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:

December 13, 2025	The state of the kernel Rust experiment
December 12, 2025	Best practices for linux-next
December 11, 2025	Toward a policy for machine-learning tools in kernel development
December 4, 2025	The beginning of the 6.19 merge window
December 1, 2025	Checked-size array parameters in C
December 1, 2025	Some 6.18 development statistics
November 20, 2025	BPF and io_uring, two different ways
November 17, 2025	Hot-page migration and specific-purpose NUMA nodes
November 14, 2025	A struct sockaddr sequel
November 12, 2025	The intersection of unstable pages and direct I/O
November 10, 2025	Magic kernel functions for BPF
November 6, 2025	Toward fast, containerized, user-space filesystems
November 3, 2025	Namespace reference counting and listns()
October 30, 2025	The long path toward optimizing short reads
October 27, 2025	BPF signing LSM hook change rejected
October 23, 2025	Safer speculation-free user-space access
October 22, 2025	DebugFS on Rust
October 16, 2025	Large language models for patch review
October 15, 2025	A new API for interrupt-aware spinlocks
October 14, 2025	The end of the 6.18 merge window

The LWN kernel-source database

The LWN kernel-source database is a subscriber-only feature offering deep insights into Linux kernel releases, the code that went into them, and the developers who contributed to them.

Recent kernel patches

A few of the most recently posted kernel patches are listed below; see the LWN Kernel Patches Page for full access to the patch database.