RepoJournal
Linux

Linux

The kernel, distros, and the rigs of the moment

Keep up with Linux in about 3 minutes a day: what actually shipped — the commits, pull requests, releases, and security advisories that matter.

One email a day. Unsubscribe in one click.

Pick a date

  1. Sat 11 jul
  2. Sun 12 jul
  3. Mon 13 jul
  4. Tue 14 jul
  5. Wed 15 jul
  6. Thu 16 jul
  7. Fri 17 jul
  8. Sat 18 jul
  9. Sun 19 jul
  10. Mon 20 jul
  11. Tue 21 jul
  12. Wed 22 jul
  13. Thu 23 jul
  14. Fri 24 jul
  15. Sat 25 jul
  16. Sun 26 jul
  17. Mon 27 jul
  18. Tue 28 jul
  19. Wed 29 jul
  20. Thu 30 jul
  21. Fri 31 jul
  22. Sat 1 aug
  23. Sun 2 aug
  24. Mon 3 aug
  25. Tue 4 aug
  26. Wed 5 aug
  27. Thu 6 aug
  28. Fri 7 aug
  29. Sat 8 aug
  30. Today 9 aug
Topics: Infrastructure Full archive →

The Wire · Showcase

KERNEL RC7 STABILIZES WITH HARDWARE FIXES ACROSS FIVE SUBSYSTEMS

By RepoJournal · Filed · About Linux

Linus Torvalds David Heinemeier Hansson Tommy Martin
3 people shipped this
Linus Torvalds @torvalds 5 cited David Heinemeier Hansson @dhh Tommy Martin @tmn73

Linus pulled five critical patch sets overnight targeting watchdog timer rearms, storage driver memory corruption, and GPU pipeline leaks before the final 7.2 release window closes.

The kernel absorbed major fixes across the device driver stack. Watchdog subsystem landed timer teardown safeguards [1] while ATA pulled a use-after-free vulnerability in the pata_sl82c105 bridge driver [2] that could corrupt drive state. Hardware monitoring merged critical regulator and bounds-checking repairs [3], including a corsair-psu linear11 calculation fix that prevents out-of-bounds access. DRM got GPU memory leak patches in xe exec queue teardown and JPEG queue reset fixes across amdgpu [4]. Qualcomm pinctrl corrected GPIO function mappings in IPQ806X and IPQ9650 hardware definitions [5]. All five merges target RC7, signaling the window is tightening.

One email a day. Unsubscribe in one click.

Action items

References

  1. [1] Merge tag 'watchdog-for-v7.2-rc7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/groeck/linux-staging torvalds/linux
  2. [2] Merge tag 'ata-7.2-rc7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/libata/linux torvalds/linux
  3. [3] Merge tag 'hwmon-for-v7.2-rc7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/groeck/linux-staging torvalds/linux
  4. [4] Merge tag 'drm-fixes-2026-08-08' of https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/kernel torvalds/linux
  5. [5] Merge tag 'pinctrl-v7.2-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linusw/linux-pinctrl torvalds/linux

Quick answers

What shipped in Linux on August 8, 2026?
Linus pulled five critical patch sets overnight targeting watchdog timer rearms, storage driver memory corruption, and GPU pipeline leaks before the final 7.2 release window closes. In total, 39 commits and 20 pull requests landed.
Who contributed to Linux on August 8, 2026?
3 developers shipped this update, including Linus Torvalds, David Heinemeier Hansson, and Tommy Martin.
What were the notable Linux updates?
Merge tag 'watchdog-for-v7.2-rc7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/groeck/linux-staging, Merge tag 'ata-7.2-rc7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/libata/linux, and Merge tag 'hwmon-for-v7.2-rc7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/groeck/linux-staging.

More from Linux

Linux Linux

KERNEL RC7 PLUGS FUTEX RACE AND MCE BUG; OMARCHY FIXES UPGRADE TRAP

Linus merged five critical subsystem fixes overnight, including a futex race that can leave tasks stuck and a Quattro upgrade script that silently fails mid-transition, leaving the system in an unsafe state.

Linus Torvalds dhh Scott Jones
infra 32 shipped
Linux Linux

IPHETH DRIVER PLUGS USE-AFTER-FREE HOLE ON USB DISCONNECT

A critical use-after-free vulnerability in the iPhone USB tethering driver can leave kernel work queues armed after interface shutdown, exposing memory corruption on device unplug.

Doruk Tan Ozturk Eric Dumazet Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) David Heinemeier Hansson
infra 48 shipped
Linux Linux

KERNEL MEMORY FLUSH BUG HITS PAGE TABLE RECLAIM, SOC FIXES LAND ACROSS QUALCOMM AND BROADCOM

A critical memory management bug in direct page table reclaim is flushing the wrong address, potentially corrupting TLB state on architectures that depend on precise invalidation.

Linus Torvalds Andy Lutomirski David Heinemeier Hansson Kyunghyun Park +1
infra 20 shipped
Linux Linux

KERNEL FIXES INTEGER UNDERFLOW IN IMA, VHOST/VDPA PULLS CRITICAL PATCHES

Linux mainline absorbed a batch of urgent fixes overnight: an integer underflow in IMA's xattr verification that could trigger out-of-bounds reads, plus critical vhost-scsi and futex race condition patches.

Lincoln Wallace Linus Torvalds lukewalker2010 defer +1
infra 20 shipped

Daily updates, in your inbox

Follow Linux

Keep up with Linux in about 3 minutes a day: what actually shipped — the commits, pull requests, releases, and security advisories that matter.

or

One email a day. Unsubscribe in one click. Read a past issue →

Elsewhere on the wire

AI Agents AI Agents

CLINE FIXES ABORT-WINDOW PROMPT LOSS, CLIPBOARD IMAGES LAND ON DESKTOP

Cline's core agent now preserves queued prompts when you hit stop, and desktop users can finally paste screenshots directly into the composer.

dependabot malhotra5 Saoud Rizwan
ai-agents 40 shipped
Local LLMs Local LLMs

OLLAMA CUTS MODEL CONFIG BLOAT 100KB+ PER MODEL, LLAMA.CPP SHIPS TOOL ISOLATION AND CUDA FUSION GAINS

Ollama eliminated redundant manifest data ballooning config blobs on safetensors models, while llama.cpp landed docker-backed tool isolation and fused three GPU kernels into one.

Daniel Hiltgen github-actions[bot] grafail Isotr0py +7
llms 102 shipped
CachyOS @CachyOS

WIKI TRANSLATION PUSH HITS SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE, NVIDIA DRIVERS GET 7.2 SUPPORT

CachyOS documentation expands globally with AI-assisted Spanish and Portuguese updates while the core team hardens nvidia-470xx for kernel 7.2.

witchlliee github-actions Vasiliy Stelmachenok Vladislav Nepogodin +3
infra 73 shipped
Elixir & Phoenix Elixir & Phoenix

MACRO.TO_STRING BUG BREAKS FOR COMPREHENSIONS WITH TRAILING KEYWORDS

Elixir's Macro.to_string/1 silently corrupts for-comprehensions that use do-end blocks with non-block trailing keywords, rendering valid code that no longer compiles.

makoto-developer
elixir 2 shipped
Want every project, not just this one?