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Calls for Presentations
CFP Deadlines: November 9, 2023 to January 8, 2024
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| November 30 | February 27 | Open Source Camp on Kubernetes | Nuremberg, Germany |
| December 16 | April 12 April 13 |
Texas Linux Fest | Austin, Texas, US |
| January 2 | April 26 April 28 |
Linux Fest Northwest | Bellingham, WA, US |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
Events: November 9, 2023 to January 8, 2024
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | NLUUG Fall Conference | Utrecht, The Netherlands |
| November 28 November 30 |
Yocto Project Summit 2023.11 | Online |
| 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 November 2, 2023 to November 8, 2023
| Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | DSA-5546-1 | stable | chromium | 2023-11-03 |
| Debian | DLA-3646-1 | LTS | open-vm-tools | 2023-11-05 |
| Debian | DSA-5548-1 | stable | openjdk-17 | 2023-11-05 |
| Debian | DLA-3644-1 | LTS | phppgadmin | 2023-11-03 |
| Debian | DSA-5547-1 | stable | pmix | 2023-11-04 |
| Debian | DLA-3649-1 | LTS | python-urllib3 | 2023-11-08 |
| Debian | DLA-3648-1 | LTS | tang | 2023-11-07 |
| Debian | DLA-3645-1 | LTS | trafficserver | 2023-11-05 |
| Debian | DSA-5549-1 | stable | trafficserver | 2023-11-05 |
| Debian | DLA-3647-1 | LTS | trapperkeeper-webserver-jetty9-clojure | 2023-11-07 |
| Debian | DSA-5545-1 | stable | vlc | 2023-11-02 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-e58495988e | F37 | attract-mode | 2023-11-03 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-7f87c8b975 | F37 | chromium | 2023-11-03 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-14b8d5c44f | F37 | chromium | 2023-11-08 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-dde357b985 | F37 | mlpack | 2023-11-08 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-23c0bd9a45 | F38 | mlpack | 2023-11-08 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-862bb40df5 | F39 | mlpack | 2023-11-08 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-ebbe7e9887 | F37 | netconsd | 2023-11-03 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-6b4d3ca766 | F38 | netconsd | 2023-11-04 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-1ed0ec0035 | F37 | open-vm-tools | 2023-11-08 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-08e2bb6815 | F38 | open-vm-tools | 2023-11-08 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-86a50ffc72 | F39 | open-vm-tools | 2023-11-08 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-c72015807c | F38 | podman | 2023-11-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-89e8f3efc5 | F37 | salt | 2023-11-08 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-a6699df922 | F38 | salt | 2023-11-08 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-3eda7b85f5 | F39 | salt | 2023-11-08 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-4e2fe2ebac | F37 | suricata | 2023-11-04 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-0861a23801 | F38 | suricata | 2023-11-04 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-a93c06a1d9 | F37 | usd | 2023-11-04 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2023-d486d13cfd | F38 | usd | 2023-11-04 |
| Gentoo | 202311-02 | Netatalk | 2023-11-01 | |
| Mageia | MGASA-2023-0310 | 8, 9 | libsndfile | 2023-11-07 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2023-0308 | 9 | packages | 2023-11-07 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2023-0309 | 9 | thunderbird | 2023-11-07 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2023-0307 | 8, 9 | x11-server | 2023-11-07 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-6245 | OL8 | .NET 6.0 | 2023-11-06 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-6242 | OL9 | .NET 6.0 | 2023-11-03 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-6247 | OL8 | .NET 7.0 | 2023-11-03 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-6246 | OL9 | .NET 7.0 | 2023-11-03 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-6236 | OL8 | binutils | 2023-11-03 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-6188 | OL9 | firefox | 2023-11-01 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-6265 | OL9 | ghostscript | 2023-11-06 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-5731 | OL8 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2023-11-03 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-5733 | OL9 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2023-11-03 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-12970 | OL6 | kernel | 2023-11-06 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-12970 | OL7 | kernel | 2023-11-03 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2023-6266 | OL9 | squid | 2023-11-06 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6249-01 | EL7 | .NET 6.0 | 2023-11-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6245-01 | EL8 | .NET 6.0 | 2023-11-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6242-01 | EL9 | .NET 6.0 | 2023-11-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6247-01 | EL8 | .NET 7.0 | 2023-11-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6246-01 | EL9 | .NET 7.0 | 2023-11-02 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6343-01 | EL9 | LibRaw | 2023-11-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6707-01 | EL9 | avahi | 2023-11-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6236-01 | EL8 | binutils | 2023-11-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6593-01 | EL9 | binutils | 2023-11-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6473-01 | EL9 | buildah | 2023-11-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6635-01 | EL9 | c-ares | 2023-11-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6291-01 | EL9.0 | c-ares | 2023-11-02 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6371-01 | EL9 | cloud-init | 2023-11-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6402-01 | EL9 | containernetworking-plugins | 2023-11-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6596-01 | EL9 | cups | 2023-11-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6292-01 | EL8.6 | curl | 2023-11-02 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6745-01 | EL9 | curl | 2023-11-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6679-01 | EL9 | curl | 2023-11-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6524-01 | EL9 | dnsmasq | 2023-11-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6330-01 | EL9 | edk2 | 2023-11-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6518-01 | EL9 | flatpak | 2023-11-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6434-01 | EL9 | frr | 2023-11-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6372-01 | EL9 | gdb | 2023-11-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6265-01 | EL9 | ghostscript | 2023-11-02 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6732-01 | EL9 | ghostscript | 2023-11-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6544-01 | EL9 | ghostscript | 2023-11-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6631-01 | EL9 | glib2 | 2023-11-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6661-01 | EL9 | gmp | 2023-11-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6420-01 | EL9 | grafana | 2023-11-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6496-01 | EL9 | haproxy | 2023-11-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6403-01 | EL9 | httpd, mod_http2 | 2023-11-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6283-01 | EL8 | insights-client | 2023-11-02 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6264-01 | EL8.2 | insights-client | 2023-11-02 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6284-01 | EL8.6 | insights-client | 2023-11-02 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6282-01 | EL9 | insights-client | 2023-11-02 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6738-01 | EL9 | java-21-openjdk | 2023-11-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6583-01 | EL9 | kernel | 2023-11-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6699-01 | EL9 | krb5 | 2023-11-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6497-01 | EL9 | libX11 | 2023-11-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6431-01 | EL9 | libfastjson | 2023-11-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6385-01 | EL9 | liblouis | 2023-11-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6566-01 | EL9 | libmicrohttpd | 2023-11-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6429-01 | EL9 | libpq | 2023-11-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6578-01 | EL9 | libqb | 2023-11-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6482-01 | EL9 | librabbitmq | 2023-11-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6508-01 | EL9 | libreoffice | 2023-11-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6549-01 | EL9 | libreswan | 2023-11-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6643-01 | EL9 | libssh | 2023-11-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6575-01 | EL9 | libtiff | 2023-11-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6409-01 | EL9 | libvirt | 2023-11-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6595-01 | EL9 | linux-firmware | 2023-11-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6365-01 | EL9 | mod_auth_openidc | 2023-11-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6698-01 | EL9 | ncurses | 2023-11-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6746-01 | EL9 | nghttp2 | 2023-11-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6587-01 | EL9 | opensc | 2023-11-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6316-01 | EL9 | pcs | 2023-11-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6539-01 | EL9 | perl-CPAN | 2023-11-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6542-01 | EL9 | perl-HTTP-Tiny | 2023-11-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6474-01 | EL9 | podman | 2023-11-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6705-01 | EL9 | procps-ng | 2023-11-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6621-01 | EL9 | protobuf-c | 2023-11-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6290-01 | EL6 | python | 2023-11-02 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6615-01 | EL9 | python-cryptography | 2023-11-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6694-01 | EL9 | python-pip | 2023-11-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6523-01 | EL9 | python-tornado | 2023-11-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6712-01 | EL9 | python-wheel | 2023-11-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6494-01 | EL9 | python3.11 | 2023-11-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6324-01 | EL9 | python3.11-pip | 2023-11-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6659-01 | EL9 | python3.9 | 2023-11-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6368-01 | EL9 | qemu-kvm | 2023-11-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6227-01 | EL9.0 | qemu-kvm | 2023-11-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6369-01 | EL9 | qt5 stack | 2023-11-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6380-01 | EL9 | runc | 2023-11-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6667-01 | EL9 | samba, evolution-mapi, openchange | 2023-11-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6744-01 | EL9 | samba | 2023-11-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6632-01 | EL9 | shadow-utils | 2023-11-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6363-01 | EL9 | skopeo | 2023-11-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6266-01 | EL9 | squid | 2023-11-02 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6748-01 | EL9 | squid | 2023-11-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6268-01 | EL9.0 | squid | 2023-11-02 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6267-01 | EL8 | squid:4 | 2023-11-02 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6569-01 | EL9 | sysstat | 2023-11-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6492-01 | EL9 | tang | 2023-11-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6570-01 | EL9 | tomcat | 2023-11-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6346-01 | EL9 | toolbox | 2023-11-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6685-01 | EL9 | tpm2-tss | 2023-11-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6535-01 | EL9 | webkit2gtk3 | 2023-11-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6469-01 | EL9 | wireshark | 2023-11-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6340-01 | EL9 | xorg-x11-server | 2023-11-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6341-01 | EL9 | xorg-x11-server-Xwayland | 2023-11-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2023:6551-01 | EL9 | yajl | 2023-11-07 |
| Slackware | SSA:2023-311-01 | sudo | 2023-11-07 | |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4367-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 SES7.1 oS15.4 oS15.5 | apache-ivy | 2023-11-06 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4287-2 | SLE12 SLE15 | gcc13 | 2023-11-02 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4360-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 oS15.4 | gstreamer-plugins-bad | 2023-11-03 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4368-1 | SLE12 | gstreamer-plugins-bad | 2023-11-06 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4361-1 | SLE15 SES7.1 oS15.3 | gstreamer-plugins-bad | 2023-11-03 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4347-1 | MP4.0 SLE15 oS15.4 oS15.5 | kernel | 2023-11-02 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4377-1 | MP4.1 SLE15 | kernel | 2023-11-06 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4348-1 | MP4.2 SLE15 SLE-m5.1 SLE-m5.2 SES7.1 oS15.3 oS15.4 | kernel | 2023-11-02 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4378-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 oS15.4 osM5.3 osM5.4 | kernel | 2023-11-06 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4345-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 oS15.4 | kernel | 2023-11-02 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4359-1 | SLE12 | kernel | 2023-11-03 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4358-1 | SLE15 SLE-m5.1 SLE-m5.2 | kernel | 2023-11-03 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4351-1 | SLE15 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 oS15.4 osM5.3 osM5.4 | kernel | 2023-11-02 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4343-1 | SLE15 SLE-m5.5 oS15.5 | kernel | 2023-11-02 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4375-1 | SLE15 SLE-m5.5 oS15.5 | kernel | 2023-11-06 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4072-2 | SLE15 oS15.4 | kernel | 2023-11-06 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4357-1 | 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 | 2023-11-03 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4373-1 | SLE15 SES7.1 oS15.4 | nodejs12 | 2023-11-06 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4374-1 | SLE15 SES7.1 oS15.4 | nodejs12 | 2023-11-06 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2023:0353-1 | oS15.4 | opera | 2023-11-04 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2023:0354-1 | oS15.5 | opera | 2023-11-04 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4363-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 oS15.4 | poppler | 2023-11-03 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4362-1 | SLE12 | poppler | 2023-11-03 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4376-1 | MP4.2 SLE15 SES7.1 | redis | 2023-11-06 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2023:0345-1 | osB15 | roundcubemail | 2023-11-02 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2023:0350-1 | osB15 | rubygem-activesupport-5.2 | 2023-11-04 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4380-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 oS15.4 oS15.5 | squid | 2023-11-06 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4381-1 | SLE12 | squid | 2023-11-06 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4384-1 | SLE15 SES7.1 | squid | 2023-11-08 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4370-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.2 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 SLE-m5.5 oS15.4 oS15.5 osM5.3 osM5.4 | tiff | 2023-11-06 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4371-1 | SLE12 | tiff | 2023-11-06 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4337-1 | SLE12 | tomcat | 2023-11-02 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4372-1 | oS15.4 oS15.5 | util-linux | 2023-11-06 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2023:0351-1 | oS15.4 | virtualbox | 2023-11-04 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2023:0352-1 | oS15.5 | virtualbox | 2023-11-04 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2023:4338-1 | MP4.2 SLE15 SES7.1 oS15.4 | xorg-x11-server | 2023-11-02 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6470-1 | 16.04 18.04 20.04 22.04 23.04 23.10 | axis | 2023-11-02 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6472-1 | 16.04 18.04 20.04 22.04 23.04 | gsl | 2023-11-07 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6467-2 | 20.04 22.04 23.04 | krb5 | 2023-11-06 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6471-1 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 20.04 22.04 23.04 23.10 | libsndfile | 2023-11-02 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6403-3 | 16.04 | libvpx | 2023-11-01 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6454-4 | 23.10 | linux-starfive | 2023-11-01 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6473-1 | 16.04 18.04 20.04 22.04 23.04 23.10 | python-urllib3 | 2023-11-07 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6468-1 | 20.04 22.04 23.04 23.10 | thunderbird | 2023-11-02 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6469-1 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 20.04 | xrdp | 2023-11-02 |
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