Welcome to the LWN.net Weekly Edition for February 18, 2021

• What goes into default Debian?: what sort of experience should the default install provide?
• Malware in open-source web extensions: the story of the corruption of the Great Suspender browser extension.
• kcmp() breaks loose: a little-known Linux system call starts to see wider use.
• Introducing maple trees: a new data structure to help the kernel keep track of memory areas.
• Development statistics for the 5.11 kernel: where the code in 5.11 came from.

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.