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Calls for Presentations
EuroPython 2020: Call for Proposals
The EuroPython call for proposals opens March 9 and closes March 29. The conference will take place July 20-26 in Dublin, Ireland. "We're looking for proposals on every aspect of Python: all levels of programming from novice to advanced, applications, frameworks, data science, Python projects, internals or topics which you're excited about, your experiences with Python and its ecosystem, creative or artistic things you’ve done with Python, to name a few."
Call for Proposals: DebConf20
DebConf20 will take place August 23-29 in Haifa, Israel. The call for proposals closes March 31. "Events are not limited to traditional presentations or informal sessions (BoFs): we welcome submissions of tutorials, performances, art installations, debates, or any other format of event that you think would be of interest to the Debian community."
CFP Deadlines: February 27, 2020 to April 27, 2020
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| March 31 | June 19 | [CANCELED] Open Source Camp | #5 Bareos | Berlin, Germany |
| March 31 | July 1 July 2 |
[ONLINE] Linux Security Summit North America | Austin, TX, USA |
| April 4 | August 20 | [Virtual] RustConf | online |
| April 6 | July 10 | [CANCELED] PGDay Russia 2020 | St. Petersburg, Russia |
| April 12 | July 23 July 26 |
[Virtual] EuroPython 2020 | Online |
| April 14 | October 19 October 20 |
[Virtual] All Things Open 2020 | Virtual |
| April 15 | July 16 July 18 |
[CANCELED] Linux Developer Conference Brazil | São Paulo, Brazil |
| April 16 | April 17 April 18 |
[CANCELED] Grazer Linuxtage | Graz, Austria |
| April 17 | June 18 June 19 |
[CANCELED] Swiss PGDay 2020 | Zurich, Switzerland |
| April 19 | September 18 | [Postponed to 2021] PGDay Austria 2020 | Vienna, Austria |
| April 23 | May 1 May 2 |
openSUSE Virtual Summit |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
LibrePlanet 2020 schedule
LibrePlanet will take place in Boston, MA from March 14-15. The schedule has been announced.Events: February 27, 2020 to April 27, 2020
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| March 30 April 2 |
POSTPONED: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2020 | Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| April 14 | [CANCELED] Open Source 101 | Austin, TX, USA |
| April 16 April 17 |
[CANCELED] DevOps Days Toronto 2020 | Toronto, Canada |
| April 17 April 18 |
[CANCELED] Grazer Linuxtage | Graz, Austria |
| April 17 April 19 |
[CANCELED] PyCon | Pittsburgh, PA, USA |
| April 24 April 25 |
[CANCELED] Linuxwochen Eisenstadt | Eisenstadt, Austria |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Security updates
Alert summary February 20, 2020 to February 26, 2020
| Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CentOS | CESA-2020:0550 | C7 | openjpeg2 | 2020-02-20 |
| Debian | DLA-2113-1 | LTS | cloud-init | 2020-02-21 |
| Debian | DSA-4633-1 | stable | curl | 2020-02-24 |
| Debian | DLA-2111-1 | LTS | jackson-databind | 2020-02-20 |
| Debian | DLA-2116-1 | LTS | libpam-radius-auth | 2020-02-22 |
| Debian | DLA-2110-1 | LTS | netty-3.9 | 2020-02-19 |
| Debian | DLA-2109-1 | LTS | netty | 2020-02-19 |
| Debian | DLA-2118-1 | LTS | otrs2 | 2020-02-24 |
| Debian | DSA-4631-1 | stable | pillow | 2020-02-21 |
| Debian | DSA-4632-1 | stable | ppp | 2020-02-22 |
| Debian | DLA-2115-1 | LTS | proftpd-dfsg | 2020-02-21 |
| Debian | DLA-2119-1 | LTS | python-pysaml2 | 2020-02-26 |
| Debian | DSA-4630-1 | stable | python-pysaml2 | 2020-02-21 |
| Debian | DLA-2112-1 | LTS | python-reportlab | 2020-02-20 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-76d608179d | F30 | NetworkManager-ssh | 2020-02-25 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-ed1f14985e | F31 | ceph | 2020-02-20 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-0e6a67af5a | F30 | dovecot | 2020-02-20 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-10a58fda28 | F31 | dovecot | 2020-02-20 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-65b80edd9b | F31 | firefox | 2020-02-22 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-092ef6572a | F30 | glib2 | 2020-02-23 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-f6cc7883b8 | F30 | hiredis | 2020-02-24 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-53a54ef986 | F31 | hiredis | 2020-02-24 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-830d8a1a92 | F30 | http-parser | 2020-02-23 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-47efc31973 | F30 | libuv | 2020-02-23 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-ad63f760f4 | F31 | mingw-openjpeg2 | 2020-02-22 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-47efc31973 | F30 | nghttp2 | 2020-02-23 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-830d8a1a92 | F30 | nodejs | 2020-02-23 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-ad63f760f4 | F31 | openjpeg2 | 2020-02-22 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-b8b7a4a0e5 | F30 | poppler | 2020-02-20 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-5cdbb19cca | F30 | python-pillow | 2020-02-22 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-a06ebafad8 | F30 | python-psutil | 2020-02-25 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-2a0aac3502 | F30 | skopeo | 2020-02-24 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-f317e13ecf | F31 | skopeo | 2020-02-23 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-4d11d35a1f | F30 | webkit2gtk3 | 2020-02-23 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-3269917c2f | F31 | webkit2gtk3 | 2020-02-20 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2020-0105 | 7 | clamav | 2020-02-26 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2020-0102 | 7 | graphicsmagick | 2020-02-26 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2020-0097 | 7 | ipmitool | 2020-02-24 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2020-0098 | 7 | libgd | 2020-02-24 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2020-0101 | 7 | libxml2_2 | 2020-02-24 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2020-0099 | 7 | nextcloud | 2020-02-24 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2020-0103 | 7 | opencontainers-runc | 2020-02-26 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2020-0093 | 7 | patch | 2020-02-22 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2020-0095 | 7 | postgresql | 2020-02-22 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2020-0100 | 7 | radare2 | 2020-02-24 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2020-0106 | 7 | squid | 2020-02-26 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2020-0094 | 7 | systemd | 2020-02-22 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2020-0096 | 7 | upx | 2020-02-24 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2020-0104 | 7 | xmlsec1 | 2020-02-26 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0242-1 | inn | 2020-02-25 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0234-1 | 15.1 | inn | 2020-02-20 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0235-1 | 15.1 | rmt-server | 2020-02-20 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0244-1 | 15.1 | sudo | 2020-02-25 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-5541 | OL6 | kernel | 2020-02-24 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-5542 | OL6 | kernel | 2020-02-25 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-5543 | OL6 | kernel | 2020-02-25 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-5540 | OL7 | kernel | 2020-02-24 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-5540 | OL7 | kernel | 2020-02-24 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-5541 | OL7 | kernel | 2020-02-24 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-5540 | OL7 | kernel | 2020-02-25 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-5542 | OL7 | kernel | 2020-02-25 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-5543 | OL7 | kernel | 2020-02-25 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-0568 | OL7 | ksh | 2020-02-24 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-0568 | OL7 | ksh | 2020-02-25 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-0550 | OL7 | openjpeg2 | 2020-02-19 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-0578 | OL7 | python-pillow | 2020-02-24 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-0578 | OL7 | python-pillow | 2020-02-25 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-0580 | OL8 | python-pillow | 2020-02-25 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-0575 | OL8 | systemd | 2020-02-25 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-0576 | OL7 | thunderbird | 2020-02-24 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-0576 | OL7 | thunderbird | 2020-02-25 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:0594-01 | EL7.4 | curl | 2020-02-25 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:0592-01 | EL7.4 | kernel | 2020-02-25 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:0568-01 | EL7 | ksh | 2020-02-24 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:0559-01 | EL8 | ksh | 2020-02-20 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:0579-01 | EL8 | nodejs:10 | 2020-02-25 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:0573-01 | EL8.0 | nodejs:10 | 2020-02-24 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:0598-01 | EL8 | nodejs:12 | 2020-02-25 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:0570-01 | EL8 | openjpeg2 | 2020-02-24 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:0569-01 | EL8.0 | openjpeg2 | 2020-02-24 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:0595-01 | EL7.4 | procps-ng | 2020-02-25 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:0578-01 | EL7 | python-pillow | 2020-02-24 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:0580-01 | EL8 | python-pillow | 2020-02-24 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:0566-01 | EL8.0 | python-pillow | 2020-02-20 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:0553-01 | OSP15 | rabbitmq-server | 2020-02-19 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:0597-01 | SCL | rh-nodejs10-nodejs | 2020-02-25 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:0602-01 | SCL | rh-nodejs12-nodejs | 2020-02-25 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:0591-01 | EL7.4 | ruby | 2020-02-25 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:0593-01 | EL7.4 | systemd | 2020-02-25 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:0575-01 | EL8 | systemd | 2020-02-24 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:0564-01 | EL8.0 | systemd | 2020-02-20 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:0574-01 | EL6 | thunderbird | 2020-02-24 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:0576-01 | EL7 | thunderbird | 2020-02-24 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:0577-01 | EL8 | thunderbird | 2020-02-24 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:0565-01 | EL8.0 | thunderbird | 2020-02-20 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2020:0568-1 | SL7 | ksh | 2020-02-25 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2020:0550-1 | SL7 | openjpeg2 | 2020-02-19 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2020:0578-1 | SL7 | python-pillow | 2020-02-25 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2020:0574-1 | SL6 | thunderbird | 2020-02-25 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2020:0576-1 | SL7 | thunderbird | 2020-02-25 |
| Slackware | SSA:2020-051-01 | proftpd | 2020-02-20 | |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0419-1 | OS7 OS8 OS9 SLE12 | dnsmasq | 2020-02-19 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0439-1 | SLE15 | dpdk | 2020-02-24 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:14290-1 | SLE11 | firefox | 2020-02-24 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:14286-1 | SLE11 | java-1_7_0-ibm | 2020-02-20 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0456-1 | OS7 OS8 SLE12 SES5 | java-1_7_1-ibm | 2020-02-25 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:14287-1 | SLE11 | java-1_7_1-ibm | 2020-02-21 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0466-1 | SLE15 | java-1_8_0-ibm | 2020-02-25 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0457-1 | OS7 OS8 SLE12 SES5 | libexif | 2020-02-25 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0458-1 | SLE15 | libexif | 2020-02-25 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0432-1 | SLE15 | libsolv, libzypp, zypper | 2020-02-21 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0459-1 | SLE12 | libvpx | 2020-02-25 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0427-1 | SLE12 | nodejs10 | 2020-02-20 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0455-1 | SLE15 | nodejs10 | 2020-02-25 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0429-1 | SLE12 | nodejs12 | 2020-02-20 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0488-1 | OS7 SLE12 | nodejs6 | 2020-02-26 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0454-1 | SLE15 | nodejs8 | 2020-02-25 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0474-1 | OS7 OS8 SLE12 SES5 | openssl | 2020-02-25 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:14291-1 | SLE11 | openssl1 | 2020-02-25 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0434-1 | SLE12 | pdsh, slurm_18_08 | 2020-02-21 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0443-1 | SLE15 | pdsh, slurm_18_08 | 2020-02-25 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:14289-1 | SLE11 | php53 | 2020-02-24 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0490-1 | OS7 OS8 SLE12 SES5 | ppp | 2020-02-26 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:14292-1 | SLE11 | ppp | 2020-02-25 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0489-1 | SLE15 | ppp | 2020-02-26 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0440-1 | SLE15 | python-azure-agent | 2020-02-24 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0467-1 | SLE15 | python3 | 2020-02-25 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0424-1 | SLE12 | rsyslog | 2020-02-19 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0420-1 | SLE12 | slurm | 2020-02-19 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0487-1 | SLE12 | squid | 2020-02-26 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0468-1 | SLE15 | webkit2gtk3 | 2020-02-25 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4291-1 | 18.04 19.10 | libapache2-mod-auth-mellon | 2020-02-24 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4290-1 | 16.04 18.04 19.10 | libpam-radius-auth | 2020-02-24 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4279-2 | 16.04 | php7.0 | 2020-02-19 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4288-1 | 16.04 18.04 19.10 | ppp | 2020-02-20 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4292-1 | 16.04 18.04 | rsync | 2020-02-24 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4289-1 | 16.04 18.04 19.10 | squid, squid3 | 2020-02-20 |
Kernel patches of interest
Kernel releases
Architecture-specific
Core kernel
Development tools
Device drivers
Jack Wang
RTRS (former IBTRS) RDMA Transport Library and RNBD (former IBNBD) RDMA Network Block Device
Feb 21
Device-driver infrastructure
Filesystems and block layer
Memory management
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