Maintainers Summit 2026: LLMs, security bugs and succession in the kernel
The annual invitation-only kernel maintainers meeting, held on 8 October 2026 in Prague, discussed the impact of large language models, security bugs and long-term succession planning.
The Maintainers Summit is a one-day, invitation-only meeting for about 30 kernel developers. It takes place once a year to discuss policy questions that cannot always be settled by e-mail.
The 2026 event was scheduled for 8 October in Prague, Czechia. According to the report, discussions were dominated by large language models (LLMs) and their effects on the development community. There was also time for security bugs and long-term succession planning.
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The report does not present specific technical decisions or solutions. It serves as a record of how the kernel community is evaluating the use of AI in its own work.