-2019-6db0d5b9d9	F31	tcpdump	2019-10-30
Fedora	FEDORA-2019-01da705767	F29	xpdf	2019-10-25
Fedora	FEDORA-2019-a457286734	F30	xpdf	2019-10-25
Gentoo	201910-01		php	2019-10-25
Mageia	MGASA-2019-0299	7	bind	2019-10-23
Mageia	MGASA-2019-0304	7	chromium-browser-stable	2019-10-23
Mageia	MGASA-2019-0308	7	file	2019-10-29
Mageia	MGASA-2019-0305	7	graphviz	2019-10-29
Mageia	MGASA-2019-0302	7	java-1.8.0-openjdk	2019-10-23
Mageia	MGASA-2019-0306	7	kernel	2019-10-29
Mageia	MGASA-2019-0300	7	libsndfile	2019-10-23
Mageia	MGASA-2019-0301	7	mediawiki	2019-10-23
Mageia	MGASA-2019-0307	7	php, pcre2	2019-10-29
Mageia	MGASA-2019-0303	7	virtualbox	2019-10-23
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2019:2392-1	15.0	kernel	2019-10-28
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2019:2398-1	15.0	lz4	2019-10-29
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2019:2399-1	15.1	lz4	2019-10-29
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2019:2408-1	15.0	nfs-utils	2019-10-29
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2019:2388-1	15.0	openconnect	2019-10-27
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2019:2385-1	15.1	openconnect	2019-10-27
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2019:2379-1	15.0	procps	2019-10-27
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2019:2376-1	15.1	procps	2019-10-26
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2019:2389-1	15.0	python	2019-10-27
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2019:2393-1	15.1	python	2019-10-28
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2019:2397-1	15.0	sysstat	2019-10-28
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2019:2395-1	15.1	sysstat	2019-10-28
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2019:2394-1	15.0	zziplib	2019-10-28
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2019:2396-1	15.1	zziplib	2019-10-28
Oracle	ELSA-2019-3193	OL7	firefox	2019-10-23
Oracle	ELSA-2019-3193	OL7	firefox	2019-10-23
Oracle	ELSA-2019-3196	OL8	firefox	2019-10-24
Red Hat	RHSA-2019:3211-01	EL6	chromium-browser	2019-10-29
Red Hat	RHSA-2019:3196-01	EL8	firefox	2019-10-24
Red Hat	RHSA-2019:3255-01	EL7	heketi	2019-10-30
Red Hat	RHSA-2019:3225-01	EL7.6	jss	2019-10-29
Red Hat	RHSA-2019:3218-01	EL7.3	kernel	2019-10-29
Red Hat	RHSA-2019:3220-01	EL7.6	kernel	2019-10-29
Red Hat	RHSA-2019:3217-01	EL7	kernel-alt	2019-10-29
Red Hat	RHSA-2019:3231-01	EL7.6	kpatch-patch	2019-10-29
Red Hat	RHSA-2019:3234-01	EL7.6	pango	2019-10-29
Red Hat	RHSA-2019:3232-01	EL7.6	polkit	2019-10-29
Red Hat	RHSA-2019:3253-01	EL7	samba	2019-10-30
Red Hat	RHSA-2019:3197-01	EL7	sudo	2019-10-24
Red Hat	RHSA-2019:3219-01	EL7.3	sudo	2019-10-29
Red Hat	RHSA-2019:3209-01	EL7.4	sudo	2019-10-28
Red Hat	RHSA-2019:3204-01	EL7.5	sudo	2019-10-24
Red Hat	RHSA-2019:3205-01	EL7.6	sudo	2019-10-24
Red Hat	RHSA-2019:3222-01	EL7.6	systemd	2019-10-29
Red Hat	RHSA-2019:3210-01	EL7	thunderbird	2019-10-29
Red Hat	RHSA-2019:3237-01	EL8	thunderbird	2019-10-29
Scientific Linux	RITM0891205	SL6 SL7	OpenAFS	2019-10-23
Scientific Linux	SLSA-2019:3193-1	SL7	firefox	2019-10-23
Scientific Linux	SLSA-2019:3197-1	SL7	sudo	2019-10-24
Scientific Linux	SLSA-2019:3210-1	SL7	thunderbird	2019-10-29
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2019:2785-1	SLE12	ImageMagick	2019-10-25
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2019:2778-1	SLE12	accountsservice	2019-10-24
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2019:2779-1	SLE15	binutils	2019-10-24
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2019:2780-1	SLE15	binutils	2019-10-25
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2019:2787-1	SLE12	docker-runc	2019-10-25
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2019:2786-1	SLE15	docker-runc	2019-10-25
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2019:2803-1	SES4	graphite-web	2019-10-29
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2019:2756-1	SLE12	kernel	2019-10-23
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2019:2808-1	SLE15	libtomcrypt	2019-10-29
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2019:2757-1	SLE15	lz4	2019-10-23
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2019:2781-1	OS7 OS8 SLE12 SES4 SES5	nfs-utils	2019-10-25
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2019:2771-1	SLE12	nfs-utils	2019-10-24
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2019:2776-1	SLE15	nfs-utils	2019-10-24
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2019:2782-1	SLE15	nfs-utils	2019-10-25
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2019:2809-1	SLE12	php7	2019-10-29
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2019:2798-1	SLE12	python3	2019-10-28
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2019:2802-1	SLE15	python3	2019-10-29
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2019:2810-1	SLE15	runc	2019-10-29
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2019:2755-1	SLE15	rust	2019-10-23
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2019:14202-1	SLE11	samba	2019-10-29
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2019:2783-1	OS7 SLE12 SES4	xen	2019-10-25
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2019:2769-1	OS8 SLE12 SES5	xen	2019-10-24
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2019:14199-1	SLE11	xen	2019-10-24
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2019:14201-1	SLE11	xen	2019-10-25
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2019:2753-1	SLE12	xen	2019-10-23
Ubuntu	USN-4171-1	16.04 18.04 19.04 19.10	apport	2019-10-30
Ubuntu	USN-4165-1	16.04 18.04 19.04 19.10	firefox	2019-10-23
Ubuntu	USN-4169-1	14.04 16.04 18.04 19.04	libarchive	2019-10-29
Ubuntu	USN-4168-1	18.04 19.04	libidn2	2019-10-29
Ubuntu	USN-4166-2	12.04 14.04	php5	2019-10-29
Ubuntu	USN-4166-1	16.04 18.04 19.04 19.10	php7.0, php7.2, php7.3	2019-10-28
Ubuntu	USN-4167-2	12.04 14.04	samba	2019-10-29
Ubuntu	USN-4167-1	16.04 18.04 19.04 19.10	samba	2019-10-29
Ubuntu	USN-4170-1	16.04 18.04 19.04 19.10	whoopsie	2019-10-30

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samitolvanen@google.com add support for Clang's Shadow Call Stack Oct 24

Nick Hu KASAN support for RISC-V Oct 28

Christoph Hellwig RISC-V nommu support v6 Oct 28

Jarkko Sakkinen Intel SGX foundations Oct 28

David Howells pipe: Notification queue preparation [ver #2] Oct 23

David Howells pipe: Add fsync() support [ver #2] Oct 24

Jens Axboe Replace io_uring workqueues with io-wq Oct 24

Christian Brauner close_range() Oct 25

Jens Axboe io_uring: add support for accept(4) Oct 25

Aleksa Sarai open: introduce openat2(2) syscall Oct 27

Ulf Hansson cpuidle: psci: Support hierarchical CPU arrangement Oct 29

Daniel Axtens kasan: support backing vmalloc space with real shadow memory Oct 29

Corentin Labbe crypto: add sun8i-ce driver for Allwinner crypto engine Oct 23

Corentin Labbe crypto: add sun8i-ss driver for Allwinner Security System Oct 23

Jernej Skrabec media: Introduce Allwinner H3 deinterlace driver Oct 24

Sheetal Tigadoli Add OP-TEE based bnxt f/w manager Oct 24

Grygorii Strashko net: ethernet: ti: introduce new cpsw switchdev based driver Oct 24

Matti Vaittinen Support ROHM BD71828 PMIC Oct 24

Andrey Zhizhikin add regulator driver and mfd cell for Intel Cherry Trail Whiskey Cove PMIC Oct 24

Ard Biesheuvel crypto: convert h/w accelerator drivers to skcipher API Oct 24

James Smart [NEW] efct: Broadcom (Emulex) FC Target driver Oct 23

Chris Packham gpio: brcm: XGS iProc GPIO driver Oct 25

Alastair D'Silva Add support for OpenCAPI SCM devices Oct 25

Xingyu Chen add meson secure watchdog driver Oct 25

Chunyan Zhang Add clocks for Unisoc's SC9863A Oct 25

Qianggui Song pinctrl: meson-a1: add pinctrl driver Oct 25

Rasmus Villemoes QUICC Engine support on ARM Oct 25

Cheng-Yi Chiang Add HDMI jack support on RK3288 Oct 25

Lars Poeschel nfc: pn533: add uart phy driver Oct 25

Manivannan Sadhasivam Add IMX296 CMOS image sensor support Oct 25

Logan Gunthorpe Passthru Execute Request Interface Oct 25

Manivannan Sadhasivam Add Bitmain BM1880 clock driver Oct 26

Marc Zyngier irqchip/gic-v4: GICv4.1 architecture support Oct 27

Martin Blumenstingl add the DDR clock controller on Meson8 and Meson8b Oct 27

Gwendal Grignou cros_ec: Add sensorhub driver and FIFO processing Oct 27

Weiyi Lu Mediatek MT8183 scpsys support Oct 28

Green Wan dmaengine: sf-pdma: Add platform dma driver Oct 28

Akinobu Mita leds: introduce generic LED level meter driver Oct 27

Chao Hao MT6779 IOMMU SUPPORT Oct 28

rentao.bupt@gmail.com hwmon: (pmbus) add driver for BEL PFE1100 and PFE3000 Oct 29

Baolin Wang Add MMC software queue support Oct 29

Zhangfei Gao Add uacce module for Accelerator Oct 29

Tudor.Ambarus@microchip.com mtd: spi-nor: Quad Enable and (un)lock methods Oct 29

Srinivas Kandagatla ASoC: Add support to WCD9340/WCD9341 codec Oct 29

Ramuthevar,Vadivel MuruganX spi: cadence-quadpsi: Add support for the Cadence QSPI controller Oct 30

Shawnx Tu hi556: Add support for Hi-556 sensor Oct 29

Laurentiu Tudor dma-mapping: introduce new dma unmap and sync variants Oct 24

Jacob Pan Nested Shared Virtual Address (SVA) VT-d support Oct 24

Dan Murphy Multicolor Framework Oct 28

Christian König RFC: Unpinned DMA-buf handling Oct 29

Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) For review: documentation of clone3() system call Oct 25

Dennis Zhou btrfs: async discard support Oct 23

Ian Kent xfs: mount API patch series Oct 24

Miklos Szeredi allow unprivileged overlay mounts Oct 25

Eric Biggers fscrypt: support for IV_INO_LBLK_64 policies Oct 24

Satya Tangirala Inline Encryption Support Oct 28

Damien Le Moal Zone management commands support Oct 27

Konstantin Khlebnikov fs/fcntl: add fcntl F_GET_RSS Oct 28

Steven Price Generic page walk and ptdump Oct 24

Mike Rapoport mm: add MAP_EXCLUSIVE to create exclusive user mappings Oct 27

John Crispin mac80211: add 802.11 encapsulation offloading Oct 29

Lakshmi Ramasubramanian KEYS: measure keys when they are created or updated Oct 23

Casey Schaufler LSM: Module stacking for AppArmor Oct 24

Mickaël Salaün Landlock LSM Oct 29

Sean Christopherson KVM: Dynamically size memslot arrays Oct 24

Jason Wang mdev based hardware virtio offloading support Oct 30

Gao Xiang erofs-utils: release 1.0 and package inclusion requests Oct 24

Verma, Vishal L ndctl v67 Oct 28

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