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. Race Conditions Take Center Stage in RC Fixes

    This cycle's fixes converge on a single theme: race conditions and lifetime bugs in core subsystems, from cgroup fork handling to workqueue pool cleanup to scheduler dispatch queues. Multiple maintainers landed targeted fixes for issues…

  2. Cleanup Season Ahead of 7.3

    Merges landing for kernel 7.3 are dominated by teardown and use-after-free fixes across subsystems—I2C, tracing, and Rust tooling—plus a reverted locking change that shows how fragile guard-based cleanup patterns can be.

  3. Weekly Recap - Merge Window Cleanup and Cross-Subsystem Fixes

    This week's tree activity was dominated by late merge-window pulls into 7.3, with I2C, tracing, SCSI, DRM, and ARM subsystems all landing teardown and error-path fixes; a locking regression in spinlock guards was also reverted.

  4. SCSI Layer Gets Context Analysis and a String Function Cleanup

    Martin Petersen's final SCSI pull for the 7.3 merge window brings compile-time lock checking to the SCSI core and UFS, alongside a broad cleanup replacing the deprecated string-concatenation function across the LPFC driver, plus assorted…

  5. Merge Window Wraps With a Hardening Sweep

    Linus pulled fourteen subsystem trees on August 29th, and the dominant thread across drm, ceph, f2fs, UBIFS, sound, and TPM is defensive hardening: bounds checks, use-after-free fixes, and error-path cleanup, alongside targeted arm64…

  6. Networking Denial-of-Service Fixes Take Center Stage

    Today's merges are dominated by security-driven fixes in the networking stack, where two separate root-cause bugs let unprivileged users trigger kernel panics or soft lockups through crafted packets, alongside routine driver and…

  7. Late-Cycle Merge Wave Tightens Up 7.3

    Linus pulled a dense batch of late-stage fixes across NFS, thermal, ACPI, clocks, AppArmor, and power management for the 7.3 cycle, with a heavy emphasis on use-after-free and race-condition fixes rather than new features.

  8. The Merge Window Lands

    This was a massive merge window sweep into the seven-point-three tree, pulling in fixes across remote processor handling, KVM, TTY, USB, and NTFS — with a clear through-line of hardening lifecycle and teardown paths against races,…

  9. Merge Window Opens for 7.3, Confidential Computing and Error-Path Hardening Lead the Way
  10. The Merge Window Hardening Wave
  11. Weekly Recap - Merge Window Hardening Across Subsystems
  12. A Merge Window of Race Conditions and Edge Cases
  13. Merge Window Brings Use-After-Free Fixes Across the Board
  14. The Merge Window Lands
  15. The Great String Function Cleanup
  16. The Great Merge Window Cleanup
  17. The Great Crypto and Filesystem Consolidation
  18. 7.2 Ships With a Wave of Late Fixes
  19. Weekly Recap - Late-Cycle Fixes and a Security Patch for OpenRISC
  20. Late-Cycle Fixes and a Security Patch
  21. Late-Cycle Fixes and a Scheduler Retreat
  22. Late-Cycle Fixes and a Wireless Regression Reversal
  23. SCSI Deadlock and Power Management Fixes
  24. Uprobe Test Fix Lands Late in the RC Cycle
  25. Late-Cycle Fixes for Crypto and Regmap Cache Sorting
  26. Late-Cycle Fixes for Ring Buffer and Zcrypt Memory Safety
  27. Weekly Recap - Late-Cycle Fixes Across the Stack
  28. Pre-Release Hardening Push for 7.2
  29. The Late-Cycle Fixes Convergence
  30. Late-Cycle Race Conditions Take Center Stage
  31. A Quiet Memory Management Fix With Sharp Teeth
  32. Late-Cycle Security Fixes Converge on Release Candidate
  33. Late-Cycle Locking and Lifecycle Fixes
  34. RC6 Security and Stability Sweep
  35. Weekly Recap - Late-Cycle Fixes and Race Condition Cleanup
  36. I2C Driver Fixes Land for RC6
  37. A Week of Race Conditions and Resource Leaks
  38. Late Cycle Fix Wave Across Subsystems
  39. A Security Hole in Nested Virtualization
  40. Late-Cycle Fixes Converge on Btrfs Zoned Mode
  41. Late-Cycle Hotfix Sweep
  42. RC5 Fixes Sweep Across the Stack
  43. Weekly Recap - Late-Cycle Fixes Across the Stack
  44. Late-Cycle Fixes Roll In Ahead of 7.2
  45. A Release Candidate Full of Hardening Fixes
  46. Rc4 Cleanup Brings Memory Safety Fixes Across Networking and File Sharing
  47. Late-Cycle Fixes Converge on Rc5
  48. Late-Cycle Fixes Converge on Safety Checks
  49. Memory Management Hotfixes Land
  50. Release Candidate 4 Steadies the Ship
  51. Weekly Recap - Late-Cycle Fixes Across Storage, Graphics, and Security
  52. Late-Cycle Fix Wave Across Subsystems
  53. Display Timing Fixes and a Server-Side Security Sweep
  54. Release Candidate Cleanup Across the Board
  55. Testing Infrastructure Fixes Land for 7.2
  56. Late-Cycle Fixes Land for Sound and Btrfs
  57. Late-Cycle Cleanup as 7.2 Nears Release
  58. The RC3 Security Sweep
  59. Weekly Recap - Late-Cycle Fix Convergence Across Subsystems
  60. Late-Cycle Bug Sweep Across Storage and Core Subsystems
  61. A Week of Race Conditions and Bounds Checks
  62. Session Security and Network Hardening
  63. Memory Management Hotfix Sweep
  64. RC2 Cleanup Wave
  65. Weekly Recap - Post-Merge Window Fixes Across the Stack
  66. Two Architecture Fix Pulls Land
  67. Merge Window Cleanup Hits Use-After-Free Bugs Across the Stack
  68. Breaking Up the Device ID Header Monolith
  69. Low-Level Architecture Overhaul
  70. Weekly Recap - Timer Infrastructure Modernization
  71. Late-Cycle Maintainer Transition and Hardware Fixes
  72. Memory Safety and Resource Management Fixes
  73. Release Candidate Stabilization Push
  74. Security Fix and Late-Stage Bug Resolution
  75. Critical Memory Safety and Validation Fixes
  76. Hyperv Stability and Build Fixes
  77. Critical Locking and Timer Fixes
  78. Weekly Recap - Security and Stability Hardening
  79. Release Candidate Seven Stabilization
  80. Graphics Security and Race Condition Fixes
  81. Network Stack Security and Race Condition Fixes
  82. Memory Management and Firmware Stability Fixes
  83. Cache Policy Race Condition and Minor Subsystem Updates
  84. Security and Buffer Safety Focus
  85. Weekly Recap - Security and Driver Stability Focus
  86. Critical Security and Memory Management Fixes
  87. Critical Filesystem and Device Mapper Fixes
  88. Weekly Recap - Stability & Hardware Support
  89. Graphics Drivers and Platform Fixes
  90. Critical Filesystem and RCU Fixes
  91. Storage and Memory Subsystem Fixes
  92. VFS Fixes and Performance Tool Updates
  93. Critical Security and Stability Fixes in RC4
  94. Graphics and Core System Fixes
  95. KVM Virtualization Fixes and Live Update Patches
  96. Probes Subsystem Fixes
  97. KUnit Testing Fixes and Critical Task Exit Bug
  98. Bug Fixes and Driver Updates
  99. Networking and Audio Fixes for RC3
  100. Critical Subsystem Fixes for RC3

Episode archive for Linux Kernel

  1. Spring Cleaning & Bug Squashing Bonanza
  2. RC2 Stability Fixes for v7.1
  3. Critical KVM and Scheduler Fixes
  4. Weekly Recap - Audio and SPI Driver Stability
  5. RTC Updates and Driver Fixes
  6. Spring Merge Window Fixes
  7. Major Subsystem Updates and Driver Cleanup
  8. S390 Architecture Updates and Auth Protocol Fixes
  9. Weekly Recap - Driver Updates & Memory Management
  10. Memory Management and Driver Updates
  11. Pin Control Updates and Network Driver Fixes
  12. Major NTFS Revival and BPF Security Fixes
  13. Major Subsystem Updates and BPF Token Fixes
  14. Major ARM64 Updates and Security Enhancements
  15. Weekly Recap - SMB Security & Protocol Improvements
  16. Network Bridge STP Enhancements and BPF Static Analysis
  17. Weekly Recap - Memory Management and Architecture Fixes
  18. Gaming Controllers and Touch Fixes
  19. Release Candidate Cleanup - Polishing the Diamond
  20. The Great Stabilization - 25 Critical Fixes Land
  21. Race Condition Cleanup Day
  22. Spring Cleaning & Security Fixes
  23. The Great Stability Sprint - Thirteen Critical Fixes Land
  24. Security Hardening and Stability Fixes
  25. Spring Cleaning Brings Rock-Solid Stability
  26. Power Management & Security Hardening Sprint
  27. The Great RCU Rescue Mission
  28. Spring Cleaning Season - Fixes Galore!
  29. Spring Cleaning - Bug Fixes and System Hardening
  30. Hardware Heroes and Bug Busters
  31. Spring Cleaning in the Graphics Stack
  32. Network Security & Stability Spring Cleaning
  33. Spring Cleaning - Bug Squashing and Security Hardening
  34. Btrfs Gets Some Love with Quality-of-Life Fixes
  35. Spring Cleaning and Rust Reality Check
  36. Friday Fix Fest - DRM, Performance Tools, and Stability Patches
  37. Security Lockdown and System Stability
  38. PowerPC Fixes and Remote Processor Repairs
  39. Security Cleanup Day
  40. RC3 Stability Push - EFI Memory Fixes and I2C Lock Reverts
  41. The Big Fix Weekend
  42. Bug Hunt Success - 22 Critical Fixes Land
  43. Spring Cleaning and Bug Squashing
  44. Fixing the Foundation - When Stability Takes Center Stage
  45. Linux 6.19 Ships with Critical I2C Fix
  46. Last-Minute Fixes and a Changing of the Guard
  47. Critical Bug Hunt Success
  48. Sound & Build System Spring Cleaning
  49. The Polish Phase - Bug Squashing and Rust Refinements
  50. Pin Control Cleanup Day
  51. DMA Security Tightened
  52. VFS Spring Cleaning - Fixes Galore and Stability Wins
  53. Linux 6.19-RC7: The Final Polish
  54. The Great Kernel Fix-Up - 18 Merges of Refinement
  55. Network Fixes and Security Hardening
  56. Memory Management Deep Dive
  57. The Great Cleanup - When 18 Fixes Tell a Story
  58. Cleanup Day - When Maintenance Makes Everything Better
  59. Kernel Fix-a-Palooza
  60. The Great Fix-It Friday - When Reversing Course is Progress

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