{
  "id": 2599865,
  "title": "Longtime Linux CIFS/SMB3 Maintainer Steps Down",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/22/longtime-linux-cifs-smb3-maintainer-steps-down",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-22T15:14:41.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Phoronix",
    "slug": "phoronix",
    "url": "https://www.phoronix.com/news/SMB3-CIFS-Maintainer-Change"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "There is a changing of the guard with Linux 7.3 as the maintainer of the Common Internet File System (CIFS) / SMB3 code within the Linux kernel. Longtime maintainer, principal Linux CIFS author, and current Microsoft employee Steve French has stepped down due to health reasons...",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}