Watching Linus’ mainline
Daily dispatches and a weekly briefing on the meaningful fixes, features, drivers, and hardening work entering the next Linux release.
Daily dispatches
Daily update · Oct 26–27, 2026
Today's mainline kernel highlights include the first CXL Dynamic Capacity Device plumbing, removal of a data-corrupting SATA driver, more robust TPM and I2C handling, and a big set of hardware monitoring and fan control improvements.
Read the updateWeekly briefing · Oct 19–26, 2026
A weekly briefing built from 9 published daily update(s).
Read the updateDaily update · Oct 25–26, 2026
A wide NFS client/server stabilization push, extensive ksmbd hardening, NTFS/exFAT reliability work, kexec/kdump memory fixes, and legacy Octeon board support land in mainline.
Read the updateDaily update · Oct 25, 2026
Apple M4 NVMe support, a large SCSI sense-code rework, and an EFI variable for systemd highlight the first batch of subsystem pulls.
Read the updateDaily update · Oct 24, 2026
Eight subsystem pull requests for v7.4 were merged into mainline, spanning DRM, io_uring, vhost/virtio, PCI, IOMMU, device mapper, DMA mapping, and VFIO.
Read the updateDaily update · Oct 23, 2026
Mainline picks up BPF verifier loop analysis, KVM pKVM state isolation, memory-management work, and several correctness fixes.
Read the updateDaily update · Oct 23, 2026
A mix of crash-log robustness, seccomp notification fixes, safer kernel helper APIs, and a broad networking merge.
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