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Development
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- Fedora FESCO meeting minutes (October 28)
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Calls for Presentations
LibrePlanet 2021
The Free Software Foundation has announced that the annual LibrePlanet conference will be held online sometime in March. The call for sessions closes November 11. "For those of you who haven't participated in a LibrePlanet conference before: expect a friendly, social, community-focused event with two days of inspiring talks and workshops from prominent people in the free software community, as well as people new to the community, all happening online. General registration will open soon, and more information about exhibitor registration and sponsor opportunities will be posted online, too." FSF Award nominations have also been extended until November 11. The awards will be presented at LibrePlanet.
CFP Deadlines: October 29, 2020 to December 28, 2020
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| December 18 | January 23 | LCA Systems Administration Miniconf | Online, UTC+11 |
| December 18 | January 23 | LCA Kernel Miniconf | Online, UTC+11 |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
Google Summer of Code 2021
Google Open Source has announced some changes for the 2021 cycle of Google Summer of Code. "With the pandemic straining folks’ time we are changing the size of the projects and time commitment students are expected to spend on their projects. Starting in 2021, students will be focused on a 175-hour project over a 10-week coding period." Applications for interested open source project organizations open on January 29.
Events: October 29, 2020 to December 28, 2020
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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.
Security updates
Alert summary October 22, 2020 to October 28, 2020
| Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arch Linux | ASA-202010-10 | freetype2 | 2020-10-21 | |
| Debian | DSA-4781-1 | stable | blueman | 2020-10-27 |
| Debian | DLA-2410-1 | LTS | bluez | 2020-10-21 |
| Debian | DLA-2414-1 | LTS | fastd | 2020-10-25 |
| Debian | DLA-2411-1 | LTS | firefox-esr | 2020-10-21 |
| Debian | DSA-4778-1 | stable | firefox-esr | 2020-10-21 |
| Debian | DLA-2415-1 | LTS | freetype | 2020-10-25 |
| Debian | DSA-4777-1 | stable | freetype | 2020-10-21 |
| Debian | DSA-4779-1 | stable | openjdk-11 | 2020-10-25 |
| Debian | DLA-2413-1 | LTS | phpmyadmin | 2020-10-25 |
| Debian | DLA-2416-1 | LTS | thunderbird | 2020-10-27 |
| Debian | DSA-4780-1 | stable | thunderbird | 2020-10-25 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-3ce0f55bc5 | F31 | ant | 2020-10-25 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-92b1d001b3 | F32 | ant | 2020-10-25 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-b40fc174b5 | F33 | createrepo_c | 2020-10-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-b40fc174b5 | F33 | dnf-plugins-core | 2020-10-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-b40fc174b5 | F33 | dnf-plugins-extras | 2020-10-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-de83d27335 | F31 | firefox | 2020-10-23 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-aba1d14e9e | F32 | firefox | 2020-10-21 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-6299161e89 | F32 | freetype | 2020-10-25 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-da859aadde | F32 | kde-partitionmanager | 2020-10-26 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-da859aadde | F32 | kpmcore | 2020-10-26 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-b40fc174b5 | F33 | librepo | 2020-10-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-b40fc174b5 | F33 | livecd-tools | 2020-10-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-3cea1ac8f3 | F32 | mupdf | 2020-10-25 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-74bf23e1f1 | F31 | nodejs | 2020-10-28 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-c605353480 | F32 | nodejs | 2020-10-28 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-81026ddd81 | F32 | pdns-recursor | 2020-10-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-3cea1ac8f3 | F32 | python-PyMuPDF | 2020-10-25 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-098cba75fe | F31 | singularity | 2020-10-23 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-0fbf0db920 | F32 | singularity | 2020-10-23 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-58dc592b7b | F31 | suricata | 2020-10-23 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-3cea1ac8f3 | F32 | zathura-pdf-mupdf | 2020-10-25 |
| Gentoo | 202010-08 | firefox | 2020-10-28 | |
| Gentoo | 202010-07 | freetype | 2020-10-23 | |
| Mageia | MGASA-2020-0394 | 7 | claws-mail | 2020-10-24 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2020-0395 | 7 | nss, firefox | 2020-10-24 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2020-0393 | 7 | pdns-recursor | 2020-10-24 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2020-0396 | 7 | thunderbird | 2020-10-24 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1736-1 | 15.2 | atftp | 2020-10-25 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1715-1 | chromium | 2020-10-23 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1731-1 | chromium | 2020-10-25 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1718-1 | 15.1 | chromium | 2020-10-24 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1705-1 | 15.1 15.2 | chromium | 2020-10-22 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1705-1 | 15.1 15.2 | chromium | 2020-10-22 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1737-1 | 15.2 | chromium | 2020-10-26 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1732-1 | 15.1 | firefox | 2020-10-25 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1748-1 | 15.2 | firefox | 2020-10-27 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1734-1 | 15.1 | freetype2 | 2020-10-25 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1744-1 | 15.2 | freetype2 | 2020-10-26 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1724-1 | 15.1 | gnutls | 2020-10-25 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1743-1 | 15.2 | gnutls | 2020-10-26 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1717-1 | 15.1 | hunspell | 2020-10-24 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1719-1 | 15.2 | hunspell | 2020-10-24 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1754-1 | kleopatra | 2020-10-28 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1723-1 | 15.1 | kleopatra | 2020-10-25 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1752-1 | mailman | 2020-10-27 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1707-1 | 15.2 | mailman | 2020-10-22 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1707-1 | 15.2 | mailman | 2020-10-22 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1713-1 | 15.1 15.2 | opera | 2020-10-23 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-4310 | OL7 | firefox | 2020-10-23 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-4310 | OL7 | firefox | 2020-10-23 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-4317 | OL8 | firefox | 2020-10-26 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-4348 | OL6 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2020-10-28 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-4350 | OL7 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2020-10-27 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-4350 | OL7 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2020-10-28 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-4307 | OL7 | java-11-openjdk | 2020-10-23 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-4307 | OL7 | java-11-openjdk | 2020-10-23 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-4305 | OL8 | java-11-openjdk | 2020-10-23 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-4276 | OL7 | kernel | 2020-10-23 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-4286 | OL8 | kernel | 2020-10-21 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4366-01 | EL7 | Satellite 6.8 | 2020-10-27 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4351-01 | EL6 | chromium-browser | 2020-10-26 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4330-01 | EL6 | firefox | 2020-10-26 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4310-01 | EL7 | firefox | 2020-10-22 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4317-01 | EL8 | firefox | 2020-10-22 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4311-01 | EL8.0 | firefox | 2020-10-22 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4315-01 | EL8.1 | firefox | 2020-10-22 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4348-01 | EL6 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2020-10-26 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4350-01 | EL7 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2020-10-26 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4347-01 | EL8 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2020-10-26 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4349-01 | EL8.0 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2020-10-26 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4352-01 | EL8.1 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2020-10-26 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4307-01 | EL7 | java-11-openjdk | 2020-10-22 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4305-01 | EL8 | java-11-openjdk | 2020-10-22 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4316-01 | EL8.0 | java-11-openjdk | 2020-10-22 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4306-01 | EL8.1 | java-11-openjdk | 2020-10-22 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4331-01 | EL8 | kpatch-patch | 2020-10-26 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4332-01 | EL8.1 | kpatch-patch | 2020-10-26 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:4312-01 | SCL | rh-maven35-jackson-databind | 2020-10-22 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2020:4350-1 | SL7 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2020-10-27 |
| Slackware | SSA:2020-295-01 | kernel | 2020-10-21 | |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:3030-1 | SLE12 | SDL | 2020-10-26 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:3067-1 | SLE15 | apache2 | 2020-10-28 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:3060-1 | SLE15 | binutils | 2020-10-28 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:3034-1 | SLE15 | bluez | 2020-10-26 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:3053-1 | OS7 OS8 OS9 SLE12 SES5 | firefox | 2020-10-27 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:14522-1 | SLE11 | firefox | 2020-10-26 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:3021-1 | SLE15 | firefox | 2020-10-23 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:3022-1 | SLE15 | firefox | 2020-10-23 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2998-1 | OS7 OS8 OS9 SLE12 SES5 | freetype2 | 2020-10-22 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2995-1 | SLE15 | freetype2 | 2020-10-22 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:3024-1 | OS7 OS8 SLE12 SES5 | glibc | 2020-10-23 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2988-1 | SLE15 | gnutls | 2020-10-21 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2999-1 | SLE12 | kernel | 2020-10-22 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2981-1 | SLE12 | kernel | 2020-10-21 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2981-1 | SLE12 | kernel | 2020-10-21 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2980-1 | SLE15 | kernel | 2020-10-21 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2980-1 | SLE15 | kernel | 2020-10-21 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:3014-1 | SLE15 | kernel | 2020-10-23 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:3023-1 | SLE12 | libcdio | 2020-10-23 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:3038-1 | OS9 SLE12 | libvirt | 2020-10-27 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:3039-1 | SLE12 | libvirt | 2020-10-27 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:3037-1 | SLE15 | libvirt | 2020-10-26 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:3003-1 | SLE12 | mercurial | 2020-10-22 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2712-2 | SLE15 | openldap2 | 2020-10-22 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:3054-1 | SLE15 | pacemaker | 2020-10-27 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2997-1 | SLE15 | php7 | 2020-10-22 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:3016-1 | OS9 | python-pip | 2020-10-23 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:3036-1 | SLE15 | rmt-server | 2020-10-26 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:3065-1 | SLE15 | sane-backends | 2020-10-28 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:3070-1 | SLE15 | spice | 2020-10-28 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:3071-1 | SLE15 | spice-gtk | 2020-10-28 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2996-1 | SLE12 | tomcat | 2020-10-22 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:3068-1 | SLE15 | tomcat | 2020-10-28 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:3069-1 | SLE15 | tomcat | 2020-10-28 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:3045-1 | SLE15 | virt-bootstrap | 2020-10-27 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:14521-1 | SLE11 | xen | 2020-10-22 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:3050-1 | SLE12 | xen | 2020-10-27 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:3051-1 | SLE15 | xen | 2020-10-27 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:3052-1 | SLE15 | xen | 2020-10-27 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:3049-1 | SLE15 | xen | 2020-10-27 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:3064-1 | MP3.2 SLE12 SES5 | zeromq | 2020-10-28 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4605-1 | 16.04 18.04 20.04 20.10 | blueman | 2020-10-27 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4608-1 | 16.04 18.04 20.04 20.10 | ca-certificates | 2020-10-28 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4599-2 | 16.04 | firefox | 2020-10-26 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4599-1 | 18.04 20.04 20.10 | firefox | 2020-10-23 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4588-1 | 16.04 | flightgear | 2020-10-21 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4593-2 | 14.04 | freetype | 2020-10-23 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4587-1 | 16.04 | italc | 2020-10-21 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4597-1 | 16.04 | libapache2-mod-auth-mellon | 2020-10-22 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4598-1 | 16.04 | libetpan | 2020-10-22 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4603-1 | 18.04 20.04 | mariadb-10.1, mariadb-10.3 | 2020-10-27 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4604-1 | 16.04 18.04 20.04 20.10 | mysql-5.7, mysql-8.0 | 2020-10-27 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4600-2 | 18.04 | netty | 2020-10-27 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4600-1 | 16.04 | netty-3.9 | 2020-10-22 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4607-1 | 16.04 18.04 20.04 20.10 | openjdk-8, openjdk-lts | 2020-10-27 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4552-2 | 16.04 | pam-python | 2020-10-21 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4602-2 | 12.04 14.04 | perl | 2020-10-27 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4602-1 | 16.04 18.04 20.04 | perl | 2020-10-26 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4586-1 | 18.04 | php-imagick | 2020-10-20 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4583-2 | 20.10 | php7.4 | 2020-10-27 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4601-1 | 18.04 | python-pip | 2020-10-22 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4562-2 | 20.10 | ruby-kramdown | 2020-10-26 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3081-2 | 16.04 | tomcat6 | 2020-10-27 |
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