$ ls linux/reviews/ # the step-back reads
Linux in review
One review per week (and month): what shipped, what broke, what to act on.
Sep 14–20, 2026 weekly [act] 8 stories
Omarchy closes installer security holes, traces land in 7.3-rc2
Three Omarchy hardening fixes and kernel tracing, cgroup, and PowerPC KVM fixes define the week.
Sep 7–13, 2026 weekly [act] 8 stories
Omarchy 4.0.3 closes sudo and Kitty holes
Seven security hardening merges land in one week, while Linux 7.3-rc3 ships configfs, x86, and tracing fixes.
Aug 31–Sep 6, 2026 weekly [act]
secretmem locked-page accounting fix lands
Linux 7.3-rc2 carries the fix plus SMB data-corruption and cgroup kill patches this week.
Aug 24–30, 2026 weekly
Omarchy closes root-escalation paths as the 7.3 merge window churns
Omarchy spent the week hardening its CLI and Docker story against root escalation, while Linux 7.3 merge activity landed fixes across fil...
Aug 1–31, 2026 monthly
Linux 7.2 closes and 7.3 opens amid kernel hardening and Omarchy's security push
August saw Linux 7.2 ship and the 7.3 merge window open with a BPF verifier overhaul and Rust module support, while Omarchy closed severa...
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