Welcome to the LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 14, 2026

• Friction in Fedora over AI developer desktop initiative: some Fedora contributors question the need for an official AI-friendly initiative.
• Forgejo "carrot disclosure" raises security questions: a non-standard approach to security disclosure that was more stick than carrot.
• LSFMM+BPF 2026 coverage:
• A new era for memory-management maintainership: longtime maintainer Andrew Morton has said that he is getting ready to step down; what happens next?
• Using dma-bufs for read and write operations: a new, io_uring-based API to make the use of dma-bufs more efficient.
• Scaling transparent huge pages to 1GB: what is the next step in a world where a 2MB huge page is no longer considered huge?
• Revisiting mshare: yet another look at the longstanding goal of making page-table sharing easy.
• Providing 64KB base pages with 4KB kernels, two different ways: two approaches to getting the advantages of a larger base-page size while minimizing memory waste.
• A 2026 DAMON update: what is happening in this fast-moving memory-management subsystem.
• Managing pages outside of the direct map: removing memory from the kernel's direct map can improve security, but it hurts performance. Brendan Jackman is working on an API that avoids the performance penalty.

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• Brief items: Brief news items from throughout the community.
• Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.

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