Proceedings of

Upstream 2026

14–16 January 2027 · Venue to be announced

Tickets: TBA Submit a talk Programme

3 days 33 sessions 3 keynotes Submissions open

1Programme

Thursday 14 January

10:00Rust in the kernel after the experiment
10:45TBA
11:00A year of mainline kernel releases
11:15Writing a sched_ext scheduler
11:30Debugging boot failures with systemd
11:45TBA
12:15Image-based Linux with bootc
13:00TBA
14:00Moving off CentOS 7
14:45nftables for iptables users
15:00Sandboxing your own programs with Landlock
15:15TBA
15:45Packaging an application as a Flatpak
16:00Firmware updates with fwupd and LVFS
16:15TBA
16:45eBPF tracing for system administrators

Friday 15 January

10:00The Cyber Resilience Act and Linux distributions
10:45TBA
11:15Wayland-only desktops
11:30PipeWire for audio production
11:45Snapshots and rollback with Btrfs and Snapper
12:00TBA
12:15Kernel maintainers panel
13:00TBA
14:00Living with kernel CVEs
14:30TBA
14:45Live patching with kpatch
15:00PREEMPT_RT on a robot arm controller
15:15Linux on RISC-V development boards
15:30TBA
16:15Running a Linux user group
16:30TBA
16:45Tuning io_uring for storage workloads

Saturday 16 January

10:00What gaming did for the Linux desktop
10:45Getting started with Mesa development
11:00Declarative workstations with NixOS
11:15TBA
11:45Unified kernel images and measured boot
12:00TBA
12:15Containers from scratch
13:00TBA
14:00Ubuntu 26.04 and Rust coreutils
14:30TBA
15:00Zram and memory pressure on small systems
15:15XFS online repair
15:30Sending your first kernel patch
15:45Desktop accessibility with Orca
16:00TBA
16:45Debugging kernel crashes with drgn

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2Keynote speakers

Keynote · Thursday 10:00 Michelle Park Google Rust in the kernel after the experiment

Keynote · Friday 10:00 Samantha Reed Open Source Security Foundation The Cyber Resilience Act and Linux distributions

Keynote · Saturday 10:00 Frank DeLuca Igalia What gaming did for the Linux desktop

3Call for papers

The topics for this year's call are to be announced .

How to submit →

Call for papers

Status	Open
Closes	19 November 2026
Lengths	15, 30 or 45 minutes

4Venue

Venue	TBA
Address	TBA
City	TBA
Dates	14–16 January 2027

Getting there →

The venue is to be announced .

5Tickets

Ticket	Early bird	Standard
Corporate	$345	$490
Individual	$195	$290
Student	$60	$75
Supporter	$1,000

Early-bird prices apply until 12 November 2026.

Tickets: TBA

6Sponsors

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