Welcome to the LWN.net Weekly Edition for June 18, 2026

• The state of Fedora in 2026: good news and bad news about the state of this important distribution.
• Automatic mTHP creation in 7.2: making the use of mTHPs even more transparent.
• Continued coverage from the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit:
• An overlayfs update: what have the overlayfs developers been up to and what might be coming in the future?
• Some buffer-heads cleanup work: work on cleaning up the venerable buffer-heads code for multiple filesystems.
• Development statistics for the 7.1 kernel: a record-breaking number of developers contributed to the 7.1 kernel.

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.