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Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: BPF and binfmt_misc; CrossPoint ebook firmware; KVM planes; BPF formal verification; shadow-utils; new storage-code testing features. Briefs: Django releases; GNOME shell; LightDM 1.33.0; QEMU 11.1;

Storage code has to cope with hardware that fails in inconvenient ways, but coaxing a healthy disk into producing those failures on demand, for testing, is usually not possible. The kernel provides several ways to inject block-layer I/O errors, but ...

There are a number of small, inexpensive, low-powered e-reader or e-paper devices that have promise as ebook readers with one minor problem: the firmware they ship with does not realize their full potential. To solve that problem, the CrossPoint ...

Version 11.1 of the QEMU emulator has been released. The release contains more than 3,200 commi [...]

Virtualization places a guest system into a separate security domain, typically with less privileges than software running directly on the host. Increasingly, there is interest in creating multiple security domains within a single virtualized system ...

GNOME contributor Tobias Bernard has published a blog post that details some of the design team [...]

BPF offers useful safety guarantees, but Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi wants BPF programs to be even safer. At the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit, he led a session (slides) discussing the possibility of adding domain ...

The Django Python web-framework project has announced that it has accepted an annual release cy [...]

The 7.2-rc7 kernel prepatch is out for testing. It is still bigger than Linus would like, but [...]

The 7.1.8, 6.18.44, 6.12.103, and 6.6.151 stable kernels have been released; each contains a fa [...]