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:

December 1, 2025 Checked-size array parameters in C

December 1, 2025 Some 6.18 development statistics

November 20, 2025 BPF and io_uring, two different ways

November 17, 2025 Hot-page migration and specific-purpose NUMA nodes

November 14, 2025 A struct sockaddr sequel

November 12, 2025 The intersection of unstable pages and direct I/O

November 10, 2025 Magic kernel functions for BPF

November 6, 2025 Toward fast, containerized, user-space filesystems

November 3, 2025 Namespace reference counting and listns()

October 30, 2025 The long path toward optimizing short reads

October 27, 2025 BPF signing LSM hook change rejected

October 23, 2025 Safer speculation-free user-space access

October 22, 2025 DebugFS on Rust

October 16, 2025 Large language models for patch review

October 15, 2025 A new API for interrupt-aware spinlocks

October 14, 2025 The end of the 6.18 merge window

October 10, 2025 Enhancing FineIBT

October 8, 2025 Upcoming Rust language features for kernel development

October 7, 2025 Progress on defeating lifetime-end pointer zapping

October 6, 2025 6.18 merge window, part 1

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Recent kernel patches

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