Welcome to the LWN.net Weekly Edition for October 24, 2019
This edition contains the following feature content:
- BPF and the realtime patch set: the incoming realtime code and BPF are currently incompatible with each other; why is that and how can the problem be fixed?
- Changing the Python release cadence: two options for getting new Python features to users more quickly.
- "git request-pull" and confusing diffstats: why pull requests can contain surprising diffstats.
- Really fixing getrandom(): the early-boot entropy problem has apparently been solved in 5.4, but is the result truly random?
- Implementing alignment guarantees for kmalloc(): a change to internal memory allocations in the kernel gets through despite opposition.
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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