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The 7.2-rc2 kernel prepatch is out for testing. Linus said: 'It's Sunday afternoon, and rc2 is [...]

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 7.1.3, 6.18.38, 6.12.95, 6.6.144, 6.1.177, [...]

The GNU Guix project has announced three vulnerabilities in the guix substitute utility as well [...]

A number of problems related to negative directory entries (dentries) were the topic of a filesystem-track session at the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit. Negative dentries are used to indicate that a file of a given ...

In August 2025, the CalyxOS privacy-focused Android distribution announced that it was pausing [...]

A few astute observers have noticed that some content on kernel.org had disappeared and were un [...]

We were made aware today of an email sent to a reader that was spoofed to appear to be from LWN [...]

Aoife Moloney has, on behalf of the Fedora Council, posted an announcement that the Fedora Coun [...]

The kernel community (like many other free-software projects) has recently seen a large influx of patches developed with the assistance of large language models (LLMs). Those patches tend to come from developers who were previously unknown to the ...

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Xsnow protestware; Git 2.55; Rhombus; kernel hardening; More LSFMM+BPF coverage; 7.2 merge window; Secure Boot certificate expiration; Ceph and Garage; OSPM 2026. Briefs: Akrites; Mageia 10; Git 2.55 ...