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Linux 7.0-rc6 Released With The Fixes Still Coming In Heavy

Phoronix - 16 hours 48 min ago
Linux 7.0-rc6 was just released in quickly working toward the stable Linux 7.0 release in mid-April. This was another busy week with lots of bug fixes...

Linux Ham Radio KISS Serial Driver Being Modernized In 2026

Phoronix - Sun, 03/29/2026 - 22:52
Here's something that wasn't on my bingo card for this year of the "MKISS" driver for ham radio being modernized in 2026 as opposed to just being dropped. The MKISS code hasn't seen much driver activity since the original Git import of the Linux kernel more than twenty years ago...

Intel Prepares Wireless Mode Support For QAT Gen6 Hardware

Phoronix - Sun, 03/29/2026 - 21:56
Last year Intel began preparing their QuickAsist Linux driver support for QAT Gen6 hardware with upcoming platforms. That initial Intel QAT Gen6 driver enablement landed back in Linux 6.16 while for the upcoming Linux 7.1 kernel they are preparing support for a new wireless mode with this next-gen QuickAssist hardware...

Many EXT4 Fixes Lined Up For Linux 7.0-rc6

Phoronix - Sun, 03/29/2026 - 19:30
Ahead of the Linux 7.0-rc6 kernel due to be released later today, quite a number of EXT4 file-system fixes were sent out this morning...

AMDXDNA Driver Introducing Per-Process Memory Usage Queries In Linux 7.1

Phoronix - Sun, 03/29/2026 - 18:51
Sent out this week was another drm-misc-next pull heading to DRM-Next ahead of next month's Linux 7.1 merge window. Notable with this week's Direct Rendering Manager code changes was introducing per-process buffer object "BO" memory usage query support for user-space...

Nginx 1.29.7 Delivers Multipath TCP Support

Phoronix - Sun, 03/29/2026 - 18:37
Released this week was Nginx 1.29.7 as the newest mainline version of this HTTP(S) web server. Releasing alongside Nginx 1.28.3 stable, it fixed buffer overflow vulnerabilities and some other vulnerabilities. Making Nginx 1.29.7 more exciting though is that it landed Multipath TCP support...

RadeonSI Driver Lands Fixes For EDuke32 For Those Wanting To Enjoy Duke Nukem 3D In 2026

Phoronix - Sun, 03/29/2026 - 18:27
It's fairly rare for the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver to hit OpenGL rendering game bugs these days as besides more games going opting for Vulkan API use, RadeonSI is rather robust and very mature at this stage. Recently though a Linux gamer that upgraded to a Radeon RX 9070 XT RDNA4 graphics card noticed that the open-source EDuke32 Duke Nukem 3D build and its derivatives were failing to render properly with the RadeonSI driver...

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