diff --git a/SPECS-SIGNED/systemd-boot-signed/systemd-boot-signed.spec b/SPECS-SIGNED/systemd-boot-signed/systemd-boot-signed.spec
index 9fba90373ca..01abce4cc25 100644
--- a/SPECS-SIGNED/systemd-boot-signed/systemd-boot-signed.spec
+++ b/SPECS-SIGNED/systemd-boot-signed/systemd-boot-signed.spec
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ Version:        255
 # determine the build information from local checkout
 Version:        %(tools/meson-vcs-tag.sh . error | sed -r 's/-([0-9])/.^\1/; s/-g/_g/')
 %endif
-Release:        36%{?dist}
+Release:        37%{?dist}
 License:        LGPL-2.1-or-later AND MIT AND GPL-2.0-or-later
 Vendor:         Microsoft Corporation
 Distribution:   Azure Linux
@@ -98,6 +98,9 @@ popd
 /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/%{grubefiname}
 
 %changelog
+* Fri Oct 30 2026 Alex Cortelyou <alcortel@microsoft.com> - 255-37
+- Bump release to match systemd spec.
+
 * Tue Oct 27 2026 Suresh Babu Chalamalasetty <schalam@microsoft.com> - 255-36
 - Bump release to match systemd spec.
 
diff --git a/SPECS/systemd/10-netlink-timeout.conf b/SPECS/systemd/10-netlink-timeout.conf
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..bb6b0cc1ae2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/SPECS/systemd/10-netlink-timeout.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+[Service]
+Environment=SYSTEMD_NETLINK_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT=100s
diff --git a/SPECS/systemd/systemd.signatures.json b/SPECS/systemd/systemd.signatures.json
index 27e5c35758d..b6f8fd8b26a 100644
--- a/SPECS/systemd/systemd.signatures.json
+++ b/SPECS/systemd/systemd.signatures.json
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "Signatures": {
   "10-console-messages.conf": "6cfc12931ac75df710aa1d323cdb98592935692cd9d32260d6118f9ad03a42e2",
   "10-map-count.conf": "bad4f0bbf268860582402bb4131b7b3586bf1f098a8bf89a6adf503191bc8913",
+  "10-netlink-timeout.conf": "f3997133123bc14e5a38da6acf562a35b5a3d9e60577870960c37e19b553dbd5",
   "10-oomd-defaults.conf": "f7c8e9d3455bf54795063e3914956b4e15ba52f493b0f2304abef6326a80c6cb",
   "10-oomd-per-slice-defaults.conf": "3f0d6882312affecddfdc5a204a44c34b90c573839f2a4850a26b44f528520bd",
   "10-timeout-abort.conf": "ae6b234f92bc22f1201a7572b59b454c9809f33c80d13f361b9674e1801acc37",
diff --git a/SPECS/systemd/systemd.spec b/SPECS/systemd/systemd.spec
index fd5caae3968..b6c5062fd74 100644
--- a/SPECS/systemd/systemd.spec
+++ b/SPECS/systemd/systemd.spec
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ Version:        255
 # determine the build information from local checkout
 Version:        %(tools/meson-vcs-tag.sh . error | sed -r 's/-([0-9])/.^\1/; s/-g/_g/')
 %endif
-Release:        36%{?dist}
+Release:        37%{?dist}
 
 # FIXME - hardcode to 'stable' for now as that's what we have in our blobstore
 %global stable 1
@@ -104,6 +104,7 @@ Source23:       sysusers.prov
 Source24:       sysusers.generate-pre.sh
 
 Source25:       98-default-mac-none.link
+Source26:       10-netlink-timeout.conf
 
 %if 0
 GIT_DIR=../../src/systemd/.git git format-patch-ab --no-signature -M -N v235..v235-stable
@@ -914,6 +915,8 @@ install -m 0755 -D -t %{buildroot}%{_rpmconfigdir}/ %{SOURCE24}
 # https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2107754
 install -Dm0644 -t %{buildroot}%{_prefix}/lib/systemd/network/ %{SOURCE25}
 
+install -Dm0644 -t %{buildroot}%{system_unit_dir}/systemd-networkd.service.d/ %{SOURCE26}
+
 ln -s --relative %{buildroot}%{_bindir}/kernel-install %{buildroot}%{_sbindir}/installkernel
 
 %find_lang %{name}
@@ -1263,6 +1266,9 @@ rm -f %{name}.lang
 # %autochangelog. So we need to continue manually maintaining the
 # changelog here.
 %changelog
+* Fri Oct 30 2026 Alex Cortelyou <alcortel@microsoft.com> - 255-37
+- Increase networkd's default netlink timeout to 100 seconds.
+
 * Tue Oct 27 2026 Suresh Babu Chalamalasetty <schalam@microsoft.com> - 255-36
 - Backport upstream sd-event fix for hang after ratelimit expiry (systemd/systemd#44107, commit 1a60b10)