Welcome to the LWN.net Weekly Edition for November 30, 2017

• Python data classes: a 3.7-bound module meant to make the management of record-type data structures in Python easier.
• Replacing x86 firmware with Linux and Go: a report from the Embedded Linux Conference Europe on efforts to route around vulnerable proprietary blobs in Intel processors.
• SPDX identifiers in the kernel: the new way to indicate the licensing status of each file in the kernel source tree.
• 4.15 Merge window part 1 and 4.15 Merge window part 2: what went into the mainline repository for the 4.15 kernel development cycle.
• BPF-based error injection for the kernel: a proposed mechanism for testing the kernel's notoriously unreliable error-handling paths.
• Tools for porting drivers: a couple of tools that make the process of moving device drivers between kernel versions easier.

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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