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Calls for Presentations
[CFP] Power Management and Scheduling in the Linux Kernel (OSPM-summit)
Power Management and Scheduling in the Linux Kernel (OSPM-summit) will take place May 11-13 in Pisa, Italy. "Although scheduler techniques for reducing energy consumption while meeting performance and latency requirements are the prime interest of the summit, we welcome anybody interested in having discussions on the broader scope of real-time systems, real-time and non-real-time scheduling, tooling, debugging and tracing." The call for papers closes February 10.
CFP Deadlines: January 2, 2020 to March 2, 2020
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| February 28 | June 23 June 25 |
[CANCELED] IcingaConf 2020 | Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| February 28 | May 26 May 28 |
[VIRTUAL] sambaXP 2020 | Berlin, Germany |
| February 28 | June 23 June 25 |
[ONLINE] Postgres Vision 2020 | Boston, MA, USA |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
Events: January 2, 2020 to March 2, 2020
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| January 13 | LCA Creative Arts Miniconf | Gold Coast, Australia |
| January 13 | Open ISA (RISC-V, OpenPOWER, etc) Miniconf at Linux.conf.au | Gold Coast, Australia |
| January 13 January 17 |
linux.conf.au | 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 |
| February 18 February 20 |
PyCon Namibia | Windhoek, Namibia |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Security updates
Alert summary December 26, 2019 to January 1, 2020
| Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arch Linux | ASA-201912-6 | git | 2019-12-18 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201912-5 | libgit2 | 2019-12-18 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201912-4 | shadow | 2019-12-18 | |
| CentOS | CESA-2019:4107 | C7 | firefox | 2019-12-24 |
| CentOS | CESA-2019:4254 | C6 | freetype | 2019-12-24 |
| CentOS | CESA-2019:4326 | C7 | fribidi | 2019-12-24 |
| CentOS | CESA-2019:4256 | C6 | kernel | 2019-12-24 |
| CentOS | CESA-2019:4190 | C7 | nss, nss-softokn, nss-util | 2019-12-24 |
| CentOS | CESA-2019:4190 | C7 | nss, nss-softokn, nss-util | 2019-12-24 |
| CentOS | CESA-2019:4190 | C7 | nss, nss-softokn, nss-util | 2019-12-24 |
| CentOS | CESA-2019:4240 | C7 | openslp | 2019-12-24 |
| CentOS | CESA-2019:4205 | C6 | thunderbird | 2019-12-24 |
| CentOS | CESA-2019:4148 | C7 | thunderbird | 2019-12-24 |
| Debian | DLA-2047-1 | LTS | cups | 2019-12-22 |
| Debian | DSA-4590-1 | stable | cyrus-imapd | 2019-12-19 |
| Debian | DLA-2044-1 | LTS | cyrus-sasl2 | 2019-12-20 |
| Debian | DSA-4591-1 | stable | cyrus-sasl2 | 2019-12-20 |
| Debian | DSA-4589-1 | stable | debian-edu-config | 2019-12-18 |
| Debian | DSA-4595-1 | stable | debian-lan-config | 2019-12-27 |
| Debian | DSA-4593-1 | stable | freeimage | 2019-12-27 |
| Debian | DLA-2043-2 | LTS | gdk-pixbuf | 2019-12-20 |
| Debian | DLA-2043-1 | LTS | gdk-pixbuf | 2019-12-19 |
| Debian | DLA-2055-1 | LTS | igraph | 2019-12-31 |
| Debian | DLA-2049-1 | LTS | imagemagick | 2019-12-29 |
| Debian | DLA-2051-1 | LTS | intel-microcode | 2019-12-30 |
| Debian | DLA-2054-1 | LTS | jhead | 2019-12-31 |
| Debian | DLA-2052-1 | LTS | libbsd | 2019-12-30 |
| Debian | DLA-1931-2 | LTS | libgcrypt20 | 2020-01-01 |
| Debian | DLA-2048-1 | LTS | libxml2 | 2019-12-28 |
| Debian | DSA-4592-1 | stable | mediawiki | 2019-12-27 |
| Debian | DLA-2046-1 | LTS | opensc | 2019-12-25 |
| Debian | DSA-4594-1 | stable | openssl1.0 | 2019-12-27 |
| Debian | DLA-2053-1 | LTS | otrs2 | 2020-01-01 |
| Debian | DLA-2050-1 | LTS | php5 | 2019-12-29 |
| Debian | DLA-2042-1 | LTS | python-django | 2019-12-18 |
| Debian | DLA-2045-1 | LTS | tightvnc | 2019-12-21 |
| Debian | DSA-4596-1 | stable | tomcat8 | 2019-12-27 |
| Debian | DLA-2056-1 | LTS | waitress | 2020-01-01 |
| Debian | DLA-2038-2 | LTS | x2goclient | 2019-12-22 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-6bf27b45b3 | F30 | cacti | 2019-12-20 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-362f0e9710 | F31 | cacti | 2019-12-21 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-6bf27b45b3 | F30 | cacti-spine | 2019-12-20 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-362f0e9710 | F31 | cacti-spine | 2019-12-21 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-533a72fec5 | F30 | fribidi | 2019-12-20 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-adc8990386 | F31 | python-django | 2019-12-19 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0411 | 7 | 389-ds-base | 2019-12-25 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0407 | 7 | apache | 2019-12-25 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0399 | 7 | apache-commons-beanutils | 2019-12-19 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0410 | 7 | apache-mod_auth_openidc | 2019-12-25 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0418 | 7 | clamaw | 2019-12-31 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0415 | 7 | exiv2 | 2019-12-31 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0398 | 7 | fence-agents | 2019-12-19 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0417 | 7 | filezilla | 2019-12-31 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0396 | 7 | flightcrew | 2019-12-19 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0401 | 7 | freerdp | 2019-12-19 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0405 | 7 | ghostpcl | 2019-12-24 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0403 | 7 | htmldoc | 2019-12-19 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0421 | 7 | hunspell | 2019-12-31 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0414 | 7 | kernel | 2019-12-25 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0416 | 7 | libidn2 | 2019-12-31 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0404 | 7 | libmirage | 2019-12-24 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0409 | 7 | libofx | 2019-12-25 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0402 | 7 | libssh | 2019-12-19 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0413 | 7 | microcode | 2019-12-25 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0394 | 7 | pacemaker | 2019-12-19 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0419 | 7 | pdfresurrect | 2019-12-31 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0412 | 7 | php | 2019-12-25 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0420 | 7 | roundcubemail | 2019-12-31 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0400 | 7 | rsyslog | 2019-12-19 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0408 | 7 | ruby | 2019-12-25 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0397 | 7 | samba | 2019-12-19 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0406 | 7 | spamassassin | 2019-12-24 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0395 | 7 | sssd | 2019-12-19 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0422 | 7 | xpdf | 2019-12-31 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:2709-1 | 15.1 | LibreOffice | 2019-12-31 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:2712-1 | 15.1 | chromium | 2019-12-31 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:2712-1 | 15.1 | chromium | 2019-12-31 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:2698-1 | 15.1 | mariadb | 2019-12-22 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:2700-1 | 15.1 | samba | 2019-12-22 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:2710-1 | 15.1 | spectre-meltdown-checker | 2019-12-31 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2019-4254 | OL6 | freetype | 2019-12-18 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2019-4326 | OL7 | fribidi | 2019-12-20 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2019-4326 | OL7 | fribidi | 2019-12-20 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2019-4361 | OL8 | fribidi | 2019-12-24 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2019-4356 | OL8 | git | 2019-12-20 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2019-4256 | OL6 | kernel | 2019-12-18 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2019-4884 | OL7 | python | 2019-12-20 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:4326-01 | EL7 | fribidi | 2019-12-19 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:4361-01 | EL8 | fribidi | 2019-12-23 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:4356-01 | EL8 | git | 2019-12-19 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:4360-01 | EL8 | libyang | 2019-12-22 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:4358-01 | OSP15 | openstack-keystone | 2019-12-19 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:4344-01 | OSP10.0 | qemu-kvm-rhev | 2019-12-20 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:4254-1 | SL6 | freetype | 2019-12-18 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:4326-1 | SL7 | fribidi | 2019-12-19 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:4256-1 | SL6 | kernel | 2019-12-18 |
| Slackware | SSA:2019-354-01 | openssl | 2019-12-20 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2019-354-02 | tigervnc | 2019-12-20 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2019-353-01 | wavpack | 2019-12-19 | |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:3390-1 | SLE12 | dia | 2019-12-27 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:3391-1 | SLE15 | dia | 2019-12-27 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:14260-1 | SLE11 | firefox, nspr, nss | 2019-12-20 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:3347-1 | OS7 OS8 SLE12 SES5 | firefox | 2019-12-19 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:3337-1 | SLE15 | firefox | 2019-12-19 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:3379-1 | OS8 SLE12 SES5 | kernel | 2019-12-21 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:3371-1 | SLE12 | kernel | 2019-12-20 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:3371-1 | SLE12 | kernel | 2019-12-20 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:3389-1 | SLE12 | kernel | 2019-12-27 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:3389-1 | SLE12 | kernel | 2019-12-27 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:3372-1 | SLE15 | kernel | 2019-12-20 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:3381-1 | SLE15 | kernel | 2019-12-23 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:3381-1 | SLE15 | kernel | 2019-12-23 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:3392-1 | SLE15 | libgcrypt | 2019-12-27 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:3370-1 | SLE12 | mariadb-100 | 2019-12-20 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:3369-1 | OS9 SLE12 | mariadb | 2019-12-20 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:3395-1 | SLE15 | mozilla-nspr, mozilla-nss | 2019-12-30 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:3394-1 | SLE12 | python-azure-agent | 2019-12-30 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:3393-1 | SLE15 | python-azure-agent | 2019-12-30 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:3386-1 | SLE15 | shibboleth-sp | 2019-12-23 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:3385-1 | SLE12 | slurm | 2019-12-23 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:3340-1 | SLE12 | spectre-meltdown-checker | 2019-12-19 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:3348-1 | SLE15 | spectre-meltdown-checker | 2019-12-19 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:3339-1 | SLE15 | thunderbird | 2019-12-19 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:3349-1 | SLE15 | trousers | 2019-12-19 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:3338-1 | SLE15 | xen | 2019-12-19 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:3341-1 | SLE12 | zziplib | 2019-12-19 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4224-1 | 16.04 18.04 19.04 19.10 | python-django | 2019-12-18 |
Kernel patches of interest
Kernel releases
Architecture-specific
Core kernel
Device drivers
Beniamin Bia
hwmon: adm1177: Add ADM1177 Hot Swap Controller and Digital Power Monitor driver
Dec 19
Jack Wang
RTRS (former IBTRS) rdma transport library and the corresponding RNBD (former IBNBD) rdma network block device
Dec 20
Ramuthevar,Vadivel MuruganX
spi: cadence-quadpsi: Add support for the Cadence QSPI controller
Dec 26
Device-driver infrastructure
Filesystems and block layer
Memory management
Networking
Security-related
Virtualization and containers
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