If you are a developer located around Beijing, or if your connection to Beijing is faster and more reliable than to locations outside of China, then you may benefit from the new git.kernel.org mirror kindly provided by Code Aurora Forum at https://kernel.source.codeaurora.cn/. This is …
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Get notifications for your patches
We are trialing out a new feature that can send you a notification when the patches you send to the LKML are applied to linux-next or to the mainline git trees. If you are interested in trying it out, here are the details:
- The patches must be sent to the …
List archives on lore.kernel.org
You may access the archives of many Linux development mailing lists on lore.kernel.org. Most of them include a full archive of messages going back several decades.
If you would like to suggest another kernel development mailing list to be included in this list …
read moreMinor changes to kernel tarball releases
We'd like to announce several small changes to the way Linux tarballs are produced.
Mainline release tarball signatures
Starting with the 4.18 final release, all mainline tarball PGP signatures will be made by Greg Kroah-Hartman instead of Linus Torvalds. The main goal behind this change is to simplify the …
Best way to do linux clones for your CI
If you are in charge of CI infrastructure that needs to perform frequent full clones of kernel trees from git.kernel.org, we strongly recommend that you use the git bundles we provide instead of performing a full clone directly from git repositories.
It is better for you, because downloading …
read moreNitrokey digital tokens for kernel developers
The Linux Foundation IT team has been working to improve the code integrity of git repositories hosted at kernel.org by promoting the use of PGP-signed git tags and commits. Doing so allows anyone to easily verify that git repositories have not been altered or tampered with no matter from …
read moreRC tarballs and patches starting with 4.12-rc1
As you may be aware, starting with 4.12-rc1 Linus will no longer provide signed tarballs and patches for pre-release ("-rc") kernels. Reasons for this are multiple, but largely this is because people who are most interested in pre-release tags -- kernel developers -- do not rely on patches and tarballs to …
read moreIf you got "BAD Signature" this morning
The XZ tarballs for the following kernel releases did not initially pass signature verification due to benign changes to the tarball structure done by the pixz compression tool:
- 4.11.1
- 4.10.16
- 4.9.28
- 4.4.68
These changes would have resulted in GPG returning "Bad Signature …
read moreFast new frontends with Packet
We are extremely happy to announce that Packet has graciously donated the new hardware systems providing read-only public access to the kernel.org git repositories and the public website (git.kernel.org and www.kernel.org, respectively). We have avoided using cloud providers in the past due to security implications …
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