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Calls for Presentations
CFP Deadlines: October 18, 2018 to December 17, 2018
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| October 22 | December 3 December 4 |
DPDK Summit North America 2018 | San Jose, CA, USA |
| October 26 | January 25 January 27 |
DevConf.cz | Brno, Czechia |
| October 31 | March 7 March 10 |
SCALE 17x | Pasadena, CA, USA |
| October 31 | November 24 November 25 |
DebUtsav Kochi 2018 | Kerala, India |
| November 3 | February 2 February 3 |
FOSDEM | Brussels, Belgium |
| November 9 | March 23 March 24 |
LibrePlanet | Cambridge, MA, USA |
| November 15 | February 25 February 26 |
Vault Linux Storage and Filesystems Conference | Boston, MA, USA |
| November 16 | March 19 March 21 |
PGConf APAC | Singapore, Singapore |
| November 18 | January 21 | LCA2019 System Administration Miniconf | Christchurch, New Zealand |
| November 30 | December 1 | Central Pennsylvania Open Source Conference | Lancaster, PA, USA |
| December 16 | January 22 | LCA Kernel Miniconf | Christchurch, New Zealand |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
Events: October 18, 2018 to December 17, 2018
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| October 15 October 18 |
Tcl/Tk Conference | Houston, TX, USA |
| October 18 October 19 |
Osmocom Conference 2018 | Berlin, Germany |
| October 20 October 21 |
OSS Víkend | Košice, Slovakia |
| October 21 October 23 |
All Things Open | Raleigh, NC, USA |
| October 22 October 24 |
Open Source Summit Europe | Edinburgh, UK |
| October 22 October 24 |
Embedded Linux Conference Europe | Edinburgh, UK |
| October 23 October 26 |
PostgreSQL Conference Europe 2018 | Lisbon, Portugal |
| October 24 October 26 |
KVM Forum 2018 | Edinburgh, UK |
| October 24 | Proxtalks 2018 | Frankfurt am Main, Germany |
| October 24 October 26 |
PyCon.DE 2018 | Karlsruhe, Germany |
| October 25 | Tracing Summit 2018 | Edinburgh, UK |
| October 25 October 26 |
GStreamer Conference 2018 | Edinburgh, Scotland, UK |
| October 25 | Real-Time Summit | Edinburgh, UK |
| October 25 October 26 |
Free Software and Open Source Symposium | Toronto, Canada |
| October 25 October 26 |
Linux Security Summit | Edinburgh, UK |
| October 27 October 28 |
Sonoj Convention | Cologne, Germany |
| October 29 October 30 |
OpenWrt Summit | Lisbon, Portugal |
| October 29 October 31 |
LISA18 | Nashville, TN, USA |
| November 2 | Software Freedom Law Center’s Fall Conference | New York, NY, USA |
| November 3 November 4 |
OpenFest 2018 | Sofia, Bulgaria |
| November 5 November 8 |
Open Source Monitoring Conference | Nuremberg, Germany |
| November 5 November 7 |
MesosCon 2018 | New York, NY, USA |
| November 8 | Open Source Camp | Nürnberg, Germany |
| November 8 November 11 |
QtCon Brazil 2018 | São Paulo, Brazil |
| November 9 November 13 |
PyCon Canada 2018 | Toronto, Canada |
| November 9 November 10 |
Seattle GNU/Linux | Seattle, WA, USA |
| November 9 | August Penguin Conference 2018 | Tel Aviv, Israel |
| November 12 | Ceph Day Berlin | Berlin, Germany |
| November 12 | RabbitMQ Summit 2018 | London, UK |
| November 12 November 15 |
Linux Kernel Summit | Vancouver, Canada |
| November 13 November 15 |
OpenStack Summit | Berlin, Germany |
| November 13 November 15 |
Linux Plumbers Conference | Vancouver, BC, Canada |
| November 14 November 15 |
KubeCon+CloudNativeCon China | Shanghai, China |
| November 15 | NLUUG (fall conference) | Utrecht, The Netherlands |
| November 19 November 20 |
DevOpsDays Galway | Galway, Ireland |
| November 24 November 25 |
DebUtsav Kochi 2018 | Kerala, India |
| December 1 | Central Pennsylvania Open Source Conference | Lancaster, PA, USA |
| December 3 December 4 |
DPDK Summit North America 2018 | San Jose, CA, USA |
| December 3 December 4 |
LinuxLab | Florence, Italy |
| December 7 | PGDay Down Under 2018 | Melbourne, Australia |
| December 8 | Open Source Conference 2018 | Fukuoka, Japan |
| December 11 December 13 |
KubeCon+CloudNativeCon | Seattle, WA, USA |
| December 11 December 13 |
Reproducible Builds workshop | Paris, France |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Security updates
Alert summary October 11, 2018 to October 17, 2018
| Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arch Linux | ASA-201810-9 | wireshark-cli | 2018-10-12 | |
| CentOS | CESA-2018:2918 | C7 | ghostscript | 2018-10-15 |
| CentOS | CESA-2018:2916 | C7 | spamassassin | 2018-10-15 |
| CentOS | CESA-2018:2921 | C7 | tomcat | 2018-10-16 |
| Debian | DSA-4320-1 | stable | asterisk | 2018-10-16 |
| Debian | DLA-1542-1 | LTS | dnsruby | 2018-10-11 |
| Debian | DLA-1543-1 | LTS | gnulib | 2018-10-11 |
| Debian | DSA-4321-1 | stable | graphicsmagick | 2018-10-16 |
| Debian | DSA-4316-1 | stable | imagemagick | 2018-10-12 |
| Debian | DLA-1541-1 | LTS | jekyll | 2018-10-10 |
| Debian | DLA-1547-1 | LTS | libpdfbox-java | 2018-10-16 |
| Debian | DLA-1546-1 | LTS | moin | 2018-10-15 |
| Debian | DSA-4318-1 | stable | moin | 2018-10-15 |
| Debian | DSA-4314-1 | stable | net-snmp | 2018-10-11 |
| Debian | DSA-4317-1 | stable | otrs2 | 2018-10-14 |
| Debian | DSA-4319-1 | stable | spice | 2018-10-15 |
| Debian | DLA-1544-1 | LTS | tomcat7 | 2018-10-14 |
| Debian | DLA-1545-1 | LTS | tomcat8 | 2018-10-15 |
| Debian | DSA-4315-1 | stable | wireshark | 2018-10-12 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-11b3ae4e31 | F27 | ca-certificates | 2018-10-14 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-22776e8ca9 | F27 | calamares | 2018-10-10 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-5d6e80ab82 | F28 | dislocker | 2018-10-12 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-5d6e80ab82 | F28 | dolphin-emu | 2018-10-12 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-22776e8ca9 | F27 | fawkes | 2018-10-10 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-1c1a318a0b | F28 | git | 2018-10-10 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-94315e9a6b | F27 | kernel-headers | 2018-10-10 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-2ee3411cb8 | F27 | kernel-headers | 2018-10-16 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-9f4381d8c4 | F28 | kernel-headers | 2018-10-14 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-2ee3411cb8 | F27 | kernel-tools | 2018-10-16 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-9f4381d8c4 | F28 | kernel-tools | 2018-10-14 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-7d993184f6 | F27 | libgit2 | 2018-10-14 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-42eab0f5b9 | F28 | libgit2 | 2018-10-16 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-22776e8ca9 | F27 | librime | 2018-10-10 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-5d6e80ab82 | F28 | mbedtls | 2018-10-12 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-64d64bd05e | F27 | mingw-openjpeg2 | 2018-10-14 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-a71b957c50 | F28 | mingw-openjpeg2 | 2018-10-14 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-5d6e80ab82 | F28 | nekovm | 2018-10-12 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-64d64bd05e | F27 | openjpeg2 | 2018-10-14 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-a71b957c50 | F28 | openjpeg2 | 2018-10-14 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-c255f16bfe | F28 | patch | 2018-10-15 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-22776e8ca9 | F27 | pdns | 2018-10-10 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-113c354377 | F27 | php-horde-nag | 2018-10-11 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-8dfeb06ce9 | F28 | php-horde-nag | 2018-10-11 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-61df554bb1 | F28 | strongswan | 2018-10-15 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-a78cf5fcfc | F28 | thunderbird | 2018-10-12 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0396 | 6 | firefox | 2018-10-14 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0395 | 6 | git | 2018-10-14 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0394 | 6 | nextcloud | 2018-10-14 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0397 | 6 | texlive | 2018-10-14 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:3094-1 | 15.0 | ImageMagick | 2018-10-11 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:3185-1 | 15.0 | apache2 | 2018-10-17 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:3178-1 | 15.0 | git | 2018-10-17 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:3109-1 | 42.3 | git | 2018-10-12 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:3103-1 | 42.3 | java-1_8_0-openjdk | 2018-10-12 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:3110-1 | 15.0 | libxml2 | 2018-10-12 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:3107-1 | 42.3 | libxml2 | 2018-10-12 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:3108-1 | 42.3 | mgetty | 2018-10-12 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:3105-1 | 15.0 42.3 | moinmoin-wiki | 2018-10-12 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:3104-1 | 42.3 | postgresql10 | 2018-10-12 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:3106-1 | 15.0 | soundtouch | 2018-10-12 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-2918 | OL7 | ghostscript | 2018-10-15 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-2918 | OL7 | ghostscript | 2018-10-15 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-4246 | OL5 | kernel | 2018-10-12 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-4244 | OL6 | kernel | 2018-10-10 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-4245 | OL6 | kernel | 2018-10-10 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-4250 | OL6 | kernel | 2018-10-12 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-4242 | OL7 | kernel | 2018-10-10 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-4242 | OL7 | kernel | 2018-10-10 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-4244 | OL7 | kernel | 2018-10-10 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-4245 | OL7 | kernel | 2018-10-10 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-4248 | OL6 | openssl | 2018-10-12 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-4249 | OL7 | openssl | 2018-10-12 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-2916 | OL7 | spamassassin | 2018-10-11 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-2916 | OL7 | spamassassin | 2018-10-12 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-2921 | OL7 | tomcat | 2018-10-16 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-2921 | OL7 | tomcat | 2018-10-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:2927-01 | EL7 | Satellite 6.4 | 2018-10-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:2918-01 | EL7 | ghostscript | 2018-10-15 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:2933-01 | EL6.5 | kernel | 2018-10-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:2924-01 | EL6.6 | kernel | 2018-10-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:2925-01 | EL6.7 | kernel | 2018-10-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:2916-01 | EL7 | spamassassin | 2018-10-11 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:2921-01 | EL7 | tomcat | 2018-10-16 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2018:2918-1 | SL7 | ghostscript | 2018-10-16 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2018:2892-1 | SL6 | glusterfs | 2018-10-10 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2018:2846-1 | SL6 | kernel | 2018-10-10 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2018:2898-1 | SL6 | nss | 2018-10-10 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2018:2916-1 | SL7 | spamassassin | 2018-10-12 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2018:2921-1 | SL7 | tomcat | 2018-10-16 |
| Slackware | SSA:2018-283-01 | git | 2018-10-10 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2018-289-01 | libssh | 2018-10-16 | |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:3191-1 | SLE12 | ImageMagick | 2018-10-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:3095-1 | SLE12 | ImageMagick | 2018-10-11 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:3101-1 | SLE15 | apache2 | 2018-10-11 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:3119-1 | SLE11 | axis | 2018-10-12 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:3118-1 | SLE12 | axis | 2018-10-12 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:3121-1 | SLE15 | axis | 2018-10-12 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:3170-1 | SLE15 | binutils | 2018-10-16 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:3150-1 | SLE15 | git | 2018-10-15 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:3100-1 | SLE11 | kernel | 2018-10-11 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:3158-1 | SLE15 | kernel | 2018-10-16 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:3159-1 | SLE15 | kernel | 2018-10-16 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:3102-1 | SLE12 | libX11 and libxcb | 2018-10-12 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:3162-1 | SLE15 | libssh | 2018-10-16 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:3146-1 | SLE11 | libtirpc | 2018-10-15 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:3156-1 | SLE11 | python | 2018-10-16 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:3161-1 | SLE12 | samba | 2018-10-16 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:3122-1 | SLE15 | texlive | 2018-10-12 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3789-2 | 12.04 | clamav | 2018-10-16 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3789-1 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 | clamav | 2018-10-11 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3791-1 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 | git | 2018-10-11 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3795-1 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 | libssh | 2018-10-17 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3794-1 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 | moin | 2018-10-16 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3792-2 | 12.04 | net-snmp | 2018-10-16 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3792-1 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 | net-snmp | 2018-10-15 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3796-1 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 | paramiko | 2018-10-17 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3790-1 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 | requests | 2018-10-15 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3788-1 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 | texlive-bin | 2018-10-11 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3793-1 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 | thunderbird | 2018-10-15 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3787-1 | 14.04 16.04 | tomcat7, tomcat8 | 2018-10-10 |
Kernel patches of interest
Kernel releases
Architecture-specific
Core kernel
Development tools
Brendan Higgins
[RFC v1 00/31] kunit: Introducing KUnit, the Linux kernel unit
testing framework
Oct 16
Device drivers
shun-chih.yu@mediatek.com
add support for Mediatek Command-Queue DMA controller on MT6765 SoC
Oct 17
Sergey Matyukevich
[PATCH v2 0/2] qtnfmac: add support for QSR1000/QSR2000 (aka Topaz)
chipsets
Oct 16
Device-driver infrastructure
Filesystems and block layer
Matthew Bobrowski
[PATCH v4 0/3] fanotify: introduce new event types FAN_OPEN_EXEC and
FAN_OPEN_EXEC_PERM
Oct 11
Networking
Security-related
Virtualization and containers
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