Who contributed to Linux on August 13, 2026?

4 developers shipped this update, including Linus Torvalds, David Heinemeier Hansson, VictorZaca, and h8d13.

What were the notable Linux updates?

Merge tag 'scsi-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi, Offer an AI diagnosis when a process crashes, and Reshape the agent launcher into omarchy agent.

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SCSI FIXES LAND AS OMARCHY SHIPS AI DIAGNOSTICS AND REAL-TIME KERNEL SUPPORT

By RepoJournal · Filed 06:57 UTC on August 13, 2026 · About Linux

4 people shipped this

David Heinemeier Hansson @dhh 3 cited

Linus Torvalds @torvalds 1 cited

VictorZaca @VictorZaca 1 cited

h8d13 @h8d13 1 cited

Linus pulled critical SCSI fixes for power management and device locking while the Linux desktop ecosystem gains crash diagnostics and RT kernel variants.

Torvalds merged SCSI fixes addressing power management issues in error handling and a deadlock in door locking for removable media devices [1]. The pull also fixes a debug driver bug. Over on the desktop front, Omarchy is shipping AI-powered crash diagnostics that automatically brief a coding agent when a process dumps core, detecting crashes through systemd-coredump's journal entries [2]. The same update reshapes the agent launcher into a unified `omarchy agent` command with subcommands for prompts, fixing a positional shadowing issue [3]. Separately, Omarchy stopped hot-reloading the shell when package upgrades rewrite it mid-transaction, preventing reload failures that trigger engine regeneration popups [4]. Meanwhile, Archinstall fixed its sample config file, which has been unparseable since the 2023 disk layout rework and now carries all five required fields for partition parsing [5], while adding RT kernel variants from upstream for real-time workloads [6].

Action items

→ Apply SCSI fixes to production kernels running removable media devices torvalds/linux [plan]
→ Test Archinstall sample config with your disk layout before deployment archlinux/archinstall [plan]
→ Monitor Omarchy desktop updates for crash diagnostic stability basecamp/omarchy [monitor]

References

[1] Merge tag 'scsi-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi torvalds/linux
[2] Offer an AI diagnosis when a process crashes ↗ basecamp/omarchy
[3] Reshape the agent launcher into omarchy agent ↗ basecamp/omarchy
[4] Stop hot-reloading the shell when a package upgrade rewrites it (#6751) basecamp/omarchy
[5] Fix examples/config-sample.json and cover the example configs with a test (#4709) archlinux/archinstall
[6] feat(kernels): add RT variants from upstream (#4711) archlinux/archinstall

Quick answers

What shipped in Linux on August 13, 2026?: Linus pulled critical SCSI fixes for power management and device locking while the Linux desktop ecosystem gains crash diagnostics and RT kernel variants. In total, 24 commits and 18 pull requests landed.
Who contributed to Linux on August 13, 2026?: 4 developers shipped this update, including Linus Torvalds, David Heinemeier Hansson, VictorZaca, and h8d13.
What were the notable Linux updates?: Merge tag 'scsi-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi, Offer an AI diagnosis when a process crashes, and Reshape the agent launcher into omarchy agent.

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