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Calls for Presentations
CFP Deadlines: January 23, 2020 to March 23, 2020
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| March 6 | July 6 July 9 |
[Virtual] XenProject Developer and Design Summit 2020 | |
| March 8 | June 25 June 26 |
[CANCELED] Postgres Ibiza 2020 | Ibiza, Spain |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
SCALE 18x Announcing Keynote Speaker
The SCALE Team has announced that Paul Vixie will be a keynote speaker at SCALE18x. "Since commercialization and privatization of the Internet first began in the 1990's, there has been a steady push to move access side DNS (called "recursive") away from customer networks and towards first ISP's and later Cisco, Google, IBM, and Cloudflare. What are the real motives for this trend? What are the risks and costs, and who pays them? Dr. Vixie has worked in the DNS field since 1989 and has invented many of the monitoring and filtering capabilities now used by nearly all DNS services, and he will try to explain what's happening. Special attention will be paid to the new web-based "DNS over HTTP" or "DoH" protocol now being strongly pushed by Mozilla and others." The talk will be on March 7. SCALE will take place March 5-8 in Pasadena, CA.
LibrePlanet 2020 keynote announcement
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has announced Brewster Kahle as its first keynote speaker for LibrePlanet 2020. "Internet archivist, digital librarian, and Internet Hall of Famer Brewster Kahle has been announced as the first of multiple keynote speakers for the FSF's annual LibrePlanet conference. Kahle is renowned as the founder of the Internet Archive, a nonprofit dedicated to preserving the cultural history of the Web." LibrePlanet will take place March 14-15 in Boston, MA.
Update on netdev 0x14
Netdev will take place March 17-20 in Vancouver, Canada. The call for sessions has closed. Submissions are still being evaluated and will be added to the list of accepted sessions as they are accepted. Applicants should know by February 1 whether their submission has been accepted or not.EuroPython 2020
EuroPython will take place July 20-26 in Dublin, Ireland. The call for papers and ticket sales will begin in March. "We have signed the venue agreement, so if you have waited with your flight and hotel bookings for the final confirmation of the conference dates, you can now go ahead. Looking at the hotel booking websites, it’s probably a good idea to book early."
Events: January 23, 2020 to March 23, 2020
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| March 3 | Open Source 101 | Columbia, SC, USA |
| March 5 March 6 |
Incontro DevOps Italia | Bologna, Italy |
| March 5 March 8 |
Southern California Linux Expo | Pasadena, CA, USA |
| March 14 March 15 |
[CANCELED] LibrePlanet | Boston, MA, USA |
| March 19 March 22 |
[CANCELED] FOSSASIA OpenTechSummit | Singapore, Singapore |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Security updates
Alert summary January 16, 2020 to January 22, 2020
| Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arch Linux | ASA-202001-5 | chromium | 2020-01-17 | |
| CentOS | CESA-2020:0124 | C6 | git | 2020-01-18 |
| CentOS | CESA-2020:0124 | C7 | git | 2020-01-18 |
| CentOS | CESA-2020:0122 | C6 | java-11-openjdk | 2020-01-18 |
| CentOS | CESA-2020:0122 | C7 | java-11-openjdk | 2020-01-18 |
| CentOS | CESA-2020:0123 | C6 | thunderbird | 2020-01-18 |
| CentOS | CESA-2020:0120 | C7 | thunderbird | 2020-01-18 |
| Debian | DLA-2069-1 | LTS | cacti | 2020-01-18 |
| Debian | DSA-4604-1 | stable | cacti | 2020-01-19 |
| Debian | DSA-4606-1 | stable | chromium | 2020-01-20 |
| Debian | DLA-2063-1 | LTS | debian-lan-config | 2020-01-15 |
| Debian | DLA-2072-1 | LTS | gpac | 2020-01-20 |
| Debian | DLA-2068-1 | LTS | kernel | 2020-01-18 |
| Debian | DSA-4607-1 | stable | openconnect | 2020-01-20 |
| Debian | DSA-4605-1 | stable | openjdk-11 | 2020-01-19 |
| Debian | DLA-2060-1 | LTS | phpmyadmin | 2020-01-15 |
| Debian | DLA-2070-1 | LTS | ruby-excon | 2020-01-19 |
| Debian | DLA-2071-1 | LTS | thunderbird | 2020-01-20 |
| Debian | DSA-4603-1 | stable | thunderbird | 2020-01-17 |
| Debian | DSA-4608-1 | stable | tiff | 2020-01-21 |
| Debian | DLA-2073-1 | LTS | transfig | 2020-01-21 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-f006145643 | F31 | ImageMagick | 2020-01-17 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-4355ea258e | F30 | chromium | 2020-01-19 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-a724cc7926 | F31 | e2fsprogs | 2020-01-21 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-1a3bdfde17 | F31 | glibc | 2020-01-20 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-acac61cfd0 | F30 | gnulib | 2020-01-16 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-663f619e9c | F31 | gnulib | 2020-01-17 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-4913d43d77 | F31 | jetty | 2020-01-17 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-c2d89d14d0 | F30 | kernel | 2020-01-21 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-e328697628 | F31 | kernel | 2020-01-21 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-72912bb14c | F31 | nss | 2020-01-21 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-4c8a066b83 | F31 | ocsinventory-agent | 2020-01-16 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-cb89758335 | F30 | phpMyAdmin | 2020-01-16 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-adb4f0143a | F31 | python-django | 2020-01-17 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-57fc0d0156 | F31 | rubygem-rack | 2020-01-18 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-f006145643 | F31 | rubygem-rmagick | 2020-01-17 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-01411d96d5 | F31 | thunderbird | 2020-01-16 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-dc41c28f86 | F30 | thunderbird-enigmail | 2020-01-22 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-6490123c7c | F31 | xar | 2020-01-17 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2020-0039 | 7 | e2fsprogs | 2020-01-17 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2020-0046 | 7 | ffmpeg | 2020-01-22 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2020-0041 | 7 | kernel | 2020-01-17 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2020-0040 | 7 | libjpeg | 2020-01-17 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2020-0045 | 7 | sox | 2020-01-22 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2020-0043 | 7 | suricata | 2020-01-19 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2020-0042 | 7 | tigervnc | 2020-01-19 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2020-0044 | 7 | wireshark | 2020-01-19 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0084-1 | 15.1 | Mesa | 2020-01-21 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0089-1 | 15.1 | fontforge | 2020-01-22 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0079-1 | 15.1 | glusterfs | 2020-01-20 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0067-1 | 15.0 15.1 | icingaweb2 | 2020-01-16 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0068-1 | 15.1 | libredwg | 2020-01-17 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0062-1 | 15.1 | openssl-1_1 | 2020-01-15 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0080-1 | 15.1 | php7 | 2020-01-20 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0086-1 | 15.1 | python3 | 2020-01-21 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0085-1 | 15.1 | slurm | 2020-01-21 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0087-1 | 15.1 | tigervnc | 2020-01-21 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0069-1 | 15.1 | uftpd | 2020-01-18 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-0130 | OL8 | .NET Core | 2020-01-20 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-0111 | OL8 | firefox | 2020-01-15 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-0124 | OL7 | git | 2020-01-16 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-0124 | OL7 | git | 2020-01-17 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-0157 | OL6 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2020-01-21 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-0122 | OL7 | java-11-openjdk | 2020-01-16 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-0122 | OL7 | java-11-openjdk | 2020-01-17 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-0128 | OL8 | java-11-openjdk | 2020-01-20 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-5511 | OL6 | kernel | 2020-01-15 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-5511 | OL7 | kernel | 2020-01-15 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-0197 | OL6 | python-reportlab | 2020-01-21 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-0120 | OL7 | thunderbird | 2020-01-16 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-0120 | OL7 | thunderbird | 2020-01-17 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-0127 | OL8 | thunderbird | 2020-01-21 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:0134-01 | EL7 | .NET Core | 2020-01-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:0130-01 | EL8 | .NET Core | 2020-01-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:0194-01 | EL7 | apache-commons-beanutils | 2020-01-21 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:0124-01 | EL7 | git | 2020-01-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:0157-01 | EL6 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2020-01-20 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:0196-01 | EL7 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2020-01-21 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:0202-01 | EL8 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2020-01-22 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:0122-01 | EL7 | java-11-openjdk | 2020-01-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:0128-01 | EL8 | java-11-openjdk | 2020-01-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:0178-01 | EL7.3 | kernel | 2020-01-21 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:0179-01 | EL7.6 | kernel | 2020-01-21 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:0174-01 | EL7 | kernel-alt | 2020-01-21 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:0203-01 | EL7 | libarchive | 2020-01-22 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:0199-01 | EL6 | openslp | 2020-01-22 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:0165-01 | EL7 | openvswitch | 2020-01-21 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:0166-01 | EL7 | openvswitch2.11 | 2020-01-21 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:0171-01 | EL8 | openvswitch2.11 | 2020-01-21 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:0168-01 | EL7 | openvswitch2.12 | 2020-01-21 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:0172-01 | EL8 | openvswitch2.12 | 2020-01-21 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:0197-01 | EL6 | python-reportlab | 2020-01-21 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:0195-01 | EL7 | python-reportlab | 2020-01-21 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:0201-01 | EL8 | python-reportlab | 2020-01-22 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:0123-01 | EL6 | thunderbird | 2020-01-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:0120-01 | EL7 | thunderbird | 2020-01-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:0127-01 | EL8 | thunderbird | 2020-01-16 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2020:0124-1 | SL7 | git | 2020-01-16 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2020:0157-1 | SL6 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2020-01-21 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2020:0196-1 | SL7 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2020-01-22 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2020:0122-1 | SL7 | java-11-openjdk | 2020-01-16 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2020:0197-1 | SL6 | python-reportlab | 2020-01-22 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2020:0195-1 | SL7 | python-reportlab | 2020-01-22 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2020:0123-1 | SL6 | thunderbird | 2020-01-17 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2020:0120-1 | SL7 | thunderbird | 2020-01-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0121-1 | SLE15 | LibreOffice | 2020-01-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0145-1 | SLE12 | Mesa | 2020-01-21 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0146-1 | SLE12 | Mesa | 2020-01-21 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0111-1 | SLE15 | Mesa | 2020-01-16 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0132-1 | SLE15 | Mesa | 2020-01-20 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0118-1 | SLE15 | fontforge | 2020-01-16 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0140-1 | SLE12 | java-11-openjdk | 2020-01-20 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0131-1 | SLE12 | libssh | 2020-01-20 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0139-1 | SLE12 | libssh | 2020-01-20 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0129-1 | SLE15 | libssh | 2020-01-20 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0130-1 | SLE15 | libssh | 2020-01-20 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0143-1 | SLE15 | libvpx | 2020-01-20 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0114-1 | SLE15 | python3 | 2020-01-16 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0152-1 | SLE12 | samba | 2020-01-21 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0115-1 | OS7 OS8 SLE12 SES5 | shibboleth-sp | 2020-01-16 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0110-1 | SLE15 | slurm | 2020-01-16 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0142-1 | SLE15 | thunderbird | 2020-01-20 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0159-1 | OS7 OS8 SLE12 SES5 | tigervnc | 2020-01-22 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0112-1 | SLE15 | tigervnc | 2020-01-16 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0113-1 | SLE15 | tigervnc | 2020-01-16 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4240-1 | 16.04 | kamailio | 2020-01-16 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4243-1 | 12.04 14.04 16.04 18.04 19.04 | libbsd | 2020-01-20 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4221-2 | 12.04 | libpcap | 2020-01-15 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4225-2 | 18.04 | linux-hwe | 2020-01-17 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4235-2 | 14.04 | nginx | 2020-01-15 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4245-1 | 16.04 18.04 19.04 19.10 | python-pysaml2 | 2020-01-21 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4244-1 | 16.04 18.04 19.04 19.10 | samba | 2020-01-21 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4242-1 | 16.04 18.04 19.04 19.10 | sysstat | 2020-01-20 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4241-1 | 18.04 19.10 | thunderbird | 2020-01-16 |
Kernel patches of interest
Kernel releases
Architecture-specific
Core kernel
Development tools
Device drivers
Device-driver infrastructure
Filesystems and block layer
Memory management
Networking
Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
[PATCH bpf-next v3 0/3] xdp: Introduce bulking for non-map
XDP_REDIRECT
Jan 16
Christoph Paasch
[PATCH net-next v3 00/19] Multipath TCP part 2: Single subflow &
RFC8684 support
Jan 21
Security-related
Virtualization and containers
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