Kernel coverage at LWN.net

LWN.net's coverage of Linux kernel development is detailed, technical, and timely.

The article index

See the LWN Kernel Index for instant access to all LWN kernel articles, organized by topic.

Recent LWN.net kernel articles

LWN runs kernel-oriented content every week. Some of our more recent articles in this area include:

June 4, 2025	Device-initiated I/O
June 4, 2025	Two sessions on faster networking
June 2, 2025	Hardening fixes lead to hard questions
May 30, 2025	Reports from OSPM 2025, day three
May 29, 2025	The first half of the 6.16 merge window
May 29, 2025	Block-layer bounce buffering bounces out of the kernel
May 28, 2025	Allowing BPF programs more access to the network
May 27, 2025	Verifying the BPF verifier's path-exploration logic
May 26, 2025	Development statistics for the 6.15 kernel
May 23, 2025	Reports from OSPM 2025, day two
May 23, 2025	Formally verifying the BPF verifier
May 22, 2025	Long-duration stress-testing for filesystems
May 20, 2025	An update on continuous testing of BPF kernel patches
May 19, 2025	Reports from OSPM 2025, day one
May 15, 2025	A new DMA-mapping API
May 14, 2025	Faster firewalls with bpfilter
May 13, 2025	A look at what's possible with BPF arenas
May 8, 2025	A FUSE implementation for famfs
May 7, 2025	Hash table memory usage and a BPF interpreter bug
May 6, 2025	Filtering fanotify events with BPF

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Recent kernel patches

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