Who contributed to Linux on August 10, 2026?

2 developers shipped this update, including Linus Torvalds and David Heinemeier Hansson.

What were the notable Linux updates?

Merge tag 'trace-v7.2-rc6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace, Merge tag 's390-7.2-7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux, and Linux 7.2-rc7.

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KERNEL RC7 SHIPS WITH CRITICAL TRACING AND ZCRYPT FIXES

By RepoJournal · Filed 06:57 UTC on August 10, 2026 · About Linux

2 people shipped this

Linus Torvalds @torvalds 3 cited

David Heinemeier Hansson @dhh 3 cited

Linux 7.2-rc7 landed overnight with urgent memory safety patches across tracing and s390 cryptography, closing use-after-free and buffer overflow windows before final release.

The tracing subsystem got two critical fixes [1] that patch use-after-free vulnerabilities in eventfs_remove_rec() and SRCU list handling, both addressed by switching from unsafe list iteration to list_for_each_entry_safe() semantics. In parallel, s390 zcrypt hardening [2] closed multiple buffer overflow and out-of-bounds access vectors by replacing fixed payload assumptions with proper ASN.1 bounds checking on CCA and EP11 requests. These are the fixes that hold rc7 in place before the 7.2 final cut [3]. On the userspace side, Omarchy shipped three production stabilizers in the last 24 hours: notifications now survive shell restarts by storing actions to disk instead of relying on transient D-Bus signals [5], SSH connections that drop now properly disarm terminal modes instead of flooding prompts with escape-sequence garbage [6], and first-boot provisioning now shows install-style progress through account setup [4]. Together this is 25 commits and 16 PRs across two desks, with the kernel fixes taking priority.

Action items

→ Pull Linux 7.2-rc7 and test tracing and zcrypt workloads before final release torvalds/linux [immediate]
→ Verify notification persistence and SSH terminal cleanup in Omarchy deployments basecamp/omarchy [plan]

References

[1] Merge tag 'trace-v7.2-rc6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace torvalds/linux
[2] Merge tag 's390-7.2-7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux torvalds/linux
[3] Linux 7.2-rc7 torvalds/linux
[4] Show install-style progress through first-boot account setup (#6631) basecamp/omarchy
[5] Keep clicking a notification working after a shell restart (#6636) basecamp/omarchy
[6] Clean up the terminal and reconnect when SSH connections drop (#6661) basecamp/omarchy

Quick answers

What shipped in Linux on August 10, 2026?: Linux 7.2-rc7 landed overnight with urgent memory safety patches across tracing and s390 cryptography, closing use-after-free and buffer overflow windows before final release. In total, 25 commits and 16 pull requests landed.
Who contributed to Linux on August 10, 2026?: 2 developers shipped this update, including Linus Torvalds and David Heinemeier Hansson.
What were the notable Linux updates?: Merge tag 'trace-v7.2-rc6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace, Merge tag 's390-7.2-7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux, and Linux 7.2-rc7.

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