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Linus has released the 5.14 kernel.

So I realize you must all still be busy with all the galas and
fancy balls and all the other 30th anniversary events, but at some
point you must be getting tired of the constant glitz, the
fireworks, and…

The Linux kernel is a fast-moving project, but change can still be
surprisingly slow to come at times. The nftables project to replace the kernel’s
packet-filtering subsystem has its origins in 2008, but is still not being
used by most (or perh…

As a general rule, the kernel community is happy to merge working device
drivers without much concern for the availability of any associated
user-space code. What happens in user space is beyond the kernel’s concern
and unaffected by the kernel…

The LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 26, 2021 is available.

One last reminder that LWN editor Jonathan Corbet will be presenting a
version of The Kernel Report at 9:00 US/Mountain (15:00 UTC) on
August 26. This live presentation is part of a test of the
infrastructure for the 2021 Linux
Plumbers Co…

The call
for nominees for the 2021 Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board
election has gone out.

The TAB serves as the interface between the kernel development
community and the Linux Foundation, advising the Foundation on
kernel-related…

On August 25, 1991, Linus Torvalds posted his famous
message to the
comp.os.minix USENET group:

I’m doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and
professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been
brewing si…

The first installment in this two-part
series looked at the difficulties that arise when Btrfs filesystems
containing subvolumes are exported via NFS. Btrfs has a couple of quirks
that complicate life in this situation: the use of separate devi…

The 5.14-rc7 kernel prepatch has been
released. “So things continue to look normal, and unless there is
any last-minute panic this upcoming week, this is likely the last rc before
a final 5.14.”

OpenSSH 8.7 has been released. Changes include
steps toward deprecating scp and
using the SFTP protocol for file transfers instead, changes to
remote-to-remote copies (they go through the local host by default now), a
stricter configuration-fil…