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Linux 6.8 dropped the SLAB allocator after its deprecation in v6.5 and now just leaving SLUB for all allocation duties. For Linux 6.9 there is continued cleaning from that SLAB removal as well as making more SLUB improvements...

Linux 6.9 Delivers More Improvements To The SLUB Allocator  Phoronix

With security concerns at all-time highs in the industry, Linux 6.9 is seeing yet more work to beef up its security hardening with various additional safety checks and other compile-time defenses for ensuring security best practices...

Linux 6.9 Sees Further Security Hardening  Phoronix

The IO_uring changes were merged early during the nearly-over Linux 6.9 merge window. This round brought yet a few more features to this wonderful and innovative kernel feature...

IO_uring With Linux 6.9 Gains Truncate Support, Per-Ring NAPI  Phoronix

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Linux 6.9 Sees Invasive & Significant Changes To Workqueues  Phoronix

Workqueues are commonly used within the Linux kernel for asynchronous process execution contexts. With Linux 6.9 the workqueue (WQ) code has seen "significant and invasive" changes...

The Linux 6.9 changes for the Error Detection And Correction (EDAC) subsystem are heavy on the AMD changes...

AMD FRU Memory Poison Manager Makes It In For Linux 6.9  Phoronix

The DIRT 5 racing game was one of the titles that hadn't worked on Intel graphics under Linux due to the sparse memory support for the ANV Vulkan driver. But with sparse support now enabled, the game was crashing at launch. But now a workaround is in place to allow Intel's Mesa 24.1 Vulkan driver to work with DIRT 5...

DIRT 5 Now Runs On Intel Arc Graphics Under Linux With Driver Workaround  Phoronix

Linux 6.9 Adds New RISC-V Vector-Accelerated Crypto Routines  HardForum

The hardware monitoring "HWMON" subsystem updates were merged at the start of the Linux 6.9 merge window and include the recent trend of more all-in-one liquid/water cooling systems seeing Linux driver support to enable convenient monitoring and controls...

Linux 6.9 Expands Hardware Monitoring Support For More AIO CPU Coolers  Phoronix

Cloud-native community celebrates Kubernetes’ 'Linux moment' and its growing role in enterprise AI  SiliconANGLE News

Linux: Run a Single Command across Multiple Servers with SSH  The New Stack

So far when it comes to Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) / Kernel Mode-Setting (KMS) display drivers for Linux, there are Rust efforts underway for the Apple Silicon kernel graphics driver with the Asahi Linux project as well as the new Nova effort for a modern open-source NVIDIA kernel driver from Red Hat. Also now out from Red Hat is posting the Rust bindings for KMS to review plus porting the existing Virtual KMS driver over to Rust as the "RVKMS" driver...

Rust Bindings Posted For KMS Drivers, VKMS Ported To Rust  Phoronix