Welcome to the LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 8, 2021
This edition contains the following feature content:
- Resurrecting DWF: another attempt at making a CVE system that works for the open-source community.
- Scanning for secrets: preventing credentials from being exposed in source repositories.
- The multi-generational LRU: a fundamental change to the kernel's page-replacement mechanism promises better decisions and reduced CPU consumption.
- The future of GCC plugins in the kernel: the plugin mechanism is unloved, but there is no replacement for it yet.
- Killing off /dev/kmem: a dangerous kernel interface may finally be on its way out.
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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