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Linux 6.15.6, 6.12.37 LTS & Other Stable Kernels Deliver TSA Mitigations

Phoronix - Thu, 07/10/2025 - 23:24
Greg Kroah-Hartman just released the Linux 6.15.6 point release as well as the Linux 6.12.37 LTS kernel and new point releases in prior-year Long Term Support kernel versions. The main headline of today's stable kernel releases are picking up the mitigations for the Transient Scheduler Attacks (TSA) mitigations that were disclosed this week for AMD processors...

Blender 4.5 RC1 Released With Much Better Vulkan Support

Phoronix - Thu, 07/10/2025 - 22:04
The release candidate of the Blender 4.5 3D modeling software is now available for testing. There are many great improvements to find with Blender 4.5 and this new version is all the more important in being the next Long Term Support (LTS) release for this popular cross-platform 3D modeling software...

LibreOffice 25.8 RC1 Released With Various File Performance Improvements

Phoronix - Thu, 07/10/2025 - 20:38
The first release candidate of the LibreOffice 25.8 open-source office suite is now available for testing. This half-year update as the leading free software alternative to Microsoft Office has been working on performance improvements for various file types, dropping support for old versions of Windows, and various other enhancements...

Canonical Releases Multipass 1.16 As Now Fully Open-Source Project

Phoronix - Thu, 07/10/2025 - 20:25
Ubuntu maker Canonical today released Multipass 1.16 stable for this Linux / Windows / macOS means of deploying Ubuntu VM instances using this lightweight VM manager built atop Linux's KVM, Windows' Hyper-V, and QEMU on macOS. Notable with Multipass 1.16 is that it's now fully open-source software...

Linux 6.17 Looks To Drop The pktcdvd Packet Writing CD/DVD Driver

Phoronix - Thu, 07/10/2025 - 18:50
Linux block maintainer Jens Axboe queued up a patch this week to drop the pktcdvd driver from the mainline kernel, which is expected to be submitted for the upcoming Linux 6.17 cycle. The pktcdvd driver has been in the kernel for over two decades since the Linux 2.6 days for packet-writing CD/DVD support albeit is hardly useful in today's world...

openSUSE Is Deciding Whether To End 32-bit ARM Support

Phoronix - Thu, 07/10/2025 - 18:20
The openSUSE project is currently contemplating if it's time to end support for 32-bit ARM devices...

libinput 1.29 Improving Scroll Wheel Responsiveness For Most Devices

Phoronix - Thu, 07/10/2025 - 18:06
Peter Hutterer of Red Hat announced today the first release candidate of libinput 1.29, the newest version of this input handling library used across both X.Org and Wayland environments with the modern Linux desktop...

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