{
  "id": 2796990,
  "title": "Mourning Steve French",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/23/mourning-steve-french",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-23T13:40:42.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "LWN",
    "slug": "lwn",
    "url": "https://lwn.net/Articles/1090098/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "From Jeremy Allison we have the sad news of the passing of Steve French. He was the maintainer of the kernel's SMB filesystem code for many years, having only dropped that role due to health issues in the last week. \" I've known Steve for over 20 years. He was a legend in the community, and a really good friend. He will be greatly missed. Farewell Steve. \" He will indeed be missed.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "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."
}