Welcome to the LWN.net Weekly Edition for July 30, 2026

• Hazard pointers for the kernel: an alternative approach to lockless data updates that may offer better performance.
• A report from Debian's new DFSG team: how the ftpmaster team split is working out for the project so far.
• An operations structure for swap devices: different approaches to an abstraction layer for swap storage.
• Additional coverage from the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit:
• An update on netkit and the use of BPF in user space: the work to allow zero-copy networking within virtual machines continues.
• Debugging information for inlined functions: adding information about inlined functions to BTF.
• Fedora approves a smaller GRUB: FESCo gives the go-ahead to a slimmed-down GRUB package for confidential computing and other use cases.
• Progress toward compiling Linux with gccrs: a look at how the Rust frontend for GCC is progressing.

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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