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Linux 6.9-rc6 To Fix Accidentally Disabling Mitigations By Default For Non-x86 CPUs
A commit made to the Linux kernel three weeks ago accidentally broke the default CPU security mitigations for non-x86 CPUs. With code sent in today via x86/urgent ahead of tonight's Linux 6.9-rc6 release, that accidental default breakage is being addressed...
Cloud Hypervisor 39 Adds NVIDIA GPUDirect P2P Support
Cloud Hypervisor 39 was released on Saturday for this cloud-focused, Rust-based VMM started by Intel and now a multi-vendor Linux Foundation project...
Zrythm 1.0 RC1 Available For Testing As Great Open-Source Digital Audio Workstation
Since going beta in 2020, the Zrythm open-source digital audio workstation software has been inching its way toward a v1.0 release. On Saturday marked the release of v1.0.0-rc.1 as a release candidate for the upcoming v1.0 release of this GTK-based digital audio workstation (DAW) software...
LLVM Clang 19 Adds Arm Neoverse-N3 / Neoverse-V3 / Neoverse-V3AE Support
Merged on Friday to the development codebase for the LLVM/Clang 19 compiler is support for the Arm Neoverse N3, V3, and V3AE SoCs...
Rust-Based Coreutils 0.0.26 Increases Compatibility With GNU Coreutils
The uutils' Rust-based Coreutils implementation is out with another update that further increases the drop-in replacement compatibility with GNU Coreutils...
Llamafile 0.8.1 GPU LLM Offloading Works Now With More AMD GPUs
It was just a few days ago that Llamafile 0.8 released with LLaMA 3 and Grok support along with faster F16 performance. Now this project out of Mozilla for self-contained, easily re-distributable large language model (LLM) deployments is out with a new release...
Rework For Intel CPU Model Handling To Land With Linux 6.10
Intel engineers have been reworking Intel CPU model handling for Linux after using "Family 6" since the mid-90's with the P6 micro-architecture and continuing to rev the model ID only with new micro-architectural generations. It's an end of the era for Family 6 coming up and thus there's a lot of Linux patches being worked on to address assumptions within the kernel code that was only checking for an Intel CPU's model ID and not for any family ID differences...
GTK 4.15 Released With Vulkan Renderer By Default
GTK 4.15.0 is now available as part of the new unstable series for this widely used open-source toolkit. Most notable with GTK 4.15.0 is the Vulkan renderer being used by default on supported systems...
KDE Fixes Adaptive-Sync Issues & Less Glitches During GPU Resets
KDE developer Nate Graham is back from the latest KDE sprint in Germany and out with his new weekly status report to highlight all of the interesting KDE changes that landed this week...
Proton 9.0 RC2 Makes More Windows Games Playable On Linux, Other Fixes
Valve and CodeWeavers today released the Proton 9.0 Release Candidate 2 build based off Wine 9.0 for powering Steam Play to enjoy an excellent assortment of modern (and legacy) Windows games on Linux...
New Patches Significantly Reduce Zink Driver Startup Time
Given a two year old bug against Mesa around slow initialization/start-up time for GTK4 on Intel graphics, prolific Zink developer Mike Blumenkrantz recently took to optimizing Zink's start-up time for this generic OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver implementation...
GNOME Foundation To Focus On Fundraising After Years Running A Deficit
After several years of the GNOME Foundation running at a deficit (loss), the GNOME Foundation is going to be driving a push for greater fundraising...
GCC 14.1 Compiler Aiming For Release Around 7 May
As mentioned following the AMD GFX90C target being added, the GCC 14 compiler code was branched from the main Git branch with release preparations for GCC 14 underway. A status report was just published outlining release plans for getting GCC 14.1 stable out around 7 May...
GCC 14 Adds "GFX90C" For OpenMP Offloading To APUs With GFX9/Vega Graphics
As the last feature patch prior to the GCC 14 compiler code being branched today and GCC 15 opening up on the mainline codebase, AMD GFX90C support was merged for enabling GPU OpenMP device offloading to the numerous AMD SoCs/APUs with the GFX9/Vega graphics...
Linux 6.10 Adding Intel Low-Latency Hint To Aggressively Boost GT Frequency For GPU Compute
Following the big set of Xe DRM driver updates for Linux 6.10 and earlier Adaptive Snyc SDP, Lunar Lake display support, and more DG2 PCI IDs for i915 pulls sent in over weeks prior for this next kernel version, the drm-intel-gt-next pull request was submitted today for last minute Intel graphics driver feature changes aiming for Linux 6.10...
AMDGPU Linux Driver Patches Enable SOC24 & MMHUB 4.1.x IP
AMD's Linux graphics driver engineers continue being quite busy preparing for multiple new hardware IP...
Servo Web Engine Now Passing Acid2 Layout Engine Test
The Servo web engine developers have enjoyed a busy April with a number of new features added to this Rust creation...
Microsoft Open-Sources MS-DOS 4.0 Under MIT License
After publishing open-source versions of MS-DOS years ago for versions 1.25 and 2.0, Microsoft and IBM have now announced that MS-DOS 4.0 has been open-sourced under an MIT license...
Systemd 256-rc1 Brings A Huge Number Of New Features
Systemd 256-rc1 is available this evening and it comes with many new features and improvements to existing features. It's a big one...
NVIDIA Developer Opens Feature Pull Request For Open-Source NVK Driver
If your interest didn't pique enough when the former Nouveau lead developer joined NVIDIA and sent out a big patch series for this originally-reverse-engineered, open-source NVIDIA kernel driver, here's another plot twist: another NVIDIA engineer opening a merge request adding to the Mesa NVK Vulkan driver...