Welcome to the LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 16, 2018

• Meltdown strikes back: the L1 terminal fault vulnerability: another unpleasant speculative-execution bug that threatens virtualized environments in particular.
• CVE-2018-5390 and "embargoes": what went wrong with the disclosure of a networking vulnerability.
• The mismatched mount mess: the mount() system call may not always respect the principle of least surprise; should the new mount API behave similarly?
• The importance of being noisy: a proposed change to make a class of kernel bug stand out.
• The Data Transfer Project: an industry effort to encourage data portability between sites.

This week's edition also includes these inner pages:

• Brief items: Brief news items from throughout the community.
• Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.

Please enjoy this week's edition, and, as always, thank you for supporting LWN.net.