Welcome to the LWN.net Weekly Edition for January 24, 2019
This edition contains the following feature content:
- A DNS flag day: an upcoming change to the domain name system may catch some sites unaware.
- Defending against page-cache attacks: closing off page-cache information disclosure problems will not be easy.
- A proposed API for full-memory encryption: how should Intel's MKTME be made available to user space?
- Persistent memory for transient data: the sheer size of persistent-memory arrays makes them attractive for non-persistent uses.
- The RCU API, 2019 edition: much has changed in the read-copy-update API; lots of details here.
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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