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freenode.netELECTIONS AND VOTING
Five long-time packaging maintainers form a formal governing body after a tightly contested community vote.
RALF GOMMERSPRADYUN GEDAM
HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING
Usama Arif's 29-patch work adds PMD-level swap entries so huge pages need not split on reclaim, with roughly 4x throughput on a swap-heavy benchmark.
NETWORK SECURITY AND FIREWALLS
NLnet Labs ships a security release fixing a heap overflow that can yield remote code execution, plus high-severity DNSSEC and CNAME issues.
DIGITAL FORENSICS AND INCIDENT RESPONSE
Fixes span use-after-free bugs, DNSSEC validation errors, amplification paths, and unauthenticated crashes across recursive and authoritative roles.
INTERNET SYSTEMS CONSORTIUM
COMPUTER HARDWARE AND ARCHITECTURE
A series from Dave Hansen and Suren Baghdasaryan drops architecture gates so binder, TCP, and generic code can lock individual VMAs without mmap_lock fallbacks.