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- Ubuntu Server Development Summary (June 16)
- Ubuntu Kernel Development Summary (June 20)
Development
- Emacs News (June 19)
- These Weeks in Firefox (June 21)
- GCC 6.4 Status Report (June 16)
- What's cooking in git.git (June 19)
- LLVM Weekly (June 19)
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- Python Weekly Newsletter (June 15)
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- This Week in Rust (June 20)
- Wikimedia Tech News (June 19)
Meeting minutes
- Fedora FESCO meeting minutes (June 16)
Calls for Presentations
PyCon.DE 2017 - Call for Proposals
PyCon.DE will be held October 25-27 in Karlsruhe, Germany. The call for proposals closes July 30. "We’re looking for proposals on every aspect of Python: programming from novice to advanced levels, applications and frameworks, or how you have been involved in introducing Python into your organization. PyCon.DE is a community conference and we are eager to hear about your experience."
LibOCon 2017 Call for Papers
The LibreOffice Conference will take place October 11-13 in Rome, Italy. The call for papers deadline is August 15. "Whether you are a seasoned presenter or have never stood up in public before, if you have something interesting to share about LibreOffice, we want to hear from you!"
CFP Deadlines: June 22, 2017 to August 21, 2017
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| June 24 | August 28 September 1 |
10th European Conference on Python in Science | Erlangen, Germany |
| June 30 | November 21 November 24 |
Open Source Monitoring Conference 2017 | Nürnberg, Germany |
| June 30 | October 21 | 7th Real-Time Summit | Prague, Czech Republic |
| June 30 | September 8 September 10 |
GNU Tools Cauldron 2017 | Prague, Czech Republic |
| July 8 | October 23 October 25 |
Open Source Summit Europe | Prague, Czech Republic |
| July 8 | October 23 October 25 |
Embedded Linux Conference Europe | Prague, Czech Republic |
| July 10 | August 26 | FOSSCON | Philadelphia, PA, USA |
| July 14 | September 29 September 30 |
Ohio LinuxFest | Columbus, OH, USA |
| July 14 | November 6 November 8 |
OpenStack Summit | Sydney, Australia |
| July 15 | November 4 November 5 |
Free Society Conference and Nordic Summit | Oslo, Norway |
| July 18 | October 6 October 8 |
PyGotham | New York, NY, USA |
| July 30 | October 25 October 27 |
PyCon DE | Karlsruhe, Germany |
| July 31 | December 4 December 6 |
PGconf.ASIA 2017 | Tokyo, Japan |
| July 31 | August 25 August 26 |
Swiss Perl Workshop | Villars-sur-Ollon, Switzerland |
| August 1 | April 9 April 12 |
‹Programming› 2018 | Nice, France |
| August 1 | August 22 August 29 |
Nextcloud Conference | Berlin, Germany |
| August 1 | September 26 | OpenStack Days UK | London, UK |
| August 2 | September 20 September 22 |
X.org Developers Conference | Mountain View, CA, USA |
| August 2 | October 4 October 5 |
Lustre Administrator and Developer Workshop | Paris, France |
| August 6 | October 6 October 7 |
Seattle GNU/Linux Conference | Seattle, WA, USA |
| August 6 | January 22 January 26 |
linux.conf.au | Sydney, Australia |
| August 7 | October 24 October 27 |
PostgreSQL Conference Europe 2017 | Warsaw, Poland |
| August 9 | September 30 October 1 |
RustFest Zürich | Zurich, Switzerland |
| August 13 | October 21 October 22 |
GStreamer Conference 2017 | Prague, Czech Republic |
| August 14 | October 21 October 22 |
openSUSE.Asia Summit 2017 | Tokyo, Japan |
| August 15 | October 11 October 13 |
LibreOffice Conference 2017 | Rome, Italy |
| August 15 | October 14 October 16 |
GNOME.Asia Summit | Chongqing, China |
| August 18 | November 11 November 12 |
Intel® HPC Developer Conference | Denver, CO, USA |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
EuroPython 2017: Django Girls Workshop
There will be a Django Girls workshop on July 9, the first day of EuroPython, which runs until July 16 in Rimini, Italy.Plumbers early bird rate ending soon
The early bird registration rate for Linux Plumbers Conference 2017 will end on June 18 (or before if all of the slots are sold). The early bird rate is $400 and that will increase to $550, so those interested may wish to visit the Attend page at the site. Linux Plumbers Conference will be held in Los Angeles, CA, US on 13-15 September in conjunction with The Linux Foundation Open Source Summit North America.Events: June 22, 2017 to August 21, 2017
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| June 18 June 23 |
The Perl Conference | Washington, DC, USA |
| June 20 June 22 |
O'Reilly Velocity Conference | San Jose, CA, USA |
| June 20 June 22 |
O’Reilly Fluent Conference | San Jose, CA, USA |
| June 20 June 23 |
Open Source Bridge | Portland, OR, USA |
| June 23 June 24 |
QtDay 2017 | Florence, Italy |
| June 24 | Tuebix: Linux Conference | Tuebingen, Germany |
| June 24 June 25 |
Enlightenment Developer Days 2017 | Valletta, Malta |
| June 26 June 28 |
Deutsche Openstack Tage 2017 | München, Germany |
| June 26 June 28 |
19th German Perl Workshop 2017 in Hamburg | Hamburg, Germany |
| June 26 June 29 |
Postgres Vision | Boston, MA, USA |
| June 27 June 29 |
O’Reilly Artificial Intelligence Conference | New York, NY, USA |
| June 30 | Swiss PGDay | Rapperswil, Switzerland |
| July 3 July 7 |
13th Netfilter Workshop | Faro, Portugal |
| July 9 July 16 |
EuroPython 2017 | Rimini, Italy |
| July 10 July 16 |
SciPy 2017 | Austin, TX, USA |
| July 16 July 21 |
IETF 99 | Prague, Czech Republic |
| July 16 July 23 |
CoderCruise | New Orleans et. al., USA/Caribbean |
| July 22 July 27 |
Akademy 2017 | Almería, Spain |
| July 28 August 2 |
GNOME Users And Developers European Conference 2017 | Manchester, UK |
| August 3 August 8 |
PyCon Australia 2017 | Melbourne, Australia |
| August 5 August 6 |
Conference for Open Source Coders, Users and Promoters | Taipei, Taiwan |
| August 6 August 12 |
DebConf 2017 | Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| August 9 August 13 |
Wikimania | Montréal, Canada |
| August 9 August 11 |
The Perl Conference | Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| August 11 August 12 |
PGConf US | Seattle, WA, USA |
| August 13 August 18 |
DjangoCon US | Spokane, WA, USA |
| August 16 August 18 |
Golang UK conference | London, UK |
| August 18 August 20 |
State of the Map | Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima, Japan |
| August 18 August 20 |
QtCon Brasil 2017 | São Paulo, Brasil |
| August 19 August 20 |
Free and Open Source Software Conference | St. Augustin (near Cologne), Germany |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Security updates
Alert summary June 15, 2017 to June 21, 2017
| Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arch Linux | ASA-201706-18 | bind | 2017-06-15 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201706-21 | chromium | 2017-06-18 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201706-19 | firefox | 2017-06-17 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201706-14 | flashplugin | 2017-06-15 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201706-23 | glibc | 2017-06-20 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201706-16 | kmail | 2017-06-15 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201706-15 | lib32-flashplugin | 2017-06-15 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201706-22 | lib32-glibc | 2017-06-20 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201706-17 | messagelib | 2017-06-15 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201706-20 | thunderbird | 2017-06-17 | |
| CentOS | CESA-2017:1440 | C6 | firefox | 2017-06-15 |
| CentOS | CESA-2017:1440 | C7 | firefox | 2017-06-15 |
| CentOS | CESA-2017:1480 | C6 | glibc | 2017-06-20 |
| CentOS | CESA-2017:1481 | C7 | glibc | 2017-06-20 |
| CentOS | CESA-2017:1486 | C6 | kernel | 2017-06-20 |
| CentOS | CESA-2017:1484 | C7 | kernel | 2017-06-20 |
| Debian | DLA-992-1 | LTS | eglibc | 2017-06-19 |
| Debian | DSA-3888-1 | stable | exim4 | 2017-06-19 |
| Debian | DLA-990-1 | LTS | expat | 2017-06-18 |
| Debian | DLA-991-1 | LTS | firefox-esr | 2017-06-18 |
| Debian | DSA-3881-1 | stable | firefox-esr | 2017-06-14 |
| Debian | DSA-3887-1 | stable | glibc | 2017-06-19 |
| Debian | DSA-3884-1 | stable | gnutls28 | 2017-06-16 |
| Debian | DSA-3885-1 | stable | irssi | 2017-06-18 |
| Debian | DLA-989-1 | LTS | jython | 2017-06-18 |
| Debian | DLA-993-1 | LTS | kernel | 2017-06-20 |
| Debian | DSA-3886-1 | stable | kernel | 2017-06-19 |
| Debian | DLA-997-1 | LTS | libffi | 2017-06-21 |
| Debian | DSA-3889-1 | stable | libffi | 2017-06-19 |
| Debian | DLA-985-1 | LTS | libsndfile | 2017-06-15 |
| Debian | DLA-987-1 | LTS | request-tracker4 | 2017-06-15 |
| Debian | DSA-3882-1 | stable | request-tracker4 | 2017-06-15 |
| Debian | DLA-988-1 | LTS | rt-authen-externalauth | 2017-06-16 |
| Debian | DSA-3883-1 | stable | rt-authen-externalauth | 2017-06-15 |
| Debian | DLA-995-1 | LTS | swftools | 2017-06-20 |
| Debian | DLA-996-1 | LTS | tomcat7 | 2017-06-20 |
| Debian | DLA-986-1 | LTS | zookeeper | 2017-06-15 |
| Debian | DLA-994-1 | LTS | zziplib | 2017-06-20 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-3258a7e433 | F24 | dolphin-emu | 2017-06-16 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-5e28afa2dd | F25 | dolphin-emu | 2017-06-16 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-36c7e7ef06 | F24 | ettercap | 2017-06-15 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-8722576148 | F25 | ettercap | 2017-06-15 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-1f016389a7 | F25 | firefox | 2017-06-16 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-62547837ba | F24 | gajim | 2017-06-15 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-3c561780c8 | F25 | gajim | 2017-06-15 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-278f46fcd6 | F25 | golang | 2017-06-16 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-a3d6e1a7bf | F24 | libsndfile | 2017-06-15 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-8425f676f2 | F24 | mariadb | 2017-06-16 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-2c0609b92a | F25 | mariadb | 2017-06-16 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-212f07c853 | F24 | perl-File-Path | 2017-06-16 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-dd42592f9a | F25 | perl-File-Path | 2017-06-16 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-7e6f5f6957 | F24 | poppler | 2017-06-15 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-4b176c1694 | F24 | redis | 2017-06-18 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-d39099ea6a | F24 | webkitgtk4 | 2017-06-15 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-5c55ef46ee | F24 | yara | 2017-06-18 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-926e11c76e | F25 | yara | 2017-06-18 |
| Gentoo | 201706-20 | chromium | 2017-06-20 | |
| Gentoo | 201706-19 | glibc | 2017-06-20 | |
| Gentoo | 201706-17 | kodi | 2017-06-20 | |
| Gentoo | 201706-18 | mbedtls | 2017-06-20 | |
| Gentoo | 201706-16 | wget | 2017-06-20 | |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0177 | 5 | catdoc | 2017-06-14 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0173 | 5 | ettercap | 2017-06-14 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0178 | 5 | firefox | 2017-06-19 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0179 | 5 | kodi | 2017-06-19 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0175 | 5 | libcryptopp | 2017-06-14 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0174 | 5 | libytnef | 2017-06-14 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0180 | 5 | thunderbird | 2017-06-19 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0176 | 5 | tor | 2017-06-14 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:1620-1 | 42.2 | Mozilla based packages | 2017-06-20 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:1593-1 | chromium | 2017-06-19 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:1591-1 | 42.2 | chromium | 2017-06-19 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:1625-1 | 42.2 | exim | 2017-06-20 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:1609-1 | 42.2 | freeradius-server | 2017-06-19 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:1629-1 | 42.2 | glibc | 2017-06-21 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:1633-1 | 42.2 | kernel | 2017-06-21 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:1612-1 | 42.2 | libxml2 | 2017-06-19 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:1595-1 | 42.2 | lynis | 2017-06-19 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:1572-1 | 42.2 | mercurial | 2017-06-15 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:1571-1 | 42.2 | otrs | 2017-06-15 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:1579-1 | thunderbird | 2017-06-16 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:1569-1 | 42.2 | tor | 2017-06-15 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:1610-1 | 42.2 | xorg-x11-server | 2017-06-19 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-1440 | OL6 | firefox | 2017-06-14 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-1440 | OL7 | firefox | 2017-06-14 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-1480 | OL6 | glibc | 2017-06-19 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-1481 | OL7 | glibc | 2017-06-19 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-1486 | OL6 | kernel | 2017-06-19 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-1484-1 | OL7 | kernel | 2017-06-20 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-1484 | OL7 | kernel | 2017-06-19 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2017:1440-1 | SL6 SL7 | firefox | 2017-06-14 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2017:1480-1 | SL6 | glibc | 2017-06-19 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2017:1481-1 | SL7 | glibc | 2017-06-19 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2017:1486-1 | SL6 | kernel | 2017-06-19 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2017:1484-1 | SL7 | kernel | 2017-06-19 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2017:1561-1 | SL6 SL7 | thunderbird | 2017-06-21 |
| Slackware | SSA:2017-165-01 | bind | 2017-06-14 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2017-165-02 | mozilla | 2017-06-14 | |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:1614-1 | OS6 SLE12 | glibc | 2017-06-19 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:1621-1 | SLE11 | glibc | 2017-06-20 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:1611-1 | SLE12 | glibc | 2017-06-19 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:1619-1 | SLE12 | glibc | 2017-06-19 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:1568-1 | SLE12 | jakarta-taglibs-standard | 2017-06-15 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:1615-1 | OS6 SLE12 | kernel | 2017-06-19 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:1628-1 | SLE11 | kernel | 2017-06-21 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:1613-1 | SLE11 | kernel | 2017-06-19 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:1618-1 | SLE12 | kernel | 2017-06-19 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:1606-1 | SLE12 | mercurial | 2017-06-19 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:1622-1 | SLE12 | openvpn | 2017-06-20 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:1627-1 | OS6 SLE12 | sudo | 2017-06-20 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:1626-1 | SLE12 | sudo | 2017-06-20 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:1632-1 | SLE11 | tomcat6 | 2017-06-21 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3323-1 | 14.04 16.04 16.10 17.04 | eglibc, glibc | 2017-06-19 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3322-1 | 14.04 16.04 16.10 17.04 | exim4 | 2017-06-19 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3315-1 | 14.04 16.04 16.10 17.04 | firefox | 2017-06-15 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3319-1 | 14.04 16.04 16.10 17.04 | libmwaw | 2017-06-15 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3311-2 | 12.04 | libnl3 | 2017-06-19 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3335-1 | 14.04 | linux, linux-meta | 2017-06-19 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3328-1 | 16.04 | linux, linux-meta | 2017-06-19 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3326-1 | 16.10 | linux, linux-meta | 2017-06-19 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3324-1 | 17.04 | linux, linux-meta | 2017-06-19 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3331-1 | 16.04 | linux-aws, linux-meta-aws | 2017-06-19 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3329-1 | 16.04 | linux-gke, linux-meta-gke | 2017-06-19 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3333-1 | 16.04 | linux-hwe, linux-meta-hwe | 2017-06-19 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3334-1 | 14.04 | linux-lts-xenial, linux-meta-lts-xenial | 2017-06-19 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3332-1 | 16.04 | linux-meta-raspi2, linux-raspi2 | 2017-06-19 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3327-1 | 16.10 | linux-meta-raspi2, linux-raspi2 | 2017-06-19 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3325-1 | 17.04 | linux-meta-raspi2, linux-raspi2 | 2017-06-19 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3330-1 | 16.04 | linux-meta-snapdragon, linux-snapdragon | 2017-06-19 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3320-1 | 14.04 16.04 16.10 17.04 | zziplib | 2017-06-15 |
Kernel patches of interest
Kernel releases
Architecture-specific
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Filesystems and block layer
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