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CFP Deadlines: August 3, 2023 to October 2, 2023
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| August 6 | November 13 November 15 |
Linux Plumbers Conference | Richmond, VA, US |
| August 12 | September 22 September 24 |
Jesień Linuksowa 2023 | Gliwice, Poland |
| August 13 | September 10 September 17 |
DebConf 23 | Kochi, India |
| August 14 | September 14 September 16 |
Kieler Open Source und Linux Tage | Kiel, Germany |
| August 18 | October 5 October 6 |
PyConZA | Durban, South Africa |
| August 19 | September 2 September 3 |
Open Source Conference Albania 2023 | Tirana, Albania |
| August 20 | September 25 September 26 |
GStreamer Conference 2023 | A Coruña, Spain |
| August 27 | October 30 November 3 |
Netdev 0x17 | Vancouver, Canada |
| August 31 | September 22 September 24 |
VideoLAN Dev Days 2023 | Dublin, Ireland |
| September 1 | December 12 December 15 |
PostgreSQL Conference Europe | Prague, Czechia |
| September 1 | December 1 December 3 |
GNOME.Asia 2023 | Kathmandu, Nepal |
| September 10 | December 5 December 6 |
Open Source Summit Japan | Tokyo, Japan |
| September 15 | December 2 December 3 |
EmacsConf 2023 | Online |
| September 17 | November 4 November 5 |
OpenFest 2023 | Sofia, Bulgaria |
| September 21 | February 27 February 29 |
22nd USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies | Santa Clara, CA, US |
| September 28 | November 28 | NLUUG Fall Conference | Utrecht, The Netherlands |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
Events: August 3, 2023 to October 2, 2023
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| August 2 August 4 |
Flock to Fedora | Cork, Ireland |
| August 5 August 6 |
FrOSCon 18 | Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, Germany |
| September 2 September 3 |
Open Source Conference Albania 2023 | Tirana, Albania |
| September 6 September 7 |
WasmCon | Bellevue, Washington, US |
| September 7 September 8 |
PyCon Estonia | Tallinn, Estonia |
| September 8 September 9 |
OLF Conference 2023 | Columbus, OH, US |
| September 10 September 17 |
DebConf 23 | Kochi, India |
| September 12 September 15 |
RustConf | Albuquerque, New Mexico, US |
| September 13 September 14 |
All Systems Go! 2023 | Berlin, Germany |
| September 13 September 14 |
stackconf 2023 | Berlin, Germany |
| September 13 | eBPF Summit 2023 | online |
| September 14 September 16 |
Kieler Open Source und Linux Tage | Kiel, Germany |
| September 17 September 18 |
Tracing Summit | Bilbao, Spain |
| September 19 September 21 |
Open Source Summit, Europe | Bilbao, Spain |
| September 20 September 21 |
Linux Security Summit Europe | Bilbao, Spain |
| September 21 September 23 |
LibreOffice Conference | Bucharest, Romania |
| September 22 September 24 |
VideoLAN Dev Days 2023 | Dublin, Ireland |
| September 22 September 24 |
GNU Tools Cauldron | Cambridge, UK |
| September 22 September 24 |
Jesień Linuksowa 2023 | Gliwice, Poland |
| September 25 September 26 |
GStreamer Conference 2023 | A Coruña, Spain |
| September 25 September 27 |
Kernel Recipes 2023 | Paris, France |
| September 26 September 29 |
Alpine Linux Persistence and Storage Summit | Lizumerhuette, Austria |
| September 27 | GNU Project 40th Anniversary celebration | Biel, Switzerland |
| October 1 | Hackday celebrating forty years of GNU at the Free Software Foundation | Boston, US |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Security updates
Alert summary July 27, 2023 to August 2, 2023
| Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CentOS | CESA-2023:3145 | C7 | apr-util | 2023-07-27 |
| CentOS | CESA-2022:8958 | C7 | bcel | 2023-07-27 |
| CentOS | CESA-2023:3741 | C7 | c-ares | 2023-07-27 |
| CentOS | CESA-2023:3481 | C7 | emacs | 2023-07-27 |
| CentOS | CESA-2023:3263 | C7 | git | 2023-07-27 |
| CentOS | CESA-2023:1904 | C7 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2023-07-27 |
| CentOS | CESA-2023:2077 | C7 | libwebp | 2023-07-27 |
| CentOS | CESA-2023:3944 | C7 | open-vm-tools | 2023-07-27 |
| CentOS | CESA-2023:3555 | C7 | python | 2023-07-27 |
| CentOS | CESA-2023:3556 | C7 | python3 | 2023-07-27 |
| Debian | DLA-3511-1 | LTS | amd64-microcode | 2023-07-31 |
| Debian | DLA-3514-1 | LTS | bouncycastle | 2023-08-02 |
| Debian | DSA-5460-1 | stable | curl | 2023-07-26 |
| Debian | DLA-3508-1 | LTS | kernel | 2023-07-27 |
| Debian | DSA-5461-1 | stable | kernel | 2023-07-30 |
| Debian | DSA-5462-1 | stable | kernel | 2023-07-30 |
| Debian | DLA-3509-1 | LTS | libmail-dkim-perl | 2023-07-27 |
| Debian | DLA-3510-1 | LTS | thunderbird | 2023-07-31 |
| Debian | DSA-5463-1 | stable | thunderbird | 2023-07-30 |
| Debian | DLA-3513-1 | LTS | tiff | 2023-07-31 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-189272bcce | F37 | curl | 2023-08-01 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-b4b8e4f1b9 | F38 | firefox | 2023-08-02 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-5f3b4c0b97 | F37 | iperf3 | 2023-07-29 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-04243a1845 | F38 | iperf3 | 2023-07-29 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-3746647cc3 | F37 | kitty | 2023-07-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-5ead27b6d2 | F38 | mingw-qt5-qtbase | 2023-07-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-ff372f9829 | F37 | mingw-qt6-qtbase | 2023-07-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-364ae10761 | F38 | mingw-qt6-qtbase | 2023-07-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-79a18e1725 | F37 | openssh | 2023-07-28 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2023-0240 | 8 | cri-o | 2023-07-27 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2023-0242 | 8 | kernel | 2023-07-27 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2023-0243 | 8 | kernel-linus | 2023-07-27 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2023-0241 | 8 | mediawiki | 2023-07-27 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2023-0244 | 8 | microcode | 2023-07-27 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:4332-01 | EL8.4 | bind | 2023-07-31 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:4411-01 | EL9 | cjose | 2023-08-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:4417-01 | EL9.0 | cjose | 2023-08-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:4354-01 | EL9 | curl | 2023-08-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:4324-01 | EL9.0 | ghostscript | 2023-07-31 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:4326-01 | EL7 | iperf3 | 2023-07-31 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:4416-01 | EL8.1 | iperf3 | 2023-08-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:4415-01 | EL8.2 | iperf3 | 2023-08-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:4414-01 | EL8.6 | iperf3 | 2023-08-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:4160-01 | EL7 | java-1.8.0-ibm | 2023-07-31 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:4377-01 | EL9 | kernel | 2023-08-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:4378-01 | EL9 | kernel-rt | 2023-08-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:4380-01 | EL9 | kpatch-patch | 2023-08-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:4347-01 | EL9 | libeconf | 2023-08-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:4349-01 | EL9 | libxml2 | 2023-08-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:4418-01 | EL8 | mod_auth_openidc:2.3 | 2023-08-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:4429-01 | EL8.1 | mod_auth_openidc:2.3 | 2023-08-02 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:4410-01 | EL8.2 | mod_auth_openidc:2.3 | 2023-08-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:4409-01 | EL8.4 | mod_auth_openidc:2.3 | 2023-08-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:4408-01 | EL8.6 | mod_auth_openidc:2.3 | 2023-08-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:4331-01 | EL9 | nodejs | 2023-07-31 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:4330-01 | EL9 | nodejs:18 | 2023-07-31 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:4428-01 | EL6 | openssh | 2023-08-02 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:4382-01 | EL7 | openssh | 2023-08-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:4419-01 | EL8 | openssh | 2023-08-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:4383-01 | EL8.1 | openssh | 2023-08-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:4384-01 | EL8.2 | openssh | 2023-08-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:4381-01 | EL8.4 | openssh | 2023-08-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:4413-01 | EL8.6 | openssh | 2023-08-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:4412-01 | EL9 | openssh | 2023-08-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:4329-01 | EL9.0 | openssh | 2023-07-31 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:4327-01 | EL9 | postgresql:15 | 2023-07-31 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:4350-01 | EL9 | python-requests | 2023-08-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:4328-01 | EL8 | samba | 2023-07-31 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:4325-01 | EL9 | samba | 2023-07-31 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2023:4326-1 | SL7 | iperf3 | 2023-07-31 |
| Slackware | SSA:2023-212-01 | mozilla | 2023-07-31 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2023-212-02 | seamonkey | 2023-07-31 | |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:3144-1 | MP4.2 MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.0 SLE-m5.1 SLE-m5.2 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 SES7 SES7.1 oS15.4 oS15.5 osM5.3 osM5.4 | SUSE Manager Client Tools | 2023-08-02 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:3122-1 | SLE12 | SUSE Manager Client Tools | 2023-08-02 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:3142-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.0 SLE-m5.1 SLE-m5.2 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 oS15.4 oS15.5 | SUSE Manager Salt Bundle | 2023-08-02 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:3128-1 | SLE12 | SUSE Manager Salt Bundle | 2023-08-02 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:3010-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 oS15.4 osM5.3 osM5.4 | cdi-apiserver-container, cdi-cloner-container, cdi- controller-container, cdi-importer-container, cdi-operator-container, cdi- uploadproxy-container, cdi-uploadserver-container, cont | 2023-07-28 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2023:0193-1 | osB15 | chromium | 2023-07-26 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:3030-1 | OS9 SLE12 | cjose | 2023-07-31 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:3096-1 | SLE12 | compat-openssl098 | 2023-08-01 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:2989-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 oS15.4 osM5.3 osM5.4 | conmon | 2023-07-26 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:2988-1 | SLE15 oS15.5 | conmon | 2023-07-26 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:3162-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 SES7.1 oS15.4 oS15.5 | firefox | 2023-08-02 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:3161-1 | SLE12 | firefox | 2023-08-02 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:3163-1 | SLE15 | firefox | 2023-08-02 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:3091-1 | SLE12 | gnuplot | 2023-08-01 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:3002-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 oS15.4 oS15.5 | go1.20-openssl | 2023-07-27 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:3090-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 oS15.4 oS15.5 | guava | 2023-08-01 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:2987-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 SES7 SES7.1 oS15.4 oS15.5 | iperf | 2023-07-26 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:2990-1 | SLE12 | java-11-openjdk | 2023-07-26 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:3023-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 oS15.4 oS15.5 | java-17-openjdk | 2023-07-31 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:3164-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 oS15.4 oS15.5 | jtidy | 2023-08-02 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:3165-1 | SLE12 | jtidy | 2023-08-02 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:3016-1 | SLE15 | jtidy | 2023-07-28 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:3006-1 | SLE12 | kernel | 2023-07-27 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:3022-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 oS15.4 osM5.3 osM5.4 | kernel-firmware | 2023-07-28 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:2986-1 | SLE12 | kernel-firmware | 2023-07-26 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:3001-1 | SLE12 | kernel-firmware | 2023-07-27 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:3020-1 | SLE15 | kernel-firmware | 2023-07-28 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:3019-1 | SLE15 oS15.5 | kernel-firmware | 2023-07-28 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:3057-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 oS15.4 osM5.3 osM5.4 | kubevirt, virt-api-container, virt-controller-container, virt-handler-container, virt-launcher-container, virt-libguestfs-tools- container, virt-operator-container | 2023-07-31 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:3018-1 | SLE15 oS15.5 | libqt5-qtbase | 2023-07-28 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2023:0201-1 | osB15 | libredwg | 2023-08-02 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:3021-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 oS15.4 oS15.5 osM5.3 osM5.4 | librsvg | 2023-07-28 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:3043-1 | SLE15 oS15.5 | libvirt | 2023-07-31 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:2991-1 | MP4.2 SLE15 SES7.1 | mariadb | 2023-07-26 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:3093-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 SES7 SES7.1 oS15.4 oS15.5 | openssl-1_0_0 | 2023-08-01 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:3012-1 | SLE12 | openssl-1_0_0 | 2023-07-28 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:3013-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 oS15.4 | openssl-3 | 2023-07-28 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:3011-1 | SLE15 oS15.5 | openssl-3 | 2023-07-28 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:3160-1 | SLE12 | openssl | 2023-08-02 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:3097-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 oS15.4 | pipewire | 2023-08-01 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:3094-1 | MP4.0 SLE15 SES7 | python-requests | 2023-08-01 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:3015-1 | SLE12 | qemu | 2023-07-28 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:3082-1 | SLE15 oS15.5 | qemu | 2023-08-01 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:3143-1 | MP4.2 SLE15 SLE-m5.1 SLE-m5.2 SES7.1 | salt | 2023-08-02 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:3145-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 oS15.4 osM5.3 osM5.4 | salt | 2023-08-02 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:3123-1 | SLE15 | salt | 2023-08-02 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:3131-1 | SLE15 SES7 | salt | 2023-08-02 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:3139-1 | SLE15 oS15.5 | salt | 2023-08-02 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:3017-1 | MP4.0 SLE15 oS15.4 | samba | 2023-07-28 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:3060-1 | MP4.2 SLE15 SLE-m5.2 SES7.1 | samba | 2023-07-31 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:3066-1 | SLE15 SES7 | samba | 2023-07-31 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:3059-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 oS15.4 oS15.5 | thunderbird | 2023-07-31 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:3089-1 | MP4.2 MP4.3 SLE15 SES7.1 oS15.4 oS15.5 | xmltooling | 2023-08-01 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:3029-1 | SLE12 | zabbix | 2023-07-31 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6267-1 | 20.04 | firefox | 2023-08-02 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6266-1 | 20.04 22.04 23.04 | librsvg | 2023-08-01 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6253-1 | 23.04 | libvirt | 2023-07-26 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6251-1 | 18.04 20.04 | linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.4, linux-azure, linux-azure-5.4, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.4, linux-gke, linux-gkeop, linux-hwe-5.4, linux-ibm, linux-ibm-5.4, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-5.4, linux-raspi, linux-raspi-5.4, linux-xilinx-zynqmp | 2023-07-26 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6252-1 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 | linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-hwe, linux-azure, linux-azure-4.15, linux-dell300x, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-4.15, linux-hwe, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-snapdragon | 2023-07-26 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6254-1 | 14.04 16.04 | linux, linux-aws, linux-kvm, linux-lts-xenial | 2023-07-26 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6260-1 | 22.04 | linux-aws-5.19, linux-gcp-5.19, linux-hwe-5.19 | 2023-07-27 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6255-1 | 20.04 | linux-intel-iotg-5.15 | 2023-07-26 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6256-1 | 20.04 | linux-iot | 2023-07-26 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6261-1 | 20.04 | linux-iot | 2023-07-28 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6258-1 | 22.04 23.04 | llvm-toolchain-13, llvm-toolchain-14, llvm-toolchain-15 | 2023-07-27 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6259-1 | 16.04 18.04 20.04 | open-iscsi | 2023-07-27 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6257-1 | 16.04 18.04 20.04 22.04 23.04 | open-vm-tools | 2023-07-27 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6263-1 | 16.04 18.04 20.04 22.04 23.04 | openjdk-8, openjdk-lts, openjdk-17 | 2023-08-01 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6242-2 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 | openssh | 2023-07-31 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6265-1 | 16.04 | rabbitmq-server | 2023-07-31 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6264-1 | 22.04 23.04 | webkit2gtk | 2023-07-31 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6262-1 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 20.04 | wireshark | 2023-07-31 |
| Ubuntu | USN-5193-3 | 16.04 | xorg-server-hwe-16.04 | 2023-07-27 |
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