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Eric Engestrom has put out another on-time Mesa release candidate for what's culminating with the Mesa 23.3 release in the coming weeks...

Following Google's plans for removing Theora codec format support from the Chrome/Chromium browser, Mozilla is also eyeing a similar move for retiring Theora from Firefox...

Bcachefs was merged for Linux 6.7 and Btrfs is seeing some shiny new features with this next kernel version. But Linux 6.7 isn't just about leading-edge file-system fun: the three decade old IBM Journaled File-System (JFS) is even seeing some minor changes...

Richard Hughes of Red Hat has released Fwupd 1.9.7 as the newest version of this open-source software for applying firmware updates on Linux for system firmware to various peripherals and other components...

The MMC memory card updates for the Linux 6.7 kernel have been submitted for Linux 6.7 that includes new hardware support as well as a core MMC optimization to enhance the performance in some scenarios...

Xaver Hugl who has been leading much of the KDE KWin feature development in recent years has opened up a preliminary merge request for allowing high dynamic range (HDR) enabled games to work on KDE...

Here is a look back at the most popular open-source and Linux news and featured articles/reviews for the month prior...

Intel Arc Graphics on Linux can handle running the Diablo IV game via Valve's Steam Play but only when it hides the fact that it's Intel graphics in use via a game-specific driver workaround...

All of the power management related updates have been merged for the in-development Linux 6.7 kernel...

Earlier this month Intel introduced the 14th Gen Core "Raptor Lake Refresh" processors led by the flagship Core i9 14900K. Unfortunately my review samples had arrived late but in any event today are the first Linux benchmarks of the new Core i5 14600K and Core i9 14900K processors compared to prior 13th Gen Core processors as well as the AMD Ryzen 7000 series competition. All of these Intel and AMD processors were freshly re-tested on the newly-launched Ubuntu 23.10 with the Linux 6.5 kernel.

Earlier this year Intel published x86-simd-sort as a very speedy sorting library that initially leveraged AVX-512 instructions for 10x to 17x faster sorts. Numpy was one of the first major projects to adopt x86-simd-sort and OpenJDK more recently adopted it. Since the initial release we've seen more features and performance optimizations added. Today marks the release of x86-simd-sort 4.0 and it's delivering even greater performance while also adding an AVX2 code path to help those without AVX-512...

Sent out this morning was the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) feature pull request of updated graphics/display drivers for the in-development Linux 6.7 kernel. Notable this round is Intel Meteor Lake integrated graphics now being considered stable / enabled out-of-the-box, Intel Lunar Lake graphics support has started to get underway, and AMD continues working on their upcoming hardware platforms...

Earlier this month NVIDIA published the R545 Linux driver beta while today it's been promoted to the stable series with the NVIDIA 545.29.02 Linux driver release...

Lennart Poettering has been working on a new systemd feature called systemd-storagetm that is inspired by the Apple macOS "Target Disk Mode" feature...

The GCC 14 compiler has merged support for the Zhaoxin Yongfeng processors via the new -march=yongfeng and -mtune=yongfeng compiler options...

Merged one year ago was the initial Rust code for the Linux kernel back in Linux 6.1. We're now up to the Linux 6.7 development cycle and the enabling of more kernel functionality so it can be used/accessed from Rust code remains ongoing along with continuing to bump the base toolchain requirements and other functionality to make it more practical to write future Linux device drivers within this memory safe programming language...

Less than twenty-four hours after Bcachefs was submitted for Linux 6.7, this new open-source file-system has been successfully merged for this next kernel version...

The x86/cpu changes for the Linux 6.7 kernel have been merged and is highlighted by a small but useful change for propagating of the AMD SVM virtualization feature flag to /proc/cpuinfo...

Apple tonight announced the M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max as what they are promoting as the "most advanced chips" for a personal computer and leverage the TSMC 3nm process...

While there has already been various open-source Linux driver upstreaming work around the AMD Instinct MI300 series both for the MI300X GPU-only solution and the MI300A APU-based accelerator, for Linux 6.7 more work is happening...