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Calls for Presentations
Reminder: linux.conf.au 2022 Call for Sessions open + Extended
The linux.conf.au organizers have put out a second, extended call for proposals for the 2022 event, which will be held online starting January 14.
Please submit a talk, join us in January. We have the "venue" sorted, sponsors organised, miniconfs chosen, keynotes ready, now all we need is a wonderful program of sessions for our community to listen and watch.
Proposals are due by September 12.
CFP Deadlines: September 9, 2021 to November 8, 2021
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| November 1 | July 28 July 31 |
Southern California Linux Expo | Los Angeles, CA, USA |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
Events: September 9, 2021 to November 8, 2021
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| September 8 September 10 |
Linaro Virtual Connect | Online |
| September 8 September 9 |
DevBreak | Paris, France |
| 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 30 |
Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference | Seattle, WA, and online |
| September 27 September 29 |
OSPOCon | 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 |
| November 3 | Qt World Summit 2021 | Online |
| November 5 November 6 |
Seattle GNU/Linux conference | Online |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Security updates
Alert summary September 2, 2021 to September 8, 2021
| Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | DLA-2755-1 | LTS | btrbk | 2021-09-05 |
| Debian | DSA-4968-1 | stable | haproxy | 2021-09-07 |
| Debian | DLA-2754-1 | LTS | pywps | 2021-09-04 |
| Debian | DLA-2753-1 | LTS | qemu | 2021-09-02 |
| Debian | DSA-4967-1 | stable | squashfs-tools | 2021-09-04 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-9e2e12e5d7 | F33 | condor | 2021-09-02 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-77bf975e28 | F34 | condor | 2021-09-02 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-301dfb76b3 | F33 | grilo | 2021-09-02 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-38d1b07839 | F33 | libguestfs | 2021-09-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-c0235d9d79 | F34 | libguestfs | 2021-09-04 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-c6393c7540 | F33 | libopenmpt | 2021-09-02 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-91d42ce83e | F33 | libss7 | 2021-09-04 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-c5b708f363 | F34 | libss7 | 2021-09-04 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-38d1b07839 | F33 | ntfs-3g | 2021-09-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-c0235d9d79 | F34 | ntfs-3g | 2021-09-04 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-38d1b07839 | F33 | ntfs-3g-system-compression | 2021-09-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-c0235d9d79 | F34 | ntfs-3g-system-compression | 2021-09-04 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-33f8ebd09c | F34 | opencryptoki | 2021-09-02 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-38d1b07839 | F33 | partclone | 2021-09-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-c0235d9d79 | F34 | partclone | 2021-09-04 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-45ba66bd29 | F33 | php | 2021-09-02 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-074725882f | F34 | php | 2021-09-02 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-38d1b07839 | F33 | testdisk | 2021-09-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-c0235d9d79 | F34 | testdisk | 2021-09-04 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-5fa81a2b04 | F34 | vim | 2021-09-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-38d1b07839 | F33 | wimlib | 2021-09-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-c0235d9d79 | F34 | wimlib | 2021-09-04 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-4f129cc0c1 | F33 | xen | 2021-09-05 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2021-d68ed12e46 | F34 | xen | 2021-09-05 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2021-0415 | 8 | exiv2 | 2021-09-04 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2021-0416 | 8 | golang | 2021-09-04 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2021-0418 | 8 | kernel | 2021-09-08 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2021-0419 | 8 | kernel-linus | 2021-09-08 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2021-0414 | 8 | libspf2 | 2021-09-04 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2021-0417 | 8 | ruby-addressable | 2021-09-04 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:1234-1 | 15.2 | apache2 | 2021-09-07 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:2954-1 | 15.3 | apache2 | 2021-09-03 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:1225-1 | 15.2 | dovecot23 | 2021-09-04 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:2919-1 | 15.3 | ffmpeg | 2021-09-02 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:1230-1 | 15.2 | gstreamer-plugins-good | 2021-09-05 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:2915-1 | 15.3 | gstreamer-plugins-good | 2021-09-02 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:2975-1 | 15.3 | haproxy | 2021-09-08 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:1233-1 | 15.2 | java-11-openjdk | 2021-09-07 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:2952-1 | 15.3 | java-11-openjdk | 2021-09-03 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:1235-1 | 15.2 | libesmtp | 2021-09-07 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:2937-1 | 15.3 | libesmtp | 2021-09-03 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:2939-1 | 15.3 | mariadb | 2021-09-03 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:1239-1 | 15.2 | nodejs10 | 2021-09-07 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:2953-1 | 15.3 | nodejs10 | 2021-09-03 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:2971-1 | 15.3 | ntfs-3g_ntfsprogs | 2021-09-07 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:2966-1 | 15.3 | openssl-1_1 | 2021-09-07 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:1221-1 | 15.2 15.3 | opera | 2021-09-03 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:2940-1 | 15.3 | python39 | 2021-09-03 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:2941-1 | 15.3 | sssd | 2021-09-03 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:1236-1 | 15.2 | xen | 2021-09-07 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:2923-1 | 15.3 | xen | 2021-09-02 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:1231-1 | 15.2 | xerces-c | 2021-09-06 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2021:2958-1 | 15.3 | xerces-c | 2021-09-06 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2021-3438 | OL7 | kernel | 2021-09-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:3438-01 | EL7 | kernel | 2021-09-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:3447-01 | EL8 | kernel | 2021-09-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:3444-01 | EL8.1 | kernel | 2021-09-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:3446-01 | EL8.2 | kernel | 2021-09-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:3439-01 | EL7 | kernel-rt | 2021-09-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:3440-01 | EL8 | kernel-rt | 2021-09-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:3445-01 | EL8.2 | kernel-rt | 2021-09-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:3441-01 | EL7 | kpatch-patch | 2021-09-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:3436-01 | EL8 | kpatch-patch | 2021-09-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:3442-01 | EL8.1 | kpatch-patch | 2021-09-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2021:3443-01 | EL8.2 | kpatch-patch | 2021-09-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:2918-1 | SLE12 | apache2 | 2021-09-02 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:2954-1 | SLE15 | apache2 | 2021-09-03 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:2912-1 | SLE12 | apache2-mod_auth_mellon | 2021-09-02 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:2929-1 | MP4.0 SLE15 SES6 | ffmpeg | 2021-09-02 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:2919-1 | SLE15 | ffmpeg | 2021-09-02 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:2930-1 | OS8 OS9 SLE12 | file | 2021-09-02 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:2916-1 | SLE12 | gstreamer-plugins-good | 2021-09-02 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:2915-1 | SLE15 | gstreamer-plugins-good | 2021-09-02 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:2975-1 | SLE15 | haproxy | 2021-09-08 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:2952-1 | MP4.0 SLE15 SES6 | java-11-openjdk | 2021-09-03 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:2937-1 | MP4.0 SLE15 SES6 | libesmtp | 2021-09-03 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:2917-1 | OS8 OS9 SLE12 | libesmtp | 2021-09-02 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:2939-1 | SLE15 | mariadb | 2021-09-03 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:2953-1 | SLE15 | nodejs10 | 2021-09-03 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:2965-1 | SLE12 | ntfs-3g_ntfsprogs | 2021-09-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:2971-1 | SLE15 | ntfs-3g_ntfsprogs | 2021-09-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:2913-1 | OS8 OS9 SLE12 | openexr | 2021-09-02 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:2967-1 | SLE15 | openssl-1_1 | 2021-09-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:2966-1 | SLE15 | openssl-1_1 | 2021-09-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:2968-1 | SLE15 SES6 | openssl-1_1 | 2021-09-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:2926-1 | SLE12 | php72 | 2021-09-02 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:2940-1 | SLE15 | python39 | 2021-09-03 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:2928-1 | OS8 | rubygem-addressable | 2021-09-02 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:2927-1 | OS9 | rubygem-addressable | 2021-09-02 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:2914-1 | OSCC9 | rubygem-puma | 2021-09-02 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:2941-1 | SLE15 | sssd | 2021-09-03 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:2925-1 | MP4.0 SLE15 SES6 | xen | 2021-09-02 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:2957-1 | OS8 SLE12 | xen | 2021-09-06 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:2955-1 | OS9 SLE12 | xen | 2021-09-03 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:2924-1 | SLE12 | xen | 2021-09-02 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:2922-1 | SLE15 | xen | 2021-09-02 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:2923-1 | SLE15 | xen | 2021-09-02 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:2943-1 | SLE15 | xen | 2021-09-03 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:2920-1 | MP4.0 SLE15 SES6 | xerces-c | 2021-09-02 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:2944-1 | SLE12 | xerces-c | 2021-09-03 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2021:2958-1 | SLE15 | xerces-c | 2021-09-06 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5064-1 | 18.04 20.04 21.04 | cpio | 2021-09-08 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5063-1 | 20.04 21.04 | haproxy | 2021-09-08 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5069-1 | 18.04 20.04 | libapache2-mod-auth-mellon | 2021-09-08 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5068-1 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 20.04 21.04 | libgd2 | 2021-09-08 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5062-1 | 14.04 16.04 | linux, linux-aws, linux-kvm, linux-lts-xenial | 2021-09-07 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5051-4 | 14.04 | openssl | 2021-09-01 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5065-1 | 20.04 21.04 | openvswitch | 2021-09-08 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5066-2 | 16.04 | python-pysaml2 | 2021-09-08 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5066-1 | 18.04 20.04 21.04 | python-pysaml2 | 2021-09-08 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5067-1 | 18.04 20.04 21.04 | sssd | 2021-09-08 |
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