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Calls for Presentations
CFP Deadlines: December 19, 2019 to February 17, 2020
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| January 13 | May 18 May 20 |
[POSTPONED] Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2020 | Austin, Tx, USA |
| January 15 | August 13 August 21 |
Netdev 0x14 | Virtual |
| January 19 | May 27 May 28 |
[ONLINE] PGCon 2020 | Ottawa, Canada |
| January 31 | March 23 March 25 |
Supercomputing Frontiers Europe | Warsaw, Poland |
| January 31 | June 17 June 18 |
[ONLINE] Open Source Data Center Conference | Berlin, Germany |
| January 31 | April 16 April 17 |
[CANCELED] DevOps Days Toronto 2020 | Toronto, Canada |
| February 9 | May 11 May 13 |
[RESCHEDULED] Linux Audio Conference | Bordeaux, France |
| February 9 | March 29 April 1 |
[POSTPONED] foss-north | Göteborg, Sweden |
| February 10 | May 11 May 13 |
[ONLINE] Power Management and Scheduling in the Linux Kernel | Pisa, Italy |
| February 11 | July 6 July 12 |
[VIRTUAL] SciPy 2020 | Austin, TX, USA |
| February 15 | June 17 June 18 |
[ONLINE] stackconf 2020 | Berlin, Germany |
| February 15 | March 25 March 28 |
[POSTPONED] MiniDebConf Maceió 2020 | Maceió, Brazil |
| February 16 | June 29 July 2 |
[VIRTUAL] Open Source Summit/Embedded Linux Conference North America | Austin, TX, USA |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
Events: December 19, 2019 to February 17, 2020
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| January 13 January 17 |
linux.conf.au | Gold Coast, Australia |
| January 13 | Open ISA (RISC-V, OpenPOWER, etc) Miniconf at Linux.conf.au | Gold Coast, Australia |
| January 13 | LCA Creative Arts Miniconf | Gold Coast, Australia |
| January 14 | lca Kernel Miniconf | Gold Coast, Australia |
| January 24 January 26 |
devconf.cz | Brno, Czech Republic |
| February 1 February 2 |
FOSDEM 2020 | Brussels, Belgium |
| February 3 | Copyleft Conference | Brussels, Belgium |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Security updates
Alert summary December 12, 2019 to December 18, 2019
| Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CentOS | CESA-2019:4108 | C6 | firefox | 2019-12-11 |
| CentOS | CESA-2019:4152 | C6 | nss-softokn | 2019-12-11 |
| Debian | DLA-2034-1 | LTS | davical | 2019-12-14 |
| Debian | DSA-4582-1 | stable | davical | 2019-12-13 |
| Debian | DLA-2041-1 | LTS | debian-edu-config | 2019-12-18 |
| Debian | DLA-2040-1 | LTS | harfbuzz | 2019-12-17 |
| Debian | DSA-4565-2 | stable | intel-microcode | 2019-12-13 |
| Debian | DLA-2035-1 | LTS | libpgf | 2019-12-15 |
| Debian | DLA-2038-1 | LTS | libssh | 2019-12-17 |
| Debian | DLA-2039-1 | LTS | libvorbis | 2019-12-17 |
| Debian | DLA-2033-1 | LTS | php-horde | 2019-12-13 |
| Debian | DSA-4588-1 | stable | python-ecdsa | 2019-12-17 |
| Debian | DSA-4587-1 | stable | ruby2.3 | 2019-12-17 |
| Debian | DSA-4586-1 | stable | ruby2.5 | 2019-12-17 |
| Debian | DLA-2037-1 | LTS | spamassassin | 2019-12-16 |
| Debian | DSA-4584-1 | stable | spamassassin | 2019-12-14 |
| Debian | DSA-4583-1 | stable | spip | 2019-12-13 |
| Debian | DLA-2036-1 | LTS | thunderbird | 2019-12-16 |
| Debian | DSA-4585-1 | stable | thunderbird | 2019-12-15 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-1a10c04281 | F31 | chromium | 2019-12-18 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-7075bc4ff8 | F31 | fribidi | 2019-12-18 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-39e97683e8 | F31 | kernel | 2019-12-17 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-44ccfa9b29 | F30 | knot-resolver | 2019-12-13 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-866dc03603 | F31 | knot-resolver | 2019-12-13 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-9c3d054f39 | F31 | libgit2 | 2019-12-17 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-8b0ad69829 | F31 | libssh | 2019-12-18 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-86bceb61b3 | F30 | openslp | 2019-12-18 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-1e5ae33e87 | F31 | openslp | 2019-12-18 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-be98a08835 | F31 | samba | 2019-12-12 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-3d7105bd2a | F30 | xen | 2019-12-13 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0380 | 7 | clementine | 2019-12-13 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0392 | 7 | dnsmasq | 2019-12-15 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0393 | 7 | git | 2019-12-15 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0381 | 7 | jasper | 2019-12-13 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0378 | 7 | kdelibs4 | 2019-12-13 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0388 | 7 | kernel | 2019-12-14 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0389 | 7 | libcroco | 2019-12-15 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0391 | 7 | libgit2 | 2019-12-15 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0390 | 7 | libvirt | 2019-12-15 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0387 | 7 | ncurses | 2019-12-14 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0383 | 7 | openafs | 2019-12-13 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0385 | 7 | proftpd | 2019-12-13 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0379 | 7 | qbittorrent | 2019-12-13 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0386 | 7 | signing-party | 2019-12-14 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0382 | 7 | squid | 2019-12-13 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0384 | 7 | wireshark | 2019-12-13 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:2692-1 | chromium | 2019-12-17 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:2693-1 | chromium | 2019-12-18 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:2694-1 | chromium | 2019-12-18 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:2692-1 | 15.1 | chromium | 2019-12-17 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:2687-1 | 15.1 | java-1_8_0-openjdk | 2019-12-15 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:2675-1 | 15.1 | kernel | 2019-12-12 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:2689-1 | 15.1 | libssh | 2019-12-17 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:2685-1 | 15.1 | postgresql | 2019-12-15 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2019-4869 | OL8 | grub2 | 2019-12-18 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2019-4878 | OL7 | kernel | 2019-12-13 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2019-4878 | OL7 | kernel | 2019-12-13 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2019-4190 | OL7 | nss, nss-softokn, nss-util | 2019-12-11 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2019-4190 | OL7 | nss, nss-softokn, nss-util | 2019-12-11 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2019-4152 | OL6 | nss-softokn | 2019-12-11 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2019-4240 | OL7 | openslp | 2019-12-17 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2019-4240 | OL7 | openslp | 2019-12-17 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2019-4148 | OL7 | thunderbird | 2019-12-11 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2019-4148 | OL7 | thunderbird | 2019-12-11 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2019-4148 | OL7 | thunderbird | 2019-12-11 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2019-4195 | OL8 | thunderbird | 2019-12-11 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:4238-01 | EL6 | chromium-browser | 2019-12-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:4273-01 | EL8 | container-tools:1.0 | 2019-12-17 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:4269-01 | EL8 | container-tools:rhel8 | 2019-12-17 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:4254-01 | EL6 | freetype | 2019-12-17 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:4256-01 | EL6 | kernel | 2019-12-17 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:4255-01 | EL6.6 | kernel | 2019-12-17 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:4245-01 | EL8 | kpatch-patch | 2019-12-17 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:4240-01 | EL7 | openslp | 2019-12-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:4317-01 | SCL | rh-maven35-apache-commons-beanutils | 2019-12-18 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:4240-1 | SL7 | openslp | 2019-12-16 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:4205-1 | SL6 | thunderbird | 2019-12-11 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:3313-1 | SLE15 | LibreOffice | 2019-12-16 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:14246-1 | SLE11 | firefox | 2019-12-11 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:3311-1 | OS7 OS8 SLE12 SES5 | git | 2019-12-16 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:3288-1 | OS7 OS8 OS9 SLE12 | haproxy | 2019-12-12 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:3294-1 | SLE12 | kernel | 2019-12-14 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:3316-1 | SLE12 | kernel | 2019-12-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:3289-1 | SLE15 | kernel | 2019-12-12 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:3295-1 | SLE15 | kernel | 2019-12-14 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:3317-1 | SLE15 | kernel | 2019-12-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:3317-1 | SLE15 | kernel | 2019-12-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:3307-1 | SLE12 | libssh | 2019-12-16 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:3308-1 | SLE12 | libssh | 2019-12-16 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:3293-1 | SLE15 | libssh | 2019-12-14 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:3306-1 | SLE15 | mariadb | 2019-12-16 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:14249-1 | SLE11 | openssl | 2019-12-12 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:3318-1 | SLE15 | samba | 2019-12-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:3319-1 | SLE15 SES6 | samba | 2019-12-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:3297-1 | OS8 SLE12 SES5 | xen | 2019-12-14 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:3296-1 | SLE12 | xen | 2019-12-14 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:3310-1 | SLE12 | xen | 2019-12-16 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:3309-1 | SLE15 | xen | 2019-12-16 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4222-1 | 16.04 | graphicsmagick | 2019-12-16 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4214-2 | 16.04 18.04 | librabbitmq | 2019-12-11 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4223-1 | 16.04 18.04 19.04 19.10 | openjdk-8, openjdk-lts | 2019-12-17 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4217-2 | 14.04 | samba | 2019-12-11 |
Kernel patches of interest
Kernel releases
Architecture-specific
Core kernel
Development tools
Brendan Higgins
[RFC v1 0/6] kunit: create a centralized executor to dispatch all
KUnit tests
Dec 16
Device drivers
Andreas Färber
arm64: realtek: Add Xnano X5 and implement TM1628/FD628/AiP1618 LED controllers
Dec 12
Device-driver infrastructure
Documentation
Filesystems and block layer
Memory management
Networking
Security-related
Virtualization and containers
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