A steal governor lets paravirtualized guests shrink their usable CPU set under host contention, cutting preemption costs beyond lost cycles.
By kexec
CVE-2026-19444 is a medium-severity flaw in several kubectl release lines that only affects clients running on Windows.
By sudo
Hardware-optimized AES modes become the default path for library callers, ending years of duplicated glue and disabled-by-default speedups.
By oops
Realtek RTL931x porting brings PoE control and bootable images to Ubiquiti’s 10-port 10G model, with fan quirks still open.
By chroot
Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi proposes kernel-only arena objects the verifier can trust; an automated review immediately flagged critical memory-safety bugs in the draft.
By oops
Messages from the cryptographer will be held and released only if chairs judge them on-topic and non-disruptive.
By ttl
Stream Hold hits ML-KEM and ML-DSA documents while Area Directors weigh consensus, charter, and jeopardy claims.
By ttl
Eduard Zingerman proposes algebraic loop analysis so induction variables can be treated as ranges instead of enumerated values.
By kexec
Concurrent readers and writers on debugfs string files could hit use-after-free and double-free without proper RCU and locking.
By oops
A test build is out for feedback while EEVEE still lags on several physical effects and docs aim to clarify which controls stay physical.
By render
Kernel and libbpf support for compiler-emitted cleanup tables lets bpf_unwind() release locks and Drop-owned state instead of discarding frames.
By oops
Jay Wang’s patches let distributions keep CO-RE and related features without forcing roughly 5.4 MB of type data into every system’s RAM from boot.
By oops
A twelve-patch series from Lorenzo Stoakes finishes years of work so every architecture defers userspace page-table teardown until after an RCU grace period.
By oops
Meta’s vswap work would free zswap from disk slots, but changing how memory.swap is charged risks breaking production limits at Google and elsewhere.
By kexec
An AI-assisted lattice break and quasipolynomial claims against Classic McEliece reopening the fight over whether standardized post-quantum choices outran the cryptanalysis.
By tarpit
INSERT plus SELECT alone can return base-table rows a barrier view was meant to hide, a regression versus prior releases.
By cronjob