Back home for all of next 5 days before heading out to Prague.

Ah, the sophisticated humour of a bunch of 12-13 year olds roasting hotdogs over campfire.

Much clear. Most helpful.

#Ukraine has verified 20,651 cases of the deportation and forced transfer of Ukrainian children by russia, said Maksym Maksymov, head of the presidential initiative Bring Kids Back UA.

💬 "As of September 18, 2026, Ukraine has verified 20,651 cases of the deportation and forced transfer of Ukrainian children

Each case has been checked by the Interagency Commission, and all have been entered into the Registry maintained by the Ministry of Justice"
https://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/1209948.html

@ephemeromorph I raise my glass to our new AI overlords.

RE: https://topspicy.social/@ephemeromorph/117326362788272913

CDG ✈️ YUL

Yeah, that's pretty accurate. The crying face behind me is from my presentation where I talk about llore (see llore.docs.kernel.org).

Thanks as always, Frank Tizzoni!

5.5 is very nice, Anthropic, but what I look forward to is Opus 6.7.

Massive thanks to @corbet for being this year's godfather, you set the bar dangerously high! #kr2026

And the torch now passes to @dwmw2 for 2027! No pressure. 🔥 #kr2027

If you want to try the maintainer-container, the docs are here:

https://llore.docs.kernel.org/

It's still pretty early stages, and the feature set is fairly minimal. However, this will let you set up local list mirrors and access them via MCP to give you that ability to do things like "show me a summary of all new series sent to my subsystems today".

Slides from my Kernel Recipes talk.

https://slides.com/mricon/maintainer-container

Also attached as PDF.

We now publish tar'd up shallow git clones you can use with your CI. Please carefully read the safety caveats and use the script we provide to make sure you're not getting something malicious:

https://people.kernel.org/monsieuricon/using-shallow-git-tarballs-for-ci

What's new in git 3.0: branches management

Move from file management to reftables format

Migrating:
git refs migrate --ref-format=reftables

It comes y default in git 3.0

#kr2026

Git 3.0 breaking changes : what and when
#kr2026

#kr2026 b4 review turns into a full maintainer workbench:

Series tracking: it follows patch series across revisions using the Change-ID, shows DKIM attestation and trailer counts, and flags when a newer version (v7) lands. Triage actions include upgrade, abandon, wait, and snooze.

In-terminal review: notes, email replies, follow-ups, and CI checks, all driven by keybindings.

#kr2026 The demo shows an LLM agent acting as a natural-language front end to the maintainer workflow. It queries b4's tracked series and the list archives, filters out noise, and returns a triaged digest.

On top of that, b4 keeps prior revisions so the agent can check whether review comments were addressed. It also offers firehose-management actions: park, wait for a new revision, quick trailers, and apply-and-thank. Next up are "workbooks" for bundling and reviewing several series together.

I'm up next!

#kr2026

This presentation says "Criticality" a lot and I can't help but inwardly repeat it in the Mortal Kombat voice.

Stream is alive for the second day of #kr2026

https://youtube.com/live/t0rhCUg66V0

Mais que oui, let's go!