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- Debian Misc Developer News (August 20)
- DistroWatch Weekly (August 24)
- Lunar Linux Weekly News (August 21)
- openSUSE Tumbleweed Review of the Week (August 21)
- Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter (August 22)
Development
- Emacs News (August 24)
- What's cooking in git.git (August 21)
- What's cooking in git.git (August 24)
- LLVM Weekly (August 24)
- LXC/LXD/LXCFS Weekly Status (August 24)
- OCaml Weekly News (August 25)
- Perl Weekly (August 24)
- PostgreSQL Weekly News (August 23)
- Python Weekly Newsletter (August 20)
- Racket News (August 24)
- Weekly Rakudo News (August 24)
- Ruby Weekly News (August 20)
- This Week in Rust (August 18)
- Wikimedia Tech News (August 24)
Meeting minutes
- Fedora FESCO meeting minutes (August 26)
- openSUSE board meeting minutes (August 18)
Calls for Presentations
LibrePlanet 2021 Call for Proposals
LibrePlant will take place sometime next spring, exact dates have not been set. It may be in the Boston area or it may take place online. The call for proposals is open until October 28. "The theme for 2021 is Empowering Users. Over our thirty-five years of campaigning for freedom, the Free Software Foundation has seen countless people start to adopt free "as in freedom" software as a tool to affect meaningful change in their communities. When users have the freedom to study, change, share, and contribute to the software that they depend on, they are empowered to take charge of their own digital lives."
CFP Deadlines: August 27, 2020 to October 26, 2020
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| September 15 | October 24 October 25 |
[Cancelled] T-Dose 2020 | Geldrop (Eindhoven), Netherlands |
| September 18 | October 10 October 11 |
Arch Linux Conf 2020 Online | Online |
| September 23 | November 7 November 8 |
RustFest Global | Online |
| October 1 | December 1 December 3 |
Open Source Firmware Conference | online |
| October 7 | November 28 November 29 |
EmacsConf 2020 | Online |
| October 11 | November 7 November 8 |
OpenFest 2020 | online |
| October 12 | October 19 October 23 |
EPICS collaboration meeting 2020 | Virtual |
| October 14 | October 28 October 29 |
eBPF Summit | online |
| October 25 | November 5 November 7 |
Ohio LinuxFest | Online |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
Events: August 27, 2020 to October 26, 2020
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| September 14 | GNU Radio Conference | Virtual |
| September 16 September 18 |
X.Org Developer's Conference 2020 | online |
| September 18 | [Postponed to 2021] PGDay Austria 2020 | Vienna, Austria |
| September 22 September 24 |
Linaro Virtual Connect | online |
| September 29 October 1 |
ApacheCon 2020 | Online |
| October 2 October 3 |
PyGotham TV | Online |
| October 2 October 5 |
PyCon India 2020 | Virtual |
| October 3 October 4 |
Handmade Seattle 2020 | Online |
| October 6 October 8 |
2020 Virtual LLVM Developers' Meeting | online |
| October 8 October 9 |
PyConZA 2020 | Online |
| October 10 October 11 |
Arch Linux Conf 2020 Online | Online |
| October 13 October 15 |
Lustre Administrator and Developer Workshop 2020 | Online |
| October 15 October 17 |
openSUSE LibreOffice Conference | Online |
| October 19 October 20 |
[Virtual] All Things Open 2020 | Virtual |
| October 19 October 23 |
EPICS collaboration meeting 2020 | Virtual |
| October 19 October 23 |
Open Infrastructure Summit | Virtual |
| October 20 October 23 |
[Canceled] PostgreSQL Conference Europe | Berlin, Germany |
| October 24 October 25 |
[Cancelled] T-Dose 2020 | Geldrop (Eindhoven), Netherlands |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Security updates
Alert summary August 20, 2020 to August 26, 2020
| Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | DSA-4749-1 | stable | firefox-esr | 2020-08-26 |
| Debian | DLA-2336-1 | LTS | firejail | 2020-08-22 |
| Debian | DLA-2335-1 | LTS | ghostscript | 2020-08-20 |
| Debian | DSA-4748-1 | stable | ghostscript | 2020-08-25 |
| Debian | DLA-2343-1 | LTS | icingaweb2 | 2020-08-24 |
| Debian | DSA-4747-1 | stable | icingaweb2 | 2020-08-23 |
| Debian | DLA-2341-1 | LTS | inetutils | 2020-08-24 |
| Debian | DLA-2342-1 | LTS | libjackson-json-java | 2020-08-24 |
| Debian | DLA-2344-1 | LTS | mongodb | 2020-08-24 |
| Debian | DLA-2345-1 | LTS | php7.0 | 2020-08-26 |
| Debian | DLA-2338-1 | LTS | proftpd-dfsg | 2020-08-22 |
| Debian | DLA-2338-2 | LTS | proftpd-dfsg | 2020-08-25 |
| Debian | DLA-2337-1 | LTS | python2.7 | 2020-08-22 |
| Debian | DLA-2339-1 | LTS | software-properties | 2020-08-22 |
| Debian | DLA-2340-1 | LTS | sqlite3 | 2020-08-22 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-1e6eeadbb4 | F31 | ansible | 2020-08-20 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-7aa962c55e | F32 | chrony | 2020-08-23 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-da832cb434 | F32 | curl | 2020-08-21 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-2a9b45c1f5 | F31 | libmetalink | 2020-08-20 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-b58dc5df38 | F31 | mod_http2 | 2020-08-26 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-8122a8daa2 | F32 | mod_http2 | 2020-08-21 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-426fd04fd0 | F31 | nss | 2020-08-25 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-b1e023936e | F31 | roundcubemail | 2020-08-20 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-d0f8f20cfc | F32 | roundcubemail | 2020-08-20 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-5c70d97eca | F31 | rubygem-kramdown | 2020-08-20 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-f6eee9a2d3 | F32 | rubygem-kramdown | 2020-08-20 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-d0f892b069 | F32 | sqlite | 2020-08-20 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-18f0766606 | F31 | swtpm | 2020-08-20 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-b9f747c024 | F32 | swtpm | 2020-08-20 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-03fc9afe6a | F31 | thunderbird | 2020-08-26 |
| Gentoo | 202008-10 | chromium | 2020-08-25 | |
| Gentoo | 202008-09 | shadow | 2020-08-25 | |
| Mageia | MGASA-2020-0341 | 7 | chrony | 2020-08-22 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2020-0344 | 7 | ghostscript | 2020-08-25 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2020-0346 | 7 | kdepim-runtime, kmail-account-wizard | 2020-08-25 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2020-0342 | 7 | luajit | 2020-08-25 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2020-0345 | 7 | mysql-connector-python | 2020-08-25 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2020-0340 | 7 | ngircd | 2020-08-21 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2020-0343 | 7 | python-ipaddress | 2020-08-25 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1241-1 | 15.1 | dovecot23 | 2020-08-21 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1236-1 | 15.2 | kernel | 2020-08-21 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1243-1 | 15.1 | postgresql12 | 2020-08-22 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1244-1 | 15.2 | postgresql12 | 2020-08-22 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1257-1 | 15.1 | python | 2020-08-25 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1254-1 | 15.2 | python | 2020-08-24 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1258-1 | 15.1 | python3 | 2020-08-25 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1256-1 | 15.1 | webkit2gtk3 | 2020-08-25 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:3560-01 | EL6 | chromium-browser | 2020-08-26 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:3558-01 | EL6 | firefox | 2020-08-26 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:3556-01 | EL7 | firefox | 2020-08-26 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:3557-01 | EL8 | firefox | 2020-08-26 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:3555-01 | EL8.0 | firefox | 2020-08-26 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:3559-01 | EL8.1 | firefox | 2020-08-26 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:3548-01 | EL6 | kernel | 2020-08-25 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:3545-01 | EL7 | kernel-alt | 2020-08-25 |
| Slackware | SSA:2020-234-01 | bind | 2020-08-21 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2020-232-01 | curl | 2020-08-19 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2020-237-01 | firefox | 2020-08-24 | |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2292-1 | SUSE Manager Server 3.2 | 2020-08-21 | |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2292-1 | MP3.2 | SUSE Manager Server 3.2 | 2020-08-21 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2311-1 | SLE15 | apache2 | 2020-08-25 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2296-1 | SLE15 | gettext-runtime | 2020-08-24 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2308-1 | OS7 SLE12 | grub2 | 2020-08-25 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2304-1 | OS8 SLE12 SES5 | grub2 | 2020-08-25 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2305-1 | OS9 SLE12 | grub2 | 2020-08-25 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:14461-1 | SLE11 | grub2 | 2020-08-25 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2303-1 | SLE15 | grub2 | 2020-08-25 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2306-1 | SLE15 | grub2 | 2020-08-25 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2307-1 | SLE15 | grub2 | 2020-08-25 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2283-1 | SLE12 | libreoffice | 2020-08-20 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2275-1 | SLE12 SES5 | python | 2020-08-19 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2276-1 | SLE15 | python | 2020-08-19 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2277-1 | SLE15 | python3 | 2020-08-19 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2312-1 | OS7 SLE12 | samba | 2020-08-25 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:14460-1 | SLE11 | squid3 | 2020-08-24 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2331-1 | OS7 OS8 SLE12 SES5 | xorg-x11-server | 2020-08-26 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2325-1 | OS9 SLE12 | xorg-x11-server | 2020-08-26 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:14463-1 | SLE11 | xorg-x11-server | 2020-08-26 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2242-1 | SLE12 | xorg-x11-server | 2020-08-26 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2240-1 | SLE15 | xorg-x11-server | 2020-08-26 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2241-1 | SLE15 | xorg-x11-server | 2020-08-26 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2326-1 | SLE15 | xorg-x11-server | 2020-08-26 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4468-2 | 12.04 14.04 | bind9 | 2020-08-24 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4468-1 | 16.04 18.04 20.04 | bind9 | 2020-08-21 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4466-2 | 14.04 | curl | 2020-08-20 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4469-1 | 16.04 18.04 20.04 | ghostscript | 2020-08-24 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4471-1 | 12.04 14.04 16.04 18.04 20.04 | net-snmp | 2020-08-24 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4472-1 | 16.04 18.04 20.04 | postgresql-10, postgresql-12, postgresql-9.5 | 2020-08-25 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4467-1 | 16.04 18.04 20.04 | qemu | 2020-08-19 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4470-1 | 16.04 18.04 20.04 | sane-backends | 2020-08-24 |
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