Welcome to the LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 13, 2020

• End-to-end network programmability: "the network is the computer", 2020 version.
• Building a Flutter application (part 1): digging into Google's cross-platform user-interface library.
• 5.9 Merge window, part 1: the first set of changes merged for the 5.9 development kernel.
• Local locks in the kernel: a new locking mechanism from the realtime tree merged for 5.8.
• PHP struggles with attributes syntax: an ongoing debate on how attributes should be handled in PHP 8.0.

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.