Welcome to the LWN.net Weekly Edition for December 18, 2025
This edition contains the following feature content:
- The Civil Infrastructure Platform after (nearly) ten years: creating a platform for industrial Linux deployments.
- Going boldly into the COSMIC desktop environment: a look at the first stable release of the Rust-based desktop.
- Calibre adds AI "discussion" feature: the popular ebook-management program gets a controversial feature.
- The 2025 Maintainers Summit:
reporting from the annual gathering of top kernel subsystem
maintainers:
- Toward a policy for machine-learning tools in kernel development: what role—if any—should machine-learning tools play in the kernel development process?
- Best practices for linux-next: making the kernel development process run even more smoothly.
- The state of the kernel Rust experiment: it is official—Rust is here to stay in the Linux kernel.
- Better development tools for the kernel: a look at the tooling side of the kernel-development process.
- 2025 Maintainers Summit development process discussions: succession planning for the kernel, and more.
- The rest of the 6.19 merge window: notable changes that will appear in the next major kernel release.
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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