--- title: What is happening to the Linux kernel, Bitwarden and... description: Linux kernel maintainers dropped the mandatory 'assisted by AI' disclosure tag, with Tolv calling a ban on LLMs 'utterly stupid.' Kernel 7.3 ships with... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/what-is-happening-to-the-linux-kernel-bitwarden-and-epic-games---linux-weekly-news-xouxv4nlt twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: What is happening to the Linux kernel, Bitwarden and Epic Games? - Linux Weekly News | daily.dev og:description: Linux kernel maintainers dropped the mandatory 'assisted by AI' disclosure tag, with Tolv calling a ban on LLMs 'utterly stupid.' Kernel 7.3 ships with... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/what-is-happening-to-the-linux-kernel-bitwarden-and-epic-games---linux-weekly-news-xouxv4nlt og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/XouxV4nLt.png og:image:alt: What is happening to the Linux kernel, Bitwarden and Epic Games? - Linux Weekly News og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # What is happening to the Linux kernel, Bitwarden and Epic Games? - Linux Weekly News **[The Linux Experiment](https://daily.dev/sources/linuxexp)** · 29 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Linux kernel maintainers dropped the mandatory 'assisted by AI' disclosure tag, with Tolv calling a ban on LLMs 'utterly stupid.' Kernel 7.3 ships with per-core AMD power management, better AMD GPU crash recovery and VRAM overcommit handling, plus initial Apple M3 and improved RISC-V support. Kernel 7.4 is pulling in roughly 17,000 lines of new code, including Rust. Bitwarden is moving official app store and website releases to a commercial license while keeping GPL code on GitHub. A major PHP vulnerability (two CVEs, dubbed PHP2Shell) allowed remote code execution across every PHP version back to 5.4 and has been patched. LibreOffice reports 9.4 million downloads since its August release, and Wine has been experimentally ported to OpenBSD, running games like The Witcher 3. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### Does the Linux kernel still require developers to disclose AI-assisted code contributions? No, kernel maintainers ruled that disclosing AI use is no longer mandatory. Linus Torvalds argued that banning LLMs in the kernel would be 'utterly stupid,' comparing it to banning a compiler, since maintainers judge submitted code rather than the tools used to write it. _Developers weighing AI coding policy debates can follow kernel governance updates like this on daily.dev._ ### What does Bitwarden's move to a commercial license mean for the open-source version? Bitwarden will publish all official app store, browser extension, and website releases under a commercial license while keeping the existing GPL codebase on GitHub for self-compiling or self-hosting. Features currently match between versions, but each new feature will now be evaluated separately for GPL versus commercial inclusion, meaning the open-source build could eventually fall behind. _Anyone choosing a password manager can track licensing shifts like Bitwarden's on daily.dev before committing._ ### What PHP versions were affected by the PHP2Shell remote code execution vulnerability? The vulnerability, made up of two CVEs exploited via a script called PHP2Shell, affected every PHP version released back to version 5.4, roughly a decade of releases. It allowed remote code execution and could expose process memory containing API keys, certificates, authentication tokens, and passwords. The PHP team has patched the flaws. _Teams running PHP in production can keep up with critical patches like this via daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [FOSS Weekly \#26.16: Kernel 7.0, Essential Terminal Tips, France Linux Move, New Age Verification Bill and More](https://daily.dev/posts/foss-weekly-26-16-kernel-7-0-essential-terminal-tips-france-linux-move-new-age-verification-bil-mfduuvp1x) · It's Foss · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source), [#linux](https://daily.dev/tags/linux), [#php](https://daily.dev/tags/php), [#rust](https://daily.dev/tags/rust) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/what-is-happening-to-the-linux-kernel-bitwarden-and-epic-games---linux-weekly-news-xouxv4nlt) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"What is happening to the Linux kernel, Bitwarden and Epic Games? - Linux Weekly News","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/what-is-happening-to-the-linux-kernel-bitwarden-and-epic-games---linux-weekly-news-xouxv4nlt","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/what-is-happening-to-the-linux-kernel-bitwarden-and-epic-games---linux-weekly-news-xouxv4nlt"},"datePublished":"2026-10-24T08:42:31.815Z","dateModified":"2026-10-24T08:43:03.450Z","description":"Linux kernel maintainers dropped the mandatory 'assisted by AI' disclosure tag, with Tolv calling a ban on LLMs 'utterly stupid.' 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