Welcome to the LWN.net Weekly Edition for January 5, 2023
This edition contains the following feature content:
- Welcome to 2023: our predictions for the year to come.
- Adding system calls for Linux security modules: a prerequisite for security-module stacking gets closer.
- SLOB nears the end of the road: little love remains for a memory allocator aimed at tiny systems.
- The rest of the 6.2 merge window: what was upstreamed in the latter part of this merge window.
- Supporting unified kernel images for Fedora: a debate over how to secure the initial RAMdisk images used during the Linux bootstrap process.
- Not coalescing around None-aware: the ongoing debate over adding new, None-aware operators to Python.
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.
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