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OLF Conference 2021 Call for Presentations
Ohio LinuxFest will be held in Columbus, Ohio on December 3-4. The CfP deadline is October 1. "Presentations relating to any free and open source software, not just Linux, are welcome. Areas where we've had talks in the past include networking, system administration, development, and community building."
CFP Deadlines: September 2, 2021 to November 1, 2021
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
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September 3 | October 2 October 3 |
MiniDebConf | Regensburg, Germany |
September 5 | January 14 | LCA2022 Systems Administration Miniconf | Online, UTC+11 (AEDT) |
September 7 | December 2 December 3 |
PGConf NYC | New York, USA |
September 7 | September 8 September 9 |
DevBreak | Paris, France |
September 12 | January 14 January 16 |
linux.conf.au 2022 | Online |
September 30 | November 27 November 28 |
EmacsConf | Online |
October 1 | December 3 December 4 |
OLF Conference | Columbus, OH, USA |
October 4 | November 17 | SQLite & Tcl virtual conference | Online |
October 19 | November 30 December 2 |
Yocto Project Summit 2021-11 | virtual |
October 24 | December 1 December 4 |
FlaskCon | Online |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
Events: September 2, 2021 to November 1, 2021
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
Date(s) | Event | Location |
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September 8 September 9 |
DevBreak | Paris, France |
September 8 September 10 |
Linaro Virtual Connect | Online |
September 13 September 14 |
OpenMP Developer Conference | Bristol, UK |
September 15 September 17 |
X.Org Developers Conference 2021 | Virtual |
September 15 September 17 |
International Workshop on OpenMP | Bristol, UK |
September 16 September 19 |
EuroBSDCon 2021 | online |
September 16 | Practical Open Source Information | Online |
September 17 September 20 |
PyCon India 2021 | Online |
September 20 September 24 |
Linux Plumbers Conference | Online |
September 20 September 24 |
GNU Radio Conference 2021 | Charlotte, NC, USA |
September 22 September 23 |
Open Mainframe Summit | Online, UTC-4 |
September 22 September 24 |
CyberCon | Brno, Czech Republic |
September 25 September 26 |
Ubucon Asia 2021 | Online |
September 27 September 29 |
OSPOCon | Seattle, WA, and online |
September 27 September 30 |
Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference | Seattle, WA, and online |
September 28 September 30 |
Qt Developer Conference [POSTPONED] | Berlin, Germany |
September 29 October 1 |
Linux Security Summit | Seattle, WA, and online |
September 30 October 1 |
Collabora COOL Days 2021 | Online |
October 2 October 3 |
MiniDebConf | Regensburg, Germany |
October 3 October 9 |
Fedora Week of Diversity | Online |
October 4 October 5 |
Open Source Strategy Forum London | London, UK |
October 4 | LinuxConf [ZA] | Online, South Africa |
October 5 | PostgresConf South Africa | Online, South Africa |
October 6 | OSPOCon Europe | London, UK |
October 7 October 8 |
PyCon ZA 2021 | Online |
October 11 October 12 |
Open Networking & Edge Summit + Kubernetes on Edge Day | Virtual |
October 17 October 19 |
All Things Open | Raleigh, NC, and virtual |
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Netdev 0x15 videos, slides and papers up
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Security updates
Alert summary August 26, 2021 to September 1, 2021
Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
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CentOS | CESA-2020:1021 | C7 | GNOME | 2021-09-01 |
CentOS | CESA-2018:3140 | C7 | GNOME | 2021-09-01 |
CentOS | CESA-2021:3325 | C7 | bind | 2021-09-01 |
CentOS | CESA-2021:3338 | C7 | hivex | 2021-09-01 |
CentOS | CESA-2021:3327 | C7 | kernel | 2021-08-31 |
CentOS | CESA-2021:3296 | C7 | libX11 | 2021-08-30 |
CentOS | CESA-2021:3295 | C7 | libsndfile | 2021-08-30 |
CentOS | CESA-2021:3336 | C7 | sssd | 2021-09-01 |
Debian | DLA-2750-1 | LTS | exiv2 | 2021-08-30 |
Debian | DSA-4966-1 | stable | gpac | 2021-08-31 |
Debian | DSA-4964-1 | stable | grilo | 2021-08-27 |
Debian | DLA-2749-1 | LTS | gthumb | 2021-08-28 |
Debian | DSA-4962-1 | stable | ledgersmb | 2021-08-31 |
Debian | DSA-4965-1 | stable | libssh | 2021-08-31 |
Debian | DLA-2751-1 | LTS | postgresql-9.6 | 2021-08-31 |
Debian | DLA-2717-2 | LTS | redis | 2021-08-27 |
Debian | DLA-2752-1 | LTS | squashfs-tools | 2021-08-31 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2021-52c89b44a9 | F33 | c-ares | 2021-08-31 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2021-dc4299a8d0 | F33 | community-mysql | 2021-08-25 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2021-df40c41094 | F34 | community-mysql | 2021-08-25 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2021-53ce601cb0 | F34 | containerd | 2021-08-25 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2021-f5c7ffdb6c | F33 | dotnet3.1 | 2021-08-25 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2021-1ca90b1769 | F34 | dotnet3.1 | 2021-08-25 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2021-bb02f6ca8a | F33 | dotnet5.0 | 2021-08-25 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2021-5692836364 | F34 | dotnet5.0 | 2021-08-25 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2021-3ab4512c98 | F33 | haproxy | 2021-08-26 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2021-e6557245e8 | F34 | haproxy | 2021-08-26 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2021-f2c8514f02 | F33 | krb5 | 2021-08-27 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2021-4747693b64 | F34 | libopenmpt | 2021-08-26 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2021-535596f062 | F33 | nbdkit | 2021-08-29 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2021-9c2ba2fcfc | F34 | nbdkit | 2021-08-29 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2021-c614315daa | F34 | openssl | 2021-08-31 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2021-44c65203cc | F33 | perl-Encode | 2021-08-25 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2021-e9fc035565 | F33 | rubygem-addressable | 2021-08-27 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2021-5d14763df8 | F34 | rubygem-addressable | 2021-08-27 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2021-cdbd827c1e | F34 | squashfs-tools | 2021-08-30 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2021-52d6a75d28 | F33 | tor | 2021-08-25 |
Mageia | MGASA-2021-0411 | 8 | gpsd | 2021-08-25 |
Mageia | MGASA-2021-0413 | 8 | libass | 2021-08-27 |
Mageia | MGASA-2021-0412 | 8 | opencontainers-runc | 2021-08-27 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:1211-1 | 15.2 | 389-ds | 2021-08-30 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:1206-1 | 15.2 | aws-cli, python-boto3, python-botocore, python-service_identity, python-trustme, python-urllib3 | 2021-08-27 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:1208-1 | cacti, cacti-spine | 2021-08-29 | |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:1190-1 | 15.2 | cacti, cacti-spine | 2021-08-25 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:1190-1 | 15.2 | cacti, cacti-spine | 2021-08-25 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:1204-1 | 15.2 | dbus-1 | 2021-08-27 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:2892-1 | 15.3 | dovecot23 | 2021-09-01 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:1207-1 | 15.2 | go1.15 | 2021-08-28 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:1199-1 | 15.2 | go1.16 | 2021-08-26 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:2838-1 | 15.3 | jetty-minimal | 2021-08-25 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:1200-1 | 15.2 | libmspack | 2021-08-26 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:2837-1 | 15.3 | mariadb | 2021-08-25 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:2835-1 | 15.3 | mariadb | 2021-08-25 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:1214-1 | 15.2 | nodejs12 | 2021-08-31 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:2875-1 | 15.3 | nodejs12 | 2021-08-30 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:1198-1 | 15.2 | openexr | 2021-08-26 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:1209-1 | 15.2 15.3 | opera | 2021-08-30 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:2872-1 | 15.3 | php7 | 2021-08-30 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:1202-1 | 15.2 | qemu | 2021-08-26 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:2858-1 | 15.3 | qemu | 2021-08-27 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:1212-1 | 15.2 | spectre-meltdown-checker | 2021-08-31 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:2861-1 | 15.3 | spectre-meltdown-checker | 2021-08-27 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:2874-1 | 15.3 | thunderbird | 2021-08-30 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:1192-1 | oSB SLE15 | tor | 2021-08-25 |
Oracle | ELSA-2021-3325 | OL7 | bind | 2021-08-31 |
Oracle | ELSA-2021-3325 | OL7 | bind | 2021-08-31 |
Oracle | ELSA-2021-3338 | OL7 | hivex | 2021-08-31 |
Oracle | ELSA-2021-3338 | OL7 | hivex | 2021-08-31 |
Oracle | ELSA-2021-9434 | OL6 | kernel | 2021-08-30 |
Oracle | ELSA-2021-3327 | OL7 | kernel | 2021-08-31 |
Oracle | ELSA-2021-3296 | OL7 | libX11 | 2021-08-30 |
Oracle | ELSA-2021-3296 | OL7 | libX11 | 2021-08-30 |
Oracle | ELSA-2021-3295 | OL7 | libsndfile | 2021-08-30 |
Oracle | ELSA-2021-3295 | OL7 | libsndfile | 2021-08-30 |
Oracle | ELSA-2021-9428 | OL7 | rh-postgresql10-postgresql | 2021-08-26 |
Oracle | ELSA-2021-3336 | OL7 | sssd | 2021-08-31 |
Oracle | ELSA-2021-3336 | OL7 | sssd | 2021-08-31 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2021:3325-01 | EL7 | bind | 2021-08-31 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2021:3371-01 | EL8.2 | cloud-init | 2021-08-31 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2021:3234-01 | EL7 | compat-exiv2-023 | 2021-08-26 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2021:3233-01 | EL7 | compat-exiv2-026 | 2021-08-26 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2021:3230-01 | EL8.2 | compat-exiv2-026 | 2021-08-26 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2021:3369-01 | EL8.2 | edk2 | 2021-08-31 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2021:3232-01 | EL8.1 | exiv2 | 2021-08-26 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2021:3231-01 | EL8.2 | exiv2 | 2021-08-26 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2021:3315-01 | EL7.6 | glibc | 2021-08-31 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2021:3338-01 | EL7 | hivex | 2021-08-31 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2021:3293-01 | EL7 | java-1.7.1-ibm | 2021-08-30 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2021:3292-01 | EL7 | java-1.8.0-ibm | 2021-08-30 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2021:3327-01 | EL7 | kernel | 2021-08-31 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2021:3399-01 | EL7.2 | kernel | 2021-08-31 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2021:3321-01 | EL7.3 | kernel | 2021-08-31 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2021:3320-01 | EL7.6 | kernel | 2021-08-31 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2021:3363-01 | EL8.2 | kernel | 2021-08-31 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2021:3328-01 | EL7 | kernel-rt | 2021-08-31 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2021:3375-01 | EL8.2 | kernel-rt | 2021-08-31 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2021:3381-01 | EL7 | kpatch-patch | 2021-08-31 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2021:3392-01 | EL7 | kpatch-patch | 2021-08-31 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2021:3380-01 | EL8.2 | kpatch-patch | 2021-08-31 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2021:3296-01 | EL7 | libX11 | 2021-08-30 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2021:3295-01 | EL7 | libsndfile | 2021-08-30 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2021:3253-01 | EL8 | libsndfile | 2021-08-26 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2021:3297-01 | EL8.1 | libsndfile | 2021-08-30 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2021:3298-01 | EL8.2 | libsndfile | 2021-08-30 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2021:3255-02 | EL7 | microcode_ctl | 2021-08-26 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2021:3323-01 | EL7.2 | microcode_ctl | 2021-08-31 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2021:3322-01 | EL7.3 | microcode_ctl | 2021-08-31 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2021:3317-01 | EL7.6 | microcode_ctl | 2021-08-31 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2021:3364-01 | EL8.2 | microcode_ctl | 2021-08-31 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2021:3252-01 | SCL | python27 | 2021-08-26 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2021:3366-01 | EL8.2 | python3 | 2021-08-31 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2021:3281-01 | SCL | rh-nodejs12-nodejs and rh-nodejs12-nodejs-nodemon | 2021-08-26 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2021:3280-01 | SCL | rh-nodejs14-nodejs and rh-nodejs14-nodejs-nodemon | 2021-08-26 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2021:3254-01 | SCL | rh-python38 | 2021-08-26 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2021:3336-01 | EL7 | sssd | 2021-08-31 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2021:3365-01 | EL8.2 | sssd | 2021-08-31 |
Scientific Linux | SLSA-2021:3325-1 | SL7 | bind | 2021-08-31 |
Scientific Linux | SLSA-2021:3234-1 | SL7 | compat-exiv2-023 | 2021-08-26 |
Scientific Linux | SLSA-2021:3233-1 | SL7 | compat-exiv2-026 | 2021-08-26 |
Scientific Linux | SLSA-2021:3338-1 | SL7 | hivex | 2021-08-31 |
Scientific Linux | SLSA-2021:3327-1 | SL7 | kernel | 2021-08-31 |
Scientific Linux | SLSA-2021:3296-1 | SL7 | libX11 | 2021-08-31 |
Scientific Linux | SLSA-2021:3295-1 | SL7 | libsndfile | 2021-08-31 |
Scientific Linux | SLSA-2021:3336-1 | SL7 | sssd | 2021-08-31 |
Slackware | SSA:2021-243-01 | ntfs | 2021-08-31 | |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:2857-1 | SLE15 | 389-ds | 2021-08-27 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:2848-1 | OS8 OS9 SLE12 | aspell | 2021-08-25 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:2876-1 | OS8 SLE12 | bind | 2021-08-30 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:2852-1 | SLE12 | compat-openssl098 | 2021-08-27 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:2891-1 | MP4.0 SLE15 SES6 | dovecot23 | 2021-09-01 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:2890-1 | SLE15 | dovecot23 | 2021-09-01 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:2892-1 | SLE15 | dovecot23 | 2021-09-01 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:2838-1 | SLE15 | jetty-minimal | 2021-08-25 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:14793-1 | SLE11 | libesmtp | 2021-08-25 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:2835-1 | MP4.0 SLE15 SES6 | mariadb | 2021-08-25 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:2837-1 | SLE15 | mariadb | 2021-08-25 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:2877-1 | OS8 OS9 SLE12 | mysql-connector-java | 2021-08-30 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:2875-1 | SLE15 | nodejs12 | 2021-08-30 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:2858-1 | SLE15 | qemu | 2021-08-27 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:2861-1 | MP4.0 SLE15 SES6 | spectre-meltdown-checker | 2021-08-27 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:2862-1 | SLE12 | spectre-meltdown-checker | 2021-08-27 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:2873-1 | SLE12 | sssd | 2021-08-30 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:2874-1 | SLE15 | thunderbird | 2021-08-30 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:2834-1 | OS8 OS9 SLE12 | unrar | 2021-08-25 |
Ubuntu | USN-5056-1 | 14.04 16.04 21.04 | apr | 2021-08-30 |
Ubuntu | USN-5037-2 | 18.04 20.04 21.04 | firefox | 2021-08-25 |
Ubuntu | USN-5055-1 | 16.04 18.04 20.04 21.04 | grilo | 2021-08-30 |
Ubuntu | USN-5053-1 | 20.04 21.04 | libssh | 2021-08-26 |
Ubuntu | USN-5052-1 | 18.04 20.04 | mongodb | 2021-08-26 |
Ubuntu | USN-5060-2 | 14.04 16.04 | ntfs-3g | 2021-08-31 |
Ubuntu | USN-5060-1 | 18.04 20.04 21.04 | ntfs-3g | 2021-08-31 |
Ubuntu | USN-5051-2 | 14.04 16.04 | openssl | 2021-08-26 |
Ubuntu | USN-5051-3 | 18.04 | openssl1.0 | 2021-08-26 |
Ubuntu | USN-5057-1 | 18.04 20.04 21.04 | squashfs-tools | 2021-08-31 |
Ubuntu | USN-5058-1 | 18.04 20.04 21.04 | thunderbird | 2021-08-31 |
Ubuntu | USN-5054-1 | 18.04 | uwsgi | 2021-08-30 |
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