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CFP Deadlines: April 16, 2020 to June 15, 2020
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| June 5 | September 13 September 18 |
The C++ Conference 2020 | Online |
| June 14 | September 4 September 11 |
Akademy 2020 | Virtual, Online |
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Events: April 16, 2020 to June 15, 2020
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Security updates
Alert summary April 9, 2020 to April 15, 2020
| Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arch Linux | ASA-202004-9 | chromium | 2020-04-10 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-202004-8 | firefox | 2020-04-10 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-202004-7 | haproxy | 2020-04-10 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-202004-11 | libssh | 2020-04-10 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-202004-12 | thunderbird | 2020-04-13 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-202004-10 | wireshark-cli | 2020-04-10 | |
| CentOS | CESA-2020:1339 | C6 | firefox | 2020-04-08 |
| CentOS | CESA-2020:1331 | C6 | ipmitool | 2020-04-08 |
| CentOS | CESA-2020:1349 | C6 | krb5-appl | 2020-04-08 |
| CentOS | CESA-2020:1335 | C6 | telnet | 2020-04-08 |
| Debian | DLA-2171-1 | LTS | ceph | 2020-04-09 |
| Debian | DSA-4655-1 | stable | firefox-esr | 2020-04-08 |
| Debian | DLA-2177-1 | LTS | git | 2020-04-15 |
| Debian | DSA-4657-1 | stable | git | 2020-04-14 |
| Debian | DLA-2173-1 | LTS | graphicsmagick | 2020-04-14 |
| Debian | DLA-2174-1 | LTS | php-horde-data | 2020-04-14 |
| Debian | DLA-2175-1 | LTS | php-horde-trean | 2020-04-14 |
| Debian | DLA-2172-1 | LTS | thunderbird | 2020-04-14 |
| Debian | DSA-4656-1 | stable | thunderbird | 2020-04-13 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-e653bca022 | F30 | drupal7-ckeditor | 2020-04-13 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-71ebbd64dc | F31 | drupal7-ckeditor | 2020-04-13 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-5967b8cd4e | F31 | firefox | 2020-04-09 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-7f625c5ea8 | F30 | glibc | 2020-04-09 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-16cd111544 | F30 | haproxy | 2020-04-11 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-1c332effa3 | F30 | nrpe | 2020-04-13 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-c3cbce63a0 | F31 | nrpe | 2020-04-13 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-5967b8cd4e | F31 | nss | 2020-04-09 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-1b95d7a131 | F30 | php-robrichards-xmlseclibs1 | 2020-04-13 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-46d0f456a9 | F31 | php-robrichards-xmlseclibs1 | 2020-04-13 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-08092b4c97 | F30 | rubygem-puma | 2020-04-09 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-fd87f90634 | F31 | rubygem-puma | 2020-04-09 |
| Gentoo | 202004-09 | chromium | 2020-04-11 | |
| Gentoo | 202004-08 | libssh | 2020-04-10 | |
| Mageia | MGASA-2020-0166 | 7 | apache | 2020-04-15 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2020-0163 | 7 | firefox | 2020-04-08 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2020-0168 | 7 | gnutls | 2020-04-15 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2020-0173 | 7 | golang | 2020-04-15 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2020-0169 | 7 | krb5-appl | 2020-04-15 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2020-0171 | 7 | libssh | 2020-04-15 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2020-0164 | 7 | libvncserver | 2020-04-15 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2020-0167 | 7 | mediawiki | 2020-04-15 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2020-0170 | 7 | thunderbird | 2020-04-15 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2020-0165 | 7 | tor | 2020-04-15 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2020-0172 | 7 | wireshark | 2020-04-15 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0513-1 | 15.1 | ansible | 2020-04-13 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0479-1 | 15.1 | bluez | 2020-04-08 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0494-1 | 15.1 | ceph | 2020-04-10 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0512-1 | chromium | 2020-04-12 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0519-1 | 15.1 | chromium | 2020-04-15 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0491-1 | 15.1 | exim | 2020-04-09 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0482-1 | 15.1 | exiv2 | 2020-04-09 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0493-1 | 15.1 | firefox | 2020-04-10 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0501-1 | 15.1 | gmp, gnutls, libnettle | 2020-04-11 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0490-1 | 15.1 | gnuhealth | 2020-04-09 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0510-1 | 15.1 | libssh | 2020-04-12 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0506-1 | 15.1 | mgetty | 2020-04-12 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0517-1 | nagios | 2020-04-14 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0500-1 | 15.1 | nagios | 2020-04-11 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0511-1 | 15.1 | permissions | 2020-04-12 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0507-1 | 15.1 | python-PyYAML | 2020-04-12 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0520-1 | 15.1 | thunderbird | 2020-04-15 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-1338 | OL7 | firefox | 2020-04-10 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-1338 | OL7 | firefox | 2020-04-12 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-1420 | OL7 | firefox | 2020-04-10 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-1420 | OL7 | firefox | 2020-04-12 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-1406 | OL8 | firefox | 2020-04-09 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-1341 | OL8 | firefox | 2020-04-09 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-5645 | OL5 | kernel | 2020-04-12 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-5642 | OL6 | kernel | 2020-04-09 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-5644 | OL6 | kernel | 2020-04-12 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-5645 | OL6 | kernel | 2020-04-12 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-5642 | OL7 | kernel | 2020-04-09 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-5644 | OL7 | kernel | 2020-04-12 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-5649 | OL7 | kernel | 2020-04-14 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-5649 | OL7 | kernel | 2020-04-14 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-1372 | OL8 | kernel | 2020-04-09 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-1349 | OL6 | krb5-appl | 2020-04-14 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-1403 | OL6 | qemu-kvm | 2020-04-09 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-1208 | OL7 | qemu-kvm | 2020-04-10 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-1334 | OL7 | telnet | 2020-04-10 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-1334 | OL7 | telnet | 2020-04-12 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:1471-01 | EL7.6 | elfutils | 2020-04-14 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:1429-01 | EL6 | firefox | 2020-04-14 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:1420-01 | EL7 | firefox | 2020-04-09 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:1406-01 | EL8 | firefox | 2020-04-08 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:1460-01 | EL7.2 | kernel | 2020-04-14 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:1473-01 | EL7.3 | kernel | 2020-04-14 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:1465-01 | EL7.6 | kernel | 2020-04-14 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:1461-01 | EL7.6 | nss-softokn | 2020-04-14 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:1470-01 | EL7.6 | ntp | 2020-04-14 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:1464-01 | EL7.6 | procps-ng | 2020-04-14 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:1462-01 | EL7.6 | python | 2020-04-14 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2020:1429-1 | SL6 | firefox | 2020-04-14 |
| Slackware | SSA:2020-105-01 | git | 2020-04-14 | |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0962-1 | SLE12 SES5 | ceph | 2020-04-08 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0970-1 | SLE12 | djvulibre | 2020-04-09 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0978-1 | OS7 OS8 SLE12 SES5 | firefox | 2020-04-09 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:14339-1 | SLE11 | firefox | 2020-04-09 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0971-1 | SLE15 | firefox | 2020-04-09 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0992-1 | OS7 OS8 SLE12 SES5 | git | 2020-04-15 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0991-1 | SLE15 | git | 2020-04-15 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0968-1 | SLE12 | libssh | 2020-04-09 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0967-1 | SLE15 | libssh | 2020-04-09 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0957-1 | SLE15 | mgetty | 2020-04-08 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0969-1 | SLE15 | permissions | 2020-04-09 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0959-1 | SLE15 | python-PyYAML | 2020-04-08 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0984-1 | quartz | 2020-04-14 | |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0995-1 | SLE15 | ruby2.5 | 2020-04-15 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0954-1 | OS7 | rubygem-actionview-4_2 | 2020-04-08 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0955-1 | SLE12 | vino | 2020-04-08 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4329-1 | 16.04 18.04 19.10 | git | 2020-04-14 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4326-1 | 16.04 18.04 | libiberty | 2020-04-08 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4327-1 | 18.04 19.10 | libssh | 2020-04-09 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4328-1 | 18.04 19.10 | thunderbird | 2020-04-13 |
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