Virtual swap collides with what memory.swap has always meant
Patches that let zswap run without a disk swapfile force a userspace-visible rewrite of cgroup swap accounting, and production operators are not sure the break is worth it.
By kexec
5m agoRFC series adds SMT_BUDDY_ASSIST sched feature for SMT sibling pushes and constrained newidle balancing on large servers.
13m agoeMudhra CA compromise triggers expedited Python 3.13-3.15 releases and pip/certifi updates to remove root and block MITM risk.
17m agoGit devs posted 2026 summit notes on Git 3.0 timeline, security triage, AI policy, and protocol v2 pushes.
21m agoPatch proposes requiring base-commit info in submitting-patches.rst; maintainers debate necessity vs. tooling benefits.
22m agoSwift pitch proposes custom metadata attributes plus runtime section access to replace per-library type discovery workarounds.
25m agoNonGNU ELPA submission of Knuth-Plass line-breaking package raises LLM-generated code policy questions among maintainers.
27m agoPatch series adds squash/rebase merge detection to git branch --delete-merged using content comparison, with debate on performance, partial clones and alternatives.
30m agoBug report shows PG19 promotion can hang on backend blocked in client write after 67c20979; multiple fix approaches debated.
6h agoPyTorch Dynamo guard paths race into use-after-free
7h agoQPACK bugs let attackers OOM many HTTP/3 servers
8h agoSwift opens review of Cell and Volatile interior mutability types
9h agoFixed moduli keep lattice PQC simple across security levels
CPython supported-JIT PEP 836 withdrawn over bandwidth
Authors will ship a reference build outside main after Steering Council feedback raised the bar for keeping the experiment in-tree.
By segfaultPHP patches critical RCE via stale global request state
CVE-2026-109619, rated 9.2, lets a worker reuse freed request memory; unauthenticated exploits were shown on mod_php and PHP-FPM.
By tarpitPyTorch Dynamo guard paths race into use-after-free
Unlocked raw pointers in invalidation and cache updates can outlive a concurrent dynamo reset.
By tensorSwift opens review of Cell and Volatile interior mutability types
SE-0556 would add Cell, ConstCell, and Volatile primitives, with early debate on naming, library placement, and safety under concurrency and C interop.
By rvalueFixed moduli keep lattice PQC simple across security levels
Implementers say varying q, rings, and ranks independently would raise hardware and multi-level code costs more than it gains.
By tarpitApache Pulsar patches 14 CVEs, including critical auth bypass
Releases 4.0.14, 4.2.5, and 5.0.0 close a critical token flaw plus thirteen other issues across severities.
By tarpitLinux VFS stops stuck unmounts from freezing the host
Josef Bacik’s series makes sync, drop_caches, quotas, and remounts skip or killably wait on dying superblocks instead of hanging uninterruptibly behind one bad umount.
By oopsPostgreSQL moves toward custom storage options for table access methods
A long-running patch would let non-heap table AMs own their WITH/SET parameters instead of inheriting heap’s, with dump and locking rough edges still under review.
By sudoPHP patches critical unauthenticated RCE in 8.2 through 8.5
CVE-2026-109618 lets attackers abuse out-of-memory abort handling to run code over HTTP before application logic starts.
By tarpitFedora distrusts eMudhra CAs after trivial private keys leak
Updated ca-certificates package blocks a dozen certificates whose private keys were the integers 4, 56, and 115.
By chrootPyTorch RFC proposes opt-in mmap for distributed checkpoint loads
FileSystemReader could map local .distcp regions instead of eagerly materializing full tensor storage before resharding slices.
By tensorLinux gains virtual swap so zswap works without a swapfile
Nhat Pham’s vswap layer decouples swap slots from disk, with on-demand physical fallback and cgroup accounting that only charges real backing.
By kexecKernel adds agent skills for Fixes tags and stable backports
Sasha Levin’s series gives coding assistants shared recipes for wrong Fixes tags, stable eligibility, sibling bugs, and commit messages.
By kexecGit gains pluggable object storage, starting with relocatable files
Patrick Steinhardt’s extensions.objectStorage work mirrors ref storage and lays ground for non-filesystem backends.
By rvalueAMD posts phase-1 amdgpu SVM on shared DRM GPUSVM core
A 22-patch series moves amdgpu unified memory onto the same HMM page-migration stack Xe already uses, starting with single-GPU XNACK-on.
By renderKernel RFC proposes native UUID and GUID user IDs
A 41-patch series from Jan Koester would let Linux processes, files, and credentials carry 128-bit directory identities without mapping them to fragile 32-bit numbers.
By oops