Welcome to the LWN.net Weekly Edition for February 12, 2026

• Evolving Git for the next decade: major changes coming soon to everyone's favorite version-control system.
• Kernel control-flow-integrity support comes to GCC: a look at Kees Cook's work to bring a much-needed security feature to GCC.
• Modernizing swapping: the end of the swap map: making the swap subsystem simpler and faster.
• Development statistics for 6.19: contribution numbers for the 6.19 kernel and an analysis of how many first-time kernel contributors stick around.
• FOSS in times of war, scarcity, and AI: a FOSDEM keynote on the problems that geopolitics, dangerous allies, and LLMs pose for free-software communities.

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.

Please enjoy this week's edition, and, as always, thank you for supporting LWN.net.