LWN

LWN calls Linux 7.3 a record-breaking release: 18,765 non-merge commits from 3,021 developers, 807 of them first-timers. The headline changes include a new fchroot() system call, per-CPU global data for BPF, and a finished sched_ext subscheduler.

There is also failfs, a filesystem that deliberately fails every operation, built for testing.

The xsnow screensaver's maintainer added code that shows a Ukrainian flag at 30% probability for Russian-locale users, versus 2% for others. A complaint calling it discrimination misfired: the DFSG governs licenses, not behaviour.

Russ Allbery flagged the real worry: software that secretly changes behaviour by locale. The thread's flip, from a Debian dev: the flag already appeared at random; the patch only changed the odds.