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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Daily updates and weekly briefings about acpi.
Daily update · Oct 21, 2026
Linux 7.4 merge window: RCU, timers, ACPI, and legacy uaccess removal
Mainline pulls in removal of __get_user()/__put_user(), RCU callback expansion, PCI/MSI error-recovery handling, and ACPI enumeration changes.
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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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