Welcome to the LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 11, 2022

• Kolibri and GNOME: a GUADEC talk on how the Kolibri system is helping the Endless OS Foundation (and others) promote offline computing worldwide.
• A security-module hook for user-namespace creation: a disagreement over whether access to the user-namespace feature should be subject to control by security modules.
• 6.0 Merge window, part 1: the first set of changes merged for the 6.0 kernel release.
• An io_uring-based user-space block driver: this new approach to putting block drivers in user space could be a sign of where Linux is headed.
• Adding auditing to pip: a discussion over whether Python's "pip" utility should include an auditing feature.

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.