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Development
- Emacs News (March 4)
- These Weeks in Firefox (March 5)
- What's cooking in git.git (March 6)
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- GNOME Foundation Board Minutes (February 27)
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Calls for Presentations
CFP Deadlines: March 8, 2018 to May 7, 2018
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| March 8 | June 5 June 7 |
SambaXP 2018 Conference | Göttingen, Germany |
| March 11 | April 23 | foss-north 2018 | Gothenburg, Sweden |
| March 12 | August 11 August 17 |
Akademy | Vienna, Austria |
| March 15 | June 7 June 10 |
Linux Audio Conference | Berlin, Germany |
| March 18 | June 20 June 22 |
Automotive Linux Summit | Tokyo, Japan |
| March 18 | June 20 June 22 |
Open Source Summit Japan | Tokyo, Japan |
| March 19 | May 3 May 5 |
Linuxwochen Wien 2018 | Vienna, Austria |
| March 21 | May 4 May 5 |
PyDays Vienna | Vienna, Austria |
| March 25 | May 7 May 10 |
8th RISC-V Workshop | Barcelona, Spain |
| March 30 | May 22 May 23 |
Infoshare 2018 | Gdańsk, Poland |
| March 30 | September 24 September 27 |
ApacheCon North America | Montreal, Canada |
| March 31 | July 2 July 4 |
Pass the SALT 2018 | Lille, France |
| April 3 | August 17 August 19 |
DevConf.us 2018 | Boston, MA, USA |
| April 4 | June 4 June 6 |
PyCon Israel 2018 | Israel |
| April 15 | July 7 July 12 |
Libre Software Meeting | Strasbourg, France |
| April 15 | June 22 June 24 |
XenProject Developer and Design Summit | Nanjing, China |
| April 18 | May 18 May 19 |
French Perl Workshop 2018 | Paris, France |
| April 20 | May 25 May 27 |
openSUSE Conference 2018 | Prague, Czech Republic |
| April 20 | June 8 June 10 |
South East Linux Fest | Charlotte, NC, USA |
| April 29 | August 29 August 31 |
Open Source Summit | Vancouver, Canada |
| April 29 | July 6 July 11 |
GUADEC | Almería, Spain |
| April 30 | August 7 August 11 |
JuliaCon 2018 | London, UK |
| May 4 | August 4 August 5 |
DevConf India | Bangalore, India |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
Events: March 8, 2018 to May 7, 2018
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| March 6 March 8 |
Open Source Leadership Summit | Sonoma Valley, CA, USA |
| March 8 | Icinga Camp Berlin 2018 | Berlin, Germany |
| March 8 | Glustered 2018 | Bologna, Italy |
| March 8 March 11 |
SCALE 16x | Pasadena, CA, USA |
| March 8 March 11 |
AsiaBSDCon 2018 | Tokyo, Japan |
| March 9 | Incontro Devops Italia 2018 | Bologna, Italy |
| March 12 March 14 |
OpenIoT Summit | Portland, OR, USA |
| March 12 March 14 |
Embedded Linux Conference | Portland, OR, USA |
| March 19 March 23 |
Linaro Connect | Hong Kong, China |
| March 22 March 25 |
FOSSASIA Summit | Singapore, Singapore |
| March 23 March 25 |
LibreOffice Conference Indonesia | Surabaya, Indonesia |
| March 24 March 25 |
LibrePlanet | Cambridge, MA, USA |
| March 26 March 28 |
Open Networking Summit | Los Angeles, CA, USA |
| March 30 April 2 |
Easterhegg 2018 | Würzburg, Germany |
| April 9 April 12 |
‹Programming› 2018 | Nice, France |
| April 9 April 11 |
QCon.ai Applied AI for Developers | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| April 9 April 13 |
OpenFabrics Alliance Workshop 2018 | Boulder, CO, USA |
| April 11 April 14 |
MiniDebConf Curitiba 2018 | Curitiba, Brazil |
| April 14 April 15 |
Prague Makerfaire | Prague, Czech Republic |
| April 14 April 15 |
curl up 2018 | Stockholm, Sweden |
| April 16 April 17 |
LLVM European Developers Meeting | Bristol, UK |
| April 16 April 18 |
Power Management and Scheduling Summit | Pisa, Italy |
| April 23 April 25 |
Storage, Filesystem and Memory-Management Summit | Park City, UT, USA |
| April 23 | foss-north 2018 | Gothenburg, Sweden |
| April 26 April 27 |
FLOSSUK – Spring Conference | Edinburgh, Scotland |
| April 27 April 28 |
Grazer Linuxtage 2018 | Graz, Austria |
| April 28 April 29 |
LinuxFest Northwest | Bellingham, WA, USA |
| May 2 May 4 |
KubeCon+CloudNativeCon | Copenhagen, Denmark |
| May 3 May 5 |
Linuxwochen Wien 2018 | Vienna, Austria |
| May 4 May 5 |
PyDays Vienna | Vienna, Austria |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Security updates
Alert summary March 1, 2018 to March 7, 2018
| Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arch Linux | ASA-201803-1 | busybox | 2018-03-04 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201803-3 | dhclient | 2018-03-06 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201803-4 | dhcp | 2018-03-06 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201803-2 | mkinitcpio-busybox | 2018-03-04 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201803-5 | python-django | 2018-03-06 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201803-6 | python2-django | 2018-03-06 | |
| Debian | DSA-4130-1 | stable | dovecot | 2018-03-02 |
| Debian | DLA-1297-1 | LTS | freexl | 2018-03-01 |
| Debian | DSA-4129-1 | stable | freexl | 2018-03-02 |
| Debian | DSA-4120-2 | stable | kernel | 2018-03-03 |
| Debian | DLA-1302-1 | LTS | leptonlib | 2018-03-07 |
| Debian | DLA-1299-1 | LTS | libjgraphx-java | 2018-03-04 |
| Debian | DSA-4132-1 | stable | libvpx | 2018-03-04 |
| Debian | DLA-1297-1 | LTS | simplesamlphp | 2018-03-02 |
| Debian | DSA-4127-1 | stable | simplesamlphp | 2018-03-02 |
| Debian | DLA-1301-1 | LTS | tomcat7 | 2018-03-06 |
| Debian | DSA-4128-1 | stable | trafficserver | 2018-03-02 |
| Debian | DLA-1300-1 | LTS | xen | 2018-03-06 |
| Debian | DSA-4131-1 | stable | xen | 2018-03-04 |
| Debian | DLA-1296-1 | LTS | xmltooling | 2018-03-01 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-b79f325c48 | F26 | bugzilla | 2018-03-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-1e0e37e148 | F27 | bugzilla | 2018-03-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-a0a356fb68 | F27 | cryptopp | 2018-03-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-5051dbd15e | F27 | dhcp | 2018-03-05 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-2293c571b1 | F26 | electrum | 2018-03-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-4edbabf88a | F27 | electrum | 2018-03-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-5cdc56766f | F26 | firefox | 2018-03-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-5573046c3b | F26 | freexl | 2018-03-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-2eb691e7d7 | F27 | freexl | 2018-03-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-1cbdc8cbb8 | F27 | glibc | 2018-03-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-969328b17c | F27 | jhead | 2018-03-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-f97cb1c9b0 | F26 | krb5 | 2018-03-01 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-0eed1be1c0 | F26 | libXcursor | 2018-03-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-1c5dada34b | F27 | libXcursor | 2018-03-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-5a7cd68500 | F26 | libXfont | 2018-03-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-e27b435a7f | F27 | libXfont | 2018-03-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-05b078c373 | F26 | libXfont2 | 2018-03-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-4f5a3e792f | F27 | libXfont2 | 2018-03-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-30a8492364 | F27 | libcdio | 2018-03-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-2012089e37 | F26 | libsamplerate | 2018-03-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-b22d46eabb | F27 | libvirt | 2018-03-01 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-9817f1dafa | F26 | mbedtls | 2018-02-28 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-eb58dc8a6f | F27 | mbedtls | 2018-02-28 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-5950093e69 | F26 | mingw-wavpack | 2018-03-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-023baab00f | F27 | mingw-wavpack | 2018-03-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-60c4aa0e01 | F27 | nx-libs | 2018-03-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-a89ccf7133 | F27 | php | 2018-03-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-147d33439c | F26 | php-phpmyadmin-motranslator | 2018-03-01 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-147d33439c | F26 | php-phpmyadmin-sql-parser | 2018-03-01 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-147d33439c | F26 | phpMyAdmin | 2018-03-01 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-0c75cc72bc | F26 | python-crypto | 2018-03-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-b3e985489b | F26 | quagga | 2018-03-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-9cd3ff3784 | F27 | quagga | 2018-03-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-40ed78700c | F27 | ruby | 2018-03-02 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-4e657bf5e3 | F26 | sharutils | 2018-03-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-8f4b3fa844 | F27 | sharutils | 2018-03-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-ab3d1d78f3 | F27 | unzip | 2018-03-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-60c4aa0e01 | F27 | x2goserver | 2018-03-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-c553a586c8 | F27 | xen | 2018-03-06 |
| Gentoo | 201803-01 | exim | 2018-03-06 | |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0159 | 6 | glibc | 2018-03-06 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0155 | 6 | krb5 | 2018-03-01 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0154 | 6 | leptonica | 2018-03-01 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0153 | 6 | libvirt | 2018-03-01 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0156 | 6 | phpmyadmin | 2018-03-04 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0158 | 6 | xerces-c | 2018-03-06 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0157 | 6 | xv | 2018-03-04 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:0621-1 | 42.3 | ImageMagick | 2018-03-07 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:0618-1 | 42.3 | cups | 2018-03-07 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:0569-1 | freexl | 2018-03-01 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:0570-1 | 42.3 | freexl | 2018-03-01 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:0588-1 | go | 2018-03-02 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:0589-1 | 42.3 | go | 2018-03-02 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:0629-1 | go1.8 | 2018-03-07 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:0628-1 | 42.3 | go1.8 | 2018-03-07 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:0616-1 | 42.3 | jgraphx | 2018-03-07 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:0615-1 | 42.3 | leptonica | 2018-03-07 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:0619-1 | 42.3 | openexr | 2018-03-07 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:0620-1 | tor | 2018-03-07 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:0614-1 | 42.3 | tor | 2018-03-07 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:0623-1 | 42.3 | wavpack | 2018-03-07 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-0377 | OL7 | quagga | 2018-02-28 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-0378 | OL7 | ruby | 2018-02-28 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:0379-01 | EL7 | .NET Core | 2018-03-01 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:0414-01 | EL7 | 389-ds-base | 2018-03-06 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:0458-01 | EL7 | java-1.7.1-ibm | 2018-03-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:0464-01 | EL5.9 | kernel | 2018-03-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:0395-01 | EL7 | kernel | 2018-03-06 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:0399-01 | EL7.3 | kernel | 2018-03-06 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:0412-01 | EL7 | kernel-rt | 2018-03-06 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:0418-01 | EL7 | libreoffice | 2018-03-06 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:0406-01 | EL7 | php | 2018-03-06 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:0377-01 | EL7 | quagga | 2018-02-28 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:0378-01 | EL7 | ruby | 2018-02-28 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2018:0377-1 | SL7 | quagga | 2018-02-28 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2018:0378-1 | SL7 | ruby | 2018-02-28 |
| Slackware | SSA:2018-060-01 | dhcp | 2018-03-01 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2018-060-02 | ntp | 2018-03-01 | |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:0605-1 | OS7 | ansible | 2018-03-05 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:0604-1 | OS6 SLE12 | cups | 2018-03-05 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:0565-1 | SLE11 | glibc | 2018-02-28 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:0630-1 | SLE11 | java-1_7_1-ibm | 2018-03-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:0609-1 | OS6 SLE12 | xen | 2018-03-05 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:0601-1 | SLE12 | xen | 2018-03-05 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3587-1 | 14.04 16.04 17.10 | dovecot | 2018-03-05 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3590-1 | 14.04 16.04 17.10 | irssi | 2018-03-06 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3586-1 | 14.04 16.04 17.10 | isc-dhcp | 2018-03-01 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3579-2 | 17.10 | libreoffice | 2018-03-01 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3588-1 | 14.04 16.04 17.10 | memcached | 2018-03-05 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3589-1 | 14.04 16.04 17.10 | postgresql-9.3, postgresql-9.5, postgresql-9.6 | 2018-03-06 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3591-1 | 14.04 16.04 17.10 | python-django | 2018-03-06 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3575-2 | 14.04 16.04 | qemu | 2018-03-05 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3585-1 | 14.04 16.04 | twisted | 2018-03-06 |
Kernel patches of interest
Kernel releases
Architecture-specific
Core kernel
Development tools
Device drivers
Device-driver infrastructure
Filesystems and block layer
Memory management
Networking
Security-related
Virtualization and containers
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