Welcome to the LWN.net Weekly Edition for July 11, 2024

• New features in C++26: a look at some of the features that may appear in the next major version of the C++ standard.
• Sxmo: a text-centric mobile user interface: a different approach to interactive mobile applications.
• Another try for getrandom() in the vDSO: the ongoing effort to provide fast and secure random data to user space.
• Offload-friendly network encryption in the kernel: a look at the PSP security protocol.
• Two more reports from LSFMM+BPF 2024:
  • A new API for tree-in-dcache filesystems: filesystems that store their entire tree in the directory-entry cache have proliferated, without handling the edge cases well; a new API would try to clean up some of those problems.
  • Improving pseudo filesystems: problems abound in pseudo (or virtual) filesystems, in part because there is a lack of guidance available for kernel developers who want to create one; what can be done to improve that?

• Giving bootloaders the boot with nmbl: booting directly into the kernel and cutting out the bootloader middleman.

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.