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Recent LWN.net kernel articles
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recent articles in this area include:
| 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 |
| October 6, 2025 | Next steps for BPF support in the GNU toolchain |
| September 30, 2025 | Linting Rust code in the kernel |
| September 29, 2025 | Development statistics for 6.17 |
| September 25, 2025 | The phaseout of the mmap() file operation |
| September 22, 2025 | Revocable references for transient devices |
| September 19, 2025 | Multiple kernels on a single system |
| September 18, 2025 | Extending the time-slice-extension discussion |
| September 15, 2025 | New kernel tools: wprobes, KStackWatch, and KFuzzTest |
| September 12, 2025 | Creating a healthy kernel subsystem community |
| September 11, 2025 | A policy for Link tags |
| September 10, 2025 | How many ways are there to configure the Linux kernel? |
| September 4, 2025 | The dependency tracker for complex deadlock detection |
| September 3, 2025 | Tracking trust with Rust in the kernel |
| September 1, 2025 | The future of 32-bit support in the kernel |
| August 26, 2025 | Shadow-stack control in clone3() |
| August 21, 2025 | Bringing restartable sequences out of the niche |
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