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CFP Deadlines: October 13, 2022 to December 12, 2022
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| October 15 | December 2 December 3 |
OLF Conference 2022 | Columbus, OH, USA |
| November 15 | December 1 December 4 |
Karibu PyCon Tanzania | Zanzibar, Tanzania |
| November 20 | February 22 February 24 |
PGConf India | Bengaluru, India |
| November 23 | March 18 March 19 |
LibrePlanet | Boston, US |
| December 2 | March 9 March 12 |
Southern California Linux Expo | Pasadena, CA, US |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
Events: October 13, 2022 to December 12, 2022
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| October 11 October 13 |
Tracing Summit 2022 | London, UK |
| October 13 October 14 |
PyConZA 2022 | Durban, South Africa |
| October 15 October 16 |
OpenFest 2022 | Sofia, Bulgaria |
| October 16 October 21 |
DjangoCon US 2022 | San Diego, USA |
| October 19 October 21 |
ROSCon 2022 | Kyoto, Japan |
| October 20 October 21 |
Netfilter workshop | Seville, Spain |
| October 24 October 28 |
Netdev 0x16 | Lisbon, Portugal |
| October 24 October 28 |
KubeCon / CloudNativeCon North America | Detroit, United States |
| October 25 October 28 |
PostgreSQL Conference Europe | Berlin, Germany |
| October 29 | Minsk Linux User Group meeting | Minsk, Belarus |
| October 29 | PyCon Hong Kong 2022 | Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
| November 1 November 3 |
Reproducible Builds Summit 2022 | Venice, Italy |
| November 3 November 14 |
Ceph Virtual 2022 | Online |
| November 4 November 5 |
SeaGL 2022 | Seattle, US |
| November 7 November 9 |
Ubuntu Summit 2022 | Prague, Czech Republic |
| November 8 November 9 |
Open Source Experience Paris | Paris, France |
| November 11 | Software Supply Chain Offensive Research and Ecosystem Defenses 2022 | Los Angeles, USA |
| November 11 November 12 |
South Tyrol Free Software Conference | Bolzano, Italy |
| November 14 November 16 |
Open Source Monitoring Conference 2022 | Nürnberg, Germany |
| November 26 November 27 |
UbuCon Asia 2022 | Seoul, South Korea |
| December 1 December 4 |
Karibu PyCon Tanzania | Zanzibar, Tanzania |
| December 2 December 3 |
OLF Conference 2022 | Columbus, OH, USA |
| December 2 December 4 |
GNOME Asia 2022 | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Security updates
Alert summary October 6, 2022 to October 12, 2022
| Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | DLA-3138-1 | LTS | bind9 | 2022-10-05 |
| Debian | DLA-3144-1 | LTS | connman | 2022-10-10 |
| Debian | DLA-3142-1 | LTS | dbus | 2022-10-10 |
| Debian | DSA-5250-1 | stable | dbus | 2022-10-06 |
| Debian | DLA-3145-1 | LTS | git | 2022-10-11 |
| Debian | DLA-3146-1 | LTS | isc-dhcp | 2022-10-11 |
| Debian | DSA-5251-1 | stable | isc-dhcp | 2022-10-06 |
| Debian | DLA-3139-1 | LTS | knot-resolver | 2022-10-07 |
| Debian | DLA-3140-1 | LTS | libpgjava | 2022-10-07 |
| Debian | DLA-3148-1 | LTS | mediawiki | 2022-10-12 |
| Debian | DLA-3137-1 | LTS | nodejs | 2022-10-05 |
| Debian | DLA-3143-1 | LTS | strongswan | 2022-10-10 |
| Debian | DSA-5249-1 | stable | strongswan | 2022-10-06 |
| Debian | DLA-3147-1 | LTS | twig | 2022-10-11 |
| Debian | DLA-3141-1 | LTS | wordpress | 2022-10-10 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-e0a87993b8 | F35 | booth | 2022-10-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-6744980220 | F36 | booth | 2022-10-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-847c67b3cd | F35 | dotnet3.1 | 2022-10-08 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-980d492c98 | F36 | dotnet3.1 | 2022-10-08 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-15ec504440 | F36 | expat | 2022-10-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-1fd94a54a1 | F36 | nheko | 2022-10-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-afdea1c747 | F35 | php | 2022-10-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-0b77fbd9e7 | F36 | php | 2022-10-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-4490a4772d | F35 | php-twig | 2022-10-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-1695454935 | F36 | php-twig | 2022-10-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-d39b2a755b | F35 | php-twig2 | 2022-10-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-9d8ee4a6de | F36 | php-twig2 | 2022-10-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-e915614918 | F35 | php-twig3 | 2022-10-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-b7dcd1cde4 | F36 | php-twig3 | 2022-10-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-f79aa2bae9 | F36 | poppler | 2022-10-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-c0bfe37ae5 | F36 | python-joblib | 2022-10-08 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-6da143f1a2 | F35 | rubygem-pdfkit | 2022-10-11 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-3ec8272e72 | F36 | rubygem-pdfkit | 2022-10-11 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-c170581b99 | F35 | seamonkey | 2022-10-11 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-a758e9293f | F36 | seamonkey | 2022-10-07 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2022-0366 | 8 | colord | 2022-10-08 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2022-0365 | 8 | dbus | 2022-10-08 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2022-0360 | 8 | enlightenment | 2022-10-08 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2022-0364 | 8 | kitty | 2022-10-08 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2022-0363 | 8 | libvncserver | 2022-10-08 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2022-0362 | 8 | php | 2022-10-08 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2022-0359 | 8 | python3 | 2022-10-08 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2022-0361 | 8 | unbound | 2022-10-08 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-6834 | OL7 | expat | 2022-10-06 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-6834 | OL7 | expat | 2022-10-06 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-6878 | OL8 | expat | 2022-10-11 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-6838 | OL9 | expat | 2022-10-06 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-6854 | OL9 | gnutls and nettle | 2022-10-11 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-9870 | OL7 | kernel | 2022-10-11 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-9870 | OL7 | kernel | 2022-10-11 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-6820 | OL8 | prometheus-jmx-exporter | 2022-10-06 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-6815 | OL7 | squid | 2022-10-06 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-6815 | OL7 | squid | 2022-10-06 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-6839 | OL9 | squid | 2022-10-06 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:6834-01 | EL7 | expat | 2022-10-06 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:6878-01 | EL8 | expat | 2022-10-11 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:6833-01 | EL8.1 | expat | 2022-10-06 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:6832-01 | EL8.2 | expat | 2022-10-06 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:6831-01 | EL8.4 | expat | 2022-10-06 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:6838-01 | EL9 | expat | 2022-10-06 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:6854-01 | EL9 | gnutls, nettle | 2022-10-11 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:6872-01 | EL8.1 | kernel | 2022-10-11 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:6875-01 | EL8.1 | kpatch-patch | 2022-10-11 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:6850-01 | EL7 | openvswitch2.11 | 2022-10-06 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:6820-01 | EL8 | prometheus-jmx-exporter | 2022-10-06 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:6856-01 | EL7 | rh-ruby27-ruby | 2022-10-11 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:6855-01 | EL7 | rh-ruby30-ruby | 2022-10-11 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:6815-01 | EL7 | squid | 2022-10-05 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:6839-01 | EL9 | squid | 2022-10-06 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2022:6834-1 | SL7 | expat | 2022-10-06 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2022:6815-1 | SL7 | squid | 2022-10-06 |
| Slackware | SSA:2022-278-01 | dhcp | 2022-10-05 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2022-281-01 | libksba | 2022-10-08 | |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:3552-1 | MP4.2 SLE15 oS15.3 oS15.4 | ImageMagick | 2022-10-08 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:3540-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 oS15.4 | LibVNCServer | 2022-10-06 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:3549-1 | MP4.1 SLE15 SES6 SES7 | cyrus-sasl | 2022-10-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:3543-1 | SLE12 | exiv2 | 2022-10-06 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:3562-1 | MP4.1 | libgsasl | 2022-10-11 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:3561-1 | MP4.2 | libgsasl | 2022-10-11 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:3563-1 | MP4.3 | libgsasl | 2022-10-11 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2022:10142-1 | osB15 | pngcheck | 2022-10-06 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:3537-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 oS15.4 | postgresql-jdbc | 2022-10-06 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:3541-1 | OS9 SLE12 | postgresql-jdbc | 2022-10-06 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:1040-3 | MP4.1 SLE15 SES7 | protobuf | 2022-10-06 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:3553-1 | OS9 SLE12 | python | 2022-10-10 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:3545-1 | SLE15 | python-PyJWT | 2022-10-06 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:3544-1 | MP4.2 MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.2 SLE-m5.3 oS15.3 oS15.4 osM5.2 | python3 | 2022-10-06 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:3529-1 | SLE12 | sendmail | 2022-10-05 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:3535-1 | SLE15 oS15.3 oS15.4 | slurm | 2022-10-06 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:3560-1 | snakeyaml | 2022-10-11 | |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:3531-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 oS15.4 | squid | 2022-10-06 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:3533-1 | OS9 SLE12 | squid | 2022-10-06 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:3532-1 | SLE12 | squid | 2022-10-06 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:3538-1 | MP4.1 MP4.2 SLE15 SES7 oS15.3 oS15.4 | webkit2gtk3 | 2022-10-06 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:3550-1 | SLE12 | xmlgraphics-commons | 2022-10-07 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5671-1 | 16.04 18.04 | advancecomp | 2022-10-12 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5670-1 | 22.04 | dotnet6 | 2022-10-11 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5657-1 | 16.04 | graphite2 | 2022-10-06 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5658-1 | 18.04 20.04 22.04 | isc-dhcp | 2022-10-05 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5659-1 | 20.04 22.04 | kitty | 2022-10-05 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5661-1 | 20.04 | libreoffice | 2022-10-06 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5667-1 | 20.04 22.04 | linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.15, linux-azure, linux-azure-5.15, linux-gcp, linux-gke, linux-gkeop, linux-hwe-5.15, linux-kvm, linux-lowlatency, linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15, linux-oracle, linux-raspi | 2022-10-10 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5668-1 | 18.04 20.04 | linux, linux-aws, linux-bluefield, linux-gke, linux-gkeop, linux-hwe-5.4, linux-ibm, linux-ibm-5.4, linux-kvm, linux-oracle | 2022-10-10 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5669-1 | 18.04 | linux, linux-dell300x, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-raspi2, linux-snapdragon | 2022-10-10 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5660-1 | 18.04 | linux-gcp-5.4 | 2022-10-05 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5669-2 | 16.04 | linux-hwe, linux-oracle | 2022-10-10 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5371-3 | 16.04 | nginx | 2022-10-10 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5666-1 | 16.04 | openssh | 2022-10-10 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5665-1 | 16.04 | pcre3 | 2022-10-10 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5663-1 | 18.04 20.04 22.04 | thunderbird | 2022-10-07 |
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