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CFP Deadlines: November 3, 2022 to January 2, 2023
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| December 16 | May 9 May 11 |
sambaXP | Goettingen, Germany |
| December 18 | February 7 February 8 |
State of Open Con 2023 | London, UK |
| January 1 | February 21 | Ceph Days New York City | New York City, US |
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| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
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Security updates
Alert summary October 27, 2022 to November 2, 2022
| Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CentOS | CESA-2022:7087 | C7 | 389-ds-base | 2022-10-26 |
| CentOS | CESA-2022:6765 | C7 | bind | 2022-10-26 |
| CentOS | CESA-2022:6834 | C7 | expat | 2022-10-26 |
| CentOS | CESA-2022:7002 | C7 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2022-10-26 |
| CentOS | CESA-2022:7008 | C7 | java-11-openjdk | 2022-10-26 |
| CentOS | CESA-2022:7088 | C7 | libksba | 2022-10-26 |
| CentOS | CESA-2022:6815 | C7 | squid | 2022-10-26 |
| Debian | DLA-3169-1 | LTS | batik | 2022-10-29 |
| Debian | DSA-5264-1 | stable | batik | 2022-10-29 |
| Debian | DSA-5261-1 | stable | chromium | 2022-10-26 |
| Debian | DSA-5263-1 | stable | chromium | 2022-10-29 |
| Debian | DLA-3165-1 | LTS | expat | 2022-10-28 |
| Debian | DSA-5266-1 | stable | expat | 2022-10-30 |
| Debian | DSA-5268-1 | stable | ffmpeg | 2022-11-01 |
| Debian | DLA-3162-1 | LTS | libdatetime-timezone-perl | 2022-10-26 |
| Debian | DLA-3172-1 | LTS | libxml2 | 2022-10-30 |
| Debian | DLA-3173-1 | LTS | linux-5.10 | 2022-11-01 |
| Debian | DLA-3167-1 | LTS | ncurses | 2022-10-29 |
| Debian | DLA-3168-1 | LTS | openvswitch | 2022-10-29 |
| Debian | DLA-3174-1 | LTS | pysha3 | 2022-10-31 |
| Debian | DSA-5267-1 | stable | pysha3 | 2022-10-30 |
| Debian | DLA-3164-1 | LTS | python-django | 2022-10-28 |
| Debian | DLA-3175-1 | LTS | python3.7 | 2022-11-01 |
| Debian | DLA-3166-1 | LTS | ruby-sinatra | 2022-10-28 |
| Debian | DLA-3170-1 | LTS | thunderbird | 2022-10-30 |
| Debian | DSA-5262-1 | stable | thunderbird | 2022-10-27 |
| Debian | DSA-5265-1 | stable | tomcat9 | 2022-10-29 |
| Debian | DLA-3161-1 | LTS | tzdata | 2022-10-26 |
| Debian | DLA-3163-1 | LTS | wordpress | 2022-10-26 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-30049cdcdb | F35 | cacti | 2022-10-30 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-1a85254c11 | F36 | cacti | 2022-10-30 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-30049cdcdb | F35 | cacti-spine | 2022-10-30 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-1a85254c11 | F36 | cacti-spine | 2022-10-30 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-01ffde372c | F36 | curl | 2022-10-30 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-7a963a79d1 | F35 | dbus | 2022-10-26 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-c4f274a54f | F35 | dhcp | 2022-10-26 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-7f5f9ede26 | F35 | dotnet3.1 | 2022-10-26 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-f9ca76e479 | F36 | dotnet3.1 | 2022-10-26 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-edf635cf39 | F35 | glances | 2022-10-28 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-1d9133bc8e | F35 | jhead | 2022-10-26 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-61ec901852 | F36 | jhead | 2022-10-26 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-7c13845b0d | F35 | libksba | 2022-11-01 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-0002284730 | F37 | libksba | 2022-11-02 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-ff582c5b0d | F36 | mbedtls | 2022-10-30 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-c22feb71ba | F35 | mingw-expat | 2022-10-29 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-d93b3bd8b9 | F36 | mingw-expat | 2022-10-29 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-502f096dce | F36 | openssl | 2022-11-02 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-0f1d2e0537 | F37 | openssl | 2022-11-02 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-f2a5082860 | F35 | php | 2022-11-01 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-3dcb5a3785 | F36 | samba | 2022-10-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-11bf2b2597 | F36 | strongswan | 2022-10-26 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2022-5b594b82ac | F36 | xen | 2022-10-30 |
| Gentoo | 202210-41 | android-tools | 2022-10-31 | |
| Gentoo | 202210-19 | apptainer | 2022-10-31 | |
| Gentoo | 202210-25 | bind | 2022-10-31 | |
| Gentoo | 202210-16 | chromium | 2022-10-31 | |
| Gentoo | 202210-28 | exif | 2022-10-31 | |
| Gentoo | 202210-38 | expat | 2022-10-31 | |
| Gentoo | 202210-34 | firefox | 2022-10-31 | |
| Gentoo | 202210-24 | freerdp | 2022-10-31 | |
| Gentoo | 202210-15 | gdal | 2022-10-31 | |
| Gentoo | 202210-14 | gitea | 2022-10-31 | |
| Gentoo | 202210-32 | hiredis | 2022-10-31 | |
| Gentoo | 202210-21 | jackson-databind | 2022-10-31 | |
| Gentoo | 202210-17 | jhead | 2022-10-31 | |
| Gentoo | 202210-13 | libgcrypt | 2022-10-31 | |
| Gentoo | 202210-36 | libjxl | 2022-10-31 | |
| Gentoo | 202210-23 | libksba | 2022-10-31 | |
| Gentoo | 202210-33 | libtirpc | 2022-10-31 | |
| Gentoo | 202210-39 | libxml2 | 2022-10-31 | |
| Gentoo | 202210-12 | lighttpd | 2022-10-31 | |
| Gentoo | 202210-29 | net-snmp | 2022-10-31 | |
| Gentoo | 202210-20 | nicotine+ | 2022-10-31 | |
| Gentoo | 202210-27 | open-vm-tools | 2022-10-31 | |
| Gentoo | 202210-31 | openexr | 2022-10-31 | |
| Gentoo | 202211-01 | openssl | 2022-11-01 | |
| Gentoo | 202210-37 | pjproject | 2022-10-31 | |
| Gentoo | 202210-22 | rpm | 2022-10-31 | |
| Gentoo | 202210-11 | schroot | 2022-10-31 | |
| Gentoo | 202210-26 | shadow | 2022-10-31 | |
| Gentoo | 202210-18 | sofia-sip | 2022-10-31 | |
| Gentoo | 202210-40 | sqlite | 2022-10-31 | |
| Gentoo | 202210-35 | thunderbird | 2022-10-31 | |
| Gentoo | 202210-10 | tiff | 2022-10-31 | |
| Gentoo | 202210-30 | xorg-server | 2022-10-31 | |
| Gentoo | 202210-42 | zlib | 2022-10-31 | |
| Mageia | MGASA-2022-0392 | 8 | cups | 2022-10-28 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2022-0405 | 8 | curl | 2022-11-02 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2022-0399 | 8 | firefox | 2022-10-28 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2022-0402 | 8 | gdk-pixbuf2.0 | 2022-11-02 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2022-0396 | 8 | git | 2022-10-28 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2022-0395 | 8 | heimdal | 2022-10-28 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2022-0393 | 8 | http-parser | 2022-10-28 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2022-0394 | 8 | krb5-appl | 2022-10-28 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2022-0404 | 8 | libksba | 2022-11-02 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2022-0400 | 8 | libreoffice | 2022-10-29 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2022-0391 | 8 | minidlna | 2022-10-28 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2022-0403 | 8 | nbd | 2022-11-02 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2022-0398 | 8 | nginx | 2022-10-28 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2022-0406 | 8 | php | 2022-11-02 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2022-0397 | 8 | thunderbird | 2022-10-28 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2022-0401 | 8 | virglrenderer | 2022-11-02 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2022-0390 | 8 | virtualbox | 2022-10-27 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-7133 | OL8 | 389-ds:1.4 | 2022-10-27 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-9967 | OL6 | compat-expat1 | 2022-11-01 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-7186 | OL7 | device-mapper-multipath | 2022-10-27 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-7185 | OL9 | device-mapper-multipath | 2022-10-26 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-9962 | OL6 | expat | 2022-10-31 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-6711 | OL7 | firefox | 2022-10-27 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-6997 | OL7 | firefox | 2022-10-27 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-7069 | OL7 | firefox | 2022-10-27 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-6711 | OL7 | firefox | 2022-10-27 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-6997 | OL7 | firefox | 2022-10-27 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-7069 | OL7 | firefox | 2022-10-27 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-7119 | OL8 | mysql:8.0 | 2022-10-27 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-7128 | OL8 | postgresql:12 | 2022-10-27 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-6710 | OL7 | thunderbird | 2022-10-27 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-6998 | OL7 | thunderbird | 2022-10-27 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-7184 | OL7 | thunderbird | 2022-10-27 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-6710 | OL7 | thunderbird | 2022-10-27 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-6998 | OL7 | thunderbird | 2022-10-27 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-7184 | OL7 | thunderbird | 2022-10-27 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-7190 | OL8 | thunderbird | 2022-10-27 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2022-7178 | OL9 | thunderbird | 2022-10-27 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:7191-01 | EL8.4 | device-mapper-multipath | 2022-10-29 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:7279-01 | EL8.2 | kernel | 2022-11-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:7280-01 | EL8.2 | kernel-rt | 2022-11-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:7283-01 | EL8.2 | libksba | 2022-11-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2022:7288-01 | EL9 | openssl | 2022-11-02 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2022:7186-1 | SL7 | device-mapper-multipath | 2022-10-26 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2022:7184-1 | SL7 | thunderbird | 2022-10-26 |
| Slackware | SSA:2022-299-01 | curl | 2022-10-26 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2022-304-02 | php8 | 2022-10-31 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2022-304-01 | vim | 2022-10-31 | |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:3747-1 | OS9 SLE12 | SUSE Manager Client Tools | 2022-10-26 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2022:10170-1 | SLE12 | cacti, cacti-spine | 2022-10-30 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2022:10170-1 | SLE12 osB15 | cacti, cacti-spine | 2022-10-30 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2022:10180-1 | osB15 | chromium | 2022-10-31 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2022:10177-1 | osB15 | chromium | 2022-10-31 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:3781-1 | MP4.2 MP4.3 SLE15 oS15.3 | container-suseconnect | 2022-10-26 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:3785-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.3 oS15.4 | curl | 2022-10-27 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:3772-1 | OS9 SLE12 | curl | 2022-10-26 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:3805-1 | MP4.1 MP4.2 SLE15 SLE-m5.1 SLE-m5.2 SES6 SES7 oS15.3 osM5.2 | dbus-1 | 2022-10-27 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:3806-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.3 oS15.4 | dbus-1 | 2022-10-27 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:3804-1 | OS9 SLE12 | dbus-1 | 2022-10-27 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2022:10168-1 | osB15 | exim | 2022-10-30 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:3837-1 | oS15.3 oS15.4 | gnome-desktop | 2022-11-01 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:3829-1 | MP4.2 SLE15 oS15.3 oS15.4 | hdf5 | 2022-11-01 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:3825-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 | hdf5 | 2022-11-01 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:3824-1 | SLE12 | hdf5 | 2022-11-01 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:3826-1 | SLE15 | hdf5 | 2022-11-01 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:3828-1 | SLE15 | hdf5 | 2022-11-01 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:3827-1 | SLE15 oS15.4 | hdf5 | 2022-11-01 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:3823-1 | oS15.3 oS15.4 | hsqldb | 2022-11-01 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2022:10179-1 | osB15 | jhead | 2022-10-31 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2022:10178-1 | osB15 | jhead | 2022-10-31 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:3775-1 | MP4.2 SLE15 SLE-m5.1 SLE-m5.2 oS15.3 oS15.4 osM5.2 | kernel | 2022-10-26 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:3844-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.3 oS15.4 | kernel | 2022-11-02 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:3779-1 | SLE12 | kernel | 2022-10-26 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:3810-1 | SLE12 | kernel | 2022-10-31 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:3809-1 | SLE15 SLE-m5.1 SLE-m5.2 osM5.2 | kernel | 2022-10-31 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:3807-1 | MP4.2 MP4.3 SLE15 oS15.3 oS15.4 | libconfuse0 | 2022-10-28 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:3782-1 | MP4.1 MP4.2 MP4.3 SLE15 SES6 SES7 oS15.3 oS15.4 | libmad | 2022-10-26 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2022:10169-1 | SLE12 | libmad | 2022-10-30 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:3784-1 | MP4.1 MP4.2 MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.1 SLE-m5.2 SLE-m5.3 SES6 SES7 oS15.3 oS15.4 osM5.2 | libtasn1 | 2022-10-26 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:3817-1 | OS9 SLE12 | libtasn1 | 2022-10-31 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:3797-1 | SLE12 | libtasn1 | 2022-10-27 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:3791-1 | OS9 SLE12 | libtirpc | 2022-10-27 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:3835-1 | oS15.3 oS15.4 | nodejs10 | 2022-11-01 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:3802-1 | MP4.1 MP4.2 MP4.3 SLE15 SES6 SES7 oS15.3 oS15.4 | openjpeg2 | 2022-10-27 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:3801-1 | OS9 SLE12 | openjpeg2 | 2022-10-27 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:3843-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 oS15.4 | openssl-3 | 2022-11-01 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2022:10181-1 | oS15.3 | opera | 2022-10-31 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2022:10182-1 | oS15.4 | opera | 2022-10-31 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2022:10171-1 | osB15 | pdns-recursor | 2022-10-30 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:3830-1 | oS15.4 | php7 | 2022-11-01 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:3819-1 | MP4.2 SLE15 SLE-m5.1 SLE-m5.2 SES7.1 oS15.3 osM5.2 | podman | 2022-10-31 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:3820-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.3 oS15.4 | podman | 2022-10-31 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:3833-1 | oS15.3 oS15.4 | podofo | 2022-11-01 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2022:10183-1 | osB15 | pyenv | 2022-10-31 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:3834-1 | oS15.3 oS15.4 | python-Flask-Security | 2022-11-01 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:3836-1 | oS15.3 | python-lxml | 2022-11-01 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:3795-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.3 oS15.4 | qemu | 2022-10-27 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:3768-1 | SLE15 SES6 oS15.3 | qemu | 2022-10-26 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:3794-1 | SLE12 | rubygem-puppet | 2022-10-27 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:3783-1 | MP4.1 MP4.2 MP4.3 SLE15 SES6 SES7 oS15.3 oS15.4 | telnet | 2022-10-26 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:3800-1 | MP4.2 MP4.3 SLE15 oS15.3 oS15.4 | thunderbird | 2022-10-27 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:3841-1 | OS9 SLE12 | xorg-x11-server | 2022-11-01 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2022:3840-1 | SLE12 | xorg-x11-server | 2022-11-01 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5708-1 | 20.04 22.04 22.10 | backport-iwlwifi-dkms | 2022-11-01 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5702-2 | 14.04 16.04 | curl | 2022-10-26 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5702-1 | 18.04 20.04 22.04 22.10 | curl | 2022-10-26 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5704-1 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 20.04 22.04 22.10 | dbus | 2022-10-27 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5709-1 | 18.04 20.04 | firefox | 2022-11-01 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5707-1 | 16.04 | libtasn1-6 | 2022-10-31 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5706-1 | 20.04 | linux-azure-fde | 2022-10-27 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5703-1 | 22.04 | linux-intel-iotg | 2022-10-26 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5696-2 | 16.04 | mysql-5.7 | 2022-10-26 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5711-1 | 18.04 20.04 22.04 22.10 | ntfs-3g | 2022-11-02 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5710-1 | 22.04 22.10 | openssl | 2022-11-01 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5705-1 | 16.04 | tiff | 2022-10-27 |
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