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		<title>[$] Modernizing swapping: the end of the swap map</title>
		<link>https://noise.getoto.net/2026/02/05/modernizing-swapping-the-end-of-the-swap-map/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[corbet]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 15:26:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The first installment in this series
introduced several data structures in the kernel's swap subsystem and
described work to replace some of those with a new "swap table" structure.
The work did not stop there, though; there is more modernization of th...]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Git 2.53.0 released</title>
		<link>https://noise.getoto.net/2026/02/02/git-2-53-0-released/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[corbet]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2026 20:33:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Version 2.53.0 of the Git
source-code management system has been released.  Changes include
documentation for the Git data model, the ability to choose the diff
algorithm to use with git blame, a new white-space error class,
and more; see the announcem...]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>[$] Modernizing swapping: introducing the swap table</title>
		<link>https://noise.getoto.net/2026/02/02/modernizing-swapping-introducing-the-swap-table/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[corbet]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2026 15:28:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The kernel's swap subsystem is a complex and often unloved beast.  It is
also a critical component in the memory-management subsystem and has a
significant impact on the performance of the system as a whole.  At the
2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memo...]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Kernel prepatch 6.19-rc8</title>
		<link>https://noise.getoto.net/2026/02/02/kernel-prepatch-6-19-rc8/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[corbet]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2026 23:39:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The 6.19-rc8 kernel prepatch is out for
testing.  "So things all look good, and unless something odd happens
we'll have a final 6.19 next weekend."]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>The Award for Excellence in Open Source goes to Greg Kroah-Hartman</title>
		<link>https://noise.getoto.net/2026/01/30/the-award-for-excellence-in-open-source-goes-to-greg-kroah-hartman/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[corbet]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 15:26:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Daniel Stenberg, the recipient of last year's Award for Excellence in Open
Source from the European Open Source Academy, presented
that award to this year's recipient: Greg Kroah-Hartman.


	It's impossible to overstate the importance of the work Greg ...]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Three stable kernel updates</title>
		<link>https://noise.getoto.net/2026/01/30/three-stable-kernel-updates-11/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[corbet]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 14:45:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The
6.18.8,
6.12.68, and
6.6.122 stable kernel updates have been
released; each contains another set of important fixes.]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Security updates for Friday</title>
		<link>https://noise.getoto.net/2026/01/30/security-updates-for-friday-165/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[corbet]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 14:43:59 +0000</pubDate>
				<guid isPermaLink="false">https://lwn.net/Articles/1056692/</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (curl, gimp:2.8, glibc, grafana, grafana-pcp, kernel, osbuild-composer, php:8.3, python-urllib3, python3.11, and python3.12), Debian (chromium), Mageia (ceph, gpsd, libxml2, openjdk, openssl, and xen), SUS...]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>A proposed governance structure for openSUSE</title>
		<link>https://noise.getoto.net/2026/01/29/a-proposed-governance-structure-for-opensuse/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[corbet]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 15:44:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Jeff Mahoney, who
holds a vice-president position at SUSE, has posted a detailed
proposal for improving the governance of the openSUSE project.


	It's meant to be a way to move from governance by volume or
	persistence toward governance by legitimacy,...]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>[$] Sub-schedulers for sched_ext</title>
		<link>https://noise.getoto.net/2026/01/29/sub-schedulers-for-sched_ext/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[corbet]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 15:36:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The extensible scheduler class (sched_ext)
allows the installation of a custom CPU scheduler built as a set of BPF
programs.  Its merging for the 6.12 kernel release moved the kernel away
from the "one scheduler fits all" approach that had been taken u...]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Security updates for Thursday</title>
		<link>https://noise.getoto.net/2026/01/29/security-updates-for-thursday-162/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[corbet]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 14:33:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (java-25-openjdk, openssl, and python3.9), Debian (gimp, libmatio, pyasn1, and python-django), Fedora (perl-HarfBuzz-Shaper, python-tinycss2, and weasyprint), Mageia (glib2.0), Oracle (curl, fence-agents, ...]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for January 29, 2026</title>
		<link>https://noise.getoto.net/2026/01/29/lwn-net-weekly-edition-for-january-29-2026/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[corbet]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 01:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition:
        
        
 Front: PostmarketOS; LKRG 1.0; Fedora elections; EROFS, NTFS, and XFS; Fedora and GPG 2.5; BPF kfuncs.
             Briefs: curl bounties; GPG security; Guix 1.5.0; ReactOS turns 30; glibc 2...]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>PC Gamer on the scx_horoscope scheduler</title>
		<link>https://noise.getoto.net/2026/01/28/pc-gamer-on-the-scx_horoscope-scheduler/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[corbet]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2026 16:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[PC Gamer has run an
amusing review of the scx_horoscope
scheduler for Linux, which uses astrology to optimize scheduling
decisions.


	The scheduler is full of bizarre features, like its ability to
	perform real planetary calculations based on accurate...]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>A critical GnuPG security update</title>
		<link>https://noise.getoto.net/2026/01/27/a-critical-gnupg-security-update/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[corbet]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2026 17:31:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There is a new GnuPG update for a "critical security bug" in recent
GnuPG releases.


	A crafted CMS (S/MIME) EnvelopedData message carrying an oversized
	wrapped session key can cause a stack buffer overflow in gpg-agent
	during the PKDECRYPT--kem=CMS...]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>The GNU C Library is moving from Sourceware</title>
		<link>https://noise.getoto.net/2026/01/27/the-gnu-c-library-is-moving-from-sourceware/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[corbet]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2026 16:58:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[GNU C Library maintainer Carlos O'Donell has announced
that the project will be moving its core services away from Sourceware in favor of services hosted
at the Linux Foundation.


	While it was clear to the GNU Toolchain leadership that
	requirements ...]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>[$] Implicit arguments for BPF kfuncs</title>
		<link>https://noise.getoto.net/2026/01/27/implicit-arguments-for-bpf-kfuncs/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[corbet]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2026 15:41:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The kernel's "kfunc" mechanism is a way of exporting kernel functions so
that they can be called directly from BPF programs.  There are over 300
kfuncs in current kernels, ranging in functionality from string processing
(bpf_strnlen())
to custom schedu...]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Kernel prepatch 6.19-rc7</title>
		<link>https://noise.getoto.net/2026/01/26/kernel-prepatch-6-19-rc7/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[corbet]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2026 23:09:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The 6.19-rc7 kernel prepatch is out for
testing.


	So normally this would be the last rc of the release, but as I've
	mentioned every rc (because I really want people to be aware and be
	able to plan for things) this release we'll have an rc8 due to t...]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>GNU C Library 2.43 released</title>
		<link>https://noise.getoto.net/2026/01/24/gnu-c-library-2-43-released/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[corbet]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2026 16:28:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Version 2.43 of the
GNU C Library has been released.  Changes include support for the mseal() and openat2()
system calls, experimental support for building with the Clang compiler,
Unicode 17.0.0 support, a number of security fixes, and much more.]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>[$] Filesystem medley: EROFS, NTFS, and XFS</title>
		<link>https://noise.getoto.net/2026/01/23/filesystem-medley-erofs-ntfs-and-xfs/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[corbet]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2026 15:27:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Filesystems seem to be one of those many areas where the problems are well
understood, but there is always somebody working toward a better solution.
As a result, filesystem development in the Linux kernel continues at a fast
pace even after all these ...]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Rust 1.93.0 released</title>
		<link>https://noise.getoto.net/2026/01/22/rust-1-93-0-released/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[corbet]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2026 14:25:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Version
1.93.0 of the Rust programming language has been released.  Notable
changes include in updated version of the bundled musl library,
thread-local storage for the global allocator, some asm!
improvements, and a number of newly stabilized APIs.]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for January 22, 2026</title>
		<link>https://noise.getoto.net/2026/01/22/lwn-net-weekly-edition-for-january-22-2026/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[corbet]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2026 00:47:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition:
        
        
 Front: Singularity; fsconfig(); io_uring restrictions; GPG vulnerabilities; slab allocator; AshOS.
             Briefs: Pixel exploit; telnetd exploit; OzLabs; korgalore; Firefox Nightly RPM...]]></description>
		
		
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