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Recent LWN.net kernel articles
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recent articles in this area include:
| February 19, 2026 | Modernizing swapping: virtual swap spaces |
| February 18, 2026 | More accurate congestion notification for TCP |
| February 13, 2026 | The first half of the 7.0 merge window |
| February 12, 2026 | The reverting of revocable |
| February 9, 2026 | Development statistics for 6.19 |
| February 6, 2026 | Kernel control-flow-integrity support comes to GCC |
| February 5, 2026 | Modernizing swapping: the end of the swap map |
| February 3, 2026 | The future for Tyr |
| February 2, 2026 | Modernizing swapping: introducing the swap table |
| January 29, 2026 | Sub-schedulers for sched_ext |
| January 27, 2026 | Implicit arguments for BPF kfuncs |
| January 23, 2026 | Filesystem medley: EROFS, NTFS, and XFS |
| January 22, 2026 | Linux Kernel Runtime Guard reaches its 1.0 release |
| January 21, 2026 | Cleanup on aisle fsconfig() |
| January 19, 2026 | Task-level io_uring restrictions |
| January 16, 2026 | A free and open-source rootkit for Linux |
| January 15, 2026 | Removing a pointer dereference from slab allocations |
| January 13, 2026 | A high-level quality-of-service interface |
| January 9, 2026 | READ_ONCE(), WRITE_ONCE(), but not for Rust |
| January 7, 2026 | Lessons from creating a gaming-oriented scheduler |
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