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Recent LWN.net kernel articles
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recent articles in this area include:
| January 23, 2026 | Filesystem medley: EROFS, NTFS, and XFS |
| January 22, 2026 | Linux Kernel Runtime Guard reaches its 1.0 release |
| January 21, 2026 | Cleanup on aisle fsconfig() |
| January 19, 2026 | Task-level io_uring restrictions |
| January 16, 2026 | A free and open-source rootkit for Linux |
| January 15, 2026 | Removing a pointer dereference from slab allocations |
| January 13, 2026 | A high-level quality-of-service interface |
| January 9, 2026 | READ_ONCE(), WRITE_ONCE(), but not for Rust |
| January 7, 2026 | Lessons from creating a gaming-oriented scheduler |
| January 6, 2026 | Questions for the Technical Advisory Board |
| December 23, 2025 | A high-memory elimination timeline for the kernel |
| December 23, 2025 | Verifier-state pruning in BPF |
| December 19, 2025 | A visualizer for BPF program state |
| December 18, 2025 | Episode 29 of the Dirk and Linus show |
| December 17, 2025 | The Civil Infrastructure Platform after (nearly) ten years |
| December 16, 2025 | 2025 Maintainers Summit development process discussions |
| December 15, 2025 | Better development tools for the kernel |
| December 14, 2025 | The rest of the 6.19 merge window |
| December 13, 2025 | The state of the kernel Rust experiment |
| December 12, 2025 | Best practices for linux-next |
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