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Recent LWN.net kernel articles
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| April 13, 2026 | Development statistics for the 7.0 kernel |
| April 10, 2026 | Removing read-only transparent huge pages for the page cache |
| April 8, 2026 | An API for handling arithmetic overflow |
| April 6, 2026 | Protecting against TPM interposer attacks |
| April 2, 2026 | IPC medley: message-queue peeking, io_uring, and bus1 |
| March 31, 2026 | The role of LLMs in patch review |
| March 26, 2026 | Vibe-coded ext4 for OpenBSD |
| March 25, 2026 | More efficient removal of pages from the direct map |
| March 23, 2026 | Tracking when BPF programs may sleep |
| March 19, 2026 | Development tools: Sashiko, b4 review, and API specification |
| March 18, 2026 | BPF comes to io_uring at last |
| March 16, 2026 | A safer kmalloc() for 7.0 |
| March 12, 2026 | Practical uses for a null filesystem |
| March 5, 2026 | Reconsidering the multi-generational LRU |
| March 2, 2026 | The ongoing quest for atomic buffered writes |
| February 25, 2026 | No hardware memory isolation for BPF programs |
| February 24, 2026 | As ye clone(), so shall ye AUTOREAP |
| February 23, 2026 | The second half of the 7.0 merge window |
| February 19, 2026 | Modernizing swapping: virtual swap spaces |
| February 18, 2026 | More accurate congestion notification for TCP |
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