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Linux 5.16 Loosens The Spectre Defaults Around SSBD / STIBP

Phoronix - Tue, 11/02/2021 - 02:13
Linux 5.16 is adjusting its default Spectre mitigation behavior around Spectre V2 for user-space tasks as well as Speculative Store Bypass Disable (SSBD) for Spectre V4 mitigation...

Google Will Now Pay $31,337 To $50,337 For New Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities

Phoronix - Tue, 11/02/2021 - 01:21
Google announced today that now through at least the end of January they will be providing higher payment amounts for security researchers disclosing new vulnerabilities affecting the Linux kernel...

FWUPD 1.7.1 Adds Support For Firmware Updates On More Devices

Phoronix - Mon, 11/01/2021 - 21:30
FWUPD 1.7.1 is out today as the newest release of this leading open-source solution for allowing firmware updates from UEFI motherboards to various peripherals under Linux and other platforms...

Linux 5.15 Is This Year's LTS Kernel

Phoronix - Mon, 11/01/2021 - 20:40
As we approach the end of the calendar year there was some uncertainty whether Linux 5.15 would be this year's Long-Term Support (LTS) kernel or if it would be Linux 5.16 albeit not likely releasing until the start of 2022.....

PHPStan 1.0 Released As Leading PHP Static Analyzer

Phoronix - Mon, 11/01/2021 - 20:03
PHPStan 1.0 was released today as the first stable release for this leading open-source PHP static analysis tool...

FUTEX2's sys_futex_waitv() Sent In For Linux 5.16 To Help Linux Gaming

Phoronix - Mon, 11/01/2021 - 18:00
As expected after first reporting on it a month ago when the FUTEX2 patches were queued up in locking/core, this work with the new sys_futex_waitv() system call for helping the Windows on Linux gaming experience will indeed land for Linux 5.16...

Linux I/O Optimizations, AMD Improvements, NVIDIA GBM Excited Linux Users Last Month

Phoronix - Mon, 11/01/2021 - 17:30
It was an exciting October even amid the ongoing pandemic as at least Linux/open-source enthusiasts were able to enjoy the Ubuntu 21.10 debut, ongoing Linux I/O optimizations many of which are now coming to mainline in 5.16, numerous AMD driver enhancements, NVIDIA's proprietary driver stack finally introducing GBM support, X.Org Server 21.1 released, and much more...

GNU Linux-libre 5.15 Released - More Deblobbing, Fixing "-Werror" Breakage

Phoronix - Mon, 11/01/2021 - 17:06
Right after last night's Linux 5.15 kernel release, the Free Software Foundation folks issued GNU Linux-libre 5.15-gnu as the newest version of their downstream that removes functionality dependent upon binary-only/non-free-software firmware/microcode as well as the ability to load closed kernel modules and other determined non-free-software restrictions...

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