Welcome to the LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 16, 2019

• A panel with the new Python steering council: five council members discuss the state and future of the Python language.
• BPF: what's good, what's coming, and what's needed: Dave Miller's LSFMM session on the BPF virtual machine.
• The first half of the 5.2 merge window: what's coming in the next major kernel release.
• More LSFMM coverage, including the following sessions from the filesystems track:
  • DAX semantics
  • A filesystem for virtualization
  • NFS topics
  • Common needs for Samba and NFS
• The future of Docker containers: a DockerCon session on what's in store for the Docker system.

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.