The Linux Foundation January 2026 Newsletter // TRAIN BRAIN

The Linux Foundation January 2026 Newsletter

The January 2026 Linux Foundation Newsletter is live, starting the year with highlights from the 2025 Annual Report and a look at how open source continues to shape AI, cloud native platforms, and collaboration across the globe.
From leadership insights to new research, training opportunities, and upcoming community events, this edition reflects the momentum driving open innovation forward.
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The Linux Foundation January 2026 Newsletter

Lightning Talk: “How Rust Is Steering Automotive Software Toward Safety” Motoyuki Kimura, Woven

Protocols shared Infrastructure

Lightning Talk: Rust Will Solve All Your Problems, Possibly. Arm’s Journey to Using... Andrew Wafaa

Rust as a Foundation for a Safe and Sustainable Future - Joel Marcey

Opening Remarks from the Rust Foundation - Dr. Rebecca Rumbul

Lightning Talk: The Humble Rustacean: Human Factors Behind Rust’s Success - Maté Kovacs

Lightning Talk: MORK (in Rust) - Luke Peterson & Remy Clarke, MORK

The Next Wave of AI: Insights with Jim Zemlin

Kubernetes 1.35: In-Place Pod Updates, Native Workload Identity & AI Scheduling | Drew Hagen

eBPF for Observability: Hard Truths and Practical Wins - Kenta Tada & Shung-Hsi Yu

Towards a Decade of Industrial Grade Linux: CIP’s Journey and the Road Ahead - Yoshitake Kobayashi

OF-nodes, Fwnodes, Swnodes, Devlinks, Properties - Understanding How Devices... Bartosz Golaszewski

Enhancing Your Gaming Experience on Linux With Sched_ext - Changwoo Min, Igalia

hkml: Mailing Tool for Simple Linux Kernel Development - SeongJae (SJ) Park, Meta

I3C, the Industry, and Linux - Wolfram Sang, Renesas

EROFS: Current Status and Future Plans - Xiang Gao, Alibaba Cloud

How Can Your OSPO Ensure Viability of the Open Source Projects That Your Product Reli... Masae Shida

You Never Know When You Need a Fork: Lessons Learned Building... Madelyn Olson & Roberto Luna Rojas

Flutter-workspace Tool by Example - Setup for AGL Terrific Trout - Jan-Simon Möller

NVIDIA's Approach for Achieving ASIL B Qualified Linux - Bryan Huntsman US, NVIDIA

Global OSPO Strategies Overcoming Regional Challenges for Sustainabl... Norio Kobota & Alin Jerpelea

Bringing LTS To Kubernetes: Lessons From the Field - Youssef Eltoukhy, Canonical

Kubernetes Multi-tenancy: Principles and Practices for Large Scale Internal Deve... Hiroshi Hayakawa

Enabling Seamless AI Workloads: Achieving Zero-Downtime Upgrades for FUSE in Kubernetes - Weiwei Zhu

Secure Authorization for Agentic AI in Multi-Domain Environments - Yoshiyuki Tabata, Hitachi, Ltd.

Keynote: What is Learning in the AI Era? - Stefania Druga, Research Scientist, Sakana AI

Linux User Namespaces: A Blessing and a Curse - Ignat Korchagin, Cloudflare

Status of DTS Validation in Linux Kernel - Krzysztof Kozlowski, Qualcomm

OFP: Agentic AI Standard for Hallucination Mitigation and Multi-Agent Collaboration - Diego Gosmar

Keynote: Accelerating SDV Through Open-Source Based Virtualization - Masashige Mizuyama

Securing the Invisible Hands: Policy and Guardrails for AI-Driven Infra... Annie Talvasto & Karl Ots

Getting Started With New KernelCI CLI Tools for Automating Linux Kernel Testing... Arisu Tachibana

Keynote: State of the Union - Jim Zemlin, Executive Director, The Linux Foundation

Taming the Chaos: Open Standards for Data Contracts and Products Are the Back... Jean-Georges Perrin

Implementing Case-insensitive File Systems in the Linux Kernel - André Almeida, Igalia

Keynote: Welcome & Opening Remarks - Noriaki Fukuyasu

Secure Path Operations and Libpathrs - Aleksa Sarai, Independent

Keynote: AGL SoDeV: Leading the Software Defined Vehicles Revolution - Dan Cauchy

Scaling GitHub Actions To the CNCF - Jeffrey Sica, Cloud Native Computing Foundation

Open Models vs Closed Models: The $25B Question Explained by Frank Nagle, Linux Foundation

Christopher Tineo is here with a reminder: Cyber Week brings the biggest deals of the year.

Ramesh Kumar says Cyber Week is the biggest Kubestronaut deal of all time!

Hardeep Singh Tiwana has a message for you: launch windows don't stay open forever!

Golden Kubestronaut Fabrizio Sgura say you can go a lot farther than you think!

Hoon Jo says Cyber Week is the best time to get your Kubernetes certification!

Artem Lajko says, Kubestronauts don't wait — they launch when the Cyber Week window opens.

Nasiullha Chaudhari, DevOps Tip: If you want Kubernetes certification, Cyber Week is THE week.

Reynaldo Linares, Cloud Engineer: Kubernetes certifications keep you focused on skills that matter!

Golden Kubestronaut & CNCF Ambassador Pedro Célestin: Cyber Week has the best deals of the year!

Cloud native genius James Spurin says, CYBER WEEK STARTS TOMORROW! Save up to 65%

Christophe Sauthier announces Cyber ​​Week starts December 1st!

A message on Cyber Week from CNCF Ambassador Dmitry Shurupov, Co-Founder, Palark GmbH

Why OpenSearch Is Becoming the Backbone of AI & Observability | Bianca Lewis, OSSF

Thomas Dohmke, Former CEO, Github in Conversation with Gab Columbro, GM, Linux Foundation Europe

Energy Update - Christophe Villemer, Savoir-faire Linux

Keynote: Daniele Tonella, Chief Technology Officer, ING

Keynote: Closing Remarks - Gabriele Columbro, General Manager, Linux Foundation Europe

The State of Play of Open Source in Europe - Hilary Carter, LF Research

Welcome + Opening Remarks - Gabriele Columbro, General Manager, Linux Foundation Europe

LF Europe Update: Policy, Projects, Priorities - Mirko Boehm, Sr. Director of Community Development

Margo Project Update - Paul Brooks, Steer Co-representative of Rockwell Automation at Margo

NeoNephos: Building a Sovereign Cloud Native Technology Stack - Peter Giese, SAP

Driving Automotive with Open Source: From Compliance to Collaboration - Philipp Ahmann, Etas GmbH

Challenges Using OSS in Financial Services - Renzo Cherin, Lloyds Banking Group

Closing the Backdoor: Digital Sovereignty for EU & Public Authorities with Open Source

Panel Discussion: Open Source Enabling Industrial Innovation

Panel Discussion: Public & Private Support of the Open Source Ecosystem

Sponsored Session: Building Enterprise Solutions in the AI-Native Era with Red Hat - Daniel Oh

Keynote: The Open Source Pathway: Democratizing AI's Benefits to Korea's Economy... - A. Hermansen

Governing Open Source in the Enterprise: OSPO Strategies for Innovation and Compliance -David Hirsch

Keynote: Owning Your Silicon Future Starts with Building on RISC-V - Divyang Agrawal

Keynote: Linus Torvalds, Creator of Linux & Git, in Conversation with Dirk Hohndel

The Open Source Imperative in AI: Transparency, Governance, and Global... - C. Xie & J. McCrosky

Vector Search Made Simple: Getting Started with OpenSearch for AI Applications - Dotan Horovits

Keynote: Rust in the Linux Kernel, Why? - Greg Kroah-Hartman

Securing Open Source With SBOM: From Visibility To Trust - Heejo Lee, Korea University

How To Talk To Your Lawyer about Open Source - Jimmy Ahlberg, Ericsson

Accelerating Korea's Open Source Future: Workforce, Innovation, & AI - Anna Hermansen

Christophe Sauthier announces Cyber Week starts December 1st!