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Taylor submitted a pull request to add a field to store a user's birth [...] objectionssystemdageattestationchanges https://lwn.net/Articles/1059772/ Linux 7.0-rc1 [LWN.net] linuxrc1lwn https://lwn.net/Articles/1069965/ Four new stable kernels for Monday [LWN.net] Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 7.0.2, 6.18.25, 6.12.84, and 6.6.136 stable [...] fournewstablekernelsmonday https://lwn.net/Articles/605128/ Filesystem notification, part 2: A deeper investigation of inotify [LWN.net] In the first article in this series, we briefly looked at the original Linux filesystem notific [...] part 2filesystemnotificationdeeperinvestigation https://lwn.net/Articles/1067785/ Subscription required [LWN.net] subscriptionrequiredlwn https://lwn.net/Articles/861951/ arch: Add basic LoongArch support [LWN.net] archaddbasicsupportlwn https://lwn.net/Articles/919210/ x86: enable FRED for x86-64 [LWN.net] x86enablefredlwn https://lwn.net/Articles/1069951/ pgBackRest is no longer maintained [LWN.net] David Steele, maintainer of the popular pgBackRest backup and restore project for PostgreSQL, h [...] no longerpgbackrestmaintainedlwn https://lwn.net/Articles/588444/ Proper handling of unknown flags in system calls [LWN.net] As noted by various commenters on our earlier article, 'Flags as a system call API design patt [...] system callsproperhandlingunknownflags https://lwn.net/Articles/994855/ Core work still going on 33 years later [LWN.net] coreworkstillgoingyears https://lwn.net/Articles/994849/ Core work still going on 33 years later [LWN.net] coreworkstillgoingyears https://lwn.net/Articles/1069487/ Fedora alert FEDORA-2026-7f8c20f800 (dnf5) [LWN.net] fedoraalertlwn https://lwn.net/ml/all/20260421-v7-0-0-net-next-driver-removal-v1-v1-11-69517c689d1f@lunn.ch/ [PATCH net 11/18] drivers: net: cirrus: cs89x0: Remove this driver [LWN.net] patchdriverscirrusremovelwn https://lwn.net/Articles/531419/ Namespaces in operation, part 3: PID namespaces [LWN.net] Following on from our two earlier namespaces articles (Part 1: namespaces overview and Part 2: [...] part 3namespacesoperationpidlwn https://lwn.net/Articles/1054220/ Responses to gpg.fail [LWN.net] At the 39th Chaos Communication Congress (39C3) in December, researchers Lexi Groves ('49016') [...] responsesgpgfaillwn https://lwn.net/ml/all/20260407082018.GC3738010@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net/ Re: [PATCH 0/1] sched: Restore PREEMPT_NONE as default [LWN.net] 0 1patchschedrestorenone https://lwn.net/ml/all/57045171-b306-4277-8f9e-77a96ce31423@infradead.org/ Re: [PATCH net-deletions] net: remove ISDN subsystem and Bluetooth CMTP [LWN.net] patchremoveisdnbluetoothlwn https://lwn.net/Articles/1060941/ HTTPS certificates in the age of quantum computing [LWN.net] There has been ongoing discussion in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) about how to [...] https certificatesin thequantum computingagelwn Sponsored https://seasonedflirt.com/ SeasonedFlirt Less algorithms. 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[LWN.net] sidecarfuelsocketlwn https://lwn.net/Articles/1065889/ An API for handling arithmetic overflow [LWN.net] On March 31, Kees Cook shared a patch set that represents the culmination of more than a year [...] an apihandlingarithmeticoverflowlwn https://lwn.net/Articles/1069437/ mm/memcontrol: Make memory cgroup limits tier-aware [LWN.net] mmmakememorylimitstier https://lwn.net/ml/all/20260421-v7-0-0-net-next-driver-removal-v1-v1-3-69517c689d1f@lunn.ch/ [PATCH net 03/18] drivers: net: 3com: 3c574: Remove this driver [LWN.net] patchdrivers3comremovelwn https://lwn.net/Articles/1069095/ SUSE alert openSUSE-SU-2026:20544-1 (xorg-x11-server) [LWN.net] susealertxorgx11server https://lwn.net/Alerts/Red_Hat/ Red Hat security alerts [LWN.net] red hatsecurity alertslwn https://lwn.net/Articles/1069064/ SUSE alert SUSE-SU-2026:21153-1 (pgvector) [LWN.net] susealertpgvectorlwn https://lwn.net/Articles/1069438/ dyndbg: enable 0-off-cost for all of __drm_debug [LWN.net] for allenablecostdrmdebug https://lwn.net/Archives/ConferenceIndex/ Conference index [LWN.net] conference indexlwn Sponsored https://www.fanvue.com/ Fanvue The creator subscription platform for the future. 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[LWN.net] lwn https://lwn.net/Articles/1069544/ Ubuntu alert USN-8205-1 (gst-plugins-bad1.0) [LWN.net] ubuntualertgstpluginslwn https://lwn.net/Articles/1061467/ Brief items [LWN.net] briefitemslwn https://lwn.net/ml/all/69ed4a3064bd9b48fd0593941038dd111fcfb8f3.1708709155.git.john@groves.net/ [RFC PATCH 02/20] dev_dax_iomap: Add fs_dax_get() func to prepare dax for fs-dax usage [LWN.net] rfcpatchdevdaxadd https://lwn.net/ml/all/ba9302dd-105c-09e4-90ed-fe56addb6ca1@winds.org/ Re: [PATCH net 00/18] Remove a number of ISA and PCMCIA Ethernet drivers [LWN.net] ethernet driverspatchremovenumberisa https://lwn.net/Articles/1069090/ SUSE alert SUSE-SU-2026:21158-1 (util-linux) [LWN.net] susealertutillinuxlwn 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 [...] part 2kernelpreemptionmodellwn https://lwn.net/Articles/1067656/ Plateauing capabilities won't help [LWN.net] capabilitieshelplwn https://lwn.net/Articles/1069244/ Brave! [LWN.net] bravelwn https://lwn.net/ml/all/CAOQ4uxiY-qHSssaX82_LmFdjp5=mqgAhGgbkjAPSXcZ+yRecKw@mail.gmail.com/ Re: [RFC PATCH 00/20] Introduce the famfs shared-memory file system [LWN.net] file systemrfcpatchintroduceshared https://lwn.net/Articles/1069534/ SUSE alert SUSE-SU-2026:1571-1 (ntfs-3g_ntfsprogs) [LWN.net] susealertntfs3glwn https://lwn.net/Articles/1056399/ a tempest in a teapot [LWN.net] tempestteapotlwn https://lwn.net/Articles/1067756/ Plateauing capabilities won't help [LWN.net] capabilitieshelplwn https://lwn.net/ml/all/20241009165411.3426937-1-ankur.a.arora@oracle.com/ [PATCH 0/7] Lazy preemption bits [LWN.net] patchlazypreemptionbitslwn https://lwn.net/ml/all/0856a42d87b62d3ab7890c348b1fe9c83e630784.camel@physik.fu-berlin.de/ Re: [PATCH net 00/18] Remove a number of ISA and PCMCIA Ethernet drivers [LWN.net] ethernet driverspatchremovenumberisa https://lwn.net/Articles/523113/ LCE: Systemd two years on [LWN.net] It has now been a little more than two years since the systemd project began, and in that time [...] two yearslcesystemdlwn https://lwn.net/Articles/983870/ CircuitPython: Python for microcontrollers, simplified [LWN.net] CircuitPython is an open-source implementation of the Python programming language for microcont [...] circuitpythonmicrocontrollerssimplifiedlwn https://lwn.net/Articles/1069059/ SUSE alert openSUSE-SU-2026:20499-1 (ovmf) [LWN.net] susealertlwn https://lwn.net/Articles/994322/ The long road to lazy preemption [LWN.net] The kernel's CPU scheduler currently offers several preemption modes that implement a range of [...] longroadlazypreemptionlwn https://lwn.net/Login/newaccount LWN account creation [LWN.net] account creationlwn https://lwn.net/Articles/1062571/epub Subscription required [LWN.net] subscriptionrequiredlwn https://lwn.net/Articles/1069319/ SUSE alert openSUSE-SU-2026:20601-1 (giflib) [LWN.net] susealertlwn https://lwn.net/Articles/1063663/ Announcements [LWN.net] announcementslwn https://lwn.net/Articles/1069514/ SUSE alert openSUSE-SU-2026:10600-1 (csync2) [LWN.net] susealertlwn https://lwn.net/Articles/1001997/ A good tradeoff [LWN.net] goodlwn https://lwn.net/Articles/540087/ Namespaces in operation, part 6: more on user namespaces [LWN.net] In this article, we continue last week's discussion of user namespaces. 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