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Linux 6.9 Deprecates The EXT2 File-System Driver
While Linux 6.9 brings many great changes and new features / hardware support, on the deprecation side it's deprecating the classic EXT2 file-system driver...
AMDVLK 2024.Q1.3 Released With Fixes
AMD today released its third and last open-source Vulkan driver update of the quarter...
Intel Adds Linux Driver PCI IDs For Arc Graphics A750E & A580E
Intel has sent out driver patches today for adding two additional PCI IDs to the DG2/Alchemist family for their Xe and i915 Linux kernel graphics drivers...
Linux Enabling Shadow Stack Support For x32
Back in Linux 6.6 the Shadow Stack support was finally merged as part of Intel's Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET). This years-in-the-making effort allows for better defending against ROP attacks for newer generations of Intel processors. For Linux 6.10, Shadow Stack support is being extended to x32...
Intel VA-API 2.21 Library Adds Intel Xe Kernel Driver Support, AV1 & Windows Fixes
Intel engineers that maintain the common VA-API library "libva" today released version 2.21 with several fixes and additions for this Video Acceleration API support...
Panthor DRM Driver Queued For Linux 6.10 To Support Newer Arm Mali GPUs
The open-source Panthor DRM driver for supporting newer Arm Mali GPUs was queued in drm-misc-next at the start of March ahead of the Linux 6.9 merge window. It ultimately though didn't see a drm-misc-next pull to DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 6.9 merge window and thus being held off until the Linux 6.10 cycle. This week though that drm-misc-next submission to DRM-Next took place as that driver and other changes begin queuing for Linux 6.10...
Linux 6.9 Features: DM VDO, AMD Preferred Core, Intel FRED & Larger Console Fonts
Now that Linux 6.9-rc1 was released on Sunday to mark the end of the merge window, here is a look at all of the new features that have been merged for the Linux 6.9 kernel cycle.
Canonical Extends Ubuntu LTS Support To 12 Years For Ubuntu Pro Customers
Ubuntu Long-Term Support (LTS) releases have been support for 10 years of updates by Canonical while now that has been extended to 12 years but only for Ubuntu Pro customers going for their legacy support add-on. This 12 year support is extended retroactively going back to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS...
Inkscape Development Version Switches To Using GTK4
The latest upstream development code for the Inkscape vector graphics program has transitioned to using the GTK4 toolkit...
Linux 6.9 Will Boot Much Faster For Systems With Large Amounts Of RAM
The Linux 6.9 kernel will be able to boot systems with large amounts of memory -- and in particular making use of HugeTLB pages -- much faster than with previous kernels, netting a noticeable reduction in boot times...
Mesa 24.1 Merges AMD Radeon VPE 1.1 Engine Support
AMD open-source Linux driver patches posted last summer enabled the new "VPE" IP block as a general purpose copy engine for future AMD GPUs. This VPE block might premiere in the upcoming AMD RDNA3.5 refresh (RDNA3+) integrated graphics but in any event AMD is already working on the incrementally improved VPE 1.1 IP with that now being supported by the Mesa 24.1 RadeonSI driver code...
Tiny Corp Changes Course Yet Again With Plans To Offer AMD Radeon GPUs
It was just last week that Tiny Corp put their AMD Radeon graphics powered compute boxes "on hold" after being frustrated with the lack of select firmware source code and ultimately hitting various bugs. This wasn't the first time they had put their AMD Radeon graphics plans on-hold or dismissed it outright. With the start of the new week now comes plans to re-introduce an AMD Radeon graphics option for their compute boxes alongside their recently announced NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 compute rigs...
Intel NPU Linux Driver 1.2 Released
Intel today published a new version of its NPU Linux driver user-space components that goes along with their iVPU accelerator kernel driver for enabling the Neural Processing Unit (NPU) found within their latest Meteor Lake systems...
XWayland-Run 0.0.3 Adds Support For KDE's KWin
Since last year Red Hat engineers have been developing xwayland-run and wlheadless-run for spawning X11 clients within its own dedicated XWayland rootful instance and for running a Wayland client on a set of supported Wayland headless compositors, respectively. The intent is on improving the Wayland headless experience as well as being able to get classic X11 sessions up and running via rootful XWayland. Out today is the XWayland-Run v0.0.3 release...
SysVinit 3.09 Now Allows Building With musl C Library, Passing Boot Messages To Firmware
While most Linux distributions have long since moved on from SysVinit in favor of systemd for init duties, this weekend SysVinit 3.09 was released for any legacy users and holdouts still enjoying the System V-init style experience...
Linux 6.9-rc1 Released With AMD P-State Preferred Core, Larger FB Console Fonts
Linus Torvalds just released the first release candidate for Linux 6.9 that now marks the formal end of the two-week merge window...
SDL3 Preview Release Aims To Help Test The New SDL 3.0 API
Sam Lantinga released an SDL preview release today of SDL3 for helping to encourage developers to test out the new SDL 3.0 API...
KVM Virtualization With Linux 6.9 Brings More Optimizations For Intel & AMD
The Kernel-based Virtual Machine changes for Linux 6.9 continue to enhance the capabilities of the open-source Linux virtualization software stack...
Rust-Written Coreutils 0.0.25 With Improved GNU Compatibility
Out this weekend is a new version of uutils' Coreutils 0.0.25 as the Rust-written drop-in replacement to GNU Coreutils for common utilities found on Linux platforms and other systems...
Linux 6.9 Improves Speakup - Its In-Kernel Speech Synthesizer
The speakup driver that's long existed within the Linux kernel is a speech synthesizer that can interface with various synthesizer hardware and from user-space software can interface with /dev/synth for submitting data to the synthesizer. With Linux 6.9 the speakup driver is seeing two useful improvements...
Linux 6.9 Delivers More Improvements To The SLUB Allocator
Linux 6.8 dropped the SLAB allocator after its deprecation in v6.5 and now just leaving SLUB for all allocation duties. For Linux 6.9 there is continued cleaning from that SLAB removal as well as making more SLUB improvements...
Linux 6.9 Sees Further Security Hardening
With security concerns at all-time highs in the industry, Linux 6.9 is seeing yet more work to beef up its security hardening with various additional safety checks and other compile-time defenses for ensuring security best practices...
IO_uring With Linux 6.9 Gains Truncate Support, Per-Ring NAPI
The IO_uring changes were merged early during the nearly-over Linux 6.9 merge window. This round brought yet a few more features to this wonderful and innovative kernel feature...
Linux 6.9 Sees Invasive & Significant Changes To Workqueues
Workqueues are commonly used within the Linux kernel for asynchronous process execution contexts. With Linux 6.9 the workqueue (WQ) code has seen "significant and invasive" changes...
AMD FRU Memory Poison Manager Makes It In For Linux 6.9
The Linux 6.9 changes for the Error Detection And Correction (EDAC) subsystem are heavy on the AMD changes...
DIRT 5 Now Runs On Intel Arc Graphics Under Linux With Driver Workaround
The DIRT 5 racing game was one of the titles that hadn't worked on Intel graphics under Linux due to the sparse memory support for the ANV Vulkan driver. But with sparse support now enabled, the game was crashing at launch. But now a workaround is in place to allow Intel's Mesa 24.1 Vulkan driver to work with DIRT 5...
Linux 6.9 Expands Hardware Monitoring Support For More AIO CPU Coolers
The hardware monitoring "HWMON" subsystem updates were merged at the start of the Linux 6.9 merge window and include the recent trend of more all-in-one liquid/water cooling systems seeing Linux driver support to enable convenient monitoring and controls...
Rust Bindings Posted For KMS Drivers, VKMS Ported To Rust
So far when it comes to Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) / Kernel Mode-Setting (KMS) display drivers for Linux, there are Rust efforts underway for the Apple Silicon kernel graphics driver with the Asahi Linux project as well as the new Nova effort for a modern open-source NVIDIA kernel driver from Red Hat. Also now out from Red Hat is posting the Rust bindings for KMS to review plus porting the existing Virtual KMS driver over to Rust as the "RVKMS" driver...
KDE Sees A Number Of Regression Fixes & Some Crash Fixes This Week
KDE developers continue to be quite busy fixing a variety of regressions -- including some crashes -- with the new KDE Plasma 6 desktop stack. Plasma 6.0.3 will ship next week with yet more fixes while some feature work toward Plasma 6.1 is also underway...
Wine 9.5 Released With More Feature Work, 27 Bug Fixes
Wine 9.5 is out as the newest bi-weekly development release for this open-source software to enjoy Windows games and applications under Linux...
Microsoft Enables DNS Tunneling By Default For WSL - More Reliable Networking
Microsoft is rolling out WSL 2.2.1 to WIndows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) users with more reliable networking support, hang fixes, and other improvements...
Linux 6.9 Adds New RISC-V Vector-Accelerated Crypto Routines
The RISC-V architecture updates were sent out today for the in-development Linux 6.9 kernel ahead of the v6.9-rc1 release this Sunday...
GCC Compiler Adds Support For Device Offloading With AMD RDNA3 APUs (GFX1103)
While there is AOMP for OpenMP device offloading based on the LLVM/Clang compiler, less talked about and not as feature-rich is the AMDGCN back-end within the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) that is also worked on for OpenMP device offloading capabilities to Radeon GPUs. Squeezing in for the upcoming GCC 14.1 stable release is GFX1103 support for AMD APUs with RDNA3 integrated graphics...
LoongArch Enables More Kernel Functionality With Linux 6.9
Loongson continues enabling more kernel functionality for their LoongArch processor port for the upstream Linux kernel. With Linux 6.9 they sent out today a set of patches enabling more features for this Chinese CPU architecture...
LibreOffice Enables Multi-Threaded 3D Rendering
The latest LibreOffice drawing code has enabled support for making use of multi-threaded 3D rendering...
NVK Driver Adds Vendor ID Workaround For Games Expecting NVIDIA's Proprietary Driver
Due to some games checking the graphics card's vendor ID and matching to NVIDIA then just assuming it's NVIDIA's official (proprietary) driver in use, the Mesa NVK Vulkan driver has added a workaround to allow concealing the vendor ID in order to bypass NVIDIA-specific checks such as for the driver version in use...
LLVM BOLT Optimizations Net ~6% Improvement For GNOME's Pango
BOLT that was upstreamed into LLVM in 2022 by Facebook/Meta allows for optimizing the layout of binaries as a post-linking step to yield increased performance. BOLT like Profile Guided Optimizations (PGO) first requires the profiling step to generate perf recordings to feedback in for the optimization process, but the gains can be significant...
AOMP 19.0-0 Released For AMD's OpenMP Offloading Compiler
AMD on Thursday published AOMP 19.0-0 as the newest version of their LLVM/Clang downstream compiler focused on delivering the latest OpenMP device offloading support for their Radeon GPUs and Instinct accelerators...
Linux 6.9 To Allow Larger Frame-Buffer Console Font Size For Today's 4K Displays
With the frame-buffer device "FBDEV" subsystem changes sent out today for the Linux 6.9 kernel, there is support for larger console fonts to better handle today's ~4K displays...
Fedora Linux 40 Beta Cleared For Release Next Week
After not making its early beta target for 12 March and then failing to make its intended release date of 19 March, Fedora Linux 40 Beta is now cleared for releasing next week...
Intel's Linux Software Optimizations Continue Paying Off Big Time For Xeon Emerald Rapids
Intel 5th Gen Xeon Scalable processors already offer some nice generational improvements with improved AVX-512, faster DDR5 memory support, and also the new Optimized Power Mode option. But if wanting to maximize the performance capabilities even further, Intel's Clear Linux distribution continues working out well for maximizing the performance capabilities of Intel x86_64 hardware.
System76 Rolls Out Lemur Pro Laptops With Core Ultra "Meteor Lake"
For those that have been interested in Intel's Meteor Lake mobile processors for the great integrated Arc Graphics capabilities and/or the new integrated NPU with open-source Intel iVPU kernel driver upstream, System76 today announced the new Lemur Pro laptops with Core Ultra processors...
Raspberry Pi "V3DV" Vulkan Driver Now Supports Dynamic Rendering
Merged this week into Mesa 24.1 for the Broadcom VideoCore V3DV Vulkan driver that is most notably used by the latest Raspberry Pi boards is support for VK_KHR_dynamic_rendering...
Linux 6.9 Adds New Build-Time Control Whether To Authorize Attached USB Devices
The in-development Linux 6.9 kernel is introducing a new USB_DEFAULT_AUTHORIZATION_MODE Kconfig build-time switch to change the default authorization mode for how Linux should deal with attached USB devices...
KSMBD Now Implements Durable File Handles With Linux 6.9
The KSMBD in-kernel SMB3 server is gaining support for durable file handles in the Linux 6.9 kernel...
exFAT Driver Boasts Much Faster "dirsync" Performance With Linux 6.9
The latest file-system driver with notable mentions for Linux 6.9 is that for Microsoft's exFAT file-system...
Microsoft Better Seeds The RNG For Hyper-V VMs In Linux 6.9
Microsoft has submitted their various Hyper-V updates to the in-development Linux 6.9 kernel...
Wayland Protocols 1.34 Introduces Better Drag & Drop, Explicit DRM Sync Objects
Wayland Protocols 1.34 was released on Wednesday with three new staging protocols for further enhancing Wayland's capabilities...
AMD FSR 3.1 Announced With Vulkan Support
AMD used the Game Developers Conference (GDC 2024) this week to announce FSR 3.1, the latest iteration of their FidelityFX Super Resolution tech for game upscaling...
Red Hat's Long, Rust'ed Road Ahead For Nova As Nouveau Driver Successor
Red Hat's display driver team has recently been devising plans for Nova, a new to-be-developed Linux DRM kernel driver written in Rust for open-source NVIDIA graphics support as the successor/replacement to Nouveau for newer NVIDIA GPU generations supporting the GPU System Processor (GSP). Making this effort all the more involved is being written in Rust at a time when various kernel abstractions are still being devised and not yet upstreamed...
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