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LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 6, 2026 (One big page) (EPUB format)
- Front: Process-builder API; Fedora COI; FUSE io_uring buffer sizes; BPF network namespaces; FUSE plans; BPF libraries; directory creation system call.
- Briefs: AISI hack; JFrog on CVEs; npm worm; AUR adoption; NetBSD 11.0; b4 0.16.0; C-Kermit 11; Rust LLM policy; Servo 0.4.0; Quotes; ...
- Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.
- Front: Hazard pointers; DFSG team; Swap devices; Netkit and BPF; BPF inlined functions; Fedora GRUB; gccrs.
- Briefs: RIP Dan Williams; Debian LLM resolution; Fedora 45 process; Codeberg LLM policy; GCC LLM policy; GNU Binutils 2.47; GNU C Library 2.44; Wayfire 0.11; Quotes; ...
- Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.
- Front: LLMs in the kernel; GNOME save and restore; Fedora changes; BPF and tracepoints; BPF and LSMs; famfs; sched_ext.
- Briefs: GNOME security; PyPI policy; Arch on aarch64; Firefox 153; Quotes; ...
- Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.
- Front: Fighting scraper bots; io_uring queues; Filesystem testing; BPF shielding; Sending packets from BPF; Kitty; QBE.
- Briefs: Shim security; seunshare vulnerability; Debian bookworm; Rust 1.97.0; Linux.org; Quotes; ...
- Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.
- Front: Cryptography API; Iomap explanation; Negative dentries; Faster RCUs and lockless allocation for BPF; LLMs in memory-management code
- Briefs: Guix vulnerabilities; OpenSSH 10.4; trusted publishing; kernel archive; CalyxOS; Quotes; ...
- Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.
- 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 2.55.0; Podman 6.0; systemd v261; Creative Commons chat; Quotes; ...
- Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.
- Front: Free-threaded Python; AUR attacks; Fedora 2FA; 7.2 merge window; BPF arenas; BPF coroutines; BPF JIT; RMR and BRMR; OSPM.
- Briefs: Tor deprecations; GIMP 0.54.1 flatpak; Mastodon 4.6; Systemd v261; Xfce on Wayland; Quotes; ...
- Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.
- Front: State of Fedora; mTHP creation; overlayfs; buffer-heads cleanup; 7.1 statistics.
- Briefs: curl summer of bliss; 7.1 kernel; AUR compromise; Fedora election; FairScan 2.0; Firefox 152.0; Homebrew 6.0.0; KDE Plasma 6.7; LWN topic list; Quotes; ...
- Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.
- Front: Suspicious AI activity in Fedora; fork() + exec(); splice() + vmsplice(); BPF loop verification; fanotify; trusted publishing.
- Briefs: CA age bill; Bundler cooldowns; insecure code completion; Asahi and macOS 27 beta; Buildroot 2026.05; Ubuntu MATE; rsync 3.4.4; Quotes; ...
- Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.
- Front: MeshCore; x32 ABI; Open-source security; Package-manager metadata; More LSFMM+BPF coverage; Loadable crypto module.
- Briefs: Lightwell; jqwik protestware; RedHat package compromise; DistroWatch; Fedora election; Rust 1.96.0; rsync; Vim Classic 8.3; Quotes; ...
- Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.