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Linux Kernel 7.3-rc1 was released by Linus Torvalds on August 30, 2026, pushing the kernel to approximately 40.98 million lines of code. The massive diff size is primarily driven by a huge AMD DCN6 register header dump, though significant functional updates include initial USB4 and Thunderbolt support for Apple M1 through M3 chips. Developers also landed a major 45-patch series for KVM guest memory conversion, alongside continued growth in Rust kernel drivers and refined Intel thermal throttling. The release candidate series will run for roughly six weeks before Linux 7.3 stabilizes, with the final version expected in mid-to-late October 2026.
2026-08-30
Steven Barrett's Liquorix Kernel just landed at 7.1-21, shipping two targeted patches that cap and properly drain the PDS scheduler's boost credit to stop unfair task hoarding. The release sits alongside a massive, ongoing Project-C rewrite that's been optimizing cache alignment, SMT awareness, and lock contention since mid-2026. It's an aggressive daily release cycle for a strictly AMD64-only package, but the work keeps the custom scheduler sharp for gaming and low-latency audio workloads. Security also got a facelift with AppArmor as default, Landlock enabled, and two CVEs backported into the mix.
The Linux kernel 7.3 merge window wraps up this week after absorbing a massive 1,250 memory management patches and a 121-commit DRM pull that shipped critical GPU fixes for AMD, Intel, and Qualcomm. Developers landed several major performance upgrades, including resizable F2FS tail sections, a 71% Zstd decompression speedup via BMI2 probing, and Btrfs direct I/O hitting roughly 95% of theoretical maximum throughput. AI has also become a daily tool in the development workflow, with Linus Torvalds and Andrew Morton relying on Gemini for debugging and patch summaries, while the community braces for a projected CVE count nearing 2,000 per release due to automated source analysis.
Zen Browser 1.21.16b has arrived, riding on Firefox 154.0.1 to deliver critical performance optimizations and security hardening to the open-source Firefox fork. The update focuses primarily on smoothing out session store operations, significantly reducing CPU spikes and disk I/O when saving open tabs, while also squashing lingering bugs like a persistent password storage regression and broken Picture-in-Picture sidebar collapsing. By integrating Mozilla's MFSA-2026-74 advisory, the build addresses over 50 high-impact vulnerabilities, including sandbox escapes and privilege escalation flaws, without sacrificing the project's rapid release cadence.
Mutt 2.4.2 shipped this morning, marking the third patch update in the 2.4.x stable line under two months. The headline change resolves a Linux kernel timing quirk where coarse time() calls and fine-grained filesystem clocks drifted apart, triggering false "attachment changed" prompts during composition. Maintainer Kevin J. McCarthy reworked the stamping function to read stat st_mtime directly, aligning both sides of the comparison while preserving a time(NULL) + 1 fallback for edge cases. The release also cleans up orphaned files on compose abort, stabilizes GPGME key selection, and includes OpenBSD and Arch build fixes, following a diagnosis that originated in Debian's bug tracker.
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