Welcome to the LWN.net Weekly Edition for December 22, 2022
This edition contains the following feature content:
- Wrapping up 2022: another year has come and gone.
- 6.2 Merge window, part 1: what the first 9,200 changesets for 6.2 brought into the mainline kernel.
- Enabling non-executable memfds: closing a longstanding security problem with the memfd mechanism.
- The intersection of shadow stacks and CRIU: shadow stacks can thwart attackers, but they make life harder for checkpoint/restart systems as well.
- Beyond microblogging with ActivityPub: a survey of some of the other ActivityPub-enabled applications.
This week's edition also includes these inner pages:
- Brief items: Brief news items from throughout the community.
- Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.
Note that this is the final LWN.net Weekly Edition for 2022; as is our standard practice, we'll be taking the final week of the year off to prepare for the year that is to come. Best wishes for the new year to all LWN readers; the weekly edition will return on January 5.
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