Kernel Watch
Jon Masters keeps up with all the latest happenings in the Linux kernel, so you don’t have to.
Linus Torvalds announced the fourth RC (Release Candidate) for what will become Linux 6.9 in another few weeks. In his announcement, he noted that there was “Nothing particularly unusual going on this week – some new hardware mitigations may stand out, but after a decade of this I can’t really call it ‘unusual’ anymore, can I?” This was in relation to yet another speculative execution vulnerability that had been mitigated, called Native Branch History Injection.