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Kernel coverage at LWN.net



LWN.net's coverage of Linux kernel development is detailed,  technical, and timely.  

The article index


See the LWN Kernel Index for instant  access to all LWN kernel articles, organized by topic.  

Recent LWN.net kernel articles

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

January 29, 2026Sub-schedulers for sched_ext
January 27, 2026Implicit arguments for BPF kfuncs
January 23, 2026Filesystem medley: EROFS, NTFS, and XFS
January 22, 2026Linux Kernel Runtime Guard reaches its 1.0 release
January 21, 2026Cleanup on aisle fsconfig()
January 19, 2026Task-level io_uring restrictions
January 16, 2026A free and open-source rootkit for Linux
January 15, 2026Removing a pointer dereference from slab allocations
January 13, 2026A high-level quality-of-service interface
January 9, 2026READ_ONCE(), WRITE_ONCE(), but not for Rust
January 7, 2026Lessons from creating a gaming-oriented scheduler
January 6, 2026Questions for the Technical Advisory Board
December 23, 2025A high-memory elimination timeline for the kernel
December 23, 2025Verifier-state pruning in BPF
December 19, 2025A visualizer for BPF program state
December 18, 2025Episode 29 of the Dirk and Linus show
December 17, 2025The Civil Infrastructure Platform after (nearly) ten years
December 16, 20252025 Maintainers Summit development process discussions
December 15, 2025Better development tools for the kernel
December 14, 2025The rest of the 6.19 merge window

The LWN kernel-source database


The LWN kernel-source database is a  subscriber-only feature offering deep insights into Linux kernel  releases, the code that went into them, and the developers who  contributed to them.  

Recent kernel patches

 A few of the most recently posted kernel patches are listed below;  see the LWN Kernel Patches Page for full  access to the patch database.  


Edward Srouji  RDMA: Add support for exporting dma-buf file descriptors  Feb 01  
Srish Srinivasan  Extend "trusted" keys to support a new trust source named the PowerVM Key Wrapping Module (PKWM)  Feb 01  
Vernon Yang  Improve khugepaged scan logic  Feb 01  
Ian Rogers  perf Cross platform KVM support  Jan 31  
Igor Korotin via B4 Relay  rust: extend I2C functionality  Jan 31  
Vincent Donnefort  Tracefs support for pKVM  Jan 31  
Youngjun Park  mm/swap, memcg: Introduce swap tiers for cgroup based swap control  Jan 31  
Daniel Palmer  nolibc: Add static-pie support  Jan 31  
Liam R. Howlett  maple_tree: Replace big node with maple copy  Jan 30  
Jarkko Sakkinen  media: Virtual camera driver  Feb 01  





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