It seems that we are in for an extended period of the disclosure of vulnerabilities before fixes become available. One possible way of coping with this flood might be the killswitch proposal from Sasha Levin. In short, killswitch can immediately disable access to specific functionality in a running kernel, essentially blasting a vulnerable path (and its associated functionality) out of existence until a fix can be installed. "For most users, the cost of 'this socket family stops working for the day' is much smaller than the cost of running a known vulnerable kernel until the fix land."

The kernel's DAMON subsystem provides user-space monitoring and management of system memory. DAMON is developing rapidly, so an update on its progress has become a regular feature of the annual Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit. This tradition continued at the 2026 gathering with an update from DAMON creator SeongJae Park covering a long list of new capabilities — tiering, data attributes monitoring, transparent huge pages, and more — being added to this subsystem.