$ cat linux/week/2026-11-02.log
the week in review · Nov 2 – Nov 8, 2026
RTC merge lifts 32-bit hctosys limit for Y2038
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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.
Merge tag 'rtc-7.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/abelloni/linux torvalds/linux
Alexandre Belloni's pull adds a way for 32-bit systems to lift the hctosys limit so they can pass Y2038, plus a driver for the Raspberry Pi 5 RTC. Anything still storing wall-clock time in a 32-bit time_t on such hardware now has a path off the 2038 cliff, assuming the platform opts in.
vfs: fix take_dentry_name_snapshot() semantics torvalds/linux
take_dentry_name_snapshot() would retry forever on a dentry name that could never become valid after the dentry was released. Normal users held a reference, but a path that did not could spin in the kernel; that livelock is now closed.
mptcp: pm: kernel: use RCU to free endpoint listeners torvalds/linux
mptcp_pm_nl_create_listen_socket() starts the TCP listener directly rather than via mptcp_listen(), so it never sets SOCK_RCU_FREE on the parent socket and tcp_child_process() could reach freed endpoint listeners. The fix frees them under RCU.
net: bridge: disable MRP ports before the FDB flush in del_nbp() torvalds/linux
by Cheng Yongkang
del_nbp() flushed FDB entries before unregistering the RX handler, and the STP path that disables a normal port first does not apply to MRP ring ports. MRP ports are now disabled before the flush.
v4.5.0-rc3 basecamp/omarchy
The Omarchy release candidate adds per-monitor workspaces and translations across 49 languages. The release notes are explicit that this is a candidate with rough edges, so test it or confirm your rollback snapshot before touching a machine you rely on.
Turn off animations when Hyprland renders on the CPU basecamp/omarchy
When Hyprland has no GPU driver and Mesa falls back to llvmpipe, animations, blur and shadows now switch off, since every animated frame was otherwise drawn on the CPU and kept a core busy. The check keys off the GL renderer name (llvmpipe, softpipe, Software Rasterizer).
Use prebuilt NVIDIA modules on linux-omarchy (#17409) basecamp/omarchy
linux-omarchy-nvidia-open ships NVIDIA's open modules built and signed with each kernel, so N1x laptops stop compiling them via DKMS on every kernel update. Less build surface on update day for those machines.
Merge tag '9p-for-7.4-rc2' of https://github.com/martinetd/linux torvalds/linux
Dominique Martinet's pull is, in his words, "mostly a huge wave of LLM-driven fixes" for 9p, with a note that the rate seemed to slow recently. Elsewhere: bootconfig now parses extra_init_args before command-line init arguments in start_kernel(), matching the documented order.
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