Weekly briefing · Oct 19–26, 2026
Linux mainline: week of Oct 19
A weekly briefing built from 9 published daily update(s).
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Security and hardening
Daily updates and weekly briefings tagged with security and hardening.
Daily update · Oct 20–21, 2026
Linux Kernel Daily: Security Hardening, Filesystem Fixes, and New Hardware Support
Today's mainline kernel changes include SELinux policy hardening, XFS and btrfs reliability fixes, faster AES and RAID XOR, and initial Arm RMM support.
Read the updateDaily update · Oct 19–20, 2026
Richer coredumps, faster opens, and io_uring hardening land in mainline
Structured sparse coredumps, close_range() cleanup flags, XFS/iomap fixes, and reduced sysfs/cgroupfs stalls headline this mainline update.
Read the updateWeekly briefing · Oct 5–12, 2026
Linux mainline: week of Oct 5
A weekly briefing built from 7 published daily update(s).
Read the updateDaily update · Oct 9–10, 2026
Linux kernel: mount namespace hardening, audio fixes, and platform reliability
Mount namespace locking, fs-verity use-after-free, a wave of audio quirks, plus PCIe and Xen fixes.
Read the updateDaily update · Oct 8–9, 2026
Linux mainline update: WireGuard handshake fix, ASUS Wi-Fi power restored, ext4 data=journal deprecated
A networking-heavy day in mainline: the kernel stops sending uninitialized bytes onto the wire, MediaTek Wi-Fi gets a batch of fixes, Raspberry Pi Ethernet crashes are patched, and Intel SR-IOV bonding sheds a 10-second stall.
Read the updateWeekly briefing · Sep 28, 2026 – Oct 5, 2026
Linux mainline: week of Sep 28
A weekly briefing built from 5 published daily update(s).
Read the updateDaily update · Oct 3–4, 2026
Kernel update: Thunderbolt stability, AMD display fixes, and new hardware support
A roundup of today's mainline kernel changes, including security hardening, USB/Thunderbolt fixes, and expanded hardware compatibility.
Read the updateDaily update · Oct 2–3, 2026
Linux kernel: NVMe, SMB/CIFS, BPF, TPM, and audio fixes
A broad set of mainline fixes improves storage reliability, BPF/TPM security, confidential VM boot, and audio support.
Read the updateWeekly briefing · Sep 21–28, 2026
Linux mainline: week of Sep 21
A weekly briefing built from 7 published daily update(s).
Read the updateDaily update · Sep 26–27, 2026
Mainline kernel: PCI BAR fixes, KVM hardening, AMD SATA suspend fix
Bug fixes and security hardening for PCIe, KVM, AMD platforms, and ATA storage.
Read the updateDaily update · Sep 25–26, 2026
Linux mainline update: security hardening, GPU corrections, and filesystem reliability
A roundup of today's kernel changes: security fixes for BPF, SMB, and IPE; GPU stability patches; and filesystem/storage improvements.
Read the updateDaily update · Sep 24–25, 2026
Linux mainline update: Bluetooth and BPF security hardening, networking fixes, new hardware support
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.
Read the updateWeekly briefing · Sep 14–21, 2026
Linux mainline: week of Sep 14
A weekly briefing built from 7 published daily update(s).
Read the updateDaily update · Sep 18–19, 2026
Linux kernel: SMB security fixes, GPU driver updates, and platform stability
Today's mainline patches harden SMB and SCSI paths, correct AMD/Adreno/Nouveau GPU behavior, and fix hibernation, watchdog, and board-level issues.
Read the updateDaily update · Sep 17–18, 2026
Linux kernel daily: networking, WiFi, Bluetooth, and USB audio fixes
A roundup of today's mainline kernel changes, covering memory-safety fixes, wireless and Bluetooth reliability, USB audio stability, and more.
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.
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