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Calls for Presentations
CFP Deadlines: September 14, 2023 to November 13, 2023
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| October 2 | October 6 October 8 |
Qubes OS Summit | Berlin, Germany |
| October 10 | October 28 | China Linux Kernel conference 2023 | Shenzhen, China |
| November 1 | November 11 | Clang-built Linux Meetup | Richmond, VA, US |
| November 1 | March 14 March 17 |
SCALE 21x | Pasadena, CA, US |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
Events: September 14, 2023 to November 13, 2023
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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 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 |
GNU Tools Cauldron | Cambridge, UK |
| September 22 September 24 |
Jesień Linuksowa 2023 | Gliwice, Poland |
| September 22 September 24 |
VideoLAN Dev Days 2023 | Dublin, Ireland |
| 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 |
| October 3 October 5 |
PGConf NYC | New York, US |
| October 5 October 6 |
PyConZA | Durban, South Africa |
| October 6 October 8 |
LibreOffice Conf Asia x UbuCon Asia 2023 | Surakarta, Indonesia |
| October 6 October 8 |
Qubes OS Summit | Berlin, Germany |
| October 7 October 8 |
LibreOffice - Ubuntu Conference Asia 2023 | Surakarta, Indonesia |
| October 15 October 17 |
All Things Open 2023 | Raleigh, NC, US |
| October 17 | Icinga Camp Milan | Milan, Italy |
| October 17 October 19 |
X.Org Developers Conference 2023 | A Coruña, Spain |
| October 20 October 22 |
Linux Fest Northwest 2023 | Bellingham, WA, US |
| October 21 October 23 |
openSUSE.Asia Summit 2023 | Chongqing, China |
| October 24 October 26 |
Linux Foundation Member Summit | Monterey, CA, USA |
| October 28 | China Linux Kernel conference 2023 | Shenzhen, China |
| October 30 November 3 |
Netdev 0x17 | Vancouver, Canada |
| November 3 November 4 |
Seattle GNU/Linux Conference 2023 | Seattle, US |
| November 3 November 5 |
Ubuntu Summit | Riga, Latvia |
| November 4 November 5 |
OpenFest 2023 | Sofia, Bulgaria |
| November 7 November 9 |
Open Source Monitoring Conference | Berlin, Germany |
| November 9 November 10 |
Fourth LibreOffice Latin America Congress | Mexico City, Mexico |
| November 11 | Clang-built Linux Meetup | Richmond, VA, US |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Security updates
Alert summary September 7, 2023 to September 13, 2023
| Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | DSA-5491-1 | stable | chromium | 2023-09-07 |
| Debian | DLA-3564-1 | LTS | e2guardian | 2023-09-12 |
| Debian | DSA-5495-1 | stable | frr | 2023-09-11 |
| Debian | DSA-5492-1 | stable | kernel | 2023-09-09 |
| Debian | DLA-3560-1 | LTS | libraw | 2023-09-10 |
| Debian | DLA-3559-1 | LTS | libssh2 | 2023-09-08 |
| Debian | DLA-3557-1 | LTS | memcached | 2023-09-07 |
| Debian | DSA-5494-1 | stable | mutt | 2023-09-10 |
| Debian | DLA-3561-1 | LTS | node-cookiejar | 2023-09-11 |
| Debian | DSA-5493-1 | stable | open-vm-tools | 2023-09-10 |
| Debian | DLA-3562-1 | LTS | orthanc | 2023-09-12 |
| Debian | DLA-3558-1 | LTS | python-django | 2023-09-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-cf01e05114 | F37 | cjose | 2023-09-10 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-151d5b3da1 | F38 | cjose | 2023-09-10 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-f838326992 | F38 | erofs-utils | 2023-09-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-0fa7715821 | F37 | htmltest | 2023-09-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-3baf3f43a0 | F38 | htmltest | 2023-09-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-67d8bcb63c | F37 | indent | 2023-09-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-b7f5059ee9 | F38 | indent | 2023-09-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-b4b77f950c | F37 | libeconf | 2023-09-13 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-86b710bb4f | F39 | libeconf | 2023-09-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-84b7db808d | F37 | netconsd | 2023-09-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-2c9ef9e004 | F38 | netconsd | 2023-09-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-9adf4a31cc | F39 | netconsd | 2023-09-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-f2be748f28 | F37 | php-phpmailer6 | 2023-09-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-e51479556c | F38 | php-phpmailer6 | 2023-09-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-129178fd27 | F37 | pypy | 2023-09-09 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-c43a940a93 | F38 | pypy | 2023-09-09 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-3e092b3938 | F38 | tinyexr | 2023-09-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-6436d808d4 | F37 | vim | 2023-09-10 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-5f29c4709a | F38 | vim | 2023-09-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-920a3ab4ee | F37 | wireshark | 2023-09-09 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-abc9ca1e7e | F38 | wireshark | 2023-09-09 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-40298f6951 | F37 | xrdp | 2023-09-10 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-b1d585e148 | F38 | xrdp | 2023-09-10 |
| Gentoo | 202309-01 | apache | 2023-09-08 | |
| Mageia | MGASA-2023-0256 | 9 | chromium-browser-stable | 2023-09-11 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2023-0257 | 8, 9 | clamav | 2023-09-11 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2023-0260 | 8, 9 | ghostscript | 2023-09-11 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2023-0259 | 8, 9 | librsvg | 2023-09-11 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2023-0255 | 9 | libtiff | 2023-09-11 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2023-0253 | 8, 9 | openssl | 2023-09-11 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2023-0262 | 8 | poppler | 2023-09-11 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2023-0261 | 8, 9 | postgresql | 2023-09-11 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2023-0254 | 8, 9 | python-pypdf2 | 2023-09-11 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2023-0258 | 8, 9 | unrar | 2023-09-11 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-5019 | OL7 | firefox | 2023-09-12 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-5019 | OL7 | firefox | 2023-09-12 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-4952 | OL8 | firefox | 2023-09-07 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-4958 | OL9 | firefox | 2023-09-07 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-12782 | OL7 | kernel | 2023-09-12 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-12782 | OL8 | kernel | 2023-09-12 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-12782 | OL8 | kernel | 2023-09-12 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-12785 | OL7 | kernel-container | 2023-09-12 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-12786 | OL8 | kernel-container | 2023-09-12 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-4945 | OL7 | thunderbird | 2023-09-07 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-4945 | OL7 | thunderbird | 2023-09-07 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-4954 | OL8 | thunderbird | 2023-09-07 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-4955 | OL9 | thunderbird | 2023-09-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:5061-01 | EL9 | dmidecode | 2023-09-12 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:5019-01 | EL7 | firefox | 2023-09-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:5046-01 | EL8 | flac | 2023-09-11 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:5042-01 | EL8.1 | flac | 2023-09-11 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:5043-01 | EL8.2 | flac | 2023-09-11 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:5044-01 | EL8.4 | flac | 2023-09-11 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:5045-01 | EL8.6 | flac | 2023-09-11 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:5048-01 | EL9 | flac | 2023-09-11 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:5047-01 | EL9.0 | flac | 2023-09-11 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:5050-01 | EL8 | httpd:2.4 | 2023-09-11 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:5049-01 | EL8.6 | httpd:2.4 | 2023-09-11 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:5069-01 | EL9 | kernel | 2023-09-12 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:5091-01 | EL9 | kernel-rt | 2023-09-12 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:5080-01 | EL9 | keylime | 2023-09-12 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:5093-01 | EL9 | kpatch-patch | 2023-09-12 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:5071-01 | EL9 | libcap | 2023-09-12 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:5081-01 | EL9 | librsvg2 | 2023-09-12 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:5068-01 | EL9 | linux-firmware | 2023-09-12 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:5094-01 | EL9 | qemu-kvm | 2023-09-12 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2023:5019-1 | SL7 | firefox | 2023-09-07 |
| Slackware | SSA:2023-255-01 | mozilla | 2023-09-12 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2023-254-01 | vim | 2023-09-11 | |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2023:0245-1 | osB15 | chromium | 2023-09-12 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:3559-1 | SLE12 | firefox | 2023-09-08 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:3562-1 | SLE15 | firefox | 2023-09-08 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:3560-1 | MP4.2 MP4.3 SLE15 SES7 SES7.1 oS15.4 oS15.5 | geoipupdate | 2023-09-08 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:3563-1 | MP4.2 MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.1 SLE-m5.2 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 oS15.4 oS15.5 | icu73_2 | 2023-09-08 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:3555-1 | MP4.2 MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.1 SLE-m5.2 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 SES7 SES7.1 oS15.4 oS15.5 | libssh2_org | 2023-09-08 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:2604-2 | MP4.2 SLE15 SES7.1 | open-vm-tools | 2023-09-08 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:3580-1 | OS8 SLE12 | python-Django | 2023-09-11 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:3557-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 oS15.4 oS15.5 | rekor | 2023-09-08 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:3591-1 | SLE-m5.4 | shadow | 2023-09-13 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:3561-1 | MP4.2 MP4.3 SLE15 SES7.1 oS15.4 oS15.5 | skopeo | 2023-09-08 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:3589-1 | MP4.1 MP4.2 MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.5 oS15.4 oS15.5 | terraform-provider-aws | 2023-09-12 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:3587-1 | MP4.1 MP4.2 MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.5 oS15.4 oS15.5 | terraform-provider-helm | 2023-09-12 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:3588-1 | MP4.1 MP4.2 MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.5 oS15.4 oS15.5 | terraform-provider-null | 2023-09-12 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:3556-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 oS15.4 oS15.5 | webkit2gtk3 | 2023-09-08 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6164-2 | 16.04 18.04 | c-ares | 2023-09-11 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6361-1 | 20.04 22.04 23.04 | cups | 2023-09-12 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6237-3 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 | curl | 2023-09-11 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6362-1 | 22.04 23.04 | dotnet6, dotnet7 | 2023-09-12 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6359-1 | 22.04 | file | 2023-09-12 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6360-1 | 20.04 22.04 | flac | 2023-09-12 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6355-1 | 20.04 22.04 | grub2-signed, grub2-unsigned, shim, and shim-signed | 2023-09-07 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6350-1 | 20.04 22.04 | linux-aws, linux-aws-5.15, linux-ibm-5.15, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-5.15 | 2023-09-06 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6342-2 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 | linux-azure, linux-azure-4.15 | 2023-09-08 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6339-3 | 20.04 22.04 | linux-azure, linux-azure-5.15, linux-azure-fde, linux-azure-fde-5.15, linux-raspi | 2023-09-11 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6349-1 | 20.04 | linux-azure | 2023-09-06 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6344-1 | 23.04 | linux-azure | 2023-09-06 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6340-2 | 18.04 20.04 | linux-azure-5.4, linux-gcp-5.4, linux-gkeop, linux-raspi, linux-raspi-5.4, linux-xilinx-zynqmp | 2023-09-08 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6347-1 | 20.04 | linux-azure-fde-5.15 | 2023-09-06 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6338-2 | 22.04 23.04 | linux-gcp, linux-gcp-6.2, linux-ibm, linux-oracle, linux-starfive | 2023-09-08 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6339-2 | 20.04 | linux-gcp-5.15, linux-gkeop-5.15 | 2023-09-08 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6351-1 | 22.04 | linux-gke, linux-gkeop | 2023-09-06 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6357-1 | 18.04 20.04 | linux-ibm, linux-ibm-5.4 | 2023-09-11 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6348-1 | 20.04 22.04 | linux-intel-iotg-5.15, linux-raspi | 2023-09-06 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6343-1 | 22.04 | linux-oem-6.1 | 2023-09-06 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6346-1 | 18.04 20.04 | linux-raspi, linux-raspi-5.4 | 2023-09-06 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6356-1 | 16.04 18.04 20.04 | opendmarc | 2023-09-11 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6353-1 | 16.04 18.04 20.04 | plib | 2023-09-07 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6354-1 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 | python2.7, python3.5 | 2023-09-07 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6358-1 | 16.04 18.04 20.04 22.04 23.04 | ruby-redcloth | 2023-09-13 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6352-1 | 18.04 20.04 | shiro | 2023-09-07 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6345-1 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 20.04 22.04 23.04 | sox | 2023-09-06 |
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