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CFP Deadlines: October 19, 2023 to December 18, 2023
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| November 1 | November 11 | Clang-built Linux Meetup | Richmond, VA, US |
| November 1 | March 14 March 17 |
SCALE 21x | Pasadena, CA, US |
| November 30 | February 27 | Open Source Camp on Kubernetes | Nuremberg, Germany |
| December 16 | April 12 April 13 |
Texas Linux Fest | Austin, Texas, US |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
Events: October 19, 2023 to December 18, 2023
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| November 13 November 15 |
Linux Plumbers Conference | Richmond, VA, US |
| November 25 November 26 |
MiniDebConf Cambridge | Cambridge, UK |
| November 27 November 29 |
Deutsche Open Stack Tage | Berlin, Germany |
| November 28 November 30 |
Yocto Project Summit 2023.11 | Online |
| November 28 | NLUUG Fall Conference | Utrecht, The Netherlands |
| December 1 December 3 |
GNOME.Asia 2023 | Kathmandu, Nepal |
| December 2 December 3 |
EmacsConf 2023 | Online |
| December 5 December 6 |
Open Source Summit Japan | Tokyo, Japan |
| December 12 December 15 |
PostgreSQL Conference Europe | Prague, Czechia |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Security updates
Alert summary October 12, 2023 to October 18, 2023
| Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | DLA-3622-1 | LTS | axis | 2023-10-17 |
| Debian | DLA-3619-1 | LTS | batik | 2023-10-14 |
| Debian | DSA-5526-1 | stable | chromium | 2023-10-12 |
| Debian | DLA-3615-1 | LTS | libcue | 2023-10-11 |
| Debian | DSA-5524-1 | stable | libcue | 2023-10-11 |
| Debian | DLA-3621-1 | LTS | nghttp2 | 2023-10-16 |
| Debian | DSA-5528-1 | stable | node-babel7 | 2023-10-16 |
| Debian | DLA-3616-1 | LTS | org-mode | 2023-10-12 |
| Debian | DLA-3620-1 | LTS | poppler | 2023-10-16 |
| Debian | DLA-3614-1 | LTS | python3.7 | 2023-10-11 |
| Debian | DSA-5525-1 | stable | samba | 2023-10-11 |
| Debian | DSA-5529-1 | stable | slurm-wlm | 2023-10-17 |
| Debian | DLA-3617-1 | LTS | tomcat9 | 2023-10-13 |
| Debian | DLA-3617-2 | LTS | tomcat9 | 2023-10-17 |
| Debian | DSA-5522-2 | stable | tomcat9 | 2023-10-12 |
| Debian | DSA-5522-3 | stable | tomcat9 | 2023-10-16 |
| Debian | DSA-5527-1 | stable | webkit2gtk | 2023-10-12 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-06a2a6e03c | F37 | cacti | 2023-10-13 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-6335ea9c0c | F38 | cacti | 2023-10-13 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-06a2a6e03c | F37 | cacti-spine | 2023-10-13 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-6335ea9c0c | F38 | cacti-spine | 2023-10-13 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-1c6a20aa0a | F37 | chromium | 2023-10-14 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-275c12e496 | F37 | composer | 2023-10-15 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-f3dedfef46 | F38 | composer | 2023-10-15 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-b855de5c0f | F38 | curl | 2023-10-14 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-0f8d1871d8 | F39 | curl | 2023-10-16 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-29df561f1d | F37 | emacs | 2023-10-14 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-66d60c3df7 | F38 | ghostscript | 2023-10-15 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-c2665a9ff3 | F39 | ghostscript | 2023-10-16 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-00b3e9d551 | F38 | grafana-pcp | 2023-10-13 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-7342330743 | F38 | icecat | 2023-10-18 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-591b7f5047 | F38 | libXpm | 2023-10-15 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-1fe05ac8d9 | F37 | libcue | 2023-10-13 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-eec9ce5935 | F38 | libcue | 2023-10-12 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-f4e74a94a2 | F39 | libcue | 2023-10-11 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-e692a72898 | F37 | libwebp | 2023-10-14 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-5c6521d81d | F38 | mbedtls | 2023-10-13 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-ef901c862c | F37 | netatalk | 2023-10-14 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-cec97f7b5d | F38 | netatalk | 2023-10-14 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-ed2642fd58 | F38 | nghttp2 | 2023-10-15 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-760e5eb2c6 | F37 | oneVPL | 2023-10-12 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-760e5eb2c6 | F37 | oneVPL-intel-gpu | 2023-10-12 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-cc023fabb7 | F38 | python-asgiref | 2023-10-15 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-62baa45349 | F37 | python-configobj | 2023-10-18 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-27b41bb133 | F38 | python-configobj | 2023-10-18 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-cc023fabb7 | F38 | python-django | 2023-10-15 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-7eb8cbf1a5 | F38 | samba | 2023-10-13 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-c0da722865 | F37 | vim | 2023-10-13 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-1536766e9f | F37 | webkitgtk | 2023-10-14 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-948136565a | F37 | xen | 2023-10-12 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2023-0288 | 8, 9 | curl | 2023-10-14 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2023-0286 | 8, 9 | glibc | 2023-10-11 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2023-0287 | 8, 9 | libX11 | 2023-10-14 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-5691 | OL7 | bind | 2023-10-13 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-5691 | OL7 | bind | 2023-10-13 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-5689 | OL9 | bind | 2023-10-16 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-5178 | OL6 | busybox | 2023-10-13 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-5710 | OL8 | dotnet6.0 | 2023-10-18 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-5708 | OL9 | dotnet6.0 | 2023-10-18 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-5477 | OL7 | firefox | 2023-10-13 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-5477 | OL7 | firefox | 2023-10-13 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-5455 | OL8 | glibc | 2023-10-11 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-5453 | OL9 | glibc | 2023-10-11 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-5622 | OL7 | kernel | 2023-10-12 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-12875 | OL7 | kernel | 2023-10-13 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-12875 | OL7 | kernel | 2023-10-13 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-12874 | OL7 | kernel | 2023-10-13 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-12858 | OL8 | kernel | 2023-10-11 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-12858 | OL9 | kernel | 2023-10-11 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-12858 | OL9 | kernel | 2023-10-11 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-12910 | OL7 | kernel-container | 2023-10-16 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-12914 | OL7 | kernel-container | 2023-10-18 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-12911 | OL8 | kernel-container | 2023-10-16 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-12915 | OL8 | kernel-container | 2023-10-18 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-5615 | OL7 | libssh2 | 2023-10-11 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-5615 | OL7 | libssh2 | 2023-10-11 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-5537 | OL8 | libvpx | 2023-10-11 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-5539 | OL9 | libvpx | 2023-10-12 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-5683 | OL8 | mariadb:10.5 | 2023-10-16 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-5711 | OL9 | nginx | 2023-10-18 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-5712 | OL8 | nginx:1.20 | 2023-10-18 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-5713 | OL8 | nginx:1.22 | 2023-10-18 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-5532 | OL9 | nodejs | 2023-10-11 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-5616 | OL7 | python-reportlab | 2023-10-11 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-5616 | OL7 | python-reportlab | 2023-10-11 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-5463 | OL8 | python3.11 | 2023-10-16 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-5456 | OL9 | python3.11 | 2023-10-16 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-5462 | OL9 | python3.9 | 2023-10-18 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-5475 | OL7 | thunderbird | 2023-10-12 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:5749-01 | EL9 | .NET 7.0 | 2023-10-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:5691-01 | EL7 | bind | 2023-10-12 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:5689-01 | EL9 | bind | 2023-10-12 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:5690-01 | EL9.0 | bind | 2023-10-12 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:5771-01 | EL8.6 | bind9.16 | 2023-10-17 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:5700-01 | EL9.0 | curl | 2023-10-13 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:5763-01 | EL9.2 | curl | 2023-10-17 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:5710-01 | EL8 | dotnet6.0 | 2023-10-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:5707-01 | EL8.6 | dotnet6.0 | 2023-10-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:5708-01 | EL9 | dotnet6.0 | 2023-10-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:5706-01 | EL9.0 | dotnet6.0 | 2023-10-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:5709-01 | EL8 | dotnet7.0 | 2023-10-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:5683-01 | EL8 | galera, mariadb | 2023-10-12 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:5684-01 | EL9 | galera, mariadb | 2023-10-12 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:5738-01 | EL9 | go-toolset, golang | 2023-10-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:5721-01 | EL8 | go-toolset:rhel8 | 2023-10-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:5794-01 | EL8.4 | kernel-rt | 2023-10-17 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:5775-01 | EL8.4 | kpatch-patch | 2023-10-17 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:5766-01 | EL8.1 | nghttp2 | 2023-10-17 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:5767-01 | EL8.2 | nghttp2 | 2023-10-17 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:5768-01 | EL8.4 | nghttp2 | 2023-10-17 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:5769-01 | EL8.6 | nghttp2 | 2023-10-17 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:5770-01 | EL9.0 | nghttp2 | 2023-10-17 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:5713-01 | EL8 | nginx | 2023-10-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:5711-01 | EL9 | nginx | 2023-10-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:5714-01 | EL9.0 | nginx | 2023-10-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:5803-01 | EL8.6 | nodejs | 2023-10-17 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:5765-01 | EL9 | nodejs | 2023-10-17 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:5764-01 | EL9 | nodejs | 2023-10-17 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:5790-01 | EL8 | python-reportlab | 2023-10-17 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:5789-01 | EL8.1 | python-reportlab | 2023-10-17 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:5788-01 | EL8.2 | python-reportlab | 2023-10-17 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:5787-01 | EL8.4 | python-reportlab | 2023-10-17 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:5786-01 | EL8.6 | python-reportlab | 2023-10-17 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:5796-01 | EL8.4 | virt:rhel | 2023-10-17 |
| Slackware | SSA:2023-284-04 | libcaca | 2023-10-11 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2023-290-01 | util | 2023-10-17 | |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4050-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 oS15.4 oS15.5 | ImageMagick | 2023-10-11 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4049-1 | SLE12 | ImageMagick | 2023-10-11 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4098-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 | buildah | 2023-10-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4103-1 | SLE15 | buildah | 2023-10-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4099-1 | SLE15 SES7 | buildah | 2023-10-17 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2023:0300-1 | osB15 | chromium | 2023-10-13 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4076-1 | SLE15 SLE-m5.5 oS15.5 | cni | 2023-10-13 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4075-1 | SLE15 SLE-m5.5 oS15.5 | cni-plugins | 2023-10-13 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4101-1 | SLE15 SLE-m5.1 SLE-m5.2 SES7.1 | conmon | 2023-10-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4109-1 | MP4.2 MP4.3 SLE15 SES7.1 | erlang | 2023-10-18 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4070-1 | SLE12 | exiv2 | 2023-10-13 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4110-1 | MP4.2 MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.1 SLE-m5.2 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 SLE-m5.5 SES7.1 | glibc | 2023-10-18 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4068-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 oS15.4 oS15.5 | go1.20 | 2023-10-13 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4069-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 oS15.4 oS15.5 | go1.21 | 2023-10-13 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4085-1 | SLE12 | grub2 | 2023-10-16 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4051-1 | SLE12 | gsl | 2023-10-11 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4095-1 | MP4.2 SLE15 SLE-m5.1 SLE-m5.2 SES7.1 | kernel | 2023-10-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4072-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 oS15.4 | kernel | 2023-10-13 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4057-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 oS15.4 | kernel | 2023-10-12 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4093-1 | SLE15 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 | kernel | 2023-10-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4071-1 | SLE15 SLE-m5.5 oS15.5 | kernel | 2023-10-13 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4058-1 | SLE15 oS15.5 | kernel | 2023-10-12 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4090-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 SES7.1 | libcue | 2023-10-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:3666-2 | SLE-m5.5 | libxml2 | 2023-10-16 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4084-1 | SLE12 | netatalk | 2023-10-16 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4102-1 | SLE15 | nghttp2 | 2023-10-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4104-1 | MP4.2 SLE15 SLE-m5.1 SLE-m5.2 SES7.1 | opensc | 2023-10-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4089-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 SLE-m5.5 | opensc | 2023-10-16 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4065-1 | SLE12 | opensc | 2023-10-12 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2023:0298-1 | oS15.4 | opera | 2023-10-11 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2023:0297-1 | oS15.5 | opera | 2023-10-11 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4092-1 | python-Django | 2023-10-17 | |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4091-1 | MP4.2 MP4.3 SLE15 SES7.1 | python-gevent | 2023-10-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4108-1 | MP4.2 MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.1 SLE-m5.2 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 SLE-m5.5 | python-urllib3 | 2023-10-18 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4064-1 | SLE12 | python-urllib3 | 2023-10-12 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4056-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 oS15.4 | qemu | 2023-10-12 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4060-1 | SLE15 oS15.5 | rage-encryption | 2023-10-12 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4096-1 | MP4.2 SLE15 SLE-m5.2 SES7.1 | samba | 2023-10-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4059-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 oS15.4 | samba | 2023-10-12 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4113-1 | SLE15 | slurm | 2023-10-18 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4114-1 | SLE15 | slurm | 2023-10-18 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4097-1 | SLE15 | suse-module-tools | 2023-10-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4083-1 | MP4.2 MP4.3 SLE15 | wireshark | 2023-10-16 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4055-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 oS15.4 | xen | 2023-10-12 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4054-1 | SLE15 SLE-m5.5 oS15.5 | xen | 2023-10-12 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6429-2 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 | curl | 2023-10-11 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6429-3 | 23.10 | curl | 2023-10-17 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6430-1 | 16.04 18.04 20.04 | ffmpeg | 2023-10-12 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6436-1 | 20.04 22.04 23.04 | frr | 2023-10-18 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6433-1 | 20.04 22.04 23.04 | ghostscript | 2023-10-17 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6431-1 | 16.04 18.04 20.04 | iperf3 | 2023-10-16 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6431-3 | 22.04 | iperf3 | 2023-10-16 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6431-2 | 22.04 23.04 | iperf3 | 2023-10-16 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6423-2 | 23.10 | libcue | 2023-10-17 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6396-3 | 14.04 | linux-azure | 2023-10-17 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6434-1 | 18.04 20.04 22.04 | pmix | 2023-10-18 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6394-2 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 | python2.7 | 2023-10-17 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6432-1 | 16.04 18.04 20.04 | quagga | 2023-10-17 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6425-2 | 20.04 | samba | 2023-10-11 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6425-3 | 23.10 | samba | 2023-10-17 |
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