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CFP Deadlines: July 2, 2020 to August 31, 2020
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| July 2 | September 9 September 10 |
State of the Source Summit | online |
| July 5 | October 28 October 29 |
[Canceled] DevOpsDays Berlin 2020 | Berlin, Germany |
| July 5 | August 23 August 29 |
DebConf20 | online |
| July 5 | September 16 September 18 |
X.Org Developer's Conference 2020 | online |
| July 5 | October 2 October 3 |
PyGotham TV | Online |
| July 13 | September 29 October 1 |
ApacheCon 2020 | Online |
| July 15 | October 6 October 8 |
2020 Virtual LLVM Developers' Meeting | online |
| July 21 | October 15 October 17 |
openSUSE LibreOffice Conference | Online |
| July 27 | August 7 August 9 |
Nest With Fedora | Online |
| July 31 | October 20 October 23 |
[Canceled] PostgreSQL Conference Europe | Berlin, Germany |
| July 31 | October 29 October 30 |
[Virtual] Linux Security Summit Europe | Virtual |
| August 14 | October 2 October 5 |
PyCon India 2020 | Virtual |
| August 28 | October 8 October 9 |
PyConZA 2020 | Online |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
Events: July 2, 2020 to August 31, 2020
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| June 29 July 2 |
[VIRTUAL] Open Source Summit/Embedded Linux Conference North America | Austin, TX, USA |
| July 1 July 2 |
[ONLINE] Linux Security Summit North America | Austin, TX, USA |
| July 4 July 5 |
State of the Map 2020 | Virtual |
| July 6 July 9 |
[Virtual] XenProject Developer and Design Summit 2020 | |
| July 6 July 12 |
[VIRTUAL] SciPy 2020 | Austin, TX, USA |
| July 7 July 8 |
[CANCELED] PostgresLondon 2020 | London, United Kingdom |
| July 10 | [CANCELED] PGDay Russia 2020 | St. Petersburg, Russia |
| July 16 July 18 |
[CANCELED] Linux Developer Conference Brazil | São Paulo, Brazil |
| July 22 July 28 |
[VIRTUAL] GUADEC 2020 | Zacatecas, Mexico |
| July 23 July 26 |
[Virtual] EuroPython 2020 | Online |
| July 25 August 2 |
Hackers On Planet Earth | Online |
| August 6 August 9 |
[Canceled] miniDebConf Montreal 2020 | Montreal, Canada |
| August 7 August 9 |
Nest With Fedora | Online |
| August 13 August 21 |
Netdev 0x14 | Virtual |
| August 20 | [Virtual] RustConf | online |
| August 23 August 29 |
DebConf20 | online |
| August 25 August 27 |
Linux Plumbers Conference | Virtual |
| August 26 August 28 |
[Canceled] FOSS4G Calgary | Calgary, Canada |
| August 28 | Linux Kernel Maintainer Summit | Virtual |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Security updates
Alert summary June 25, 2020 to July 1, 2020
| Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arch Linux | ASA-202006-13 | bind | 2020-06-30 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-202006-12 | chromium | 2020-06-30 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-202006-15 | freerdp | 2020-06-30 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-202006-14 | imagemagick | 2020-06-30 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-202006-11 | sqlite | 2020-06-30 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-202006-16 | tomcat8 | 2020-06-30 | |
| Debian | DLA-2254-1 | LTS | alpine | 2020-06-25 |
| Debian | DLA-2271-1 | LTS | coturn | 2020-07-01 |
| Debian | DSA-4711-1 | stable | coturn | 2020-06-29 |
| Debian | DLA-2263-1 | LTS | drupal7 | 2020-06-30 |
| Debian | DSA-4712-1 | stable | imagemagick | 2020-06-30 |
| Debian | DLA-2270-1 | LTS | jackson-databind | 2020-07-01 |
| Debian | DLA-2267-1 | LTS | libmatio | 2020-06-30 |
| Debian | DLA-2255-1 | LTS | libtasn1-6 | 2020-06-28 |
| Debian | DLA-2256-1 | LTS | libtirpc | 2020-06-28 |
| Debian | DLA-2264-1 | LTS | libvncserver | 2020-06-30 |
| Debian | DLA-2265-1 | LTS | mailman | 2020-06-30 |
| Debian | DLA-2260-1 | LTS | mcabber | 2020-06-28 |
| Debian | DLA-2268-1 | LTS | mutt | 2020-06-30 |
| Debian | DLA-2268-2 | LTS | mutt | 2020-06-30 |
| Debian | DLA-2266-1 | LTS | nss | 2020-06-30 |
| Debian | DLA-2261-1 | LTS | php5 | 2020-06-29 |
| Debian | DLA-2259-1 | LTS | picocom | 2020-06-28 |
| Debian | DLA-2257-1 | LTS | pngquant | 2020-06-28 |
| Debian | DLA-2262-1 | LTS | qemu | 2020-06-29 |
| Debian | DSA-4710-1 | stable | trafficserver | 2020-06-27 |
| Debian | DLA-2269-1 | LTS | wordpress | 2020-07-01 |
| Debian | DLA-2258-1 | LTS | zziplib | 2020-06-28 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-6af1dd2936 | F32 | curl | 2020-06-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-ad1c74c2a1 | F31 | fwupd | 2020-06-26 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-4407a1983d | F31 | libEMF | 2020-07-01 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-964e46d289 | F32 | libEMF | 2020-07-01 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-085150ac6e | F31 | libexif | 2020-06-25 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-059e1591d6 | F31 | lynis | 2020-07-01 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-f251753b0f | F32 | lynis | 2020-07-01 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-11ddbfbdf0 | F31 | microcode_ctl | 2020-06-26 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-86fa578c8d | F32 | mingw-libjpeg-turbo | 2020-06-26 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-b845771719 | F32 | mingw-sane-backends | 2020-06-26 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-0bbe6304e3 | F31 | php-PHPMailer | 2020-07-01 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-06e87e71fe | F32 | php-PHPMailer | 2020-07-01 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-01d7b8b690 | F31 | php-horde-horde | 2020-06-25 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-cd84e46e68 | F31 | suricata | 2020-06-26 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-256ac53cc7 | F31 | tcpreplay | 2020-06-25 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-5f7f8fcbce | F31 | thunderbird | 2020-06-26 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-e49a911382 | F31 | xen | 2020-06-29 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0872-1 | 15.2 | bluez | 2020-06-26 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0898-1 | 15.1 | ceph | 2020-06-29 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0887-1 | 15.1 | chromium | 2020-06-28 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0902-1 | 15.1 | chromium | 2020-06-29 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0893-1 | 15.2 | chromium | 2020-06-28 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0908-1 | 15.1 | curl | 2020-06-30 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0883-1 | 15.2 | curl | 2020-06-28 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0892-1 | 15.2 | grafana, grafana-piechart-panel, grafana-status-panel | 2020-06-28 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0876-1 | 15.2 | graphviz | 2020-06-27 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0906-1 | 15.2 | graphviz | 2020-06-30 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0870-1 | 15.1 | mariadb | 2020-06-26 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0869-1 | 15.1 | mercurial | 2020-06-26 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0880-1 | 15.2 | mercurial | 2020-06-27 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0903-1 | 15.1 | mutt | 2020-06-29 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0915-1 | 15.2 | mutt | 2020-06-30 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0861-1 | 15.2 | rubygem-bundler | 2020-06-25 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0910-1 | 15.1 | squid | 2020-06-30 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0914-1 | 15.2 | squid | 2020-06-30 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0911-1 | 15.1 | tomcat | 2020-06-30 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0865-1 | 15.1 | uftpd | 2020-06-25 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0912-1 | 15.1 | unbound | 2020-06-30 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0913-1 | 15.2 | unbound | 2020-06-30 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-5739 | OL7 | docker-cli docker-engine | 2020-06-24 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-2664 | OL7 | kernel | 2020-06-24 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-2755 | OL8 | nghttp2 | 2020-06-26 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-2663 | OL7 | ntp | 2020-06-24 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-2663 | OL7 | ntp | 2020-06-24 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:2761-01 | EL6 | chromium-browser | 2020-06-29 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:2768-01 | EL7.4 | file | 2020-06-30 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:2784-01 | SCL | httpd24-nghttp2 | 2020-07-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:2770-01 | EL7.4 | kernel | 2020-06-30 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:2771-01 | EL7.4 | microcode_ctl | 2020-06-30 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:2758-01 | EL7.7 | microcode_ctl | 2020-06-29 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:2757-01 | EL8.0 | microcode_ctl | 2020-06-29 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:2755-01 | EL8 | nghttp2 | 2020-06-25 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:2769-01 | EL7.4 | ruby | 2020-06-30 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:2774-01 | EL8 | virt:rhel | 2020-06-30 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:2773-01 | EL8.1 | virt:rhel | 2020-06-30 |
| Slackware | SSA:2020-176-01 | curl | 2020-06-24 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2020-181-01 | firefox | 2020-06-29 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2020-176-02 | libjpeg | 2020-06-24 | |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:1748-1 | OS8 SLE12 SES5 | ceph | 2020-06-25 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:1747-1 | SLE15 SES6 | ceph | 2020-06-25 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:1773-1 | SLE15 | curl | 2020-06-26 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:1798-1 | SLE12 | mariadb-100 | 2020-06-30 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:1794-1 | OS7 OS8 SLE12 SES5 | mutt | 2020-06-29 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:14414-1 | SLE11 | mutt | 2020-06-30 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:1771-1 | SLE15 | mutt | 2020-06-26 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:1805-1 | OS7 OS8 SLE12 SES5 | ntp | 2020-06-30 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:1807-1 | SLE12 | openconnect | 2020-06-30 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:1792-1 | MP3.2 OS7 OS8 SLE12 SES5 | python3-requests | 2020-06-26 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:1803-1 | OS7 OS8 SLE12 SES5 | squid | 2020-06-30 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:1770-1 | SLE12 | squid | 2020-06-26 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:1769-1 | SLE15 | squid | 2020-06-26 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:1749-1 | SLE12 | tigervnc | 2020-06-25 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:1791-1 | OS7 OS8 SLE12 SES5 | tomcat | 2020-06-26 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:1788-1 | SLE12 | tomcat | 2020-06-26 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:1789-1 | SLE15 | tomcat | 2020-06-26 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:1790-1 | SLE15 | tomcat | 2020-06-26 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:1806-1 | SLE12 | transfig | 2020-06-30 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:1772-1 | SLE15 | unbound | 2020-06-26 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:1796-1 | SLE12 | unzip | 2020-06-29 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:1800-1 | SLE12 | xmlgraphics-batik | 2020-06-30 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4405-1 | 16.04 18.04 19.10 20.04 | glib-networking | 2020-06-29 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4404-2 | 18.04 19.10 20.04 | linux kernel | 2020-06-25 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4406-1 | 16.04 18.04 | mailman | 2020-06-29 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4403-1 | 12.04 16.04 18.04 19.10 20.04 | mutt | 2020-06-24 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4404-1 | 18.04 19.10 20.04 | nvidia-graphics-drivers-390, nvidia-graphics-drivers-440 | 2020-06-25 |
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