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systemd 262 lets the init system build as a single static binary for tiny containers and adds Linux 6.17 kernel coredump-socket support plus OpenSSL 4.
Kernel.org administrator Konstantin Ryabitsev says AI scrapers generate 98% of git.kernel.org's 6 million daily requests, burning more CPU than all legitimate traffic combined.
CVE-2026-80590, a bug letting unprivileged users trigger a kernel panic via mismarked IPv4/IPv6 fragments, is fixed across eight stable and longterm kernel releases.
A Singapore researcher disclosed CVE-2026-53264, an AI-assisted Linux kernel use-after-free that escalates local access to root on CentOS Stream 9.
Multikernel Technologies releases KernelScript, an Apache 2.0-licensed DSL that generates eBPF, userspace, and kernel module code from a single source file.
Linux 7.0, expected in mid-April 2026, formally ends the three-year Rust experiment in the kernel. The decision, reached at the 2025 Maintainers Summit in Tokyo, promotes Rust from experimental status to a core kernel language alongside C and assembly.
Rust 1.94.0 stabilizes array_windows and AVX-512 FP16 intrinsics as the project finalizes 65 goals for 2026 targeting faster compilation, trait overhauls, and deeper Linux kernel integration.