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18m agoQEMU patchset proposes cpr-luo CPR mode using LUO and KHO for kexec host kernel updates while preserving guest RAM. 21m agoRegression report on thermal PM ordering change corrupting battery _BIX/_BST reads on ThinkPad P1 Gen2 due to ACPI EC page selector race; patch tested but deeper ACPICA lock issue discussed. 24m agoLinus posts early RCU-based folio refcount series for fast-path read scalability, citing 23x synthetic gain. 30m agoPatch series hardens virtio-net partial checksum validation at ingress to address inconsistency risks from untrusted hardware. 39m agov7 patchset adds initial RISC-V Ssqosid/CBQRI resctrl support with DT driver and cache allocation. 42m agoPatch deprecates Assisted-by tag per Maintainers Summit; maintainers debate disclosure rules and detection of LLM-generated contributions. 46m agoRFC series adds Kconfig options and tools_build target to build selected tools/selftests during kernel make. 48m agoPatch series proposes making git-blame default to .git-blame-ignore-revs (with security limits and working-tree read), aligning CLI with forges. 87m agoFedora 46 proposal would drop DNF4 stack and modularity 1h agoTorvalds posts Linux page refcount scalability series 3h agoPCI core gains Live Update support for kexec device continuity 7h agoKernel to drop Assisted-by LLM tag after summit consensus

Kernel & Low-Level

Torvalds posts Linux page refcount scalability series PCI core gains Live Update support for kexec device continuity Kernel to drop Assisted-by LLM tag after summit consensus Linux 6.12-stable fixes packet TX ring overflow that can panic

Distributions & Plumbing

Fedora 46 proposal would drop DNF4 stack and modularity Nixpkgs core team exits as packaging megaprojects hit the burnout wall WebKitGTK orphaned in Fedora as maintainer leaves Red Hat Burnout Meets Harder Levers: Governance Strain Across Nix, IETF, and Fedora

Desktop & Graphics

Emacs freezes LLM package fight pending GNU standards update io_uring adds DMA-buf fixed I/O for NVMe block devices X.Org X server patches dozen CVEs in October 2026 batch GNOME board statement on Mastodon clash draws resignations

Internet & Protocols

Early attestation bugs crack Cocos AI and Contrast TLS claims IETF last call rejects mandatory ops sections in RFCs IETF forms agentproto working group for AI agent dialogs IETF splits DNSOP into ops and protocol working groups

Web Platform

Chromium clears HTML-in-canvas for shipping

Languages & Toolchains

Git may teach --delete-merged to spot squash merges glibc plugs LANGUAGE path traversal hole (CVE-2026-84243) SwiftNIO 2.101.0 fixes WebSocket DoS crash (CVE-2026-43678) Swift Crypto 4.5.1 fixes RSA public-key double-free

Databases & Infrastructure

QEMU adds GICv5 virtualization for nested ARM guests PostgreSQL 19 eager aggregation wrong on bpchar trailing spaces PostgreSQL fixes index corruption after rolled-back tablespace moves QEMU fixes three CVEs in USB smartcard reader emulation

Security & Cryptography

Xen ships three advisories: guest-triggered tapdisk root risk, XPTI break on huge RAM, broken Zenbleed fix Vim R Markdown highlighting allows command execution on Unix Cyrus SASL left with unfixed flaws and no active maintainers OpenJPEG leaves heap overflow in all releases as project goes idle

AI & ML

PyTorch CPU triu/tril write out of bounds on strided batch out PyTorch CUDA pool teardown can re-enter half-destroyed state llama.cpp needs backward ops for gated delta-net fine-tuning llama.cpp RPC server allows remote out-of-bounds write