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Zstd 1.5.7 Lands In Linux 6.15 For Better Performance & APIs For Intel QAT Acceleration

Thu, 03/27/2025 - 20:26
Linux 6.15 keeps getting more exciting... The big Zstd update has landed! The in-kernel Zstandard compression code is finally re-based against the newer upstream state that brings better performance as well as new APIs for allowing Intel QAT acceleration by Intel hardware offering QuickAssist Technology. This Zstd code is relied upon by Btrfs transparent file-system compression and other in-kernel users for compression/decompression...

Linux 6.15 To Gain New Option For Those Building The Kernel Without Virtual Terminal

Thu, 03/27/2025 - 20:02
The printk changes submitted for the Linux 6.15 kernel introduce a new "NULL_TTY_DEFAULT_CONSOLE" Kconfig build-time option for allowing the null TTY to be the default for those building the Linux kernel without virtual terminal (VT) support...

PostgreSQL Database Lands Initial Support For IO_uring: "Can Be Considerably Faster"

Thu, 03/27/2025 - 18:43
As a very exciting improvement for the open-source PostgreSQL database server, it has merged initial support for making use of IO_uring on Linux servers for asynchronous I/O and can provide for some nice performance improvements...

Linux 6.15 Brings Support For New Sound Hardware, Continued SoundWire Improvements

Thu, 03/27/2025 - 18:23
Linux sound subsystem maintainer Takashi Iwai of SUSE has submitted all the feature updates slated for Linux 6.15. There is a lot of new audio hardware support and other enhancements that are now merged for this next kernel release...

RadeonSI Goes Rusticl-Only, Clearing Out Support For Old Clover OpenCL

Thu, 03/27/2025 - 18:07
Earlier this month Mesa deprecated the Clover OpenCL driver in favor of the modern Rust-written Rusticl Gallium3D state tracker. Clover is expected to be removed in Q3's Mesa 25.2 release while today the RadeonSI driver has decided to preemptively remove its Clover support...

NVIDIA Vulkan Beta Driver Introduces BFloat16 Support

Thu, 03/27/2025 - 08:32
NVIDIA has published new Vulkan beta driver builds for Windows and Linux that introduce VK_KHR_shader_bfloat16 for BFloat16 "BF16" support within shaders...

Linux 6.15 Adds Support For The New AMD Versal NET SoC

Thu, 03/27/2025 - 03:38
Submitted today for upstreaming into the Linux 6.15 kernel is support for the Versal NET SoC, an addition to the AMD/Xilinx Versal family that doesn't appear to have been talked about much publicly yet but should be an interesting addition to their product line-up...

Microsoft Announces Open-Source "Hyperlight Wasm" Project

Thu, 03/27/2025 - 01:44
Microsoft last year announced the open-source Hyperlight project as an embedded VMM for use as a micro-VM manager of sorts that can be run within Windows and Linux applications. This VM-based security for small embedded functions now has its scope expanded with the open-source release today of Hyperlight Wasm for bringing in WebAssembly to the party...

Linux 6.15 Adds AMD Zen 5 SRSO Mitigation For KVM, Preps For Attack Vector Controls

Thu, 03/27/2025 - 01:36
While there is a lot of exciting new x86_64 CPU features coming with Linux 6.15, there is also some of the not so fun changes too: namely the "x86/bugs" pull request to bring the latest CPU security mitigation work to the mainline kernel...

Linux 6.15 Continues Improving Laptop Support

Wed, 03/26/2025 - 22:47
The x86 platform drivers co-maintainer Ilpo Järvinen sent out the pull request today of all the feature additions set for the in-development Linux 6.15 kernel. As usual, most of the platform-drivers-x86 material is around improvements to benefit modern Intel Core and AMD Ryzen laptops...

Linux 6.15 Adds Raptor Lake-S Support To Intel EDAC Driver

Wed, 03/26/2025 - 20:53
The Linux Error Detection And Correction (EDAC) subsystem updates have been merged for the ongoing Linux 6.15 kernel...

AerynOS 2025.03 Released Following Rebrand From Serpent OS

Wed, 03/26/2025 - 19:01
AerynOS 2025.03 is now available for this Linux distribution that began life as Serpent OS as a new original distribution started by Ikey Doherty of Solus Linux fame...

KDE Developers Begin Working On A New Login Manager

Wed, 03/26/2025 - 18:48
KDE developer David Edmundson has published a lengthy blog post today outlining the long-standing challenges they have with the SDDM display manager, unimplemented features they want out of a log-in manager, and acknowledging GNOME's GDM as a "gold standard" for display managers. While not yet an official project, they have begun working on a new KDE Login Manager for improving the situation...

IBM Says Goodbye To Cell Blade Servers With Linux 6.15

Wed, 03/26/2025 - 18:34
The Linux 6.15 kernel is set to remove support for IBM Cell Blade servers for those server platforms from around two decades ago that used the Cell Broadband Engine Architecture processors. IBM Cell Blades at the time powered a few supercomputers but these IBM QS20 / QS21 / QS22 platforms are no longer relevant and the IBM Linux kernel maintainers no longer even have these platforms available/running. With no apparent users remaining, it's time to say goodbye to the IBM Cell Blades from the mainline kernel...

Intel Low Power Mode Daemon 0.0.9 Released For Linux Users

Wed, 03/26/2025 - 18:08
Intel engineers today released LPMD 0.0.9, the newest version of their open-source Low Power Mode Daemon for Linux systems to optimize active idle power consumption on Intel Core processors...

Microsoft Brings Two More Features To Hyper-V With Linux 6.15

Wed, 03/26/2025 - 17:53
With the Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization updates for the Linux 6.15 kernel there are two new features worth mentioning...

Minor VFS File Optimizations Merged For Linux 6.15

Wed, 03/26/2025 - 17:12
Among other Linux Virtual File-System (VFS) changes submitted and already merged for Linux 6.15 was a set of minor performance optimizations around VFS file operations...

Linux 6.15 Goes Very Heavy On Intel & AMD x86_64 CPU Changes

Wed, 03/26/2025 - 08:42
Merged today for the recently-opened Linux 6.15 merge window were all of the "x86/core" changes that are particularly heavy on new feature work for both Intel and AMD x86/x86_64 processors. This is easily quite one of the most significant Intel/AMD CPU set of updates in a given kernel cycle in quite some time...

XZ 5.8 Debuts As First Major Feature Release Since The Backdoor Disaster

Wed, 03/26/2025 - 02:33
XZ 5.8 is out today as the first notable feature release since last year's malicious backdoor in XZ 5.6 inserted by a then-co-maintainer of the project. XZ 5.6.2 was out last May while XZ 5.8.0 is now stable today for bringing new features to this lossless data compressor project...

MPV 0.40 Media Player Released With Wayland HDR Support

Wed, 03/26/2025 - 01:43
MPV 0.40 was just released as the newest version of this open-source media player derived from MPlayer/MPlayer2. With the MPV 0.40 release there is support for HDR videos on Wayland using the new color management protocol along with a variety of other new features...

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