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CFP Deadlines: October 8, 2020 to December 7, 2020
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| October 30 | November 21 November 22 |
MiniDebConf - Gaming Edition | Online |
| October 31 | February 6 February 7 |
FOSDEM 2021 | Online |
| November 1 | November 14 November 15 |
Battlemesh v13 | online |
| November 5 | November 10 | S&T 2020 (SQLite & TCL) | Online |
| November 6 | January 23 January 25 |
linux.conf.au 2021 | Online |
| November 6 | November 16 November 22 |
Guix Days | Online |
| November 6 | February 18 February 20 |
DevConf.CZ | Online |
| November 10 | December 3 | Live Embedded Event | Online |
| November 11 | March 20 March 21 |
LibrePlanet 2021 | Online |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
Events: October 8, 2020 to December 7, 2020
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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 23 |
EPICS collaboration meeting 2020 | Virtual |
| October 19 October 20 |
[Virtual] All Things Open 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 |
| October 26 October 29 |
Open Source Summit Europe | online |
| October 28 October 30 |
[Virtual] KVM Forum | Virtual |
| October 28 October 29 |
[Canceled] DevOpsDays Berlin 2020 | Berlin, Germany |
| October 28 October 29 |
eBPF Summit | online |
| October 29 October 30 |
[Virtual] Linux Security Summit Europe | Virtual |
| November 5 November 7 |
Ohio LinuxFest | Online |
| November 7 November 8 |
OpenFest 2020 | online |
| November 7 November 8 |
RustFest Global | Online |
| November 10 | S&T 2020 (SQLite & TCL) | Online |
| November 12 November 14 |
Linux App Summit | Online |
| November 14 November 15 |
Battlemesh v13 | online |
| November 16 November 22 |
Guix Days | Online |
| November 21 November 22 |
MiniDebConf - Gaming Edition | Online |
| November 25 November 27 |
Linux Audio Conference | Online |
| November 28 November 29 |
EmacsConf 2020 | Online |
| November 28 November 29 |
MiniDebConf Online Brasil 2020 | Online |
| December 1 December 3 |
Open Source Firmware Conference | online |
| December 3 | Live Embedded Event | Online |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Security updates
Alert summary October 1, 2020 to October 7, 2020
| Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arch Linux | ASA-202009-13 | brotli | 2020-10-06 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-202009-12 | lib32-brotli | 2020-10-06 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-202009-15 | lib32-zeromq | 2020-10-06 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-202009-17 | samba | 2020-10-06 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-202009-14 | yaws | 2020-10-06 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-202009-16 | zeromq | 2020-10-06 | |
| Debian | DLA-2392-1 | LTS | jruby | 2020-10-01 |
| Debian | DLA-2395-1 | LTS | libvirt | 2020-10-02 |
| Debian | DLA-2397-1 | LTS | php7.0 | 2020-10-06 |
| Debian | DLA-2398-1 | LTS | puma | 2020-10-07 |
| Debian | DLA-2390-1 | LTS | ruby-json-jwt | 2020-10-01 |
| Debian | DLA-2389-1 | LTS | ruby-rack-cors | 2020-10-01 |
| Debian | DLA-2391-1 | LTS | ruby2.3 | 2020-10-01 |
| Debian | DLA-2332-2 | LTS | sane-backends | 2020-10-07 |
| Debian | DLA-2393-1 | LTS | snmptt | 2020-10-02 |
| Debian | DLA-2394-1 | LTS | squid3 | 2020-10-02 |
| Debian | DSA-4770-1 | stable | thunderbird | 2020-10-06 |
| Debian | DLA-2396-1 | LTS | tigervnc | 2020-10-06 |
| Debian | DSA-4769-1 | stable | xen | 2020-10-02 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-aea86f913e | F31 | chromium | 2020-10-03 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-214865ce21 | F32 | chromium | 2020-10-05 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-76fcd0ba34 | F32 | crun | 2020-10-02 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-fe299b3fa3 | F31 | ghc-cmark-gfm | 2020-10-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-1eaffe0013 | F32 | ghc-cmark-gfm | 2020-10-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-fe299b3fa3 | F31 | ghc-hakyll | 2020-10-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-1eaffe0013 | F32 | ghc-hakyll | 2020-10-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-fe299b3fa3 | F31 | gitit | 2020-10-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-1eaffe0013 | F32 | gitit | 2020-10-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-7e1e9abf77 | F31 | libproxy | 2020-10-04 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-941b563a80 | F32 | libproxy | 2020-10-05 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-ca26a3f832 | F31 | mumble | 2020-10-03 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-8372f6bae4 | F32 | mumble | 2020-10-05 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-fe299b3fa3 | F31 | pandoc | 2020-10-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-1eaffe0013 | F32 | pandoc | 2020-10-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-fe299b3fa3 | F31 | pandoc-citeproc | 2020-10-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-1eaffe0013 | F32 | pandoc-citeproc | 2020-10-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-fe299b3fa3 | F31 | patat | 2020-10-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-1eaffe0013 | F32 | patat | 2020-10-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-7e9234058f | F32 | pdns | 2020-10-02 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-76fcd0ba34 | F32 | podman | 2020-10-02 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-a1d139381a | F31 | samba | 2020-10-04 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-8b14250809 | F32 | thunderbird | 2020-10-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-93db553bb7 | F31 | xawtv | 2020-10-05 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-f668e579be | F32 | xen | 2020-10-01 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1591-1 | 15.1 | bcm43xx-firmware | 2020-10-03 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1593-1 | 15.1 | dpdk | 2020-10-03 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1599-1 | 15.2 | dpdk | 2020-10-04 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1584-1 | 15.1 | go1.14 | 2020-10-01 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1587-1 | 15.2 | go1.14 | 2020-10-02 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1611-1 | grafana | 2020-10-04 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1631-1 | 15.1 15.2 | kdeconnect-kde | 2020-10-07 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1586-1 | 15.2 | kernel | 2020-10-02 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1616-1 | 15.2 | nodejs12 | 2020-10-05 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1620-1 | 15.1 | perl-DBI | 2020-10-05 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1628-1 | 15.2 | perl-DBI | 2020-10-06 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1613-1 | 15.1 | python-pip | 2020-10-04 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1598-1 | 15.2 | python-pip | 2020-10-04 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1608-1 | 15.2 | xen | 2020-10-04 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1604-1 | 15.1 15.2 | zabbix | 2020-10-04 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-5866 | OL6 | kernel | 2020-10-06 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-5866 | OL7 | kernel | 2020-10-06 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-4056 | OL6 | qemu-kvm | 2020-10-01 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-4155 | OL8 | thunderbird | 2020-10-05 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-4059 | OL8 | virt:ol | 2020-10-02 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4206-01 | EL6 | chromium-browser | 2020-10-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4172-01 | EL8 | cockpit-ovirt, imgbased, redhat-release-virtualization-host, redhat-virtualization-host | 2020-10-05 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4162-01 | EL7.6 | qemu-kvm-ma | 2020-10-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4176-01 | OSP10 | qemu-kvm-rhev | 2020-10-05 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4167-01 | OSP13 | qemu-kvm-rhev | 2020-10-05 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4174-01 | SCL | rh-mariadb102-mariadb and rh-mariadb102-galera | 2020-10-05 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4173-01 | SCL | rh-maven35-jackson-databind | 2020-10-05 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4187-01 | EL7 | spice and spice-gtk | 2020-10-06 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4186-01 | EL8 | spice and spice-gtk | 2020-10-06 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4184-01 | EL8.0 | spice and spice-gtk | 2020-10-06 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4185-01 | EL8.1 | spice and spice-gtk | 2020-10-06 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4158-01 | EL6 | thunderbird | 2020-10-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4163-01 | EL7 | thunderbird | 2020-10-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4155-01 | EL8 | thunderbird | 2020-10-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4156-01 | EL8.0 | thunderbird | 2020-10-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4157-01 | EL8.1 | thunderbird | 2020-10-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4181-01 | EL7.7 | unbound | 2020-10-06 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2807-1 | SLE12 | aspell | 2020-09-30 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2864-1 | SLE15 | gnutls | 2020-10-06 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2872-1 | SLE12 | hexchat | 2020-10-06 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2861-1 | OS7 OS8 OS9 SLE12 SES5 | java-1_7_0-openjdk | 2020-10-05 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2823-1 | SLE12 | nodejs10 | 2020-10-01 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2829-1 | SLE15 | nodejs10 | 2020-10-02 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2812-1 | SLE12 | nodejs12 | 2020-10-01 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2813-1 | SLE15 | nodejs12 | 2020-10-01 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2870-1 | SLE15 | nodejs8 | 2020-10-06 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:14511-1 | SLE11 | openssl1 | 2020-10-05 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2856-1 | OS7 OS8 OS9 SLE12 SES5 | perl-DBI | 2020-10-05 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:14510-1 | SLE11 | perl-DBI | 2020-10-05 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2828-1 | SLE15 | perl-DBI | 2020-10-02 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2827-1 | SLE15 | perl-DBI | 2020-10-02 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2830-1 | SLE15 | permissions | 2020-10-02 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2814-1 | SLE15 | permissions | 2020-10-01 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2806-1 | SLE12 | tar | 2020-09-30 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2822-1 | OS7 SLE12 | xen | 2020-10-01 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4568-1 | 16.04 18.04 20.04 | brotli | 2020-10-05 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4566-1 | 18.04 | cyrus-imapd | 2020-10-06 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4563-1 | 18.04 | ntp | 2020-10-01 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4565-1 | 18.04 | openconnect | 2020-10-06 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4567-1 | 18.04 | opendmarc | 2020-10-06 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4570-1 | 16.04 18.04 20.04 | python-urllib3 | 2020-10-05 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4560-1 | 18.04 | ruby-gon | 2020-09-30 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4562-1 | 20.04 | ruby-kramdown | 2020-09-30 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4561-1 | 18.04 | ruby-rack | 2020-09-30 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4571-1 | 16.04 | ruby-rack-cors | 2020-10-05 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4572-1 | 16.04 18.04 20.04 | spice | 2020-10-06 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4564-1 | 16.04 | tika | 2020-10-06 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4573-1 | 16.04 18.04 20.04 | vino | 2020-10-07 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4569-1 | 18.04 | yaws | 2020-10-05 |
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