Daily updates and weekly briefings tagged with bug fixes.
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.
Bug fixesHardware support
#ata#cxl#hwmon#i2c#led#tpm
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Weekly briefing · Oct 19–26, 2026
A weekly briefing built from 9 published daily update(s).
Bug fixesHardware supportPerformanceSecurity and hardening
#ACPI#confidential-computing#execve#ksmbd#KVM#RCU#sched_ext#vfs
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Daily 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.
Bug fixes
#EFI#FireWire#GPIO#MTD#NVMe#SCSI
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Daily update · Oct 23, 2026
Mainline picks up BPF verifier loop analysis, KVM pKVM state isolation, memory-management work, and several correctness fixes.
Bug fixes
#BPF#ftrace#KVM#livepatching#memory management#powerpc
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Daily update · Oct 22, 2026
Workqueue, LSM, and sched_ext pull requests lead this batch, along with fixes for cgroup hangs, Alpha FP emulation, and key address leaks.
Bug fixes
#cgroup#Landlock#sched_ext#security#workqueue
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Weekly briefing · Oct 12–19, 2026
A weekly briefing built from 6 published daily update(s).
Bug fixesHardware support
#bootconfig#gpu#I2C#netlink#nios2#regmap#sched_ext#UMIP
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Daily update · Oct 18–19, 2026
A broad round of mainline fixes hardens iSCSI handling, fixes CPU hotplug event migration, and addresses several I2C/SPI/regmap driver bugs.
Bug fixes
#I2C#perf#regmap#scheduler#SCSI#SPI
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Daily update · Oct 17–18, 2026
A shadowed loop variable broke FS/GS override detection and could hang tasks during UMIP emulation of SGDT/SIDT/SMSW instructions.
Bug fixes
#instruction decoder#UMIP#x86
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Daily update · Oct 15–16, 2026
A bug-fix-heavy daily update with Ethernet driver fixups, sched_ext/Hyper-V reliability changes, netlink hardening, and Tegra264 device-tree additions.
Bug fixesHardware support
#Hyper-V#KVM#netlink#PHY#sched_ext#Tegra
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Daily update · Oct 14–15, 2026
A small crypto update fixes a lost-carry bug in the ARM64 NEON Poly1305 path and adds a regression test.
Bug fixes
#ARM64#crypto#KUnit#Poly1305
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Daily update · Oct 13–14, 2026
Battery driver corrections, AMD AVIC cleanup, MMIO cache handling, and a turbostat reliability batch are in today's commits.
Bug fixes
#bootconfig#KVM#nios2#power-supply#turbostat
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Weekly briefing · Oct 5–12, 2026
A weekly briefing built from 7 published daily update(s).
Bug fixesHardware supportSecurity and hardening
#device-mapper#ext4#mount namespaces#NVMe#SELinux#SPI#wifi#wireguard
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Daily update · Oct 11–12, 2026
A wide fix batch covers RISC-V errata and ptrace issues, io_uring memlock and restriction fallout, NVMe ZNS and multipath fixes, SPI clock/status bugs, plus XFS and regulator corrections.
Bug fixes
#io_uring#NVMe#regulator#RISC-V#SPI#XFS
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Daily update · Oct 10–11, 2026
A large DRM-focused batch addresses crashes, hangs, memory leaks and display timing issues across a dozen GPU drivers, plus a couple of I2C and EDAC fixes.
Bug fixesHardware support
#AMDGPU#DRM#Nouveau#Panthor#vc4#Xe
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Daily update · Oct 9–10, 2026
Mount namespace locking, fs-verity use-after-free, a wave of audio quirks, plus PCIe and Xen fixes.
Bug fixesHardware supportSecurity and hardening
#audio drivers#device quirks#filesystem security#mount namespaces#PCIe AER#Xen dom0
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Daily update · Oct 7–8, 2026
A large set of fixes touches dm-integrity/dm-crypt, Btrfs io_uring and xattr paths, Qualcomm clocks and device trees, plus GPIO, TEE, and memory-management edge cases.
Bug fixes
#Btrfs#device-mapper#GPIO#memory-management#Qualcomm#TEE
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Daily update · Oct 6–7, 2026
A round of fixes for sched_ext, cpuset, workqueue, and libata, including CPU hotplug and workqueue NULL-pointer issues.
Bug fixes
#CPU hotplug#cpuset#libata#sched_ext#workqueue
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Daily update · Oct 5–6, 2026
Linux patches address race conditions in SELinux and key management, fix NFS labeling on remounts, and enable Braille consoles on newer serial drivers.
Bug fixes
#accessibility#Braille#keyrings#NFS#SELinux
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Weekly briefing · Sep 28, 2026 – Oct 5, 2026
A weekly briefing built from 5 published daily update(s).
Bug fixesHardware supportSecurity and hardening
#ARC#ARM64#Hardware support#i2c#KVM#RTC#SPI-NAND#x86
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Daily update · Oct 4–5, 2026
Release candidate includes a perf text-poke security fix, an x86 hugetlb alignment fix, and SMBus PEC corrections.
Bug fixes
#futex#hrtimer#i2c#perf#x86
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Daily update · Oct 2–3, 2026
A broad set of mainline fixes improves storage reliability, BPF/TPM security, confidential VM boot, and audio support.
Bug fixesSecurity and hardening
#BPF#Confidential VMs#NVMe#SMB/CIFS#TPM#USB audio
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Daily update · Oct 1–2, 2026
A roundup of notable fixes merged into the Linux mainline kernel, covering WiFi security, KVM stability, Bluetooth races, and driver issues.
Bug fixesHardware support
#Bluetooth#Drivers#KVM#Networking#Security#WiFi
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Daily update · Sep 29–30, 2026
A batch of notable fixes across the MTD subsystem, plus RTC, memory management, module loader, and ARC patches.
Bug fixes
#ARC#mm#module#MTD#RTC#SPI-NAND
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Weekly briefing · Sep 21–28, 2026
A weekly briefing built from 7 published daily update(s).
Bug fixesHardware supportPerformanceSecurity and hardening
#filesystems#hibernation#KVM#log recovery#online repair#pinctrl#remoteproc#SATA
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Daily update · Sep 27–28, 2026
Cache-aware scheduler fixes and Intel PEBS corrections land in 7.3-rc5.
Bug fixes
#AMD#Intel#perf#release#scheduler#x86
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Daily update · Sep 26–27, 2026
Bug fixes and security hardening for PCIe, KVM, AMD platforms, and ATA storage.
Bug fixesSecurity and hardening
#AMD#DMA#KVM#PCIe#SATA
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Daily update · Sep 25–26, 2026
A roundup of today's kernel changes: security fixes for BPF, SMB, and IPE; GPU stability patches; and filesystem/storage improvements.
Bug fixesPerformanceSecurity and hardening
#bpf#filesystems#gpu#hibernation#security#smb
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Daily update · Sep 24–25, 2026
A sweeping set of Bluetooth vulnerability fixes, BPF verifier and privilege-gating improvements, network stack security patches, and driver additions highlight today's mainline activity.
Bug fixesHardware supportSecurity and hardening
#bluetooth#bpf-verifier#hardware-support#kernel-hardening#network-security#sched_ext
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Daily update · Sep 23–24, 2026
A mainline update with pinctrl fixes for Allwinner, Qualcomm, and Tegra, plus arm64 trap and parisc reliability fixes.
Bug fixes
#Allwinner#arm64#parisc#pinctrl#Qualcomm#Tegra
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Daily update · Sep 22–23, 2026
A wave of HID bug fixes and device IDs, along with Qualcomm remoteproc, memory-management, and s390 crypto fixes.
Bug fixesHardware support
#DAMON#HID#hugetlb#remoteproc#s390
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Daily update · Sep 21–22, 2026
A large batch of XFS bug fixes covers online scrub/repair, realtime metadata, quota, and log recovery.
Bug fixes
#log recovery#online repair#quota#realtime#scrub#XFS
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Weekly briefing · Sep 14–21, 2026
A weekly briefing built from 7 published daily update(s).
Bug fixesHardware supportSecurity and hardening
#DMA#jiffies#RAID#RDMA#sched_ext#SELinux#watchdog#Wine compatibility
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Daily update · Sep 20–21, 2026
A roundup of meaningful changes from the latest Linux kernel development, including SELinux, input device support, and core kernel fixes.
Bug fixesHardware support
#DMA#futex#input devices#Qualcomm Wi-Fi#SELinux#Wine compatibility
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Daily update · Sep 19–20, 2026
A batch of Btrfs fixes addresses a zoned-mode allocation hang, device-replace use-after-free, verity cleanup failures, and a statfs compatibility regression.
Bug fixes
#Btrfs#device-replace#RAID#statfs#verity#zoned
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Daily update · Sep 16–17, 2026
Three targeted patches harden PowerPC KVM and IOMMU paths.
Bug fixes
#IOMMU#KVM#nested virtualization#PowerPC
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Daily update · Sep 15–16, 2026
BPF scheduler fixes lead today's batch, with cgroup and sysctl corrections.
Bug fixes
#BPF#cgroup#jiffies#sched_ext#sysctl
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Weekly briefing · Sep 7–14, 2026
A weekly briefing built from 7 published daily update(s).
Bug fixesHardware supportSecurity and hardening
#ALSA#fuse#kallsyms#PCI#RISC-V#THP#virtio#xfs
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Daily update · Sep 13–14, 2026
Stability and security fixes across memory management, scheduler, boot, and hardware support.
Bug fixes
#bootconfig#EEVDF#Intel IPU6#MADV_FREE#MediaTek WiFi#THP
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Daily update · Sep 12–13, 2026
A round of XFS, btrfs, and erofs fixes; AMD IOMMU and PowerPC corrections; and kallsyms/kbuild cleanups.
Bug fixesSecurity and hardening
#btrfs#erofs#IOMMU#kallsyms#PowerPC#xfs
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Daily update · Sep 8–9, 2026
Syscall entry, EEH recovery, kexec ranges, PS3 build, AMD MCE storm handling, and ARIA vzeroupper fixes.
Bug fixes
#AMD#crypto#kexec#PCI#PowerPC#syscall
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Daily update · Sep 7–8, 2026
Intel PT and PowerPC sample fixes, plus a configfs symlink vs rmdir race fix.
Bug fixes
#configfs#Intel PT#perf#PowerPC#race condition
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Weekly briefing · Aug 31, 2026 – Sep 7, 2026
A weekly briefing built from 7 published daily update(s).
Bug fixesHardware supportPerformanceSecurity and hardening
#arm64#build system#data-corruption#ntfs#sctp#virtio-gpu#workqueue#xhci
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Daily update · Sep 6–7, 2026
A wave of BPF security fixes closes verifier bypasses, while USB, scheduler, tracing, and PREEMPT_RT subsystems receive critical correctness and performance fixes.
Bug fixesPerformanceSecurity and hardening
#bpf-verifier#preempt-rt#scheduler#security-hardening#tracing#xhci
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Daily update · Sep 3–4, 2026
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.
Bug fixesSecurity and hardening
#bluetooth-l2cap#dm-integrity#ntfs#sctp#secretmem#tcp-use-after-free
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Daily update · Sep 1–2, 2026
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.
Bug fixes
#data-corruption#fallocate#ksmbd#security#SMB
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Daily update · Aug 31, 2026 – Sep 1, 2026
Memory error decoding, zoned-storage handling, and core kernel fixes headline this update.
Bug fixes
#cgroup#EDAC#sched_ext#workqueue#XFS
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Weekly briefing · Aug 24–31, 2026
A weekly briefing built from 10 published daily update(s).
Bug fixesHardware supportSecurity and hardening
#I2C#NTFS#pinctrl#SCSI#security#stmmac#swap-performance#TCP
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Daily update · Aug 30–31, 2026
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.
Bug fixes
#ARM#I2C#OpenRISC#Rust#security#tracing
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Daily update · Aug 29–30, 2026
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.
Bug fixesSecurity and hardening
#LeapRAID#lock-analysis#mpt3sas#SAS#SCSI#UFS
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Weekly briefing · Aug 17–24, 2026
A weekly briefing built from 10 published daily update(s).
New featuresBug fixesHardware supportPerformanceSecurity and hardeningDeveloper changes
#fsync#mailbox#MTD#ntfs#pcie#security#TPM#xe
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Daily update · Aug 25–28, 2026
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.
Bug fixesHardware supportSecurity and hardening
#apparmor#bluetooth#clock-drivers#ipsec#mglru#swap-performance
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Daily update · Aug 27–28, 2026
A networking-heavy mainline batch fixes TCP urgent-data corruption, GSO segment overflow, qdisc soft lockups, and several use-after-free bugs.
Bug fixes
#netfilter#qdisc#security#stmmac#TCP
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Daily update · Aug 26–27, 2026
Three bug fixes land in mainline, including a security-relevant IPv6 segment routing fix.
Bug fixes
#AppArmor#ARM#device tree#IPv6#IRQ#SRv6
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Daily update · Aug 24–25, 2026
Today's pull brings filesystem data-integrity fixes, a batch of Bluetooth and SMB security hardening, Hyper-V modernization, and several driver crash fixes.
Bug fixesSecurity and hardening
#AF_XDP#Bluetooth#CIFS/SMB#erofs#FUSE#Hyper-V
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Daily update · Aug 23, 2026
Highlights from the latest mainline pull requests, including SMB server replay protection, EFI runtime service timeouts, and a new AMD I3C controller driver.
Bug fixes
#EFI#I3C#kexec#MTD#s390#SMB
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Daily update · Aug 22–23, 2026
A batch of bug fixes lands across net, net/sched, and Ethernet drivers, addressing use-after-free, divide-by-zero, and DMA mismatches.
Bug fixes
#memory safety#networking#page_pool#qdisc#SMC#TCP
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Daily update · Aug 22, 2026
A batch of perf improvements, exfat data-loss fixes, futex hardening, and an ARM boot fix.
Bug fixesSecurity and hardening
#ARM#exfat#futex#hardening#perf#scheduler
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Daily update · Aug 21–22, 2026
The in-tree NTFS driver learns to read Compact OS compressed files, CIFS gets a new maintainer, and several driver bugs are fixed.
New featuresBug fixes
#ACPI#bnxt#CIFS#drm/xe#NTFS#TPM
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Daily update · Aug 21, 2026
A look at the latest mainline kernel changes, from AMD GPU modifiers to Landlock tracepoints.
Bug fixes
#AMD#Landlock#MM#SCSI#virtio#xe
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Daily update · Aug 20–21, 2026
Today's mainline kernel patches address EFI runtime service hangs, NTFS memory safety, networking bugs, and more.
Bug fixesHardware supportPerformanceSecurity and hardening
#EFI#filesystems#hardware support#networking#performance#security
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