DAMON Release Newsletter for v7.4-rc1

This is also posted to the mailing list. Hello community, This newsletter covers DAMON features that landed on or queued for the mainline, development statistics and misc events that were noteworthy in my opinion, that were happened from v7.3-rc1 (2026-08-30) to v7.4-rc1 (2026-11-01) time period. The newsletter covering the previous release cycle (v7.2-rc1..v7.3-rc1) is also available [1]. TL;DR 23 authors made 159 commits with 3,260 lines of changes for DAMON on the Linux mainline....

November 1, 2026 · 10 min · 2041 words · Me