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Calls for Presentations
CFP Deadlines: August 29, 2024 to October 28, 2024
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| August 30 | October 9 October 10 |
oneAPI Devsummit Hosted by UXL Foundation | Everywhere |
| September 2 | October 7 October 8 |
GStreamer Conference 2024 | Montréal, Canada |
| September 6 | September 7 September 8 |
Kangrejos 2024 - The Rust for Linux Workshop | Copenhagen, Denmark |
| September 20 | December 7 December 8 |
EmacsConf | online |
| September 20 | November 7 November 9 |
Nerdearla Mexico | Mexico City, Mexico |
| September 22 | January 20 January 22 |
Everything Open 2025 | Adelaide, Australia |
| September 27 | November 15 November 16 |
OLF (Open Libre Free, formerly Ohio Linux Fest) | Columbus OH, US |
| October 7 | November 16 November 17 |
MiniDebConf Toulouse | Toulouse, France |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
Events: August 29, 2024 to October 28, 2024
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| August 31 September 2 |
UbuCon Asia 2024 | Jaipur, India |
| September 7 September 8 |
Kangrejos 2024 - The Rust for Linux Workshop | Copenhagen, Denmark |
| September 7 September 12 |
Akademy 2024 | Würzburg, Germany |
| September 10 September 13 |
RustConf 2024 | Montreal, Canada |
| September 14 September 16 |
GNU Tools Cauldron | Prague, Czech Republic |
| September 16 September 18 |
Open Source Summit Europe | Vienna, Austria |
| September 16 September 17 |
Linux Security Summit Europe | Vienna, Austria |
| September 17 | Kernel Maintainers Summit | Vienna, Austria |
| September 17 September 19 |
Reproducible Builds Workshop | Hamburg, Germany |
| September 18 September 20 |
Linux Plumbers Conference | Vienna, Austria |
| September 19 September 20 |
Git Merge | Berlin, Germany |
| September 20 September 22 |
Qubes OS Summit | Berlin, Germany |
| September 21 | Software Freedom Day | Global |
| September 22 September 23 |
KVM Forum 2024 | Brno, Czechia |
| September 23 September 25 |
Kernel Recipes | Paris, France |
| September 24 September 28 |
Nerdearla Argentina | Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| September 25 September 26 |
All Systems Go! 2024 | Berlin, Germany |
| October 3 October 4 |
PyConZA 2024 | Cape Town, South Africa |
| October 7 October 8 |
GStreamer Conference 2024 | Montréal, Canada |
| October 7 October 10 |
Community Over Code: The ASF Conference | Denver, US |
| October 9 October 11 |
X.Org Developer's Conference 2024 | Montréal, Canada |
| October 9 October 10 |
oneAPI Devsummit Hosted by UXL Foundation | Everywhere |
| October 10 October 12 |
LibreOffice Conference | Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg, Luxembourg |
| October 10 October 13 |
Cambridge mini-DebConf | Cambridge, United Kingdom |
| October 22 October 23 |
Secure Open Source Software Fusion | Atlanta, Georgia, US |
| October 22 October 24 |
LLVM Developers Meeting | Santa Clara, CA, US |
| October 22 October 25 |
PostgreSQL Conference Europe | Athens, Greece |
| October 25 October 27 |
Ubuntu Summit | The Hague, The Netherlands |
| October 27 October 29 |
All Things Open | Raleigh, NC, US |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Security updates
Alert summary August 22, 2024 to August 28, 2024
| Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AlmaLinux | ALSA-2024:5337 | 8 | .NET 8.0 | 2024-08-21 |
| AlmaLinux | ALSA-2024:5334 | 9 | .NET 8.0 | 2024-08-21 |
| AlmaLinux | ALSA-2024:5524 | 8 | bind | 2024-08-21 |
| AlmaLinux | ALSA-2024:5390 | 8 | bind9.16 | 2024-08-21 |
| AlmaLinux | ALSA-2024:5654 | 8 | curl | 2024-08-21 |
| AlmaLinux | ALSA-2024:5529 | 9 | curl | 2024-08-21 |
| AlmaLinux | ALSA-2024:5297 | 8 | edk2 | 2024-08-21 |
| AlmaLinux | ALSA-2024:5391 | 8 | firefox | 2024-08-21 |
| AlmaLinux | ALSA-2024:5322 | 9 | firefox | 2024-08-21 |
| AlmaLinux | ALSA-2024:5298 | 8 | gnome-shell | 2024-08-21 |
| AlmaLinux | ALSA-2024:5291 | 8 | grafana | 2024-08-21 |
| AlmaLinux | ALSA-2024:5294 | 8 | jose | 2024-08-21 |
| AlmaLinux | ALSA-2024:5312 | 8 | krb5 | 2024-08-21 |
| AlmaLinux | ALSA-2024:5598 | 8 | libreoffice | 2024-08-21 |
| AlmaLinux | ALSA-2024:5583 | 9 | libreoffice | 2024-08-21 |
| AlmaLinux | ALSA-2024:5289 | 8 | mod_auth_openidc:2.3 | 2024-08-21 |
| AlmaLinux | ALSA-2024:5814 | 8 | nodejs:20 | 2024-08-26 |
| AlmaLinux | ALSA-2024:5815 | 9 | nodejs:20 | 2024-08-26 |
| AlmaLinux | ALSA-2024:5306 | 8 | orc | 2024-08-21 |
| AlmaLinux | ALSA-2024:5338 | 8 | pcs | 2024-08-21 |
| AlmaLinux | ALSA-2024:5305 | 8 | poppler | 2024-08-21 |
| AlmaLinux | ALSA-2024:5530 | 8 | python-setuptools | 2024-08-21 |
| AlmaLinux | ALSA-2024:5534 | 9 | python-setuptools | 2024-08-21 |
| AlmaLinux | ALSA-2024:5309 | 8 | python-urllib3 | 2024-08-21 |
| AlmaLinux | ALSA-2024:5532 | 8 | python3.11-setuptools | 2024-08-21 |
| AlmaLinux | ALSA-2024:5279 | 9 | python3.11-setuptools | 2024-08-21 |
| AlmaLinux | ALSA-2024:5531 | 8 | python3.12-setuptools | 2024-08-21 |
| AlmaLinux | ALSA-2024:5533 | 9 | python3.12-setuptools | 2024-08-21 |
| AlmaLinux | ALSA-2024:5402 | 8 | thunderbird | 2024-08-21 |
| AlmaLinux | ALSA-2024:5392 | 9 | thunderbird | 2024-08-21 |
| AlmaLinux | ALSA-2024:5694 | 8 | tomcat | 2024-08-21 |
| AlmaLinux | ALSA-2024:5693 | 9 | tomcat | 2024-08-21 |
| AlmaLinux | ALSA-2024:5299 | 8 | wget | 2024-08-21 |
| Debian | DSA-5757-1 | stable | chromium | 2024-08-23 |
| Debian | DLA-3856-1 | LTS | python-html-sanitizer | 2024-08-26 |
| Debian | DSA-5759-1 | stable | python3.11 | 2024-08-27 |
| Debian | DSA-5758-1 | stable | trafficserver | 2024-08-26 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-a455bea9ca | F40 | calibre | 2024-08-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-c611359ae1 | F39 | community-mysql | 2024-08-23 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-8eff1bffb1 | F39 | dotnet8.0 | 2024-08-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-f4eb809b49 | F40 | dotnet8.0 | 2024-08-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-ba5bb9f63a | F39 | dovecot | 2024-08-28 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-e23e8a3f1e | F40 | dovecot | 2024-08-28 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-3667e29b88 | F39 | iaito | 2024-08-23 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-a562addefa | F40 | iaito | 2024-08-23 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-8ba5080dfa | F39 | nginx | 2024-08-26 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-6ba57fd2a3 | F40 | nginx | 2024-08-26 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-8ba5080dfa | F39 | nginx-mod-fancyindex | 2024-08-26 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-6ba57fd2a3 | F40 | nginx-mod-fancyindex | 2024-08-26 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-8ba5080dfa | F39 | nginx-mod-modsecurity | 2024-08-26 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-6ba57fd2a3 | F40 | nginx-mod-modsecurity | 2024-08-26 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-8ba5080dfa | F39 | nginx-mod-naxsi | 2024-08-26 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-6ba57fd2a3 | F40 | nginx-mod-naxsi | 2024-08-26 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-8ba5080dfa | F39 | nginx-mod-vts | 2024-08-26 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-6ba57fd2a3 | F40 | nginx-mod-vts | 2024-08-26 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-40ff0d8644 | F39 | python-webob | 2024-08-26 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-a6817a2e80 | F40 | python-webob | 2024-08-26 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-ce1992d46f | F39 | python3-docs | 2024-08-26 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-80d1fe51d0 | F40 | python3-docs | 2024-08-26 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-a4c978fa1c | F39 | python3.11 | 2024-08-25 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-bed028af54 | F40 | python3.11 | 2024-08-25 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-ce1992d46f | F39 | python3.12 | 2024-08-26 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-80d1fe51d0 | F40 | python3.12 | 2024-08-26 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-b7de0faa8b | F39 | python3.9 | 2024-08-24 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-d434721ef8 | F40 | python3.9 | 2024-08-24 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-3667e29b88 | F39 | radare2 | 2024-08-23 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-a562addefa | F40 | radare2 | 2024-08-23 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-1f1c0537d3 | F40 | webkit2gtk4.0 | 2024-08-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-ba78b27eb8 | F39 | webkitgtk | 2024-08-22 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-6b8845e3f0 | F40 | webkitgtk | 2024-08-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-c89d2ecdea | F39 | zabbix | 2024-08-24 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2024-8382d1b267 | F40 | zabbix | 2024-08-24 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2024-5814 | OL8 | nodejs:20 | 2024-08-27 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2024-5815 | OL9 | nodejs:20 | 2024-08-27 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2024-5531 | OL8 | python3.12-setuptools | 2024-08-22 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2024-5694 | OL8 | tomcat | 2024-08-22 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2024-5693 | OL9 | tomcat | 2024-08-22 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:5231-01 | EL9 | bind and bind-dyndb-ldap | 2024-08-26 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:5907-01 | EL9.0 | bind and bind-dyndb-ldap | 2024-08-28 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:5813-01 | EL9.2 | bind and bind-dyndb-ldap | 2024-08-26 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:5930-01 | EL7 | bind | 2024-08-28 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:5894-01 | EL7.7 | bind | 2024-08-27 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:5524-01 | EL8 | bind | 2024-08-26 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:5655-01 | EL8.2 | bind | 2024-08-26 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:5871-01 | EL8.4 | bind | 2024-08-27 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:5908-01 | EL8.6 | bind | 2024-08-28 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:5838-01 | EL8.8 | bind | 2024-08-26 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:5525-01 | EL8.8 | bind9.16 | 2024-08-26 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:5832-01 | EL9.0 | httpd | 2024-08-26 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:5812-01 | EL9.2 | httpd | 2024-08-26 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:5672-01 | EL9.2 | kernel | 2024-08-26 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:5673-01 | EL9.2 | kernel-rt | 2024-08-26 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:5884-01 | EL8.2 | krb5 | 2024-08-27 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:5625-01 | EL8.6 | krb5 | 2024-08-23 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:5630-01 | EL9.0 | krb5 | 2024-08-27 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:5643-01 | EL9.2 | krb5 | 2024-08-27 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:5886-01 | EL8.2 | libreoffice | 2024-08-27 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:5601-01 | EL8.4 | libreoffice | 2024-08-27 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:5883-01 | EL8.2 | linux-firmware | 2024-08-27 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:5640-01 | EL9.2 | linux-firmware | 2024-08-27 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:5814-01 | EL8 | nodejs:20 | 2024-08-26 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:5815-01 | EL9 | nodejs:20 | 2024-08-26 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:5629-01 | EL9.0 | orc | 2024-08-27 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:5882-01 | EL8.2 | orc:0.4.28 | 2024-08-27 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:5638-01 | EL9.2 | orc:0.4.31 | 2024-08-27 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:5634-01 | EL9.2 | podman | 2024-08-22 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:5929-01 | EL9 | postgresql:16 | 2024-08-28 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2024:5906-01 | EL9.2 | squid | 2024-08-28 |
| Slackware | SSA:2024-235-01 | ffmpeg | 2024-08-22 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2024-240-01 | kcron | 2024-08-27 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2024-240-02 | plasma | 2024-08-27 | |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:2999-1 | SLE12 | apache2 | 2024-08-22 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:2997-1 | SLE15 SES7.1 | apache2 | 2024-08-21 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2024:0220-1 | osB15 | caddy | 2024-08-23 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2024:0254-2 | osB15 | chromium, gn, rust-bindgen | 2024-08-23 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2024:0258-1 | osB15 | chromium | 2024-08-23 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2024:0258-2 | osB15 | chromium | 2024-08-23 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2024:0212-2 | osB15 | chromium | 2024-08-23 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2024:0155-1 | osB15 | chromium | 2024-08-23 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2024:0206-1 | osB15 | cockpit | 2024-08-23 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:3004-1 | SLE12 | expat | 2024-08-23 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:3006-1 | SLE12 | fetchmail | 2024-08-23 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:3003-1 | SLE15 SES7.1 oS15.5 oS15.6 | firefox | 2024-08-23 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2024:0168-1 | osB15 | gdcm | 2024-08-23 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2024:0226-1 | osB15 | gh | 2024-08-23 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:2998-1 | SLE-m5.1 SLE-m5.2 | glib2 | 2024-08-22 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:3031-1 | MP4.3 SLE15 SLE-m5.3 SLE-m5.4 oS15.4 | keepalived | 2024-08-27 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2024:0224-2 | osB15 | keybase-client | 2024-08-23 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2024:0194-2 | osB15 | keybase-client | 2024-08-23 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2024:0150-2 | osB15 | libhtp | 2024-08-23 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:3007-1 | SLE12 | libofx | 2024-08-23 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:3018-1 | SLE15 SES7.1 oS15.3 | mariadb | 2024-08-27 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2024:0157-2 | osB15 | nano | 2024-08-23 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:3019-1 | SLE15 oS15.5 | openssl-3 | 2024-08-27 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2024:0161-1 | osB15 | plasma5-workspace | 2024-08-23 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2024:0221-1 | osB15 | python-nltk | 2024-08-23 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2024:0231-1 | osB15 | python-notebook | 2024-08-23 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2024:0257-1 | osB15 | roundcubemail | 2024-08-21 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:3005-1 | SLE12 | webkit2gtk3 | 2024-08-23 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:3052-1 | SLE15 SES7.1 | webkit2gtk3 | 2024-08-28 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:3010-1 | SLE12 | xen | 2024-08-26 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2024:3001-1 | SLE15 SLE-m5.1 SLE-m5.2 SES7.1 oS15.3 | xen | 2024-08-23 |
| SUSE | openSUSE-SU-2024:0203-1 | osB15 | znc | 2024-08-23 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6981-1 | 16.04 | drupal7 | 2024-08-27 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6980-1 | 14.04 | imagemagick | 2024-08-22 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6971-1 | 14.04 | kernel | 2024-08-21 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6978-1 | 14.04 16.04 | libxstream-java | 2024-08-22 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6974-1 | 20.04 22.04 | linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.15, linux-azure, linux-azure-5.15, linux-azure-fde, linux-azure-fde-5.15, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.15, linux-gke, linux-gkeop, linux-gkeop-5.15, linux-hwe-5.15, linux-ibm, linux-ibm-5.15, linux-intel-iotg, linux-intel-iotg-5.15, linux-kvm, linux-lowlatency, linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15, linux-nvidia, linux-oracle, linux-raspi | 2024-08-21 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6973-1 | 18.04 20.04 | linux, linux-aws, linux-azure, linux-bluefield, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.4, linux-gkeop, linux-hwe-5.4, linux-ibm, linux-ibm-5.4, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-5.4, linux-raspi, linux-xilinx-zynqmp | 2024-08-21 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6975-1 | 22.04 24.04 | linux, linux-aws, linux-azure, linux-gcp, linux-gke, linux-ibm, linux-lowlatency, linux-nvidia, linux-nvidia-6.8, linux-nvidia-lowlatency, linux-oem-6.8, linux-oracle, linux-raspi | 2024-08-21 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6976-1 | 14.04 16.04 | linux, linux-aws, linux-kvm, linux-lts-xenial | 2024-08-21 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6972-1 | 16.04 18.04 | linux, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-4.15, linux-hwe, linux-kvm | 2024-08-21 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6972-2 | 16.04 18.04 | linux-aws, linux-aws-hwe | 2024-08-22 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6973-3 | 18.04 | linux-aws-5.4 | 2024-08-26 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6972-3 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 | linux-azure, linux-azure-4.15 | 2024-08-23 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6973-2 | 18.04 | linux-azure-5.4 | 2024-08-23 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6951-4 | 20.04 | linux-bluefield | 2024-08-21 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6950-4 | 20.04 | linux-hwe-5.15 | 2024-08-21 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6974-2 | 20.04 | linux-oracle-5.15 | 2024-08-23 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6979-1 | 18.04 | linux-raspi-5.4 | 2024-08-22 |
| Ubuntu | USN-6977-1 | 24.04 | qemu | 2024-08-22 |
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