Welcome to the LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 2, 2020
This edition contains the following feature content:
- Three candidates vying to be DPL: what the three Debian project leader candidates want to accomplish.
- Avoiding retpolines with static calls: another technique to claw back some of the performance lost to the Spectre vulnerabilities.
- Per-system-call kernel-stack offset randomization: making life harder for attackers by moving the kernel stack frequently.
- Some 5.6 kernel development statistics: where the code in the 5.6 release came from.
- Reworking StringIO concatenation in Python: a debate over whether the StringIO class should support a concatenation operator.
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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