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Calls for Presentations
CFP Deadlines: July 16, 2020 to September 14, 2020
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| September 1 | September 14 | GNU Radio Conference | Virtual |
| September 13 | October 13 October 15 |
Lustre Administrator and Developer Workshop 2020 | Online |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
Events: July 16, 2020 to September 14, 2020
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| September 4 September 11 |
Akademy 2020 | Virtual, Online |
| September 9 September 10 |
State of the Source Summit | online |
| September 13 September 18 |
The C++ Conference 2020 | Online |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Security updates
Alert summary July 9, 2020 to July 15, 2020
| Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CentOS | CESA-2020:2894 | C7 | dbus | 2020-07-14 |
| CentOS | CESA-2020:2824 | C6 | firefox | 2020-07-08 |
| CentOS | CESA-2020:2827 | C7 | firefox | 2020-07-08 |
| Debian | DSA-4714-3 | stable | chromium | 2020-07-13 |
| Debian | DSA-4722-1 | stable | ffmpeg | 2020-07-08 |
| Debian | DLA-2274-1 | LTS | fwupd | 2020-07-09 |
| Debian | DLA-2276-1 | LTS | mailman | 2020-07-11 |
| Debian | DLA-2277-1 | LTS | openjpeg2 | 2020-07-11 |
| Debian | DLA-2280-1 | LTS | python3.5 | 2020-07-15 |
| Debian | DLA-2275-1 | LTS | ruby-rack | 2020-07-11 |
| Debian | DSA-4721-1 | stable | ruby2.5 | 2020-07-08 |
| Debian | DLA-2273-1 | LTS | shiro | 2020-07-08 |
| Debian | DLA-2278-1 | LTS | squid3 | 2020-07-10 |
| Debian | DLA-2279-1 | LTS | tomcat8 | 2020-07-12 |
| Debian | DSA-4723-1 | stable | xen | 2020-07-12 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-f407db0e65 | F31 | LibRaw | 2020-07-13 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-f421eea477 | F32 | LibRaw | 2020-07-10 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-f9a8f05df5 | F31 | botan2 | 2020-07-13 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-55f1f7cb13 | F31 | curl | 2020-07-10 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-dd8c133829 | F31 | freerdp | 2020-07-09 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-a3ef998a70 | F32 | freerdp | 2020-07-09 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-e538e3e526 | F31 | gssdp | 2020-07-09 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-e538e3e526 | F31 | gupnp | 2020-07-09 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-3c3d1d7006 | F32 | kernel | 2020-07-12 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-8394f7fd12 | F31 | mingw-OpenEXR | 2020-07-11 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-a9a0f8f6cd | F32 | mingw-OpenEXR | 2020-07-11 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-b11cf352bd | F31 | mingw-pcre2 | 2020-07-09 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-71e2092ebc | F31 | mingw-podofo | 2020-07-11 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-afa955de8a | F31 | mingw-podofo | 2020-07-13 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-2d80e03190 | F32 | mingw-podofo | 2020-07-11 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-16ee06de63 | F32 | mingw-podofo | 2020-07-14 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-71e2092ebc | F31 | podofo | 2020-07-11 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-9364a9ea32 | F31 | podofo | 2020-07-15 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-2d80e03190 | F32 | podofo | 2020-07-11 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-d0737711b6 | F31 | python-pillow | 2020-07-10 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-5ed5627d2b | F32 | python-rsa | 2020-07-14 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-ea5bdbcc90 | F31 | python36 | 2020-07-10 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-dd8c133829 | F31 | remmina | 2020-07-09 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-a3ef998a70 | F32 | remmina | 2020-07-09 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-5352732865 | F31 | roundcubemail | 2020-07-15 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-4ccfee6d83 | F32 | roundcubemail | 2020-07-15 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-0fc1639c88 | F31 | seamonkey | 2020-07-13 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-7e974bd2bb | F32 | seamonkey | 2020-07-12 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-cbebc5617e | F31 | squid | 2020-07-11 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-ab074c6cdf | F32 | webkit2gtk3 | 2020-07-12 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-9c26a458ae | F31 | xrdp | 2020-07-09 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-9666e4c9cd | F32 | xrdp | 2020-07-09 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2020-0287 | 7 | coturn | 2020-07-10 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2020-0290 | 7 | ffmpeg | 2020-07-10 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2020-0293 | 7 | mbedtls | 2020-07-10 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2020-0292 | 7 | mediawiki | 2020-07-10 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2020-0289 | 7 | samba | 2020-07-10 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2020-0288 | 7 | vino | 2020-07-10 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2020-0291 | 7 | xpdf | 2020-07-10 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0960-1 | 15.1 | LibVNCServer | 2020-07-14 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0947-1 | chocolate-doom | 2020-07-08 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0953-1 | 15.1 | mozilla-nss | 2020-07-13 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0955-1 | 15.2 | mozilla-nss | 2020-07-14 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0952-1 | 15.1 | nasm | 2020-07-13 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0954-1 | 15.2 | nasm | 2020-07-13 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0956-1 | 15.1 | openldap2 | 2020-07-14 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0949-1 | 15.1 | opera | 2020-07-10 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0950-1 | 15.2 | opera | 2020-07-10 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0957-1 | 15.1 | permissions | 2020-07-14 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-2894 | OL7 | dbus | 2020-07-14 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-2901 | OL8 | dovecot | 2020-07-14 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-2828 | OL8 | firefox | 2020-07-08 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-2897 | OL8 | jbig2dec | 2020-07-14 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-5750 | OL6 | kernel | 2020-07-08 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-5754 | OL6 | kernel | 2020-07-13 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-5750 | OL7 | kernel | 2020-07-08 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-5755 | OL7 | kernel | 2020-07-13 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-5755 | OL7 | kernel | 2020-07-13 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-5756 | OL7 | kernel | 2020-07-14 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-5756 | OL8 | kernel | 2020-07-14 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-5756 | OL8 | kernel | 2020-07-14 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-2848 | OL8 | nodejs:10 | 2020-07-14 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-2852 | OL8 | nodejs:12 | 2020-07-14 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-2902 | OL8 | sane-backends | 2020-07-14 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-2906 | OL7 | thunderbird | 2020-07-14 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:2938-01 | EL8 | .NET Core | 2020-07-15 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:2893-01 | EL7.7 | bind | 2020-07-13 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:2894-01 | EL7 | dbus | 2020-07-13 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:2901-01 | EL8 | dovecot | 2020-07-13 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:2897-01 | EL8 | jbig2dec | 2020-07-13 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:2933-01 | EL6 | kernel | 2020-07-15 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:2895-01 | SCL | rh-nodejs12-nodejs | 2020-07-13 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:2902-01 | EL8 | sane-backends | 2020-07-14 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:2906-01 | EL7 | thunderbird | 2020-07-14 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:2907-01 | EL8.1 | thunderbird | 2020-07-14 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2020:2894-1 | SL7 | dbus | 2020-07-13 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:1922-1 | SLE15 | LibVNCServer | 2020-07-15 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:1901-1 | OS8 | ansible, ansible1, ardana-ansible, ardana-cluster, ardana-freezer, ardana-input-model, ardana-logging, ardana-mq, ardana-neutron, ardana-octavia, ardana-osconfig, caasp-openstack-heat-templates, crowbar-core, crowbar-openstack, documentation-suse-openstack-cloud, grafana, kibana, openstack-dashboard, openstack-dashboard-theme-HPE, openstack-heat-templates, openstack-keystone, openstack-monasca-agent, openstack-monasca-installer, openstack-neutron, openstack-octavia-amphora-image, python-Django, python-Flask, python-GitPython, python-Pillow, python-amqp, python-apicapi, python-keystoneauth1, python-oslo.messaging, python-psutil, python-pyroute2, python-pysaml2, python-tooz, python-waitress, storm | 2020-07-14 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:1914-1 | OS7 OS8 SLE12 SES5 | bind | 2020-07-15 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:1899-1 | OS7 OS8 OS9 SLE12 SES5 | firefox | 2020-07-13 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:1898-1 | SLE15 | firefox | 2020-07-13 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:1267-3 | SLE15 | graphviz | 2020-07-13 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:1420-2 | SLE15 | jasper | 2020-07-15 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:1569-2 | SLE15 | java-1_8_0-openjdk | 2020-07-14 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:1532-2 | SLE15 | libxml2 | 2020-07-15 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:1920-1 | SLE15 | python-ipaddress | 2020-07-15 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:1582-2 | SLE15 | rubygem-bundler | 2020-07-15 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:1919-1 | SLE15 | rubygem-puma | 2020-07-15 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:1913-1 | SLE15 SES6 | samba | 2020-07-14 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:1915-1 | SLE15 | slirp4netns | 2020-07-15 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:1900-1 | SLE15 | thunderbird | 2020-07-13 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:1886-1 | OS8 SLE12 SES5 | xen | 2020-07-10 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:1891-1 | OS9 SLE12 | xen | 2020-07-13 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:1887-1 | SLE12 | xen | 2020-07-10 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:1888-1 | SLE15 | xen | 2020-07-10 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:1889-1 | SLE15 | xen | 2020-07-10 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:1902-1 | SLE15 | xen | 2020-07-14 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:1918-1 | SLE12 | xrdp | 2020-07-15 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4423-1 | 16.04 18.04 19.10 20.04 | firefox | 2020-07-14 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4419-1 | 14.04 16.04 | linux, linux-lts-xenial, linux-aws, linux-kvm, linux-raspi2, linux-snapdragon | 2020-07-06 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4376-2 | 12.04 14.04 | openssl | 2020-07-09 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4421-1 | 16.04 18.04 19.10 20.04 | thunderbird | 2020-07-08 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4422-1 | 18.04 19.10 20.04 | webkit2gtk | 2020-07-14 |
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