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Calls for Presentations
CFP Deadlines: April 2, 2020 to June 1, 2020
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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: April 2, 2020 to June 1, 2020
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Event Reports
Looking back at LibrePlanet 2020
The Free Software Foundation looks back on LibrePlanet 2020; a virtual edition was held March 14-15. "Within the scope of five days, we were able to move the conference from an in-person experience to a live streaming event, thanks to the heroic efforts of our talented tech team, our volunteers, and the flexibility and cooperation of our scheduled speakers, even some previously unscheduled ones. We hosted three sessions at a time for both days of the conference, bringing viewers thirty-five streamed talks from forty-five speakers, as well as eight lightning talks. Technical difficulties were few and far between, and when one of our speakers asked how many nations were tuning in, within the span of eighteen seconds, twelve countries were identified."
Security updates
Alert summary March 26, 2020 to April 1, 2020
| Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CentOS | CESA-2020:0816 | C6 | firefox | 2020-03-25 |
| CentOS | CESA-2020:0815 | C7 | firefox | 2020-03-25 |
| CentOS | CESA-2020:0896 | C6 | icu | 2020-03-25 |
| CentOS | CESA-2020:0897 | C7 | icu | 2020-03-25 |
| CentOS | CESA-2020:0839 | C7 | kernel-rt | 2020-03-18 |
| CentOS | CESA-2020:0913 | C7 | libvncserver | 2020-03-25 |
| CentOS | CESA-2020:0898 | C6 | python-imaging | 2020-03-25 |
| CentOS | CESA-2020:0850 | C7 | python-pip | 2020-03-18 |
| CentOS | CESA-2020:0851 | C7 | python-virtualenv | 2020-03-25 |
| CentOS | CESA-2020:0914 | C6 | thunderbird | 2020-03-25 |
| CentOS | CESA-2020:0905 | C7 | thunderbird | 2020-03-25 |
| CentOS | CESA-2020:0855 | C7 | tomcat | 2020-03-25 |
| CentOS | CESA-2020:0912 | C6 | tomcat6 | 2020-03-25 |
| CentOS | CESA-2020:0892 | C6 | zsh | 2020-03-25 |
| CentOS | CESA-2020:0853 | C7 | zsh | 2020-03-25 |
| Debian | DLA-2165-1 | LTS | apng2gif | 2020-03-31 |
| Debian | DSA-4647-1 | stable | bluez | 2020-03-26 |
| Debian | DLA-2164-1 | LTS | gst-plugins-bad0.10 | 2020-03-31 |
| Debian | DSA-4646-1 | stable | icu | 2020-03-25 |
| Debian | DLA-2166-1 | LTS | libpam-krb5 | 2020-04-01 |
| Debian | DSA-4648-1 | stable | libpam-krb5 | 2020-03-31 |
| Debian | DLA-2159-1 | LTS | okular | 2020-03-25 |
| Debian | DLA-2162-1 | LTS | php-horde-form | 2020-03-29 |
| Debian | DLA-2160-1 | LTS | php5 | 2020-03-26 |
| Debian | DLA-2161-1 | LTS | tika | 2020-03-28 |
| Debian | DLA-2163-1 | LTS | tinyproxy | 2020-03-31 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-40c35d7b37 | F30 | PyYAML | 2020-03-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-bdb0bfa928 | F31 | PyYAML | 2020-03-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-39e0b8bd14 | F30 | chromium | 2020-03-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-f3fcb1608a | F30 | coturn | 2020-04-01 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-305c173af8 | F31 | coturn | 2020-04-01 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-545493aa4b | F30 | dcraw | 2020-03-29 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-19c7f8e25f | F31 | dcraw | 2020-03-29 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-76966b3419 | F31 | kernel | 2020-03-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-71b2273a9f | F30 | libarchive | 2020-04-01 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-f7ba0ac7a4 | F30 | libmodsecurity | 2020-03-30 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-dc9aee5510 | F31 | libmodsecurity | 2020-03-30 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-40fa1ae94b | F30 | libxslt | 2020-03-26 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-e35573f7df | F30 | okular | 2020-03-31 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-ce5a2a7403 | F30 | php | 2020-03-26 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-0bf228857a | F31 | php | 2020-03-26 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-25f3aea389 | F30 | phpMyAdmin | 2020-04-01 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-d7b0a5a84a | F31 | phpMyAdmin | 2020-04-01 |
| Gentoo | 202003-61 | adobe-flash | 2020-03-26 | |
| Gentoo | 202003-49 | bluez | 2020-03-25 | |
| Gentoo | 202003-53 | chromium | 2020-03-25 | |
| Gentoo | 202003-65 | ffmpeg | 2020-03-30 | |
| Gentoo | 202003-63 | libidn2 | 2020-03-30 | |
| Gentoo | 202003-59 | libvpx | 2020-03-26 | |
| Gentoo | 202003-64 | libxls | 2020-03-30 | |
| Gentoo | 202003-57 | php | 2020-03-26 | |
| Gentoo | 202003-54 | pure-ftpd | 2020-03-25 | |
| Gentoo | 202003-66 | qemu | 2020-03-30 | |
| Gentoo | 202003-60 | qtcore | 2020-03-26 | |
| Gentoo | 202003-52 | samba | 2020-03-25 | |
| Gentoo | 202003-62 | screen | 2020-03-30 | |
| Gentoo | 202003-50 | tor | 2020-03-25 | |
| Gentoo | 202003-58 | unzip | 2020-03-26 | |
| Gentoo | 202003-51 | weechat | 2020-03-25 | |
| Gentoo | 202003-56 | xen | 2020-03-25 | |
| Gentoo | 202003-55 | zsh | 2020-03-25 | |
| Mageia | MGASA-2020-0149 | 7 | chromium-browser-stable | 2020-04-01 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2020-0147 | 7 | nghttp2 | 2020-04-01 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2020-0148 | 7 | php | 2020-04-01 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2020-0150 | 7 | phpmyadmin | 2020-04-01 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2020-0146 | 7 | sympa | 2020-04-01 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2020-0151 | 7 | vim | 2020-04-01 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0429-1 | GraphicsMagick | 2020-03-31 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0416-1 | 15.1 | GraphicsMagick | 2020-03-31 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0389-1 | chromium | 2020-03-27 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0400-1 | 15.1 | cloud-init | 2020-03-29 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0398-1 | 15.1 | cni, cni-plugins, conmon, fuse-overlayfs, podman | 2020-03-29 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0388-1 | 15.1 | kernel | 2020-03-27 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0438-1 | 15.1 | ldns | 2020-04-01 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0391-1 | mcpp | 2020-03-27 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0402-1 | 15.1 | opera | 2020-03-29 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0405-1 | phpMyAdmin | 2020-03-30 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0427-1 | phpMyAdmin | 2020-03-31 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0405-1 | 15.1 | phpMyAdmin | 2020-03-30 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0430-1 | python-mysql-connector-python | 2020-03-31 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0409-1 | 15.1 | python-mysql-connector-python | 2020-03-30 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0440-1 | python-nltk | 2020-04-01 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0436-1 | 15.1 | python-nltk | 2020-03-31 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0395-1 | 15.1 | ruby2.5 | 2020-03-29 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0403-1 | 15.1 | strongswan | 2020-03-30 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0428-1 | tor | 2020-03-31 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0406-1 | 15.1 | tor | 2020-03-30 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-0984 | OL7 | ipmitool | 2020-03-26 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-0984 | OL7 | ipmitool | 2020-03-27 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-0981 | OL8 | ipmitool | 2020-03-27 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-0913 | OL7 | libvncserver | 2020-03-25 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-0913 | OL7 | libvncserver | 2020-03-26 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:1021-01 | EL7 | GNOME | 2020-03-31 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:1180-01 | EL7 | ImageMagick | 2020-03-31 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:1037-01 | EL7 | advancecomp | 2020-03-31 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:1176-01 | EL7 | avahi | 2020-03-31 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:1113-01 | EL7 | bash | 2020-03-31 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:1061-01 | EL7 | bind | 2020-03-31 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:1101-01 | EL7 | bluez | 2020-03-31 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:1231-01 | EL7 | buildah | 2020-03-31 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:1270-01 | EL6 | chromium-browser | 2020-04-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:1050-01 | EL7 | cups | 2020-03-31 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:1020-01 | EL7 | curl | 2020-03-31 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:1234-01 | EL7 | docker | 2020-03-31 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:1062-01 | EL7 | dovecot | 2020-03-31 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:1034-01 | EL7 | doxygen | 2020-03-31 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:1226-01 | EL7 | dpdk | 2020-03-31 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:1080-01 | EL7 | evolution | 2020-03-31 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:1011-01 | EL7 | expat | 2020-03-31 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:1022-01 | EL7 | file | 2020-03-31 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:1138-01 | EL7 | gettext | 2020-03-31 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:1121-01 | EL7 | httpd | 2020-03-31 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:1269-01 | EL8.0 | idm:DL1 | 2020-04-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:0984-01 | EL7 | ipmitool | 2020-03-26 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:0981-01 | EL8 | ipmitool | 2020-03-26 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:0979-01 | EL8.0 | ipmitool | 2020-03-26 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:1016-01 | EL7 | kernel | 2020-03-31 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:1266-01 | EL7.5 | kernel | 2020-04-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:1070-01 | EL7 | kernel-rt | 2020-03-31 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:1045-01 | EL7 | lftp | 2020-03-31 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:1051-01 | EL7 | libosinfo | 2020-03-31 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:1189-01 | EL7 | libqb | 2020-03-31 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:1151-01 | EL7 | libreoffice | 2020-03-31 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:1185-01 | EL7 | libsndfile | 2020-03-31 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:1190-01 | EL7 | libxml2 | 2020-03-31 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:1054-01 | EL7 | mailman | 2020-03-31 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:1100-01 | EL7 | mariadb | 2020-03-31 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:1003-01 | EL7 | mod_auth_mellon | 2020-03-31 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:1126-01 | EL7 | mutt | 2020-03-31 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:1167-01 | EL7 | nbdkit | 2020-03-31 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:1081-01 | EL7 | net-snmp | 2020-03-31 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:1267-01 | EL7.5 | nss-softokn | 2020-04-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:1173-01 | EL7 | okular | 2020-03-31 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:1112-01 | EL7 | php | 2020-03-31 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:1227-01 | EL7 | podman | 2020-03-31 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:1135-01 | EL7 | polkit | 2020-03-31 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:1074-01 | EL7 | poppler and evince | 2020-03-31 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:1265-01 | EL7.5 | procps-ng | 2020-04-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:1131-01 | EL7 | python | 2020-03-31 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:1268-01 | EL7.5 | python | 2020-04-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:1091-01 | EL7 | python-twisted-web | 2020-03-31 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:1132-01 | EL7 | python3 | 2020-03-31 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:1116-01 | EL7 | qemu-kvm | 2020-03-31 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:1208-01 | EL7 | qemu-kvm | 2020-03-31 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:1150-01 | EL7 | qemu-kvm-ma | 2020-03-31 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:1209-01 | EL7 | qemu-kvm-ma | 2020-03-31 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:1216-01 | EL7 | qemu-kvm-rhev | 2020-03-31 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:1172-01 | EL7 | qt | 2020-03-31 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:0980-01 | RHSC | rh-postgresql10-postgresql | 2020-03-26 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:1000-01 | EL7 | rsyslog | 2020-03-31 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:1084-01 | EL7 | samba | 2020-03-31 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:1230-01 | EL7 | skopeo | 2020-03-31 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:1068-01 | EL7 | squid | 2020-03-31 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:1264-01 | EL7.5 | systemd | 2020-04-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:1175-01 | EL7 | taglib | 2020-03-31 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:1036-01 | EL7 | texlive | 2020-03-31 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:1181-01 | EL7 | unzip | 2020-03-31 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:1261-01 | EL8.1.1 | virt:8.1 | 2020-04-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:1047-01 | EL7 | wireshark | 2020-03-31 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:0978-01 | EL8.0 | zsh | 2020-03-26 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:1178-01 | EL7 | zziplib | 2020-03-31 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2020:0984-1 | SL7 | ipmitool | 2020-03-27 |
| Slackware | SSA:2020-091-01 | gnutls | 2020-03-31 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2020-091-02 | httpd | 2020-03-31 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2020-086-01 | kernel | 2020-03-26 | |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0818-1 | SLE12 | cloud-init | 2020-03-31 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0832-1 | SLE12 | glibc | 2020-03-31 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0820-1 | SLE15 | glibc | 2020-03-31 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0819-1 | SLE15 | icu | 2020-03-31 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0836-1 | SLE15 | kernel | 2020-04-01 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0836-1 | SLE15 | kernel | 2020-04-01 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0801-1 | SLE15 | ldns | 2020-03-26 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0831-1 | OS7 | mariadb | 2020-03-31 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0790-1 | OS6 SLE12 | python-cffi, python-cryptography, python-xattr | 2020-03-25 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0792-1 | OS7 OS8 SLE12 SES5 | python-cffi, python-cryptography | 2020-03-25 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0810-1 | OS7 OS8 SLE12 SES5 | spamassassin | 2020-03-30 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0811-1 | SLE15 | spamassassin | 2020-03-30 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0813-1 | SLE15 | spamassassin | 2020-03-30 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0806-1 | SLE12 | tomcat | 2020-03-27 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:14334-1 | SLE11 | tomcat6 | 2020-03-27 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4312-1 | 19.10 | Timeshift | 2020-03-30 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4311-1 | 16.04 18.04 19.10 | bluez | 2020-03-30 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4314-1 | 12.04 14.04 16.04 18.04 19.10 | libpam-krb5 | 2020-03-31 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4313-1 | 18.04 19.10 | linux, linux-aws, linux-azure, linux-azure-5.3, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.3, linux-gke-5.3, linux-hwe, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-5.3,linux-raspi2, linux-raspi2-5.3 | 2020-03-30 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4308-2 | 14.04 | twisted | 2020-03-30 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4310-1 | 18.04 19.10 | webkit2gtk | 2020-03-30 |
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