Welcome to the LWN.net Weekly Edition for December 5, 2024

• NonStop discussion around adding Rust to Git: the desire to use Rust within Git runs into problems with unsupported legacy systems.
• Arch Linux finally starts licensing PKGBUILDs: some clarity regarding distribution rights for Arch's packaging instructions.
• The kernel's command-line commotion: a disagreement over how to show the name of the running program when it is launched with fexecve().
• The beginning of the 6.13 merge window and The rest of the 6.13 merge window: all of the most interesting changes merged for the next major kernel release.
• The return of RWF_UNCACHED: an old idea to improve the performance of use-once buffered I/O returns.
• Rust's incremental compiler architecture: how incremental compilation is used to speed the compiler's operation.
• GIMP 3.0 — a milestone for open-source image editing: a look for a long-awaited release of this popular image-editing application.

This week's edition also includes these inner pages:

• Brief items: Brief news items from throughout the community.
• Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.

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