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SciPy 2020 Call for Submissions

SciPy will be held July 6-12 in Austin, TX. "The annual SciPy Conference brings together over 900 participants from industry, academia, and government to showcase their latest projects, learn from skilled users and developers, and collaborate on code development. The call for SciPy 2020 talks, posters, and tutorials is now open through February 11, 2020."

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CFP Deadlines: January 30, 2020 to March 30, 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
March 27	July 7 July 8	[CANCELED] PostgresLondon 2020	London, United Kingdom
March 29	June 20 June 21	International Conference on Networks, Blockchain and Internet of Things	Dubai, UAE

If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.

Update on netdev 0x14

Netdev will be held March 17-20 in Vancouver, Canada. The call for papers is over and a final list of accepted talks should be available soon. Early bird registration is open.

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Events: January 30, 2020 to March 30, 2020

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
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
March 23 March 24	[CANCELED] Indico Workshop 3	Geneva, Switzerland
March 23 March 25	Supercomputing Frontiers Europe	Warsaw, Poland
March 23 March 27	[CANCELED] Postgres Conference 2020	New York, NY, USA
March 23 March 27	[CANCELED] SUSECON 2020	was Dublin, Online only
March 25 March 28	[POSTPONED] MiniDebConf Maceió 2020	Maceió, Brazil
March 29 April 1	[POSTPONED] foss-north	Göteborg, Sweden

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Alert summary January 23, 2020 to January 29, 2020

Dist.	ID	Release	Package	Date
CentOS	CESA-2020:0194	C7	apache-commons-beanutils	2020-01-28
CentOS	CESA-2020:0157	C6	java-1.8.0-openjdk	2020-01-28
CentOS	CESA-2020:0196	C7	java-1.8.0-openjdk	2020-01-28
CentOS	CESA-2020:0203	C7	libarchive	2020-01-28
CentOS	CESA-2020:0262	C7	openjpeg2	2020-01-28
CentOS	CESA-2020:0199	C6	openslp	2020-01-28
CentOS	CESA-2020:0197	C6	python-reportlab	2020-01-28
CentOS	CESA-2020:0195	C7	python-reportlab	2020-01-28
CentOS	CESA-2020:0227	C7	sqlite	2020-01-28
Debian	DLA-2059-1	LTS	git	2020-01-23
Debian	DLA-2083-1	LTS	hiredis	2020-01-29
Debian	DLA-2080-1	LTS	iperf3	2020-01-27
Debian	DLA-2075-1	LTS	jsoup	2020-01-26
Debian	DLA-2081-1	LTS	openjpeg2	2020-01-28
Debian	DLA-2079-1	LTS	otrs2	2020-01-29
Debian	DLA-2074-1	LTS	python-apt	2020-01-23
Debian	DSA-4609-1	stable	python-apt	2020-01-23
Debian	DLA-2076-1	LTS	slirp	2020-01-26
Debian	DLA-2077-1	LTS	tomcat7	2020-01-28
Debian	DLA-2082-1	LTS	unzip	2020-01-28
Fedora	FEDORA-2020-cd9ec9d660	F30	community-mysql	2020-01-24
Fedora	FEDORA-2020-0ca47c5a7a	F31	community-mysql	2020-01-25
Fedora	FEDORA-2020-9f8bc040c8	F30	elog	2020-01-24
Fedora	FEDORA-2020-f49fe7f011	F31	elog	2020-01-25
Fedora	FEDORA-2020-229ad63391	F31	fontforge	2020-01-25
Fedora	FEDORA-2020-595ce5e3cc	F31	libuv	2020-01-24
Fedora	FEDORA-2020-6cd410d9e4	F30	libvpx	2020-01-24
Fedora	FEDORA-2020-968a89619e	F30	mingw-podofo	2020-01-26
Fedora	FEDORA-2020-dd79b615cd	F31	mingw-podofo	2020-01-27
Fedora	FEDORA-2020-595ce5e3cc	F31	nodejs	2020-01-24
Fedora	FEDORA-2020-3c93790abe	F31	opensc	2020-01-24
Fedora	FEDORA-2020-968a89619e	F30	podofo	2020-01-26
Fedora	FEDORA-2020-dd79b615cd	F31	podofo	2020-01-27
Fedora	FEDORA-2020-b48e3c177e	F31	thunderbird-enigmail	2020-01-24
Fedora	FEDORA-2020-5d0f0593ae	F31	transfig	2020-01-25
Fedora	FEDORA-2020-6a2824178e	F30	xfig	2020-01-24
Fedora	FEDORA-2020-5d0f0593ae	F31	xfig	2020-01-25
Mageia	MGASA-2020-0060	7	ansible	2020-01-28
Mageia	MGASA-2020-0051	7	c3p0	2020-01-28
Mageia	MGASA-2020-0057	7	fontforge	2020-01-28
Mageia	MGASA-2020-0052	7	glpi	2020-01-28
Mageia	MGASA-2020-0056	7	gthumb	2020-01-28
Mageia	MGASA-2020-0061	7	libbsd	2020-01-28
Mageia	MGASA-2020-0047	7	libmediainfo	2020-01-28
Mageia	MGASA-2020-0062	7	libmp4v2	2020-01-28
Mageia	MGASA-2020-0048	7	libqb	2020-01-28
Mageia	MGASA-2020-0049	7	libsass	2020-01-28
Mageia	MGASA-2020-0053	7	mbedtls	2020-01-28
Mageia	MGASA-2020-0050	7	opencontainers-runc	2020-01-28
Mageia	MGASA-2020-0066	7	php	2020-01-28
Mageia	MGASA-2020-0063	7	python-pip	2020-01-28
Mageia	MGASA-2020-0059	7	python-reportlab	2020-01-28
Mageia	MGASA-2020-0055	7	python3	2020-01-28
Mageia	MGASA-2020-0058	7	samba	2020-01-28
Mageia	MGASA-2020-0064	7	sysstat	2020-01-28
Mageia	MGASA-2020-0054	7	tomcat	2020-01-28
Mageia	MGASA-2020-0065	7	virtualbox	2020-01-28
Mageia	MGASA-2020-0067	7	webkit2	2020-01-28
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2020:0124-1	15.1	apt-cacher-ng	2020-01-29
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2020:0103-1	15.1	arc	2020-01-25
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2020:0093-1	15.1	chromium	2020-01-22
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2020:0123-1	15.1	git	2020-01-29
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2020:0113-1	15.1	java-11-openjdk	2020-01-28
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2020:0095-1		libredwg	2020-01-23
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2020:0115-1		libredwg	2020-01-28
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2020:0096-1	15.1	libredwg	2020-01-23
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2020:0102-1	15.1	libssh	2020-01-25
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2020:0105-1	15.1	libvpx	2020-01-26
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2020:0122-1	15.1	samba	2020-01-29
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2020:0117-1	15.1	sarg	2020-01-28
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2020:0121-1	15.1	sarg	2020-01-28
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2020:0119-1	15.1	storeBackup	2020-01-28
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2020:0094-1	15.1	thunderbird	2020-01-22
Oracle	ELSA-2020-0194	OL7	apache-commons-beanutils	2020-01-22
Oracle	ELSA-2020-0196	OL7	java-1.8.0-openjdk	2020-01-22
Oracle	ELSA-2020-0202	OL8	java-1.8.0-openjdk	2020-01-22
Oracle	ELSA-2020-0203	OL7	libarchive	2020-01-22
Oracle	ELSA-2020-0262	OL7	openjpeg2	2020-01-28
Oracle	ELSA-2020-0262	OL7	openjpeg2	2020-01-29
Oracle	ELSA-2020-0199	OL6	openslp	2020-01-23
Oracle	ELSA-2020-0195	OL7	python-reportlab	2020-01-22
Oracle	ELSA-2020-0201	OL8	python-reportlab	2020-01-22
Oracle	ELSA-2020-0227	OL7	sqlite	2020-01-27
Oracle	ELSA-2020-0227	OL7	sqlite	2020-01-27
Red Hat	RHSA-2020:0214-01	EL6	chromium-browser	2020-01-23
Red Hat	RHSA-2020:0222-01	EL8.0	ghostscript	2020-01-23
Red Hat	RHSA-2020:0228-01	EL8.0	git	2020-01-27
Red Hat	RHSA-2020:0231-01	EL8.0	java-1.8.0-openjdk	2020-01-27
Red Hat	RHSA-2020:0232-01	EL8.0	java-11-openjdk	2020-01-27
Red Hat	RHSA-2020:0204-01	EL8.0	kernel	2020-01-22
Red Hat	RHSA-2020:0271-01	EL8	libarchive	2020-01-29
Red Hat	RHSA-2020:0246-01	EL8.0	libarchive	2020-01-27
Red Hat	RHSA-2020:0243-01	EL8.0	nss	2020-01-27
Red Hat	RHSA-2020:0262-01	EL7	openjpeg2	2020-01-28
Red Hat	RHSA-2020:0274-01	EL8	openjpeg2	2020-01-29
Red Hat	RHSA-2020:0230-01	EL8.0	python-reportlab	2020-01-27
Red Hat	RHSA-2020:0227-01	EL7	sqlite	2020-01-27
Red Hat	RHSA-2020:0273-01	EL8	sqlite	2020-01-29
Red Hat	RHSA-2020:0229-01	EL8.0	sqlite	2020-01-27
Red Hat	RHSA-2020:0279-01	EL8	virt:rhel	2020-01-29
Scientific Linux	SLSA-2020:0194-1	SL7	apache-commons-beanutils	2020-01-22
Scientific Linux	SLSA-2020:0203-1	SL7	libarchive	2020-01-22
Scientific Linux	SLSA-2020:0199-1	SL6	openslp	2020-01-22
Scientific Linux	SLSA-2020:0227-1	SL7	sqlite	2020-01-28
Slackware	SSA:2020-024-01		thunderbird	2020-01-24
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2020:0251-1	OS8 SLE12	aws-cli	2020-01-28
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2020:0213-1	SLE15	java-11-openjdk	2020-01-23
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2020:0231-1	SLE15	java-1_8_0-openjdk	2020-01-24
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2020:0247-1	OS7 SLE12	nodejs6	2020-01-28
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2020:0234-1	SLE15	python	2020-01-24
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2020:0255-1	SLE15	python-reportlab	2020-01-29
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2020:0233-1	OS8 SLE12 SES5	samba	2020-01-24
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2020:0224-1	SLE15	samba	2020-01-23
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2020:0223-1	SLE15 SES6	samba	2020-01-23
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2020:0228-1	SLE15	slurm	2020-01-24
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2020:0226-1	SLE15	tomcat	2020-01-24
Ubuntu	USN-4230-2	12.04 14.04	clamav	2020-01-23
Ubuntu	USN-4256-1	12.04 14.04 16.04 18.04 19.10	cyrus-sasl2	2020-01-28
Ubuntu	USN-4249-1	12.04 14.04 16.04 18.04 19.04 19.10	e2fsprogs	2020-01-23
Ubuntu	USN-4233-2	16.04 18.04	gnutls28	2020-01-23
Ubuntu	USN-4248-1	16.04	graphicsmagick	2020-01-22
Ubuntu	USN-4236-3	12.04 14.04	libgcrypt11	2020-01-28
Ubuntu	USN-4254-1	16.04	linux, linux-aws, linux-kvm, linux-raspi2, linux-snapdragon	2020-01-27
Ubuntu	USN-4255-1	18.04	linux, linux-aws, linux-oem	2020-01-27
Ubuntu	USN-4253-1	19.10	linux, linux-aws	2020-01-27
Ubuntu	USN-4258-1	18.04	linux-aws-5.0, linux-gcp, linux-gke-5.0, linux-oracle-5.0	2020-01-28
Ubuntu	USN-4255-2	16.04	linux-hwe, linux-aws-hwe	2020-01-28
Ubuntu	USN-4253-2	18.04	linux-hwe	2020-01-28
Ubuntu	USN-4254-2	14.04	linux-lts-xenial, linux-aws	2020-01-28
Ubuntu	USN-4250-1	16.04 18.04 19.10	mysql-5.7, mysql-8.0	2020-01-27
Ubuntu	USN-4257-1	16.04 18.04 19.10	openjdk-8, openjdk-lts	2020-01-28
Ubuntu	USN-4247-3	12.04 14.04	python-apt	2020-01-23
Ubuntu	USN-4247-2	16.04 18.04 19.04 19.10	python-apt	2020-01-22
Ubuntu	USN-4247-1	16.04 18.04 19.04 19.10	python-apt	2020-01-22
Ubuntu	USN-4252-2	12.04 14.04	tcpdump	2020-01-27
Ubuntu	USN-4252-1	16.04 18.04	tcpdump	2020-01-27
Ubuntu	USN-4251-1	16.04	tomcat8	2020-01-27
Ubuntu	USN-4246-1	16.04	zlib	2020-01-22

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Linus Torvalds Linux 5.5 Jan 26

Alexandre Oliva GNU Linux-libre 5.5-gnu Jan 27

Greg KH Linux 5.4.15 Jan 26

Greg KH Linux 5.4.14 Jan 23

Greg KH Linux 4.19.99 Jan 27

Greg KH Linux 4.19.98 Jan 23

Steven Rostedt 4.19.98-rt40 Jan 28

Steven Rostedt 4.19.94-rt39 Jan 24

Greg KH Linux 4.14.168 Jan 27

Greg KH Linux 4.14.167 Jan 23

Greg KH Linux 4.9.211 Jan 23

Greg KH Linux 4.4.211 Jan 23

Amit Daniel Kachhap arm64: return address signing Jan 23

Andrew Murray [PATCH v4 0/3] arm64: perf: Add support for ARMv8.5-PMU 64-bit counters Jan 23

Mark Brown arm64: ARMv8.5-A: Branch Target Identification support Jan 22

Anshuman Khandual arm64: Enable vmemmap mapping from device memory Jan 23

Atish Patra Add support for SBI v0.2 and CPU hotplug Jan 27

Luck, Tony x86/split_lock: Enable split lock detection by kernel Jan 22

Jacob Pan Nested Shared Virtual Address (SVA) VT-d support Jan 28

Tom Zanussi tracing: Add support for in-kernel dynamic event API Jan 24

Alexey Gladkov proc: modernize proc to support multiple private instances Jan 25

Thara Gopinath Introduce Thermal Pressure Jan 28

Alan Maguire kunit: add debugfs representation to show results/run tests Jan 23

Brendan Higgins [PATCH v1 0/7] kunit: create a centralized executor to dispatch all KUnit tests Jan 27

sjpark@amazon.com Introduce Data Access MONitor (DAMON) Jan 28

Kalyani Akula Add Xilinx's ZynqMP AES-GCM driver support Jan 23

Manivannan Sadhasivam Add MHI bus support Jan 23

Jernej Skrabec media: sunxi: Add DE2 rotate driver Jan 25

Peter Ujfalusi drm/bridge: Support for Toshiba tc358768 RGB to DSI bridge Jan 27

Jose Abreu net: Add support for Synopsys DesignWare XPCS Jan 27

Jack Wang RTRS (former IBTRS) RDMA Transport Library and RNBD (former IBNBD) RDMA Network Block Device Jan 24

sunil.kovvuri@gmail.com octeontx2-pf: Add network driver for physical function Jan 24

Bharat Kumar Gogada Adding support for Versal CPM as Root Port driver. Jan 28

Sandeep Maheswaram Add QUSB2 PHY support for SC7180 Jan 29

Beniamin Bia Add hmc425a support Jan 29

Sowjanya Komatineni Add Tegra driver for video capture Jan 28

Sandeep Singh SFH: Add Support for AMD Sensor Fusion Hub Jan 29

Beniamin Bia iio: amplifiers: hmc425a: Add support for HMC425A step attenuator with gpio interface Jan 29

Hanna Hawa Add support for Amazon's Annapurna Labs EDAC for L1/L2 Jan 29

Ezequiel Garcia media: rockchip: Add the rkvdec driver Jan 29

Boris Brezillon drm: Add support for bus-format negotiation Jan 23

Chris Packham SPI bus multiplexing Jan 23

Bartosz Golaszewski gpiolib: add an ioctl() for monitoring line status changes Jan 23

Thomas Hellström (VMware) Huge page-table entries for TTM Jan 24

Dan Murphy Multi Color LED Framework Jan 27

Vitor Soares Introduce i3c device userspace interface Jan 29

Benjamin Gaignard Introduce bus firewall controller framework Jan 28

Sascha Hauer Add quota support to UBIFS Jan 24

Matthew Wilcox Change readahead API Jan 24

Damien Le Moal New zonefs file system Jan 27

Weiping Zhang Add support Weighted Round Robin for blkcg and nvme Jan 28

Johannes Thumshirn btrfs: remove buffer heads form superblock handling Jan 28

Daniel Rosenberg Support fof Casefolding and Encryption Jan 28

Omar Sandoval fs: add flag to linkat() for replacing destination Jan 28

Brian Geffon mm: Add MREMAP_DONTUNMAP to mremap(). Jan 22

John Hubbard mm/gup: track FOLL_PIN pages (follow on from v12) Jan 24

Minchan Kim introduce memory hinting API for external process Jan 27

Martin KaFai Lau bpf: tcp: Add bpf_cubic example Jan 22

David Ahern Add support for XDP in egress path Jan 22

Martin Varghese Bare UDP L3 Encapsulation Module Jan 23

Michal Kubecek ethtool netlink interface, part 2 Jan 26

Steffen Klassert Support fraglist GRO/GSO Jan 25

Lakshmi Ramasubramanian IMA: Deferred measurement of keys Jan 22

KP Singh MAC and Audit policy using eBPF (KRSI) Jan 23

Sargun Dhillon Add the ability to get a pidfd on seccomp user notifications Jan 24

Casey Schaufler LSM: Module stacking for AppArmor Jan 23

Roberto Sassu ima: support stronger algorithms for attestation Jan 27

Alexey Budankov [PATCH v6 00/10] Introduce CAP_PERFMON to secure system performance monitoring and observability Jan 28

Sami Tolvanen add support for Clang's Shadow Call Stack Jan 28

Liu, Yi L vfio: expose virtual Shared Virtual Addressing to VMs Jan 29

Jérémie Galarneau Babeltrace 2.0.0 Jan 22

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