Google engineers have been spending the past number of months developing Sashiko as an agentic AI code review system for the Linux kernel. It's now open-source and publicly available and will continue to do upstream Linux kernel code review thanks to funding from Google.

Roman Gushchin of Google's Linux kernel team announced yesterday as this new agentic AI code review system. They have been using it internally at Google for some time to uncover issues and it's now publicly available and covering all submissions to the Linux kernel mailing

The widely-used GRUB bootloader is now being developed on FreeDesktop.org with a modern GitLab-based workflow.

GNU GRUB to now had been hosted by the GNU Savannah Git repository, but is now transitioning to FreeDesktop,org where moving forward will support a modern development workflow using merge requests.

A new platform feature being worked on by Arm engineers for the Linux kernel is Live Firmware Activation to allow for updated firmware components to be deployed without requiring a system reboot.

As Arm continues to make progress in the data center and hyperscaler space, Arm is rolling out Live Firmware Activation "LFA" for deploying firmware updates whether it be security fixes or functional issues without the need of any system downtime due to a reboot.

Arm engineer Andre Przywara describes the LFA feature as:

"This series implements the kernel side support of

For those that happen to have the Logitech MX Master 4 wireless mouse or are considering this high-end ~$120 USD Bluetooth mouse, better support for it was merged yesterday to Linux 7.0.

With this week's HID subsystem fixes merged for Linux 7.0, there is better support for the Logitech MX Master 4 connected via Bluetooth. In particular, enabling Logitech's HID++ functionality for the mouse. This allows for non-standard HID features to be enabled like high resolution

Version 4.3 of the CMake software development tool / build system was released today. Notable with CMake 4.3 is support for importing and exporting packages described using the Common Package Specification (CPS) for greater interoperability in the ecosystem.

The Common Package Specification is a newer means of describing software packages in a JSON-based format that can be easily consumed by other software projects. This JSON-based spec aims to make it easier to handle software dependency descriptions for C/C++ and other uses while offering

Systemd 260 was just released as the newest stable version of this widely-used Linux init system and service manager. Systemd 260 brings yet more features to this critical open-source project and to be incorporated into H1'2026 Linux distributions.

Systemd 260 ships with many new changes and features including:

- Support for System V service scripts has been removed. This has long been deprecated and known to be coming down the pipe while now it's finally here. System

AMD Ryzen AI NPUs are now running LLMs on Linux with the recently debuted Lemonade 10.0 server and FastFlowLM 0.9.35 adding Linux support. In addition to those software components, AMD engineers have also been developing MLIR-AIE as a compiler toolchain for AMD AI Engine devices such as Ryzen AI NPUs in leveraging LLVM-based code generation with the Multi-Level Intermediate Representation (MLIR). Out today is MLIR-AIE v1.3 with some notable new features.

MLIR-AIE provides

OpenJDK 26 is out today as the newest GA reference version for the Java SE platform. With Java 26, it's finally time to say a goodbye to the Java Applet API.

Java Applets haven't been common on the web in years and modern web browsers not even supporting Java applets. Since 2021 the Java Applet API was deprecated back in Java 17 while now with Java 26 is finally being removed. Farewell to the java.applet package and associated Java Applet classes.

The community-focused, RHEL/CentOS-derived AlmaLinux distribution announced its support today for the RISC-V CPU ISA with AlmaLinux Kitten 10 builds being made available.

AlmaLinux Kitten 10 is their version tracking CentOS Stream 10 changes and as a testing area for future AlmaLinux 10 changes. Following CentOS Stream 10 improvements for RISC-V, AlmaLinux has begun producing RISC-V builds. AlmaLinux Kitten 10 for RISC-V targets the RV64GC profile. Initially there are Docker containers as