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https://lwn.net/Articles/1069047/ SUSE alert SUSE-SU-2026:21230-1 (kernel) [LWN.net] suse alert su1 kernel lwn202621230 https://lwn.net/Articles/1065777/ Oracle alert ELSA-2026-50171 (kernel) [LWN.net] oracle alert elsakernel lwn2026 https://lwn.net/Articles/1069523/ SUSE alert SUSE-SU-2026:1575-1 (kernel) [LWN.net] suse alert su1 kernel lwn20261575 https://lwn.net/Articles/1069521/ SUSE alert SUSE-SU-2026:1573-1 (kernel) [LWN.net] suse alert su1 kernel lwn20261573 https://lwn.net/Articles/1069522/ SUSE alert SUSE-SU-2026:1574-1 (kernel) [LWN.net] suse alert su1 kernel lwn20261574 https://lwn.net/Articles/1069046/ SUSE alert openSUSE-SU-2026:20572-1 (kernel) [LWN.net] suse alert opensuse1 kernel lwn202620572 https://lwn.net/Articles/941675/ Development statistics for the 6.5 kernel [LWN.net] The 6.5 kernel was released on August 27 after a nine-week development cycle. By that time, so [...] development statistics6 5kernel lwn https://lwn.net/Articles/795118/ Bounded loops in BPF for the 5.3 kernel [LWN.net] 5 3 kernelbounded loopsbpflwn https://lwn.net/Articles/1069524/ SUSE alert SUSE-SU-2026:21255-1 (kernel) [LWN.net] suse alert su1 kernel lwn2026 https://lwn.net/Articles/1029189/ SFrame-based stack unwinding for the kernel [LWN.net] The kernel's perf events subsystem can produce high-quality profiles, with full function-call c [...] kernel lwnbasedstackunwinding https://lwn.net/Articles/1069325/ SUSE alert SUSE-SU-2026:1563-1 (kernel) [LWN.net] suse alert su1 kernel lwn20261563 https://lwn.net/Articles/1069501/ Oracle alert ELSA-2026-9131 (kernel) [LWN.net] oracle alert elsakernel lwn20269131 https://lwn.net/Articles/1069290/ AlmaLinux alert ALSA-2026:8921 (kernel) [LWN.net] almalinux alert alsakernel lwn20268921 https://lwn.net/Articles/795367/ Bounded loops in BPF for the 5.3 kernel [LWN.net] 5 3 kernelbounded loopsbpflwn https://lwn.net/Articles/1063618/ SUSE alert SUSE-SU-2026:20711-1 (kernel) [LWN.net] suse alert su1 kernel lwn2026 https://lwn.net/Articles/1069045/ SUSE alert SUSE-SU-2026:21237-1 (kernel) [LWN.net] suse alert su1 kernel lwn202621237 https://lwn.net/Articles/1069502/ Oracle alert ELSA-2026-9264 (kernel) [LWN.net] oracle alert elsakernel lwn20269264 https://lwn.net/Articles/1069315/ Oracle alert ELSA-2026-8921 (kernel) [LWN.net] oracle alert elsakernel lwn20268921 https://lwn.net/Articles/739183/ SPDX identifiers in the kernel [LWN.net] Observers of the kernel's commit stream or mailing lists will have seen a certain amount of tra [...] kernel lwnspdxidentifiers https://lwn.net/Articles/1066723/ Development statistics for the 7.0 kernel [LWN.net] Linus Torvalds released the 7.0 kernel as expected on April 12, ending a relatively busy develo [...] 7 0 kerneldevelopment statisticslwn https://lwn.net/Articles/794934/ Bounded loops in BPF for the 5.3 kernel [LWN.net] BPF programs have gained significantly in capabilities over the last few years and can now perf [...] 5 3 kernelbounded loopsbpflwn https://lwn.net/Articles/739215/ KAISER: hiding the kernel from user space [LWN.net] user space lwnkaiser hidingkernel https://lwn.net/Articles/748911/ A new kernel polling interface [LWN.net] new kernel pollinginterface lwn https://lwn.net/ml/all/20240226123416.0000200f@Huawei.com/ Re: [RFC PATCH 06/20] dev_dax_iomap: Add CONFIG_DEV_DAX_IOMAP kernel build parameter [LWN.net] 20 dev daxrfc patchiomap addkernel build06 https://lwn.net/Articles/743957/ A new kernel polling interface [LWN.net] new kernel pollinginterface lwn https://lwn.net/ml/all/7ia4o6kmpj5s.fsf@castle.c.googlers.com/ Introduce Sashiko (agentic review of Linux kernel changes) [LWN.net] linux kernelintroducesashikoagenticreview https://lwn.net/Articles/200422/ Kernel developers' position on GPLv3 [LWN.net] A group of kernel developers recently came together and produced a position statement on GPLv3 [...] kernel developerspositiongplv3lwn https://lwn.net/Articles/704479/ Designing better kernel ABIs [LWN.net] Michael Kerrisk started his 2016 Kernel Recipes talk by noting that the man pages collection, w [...] designing betterkernelabislwn https://lwn.net/ml/linux-kernel/20190622000358.19895-10-matthewgarrett@google.com/ [PATCH V34 09/29] kexec_file: Restrict at runtime if the kernel is locked down [LWN.net] patch v3409 29kexecfilerestrict https://lwn.net/Articles/1068928/ Kernel code removals driven by LLM-created security reports [LWN.net] There are a number of ongoing efforts to remove kernel code, mostly from the networking subsyst [...] security reportskernelcoderemovalsdriven https://lwn.net/Articles/743158/ KAISER: hiding the kernel from user space [LWN.net] user space lwnkaiser hidingkernel https://lwn.net/Articles/1061776/ kho: history: track previous kernel version and kexec boot count [LWN.net] kernel versionkhohistorytrackprevious https://lwn.net/Articles/743714/ A new kernel polling interface [LWN.net] Polling a set of file descriptors to see which ones can perform I/O without blocking is a usefu [...] new kernel pollinginterface lwn https://lwn.net/ml/all/13365680ad42ba718c36b90165c56c3db43e8fdf.1708709155.git.john@groves.net/ [RFC PATCH 06/20] dev_dax_iomap: Add CONFIG_DEV_DAX_IOMAP kernel build parameter [LWN.net] 20 dev daxrfc patchiomap addkernel build06 https://lwn.net/Articles/742686/ KAISER: hiding the kernel from user space [LWN.net] user space lwnkaiser hidingkernel https://lwn.net/Articles/945422/ Revisiting the kernel's preemption model, part 2 [LWN.net] In last week's episode, a need to preempt kernel code that is executing long-running instructio [...] model part 2revisitingkernelpreemptionlwn https://lwn.net/Articles/1069722/ Kernel prepatch 7.1-rc1 [LWN.net] Linus has released 7.1-rc1 and closed the merge window for this release. Things look fairly [...] 7 1rc1 lwnkernel https://lwn.net/Articles/1064014/ kernel-doc: better handle data prototypes [LWN.net] handle datakerneldocbetterprototypes https://lwn.net/Articles/944686/ Revisiting the kernel's preemption models (part 1) [LWN.net] All that Ankur Arora seemingly wanted to do with this patch set was to make the process of clea [...] models part 1revisitingkernelpreemptionlwn https://lwn.net/Articles/738975/ KAISER: hiding the kernel from user space [LWN.net] Since the beginning, Linux has mapped the kernel's memory into the address space of every runni [...] user space lwnkaiser hidingkernel https://lwn.net/Articles/126763/ Is the kernel development process broken? [LWN.net] According to some, the 2.6 development process has gone far out of control. Wildly destabilizi [...] kernel development processbrokenlwn https://lwn.net/Articles/739075/ KAISER: hiding the kernel from user space [LWN.net] user space lwnkaiser hidingkernel https://lwn.net/Articles/444288/ What's coming in $NEXT_KERNEL_VERSION, part 1 [LWN.net] As of this writing, some 5400 non-merge changesets have been pulled into the mainline kernel fo [...] version part 1comingnextkernellwn https://lwn.net/Articles/798157/ Kernel runtime security instrumentation [LWN.net] Finding ways to make it easier and faster to mitigate an ongoing attack against a Linux system [...] kernel runtimesecurityinstrumentationlwn https://lwn.net/Kernel/Patches LWN.net kernel patch page [LWN.net] kernel patchlwn https://lwn.net/ml/linux-kernel/739e21b5-9559-d588-3542-bf0bc81de1b2@iogearbox.net/ Re: [PATCH V34 23/29] bpf: Restrict bpf when kernel lockdown is in confidentiality mode [LWN.net] patch v3423 29bpfrestrictkernel https://lwn.net/Articles/1067279/ The 7.0 kernel has been released [LWN.net] Linus has released the 7.0 kernel after a busy nine-week development cycle. The last week of [...] 7 0 kernelreleased lwn https://lwn.net/Articles/735887/ Improving the kernel timers API [LWN.net] The kernel's timer interface has been around for a long time, and its API shows it. Beyond a l [...] api lwnimprovingkerneltimers https://lwn.net/Articles/739087/ KAISER: hiding the kernel from user space [LWN.net] user space lwnkaiser hidingkernel https://lwn.net/ml/all/20260313150928.2637368-2-sashal@kernel.org/ [PATCH 1/9] kernel/api: introduce kernel API specification framework [LWN.net] patch 1 9kernelapiintroducespecification https://lwn.net/Articles/739815/ KAISER: hiding the kernel from user space [LWN.net] user space lwnkaiser hidingkernel https://lwn.net/Articles/739210/ KAISER: hiding the kernel from user space [LWN.net] user space lwnkaiser hidingkernel https://lwn.net/Articles/1052122/ HTML-link to the kernel documentation [LWN.net] kernel documentationhtmllwn https://lwn.net/Articles/739355/ KAISER: hiding the kernel from user space [LWN.net] user space lwnkaiser hidingkernel https://lwn.net/Articles/744804/ A new kernel polling interface [LWN.net] new kernel pollinginterface lwn https://lwn.net/Articles/534682/ Glibc and the kernel user-space API [LWN.net] We are accustomed to thinking of a system call as being a direct service request to the kernel. [...] kernel user spaceapi lwnglibc https://lwn.net/Articles/739228/ KAISER: hiding the kernel from user space [LWN.net] user space lwnkaiser hidingkernel https://lwn.net/ksdb/ The LWN kernel source database [LWN.net] kernel sourcelwndatabase