Welcome to the LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 29, 2025
This edition contains the following feature content:
- Glibc project revisits infrastructure security: what is the best way to keep the GNU C Library code secure?
- Cory Doctorow on how we lost the internet: a PyCon keynote on just how things went wrong.
- System-wide encrypted DNS: work that has been done to make encrypted DNS just work on enterprise distributions.
- Development statistics for the 6.15 kernel: a look at where the code for this release came from.
- Ongoing LSFMM+BPF 2025
coverage:
- Long-duration stress-testing for filesystems: a discussion on filesystem testing aimed at finding more bugs before they are discovered in a production setting.
- Formally verifying the BPF verifier: a look at using Agni to prove parts of the BPF verifier correct.
- Verifying the BPF verifier's path-exploration logic: Srinivas Narayana shares a plan to extend Agni to cover more of the verifier.
- Allowing BPF programs more access to the network: new functions to allow BPF programs to send data over the network, and cleanly disconnect TCP connections.
- Reports from OSPM 2025, day two: discussions on improvements to device suspend and resume, the status and future of sched_ext, the scx_lavd scheduler, improving the efficiency of load balancing, and hierarchical constant bandwidth server scheduling.
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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