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EFI FIXES LAND AS RC3 STABILIZES; ARCHINSTALL SHIPS LOG SHARING

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Linus pulled critical EFI recovery fixes for x86 and LoongArch while archinstall replaced its broken paste service with a native share-log command.

The mainline kernel merged EFI fixes [1] addressing IRQ state restoration in page fault handlers and I-cache coherency on LoongArch — issues introduced by recent FPU API changes that could corrupt recovery paths. Meanwhile, ksmbd pulled a batch of SMB server hardening [2]: memory leak plugs, ACL validation tightening, and durable handle cleanup races that matter if you're exposing Samba shares from Linux boxes. Chrome platform took a NULL dereference fix in the typec driver [3], and parisc resolved build failures in its VDSO layer [4]. On the install side, archinstall shipped a native share-log subcommand [5] that uploads install logs to paste.rs, killing the broken 0x0.st workflow that's been failing for months — this is the fix everyone waiting for. The same release also handles truncated package metadata in the preview [6] and adds bspwm black screen recovery through delegation fixes [7], making fresh Arch installations more reliable end-to-end.

Action items

References

  1. [1] Merge tag 'efi-fixes-for-v7.1-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/efi/efi torvalds/linux ↗
  2. [2] Merge tag 'v7.1-rc3-ksmbd-server-fixes' of git://git.samba.org/ksmbd torvalds/linux ↗
  3. [3] Merge tag 'chrome-platform-fixes-v7.1-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/chrome-platform/linux torvalds/linux ↗
  4. [4] Merge tag 'parisc-for-7.1-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux torvalds/linux ↗
  5. [5] Add share-log subcommand to upload install.log to paste.rs ↗ archlinux/archinstall
  6. [6] Fix truncated package metadata in additional packages preview (#3580) ↗ archlinux/archinstall
  7. [7] Fix bspwm black screen: add provision() delegation and default configs (#4518) ↗ archlinux/archinstall

$ ls linux/reviews/ # the step-back reads

the week in review Omarchy polkit PAM stack skipped system-auth the month in review Linux 7.3 rc cycle fixes cgroup kill, SMB corruption
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Quick answers

What shipped in Linux on May 7, 2026?
Linus pulled critical EFI recovery fixes for x86 and LoongArch while archinstall replaced its broken paste service with a native share-log command. In total, 41 commits and 7 pull requests landed.
Who contributed to Linux on May 7, 2026?
1 developer shipped this update, including Softer.
What were the notable Linux updates?
Merge tag 'efi-fixes-for-v7.1-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/efi/efi, Merge tag 'v7.1-rc3-ksmbd-server-fixes' of git://git.samba.org/ksmbd, and Merge tag 'chrome-platform-fixes-v7.1-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/chrome-platform/linux.
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$ log Linux --recent

drm-fixes backs out dma-buf debug, vfs closes pathwalk use-after-frees 29 shipped Netlink stops hashing the net pointer, stmmac clears a stuck RGMII interrupt 27 shipped Poly1305 carry fix lands, Omarchy locks down N1x laptops and idle fingerprint readers 23 shipped Omarchy copies agent logins over SSH, kernel queues 7.4 merges 106 shipped

$ log --all # elsewhere on the wire

Alignment & Post-training verl rejects conflicting vLLM engine_kwargs, open-instruct adds MILES OPD behind a Megatron learner Interpretability nnsight 0.8.0 cuts import time from 7.6s to 1.6s

$ ls showcases/

Safety Evals AI Red Teaming Agent Security Interpretability Alignment & Post-training

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