Junio C Hamano published Git 2.56.1 and matching updates on older maintenance lines, covering six CVEs.
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Krzysztof Kozlowski says he may ignore further submissions after an LG G8x series repeated work already on the linux-media list and failed basic style checks.
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xorg-server 21.1.26 and Xwayland 24.1.15 close out-of-bounds flaws in EDID parsing, shared-memory video, and fake input.
By tarpit
Splice into those consumers will always copy, clearing a path for folio work that page theft kept breaking.
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The series brings multi-peer replication into the in-tree driver while keeping existing drbd-utils working.
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The candidate closes out-of-bounds writes and size overflows in EDID parsing, XVideo, synthetic input, and resource queries.
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A proposed conversion change would move default numeric results, and some CPU complex32 fills would return infinity instead of raising.
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Christian Brauner's RFC would stop procfs and sysfs files being used as storage after a capability-free loop setup killed a process.
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CVE-2026-122027 let a guest force accelerated backends to read past a cursor buffer; the vhost-user path also leaked memory on every update.
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CPU and other compiled fusion kernels cannot sit in an FX graph today, so the fx_wrapper path fails outside Triton.
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A bpf-next series lets programs restamp hash, VLAN and checksum status so redirected packets stop losing GRO and checksum offload.
By oops
Shuai Xue's frame-pointer work would let RISC-V apply kernel fixes without a reboot, and it now includes fixes for traces that have been wrong since Linux 6.8.
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On v0.31.0 a member changing a database password can run shell commands as root in the container that holds the host Docker socket.
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Programs could wait on a queue they build themselves, and spawn kernel threads for reclaim and network work they scale and place.
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Cleartext refresh secrets, non-expiring long-lived tokens, and backup restore behavior leave durable access even when users change passwords.
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A Meta rework of a Linus Torvalds idea would let many CPUs copy the same cached file pages without bouncing folio reference counts.
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