$ ls linux/reviews/ # the step-back reads
Linux in review
One review per week (and month): what shipped, what broke, what to act on.
Nov 2–8, 2026 weekly [plan] 8 stories
RTC merge lifts 32-bit hctosys limit for Y2038
Omarchy 4.5 reached rc3 with per-monitor workspaces and 49 languages, while 7.4-rc2 brought a vfs livelock fix and MPTCP networking patches.
Oct 26–Nov 1, 2026 weekly [act] 8 stories
NFS 7.4 lands on both client and server
The 7.4 merge window opened this week, filling it with subsystem pulls from exfat and ntfs through I3C hubs, tracing and an I2C dynamic-t...
Oct 19–25, 2026 weekly [act] 8 stories
Kernel drops __get_user/__put_user as 7.4 merge window opens
The __{get,put}_user() removal branch merged alongside LSM namespace hooks, AES moved into lib/crypto, and call_rcu() made callable from ...
Oct 12–18, 2026 weekly [act] 8 stories
Omarchy 4.0.5 moves to Qt 6.12 ahead of feature release
The same release bumps the stable ring packages and ships an updated Omarchy kernel with the BORE scheduler, with the upgrade breaking fo...
Oct 5–11, 2026 weekly [plan] 8 stories
Omarchy polkit PAM stack skipped system-auth
The flaw, reported privately to security@omarchy.org, dropped pam_faillock from fingerprint and FIDO2 polkit logins.
Oct 1–31, 2026 monthly [plan] 8 stories
Kernel merge window opens for 7.4
Linux 7.3 closed out its rc cycle while Omarchy shipped 4.0.5 on Qt 6.12 and put a 4.5.0 release candidate on test machines.
Sep 28–Oct 4, 2026 weekly [act] 8 stories
archinstall 4.5 ships aarch64 and RT support
Linux 7.3-rc6 arrives with EDAC and drm fixes, and Omarchy closes a firewall gap in its SSH teardown.
Sep 21–27, 2026 weekly [act] 8 stories
Omarchy patches two security holes as 7.3-rc5 fixes land
Kernel rc5 gathers i2c, XFS, parisc, TCP and SCSI fixes, while archinstall drops a stale reflector wait and Omarchy reworks screenshots a...
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.
Sep 1–30, 2026 monthly [act] 7 stories
Linux 7.3 rc cycle fixes cgroup kill, SMB corruption
Five release candidates landed fixes for data corruption, use-after-frees, and secretmem accounting, while Omarchy 4.0.3 shipped its own ...
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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