Linux Kernel Daily

Daily summaries of Linux kernel development, from subsystems and drivers to performance and architecture changes.

About this developer podcast

Linux Kernel Daily 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 Daily

  1. Display Fixes and a Hidden Security Cleanup

    Linus pulled a batch of SMB server security fixes and a large DRM fixes wave dominated by AMD display interrupt handling changes, plus an ATA fix for a Designware SATA controller. The common thread is hardening: closing race windows and…

  2. Late Cycle Fixes Converge on Data Integrity

    This late-stage 7.2 release cycle brought a wave of correctness fixes across filesystems and virtualization, with XFS, SMB client, KVM, and EROFS all patching bugs that could lead to data corruption, stale state, or crashes under…

  3. Testing Infrastructure Cleanup

    Linus Torvalds pulled two fix batches from Shuah Khan covering kernel self-test reliability and a warning suppression bug affecting kunit when built as a loadable module.

  4. Late-Cycle Fixes Land in Sound and Btrfs

    Two merge commits from Linus Torvalds bring in a batch of release-cycle fixes: hardware-specific sound quirks and hardening work in Btrfs around transaction handling and data validation. Both point to the usual late-rc pattern of…

  5. The RC3 Cleanup Wave

    Five merges landed as Linux 7.2 heads into late release candidates, and nearly all of them are lifecycle and race-condition fixes—use-after-frees, uninitialized values, and stale state cleanup across scheduling, RDMA, and NFS server code.

  6. Weekly Recap - Stabilizing the 7.2 Release Cycle

    This week's activity was entirely release-cycle cleanup for Linux 7.2-rc3, with ten subsystem merges from Torvalds fixing memory-safety bugs, use-after-free conditions, and error-path leaks across staging drivers, USB, device mapper,…

  7. Release Candidate Three Locks Down Security Fixes

    The 7.2-rc3 merge window brought in a wave of out-of-bounds and use-after-free fixes across staging, USB, tracing, and TPM subsystems, plus a standalone fix closing an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in TPM character devices.

  8. A Wave of Late Cycle Hardening Fixes

    Linus pulled six subsystem fix branches on July 12th, covering device mapper, block, io_uring, input, perf, x86, and timers. The dominant theme is defensive hardening against crashes, memory leaks, and information disclosure, much of it…

  9. A Week of Filesystem and Race Condition Cleanup
  10. The Bounds-Checking Merge Window
  11. Memory Management Cleanup Batch
  12. Weekly Recap - Post-Merge Window Cleanup Across the Stack
  13. RC2 Cleanup Wave
  14. Late-Cycle Fixes for MIPS and S390
  15. The RC2 Cleanup Wave
  16. Breaking Up the Device ID Header
  17. Weekly Recap - Timer Infrastructure Overhaul
  18. VFS Infrastructure Overhaul and Performance Improvements
  19. Subsystem Fixes and Maintainer Transition
  20. Memory Safety and Reference Counting Fixes
  21. Critical Memory Safety and Performance Fixes
  22. Release Candidate Fixes and Namespace Security
  23. Memory Safety and Validation Fixes
  24. Hyper-V Stability and Build Fixes
  25. Weekly Recap - Security and Stability Hardening
  26. Critical Stability Fixes
  27. Late-Cycle Stability Fixes
  28. Security Fixes and Graphics Driver Stability
  29. Network Stack Stability Fixes
  30. Memory Management and Firmware Driver Stability
  31. Race Condition Fixes and Minor Updates
  32. Weekly Recap - Security and Stability Focus
  33. Security and Stability Fixes
  34. Critical Networking and Security Fixes
  35. Critical Network and KVM Security Fixes
  36. NFS Security and Memory Management Fixes
  37. Critical Filesystem and Memory Fixes
  38. Weekly Recap - Stability Fixes and Hardware Support
  39. Critical EROFS and RCU Fixes
  40. Critical Filesystem and Driver Fixes
  41. VFS Fixes and Perf Tools Update
  42. Weekly Recap - Major Subsystem Fixes and Stability
  43. Graphics Drivers and IOMMU Fixes
  44. Probe Subsystem Fixes
  45. Critical Exit Bug and KUnit Config Fixes
  46. SMB Server and Platform Fixes
  47. Critical Stability Fixes and EFI Fault Handling
  48. Weekly Recap - Critical Bug Fixes and Stability Updates
  49. Scheduler Extensions Overhaul and GPU Fixes
  50. Major Subsystem Fixes and Updates
  51. Networking Fixes and Driver Cleanup
  52. Weekly Recap - SMB Security and Code Organization
  53. Weekly Recap - Memory Management and Architecture Fixes
  54. Input Device Driver Updates
  55. Weekly Recap - Critical Subsystem Fixes
  56. Security and Build Fixes
  57. Critical Subsystem Fixes and Security Updates
  58. Weekly Recap - Critical Fixes and Hardware Reliability
  59. Hardware Monitoring and GPU Driver Fixes
  60. Weekly Recap - Stability and Bug Fixes
  61. Graphics Driver Fixes and System Stability Updates
  62. Btrfs Filesystem Fixes
  63. Weekly Recap - Stability and Driver Fixes
  64. Release Candidate 4 Stabilization
  65. RemoteProc and PowerPC Fixes
  66. SMB Server and Memory Management Fixes
  67. ** Linux Kernel Daily: Weekly Recap - Critical Fixes and System Stability
  68. Release Candidate Stabilization
  69. Critical Livepatch and Driver Fixes
  70. GPU Fixes and System Stability Updates
  71. Platform Driver and Memory Leak Fixes
  72. Critical Security and Memory Management Fixes
  73. Pin Control Driver Fixes
  74. VFIO DMABUF Security Fix
  75. VFS Subsystem Fixes for Release Candidate 8
  76. Networking Fixes and Security Patches
  77. Hyper-V ARM64 Fixes and SoC Updates
  78. Memory Management Hotfixes and Driver Updates
  79. Critical Bug Fixes Across Multiple Architectures
  80. Block Storage and Graphics Driver Fixes
  81. Week of January 06 - January 13, 2026
  82. January 11, 2026

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