Welcome to the LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 13, 2026

• Bringing BPF to binfmt_misc: BPF programs may soon be able to manage interpreters for binfmt_misc.
• A look at CrossPoint e-reader firmware: open-source firmware for tiny ebook readers.
• KVM planes head for takeoff: an abstraction layer for managing multiple security domains within a single virtualized system.
• Even more formal verification for BPF: exploring the use of additional formal verification for application-specific constraints.
• Changes in shadow-utils password-expiration features: making periodic password rotation a thing of the past.
• Block-layer error injection: producing disk errors on demand to help with kernel-storage-code debugging.

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.