$ cat linux/week/2026-10-26.log
the week in review · Oct 26 – Nov 1, 2026
NFS 7.4 lands on both client and server
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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-timeout core.
Merge tag 'nfsd-7.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cel/linux torvalds/linux
Chuck Lever's pull lets Jeff Layton's netlink listener-set operation register NFSD's programs with rpcbind itself, so a management daemon is no longer dependent on an rpcbind that has stopped answering. If you run nfsd behind your own daemon, that is the hook to look at.
Merge tag 'nfs-for-7.4-1' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/anna/linux-nfs torvalds/linux
Anna Schumaker's client pull modernizes the direct I/O path and sizes the LAYOUTGET reply buffer for wide flexfiles layouts, with device notifications and caching for wide striping. Large-stripe pNFS deployments are the ones that will notice.
Merge tag 'exfat-for-7.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linkinjeon/exfat torvalds/linux
Namjae Jeon's pull advances valid_size from the recalculated append position, dirties all pages involved in valid-data extension, and zeroes invalid tails on partial overwrites. The change sits squarely on the exfat write path, where a wrong append position turns into corruption.
Merge tag 'i3c/for-7.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/i3c/linux torvalds/linux
Alexandre Belloni's pull adds I3C hub support to the core, with the drivers for it still in progress, so the APIs land ahead of usable hardware support. The rest is fixes and cleanups.
Merge tag 'trace-v7.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace torvalds/linux
Steven Rostedt's pull adds a "within" filter so events can be traced by the function they fall inside, set by echoing a function name into the filter file for a given event. It replaces what used to take a stack trace and post-processing.
Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-10-25-14-57' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm torvalds/linux
Among Andrew Morton's non-MM updates, OCFS2 now stops its recovery thread before freeing failed-mount state and replay slots, closing a use-after-free on the mount error path. That path only runs when a mount fails, which is exactly when it is least exercised.
v4.5.0-rc2 basecamp/omarchy
Omarchy's 4.5 line is out as a release candidate, and the project's own warning is blunt: "Expect bugs, rough edges, and the occasional thing that breaks outright." Alongside it, hibernation setup now writes resume= from the partition's filesystem UUID rather than findmnt's SOURCE column, since NVMe kernel names can swap between boots on a two-disk machine and point resume= at the wrong partition.
Merge tag 'i2c-7.4-part2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/andi.shyti/linux torvalds/linux
Alongside: dynamic transfer timeouts in the I2C core, already in use by qcom-geni, Rust I2C work, LED triggers that report autonomous hardware control transitions, Qualcomm QMI thermal mitigation for PAS-managed remote processors, NTFS ioctls for named streams, LOAD_SWITCH in power-supply, new hwmon drivers, and ata_generic refusing to bind to non-IDE devices.
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