The full set of videos from the recently concluded Kernel Recipes conference has been posted. Also noteworthy are the associated caricature drawings, by Frank Tizzoni, of attendees and the speakers.

The election for members of the Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board will be held electronically after the close of the upcoming Linux Plumbers Conference. The call for candidates is is open,…

A proposal was posted this week to the Linux kernel mailing list by a Google engineer to make it easier for ARM64 Linux to adjust the kernel stack size. The motivation for doing so to configure the…

The privacy-focused Tails 7.14 release refreshes its core components with Tor Browser 15.0.24, Tor 0.4.9.13, and Linux 6.12.111.

TL;DR Researchers at VUSec have published full details and proof-of-concept code for Branch Target Reuse (BTR), a new Spectre-v2 attack on just-in-time (JIT) compilers. Their end-to-end exploit leaked the Linux root password hash from kernel memory on modern Intel CPUs, bypassing all enabled mitigations. The Linux kernel has patched the issue under CVE-2026-64507 and CVE-2026-64508. Why the Branch Target Reuse Attack Matters…

Ahead of the October ISO refresh of the Arch Linux media, Archinstall 4.5 released today as the newest update to this convenient, text-based Arch Linux installer...

Archinstall 4.5 improves AArch64 installations with GRUB and Limine EFI support, adds RT kernel variants, and delivers several installer fixes.

Andres Freund has a few claims to fame, but chief among them is his many years of work to improve the performance of the PostgreSQL relational database management system. That work requires working…

BPF-based HID drivers have helped to deliver quirks/fixes for different HID devices more quickly than being bound by the conventional kernel cycle. Loading these eBPF programs from user-space have…

Following the FUSE improvements in Linux 7.3 for file-systems in user-space, it looks like the upcoming Linux 7.4 kernel will be ready to enable the large folios feature...

As a professor of biomedical engineering, Martin Uecker perhaps does not fit the profile of a typical presenter at Kernel Recipes. He is, however, a longtime Linux user, and works on free software…

TL;DR Security researchers disclosed a critical Linux container escape flaw affecting the core operating system kernel. The vulnerability allows an unprivileged attacker to break out of isolated environments by triggering a use-after-free condition. Technical details and a functional exploit are now public, leaving unpatched cloud deployments exposed to host takeover. Why It Matters Millions of enterprise servers deploy container engines to isolate microservices.

Those using AMD integrated graphics on Linux such as the beefy Ryzen AI Max+ Strix Halo and Gorgon Halo hardware will be able to enjoy even better performance with the upcoming Linux 7.4 kernel...

After the release of Linux 7.2, which brought many features and improvements across different portions of the Linux kernel, such as hardware support and other improvements, an upcoming version of Linux is in the works. Linux 7.3 RC5 is now live for developers and power users who are willing to try out a pre-release version of Linux that is yet to be released.

The relentless deluge of newly discovered vulnerabilities has intensified to such an extreme degree that Canonical found its historical Ubuntu kernel update rhythm fundamentally inadequate. Consequently, the corporation is aggressively transitioning its stable kernels to a drastically accelerated Stable Release Update (SRU) paradigm. Rather than maintaining the antiquated four-week cycle for standard updates and a segregated two-week cycle for emergency security patches, Canonical is forging a unified, high-velocity, two-week operational process.

The 7.3-rc5 kernel prepatch is out for testing. Linus said: "I don't think there's any real pattern to it other than 'big'. But nothing looks particularly alarming, I think that despite the diffstat…

In working toward the stable Linux 7.3 kernel release hopefully on 18 October, out today is Linux 7.3-rc5 as the newest weekly test candidate...

In addition to the Linux kernel's Zstd compression code being improved, the LZ4 compression code within the kernel tree is also seeing a separate set of enhancements...

Earlier this year developers at LINBIT began working toward a goal of upstreaming ~15 years worth of their Distributed Replicated Block Device changes into the mainline Linux kernel. That major…

In addition to this week's DRM-Misc-Next pull request introducing some new HDMI 2.0 helpers for the DRM drivers, the pull request also introduced improved GPU reset support for the Broadcom V3D GPU…

Every week, new Linux versions that are under a supported version series get released to incorporate bug fixes and other general improvements that are pushed to the servicing branches. This ensures that your Linux user experience gets better when latest versions fix some of the bugs. This week, the below Linux kernel versions under the v7.x series are released: