Welcome to the LWN.net Weekly Edition for February 26, 2026

• As ye clone(), so shall ye AUTOREAP: Christian Brauner proposes two new flags for clone3().
• Open-source Discord alternatives: the chat platforms that provide suitable replacements to Discord.
• Modernizing swapping: virtual swap spaces: another attempt to spruce up Linux's swapping subsystem.
• No hardware memory isolation for BPF programs: a proposal to use memory protection keys to prevent unauthorized memory access by BPF programs is shot down.
• Lessons on attracting new contributors from 30 years of PostgreSQL: Claire Giordano talked about the project's successes and struggles in bringing in new blood.
• The second half of the 7.0 merge window: more interesting changes coming to the next kernel release.
• An effort to secure the Network Time Protocol: trying to speed adoption of Network Time Security (NTS).

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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