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The article index

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Recent LWN.net kernel articles

LWN runs kernel-oriented content every week. Some of our more recent articles in this area include:

June 17, 2026	Some buffer-heads cleanup work
June 15, 2026	Development statistics for the 7.1 kernel
June 12, 2026	An overlayfs update
June 11, 2026	Automatic mTHP creation in 7.2
June 9, 2026	BPF loop verification with scalar evolution
June 8, 2026	An update on fanotify
June 5, 2026	Moving beyond fork() + exec()
June 4, 2026	Splicing out vmsplice()
June 3, 2026	BPF in the agentic era
June 2, 2026	Caching for extended attributes
June 1, 2026	Representing the true signatures of kernel functions
June 1, 2026	Reconsidering x32 — again
May 29, 2026	A loadable crypto module for FIPS certification
May 28, 2026	Policies for merging new filesystems
May 28, 2026	Separating memory descriptors from struct page
May 27, 2026	Further progress toward removing the page map count
May 26, 2026	Better automatic management of transparent huge pages
May 25, 2026	Reviewing kernel patches with LLMs
May 25, 2026	Tier-aware memory-controller limits
May 25, 2026	Dirk and Linus discuss AI and kernel development

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Recent kernel patches

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