Welcome to the LWN.net Weekly Edition for July 2, 2026

• Xsnow "protestware" in Debian: should distributions allow software with unexpected behavior triggered by a user's locale settings?
• What's coming in Git 2.55: a look at some of the interesting features in the latest Git release.
• Flexible metaprogramming with Rhombus: a new programming language that marries metaprogramming capabilities with a Python-like syntax.
• Hardening the kernel with allocation tokens and bootpatch-SLR: more efforts to make kernel bugs harder to exploit.
• Continued coverage from the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit:
• Initiating writeback earlier: a discussion on whether to change when writeback is initiated and how that might be done.
• Efficient access to local storage for BPF programs: two approaches to improving performance for BPF programs.
• The rest of the 7.2 merge window: more interesting changes coming to the next kernel release.
• Secure Boot certificate expiration is here: what to know now that the first batch of Secure Boot certificates have expired.
• A look at MinIO alternatives: Ceph and Garage: two S3-compatible object-storage servers for MinIO refugees.
• Reports from OSPM 2026, day three: sessions from the final day of the Power Management and Scheduling in the Linux Kernel (OSPM) Summit.

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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