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- DistroWatch Weekly (October 12)
- Lunar Linux Weekly News (October 9)
- openSUSE Tumbleweed Review of the Week (October 9)
- Tails Report (September)
- Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter (October 10)
Development
- Emacs News (October 12)
- These Weeks in Firefox (October 13)
- What's cooking in git.git (October 9)
- LLVM Weekly (October 12)
- LXC/LXD/LXCFS Weekly Status (October 12)
- OCaml Weekly News (October 13)
- Perl Weekly (October 12)
- Python Weekly Newsletter (October 8)
- Weekly Rakudo News (October 12)
- Ruby Weekly News (October 8)
- This Week in Rust (October 7)
- Wikimedia Tech News (October 12)
Meeting minutes
- Document Foundation Board of Directors minutes (October 9)
- openSUSE board meeting minutes (September 29)
Calls for Presentations
Call For Presentations - SQLite & Tcl 2020 (Virtual Event)
This year the Tcl conference will be a virtual event called S&T 2020 (SQLite & TCL), to be held on November 10. "The exact timing is subject to change depending on the amount of people who sign up to present a WIP (work in progress) presentation." There is no deadline date given for the CfP.
CFP Deadlines: October 15, 2020 to December 14, 2020
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 15, 2020 to December 14, 2020
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| October 26 October 29 |
Open Source Summit Europe | online |
| October 28 October 29 |
[Canceled] DevOpsDays Berlin 2020 | Berlin, Germany |
| October 28 October 29 |
eBPF Summit | online |
| October 28 October 30 |
[Virtual] KVM Forum | Virtual |
| 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.
Event Reports
Netdev 0x14: Videos posted
Videos from Netdev 0x14, which was held last August, are available on YouTube and through the schedule.
Security updates
Alert summary October 8, 2020 to October 14, 2020
| Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | DLA-2400-1 | LTS | activemq | 2020-10-08 |
| Debian | DLA-2404-1 | LTS | eclipse-wtp | 2020-10-10 |
| Debian | DLA-2402-1 | LTS | golang-go.crypto | 2020-10-08 |
| Debian | DLA-2405-1 | LTS | httpcomponents-client | 2020-10-10 |
| Debian | DLA-2406-1 | LTS | jackson-databind | 2020-10-14 |
| Debian | DLA-2399-1 | LTS | packagekit | 2020-10-07 |
| Debian | DLA-2403-1 | LTS | rails | 2020-10-09 |
| Debian | DSA-4771-1 | stable | spice | 2020-10-11 |
| Debian | DLA-2401-1 | LTS | sympa | 2020-10-07 |
| Debian | DLA-2407-1 | LTS | tomcat8 | 2020-10-14 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-3a4b8fca5e | F31 | crun | 2020-10-09 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-d737c57172 | F32 | dovecot | 2020-10-13 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-d53469eceb | F31 | oniguruma | 2020-10-09 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-952c499e9d | F32 | oniguruma | 2020-10-09 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-94763cb98b | F31 | php | 2020-10-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-4fe6b116e5 | F32 | php | 2020-10-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-3a4b8fca5e | F31 | podman | 2020-10-09 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-d46fe34349 | F31 | xen | 2020-10-07 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2020-0382 | 7 | mariadb | 2020-10-13 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1646-1 | grafana | 2020-10-10 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1647-1 | kdeconnect-kde | 2020-10-10 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1650-1 | kdeconnect-kde | 2020-10-10 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1655-1 | 15.1 | kernel | 2020-10-11 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1652-1 | 15.1 15.2 | nextcloud | 2020-10-11 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1652-1 | 15.1 15.2 | nextcloud | 2020-10-11 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1660-1 | 15.2 | nodejs10 | 2020-10-12 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1644-1 | 15.1 | nodejs8 | 2020-10-10 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1658-1 | 15.1 | permissions | 2020-10-11 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1664-1 | 15.2 | qemu | 2020-10-13 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1666-1 | 15.2 | tigervnc | 2020-10-13 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-4183 | OL6 | bind | 2020-10-08 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-4080 | OL7 | firefox | 2020-10-13 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-4080 | OL7 | firefox | 2020-10-13 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-4182 | OL6 | kernel | 2020-10-08 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-5879 | OL6 | kernel | 2020-10-09 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-5879 | OL7 | kernel | 2020-10-09 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-5884 | OL7 | kernel | 2020-10-13 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-5885 | OL7 | kernel | 2020-10-13 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-5885 | OL7 | kernel | 2020-10-13 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-5884 | OL8 | kernel | 2020-10-13 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-4072 | OL7 | libcroco | 2020-10-09 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-4072 | OL7 | libcroco | 2020-10-08 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-4076 | OL7 | nss and nspr | 2020-10-09 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-4076 | OL7 | nss and nspr | 2020-10-08 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-4079 | OL7 | qemu-kvm | 2020-10-08 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-4187 | OL7 | spice and spice-gtk | 2020-10-08 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-4187 | OL7 | spice and spice-gtk | 2020-10-13 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-4082 | OL7 | squid | 2020-10-09 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-4082 | OL7 | squid | 2020-10-08 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-4163 | OL7 | thunderbird | 2020-10-13 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-4163 | OL7 | thunderbird | 2020-10-13 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4183-01 | EL6 | bind | 2020-10-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4235-01 | EL6 | chromium-browser | 2020-10-13 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4251-01 | EL6 | flash-plugin | 2020-10-14 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4182-01 | EL6 | kernel | 2020-10-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4236-01 | EL7.7 | kernel | 2020-10-13 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4056-01 | EL6 | qemu-kvm | 2020-10-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2911-1 | OS7 | ansible, crowbar-core, crowbar-openstack, grafana, grafana-natel-discrete-panel, openstack-aodh, openstack-barbican, openstack-cinder, openstack-gnocchi, openstack-heat, openstack-ironic, openstack-magnum, openstack-manila, openstack-monasca-agent, openstack-murano, openstack-neutron, openstack-neutron-vpnaas, openstack-nova, openstack-sahara, python-Pillow, rubygem-crowbar-client | 2020-10-13 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2914-1 | SLE15 | bind | 2020-10-13 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2913-1 | SLE15 | crmsh | 2020-10-13 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2904-1 | SLE12 | kernel | 2020-10-13 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2904-1 | SLE12 | kernel | 2020-10-13 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2907-1 | SLE12 | kernel | 2020-10-13 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2879-1 | SLE15 | kernel | 2020-10-08 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2879-1 | SLE15 | kernel | 2020-10-08 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2908-1 | SLE15 | kernel | 2020-10-13 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2905-1 | SLE15 | kernel | 2020-10-13 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2905-1 | SLE15 | kernel | 2020-10-13 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2906-1 | SLE15 | kernel | 2020-10-13 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2900-1 | OS7 OS8 OS9 SLE12 SES5 | libproxy | 2020-10-13 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2901-1 | SLE15 | libproxy | 2020-10-13 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2894-1 | SLE12 | php5 | 2020-10-12 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2896-1 | SLE12 | php74 | 2020-10-13 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2877-1 | SLE15 | qemu | 2020-10-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2899-1 | SLE15 | rubygem-activesupport-5_1 | 2020-10-13 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2898-1 | OS7 OS8 SLE12 SES5 | tigervnc | 2020-10-13 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2881-1 | OS9 SLE12 | tigervnc | 2020-10-09 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2882-1 | SLE15 | tigervnc | 2020-10-09 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2880-1 | SLE15 | tigervnc | 2020-10-09 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4575-1 | 16.04 | dom4j | 2020-10-13 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4574-1 | 16.04 | golang-github-seccomp-libseccomp-golang | 2020-10-07 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4576-1 | 18.04 20.04 | linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.4, linux-azure, linux-azure-5.4, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.4, linux-hwe-5.4, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-5.4, linux-raspi, linux-raspi-5.4 | 2020-10-13 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4578-1 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 | linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-hwe, linux-azure, linux-azure-4.15, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-4.15, linux-gke-4.15, linux-hwe, linux-kvm, linux-oem, linux-oracle, linux-raspi2, linux-snapdragon | 2020-10-13 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4579-1 | 14.04 16.04 | linux, linux-aws, linux-kvm, linux-lts-xenial, linux-raspi2, linux-snapdragon | 2020-10-13 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4580-1 | 12.04 14.04 | linux, linux-lts-trusty | 2020-10-13 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4577-1 | 18.04 | linux-hwe, linux-gke-5.0, linux-gke-5.3, linux-oem-osp1, linux-raspi2-5.3 | 2020-10-13 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4572-2 | 14.04 | spice | 2020-10-07 |
Kernel patches of interest
Kernel releases
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