Welcome to the LWN.net Weekly Edition for July 27, 2023
This edition contains the following feature content:
- A status update for U-Boot: a report from the Embedded Open Source Summit on recent work with the U-Boot bootloader.
- A discussion on Linux in space: a panel session on how Linux is being used off-planet.
- Much ado about SBAT: a proposed security mechanism for locked-down systems creates controversy.
- Exceptions in BPF: giving BPF programs a way to abort execution when things go badly wrong.
- Randomness for kmalloc(): hardening memory allocation for (probably) the 6.6 kernel.
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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