Welcome to the LWN.net Weekly Edition for July 9, 2026

• Progress in modernizing kernel cryptography: Eric Biggers shares his work on making the kernel's cryptographic APIs simpler.
• The kernel's iomap layer: an overview of the kernel's iomap layer.
• Continued coverage from the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit:
• Limiting negative dentries: a discussion about the role of negative directory cache entries and their impacts on performance.
• Faster RCUs and lockless memory allocation: two sessions touching on improvements to memory allocation and freeing, in the kernel and specific to BPF.
• Two LLM-assisted memory-management patch sets: a discussion about different approaches to the use of LLMs in kernel development.

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.