Linux Kernel

Daily updates from the world's most important open source project. Track kernel development, driver updates, and security patches.

About this developer podcast

Linux Kernel turns GitHub activity into short audio updates.

Episodes cover commits, pull requests, issues, and release work.

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Recent episodes from Linux Kernel

  1. Display Timing Fixes and a Server-Side Security Sweep

    Today's merges center on two reliability fronts: a rework of AMD's display interrupt handling to fix flip and vblank timing bugs, and a batch of ksmbd fixes closing memory-safety and information-disclosure holes in SMB request handling.

  2. Release Candidate Cleanup Across the Board

    This is a classic late-rc merge window — seven pull requests, all fixes, spanning file systems, virtualization, power management, and security, with no new features. The common thread is hardening existing code ahead of release rather…

  3. Testing Infrastructure Fixes Land for 7.2

    Two merges from Shuah Khan tighten up the kernel's self-testing tools, fixing a broken warning suppression check for kunit modules and cleaning up flaky tracing and ftrace selftests ahead of the 7.2-rc4 release.

  4. Late-Cycle Fixes Land for Sound and Btrfs

    Two late-cycle pull requests landed on the mainline tree: a broad sound subsystem fix batch covering USB-audio, HD-audio, and ASoC quirks, and a btrfs fix set focused on data integrity during relocation and validation of on-disk…

  5. Late-Cycle Cleanup as 7.2 Nears Release

    As the 7.2 release candidate matures, five merge commits from Linus Torvalds pull in targeted fixes across scheduler, RDMA, cgroup, and NFS subsystems, with a clear focus on use-after-free bugs and lifecycle correctness rather than new…

  6. The RC3 Security Sweep

    The lead-up to Linux 7.2-rc3 was dominated by memory-safety fixes across staging, USB, tracing, and TPM subsystems, with several out-of-bounds reads, use-after-frees, and a positional-I/O security hole all addressed in the same window.

  7. Weekly Recap - Late-Cycle Fix Convergence Across Subsystems

    This week's activity was entirely maintenance: ten pull requests merged by Linus Torvalds into the 7.2-rc3 cycle, covering staging, char-misc, tty, USB, s390, RISC-V, tracing, device mapper, block, and io_uring. The pattern is a classic…

  8. Late-Cycle Bug Sweep Across Storage and Core Subsystems

    This cycle's merge window closed with a wave of fix-only pulls covering device mapper, block, io_uring, input, perf, x86, and timers, most notably a large device mapper batch addressing memory safety bugs found through Claude Opus 4.6…

  9. A Week of Race Conditions and Bounds Checks
  10. Session Security and Network Hardening
  11. Memory Management Hotfix Sweep
  12. RC2 Cleanup Wave
  13. Weekly Recap - Post-Merge Window Fixes Across the Stack
  14. Two Architecture Fix Pulls Land
  15. Merge Window Cleanup Hits Use-After-Free Bugs Across the Stack
  16. Breaking Up the Device ID Header Monolith
  17. Low-Level Architecture Overhaul
  18. Weekly Recap - Timer Infrastructure Modernization
  19. Late-Cycle Maintainer Transition and Hardware Fixes
  20. Memory Safety and Resource Management Fixes
  21. Release Candidate Stabilization Push
  22. Security Fix and Late-Stage Bug Resolution
  23. Critical Memory Safety and Validation Fixes
  24. Hyperv Stability and Build Fixes
  25. Critical Locking and Timer Fixes
  26. Weekly Recap - Security and Stability Hardening
  27. Release Candidate Seven Stabilization
  28. Graphics Security and Race Condition Fixes
  29. Network Stack Security and Race Condition Fixes
  30. Memory Management and Firmware Stability Fixes
  31. Cache Policy Race Condition and Minor Subsystem Updates
  32. Security and Buffer Safety Focus
  33. Weekly Recap - Security and Driver Stability Focus
  34. Critical Security and Memory Management Fixes
  35. Critical Filesystem and Device Mapper Fixes
  36. Weekly Recap - Stability & Hardware Support
  37. Graphics Drivers and Platform Fixes
  38. Critical Filesystem and RCU Fixes
  39. Storage and Memory Subsystem Fixes
  40. VFS Fixes and Performance Tool Updates
  41. Critical Security and Stability Fixes in RC4
  42. Graphics and Core System Fixes
  43. KVM Virtualization Fixes and Live Update Patches
  44. Probes Subsystem Fixes
  45. KUnit Testing Fixes and Critical Task Exit Bug
  46. Bug Fixes and Driver Updates
  47. Networking and Audio Fixes for RC3
  48. Critical Subsystem Fixes for RC3
  49. Spring Cleaning & Bug Squashing Bonanza
  50. RC2 Stability Fixes for v7.1
  51. Critical KVM and Scheduler Fixes
  52. Weekly Recap - Audio and SPI Driver Stability
  53. RTC Updates and Driver Fixes
  54. Spring Merge Window Fixes
  55. Major Subsystem Updates and Driver Cleanup
  56. S390 Architecture Updates and Auth Protocol Fixes
  57. Weekly Recap - Driver Updates & Memory Management
  58. Memory Management and Driver Updates
  59. Pin Control Updates and Network Driver Fixes
  60. Major NTFS Revival and BPF Security Fixes
  61. Major Subsystem Updates and BPF Token Fixes
  62. Major ARM64 Updates and Security Enhancements
  63. Weekly Recap - SMB Security & Protocol Improvements
  64. Network Bridge STP Enhancements and BPF Static Analysis
  65. Weekly Recap - Memory Management and Architecture Fixes
  66. Gaming Controllers and Touch Fixes
  67. Release Candidate Cleanup - Polishing the Diamond
  68. The Great Stabilization - 25 Critical Fixes Land
  69. Race Condition Cleanup Day
  70. Spring Cleaning & Security Fixes
  71. The Great Stability Sprint - Thirteen Critical Fixes Land
  72. Security Hardening and Stability Fixes
  73. Spring Cleaning Brings Rock-Solid Stability
  74. Power Management & Security Hardening Sprint
  75. The Great RCU Rescue Mission
  76. Spring Cleaning Season - Fixes Galore!
  77. Spring Cleaning - Bug Fixes and System Hardening
  78. Hardware Heroes and Bug Busters
  79. Spring Cleaning in the Graphics Stack
  80. Network Security & Stability Spring Cleaning
  81. Spring Cleaning - Bug Squashing and Security Hardening
  82. Btrfs Gets Some Love with Quality-of-Life Fixes
  83. Spring Cleaning and Rust Reality Check
  84. Friday Fix Fest - DRM, Performance Tools, and Stability Patches
  85. Security Lockdown and System Stability
  86. PowerPC Fixes and Remote Processor Repairs
  87. Security Cleanup Day
  88. RC3 Stability Push - EFI Memory Fixes and I2C Lock Reverts
  89. The Big Fix Weekend
  90. Bug Hunt Success - 22 Critical Fixes Land
  91. Spring Cleaning and Bug Squashing
  92. Fixing the Foundation - When Stability Takes Center Stage
  93. Linux 6.19 Ships with Critical I2C Fix
  94. Last-Minute Fixes and a Changing of the Guard
  95. Critical Bug Hunt Success
  96. Sound & Build System Spring Cleaning
  97. The Polish Phase - Bug Squashing and Rust Refinements
  98. Pin Control Cleanup Day
  99. DMA Security Tightened
  100. VFS Spring Cleaning - Fixes Galore and Stability Wins

Episode archive for Linux Kernel

  1. Linux 6.19-RC7: The Final Polish
  2. The Great Kernel Fix-Up - 18 Merges of Refinement
  3. Network Fixes and Security Hardening
  4. Memory Management Deep Dive
  5. The Great Cleanup - When 18 Fixes Tell a Story
  6. Cleanup Day - When Maintenance Makes Everything Better
  7. Kernel Fix-a-Palooza
  8. The Great Fix-It Friday - When Reversing Course is Progress

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