Daily update · Sep 15–16, 2026
Linux mainline: sched_ext fixes, sysctl range checks
BPF scheduler fixes lead today's batch, with cgroup and sysctl corrections.
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Daily update · Sep 14–15, 2026
RDMA security fixes lead this kernel update batch
Software RoCE drivers get fixes for a remotely triggerable out-of-bounds access and a Dirty COW-like flaw, alongside memory management and filesystem corrections.
Read the updateWeekly briefing · Sep 7–14, 2026
Linux mainline: week of Sep 7
A weekly briefing built from 7 published daily update(s).
Read the updateDaily update · Sep 13–14, 2026
Linux kernel: MADV_FREE data-loss fix, x86 hardening, and laptop WiFi/camera fixes
Stability and security fixes across memory management, scheduler, boot, and hardware support.
Read the updateDaily update · Sep 12–13, 2026
Mainline update: filesystem reliability, IOMMU fixes, and a leaner kallsyms
A round of XFS, btrfs, and erofs fixes; AMD IOMMU and PowerPC corrections; and kallsyms/kbuild cleanups.
Read the updateDaily update · Sep 11–12, 2026
RISC-V fixes, io_uring, audio and GPU updates in Linux mainline
Today's kernel changes improve RISC-V hwprobe reporting and user-copy speed, fix io_uring deadlocks and buffer handling, add audio hardware support, and harden several drivers against memory issues.
Read the updateDaily update · Sep 10–11, 2026
Linux mainline update: SMB/CIFS hardening, IPv6 fixes, and driver reliability
A roundup of recently merged kernel changes, with emphasis on security fixes, networking stability, and hardware enablement.
Read the updateDaily update · Sep 9–10, 2026
Linux kernel updates: ext4 crash fix, Landlock UAF, virtio hardening
Today's mainline patches address filesystem and virtualization bugs, including security fixes for Landlock and vhost.
Read the updateDaily update · Sep 8–9, 2026
PowerPC and AMD fixes land in this mainline update
Syscall entry, EEH recovery, kexec ranges, PS3 build, AMD MCE storm handling, and ARIA vzeroupper fixes.
Read the updateDaily update · Sep 7–8, 2026
Perf and configfs bug fixes land in mainline
Intel PT and PowerPC sample fixes, plus a configfs symlink vs rmdir race fix.
Read the updateWeekly briefing · Aug 31, 2026 – Sep 7, 2026
Linux mainline: week of Aug 31
A weekly briefing built from 7 published daily update(s).
Read the updateDaily update · Sep 6–7, 2026
Linux mainline: massive BPF verifier hardening, xHCI fixes, scheduler and RT stability
A wave of BPF security fixes closes verifier bypasses, while USB, scheduler, tracing, and PREEMPT_RT subsystems receive critical correctness and performance fixes.
Read the updateDaily update · Sep 5–6, 2026
NVMe/TCP security fixes, UFS and btrfs improvements, LoongArch hardening
A batch of mainline kernel fixes targets NVMe/TCP memory corruption, UFS performance, btrfs compression hangs, and LoongArch KVM security.
Read the updateDaily update · Sep 4–5, 2026
Linux kernel update: GPU, audio, storage, and arm64 fixes
VirtIO-GPU teardown, Nouveau GB20x HDMI, AMD OLED/8K display, ALSA mmap race, ksmbd overflows, and arm64 kexec fixes highlight today's mainline changes.
Read the updateDaily update · Sep 3–4, 2026
Linux mainline updates: NTFS corruption fixes, TCP use-after-free, Bluetooth L2CAP OOB writes, and more
A wave of NTFS data-corruption and security fixes headlines today's updates, alongside critical network protocol hardening, device-mapper integrity repairs, and memory-management fixes.
Read the updateDaily update · Sep 2–3, 2026
Kernel config tweak improves Rust testing by adjusting randstruct default
Randstruct is now off by default when a Rust toolchain is available, allowing allmodconfig builds to include Rust.
Read the updateDaily update · Sep 1–2, 2026
SMB subsystem lands wave of security and data-corruption fixes
ksmbd gets hardened against heap leaks and buffer overflows, the CIFS client fixes multiple fallocate data-corruption bugs, and Steve French's passing is reflected in maintainer updates.
Read the updateDaily update · Aug 31, 2026 – Sep 1, 2026
EDAC, XFS, and scheduler fixes land in mainline
Memory error decoding, zoned-storage handling, and core kernel fixes headline this update.
Read the updateWeekly briefing · Aug 24–31, 2026
Linux mainline: week of Aug 24
A weekly briefing built from 10 published daily update(s).
Read the updateDaily update · Aug 30–31, 2026
Linux 7.3-rc1: OpenRISC security fix, tracing and I2C corrections
The first 7.3 release candidate is out, along with fixes for an OpenRISC kernel memory access bug, several tracing use-after-free issues, and I2C controller quirks.
Read the updateDaily update · Aug 29–30, 2026
SCSI update: UFS busy-loop fix, mpt3sas NULL deref, libsas rediscover improvements, and compile-time lock checking for SCSI core
Today's mainline SCSI pull fixes a UFS core CPU-wasting busy loop, a mpt3sas crash on partial allocation failure, and several LeapRAID mmap races, while also introducing device-flutter detection in libsas and enabling compiler-based lock context analysis across SCSI core.
Read the updateDaily update · Aug 28–29, 2026
Linux kernel update: f2fs data integrity, AMD GPU stability, USB audio security, and more
A roundup of notable fixes and features from the latest mainline kernel pull, including f2fs corruption fixes, AMD GPU reset handling, USB MIDI security, and new hardware support.
Read the updateWeekly briefing · Aug 17–24, 2026
Linux mainline: week of Aug 17
A weekly briefing built from 10 published daily update(s).
Read the updateDaily update · Aug 25–28, 2026
Linux mainline update: AppArmor security fixes, swap performance, and broad SoC clock support
A busy cycle lands critical AppArmor and IPsec hardening, batched swap I/O, MGLRU improvements, new hardware support, and dozens of stability fixes across networking and power management.
Read the updateDaily update · Aug 27–28, 2026
Networking fixes: TCP urgent data, GSO overflow, and qdisc lockups
A networking-heavy mainline batch fixes TCP urgent-data corruption, GSO segment overflow, qdisc soft lockups, and several use-after-free bugs.
Read the updateDaily update · Aug 26–27, 2026
Mainline fixes: SRv6 stale metadata, AppArmor warning, IRQ refcount leak
Three bug fixes land in mainline, including a security-relevant IPv6 segment routing fix.
Read the updateDaily update · Aug 25–26, 2026
Linux MM: zram fixes, NUMA/shmem balancing, and networking hardening
This cycle's memory-management work spans zram reliability and capacity, NUMA balancing for shmem, MGLRU reclaim fixes, and a batch of networking zero-copy and qdisc hardening.
Read the updateDaily update · Aug 25, 2026
Linux 7.3 merge window: FUSE zero-copy, NTFS WOF, and KVM ARM64 updates
A look at the most interesting changes landing in the 7.3 merge window.
Read the updateDaily update · Aug 24–25, 2026
Linux mainline: FUSE/CIFS zeroing fixes, Bluetooth hardening, Hyper-V cleanup
Today's pull brings filesystem data-integrity fixes, a batch of Bluetooth and SMB security hardening, Hyper-V modernization, and several driver crash fixes.
Read the updateDaily update · Aug 24, 2026
Linux 7.3 merge window: new SoC support, RCU and slab updates
Today's pull requests bring new hardware enablement across pin control, mailbox, PHY, and DMA engine subsystems, plus core memory-management and DMA improvements.
Read the updateDaily update · Aug 23–24, 2026
Linux mainline adds Axiado AX3005 mailbox support
New mailbox driver for the Axiado AX3005 SoC, plus a Btrfs maintainers update.
Read the updateDaily update · Aug 23, 2026
Linux 7.3 merge window: SMB hardening, EFI timeouts, and new I3C support
Highlights from the latest mainline pull requests, including SMB server replay protection, EFI runtime service timeouts, and a new AMD I3C controller driver.
Read the updateDaily update · Aug 22–23, 2026
Networking fixes: SMC memory safety, TCP MSS clamp, and driver corrections
A batch of bug fixes lands across net, net/sched, and Ethernet drivers, addressing use-after-free, divide-by-zero, and DMA mismatches.
Read the updateDaily update · Aug 22, 2026
Perf tooling enhancements and kernel fixes in latest mainline
A batch of perf improvements, exfat data-loss fixes, futex hardening, and an ARM boot fix.
Read the updateDaily update · Aug 21–22, 2026
NTFS gets WOF compression, CIFS maintainer change, and assorted fixes
The in-tree NTFS driver learns to read Compact OS compressed files, CIFS gets a new maintainer, and several driver bugs are fixed.
Read the updateDaily update · Aug 21, 2026
Linux 7.3 merge window: DRM, MM, and virtio updates
A look at the latest mainline kernel changes, from AMD GPU modifiers to Landlock tracepoints.
Read the updateDaily update · Aug 20–21, 2026
Linux kernel update: EFI hang fixes, NTFS hardening, and networking improvements
Today's mainline kernel patches address EFI runtime service hangs, NTFS memory safety, networking bugs, and more.
Read the updateDaily update · Aug 20, 2026
Linux 7.3 merge window: sched_ext hierarchy, filesystem speedups, and io_uring zcrx updates
Highlights from the first batch of 7.3 pull requests.
Read the updateDaily update · Aug 19–20, 2026
NTFS security fixes, virtio stability, and new hardware support
A large batch of NTFS fixes addresses security vulnerabilities and data corruption, while virtio and vhost get reliability improvements, and new PCIe and vDPA hardware support lands.
Read the updateDaily update · Aug 17–18, 2026
Overlayfs idmapping, fchroot(), and a binfmt_misc overhaul
Daily mainline digest: overlayfs learns idmapped mounts, a new fchroot() syscall arrives, binfmt_misc gains BPF and transparent interpreters, and fscrypt moves fully to blk-crypto.
Read the updateWeekly briefing · Aug 10–17, 2026
Linux mainline: week of Aug 10
A weekly briefing built from 6 published daily update(s).
Read the updateDaily update · Aug 16–17, 2026
Linux 7.2 released with TLB workaround, DRBD security fix, and more
A mix of bug fixes and a new command-line option highlight this release, including a critical DRBD security issue, a workaround for a broken Raspberry Pi 5 timer, and a TLB flush control for x86.
Read the updateDaily update · Aug 15–16, 2026
Linux kernel: OpenRISC security fix, Apple M3 I2C, Tegra194 timer updates
A security fix for OpenRISC signal handling plus device-tree corrections for Apple M3 and Tegra194.
Read the updateDaily update · Aug 14–15, 2026
Linux mainline update: DRM scheduler revert, RISC-V fixes, and device driver hardening
A roundup of fixes including a DRM scheduler revert, RISC-V ftrace and string fixes, AMDGPU/Intel Xe stability, Ceph client hardening, and audio device corrections.
Read the updateDaily update · Aug 13–14, 2026
Linux mainline: SCTP LPE and remote UAFs, XDP memory leak, TCP ACK storms, veth GRO stall fixed
Today's mainline updates close a local privilege escalation in SCTP cookie handling, two remotely triggerable SCTP use-after-free bugs, a kernel pointer leak through XDP fragment accounting, and a stack out-of-bounds write in IPVS ICMP tunneling, alongside notable networking stability fixes.
Read the updateDaily update · Aug 12–13, 2026
SCSI error handling: race, deadlock, and scsi_debug fixes
Two SCSI core patches address error-handling hazards; scsi_debug's compare-and-write is fixed.
Read the updateDaily update · Aug 10–11, 2026
Kernel fixes: crypto regressions, regmap sync, and lockdep noise
A batch of mainline bug fixes touches the Crypto API, regmap cache, and rhashtable.
Read the updateWeekly briefing · Aug 3–10, 2026
Linux mainline: week of Aug 3
A weekly briefing built from 7 published daily update(s).
Read the updateDaily update · Aug 9–10, 2026
Tracing subsystem gets a load of fixes as 7.2-rc7 lands
eventfs, ftrace, and ring-buffer all receive corrections for use-after-free conditions, RCU protection gaps, and a self-test crash.
Read the updateDaily update · Aug 8–9, 2026
Linux mainline update: xHCI regression fix, rtl8723bs wireless fixes, RMI4 hardening, and more
Notable fixes across USB, wireless, input, framebuffer, futex, s390 crypto, and Rust builds.
Read the updateDaily update · Aug 7–8, 2026
Mainline driver fixes: AMD GPU, hwmon, watchdogs, and pinctrl
A bug-fix-heavy day: amdgpu JPEG resets and coredump hardening, hwmon correctness fixes, watchdog teardown fixes, and a locally triggerable amxdna crash fix.
Read the updateDaily update · Aug 6–7, 2026
Linux mainline: XFS and SELinux hardening, btrfs fixes, networking and hardware updates
A daily roundup of notable kernel patches, including memory-safety fixes, filesystem reliability improvements, and hardware driver updates.
Read the updateDaily update · Aug 5–6, 2026
Device tree fixes across Qualcomm, Broadcom, and Aspeed land alongside core mm and security fixes
A busy day of hardware description corrections: ESPI interrupt mappings on Qualcomm Glymur, a Raspberry Pi 5 boot hang, an Aspeed LPC snoop kernel memory exposure, and a TLB flush address bug in page table reclaim.
Read the updateDaily update · Aug 4–5, 2026
NFS FREE_STATEID use-after-free, vhost-scsi hardening, and IMA appraise fixes land
Today's mainline pulls in a pinned nfs_server lifetime fix for delayed FREE_STATEID, several vhost/vdpa robustness patches, and IMA integrity fixes for truncation and malformed xattrs.
Read the updateDaily update · Aug 3–4, 2026
PSI, sched_ext deadlock fixes lead the day; KHO, fscrypt idmap, fsverity cleanup follow
Pressure stall info threading gets reworked to drop cgroup_mutex before forking psimon, while sched_ext gains several cgroup locking and task-state fixes.
Read the updateWeekly briefing · Jul 27, 2026 – Aug 3, 2026
Linux mainline: week of Jul 27
A weekly briefing built from 1 published daily update(s).
Read the updateDaily update · Aug 2–3, 2026
Linux 7.2-rc6: RISC-V fixes for high-memory, hot-remove, and boot races
A batch of RISC-V fixes lands in the latest release candidate.
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