2026-06-29 04:08:00
The 7.2-rc1 kernel prepatch is out for
testing. Linus said: "So two weeks have passed, and the merge window is
closed. Things look reasonably normal for this release (knock wood).
"
2026-06-27 21:59:19
The 7.1.2, 7.0.14, and 6.18.37 stable kernel updates have been released; each contains a relatively small number of important fixes. Note that 7.0.14 is the end of the 7.0.x series.
2026-06-27 02:01:46
The Power Management and Scheduling in the Linux Kernel Summit, which still goes by the historical acronym OSPM, was held in Cambridge, UK, in mid-April. As has become traditional, the presenters at that event have since written summaries of their sessions, and this work has kindly been made available to LWN for publication. The third day's sessions covered a wide range of topics, including GPU affinity, profile-guided scheduling, paravirtualization scheduling, quality of service, and more.
2026-06-27 01:14:30
Writeback is the process of ensuring that dirty pages or folios in the page cache are flushed to the disk, so that changes to those files are made persistent. In a filesystem-track session at the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit, Jeff Layton wanted to discuss whether the writeback operation should be initiated earlier than it is today. The consensus seemed to be that it should be done earlier, but the path toward making that happen was less clear.
2026-06-26 22:56:46
Lennart Poettering has posted a list of Mastodon posts about the changes in the systemd v261 release. The Mastodon format makes the reading harder, but there is a lot of useful information there.
2026-06-26 22:03:28
The Git v2.55.0-rc2 testing release appeared on June 23, suggesting that the final Git 2.55 release can be expected in the near future. While this Git update lacks radical new features, it does include a number of improvements that regular Git users will appreciate, including commands to easily edit the commit history, more formatting options, fsmonitor support for Linux, and more.