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CFP Deadlines: March 26, 2020 to May 25, 2020
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
---|---|---|---|
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 | |
May 1 | August 26 August 28 |
[Canceled] FOSS4G Calgary | Calgary, Canada |
May 22 | May 28 May 31 |
MiniDebConf Online |
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Upcoming Events
Events: March 26, 2020 to May 25, 2020
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Security updates
Alert summary March 19, 2020 to March 25, 2020
Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
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Arch Linux | ASA-202003-13 | bluez | 2020-03-20 | |
Arch Linux | ASA-202003-12 | chromium | 2020-03-20 | |
Debian | DLA-2148-1 | LTS | amd64-microcode | 2020-03-20 |
Debian | DSA-4645-1 | stable | chromium | 2020-03-22 |
Debian | DLA-2156-1 | LTS | e2fsprogs | 2020-03-24 |
Debian | DLA-2147-1 | LTS | gdal | 2020-03-19 |
Debian | DLA-2152-1 | LTS | graphicsmagick | 2020-03-21 |
Debian | DLA-2151-1 | LTS | icu | 2020-03-20 |
Debian | DLA-2153-1 | LTS | jackson-databind | 2020-03-22 |
Debian | DLA-2154-1 | LTS | phpmyadmin | 2020-03-22 |
Debian | DSA-4643-1 | stable | python-bleach | 2020-03-20 |
Debian | DLA-2149-1 | LTS | rails | 2020-03-20 |
Debian | DLA-2158-1 | LTS | ruby2.1 | 2020-03-25 |
Debian | DLA-2150-1 | LTS | thunderbird | 2020-03-20 |
Debian | DSA-4642-1 | stable | thunderbird | 2020-03-19 |
Debian | DLA-2155-1 | LTS | tomcat8 | 2020-03-24 |
Debian | DSA-4644-1 | stable | tor | 2020-03-20 |
Debian | DLA-2145-2 | LTS | twisted | 2020-03-19 |
Debian | DLA-2157-1 | LTS | weechat | 2020-03-24 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2020-f6271d7afa | F31 | chromium | 2020-03-20 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2020-7fd051b378 | F31 | chromium | 2020-03-24 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2020-42e79d74f1 | F32 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2020-03-24 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2020-4c3d74204a | F30 | nethack | 2020-03-19 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2020-16268b450d | F31 | nethack | 2020-03-19 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2020-7036f54316 | F31 | okular | 2020-03-24 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2020-f3fa778924 | F30 | webkit2gtk3 | 2020-03-20 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2020-f25793aac4 | F31 | webkit2gtk3 | 2020-03-25 |
Gentoo | 202003-44 | bsdiff | 2020-03-19 | |
Gentoo | 202003-40 | cacti | 2020-03-19 | |
Gentoo | 202003-46 | clamav | 2020-03-19 | |
Gentoo | 202003-47 | exim | 2020-03-20 | |
Gentoo | 202003-41 | fribidi | 2020-03-19 | |
Gentoo | 202003-42 | libgit2 | 2020-03-19 | |
Gentoo | 202003-48 | nodejs | 2020-03-20 | |
Gentoo | 202003-38 | pecl-imagick | 2020-03-19 | |
Gentoo | 202003-39 | phpmyadmin | 2020-03-19 | |
Gentoo | 202003-45 | pyyaml | 2020-03-19 | |
Gentoo | 202003-43 | tomcat | 2020-03-19 | |
Mageia | MGASA-2020-0145 | 7 | okular | 2020-03-18 |
Mageia | MGASA-2020-0143 | 7 | sleuthkit | 2020-03-18 |
Mageia | MGASA-2020-0144 | 7 | webkit2 | 2020-03-18 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0376-1 | 15.1 | apache2-mod_auth_openidc | 2020-03-25 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0365-1 | chromium | 2020-03-22 | |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0365-1 | 15.1 | chromium | 2020-03-22 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0381-1 | 15.1 | glibc | 2020-03-25 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0382-1 | 15.1 | mcpp | 2020-03-25 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0379-1 | 15.1 | nghttp2 | 2020-03-25 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0357-1 | 15.1 | salt | 2020-03-18 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0377-1 | 15.1 | skopeo | 2020-03-25 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0368-1 | 15.1 | texlive-filesystem | 2020-03-23 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0366-1 | 15.1 | thunderbird | 2020-03-22 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0362-1 | 15.1 | wireshark | 2020-03-20 |
Oracle | ELSA-2020-0815 | OL7 | firefox | 2020-03-19 |
Oracle | ELSA-2020-0896 | OL6 | icu | 2020-03-19 |
Oracle | ELSA-2020-0897 | OL7 | icu | 2020-03-19 |
Oracle | ELSA-2020-0897 | OL7 | icu | 2020-03-18 |
Oracle | ELSA-2020-0834 | OL7 | kernel | 2020-03-18 |
Oracle | ELSA-2020-0920 | OL8 | libvncserver | 2020-03-24 |
Oracle | ELSA-2020-0898 | OL6 | python-imaging | 2020-03-19 |
Oracle | ELSA-2020-0850 | OL7 | python-pip | 2020-03-19 |
Oracle | ELSA-2020-0850 | OL7 | python-pip | 2020-03-18 |
Oracle | ELSA-2020-0851 | OL7 | python-virtualenv | 2020-03-19 |
Oracle | ELSA-2020-0851 | OL7 | python-virtualenv | 2020-03-18 |
Oracle | ELSA-2020-0905 | OL7 | thunderbird | 2020-03-19 |
Oracle | ELSA-2020-0905 | OL7 | thunderbird | 2020-03-20 |
Oracle | ELSA-2020-0919 | OL8 | thunderbird | 2020-03-24 |
Oracle | ELSA-2020-0855 | OL7 | tomcat | 2020-03-20 |
Oracle | ELSA-2020-0912 | OL6 | tomcat6 | 2020-03-23 |
Oracle | ELSA-2020-0892 | OL6 | zsh | 2020-03-19 |
Oracle | ELSA-2020-0853 | OL7 | zsh | 2020-03-19 |
Oracle | ELSA-2020-0853 | OL7 | zsh | 2020-03-18 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:0924-01 | SCL | devtoolset-8-gcc | 2020-03-23 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:0896-01 | EL6 | icu | 2020-03-18 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:0897-01 | EL7 | icu | 2020-03-18 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:0902-01 | EL8 | icu | 2020-03-19 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:0901-01 | EL8.0 | icu | 2020-03-19 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:0913-01 | EL7 | libvncserver | 2020-03-23 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:0920-01 | EL8 | libvncserver | 2020-03-23 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:0921-01 | EL8.0 | libvncserver | 2020-03-23 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:0898-01 | EL6 | python-imaging | 2020-03-18 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:0942-01 | EL7 | runc | 2020-03-23 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:0943-01 | EL7 | samba | 2020-03-23 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:0914-01 | EL6 | thunderbird | 2020-03-23 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:0905-01 | EL7 | thunderbird | 2020-03-19 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:0919-01 | EL8 | thunderbird | 2020-03-23 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:0918-01 | EL8.0 | thunderbird | 2020-03-23 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:0912-01 | EL6 | tomcat6 | 2020-03-23 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2020:0903-01 | EL8 | zsh | 2020-03-19 |
Scientific Linux | SLSA-2020:0896-1 | SL6 | icu | 2020-03-18 |
Scientific Linux | SLSA-2020:0897-1 | SL7 | icu | 2020-03-18 |
Scientific Linux | SLSA-2020:0913-1 | SL7 | libvncserver | 2020-03-23 |
Scientific Linux | SLSA-2020:0898-1 | SL6 | python-imaging | 2020-03-18 |
Scientific Linux | SLSA-2020:0914-1 | SL6 | thunderbird | 2020-03-23 |
Scientific Linux | SLSA-2020:0905-1 | SL7 | thunderbird | 2020-03-19 |
Scientific Linux | SLSA-2020:0912-1 | SL6 | tomcat6 | 2020-03-23 |
Scientific Linux | SLSA-2020:0892-1 | SL6 | zsh | 2020-03-18 |
Slackware | SSA:2020-083-01 | gd | 2020-03-23 | |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0751-1 | SLE15 | cloud-init | 2020-03-23 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0717-1 | OS7 OS8 SLE12 SES5 | firefox | 2020-03-19 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0779-1 | SLE15 | keepalived | 2020-03-25 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0722-1 | SLE15 | nghttp2 | 2020-03-19 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0715-1 | OS7 OS8 SLE12 SES5 | postgresql10 | 2020-03-18 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0752-1 | SLE15 | postgresql10 | 2020-03-23 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0750-1 | SLE12 | python36 | 2020-03-23 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0737-1 | SLE15 | ruby2.5 | 2020-03-20 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0743-1 | SLE15 | strongswan | 2020-03-23 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0721-1 | SLE15 | thunderbird | 2020-03-19 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0725-1 | OS7 OS8 SLE12 SES5 | tomcat | 2020-03-19 |
Ubuntu | USN-4307-1 | 18.04 | apache2 | 2020-03-18 |
Ubuntu | USN-4134-3 | 16.04 18.04 19.10 | ibus | 2020-03-24 |
Ubuntu | USN-4308-1 | 16.04 18.04 19.10 | twisted | 2020-03-19 |
Ubuntu | USN-4309-1 | 12.04 14.04 16.04 18.04 19.10 | vim | 2020-03-23 |
Kernel patches of interest
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