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Calls for Presentations
CFP Deadlines: November 16, 2017 to January 15, 2018
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| November 17 | January 26 January 28 |
DevConf.cz | Brno, Czech Republic |
| November 30 | January 22 | Kernel Miniconf at lca | Sydney, Australia |
| November 30 | March 8 | Icinga Camp Berlin 2018 | Berlin, Germany |
| December 3 | January 22 | Sysadmin Miniconf at lca | Sydney, Australia |
| December 9 | April 16 April 18 |
Power Management and Scheduling Summit | Pisa, Italy |
| December 11 | June 12 June 14 |
O'Reilly Fluent Conference | San Jose, CA, USA |
| December 27 | March 22 March 25 |
FOSSASIA Summit | Singapore, Singapore |
| December 31 | March 8 March 11 |
AsiaBSDCon 2018 | Tokyo, Japan |
| January 7 | March 12 March 14 |
Embedded Linux Conference | Portland, OR, USA |
| January 14 | June 8 June 9 |
Texas Linux Fest | Austin, TX, USA |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
Events: November 16, 2017 to January 15, 2018
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| November 12 November 17 |
Supercomputing 17 | Denver, CO, USA |
| November 18 November 19 |
Technical Dutch Open Source Event | Eindhoven, Netherlands |
| November 18 November 19 |
Capitole du Libre 2017 | Toulouse, France |
| November 18 November 19 |
Toulouse mini-DebConf 2017 | Toulouse, France |
| November 21 November 24 |
Open Source Monitoring Conference 2017 | Nürnberg, Germany |
| November 23 November 26 |
Mini-DebConf | Cambridge, UK |
| November 28 November 30 |
7th RISC-V Workshop | Milpitas, CA, USA |
| December 2 | LinuxDay in Vorarlberg/Österreich | Dornbirn, Austria |
| December 4 December 6 |
PGconf.ASIA 2017 | Tokyo, Japan |
| December 6 December 7 |
Paris Open Source Summit | Paris, France |
| December 6 December 7 |
Linux-Lab | Firenze, Italy |
| December 6 December 8 |
CloudNativeCon + KubeCon North America 2017 | Austin, TX, USA |
| December 13 | Code Europe 2017 - Wrocław | Wrocław, Poland |
| December 27 December 30 |
Chaos Computer Congress | Leipzig, Germany |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Event Reports
Reports from Netconf and Netdev
The Netconf 2017, Part 2 and Netdev 2.2 conferences were recently held in Seoul, South Korea. Netconf is an invitation-only gathering of kernel networking developers, while Netdev is an open conference for the Linux networking community. Attendees have put together reports from all five days (two for Netconf and three for Netdev) that LWN is happy to publish for them.
Security updates
Alert summary November 9, 2017 to November 15, 2017
| Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arch Linux | ASA-201711-19 | konversation | 2017-11-14 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201711-15 | lib32-openssl | 2017-11-10 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201711-16 | libextractor | 2017-11-10 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201711-17 | postgresql | 2017-11-10 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201711-18 | postgresql-old-upgrade | 2017-11-10 | |
| Debian | DSA-4026-1 | stable | bchunk | 2017-11-09 |
| Debian | DLA-1168-1 | LTS | graphicsmagick | 2017-11-10 |
| Debian | DLA-1170-1 | LTS | graphicsmagick | 2017-11-14 |
| Debian | DSA-4032-1 | stable | imagemagick | 2017-11-12 |
| Debian | DSA-4033-1 | stable | konversation | 2017-11-13 |
| Debian | DSA-4025-1 | stable | libpam4j | 2017-11-08 |
| Debian | DSA-4022-1 | stable | libreoffice | 2017-11-08 |
| Debian | DLA-1171-1 | LTS | libxml-libxml-perl | 2017-11-14 |
| Debian | DSA-4006-2 | stable | mupdf | 2017-11-10 |
| Debian | DLA-1157-1 | LTS | openssl | 2017-11-09 |
| Debian | DSA-4027-1 | stable | postgresql-9.4 | 2017-11-09 |
| Debian | DSA-4028-1 | stable | postgresql-9.6 | 2017-11-09 |
| Debian | DLA-1169-1 | LTS | postgresql-common | 2017-11-11 |
| Debian | DSA-4029-1 | stable | postgresql-common | 2017-11-09 |
| Debian | DSA-4030-1 | stable | roundcube | 2017-11-09 |
| Debian | DLA-1167-1 | LTS | ruby-yajl | 2017-11-08 |
| Debian | DSA-4031-1 | stable | ruby2.3 | 2017-11-11 |
| Debian | DLA-1166-2 | LTS | tomcat7 | 2017-11-09 |
| Debian | DSA-4034-1 | stable | varnish | 2017-11-15 |
| Debian | DLA-1151-2 | LTS | wordpress | 2017-11-12 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-9c0fc2975c | F27 | ImageMagick | 2017-11-14 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-008017c9fe | F25 | ansible | 2017-11-08 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-8bf1b0c692 | F26 | ansible | 2017-11-08 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-fb1ae91f46 | F27 | git-annex | 2017-11-14 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-08a350c878 | F25 | kernel | 2017-11-14 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-31d7720d7e | F26 | kernel | 2017-11-14 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-abda708cee | F27 | kernel | 2017-11-14 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-8cd171f540 | F25 | libgcrypt | 2017-11-14 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-f499ee7b12 | F25 | tomcat | 2017-11-11 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-ef7c118dbc | F26 | tomcat | 2017-11-10 |
| Gentoo | 201711-10 | cacti | 2017-11-11 | |
| Gentoo | 201711-02 | chromium | 2017-11-10 | |
| Gentoo | 201711-12 | eGroupWare | 2017-11-12 | |
| Gentoo | 201711-03 | hostapd | 2017-11-10 | |
| Gentoo | 201711-07 | imagemagick | 2017-11-11 | |
| Gentoo | 201711-08 | libXfont2 | 2017-11-11 | |
| Gentoo | 201711-01 | libxml2 | 2017-11-09 | |
| Gentoo | 201711-09 | lxc | 2017-11-11 | |
| Gentoo | 201711-04 | mariadb | 2017-11-10 | |
| Gentoo | 201711-11 | vde | 2017-11-12 | |
| Gentoo | 201711-06 | wget | 2017-11-11 | |
| Gentoo | 201711-05 | xorg-server | 2017-11-10 | |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0406 | 5, 6 | flash-player-plugin | 2017-11-10 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0407 | 5, 6 | libjpeg | 2017-11-10 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0405 | 5, 6 | openssl | 2017-11-08 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:3020-1 | 42.2 42.3 | GraphicsMagick | 2017-11-15 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:2999-1 | 42.2 42.3 | ImageMagick | 2017-11-12 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:2978-1 | ansible | 2017-11-10 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:2976-1 | 42.2 42.3 | ansible | 2017-11-10 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:2998-1 | 42.2 42.3 | java-1_8_0-openjdk | 2017-11-12 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:2993-1 | 42.2 42.3 | krb5 | 2017-11-10 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:3022-1 | mongodb | 2017-11-15 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:3018-1 | 42.3 | mongodb | 2017-11-15 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:2984-1 | redis | 2017-11-10 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:2994-1 | 42.2 42.3 | redis | 2017-11-10 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:2979-1 | 42.2 42.3 | shadow | 2017-11-10 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:3017-1 | 42.3 | shadowsocks-libev | 2017-11-15 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:3016-1 | 42.2 42.3 | snack | 2017-11-15 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:2975-1 | 42.2 42.3 | virtualbox | 2017-11-10 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:2991-1 | 42.2 42.3 | webkit2gtk3 | 2017-11-10 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-3640 | OL6 | kernel | 2017-11-14 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-3640 | OL7 | kernel | 2017-11-14 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:3222-01 | EL6 | flash-plugin | 2017-11-15 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:3195-01 | EL6.7 | httpd | 2017-11-13 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:3193-01 | EL7.2 | httpd | 2017-11-13 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:3194-01 | EL7.3 | httpd | 2017-11-13 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:3200-01 | EL6 | kernel | 2017-11-15 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:3221-01 | EL7 | php | 2017-11-15 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:3226-01 | OSP10.0 | redis | 2017-11-15 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:3190-01 | SCL | rh-eclipse46-jackson-databind | 2017-11-12 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:3189-01 | DT | rh-eclipse47-jackson-databind | 2017-11-12 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2017:3200-1 | SL6 | kernel | 2017-11-15 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2017:3221-1 | SL7 | php | 2017-11-15 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:2872-2 | SLE11 | firefox, nss | 2017-11-13 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:2989-1 | OS6 SLE12 | java-1_8_0-openjdk | 2017-11-10 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:2956-1 | SLE12 | kernel | 2017-11-08 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:2963-1 | SLE11 | kvm | 2017-11-10 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:2996-1 | SLE11 | mysql | 2017-11-11 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:2981-1 | OS6 SLE12 | openssl | 2017-11-10 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:2968-1 | SLE11 | openssl1 | 2017-11-10 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:2969-1 | SLE12 | qemu | 2017-11-10 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:3000-1 | OS7 | storm, storm-kit | 2017-11-13 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3346-3 | 12.04 | bind9 | 2017-11-08 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3478-2 | 12.04 | perl | 2017-11-13 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3478-1 | 14.04 16.04 17.04 | perl | 2017-11-13 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3479-1 | 14.04 16.04 17.04 17.10 | postgresql-9.3, postgresql-9.5, postgresql-9.6 | 2017-11-14 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3476-1 | 14.04 16.04 17.04 17.10 | postgresql-common | 2017-11-09 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3276-3 | 12.04 | shadow | 2017-11-14 |
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