Welcome to the LWN.net Weekly Edition for February 5, 2026
This edition contains the following feature content:
- Sigil simplifies creating and editing EPUBs: a graphical tool for the creation of electronic books.
- Compiling Rust to readable C with Eurydice: another way to compile Rust code without rustc.
- Sub-schedulers for sched_ext: the extensible scheduler class allows the installation of a custom CPU scheduler on a system-wide basis; now the time has come to allow each application on the same machine to have its own scheduler.
- Modernizing swapping: introducing the swap table: the first in a two-part series on the ongoing effort to clean up and improve the kernel's swap subsystem.
- API changes for the futex robust list: a proposed new futex API for gaming applications.
- The future for Tyr: the beginnings of a Rust driver for Arm Mali GPUs are in place; what needs to happen next to bring it up to full functionality?
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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