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Linux 7.3: Getting Ready for Zen 6, RGB for the Ryzen AI Halo, and Dozens of Laptops
The Linux 7.3 kernel has picked up a round of x86 platform driver updates: groundwork for AMD's future Zen 6 processors, backlight control for the Ryzen AI Halo mini PC, and a host of new laptops and handheld consoles.
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“KVM Chainsaw”: Cleaning Up the Virtualization Code in Linux 7.3
The Linux 7.3 merge window has accepted the KVM changes: mostly bug fixes and code cleanup, including the breakup of one of the more unwieldy data structures.
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The Linux Kernel Is Nearing 2,000 CVEs per Release — Blame the Neural Nets
As LLMs analyzing the Linux kernel source code have spread, the number of vulnerabilities fixed per release has quadrupled. Greg Kroah-Hartman shared a slide from his upcoming talk at Kernel Recipes 2026.
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Chris Mason Leaves Meta and Steps Down as Btrfs Maintainer
Btrfs creator Chris Mason is wrapping up his work at Meta and formally relinquishing his duties as the project's maintainer, while staying on as a code reviewer.
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Multikernel Linux: multiple kernels on one machine without a hypervisor
The first public release of the multikernel Linux tree, 7.0-mk2, is out. The technology lets you run several independent kernel instances on bare metal, bypassing virtualization, and promises a performance edge over KVM.
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Linux 7.3 Will Guard the System Against Hung EFI Firmware Calls
EFI changes have landed in the in-development Linux 7.3 kernel: firmware runtime-service calls now get a timeout, so that a single “hung” operation can't drag the whole of user space down with it.
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Steve French, longtime SMB maintainer in the Linux kernel, has died
The Linux community has lost Steve French — the man who for many years maintained the SMB filesystem code in the kernel. News of his passing was shared by his longtime friend and colleague Jeremy Allison.
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ReactOS Gains Support for Job Objects — a Step Toward Running Modern Windows Applications
Initial support for Job Objects — a key Windows kernel mechanism required by browsers and other modern software — has been added to the ReactOS codebase.
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Steve French Steps Down as CIFS/SMB3 Maintainer in the Linux Kernel
With the release of Linux 7.3, leadership of the CIFS/SMB3 subsystem changes hands: its long-standing maintainer, Steve French, is leaving the post for health reasons.
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NTFS3 Driver Vulnerability: A Crafted Image Grants Root on Linux
A specially crafted NTFS image on a USB stick lets a local user gain root privileges on Linux. The problem has remained unpatched since early summer.
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Microsoft Defender's Own Driver Turned into a Weapon Against Security Software
Check Point researchers have shown how Windows Defender's built-in bootstrap driver can be used for arbitrary kernel-level operations — up to and including wiping out Defender itself on a Windows 11 machine.
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Torvalds Went Through “Debugging from Hell” — and Admitted AI Helped Him
Linus Torvalds personally committed a fix to the Intel Xe driver after an agonizing debugging session in which, by his own admission, artificial intelligence “helped enormously.”
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Linux 7.3 Networking Maintainers: “Completely Buried” in AI Patches
Networking changes have been accepted into the Linux 7.3 merge window, but the maintainers admit they're drowning in a flood of fixes from AI agents — and they plan to answer it with AI of their own.
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Linux 7.3 Scheduler: a boost for games, hybrid CPUs and lower latency
The Linux 7.3 merge window took in a notable batch of scheduler updates — from speeding up games on old “potato” hardware to more precise load distribution on Intel's hybrid processors.
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Fedora Prepares to Drop AF_ALG in the Linux Kernel
The userspace interface to the Linux kernel's Crypto API, a source of several vulnerabilities, has been declared obsolete. Fedora plans to restrict its use in the next release.
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The Linux 7.3 Kernel Drops EFS and FreeVxFS and Gains FailFS
In the Linux 7.3 development cycle, Linus Torvalds has accepted early pull requests: two ancient file systems have been removed from the kernel, and in their place comes a pseudo-filesystem that refuses to do anything.
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The Linux 7.2 kernel: nearly 600,000 lines of new code
On August 17, Linus Torvalds released the Linux 7.2 kernel — one of the busiest development cycles in the project's history.
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In Linux 7.3, binfmt_misc will learn to pick the interpreter through BPF
The kernel mechanism for launching non-native executables is gaining a programmable interpreter choice — right down to attaching BPF programs that determine the environment for each individual launch.
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Linux 7.2: Cache-Aware Scheduler, Getting Ready for AMD Zen 6, and HDMI 2.1 FRL
The Linux 7.2 kernel release is expected on Sunday, August 16. It will form the basis of Ubuntu 26.10 and other upcoming distributions, and the list of new features includes a new scheduler, support for the latest AMD and Intel hardware, and the first steps toward Apple M3.
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AMD Proposes an eSPI Subsystem for the Linux Kernel
AMD has published patches introducing a new subsystem for the eSPI interface into the Linux kernel, along with a driver for its own hardware.
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