Weekly briefing · Aug 17–24, 2026
Linux mainline: week of Aug 17
A weekly briefing built from 10 published daily update(s).
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New features
Daily updates and weekly briefings tagged with new features.
Daily 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.
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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.
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