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FOSDEM Developer Rooms calls for participation

FOSDEM will take place February 1-2 in Brussels, Belgium. See the list of accepted DevRooms for announcements and deadlines.

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CFP Deadlines: November 7, 2019 to January 6, 2020

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

DeadlineEvent Dates EventLocation
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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Upcoming Events

LibrePlanet 2020: "Free the Future"

The Free Software Foundation has announced that registration is open for LibrePlanet 2020, which will take place March 14-15 in (or near) Boston, MA. The call for sessions closes November 20. "This year, LibrePlanet will explore the theme, "Free the Future," and we are looking forward to seeing free software explored through the lens of this year's theme in sessions about software development, copyleft, community, or other related issues."

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Events: November 7, 2019 to January 6, 2020

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

Date(s)EventLocation
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

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Security updates

Alert summary October 31, 2019 to November 6, 2019

Dist. ID Release Package Date
Arch Linux ASA-201911-1 chromium 2019-11-01
Arch Linux ASA-201911-7 electron 2019-11-04
Arch Linux ASA-201911-5 ghostscript 2019-11-04
Arch Linux ASA-201911-3 glibc 2019-11-04
Arch Linux ASA-201911-4 python2 2019-11-04
Arch Linux ASA-201911-2 qt5-webengine 2019-11-02
Arch Linux ASA-201911-6 samba 2019-11-04
CentOS CESA-2019:3281 C6 firefox 2019-11-01
CentOS CESA-2019:3193 C7 firefox 2019-10-31
CentOS CESA-2019:3287 C6 php 2019-11-01
CentOS CESA-2019:3286 C7 php 2019-11-01
CentOS CESA-2019:3197 C7 sudo 2019-10-31
CentOS CESA-2019:3210 C7 thunderbird 2019-10-31
Debian DLA-1981-1 LTS cpio 2019-11-05
Debian DLA-1979-1 LTS italc 2019-10-30
Debian DSA-4557-1 stable libarchive 2019-10-31
Debian DLA-1982-1 LTS openafs 2019-11-06
Debian DSA-4559-1 stable proftpd-dfsg 2019-11-05
Debian DLA-1978-1 LTS python-ecdsa 2019-10-30
Debian DSA-4556-1 stable qtbase-opensource-src 2019-10-31
Debian DLA-1983-1 LTS simplesamlphp 2019-11-06
Debian DSA-4560-1 stable simplesamlphp 2019-11-06
Debian DSA-4558-1 stable webkit2gtk 2019-11-04
Debian DLA-1980-1 LTS wordpress 2019-11-05
Fedora FEDORA-2019-97dcb2762a F30 file 2019-11-03
Fedora FEDORA-2019-d81be00640 F29 java-latest-openjdk 2019-11-04
Fedora FEDORA-2019-8934d55352 F30 nspr 2019-11-03
Fedora FEDORA-2019-4175e7cb56 F31 nspr 2019-11-02
Fedora FEDORA-2019-8934d55352 F30 nss 2019-11-03
Fedora FEDORA-2019-4175e7cb56 F31 nss 2019-11-02
Fedora FEDORA-2019-187ae3128d F29 php 2019-11-02
Fedora FEDORA-2019-7bb07c3b02 F30 php 2019-11-03
Fedora FEDORA-2019-4adc49a476 F31 php 2019-10-31
Fedora FEDORA-2019-72755db9c7 F29 sudo 2019-10-31
Fedora FEDORA-2019-9fffac5168 F29 t1utils 2019-11-04
Fedora FEDORA-2019-b2156dcba6 F30 t1utils 2019-11-04
Fedora FEDORA-2019-0c2f24ce3f F31 t1utils 2019-11-04
Fedora FEDORA-2019-9b4ebc2973 F31 thunderbird 2019-11-06
Fedora FEDORA-2019-99db7a510e F30 webkit2gtk3 2019-11-03
Mageia MGASA-2019-0309 7 ansible 2019-11-02
Mageia MGASA-2019-0311 7 aspell 2019-11-02
Mageia MGASA-2019-0310 7 golang 2019-11-02
Mageia MGASA-2019-0312 7 libsoup 2019-11-02
Mageia MGASA-2019-0313 7 libxslt 2019-11-02
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2019:2415-1 15.0 binutils 2019-10-31
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2019:2432-1 15.1 binutils 2019-11-05
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2019:2424-1 chromium, re2 2019-11-03
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2019:2425-1 chromium, re2 2019-11-03
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2019:2420-1 15.0 15.1 chromium, re2 2019-11-02
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2019:2426-1 chromium 2019-11-04
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2019:2427-1 chromium 2019-11-04
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2019:2421-1 15.0 15.1 chromium 2019-11-03
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2019:2418-1 15.0 docker-runc 2019-10-31
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2019:2434-1 15.1 docker-runc 2019-11-05
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2019:2444-1 15.1 kernel 2019-11-05
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2019:2435-1 15.1 nfs-utils 2019-11-05
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2019:2441-1 15.1 php7 2019-11-05
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2019:2438-1 15.1 python3 2019-11-05
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2019:2442-1 15.1 samba 2019-11-05
Oracle ELSA-2019-3287 OL6 php 2019-11-01
Oracle ELSA-2019-3286 OL7 php 2019-10-31
Oracle ELSA-2019-3286 OL7 php 2019-11-01
Oracle ELSA-2019-3210 OL7 thunderbird 2019-10-30
Oracle ELSA-2019-3210 OL7 thunderbird 2019-10-30
Oracle ELSA-2019-3237 OL8 thunderbird 2019-10-30
Red Hat RHSA-2019:3401-01 EL8 389-ds:1.4 2019-11-05
Red Hat RHSA-2019:3553-01 EL8 GNOME 2019-11-05
Red Hat RHSA-2019:3744-01 OSP14.0 ansible 2019-11-06
Red Hat RHSA-2019:3552-01 EL8 bind 2019-11-05
Red Hat RHSA-2019:3494-01 EL8 container-tools:1.0 2019-11-05
Red Hat RHSA-2019:3403-01 EL8 container-tools:rhel8 2019-11-05
Red Hat RHSA-2019:3701-01 EL8 curl 2019-11-05
Red Hat RHSA-2019:3707-01 EL8 dbus 2019-11-05
Red Hat RHSA-2019:3525-01 EL8 dhcp 2019-11-05
Red Hat RHSA-2019:3467-01 EL8 dovecot 2019-11-05
Red Hat RHSA-2019:3338-01 EL8 edk2 2019-11-05
Red Hat RHSA-2019:3575-01 EL8 elfutils 2019-11-05
Red Hat RHSA-2019:3699-01 EL8 evolution 2019-11-05
Red Hat RHSA-2019:3281-01 EL6 firefox 2019-10-31
Red Hat RHSA-2019:3353-01 EL8 freeradius:3.0 2019-11-05
Red Hat RHSA-2019:3352-01 EL8 gdb 2019-11-05
Red Hat RHSA-2019:3643-01 EL8 gettext 2019-11-05
Red Hat RHSA-2019:3530-01 EL8 glib2 2019-11-05
Red Hat RHSA-2019:3513-01 EL8 glibc 2019-11-05
Red Hat RHSA-2019:3600-01 EL8 gnutls 2019-11-05
Red Hat RHSA-2019:3433-01 EL8 go-toolset:rhel8 2019-11-05
Red Hat RHSA-2019:3497-01 EL8 http-parser 2019-11-05
Red Hat RHSA-2019:3436-01 EL8 httpd:2.4 2019-11-05
Red Hat RHSA-2019:3517-01 EL8 kernel 2019-11-05
Red Hat RHSA-2019:3309-01 EL8 kernel-rt 2019-11-05
Red Hat RHSA-2019:3698-01 EL8 libarchive 2019-11-05
Red Hat RHSA-2019:3705-01 EL8 libjpeg-turbo 2019-11-05
Red Hat RHSA-2019:3610-01 EL8 libqb 2019-11-05
Red Hat RHSA-2019:3391-01 EL8 libreswan 2019-11-05
Red Hat RHSA-2019:3624-01 EL8 libseccomp 2019-11-05
Red Hat RHSA-2019:3419-01 EL8 libtiff 2019-11-05
Red Hat RHSA-2019:3703-01 EL8 libvorbis 2019-11-05
Red Hat RHSA-2019:3673-01 EL8 lldpad 2019-11-05
Red Hat RHSA-2019:3706-01 EL8 lua 2019-11-05
Red Hat RHSA-2019:3708-01 EL8 mariadb:10.3 2019-11-05
Red Hat RHSA-2019:3421-01 EL8 mod_auth_mellon 2019-11-05
Red Hat RHSA-2019:3704-01 EL8 numpy 2019-11-05
Red Hat RHSA-2019:3702-01 EL8 openssh 2019-11-05
Red Hat RHSA-2019:3700-01 EL8 openssl 2019-11-05
Red Hat RHSA-2019:3743-01 OSP14.0 openstack-octavia 2019-11-06
Red Hat RHSA-2019:3387-01 EL8 osinfo-db and libosinfo 2019-11-05
Red Hat RHSA-2019:3287-01 EL6 php 2019-10-31
Red Hat RHSA-2019:3286-01 EL7 php 2019-10-31
Red Hat RHSA-2019:3735-01 EL8 php:7.2 2019-11-06
Red Hat RHSA-2019:3736-01 EL8 php:7.3 2019-11-06
Red Hat RHSA-2019:3590-01 EL8 python-urllib3 2019-11-05
Red Hat RHSA-2019:3335-01 EL8 python27:2.7 2019-11-05
Red Hat RHSA-2019:3520-01 EL8 python3 2019-11-05
Red Hat RHSA-2019:3742-01 OSP14.0 qemu-kvm-rhev 2019-11-06
Red Hat RHSA-2019:3390-01 EL8 qt5-qtbase 2019-11-05
Red Hat RHSA-2019:3724-01 SCL rh-php70-php 2019-11-06
Red Hat RHSA-2019:3300-01 SCL rh-php71-php 2019-11-01
Red Hat RHSA-2019:3299-01 SCL rh-php72-php 2019-11-01
Red Hat RHSA-2019:3725-01 SCL rh-python36-python 2019-11-06
Red Hat RHSA-2019:3582-01 EL8 samba 2019-11-05
Red Hat RHSA-2019:3476-01 EL8 squid:4 2019-11-05
Red Hat RHSA-2019:3651-01 EL8 sssd 2019-11-05
Red Hat RHSA-2019:3278-01 EL7.2 sudo 2019-10-31
Red Hat RHSA-2019:3694-01 EL8 sudo 2019-11-05
Red Hat RHSA-2019:3592-01 EL8 systemd 2019-11-05
Red Hat RHSA-2019:3464-01 EL8 virt-manager 2019-11-05
Red Hat RHSA-2019:3345-01 EL8 virt:rhel 2019-11-05
Red Hat RHSA-2019:3583-01 EL8 yum 2019-11-05
Scientific Linux SLSA-2019:3281-1 SL6 firefox 2019-11-01
Scientific Linux SLSA-2019:3287-1 SL6 php 2019-11-01
Scientific Linux SLSA-2019:3286-1 SL7 php 2019-10-31
Slackware SSA:2019-308-01 libtiff 2019-11-04
SUSE SUSE-SU-2019:2896-1 SLE15 ImageMagick 2019-11-05
SUSE SUSE-SU-2019:2867-1 OS8 ardana-ansible, ardana-glance, ardana-horizon, ardana-input-model, ardana-manila, ardana-neutron, ardana-nova, ardana-octavia, ardana-tempest, crowbar-core, crowbar-ha, crowbar-openstack, crowbar-ui, galera-3, grafana, mariadb, mariadb-connector-c, novnc, openstack-cinder, openstack-glance, openstack-heat, openstack-horizon-plugin-neutron-vpnaas-ui, openstack-keystone, openstack-monasca-installer, openstack-neutron, openstack-neutron-gbp, openstack-neutron-lbaas, openstack-nova, python-amqp, python-ovs, python-pysaml2, python-python-engineio, python-urllib3, release-notes-suse-openstack-cloud, rubygem-easy_diff, rubygem-rest-client-1_6, venv-openstack-keystone 2019-10-30
SUSE SUSE-SU-2019:2906-1 OS9 ardana-ansible, ardana-horizon, ardana-keystone, ardana-manila, ardana-neutron, crowbar-core, crowbar-openstack, grafana, openstack-cinder, openstack-dashboard, openstack-horizon-plugin-manila-ui, openstack-keystone, openstack-manila, openstack-neutron, openstack-neutron-fwaas, openstack-neutron-lbaas, openstack-nova, openstack-octavia, openstack-octavia-amphora-image, pdns, python-Django1, python-keystonemiddleware, python-octaviaclient, python-os-brick, python-oslo.cache, python-oslo.messaging 2019-11-06
SUSE SUSE-SU-2019:2820-1 SLE12 dbus-1 2019-10-30
SUSE SUSE-SU-2019:2872-1 OS7 OS8 SLE12 SES5 firefox 2019-10-31
SUSE SUSE-SU-2019:2871-1 SLE15 firefox 2019-10-31
SUSE SUSE-SU-2019:14207-1 SLE11 gdb 2019-11-06
SUSE SUSE-SU-2019:2902-1 SLE15 gdb 2019-11-06
SUSE SUSE-SU-2019:2879-1 SLE12 kernel 2019-10-31
SUSE SUSE-SU-2019:2879-1 SLE12 kernel 2019-10-31
SUSE SUSE-SU-2019:14206-1 SLE11 libssh2_org 2019-11-06
SUSE SUSE-SU-2019:2900-1 SLE15 libssh2_org 2019-11-06
SUSE SUSE-SU-2019:2819-1 SLE15 php7 2019-10-30
SUSE SUSE-SU-2019:2891-1 SLE15 python-ecdsa 2019-11-04
SUSE SUSE-SU-2019:2875-1 OS7 SLE12 samba 2019-10-31
SUSE SUSE-SU-2019:2893-1 OS7 SLE12 samba 2019-11-05
SUSE SUSE-SU-2019:2890-1 OS8 SLE12 SES5 samba 2019-11-04
SUSE SUSE-SU-2019:2868-1 SLE15 samba 2019-10-30
SUSE SUSE-SU-2019:2866-1 SLE15 SES6 samba 2019-10-30
Ubuntu USN-4171-2 14.04 apport 2019-11-04
Ubuntu USN-4171-4 14.04 apport 2019-11-05
Ubuntu USN-4171-3 16.04 18.04 19.04 19.10 apport 2019-11-05
Ubuntu USN-4172-2 12.04 14.04 file 2019-10-31
Ubuntu USN-4172-1 16.04 18.04 19.04 19.10 file 2019-10-30
Ubuntu USN-4165-2 16.04 18.04 19.04 19.10 firefox 2019-11-06
Ubuntu USN-4173-1 18.04 19.04 19.10 freetds 2019-10-30
Ubuntu USN-4174-1 16.04 18.04 19.04 19.10 haproxy 2019-11-05
Ubuntu USN-4175-1 16.04 18.04 19.04 19.10 ruby-nokogiri 2019-11-05
Ubuntu USN-4170-2 16.04 18.04 19.04 19.10 whoopsie 2019-10-30
Ubuntu USN-4170-3 16.04 18.04 19.04 19.10 whoopsie 2019-11-05
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Kernel patches of interest

Kernel releases

Linus Torvalds Linux 5.4-rc6 Nov 03
Greg KH Linux 5.3.9 Nov 06
Greg KH Linux 4.19.82 Nov 06
Greg KH Linux 4.14.152 Nov 06
Greg KH Linux 4.9.199 Nov 06
Greg KH Linux 4.4.199 Nov 06
Ben Hutchings Linux 3.16.76 Nov 01

Architecture-specific

Mark Brown E0PD support Nov 05
David Hildenbrand powerpc/pseries: CMM: Implement balloon compaction and remove isolate notifier Oct 31
Yang Weijiang Enable Sub-Page Write Protection Support Nov 06

Core kernel

Petr Mladek livepatch: new API to track system state changes Oct 30
Vineeth Remanan Pillai Core scheduling v4 Oct 30
Christian Brauner clone3: validate stack arguments Oct 31
David Howells pipe: Notification queue preparation [ver #3] Nov 01
Alexei Starovoitov Introduce BPF trampoline Nov 02
Tejun Heo kernfs,cgroup: support 64bit inos and unify cgroup IDs Nov 04
Aleksa Sarai open: introduce openat2(2) syscall Nov 05
Thara Gopinath Introduce Thermal Pressure Nov 05
Jens Axboe io_uring support for linked timeouts Nov 05

Development tools

Daniel Axtens kasan: support backing vmalloc space with real shadow memory Oct 31
Marco Elver Add Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer (KCSAN) Nov 04

Device drivers

Manivannan Sadhasivam Add IMX296 CMOS image sensor support Oct 30
Peter Ujfalusi gpio: Support for shared GPIO lines on boards Oct 30
Alexander Gordeev dmaengine: avalon: Intel Avalon-MM DMA Interface for PCIe Oct 30
Peter Ujfalusi dmaengine/soc: Add Texas Instruments UDMA support Nov 01
Srinivas Kandagatla soundwire: Add support to Qualcomm SoundWire master Oct 30
Georgi Djakov Add MSM8916 interconnect provider driver Oct 30
Krishna Reddy Nvidia Arm SMMUv2 Implementation Oct 30
Taniya Das Add GPU & Video Clock controller driver for SC7180 Oct 31
Adrian Ratiu Genericize DW MIPI DSI bridge and add i.MX 6 driver Oct 31
Kiran Gunda backlight: qcom-wled: Support for QCOM wled driver Nov 01
Matti Vaittinen Support ROHM BD71828 PMIC Nov 01
Rasmus Villemoes QUICC Engine support on ARM Nov 01
Zaibo Xu crypto: hisilicon - add HiSilicon SEC V2 support Oct 31
Keiichi Watanabe media: pci: Add VirtIO video decoder driver Oct 31
Joel Stanley fsi: Add AST2600 FSI master Nov 01
Chao Hao MT6779 IOMMU SUPPORT Nov 04
Marcelo Schmitt iio: adc: Add support for AD7292 Nov 01
sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@linux.intel.com Add Error Disconnect Recover (EDR) support Nov 01
Bjorn Andersson phy: qcom-qmp: Add SDM845 QMP and QHP PHYs Nov 01
Gene Chen mfd: mt6360: add pmic mt6360 driver Nov 04
Torsten Duwe Add anx6345 DP/eDP bridge for Olimex Teres-I Nov 04
John Garry HiSilicon v3xx SFC driver Nov 05
Rahul Tanwar pinctrl: Add new pinctrl/GPIO driver Nov 05
Zhu Lingshan Intel IFC VF driver for VDPA Nov 05
Dilip Kota PCI: Add Intel PCIe Driver and respective dt-binding yaml file Nov 06
Clément Péron Add support for H6 PWM Nov 05
Kalyani Akula Add Xilinx's ZynqMP AES driver support Nov 06
Helen Koike Rockchip ISP Driver Nov 06
Thomas Zimmermann Support I/O memory in generic fbdev emulation Nov 06
Tomer Maimon reset: npcm: add NPCM reset driver support Nov 06
Mirela Rabulea Add V4L2 driver for i.MX8 JPEG Encoder/Decoder Nov 06

Device-driver infrastructure

Dan Murphy Multicolor Framework Nov 04
John Stultz DMA-BUF Heaps (destaging ION) Nov 01

Filesystems and block layer

Dave Chinner mm, xfs: non-blocking inode reclaim Nov 01
Ian Kent xfs: mount API patch series Nov 01
Sascha Hauer Add quota support to UBIFS Oct 30
David Sterba btrfs: Extent buffer locking and documentation Oct 30
Jan Kara quota: Allow quota support without quota files Nov 04
Matthew Bobrowski ext4: port direct I/O to iomap infrastructure Nov 05
Lukas Czerner ext4: new mount API conversion Nov 06

Memory management

John Hubbard mm/gup: track dma-pinned pages: FOLL_PIN, FOLL_LONGTERM Oct 30
Huang, Ying autonuma: Optimize memory placement in memory tiering system Nov 01

Networking

Jonas Bonn Add namespace awareness to Netlink methods Nov 05

Security-related

Mickaël Salaün Landlock LSM Oct 31
Sumit Garg Introduce TEE based Trusted Keys support Oct 31
Lakshmi Ramasubramanian KEYS: Measure keys when they are created or updated Oct 30

Virtualization and containers

Yang Weijiang Introduce support for guest CET feature Nov 01
Andrea Arcangeli KVM monolithic v3 Nov 04
Jason Wang mdev based hardware virtio offloading support Nov 05
Alexander Duyck [PATCH v13 0/6] mm / virtio: Provide support for unused page reporting Nov 05

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