#ext4

Weekly briefing · Oct 5–12, 2026

Linux mainline: week of Oct 5

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

Daily 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.

Hardware supportSecurity and hardening

#bluetooth#ethernet-drivers#ext4#raspberry-pi#wifi#wireguard

Daily 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.

Security and hardening

#ext4#fuse#landlock#sysctl#vhost#virtio

Daily 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.

#Btrfs#ext4#io_uring#NVMe#RISC-V#sched_ext