Welcome to the LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 16, 2026
- A flood of useful security reports: improvements in LLM tools mean that valid security flaws are being found more quickly—can maintainers keep up?
- A build system aimed at license compliance: a look at the build system for the OpenWrt One router.
- Forking Vim to avoid LLM-generated code: a new AI policy has spurred two Vim forks that aim to avoid LLM-written code.
- Removing read-only transparent huge pages for the page cache: the promised support for writable huge pages is not going to arrive.
- Development statistics for the 7.0 kernel: a look at contribution numbers for the 7.0 kernel.
- Tagging music with MusicBrainz Picard: a next-generation tool for managing music metadata.
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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