📰 Canonical Announces Live Kernel Patching Support for Ubuntu on ARM64

Ubuntu maker Canonical announced today that its Canonical Livepatch live kernel patching is now available for Ubuntu systems running on the ARM64 (AArch64) architecture.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/canonical-announces-live-kernel-patching-support-for-ubuntu-on-arm64

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📰 Linux 8250/16550 UART Serial Driver Seeing Some Modernization Work In 2026

The Linux 8250 serial driver as the universal/legacy driver for 8250 and 16550 type serial ports has been seeing some modernization work recently with a number of 8250 serial patches having now been merged for the Linux 7.2 kernel...

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-Serial

📰 QSOE v0.1 Released As A QNX-Inspired RISC-V OS

QSOE 0.1 has made its debut as a QNX-inspired, dual kernel architecture open-source operating system just targeting RISC-V...

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/QSOE-0.1-Released

📰 "So Many AI-Fueled Fixes" Means No New ARM64 KVM Features For Linux 7.2

The KVM virtualization-related changes were merged a few days ago for the ongoing Linux 7.2 kernel merge window. While there are a number of features/improvements for AMD and Intel virtualization as well as the likes of s390 and RISC-V, there aren't any new features on ARM64. The lack of ARM64 feature work this cycle is being attributed to "so many AI-fueled fixes" swamping the ARM Linux developers...

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-KVM

📰 NTFS3 Driver Sees Bug Fixes & Minor Improvements With Linux 7.2

While the new NTFS file-system driver merged for Linux 7.1 and has seen more improvements for Linux 7.2, for now at least the NTFS3 kernel driver continues to be maintained with new fixes and improvements. NTFS3 is the driver that was upstreamed to the Linux kernel a few years ago back during the pandemic by Paragon Software...

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-NTFS3

📰 MGLRU Improvement Yielding Nice Gains On Linux 7.2: MongoDB 30~100% Higher Throughput

The many memory management "MM" related improvements were recently merged to Git for the Linux 7.2 kernel. As typical most kernel cycles, some of the low-level improvements can yield nice efficiency wins and better performance in different areas...

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-MM

📰 Ubuntu brings Livepatch to arm64 for rebootless kernel updates

Canonical has brought Livepatch to Arm64 devices for the first time, allowing Ubuntu systems on Arm hardware to apply critical kernel security patches without a full reboot. Livepatch is one of Ubuntu’s best hidden security features – it’s not enabled by default, requires Ubuntu Pro – as it allows kernel security updates to be applied in memory while your system is running. Normally, a restart is needed.

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https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/06/ubuntu-livepatch-arm64

📰 KSMBD Adds SMB2 Compression Support In Linux 7.2

Merged back in Linux 5.15 in 2021 was KSMBD as an in-kernel SMB3 file server. There hasn't been much KSMBD news to report on recently but for Linux 7.2 there is now SMB2 compression support...

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-KSMBD

📰 Linux Cache Aware Scheduling Extended For Even Better Performance: Up To 360% In MySQL

Cache Aware Scheduling is one of the most exciting kernel innovations to land in Linux this year. While it was finally merged last week to Linux 7.2, a new patch series today is already working to extend Cache Aware Scheduling and is showing some exciting performance improvements...

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Extended-Cache-Aware-Sched

📰 New DirtyClone Linux Kernel Flaw Lets Local Users Gain Root via Cloned Packets

DirtyClone is a new Linux kernel privilege escalation in the DirtyFrag family. JFrog Security Research published a working exploit walkthrough for the flaw on June 25, the first public demonstration for this variant.Tracked as CVE-2026-43503 (CVSS 8.8), it lets a local user corrupt file-backed memory through a cloned network packet and gain root. The patch landed in.

🔗 Source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/06/new-dirtyclone-linux-kernel-flaw-lets.html

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