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2023-08-04T22:45:07Z	**Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver "NVK" Merged Into Mesa 23.3**
The NVK open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver has finally been merged into mainline Mesa for easing development of this driver moving forward... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-NVK-Vulkan-Merged)
2023-08-05T09:48:59Z	**More KDE Plasma Wayland Fixes Land, Continued Improvements For Plasma 6**
Yesterday KDE developer Nate Graham outlined the progress with the Plasma 6 desktop while out today he's out with his usual blog post that highlights the various KDE changes to have been merged over the past week... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Wayland-Fixes-August)
2023-08-05T10:20:00Z	**Coreboot Lands Support For The HP EliteBook 820 G2**
The newest motherboard port to land in mainline Coreboot Git is for enabling the HP EliteBook 820 G2 laptop... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Coreboot-HP-Elitebook-820-G2)
2023-08-05T19:10:22Z	**Intel's ConnMan 1.42 Released With Fixes, New Time Zone Options**
Intel's open-source ConnMan software that is an Internet connect manager focused on embedded Linux devices is out with a new release... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/ConnMan-1.42)
2023-08-06T10:44:25Z	**GTK 4.12 Released With Many Vulkan Backend Improvements**
Tagged on Saturday was GTK 4.12 as the newest version of this open-source toolkit... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GTK-4.12-Released)
2023-08-06T12:22:06Z	**LoongArch Implementing More Kernel Features For Linux 6.6**
In addition to Loongson preparing Loongson Binary Translation (LBT) for LoongArch to help with MIPS / x86 / Arm binary translation on this domestic Chinese CPU architecture, additional LoongArch features are also now slated for introduction in the upcoming Linux 6.6 kernel cycle... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-More-LoongArch)
2023-08-06T13:35:45Z	**FEX-Emu 2308 Continues Striving To Be "The Greatest x86/x86-64 Emulator On Linux"**
The open-source FEX-Emu project continues advancing as an emulator to run x86/x86\_64 Linux binaries on 64-bit ARM (AArch64), even for games, Valve's Steam Play / Proton, and other complex software. FEX-Emu 2308 is out today with more performance optimizations and other features implemented for this emulator... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/FEX-Emu-2308)
2023-08-06T16:26:21Z	**Python 3.12 RC1 Available For Testing - Better Performance, Linux Perf Integration**
Available now for testing is the release candidate of Python 3.12 ahead of its formal release later this year... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Python-3.12-RC1)
2023-08-06T22:29:01Z	**Linux 6.5-rc5 Released: Things Looking Under Control**
Linus Torvalds just released Linux 6.5-rc5 as the newest test candidate aiming for the stable Linux 6.5 kernel around the end of August... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.5-rc5)
2023-08-07T04:00:00Z	**Google's BBRv3 TCP Congestion Control Showing Great Results, Will Be Upstreamed To Linux**
Google's open-source BBR TCP congestion control algorithm is widely used within Google and its v3 iteration is already proving a success within the company and they are working toward upstreaming BBRv3 into the mainline Linux kernel... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Google-BBRv3-Linux)
2023-08-07T10:10:42Z	**GNOME 45's Mutter Implements A Dedicated KMS Thread**
Recently merged to GNOME's Mutter compositor development code is implementing a dedicated kernel mode-setting (KMS) thread and allows for pointer motions to bypass the main thread during cursor sprite movements. Ultimately this effort is around lower-latency cursor movements... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Mutter-KMS-Thread)
2023-08-07T10:37:13Z	**Linux 6.6 Will Be Able To Handle Temperature Reporting When Having More Than 32 DIMMs**
The Linux kernel's "dimmtemp" driver allows for reporting memory temperatures with capable memory modules and when exposed by the Intel processor's PECI (Platform Environment Control Interface). Currently though the DIMM temperature driver is hard-coded to only allow reporting up to 32 DIMMs while a change queued for Linux 6.6 will extend that limit... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-32-DIMMs-Temperature)
2023-08-07T12:46:24Z	**AMDVLK 2023.Q3.1 Released With Phoenix APU Support, Performance Tuning**
AMDVLK 2023.Q3.1 is out this morning as the first update to AMD's official open-source Radeon Vulkan Linux driver since mid-June... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDVLK-2023.Q3.1)
2023-08-07T13:30:34Z	**Sourceware Looking To Expand Services, Diversify Partners**
Sourceware.org that provides the open-source hosting for projects like GCC, Cygwin, and more had long been sponsored by Red Hat and a rather opaque organization. Earlier this year SourceWare.org became part of the Software Freedom Conservancy. In addition to now calling the SFC home, they are planning other changes ahead to expand their hosting services, diversifying hardware and software partners, and other changes... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Sourceware-25)
2023-08-07T14:31:38Z	**Window Maker 0.96 Released For Window Manager Inspired By NeXTSTEP UI**
For those that have fond memories of the NeXTSTEP days and in particular its graphical user interface during the pre-Apple times, Window Maker 0.96 was released this weekend for that X11 window manager inspired by the NeXTSTEP GUI... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/WindowMaker-0.96)
2023-08-07T14:55:53Z	**Google May Reconsider JPEG-XL Image Support Within Chrome**
Last year Google decided to deprecate JPEG-XL image support within their Chrome/Chromium web browser. They expressed not enough interest and other factors for so quickly removing JPEG-XL support from their browser. They went ahead and removed the support for this next-gen JPEG standard while now a half-year later they may be having second thoughts... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Chrome-JPEG-XL-Seconds)
2023-08-07T15:22:40Z	**Linux Containers Forks LXD Project As "Incus"**
Following Canonical deciding to pull in control of the LXD project and LXD maintainership being limited to Canonical employees, the Linux Containers project has announced the forking of LXD as Incus... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Containers-LXD-Incus)
2023-08-07T17:08:56Z	**How The Radeon Professional Graphics Performance Changed Over 13 Years**
AMD last week launched the Radeon PRO W7500 and Radeon PRO W7600 professional graphics cards built on RDNA3. Due to AMD's unique position with their open-source Linux graphics driver stack, I decided to see how these new Radeon professional GPUs compare to FirePro hardware from 13 years ago for the raw performance and power efficiency. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/radeon-pro-13)
2023-08-07T18:00:56Z	**How The Radeon Professional Graphics Performance Changed Over 13 Years**
AMD last week launched the Radeon PRO W7500 and Radeon PRO W7600 professional graphics cards built on RDNA3. Due to AMD's unique position with their open-source Linux graphics driver stack, I decided to see how these new Radeon professional GPUs compare to FirePro hardware from 13 years ago for the raw performance and power efficiency. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/radeon-pro-13)
2023-08-07T21:04:41Z	**Linux Decides To Disable RNG On All AMD fTPMs**
As a follow-up to the first-on-Phoronix article last month that highlighted Linus Torvalds' frustrated views on the AMD fTPM random number generator continuing to cause problems for users even with updated firmware/BIOS, as of today the Linux kernel has gone ahead and blanket disabled RNG use for all current AMD fTPMs... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Disables-RNG-AMD-fTPMs)
2023-08-08T09:09:50Z	**Mesa TURNIP Vulkan Driver Adds VirtIO GPU Support**
Another change that has now landed in Mesa 23.3 is enabling support in the TURNIP Vulkan driver for running atop the VirtIO GPU kernel driver in virtualized scenarios... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-TURNIP-VirtIO)
2023-08-08T09:24:02Z	**Rhino Linux 2023.1 Released As Ubuntu-Based Rolling Release OS**
Rhino Linux has rolled out of beta as a community-based, rolling-release Linux distribution derived from Ubuntu... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rhino-Linux-2023.1)
2023-08-08T09:35:10Z	**GCC 14 Adds gprofng Support For This Next-Gen GNU Profiler**
Merged into the GCC 14 codebase is initial support for gprofng, the new GNU profiler... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-14-gprofng)
2023-08-08T09:48:19Z	**Intel Gets Hogwarts Legacy Running On Linux Driver By Pretending Not To Be Intel Graphics**
Those running Intel Arc Graphics on Linux can now enjoy the Hogwarts Legacy game under Valve's Steam Play. Intel engineers were able to get this open-world action RPG game running on their open-source Vulkan driver by hiding the fact that Intel graphics were rendering this game... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Graphics-Hogwarts-Legacy)
2023-08-08T10:08:33Z	**Intel Begins Posting GCC Compiler Patches For AVX10.1**
Last month Intel announced APX and AVX10 as the successor to AVX-512 that will see both P and E cores in the future supporting this updated Advanced Vector Extensions implementation. Delightfully, today Intel engineers began posting GCC compiler patches for beginning to enable AVX10 support... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-AVX10.1-GCC-Patches)
2023-08-08T13:14:55Z	**GNOME Shell & Mutter 45 Betas Released**
The GNOME 45 Beta release is imminent and this morning the "45.beta" milestones were tagged for the GNOME Shell and Mutter components... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Shell-Mutter-45-Beta)
2023-08-08T15:17:24Z	**UCIe 1.1 Specification Released For Universal Chiplet Interconnect**
The Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express Consortium today published the UCe 1.1 specification for helping to standardize die-to-die connectivity with multi-die SoCs... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/UCIe-1.1-Specification)
2023-08-08T15:55:24Z	**Go 1.21 Promotes PGO To General Use, Boosts Most Programs 2~7% With PGO**
Go 1.21 is now available as the latest version of this popular programming language... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Go-1.21-Released)
2023-08-08T16:33:18Z	**AMD "INCEPTION" CPU Vulnerability Disclosed**
AMD has kicked off a busy Patch Tuesday by disclosing INCEPTION, a new speculative side channel attack affecting Zen 3 and Zen 4 processors... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-INCEPTION)
2023-08-08T17:00:00Z	**Intel DOWNFALL: New Vulnerability Affecting AVX2/AVX-512 With Big Performance Implications**
This Patch Tuesday brings a new and potentially painful processor speculative execution vulnerability... Downfall, or as Intel prefers to call it is GDS: Gather Data Sampling. GDS/Downfall affects the gather instruction with AVX2 and AVX-512 enabled processors. At least the latest-generation Intel CPUs are not affected but Tigerlake / Ice Lake back to Sandy Bridge is confirmed to be impacted. There is microcode mitigation available but i ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/downfall)
2023-08-08T18:33:02Z	**Intel 20230808 Microcode Published For DOWNFALL, Other Security & Functional Issues**
In addition to the Linux kernel patches for GDS/Downfall for reporting the mitigated state and handling around Intel's latest speculative execution vulnerability, the updated CPU microcode has now been published on GitHub. In addition to having the Downfall mitigations for Skylake through Icelake/Tigerlake, there are also other security updates and functional issues resolved by this Intel 20230808 CPU microcode release... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-20230808-Microcode)
2023-08-08T19:55:43Z	**NVIDIA 535.98 Linux Driver Released With Several Fixes**
NVIDIA today rolled out a new stable point release in their R535 series for Linux users to provide a handful of bug fixes... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-535.98-Linux)
2023-08-08T20:11:20Z	**Six New Stable Linux Kernel Updates For Intel DOWNFALL & AMD INCEPTION**
As a result of the AMD INCEPTION and Intel DOWNFALL speculative execution vulnerabilities published this Patch Tuesday, Linux 6.5 Git quickly picked up the patches on embargo expiration and now there are six new stable point releases for back-porting these CPU security vulnerabilites to the supported stable kernel series... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/New-Linux-Stable-Downfall)
2023-08-09T09:05:18Z	**AMD Inception / Speculative Return Stack Overflow Linux Mitigation Code Being Cleaned Up**
As soon as the AMD Inception CPU vulnerability was made public yesterday, the Linux kernel mitigation patches were merged and within hours appeared in six new stable point releases for the kernel along with the Intel Downfall mitigation patches. Today though these patches are seeing a rework to clean-up this mitigation... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Inception-Cleanup)
2023-08-09T09:28:30Z	**Intel Speed Select Linux Tool Updated To Handle 32 Socket Servers**
The intel-speed-select tool that lives within the Linux kernel source tree has seen a set of patches prepared for the upcoming Linux 6.6 merge window. Arguably most interesting with this updated Intel Speed Select tool is now the ability to work with more than eight CPU sockets per platform -- the new limit is 32... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Speed-Select-32-Sockets)
2023-08-09T09:38:37Z	**Linus Torvalds Reviews The Bcachefs File-System Code**
The long-in-development Bcachefs file-system driver was submitted for Linux 6.5 but never merged this cycle due to various technical issues and developer in-fighting. Linus Torvalds himself has now gotten around to reviewing the proposed code and chiming in on the situation... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Torvalds-Bcachefs-Review)
2023-08-09T09:51:48Z	**KDE Plasma 6 Wayland Session: "It's Been Working Great!"**
As a lot of active development continues around the KDE Plasma 6 desktop and the developers eyeing a beta in a few months, it appears work on this Qt6-ported desktop environment is coming together quite nicely... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Plasma-6-Wayland-Great)
2023-08-09T10:13:36Z	**AMD P-State Preferred Core Handling Being Enabled For Linux**
A new set of patches have been posted for the Linux kernel that implement AMD P-State Preferred Core handling for the amd-pstate driver... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Preferred-Core-Linux)
2023-08-09T10:21:36Z	**AMD P-State Preferred Core Handling Being Enabled For Linux**
A new set of patches have been posted for the Linux kernel that implement AMD P-State Preferred Core handling for the amd-pstate driver... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Preferred-Core-Linux)
2023-08-09T13:48:36Z	**Updated AMD Family 19h Microcode Published Following "Inception"**
Following yesterday's disclosure of the AMD "Inception" security vulnerability and the Linux kernel patches merged for reporting the mitigation status as well as the kernel-based handling for earlier generation Zen CPUs, the Family 19h microcode mitigations have now been picked up by the linux-firmware.git repository... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Microcode-Inception)
2023-08-09T15:00:00Z	**Initial Benchmarks Of The Intel Downfall Mitigation Performance Impact**
With yesterday's disclosure of the Intel Downfall speculative execution vulnerability and the updated CPU microcode and Linux kernel patches I have been very busy testing the performance impact of this mitigation. Here are some initial numbers and workloads I have found to be impacted as a result of this security mitigation for Skylake to Icelake/Tigerlake client and server processors. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-downfall-benchmarks)
2023-08-09T18:27:52Z	**Linux Lands Fix For AMD Zen 1 Bug That Could Leak Data After A Division By Zero**
After a rather busy Patch Tuesday with the AMD Inception vulnerability and Intel Downfall going public, the Linux kernel saw a new bug fix merged today for a different issue... It turns out original AMD Zen 1 processors could end up leaking data in certain conditions after a divide by zero occurs... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Zen1-Divide-By-Zero-Bug)
2023-08-09T20:30:32Z	**Intel Begins Drafting AVX10 Plans For The LLVM/Clang Compiler**
In addition to Intel posting initial AVX10.1 patches for the GCC compiler, Intel has also begun sorting out their AVX10 plans for the LLVM/Clang compiler stack... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Plans-AVX10-LLVM)
2023-08-10T10:01:05Z	**KDAB Releases KDGpu As A Thin Wrapper Around Vulkan**
The consulting firm KDAB that is known for their work on the Qt toolkit has released KDGpu as a new library that is a thin wrapper around the Vulkan API and aims to allow for more productive GPU programming... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDAB-KDGpu)
2023-08-10T10:16:07Z	**Red Hat Is Hiring To Improve The Bootloader**
GRUB2 and Linux bootloaders in general don't get too much attention these days as for the most part they "just work" well and most Linux distributions prefer to keep their GRUB menu hidden if at all possible. But at the same time it's an often overlooked area and not an area where there is an eager and glamorous open-source community behind it. However, it looks like Red Hat at least may have some new ideas brewing and they are hiring now to improve the Linux bootloade ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Red-Hat-Hiring-Bootloader)
2023-08-10T10:24:55Z	**AV1 Video Decoding Added To Mesa's VirGL For QEMU/KVM Guests**
Merged for Mesa 23.3 is support for the VirGL code to handle accelerated AV1 video decoding within guest virtual machines... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-23.3-VirGL-AV1-Decode)
2023-08-10T10:36:37Z	**Nouveau Kernel Driver Changes For Supporting NVK Vulkan Submitted To DRM-Next**
The Nouveau DRM kernel driver changes for new user-space APIs to be used by the Mesa NVK open-source Vulkan driver have now been submitted for pulling to DRM-Next from the current drm-misc-next queue. These Nouveau kernel driver additions for NVK in turn will then premiere with the upcoming Linux 6.6 cycle... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Nouveau-NVK-Linux-6.6-DRM-Next)
2023-08-10T12:54:30Z	**Radeon R600g Driver Retires Its SB Optimizer**
A decade ago the Radeon R600g SB shader back-end proved useful for boosting gaming performance on pre-GCN graphics cards of the time and proved useful. But in more recent years in the R600g switch to NIR, the SB path hasn't received much attention and its benefits have diminished. The R600g SB code has now been dropped... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/R600g-SB-Optimizer-Dropped)
2023-08-10T13:47:56Z	**AMD Zen 5 EDAC & Temperature Monitoring Slated For Linux 6.6**
AMD Linux engineers continue work on enabling the Family 1Ah CPU models for the Linux kernel as what would appear to almost surely be the next-gen Zen 5 processors... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Zen-5-Temp-EDAC-Linux-6.6)
2023-08-10T15:16:28Z	**NVIDIA GeForce vs. AMD Radeon Linux Gaming Performance For August 2023**
After resorting to buying a NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 graphics card to be able to share Linux performance metrics for that more affordable Ada GPU, last month I posted the Radeon RX 7600 vs. GeForce RTX 4060 benchmarks as well as looking at the GeForce GTX 1060 through RTX 4060 GPU compute and renderer performance across several generations of NVIDIA GPUs. For those considering the RTX 4060 for a Linux gaming system or an upgrade to other recent ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/august-2023-linux-gpus)
2023-08-10T16:34:55Z	**Open Enterprise Linux Association Brings Together CIQ, Oracle & SUSE**
OpenELA has been announced as the Open Enterprise Linux Association that brings together CIQ (Rocky Linux), Oracle, and SUSE for collaborating around RHEL-compatible Linux distributions... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenELA-RHEL-Compatible)
2023-08-10T17:54:43Z	**Intel Joins The PyTorch Foundation**
As part of Intel's ongoing AI push, the company announced today they have joined the PyTorch Foundation as a premier member... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Joins-PyTorch-Foundation)
2023-08-10T19:30:01Z	**Microsoft's CBL-Mariner 2.0 Linux Distro Adds DNF5, Zstd-Compressed RPMs**
Microsoft has released CBL-Mariner 2.0.20230805 as the newest monthly-ish update to their in-house Linux distribution used for purposes from Azure to WSL... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/CBL-Mariner-2.0.20230805)
2023-08-10T21:02:29Z	**Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS Released With Linux 6.2 + Mesa 23.0 HWE Stack**
Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS is now available as the newest point release to this current long-term support series... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-23.04.3-LTS)
2023-08-11T09:44:02Z	**DRM Scheduler Patches Updated That Clear The Path For Merging Intel's Xe Driver**
Intel Arc Graphics customers have been eager to see the new Xe DRM kernel driver merged as a modern alternative to the long-standing i915 Direct Rendering Manager driver. The Xe driver should allow for better performance, is focused just on recent Intel graphics hardware, makes use of modern kernel features, and will allow for new features such as around the Vulkan sparse support. One of the blockers for getting the Xe driver merged a ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/DRM-Scheduler-Prep-Xe-v2)
2023-08-11T09:58:21Z	**Upgraded GNU Compiler Toolchain Approved For Fedora 39**
It shouldn't come as much surprise for those familiar with Fedora given its tendency to always ship with the very latest open-source compiler toolchain components, but this autumn's release of Fedora 39 will once again have all the leading-edge GNU compiler pieces... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-39-GNU-Toolchain-Upgrade)
2023-08-11T10:12:10Z	**Cloud Hypervisor 34 Brings QCOW2 Support for Backing Files, Paravirtualized Panic Device**
Cloud Hypervisor -- the Rust-written open-source VMM that was started by Intel while having evolved into a Linux Foundation project with backing from multiple organizations -- is out with the Cloud-Hypervisor 34 release... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Cloud-Hypervisor-34)
2023-08-11T11:50:22Z	**LLVM Clang Now Supports -std=c23**
LLVM/Clang developers have been working on C23 language support for some time already but to this point it's only been exposed when using the -std=c2x target or -std=gnu2x for the GNU dialect. However, with C2x having been finalized this summer as C23, the LLVM Clang 18 compiler will now honor the -std=c23 option... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/LLVM-Clang-18-std-c23)
2023-08-11T13:54:15Z	**Intel Meteor Lake Graphics Still Experimental "Force Probe" With Linux 6.6**
Sent out today was the drm-intel-gt-next and drm-intel-next pull requests of the latest Intel graphics driver feature code for DRM-Next to then be merged for the upcoming Linux 6.6 cycle. Both pull requests indicate these are the last planned feature updates ahead of Linux 6.6 but what's interesting is that with the latest code upcoming Meteor Lake graphics are still being treated as experimental... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-MTL-Force-Linux-6.6)
2023-08-11T14:44:25Z	**Haiku OS Support Upstreamed Into GCC Compiler**
Developers of the BeOS-inspired Haiku operating system have long been carrying patches for supporting the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) on their platform while this week the code was upstreamed for GCC 14... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-14-Haiku-OS-Support)
2023-08-11T15:16:02Z	**Linux 6.6 To Finish Gutting Wireless USB & UWB**
The upcoming Linux 6.6 kernel will finish removing old remnants of Wireless USB support... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-Finish-Gutting-WUSB)
2023-08-11T16:54:45Z	**Linux 6.4.10 & LTS Kernels Updated With AMD Zen 1 Divide By Zero Bug-Fix**
Following the new Linux stable kernels this week to quickly mitigate the Intel Downfall and AMD Inception vulnerabilities, today brings another set of stable point releases. Among the fixes to be picked up since Tuesday is the other AMD fix for the week of a Zen 1 bug that could leak data following a divide by zero operation... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.4.10-Released)
2023-08-11T19:48:07Z	**Initial Benchmarks Of The "NVK" Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver**
With the in-development NVK driver merged for Mesa 23.3 to provide open-source NVIDIA Vulkan API support when paired with the Nouveau kernel driver and the necessary Nouveau kernel driver improvements coming with Linux 6.6 for supporting this driver, Phoronix readers have been eager for some benchmarks... Well, here are some benchmarks on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 20 and RTX 30 series when comparing the latest NVK+Nouveau code compared to the proprieta ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/nvk-vulkan-performance)
2023-08-12T09:19:09Z	**KDE Apps Now Support QOI Images, Plasma 6 Development Continues**
KDE developers continue to be quite busy working on Plasma 6 development and related enhancements to this popular open-source desktop environment... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Adds-QOI-Image-Support)
2023-08-12T09:30:41Z	**System76 COSMIC Desktop Ironing Out Support For Themes, Application API**
While KDE developers are busy working on Plasma 6, System76's software developers are busy working on their new Rust-based "COSMIC" desktop environment. System76 on Friday published a new blog post outlining their efforts in recent weeks... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/System76-COSMIC-August)
2023-08-12T09:47:30Z	**AMD Working On ACPI PHAT Support For Linux To Expose Health-Related Telemetry**
One of the new Linux kernel patch series out of AMD this week is for exposing ACPI PHAT, the Platform Health Assessment Table... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Adding-Linux-ACPI-PHAT)
2023-08-12T10:02:53Z	**Intel Wiring Up DisplayPort Alt Mode 2.1 Support For Linux**
Last year the DisplayPort 2.1 specification was published and now Intel's open-source Linux engineers are working on adding support to the kernel for handling of the DisplayPort Alternate Mode 2.1 support for that DP operation over USB Type-C connections... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Linux-DP-Alt-Mode-2.1)
2023-08-12T10:23:24Z	**Linux Kernel Updated To Add Zenbleed Fix For Valve's Steam Deck**
Last month when the Linux kernel was mitigated for Zenbleed as a CPU vulnerability affecting AMD Zen 2 processors, it turns out the Steam Deck APU was accidentally left without coverage. An x86/urgent pull request sent out today for the Linux 6.5 kernel and for back-porting to current stable Linux kernel releases will extend the Zenbleed mitigation to protect Steam Deck gamers... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Zenbleed-Steam-Deck)
2023-08-12T13:13:28Z	**AMD FreeSync Panel Replay Ready For Linux 6.6, Next-Gen GPU Enablement Started**
AMD submitted more "new stuff" for their AMDGPU and AMDKFD kernel graphics and compute drivers for the upcoming Linux 6.6 kernel cycle... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-FSPR-Linux-6.6)
2023-08-13T10:08:03Z	**Glibc log2 Function Up To 69% Faster Thanks To FMA**
Intel engineer and open-source compiler expert H.J. Lu has landed a much faster log2() implementation within the GNU C Library (glibc) that makes use of FMA instructions with modern x86\_64 CPUs... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Glibc-Faster-log2-FMA)
2023-08-13T10:24:57Z	**LibreOffice Lands APNG Export Support**
Future LibreOffice releases will finally better handle animated PNG (APNG) files. After initial import support was added back in June, merged this week was initial export support for APNG files... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/LibreOffice-APNG-Support)
2023-08-13T10:32:01Z	**Mold 2.1 Linker Brings LoongArch CPU Support**
Last month the Mold 2.0 high-speed linker was released that shifted from AGPL to MIT licensing after their monetization strategy didn't pan out. This weekend the project is out with its Mold 2.1 release as another step forward for this alternative linker to GNU Gold and LLVM LLD... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mold-2.1-Adds-LoongArch)
2023-08-13T10:45:03Z	**RADV Ray-Tracing To Become Much Faster With New Driver Code**
The Mesa Radeon Vulkan "RADV" driver ray-tracing support is about to become much faster with a pending improvement that is currently undergoing review... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/RADV-Batch-Accel-RT)
2023-08-13T13:06:36Z	**Casefolding For Bcachefs File-System Posted**
The Bcachefs file-system continues to work its way toward the mainline kernel while interestingly this weekend a Valve developer posted patches for implementing case-folding (case insensitive) feature support for this open-source file-system... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Bcachefs-Case-Folding-Patches)
2023-08-13T18:43:03Z	**Linux 6.5-rc6 Released With Latest CPU Security Mitigations & Bug Fixes**
Linus Torvalds released the Linux 6.5-rc6 kernel a few hours early today after capping off a busy week... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.5-rc6)
2023-08-14T10:13:07Z	**Linux Reworks AMD Zen 1 Divide-By-Zero Mitigation After Original Fix Inadequate**
Following last week's AMD Inception vulnerability another AMD Zen CPU bug came to light and that was performing a divide by zero on Zen 1 could end up leaking data with this DIV0 speculation bug. The original workaround was performing a dummy division 0/1 within the #DE exception handler but that's now turned out to be inadequate... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Zen-1-Zero-Fix-Again)
2023-08-14T10:23:03Z	**Eclipse OpenJ9 v0.40 Released For Small Footprint & High Performance JVM**
Released last week was Eclipse OpenJ9 v0.40 as the latest feature update to this high performance JVM that focuses on being optimized for a small footprint... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Eclipse-OpenJ9-0.40)
2023-08-14T10:32:12Z	**Linux 6.6 Bringing Initial Support For Intel Lunar Lake's VPU4**
In addition to all the interesting open-source graphics driver updates coming with Linux 6.6 like AMD FreeSync Panel Replay, Nouveau uAPI additions for NVK, Intel PSR for old laptops, and many other GPU driver changes, the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem with its AI accelerator "accel" framework/subsystem is rolling out initial support for the VPU4 coming with Intel Lunar Lake processors... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-Intel-VPU4)
2023-08-14T13:52:59Z	**Rust Abstractions Posted For Sockets & Other Fundamental Network Bits**
While Linux 6.1 added the initial Rust infrastructure as an alternative programming language for writing new kernel modules, so far as of Linux 6.5 much of the upstreaming effort has been around adding new abstractions and supporting additional subsystems for making the Rust capabilities in the kernel more complete. The latest patch series is working on adding Rust abstractions for networking sockets and other fundamental networking bits... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Rust-Sockets-Patches)
2023-08-14T14:16:57Z	**IO_uring Adding Support For Vectored FUTEX Waits In Linux 6.6**
With the upcoming Linux 6.6 cycle another exciting change was recently queued up within the block subsystem's "for-next" branch: IO\_uring futex/futexv support... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-IO_uring-FUTEX)
2023-08-14T18:26:12Z	**Go 2 For "Breaking With The Past" Will Never Come**
An update on the Go programming language roadmap was shared today that highlights some recent improvements for backward compatibility to Go and why the developers now no longer expect to ever have a "Go 2" release that would break compatibility with existing Go 1.x programs... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Go-Language-Roadmap-No-2)
2023-08-14T18:55:18Z	**Intel Making Improvements For CPU Microcode Updating Under Linux**
Intel engineers are working on enhancing the x86\_64 CPU microcode updating experience under Linux and in particular the work is ultimately around better supporting of late microcode loading on Linux for Intel systems with a primary focus on Intel servers / enterprise users... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Better-ucode-Loading)
2023-08-15T01:23:30Z	**Glibc Git Lands Another FMA-Optimized Function - 24% Mean Improvement**
A few days ago Intel compiler expert H.J. Lu landed an FMA-optimized log2 function for the GNU C Library that could yield up to a 69% performance improvement on tested Intel Skylake processors. Merged today to Glibc Git was another FMA-optimized function... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Glibc-Faster-expm1-FMA)
2023-08-15T09:55:44Z	**AMD P-State Preferred Core Patches For Linux Updated, Will Be Enabled By Default**
AMD's Preferred Core feature continues working its way toward the Linux kernel for this functionality that's been around since Zen 2... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Preferred-Core-Linux-v2)
2023-08-15T10:20:52Z	**Raspberry Pi V3D Driver Gaining Per-Process GPU Usage Stats**
Maíra Canal with Igalia has sent out a set of patches for exposing GPU usage statistics for the Broadcom graphics processor found within the Raspberry Pi 4 single b oard computers... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Raspberry-Pi-GPU-Stats-Report)
2023-08-15T13:53:05Z	**Firefox Finally Outperforming Google Chrome In SunSpider**
Mozilla developers are celebrating that they are now faster than Google Chrome with the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark, although that test has been superseded by the JetStream benchmark... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-Faster-SunSpider)
2023-08-15T14:18:51Z	**Benchmarking The Performance Impact To AMD Inception Mitigations**
Last week the AMD Inception vulnerability was made public as a speculative side channel attack affecting Zen processors and different mitigation options based on the CPU generation. There wasn't too much communication around the performance implications of mitigating Inception while over the past week I have begun benchmarking the software and microcode updates on Ryzen and EPYC processors. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-inception-benchmarks)
2023-08-15T14:30:00Z	**Benchmarking The Performance Impact To AMD Inception Mitigations**
Last week the AMD Inception vulnerability was made public as a speculative side channel attack affecting Zen processors and different mitigation options based on the CPU generation. There wasn't too much communication around the performance implications of mitigating Inception while over the past week I have begun benchmarking the software and microcode updates on Ryzen and EPYC processors. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-inception-benchmarks)
2023-08-15T20:42:39Z	**Chrome 116 Released With Document Picture-In-Picture API**
Chrome 116 is out today as the newest stable version of Google's web browser... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Chrome-116-Released)
2023-08-15T22:57:12Z	**Intel XeSS 1.2 Released - Xe Super Sampling Still Driven By Some Windows Binary Blobs**
Intel this afternoon released the Xe Super Sampling (XeSS) v1.2 SDK as this gaming image upscaling tech that leverages AI deep learning for better performance and less image degradation on Intel Arc Graphics as well as from other GPU vendors... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-XeSS-1.2)
2023-08-16T09:22:16Z	**Intel Acquisition Of Tower Semiconductor Falls Through**
Back in February 2022 Intel announced plans to acquire Tower Semiconductor. However, one and a half years later the deal is now being called off due to failure to obtain regulatory approval... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-No-More-Tower-Acquisition)
2023-08-16T09:35:53Z	**Firefox Lands Wayland Fractional Scaling Support**
Mozilla Firefox has merged Wayland fractional-scale-v1 protocol support for handling fractional scaling with the web browser on the Linux desktop... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-Fractional-Scale-v1)
2023-08-16T09:57:03Z	**Imagination Tech Posts Updated PowerVR Linux DRM Driver**
Imagination Technologies has posted the fifth iteration of their driver patches for supporting PowerVR Rogue graphics with an open-source Linux kernel Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) driver that will go along with their Mesa PVR Vulkan driver... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Imagination-PowerVR-DRM-v5)
2023-08-16T10:00:00Z	**Firefox Lands Wayland Fractional Scaling Support**
Mozilla Firefox has merged Wayland fractional-scale-v1 protocol support for handling fractional scaling with the web browser on the Linux desktop... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-Fractional-Scale-v1)
2023-08-16T10:09:49Z	**XWayland 23.2 Released With Tearing Control, Resizable Rootful, EI Support**
XWayland 23.2 is out as stable today for this X.Org Server code for enjoying X11 window/client support within Wayland compositors. Several new features are implemented for this XWayland 23.2 milestone... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/XWayland-23.2-Released)
2023-08-16T10:26:37Z	**LoongArch "Loong64" Added To Debian Ports**
In addition to Debian promoting RISC-V to an official CPU architecture for the newly in development Debian 13 cycle, another CPU architecture/port change is adding LoongArch "Loong64" as a new Debian Port... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-Ports-LoongArch)
2023-08-16T12:00:00Z	**Distrobox Adds Support For ChromeOS - Allowing More Linux Apps To Run On Chromebooks**
Distrobox as the open-source project allowing easy access to running other distributions/apps via Podman and Docker has merged support for ChromeOS... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Distrobox-Adds-ChromeOS)
2023-08-16T13:48:18Z	**GCC Compiler Adds Software Workaround To Avoid Intel Downfall Performance Hit**
With the Intel Downfall vulnerability made public last week (also known as GDS - "Gather Data Sampling") there can be a sizable hit to AVX workloads making use of the GATHER instructions. For helping to lower the impact of Downfall/GDS on mitigated systems, Intel has made a change to the GNU Compiler Collection to disable GATHER generation in vectorization for Intel CPU families affected by this vulnerability... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-Workaround-Intel-Downfall)
2023-08-16T14:54:14Z	**CrossOver 23 Enables EA App On Linux, Many Fixes**
While many Linux gamers are all-set these days by making use of Steam and leveraging Valve's Steam Play for enjoying Windows games on Linux, for those running macOS or also wishing to enjoy more office/application-oriented Windows software on Linux support, CodeWeavers is out today with CrossOver 23 as the newest release of their commercial Wine-based software... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/CrossOver-23-Released)
2023-08-16T15:41:09Z	**StarFive VisionFive 2 Quad-Core RISC-V Performance Benchmarks**
SiFive's HiFive Unmatched development board was interesting when it began shipping in 2021 with 16GB of RAM and four U74-MC RISC-V cores along with one S7 core. But pricing was rather steep at $665 USD. Fast forward two years, the StarFive VisionFive 2 has begun to enjoy wide availability and for $100+ this RISC-V development board features a quad-core RISC-V processor via the StarFive JH7110 SoC with integrated GPU, up to 8GB of RAM, HDMI 2.0 ou ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/visionfive2-riscv-benchmarks)
2023-08-16T21:00:41Z	**Mesa 23.1.6 Released With Many Graphics Driver Fixes**
While waiting for the belated Mesa 23.2 to eventually surface, the Mesa 23.1 branch remains the latest stable series for this collection of open-source OpenGL/Gallium3D and Vulkan graphics drivers... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-23.1.6-Released)
2023-08-17T09:49:59Z	**OBS Studio 30 Beta Brings Intel QSV On Linux, WHIP/WebRTC Output**
The first beta release of the forthcoming OBS Studio 30 screencasting software is now available for testing... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/OBS-Studio-30-Beta)
2023-08-17T10:05:04Z	**Linux 6.6 Etnaviv Driver Working On More NXP i.MX8MP Hardware**
The reverse-engineered Etnaviv DRM driver for providing open-source graphics support for Vivante graphics IP has prepared a new set of improvements for the upcoming Linux 6.6 kernel cycle... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-Etnaviv-Changes)
2023-08-17T10:21:22Z	**Initial AVX10.1 Support Merged Into The GCC Compiler**
It was less than one month ago that Intel announced AVX10 as the successor to AVX-512. In that time Intel engineers have begun posting AVX10.1 enablement patches for GCC as well as beginning AVX10 discussions for the LLVM compiler stack. Overnight already the initial AVX10.1 enablement code has been merged into the GNU Compiler Collection... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-Lands-Initial-AVX10.1)
2023-08-17T11:45:00Z	**Intel QAT Adapted For Zstd To Provide Big Performance/Efficiency Wins**
While Intel has maintained the QATzip open-source compression library for demonstrating data compression using QuickAssist Technology (QAT) with DEFLATE/LZ4/LZ4s, Intel has also been working on QAT'ed Zstd for achieving some sizable victories in performance and power efficiency... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-QAT-Zstd)
2023-08-17T13:38:14Z	**Intel Publishes PCIe Bandwidth Controller Linux Driver To Prevent Thermal Issues**
Intel engineer Ilpo Järvinen posted a set of Linux kernel driver patches to introduce a new "bwctrl" PCI Express Bandwidth Controller driver and associated PCIe cooling driver to allow for limiting the PCIe link speed in the event of any system thermal issues... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-PCIe-Bandwidth-Thermal)
2023-08-17T15:26:00Z	**Amazon's New EC2 M7a AMD EPYC "Genoa" Instances Deliver Leading Performance In The AWS Cloud**
While back in November was when AWS originally announced new EC2 instances powered by 4th Gen AMD EPYC "Genoa" processors, only this week did they bring their M7a general purpose instances to a general availability state where anyone can access them. Being very impressed with 4th Gen EPYC bare metal as well as with Azure's HPC cloud, I fired up some benchmarks of the new Genoa-powered EC2 M7a instance compared to the new  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/aws-m7a-ec2-benchmarks)
2023-08-17T17:03:40Z	**AMD Isn't Done Yet Optimizing The Mesa RadeonSI Driver For Workstation OpenGL**
While over the past several years AMD landed numerous significant improvements to their RadeonSI driver for benefiting OpenGL workstation use-cases, that quest isn't yet over and more optimizations continue to be pursued. There are additional optimizations on the horizon for the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver for benefiting OpenGL on Linux workstations... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/RadeonSI-More-SPEC-GL-2023)
2023-08-17T18:27:42Z	**AMD Sends Out Initial Linux Graphics Driver Patches For "GFX 11.5"**
A few minutes ago AMD sent out the very first open-source Linux kernel graphics driver patches for enabling the "GFX 11.5" graphics engine... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-GFX-11.5-Linux-Patches)
2023-08-17T20:55:37Z	**SUSE To Be Taken Private By Its Largest Shareholder**
The SUSE organization has changed hands many times over the years... From being its own independent company to the notable acquisition by Novell two decades ago. Over the past decade SUSE has changed hands between Attachmate, Micro Focus, EQT Partners, and then went public back in 2021 on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. Now two years later its being taken private... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/SUSE-Going-Private)
2023-08-18T09:45:35Z	**GNOME 45 Beta Released With Many Improvements**
The GNOME 45 Beta is out today as the latest development milestone ahead of its stable debut in September... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-45-Beta)
2023-08-18T10:24:15Z	**SysVinit 3.08 Released With A Couple Patches**
For those still managing to resist systemd, SysVinit 3.08 was released on Thursday as the newest update to this init system... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Sysvinit-3.08)
2023-08-18T10:39:24Z	**Firefox 117 Beta 8 vs. Google Chrome 116 Linux Browser Performance**
Given all the interest this week in Firefox outperforming Google Chrome in SunSpider, I decided to run some fresh Linux desktop web browser benchmarks on my end. For today's comparison is a look at the newly-released Chrome 116 up against Firefox 117b8 that will be released as stable in just over one week... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-117-Chrome-116-Bench)
2023-08-18T13:44:59Z	**Cryptsetup Lands Support For OPAL Self Encrypting Drives**
Linux 6.4 or newer paired with the latest cryptsetup development code has landed support for the OPAL specification for self-encrypting drives... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Cryptsetup-Lands-OPAL-Encrypt)
2023-08-18T14:36:06Z	**AMD Ryzen 7 7840U Windows 11 vs. Linux CPU Performance**
Over the past month I've been delivering a number of Linux laptop tests with the AMD Ryzen 7 7840U for that Zen 4 "Phoenix" SoC within an Acer Swift Edge 16. One of the requests that has come up with my ongoing testing has been how well the default Microsoft Windows 11 installation compares to loading up Linux on this 8-core AMD Zen 4 laptop. Well, in this article is a look at the Linux performance compared to Windows 11, including when making use of the Lin ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-7840u-windows-linux)
2023-08-18T18:11:54Z	**Linux 6.6 To Support Rumble / Force Feedback On Google Stadia Controllers**
For those that happen to have a Google Stadia gaming controller from the days of Google's cloud gaming service, the Linux 6.6 kernel is adding a new driver to enable force feedback (rumble) support with these controllers... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-Stadia-Controller-FF)
2023-08-18T21:00:48Z	**Wine 8.14 Released Following Summer Holiday**
It's been nearly one month since Wine 8.13 was released while today marked the debut of the Wine 8.14 development milestone... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-8.14-Released)
2023-08-19T10:03:34Z	**KDE Plasma 6 Default Behavior Is Now Double-Click For Opening Files/Folders**
Nate Graham is out with his weekly KDE development summary to highlight all of the interesting changes to this open-source desktop environment with Plasma 6 development continuing at full-speed ahead... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6-Double-Click)
2023-08-19T10:28:28Z	**AMD Inception "SRSO" Mitigation Cleanup & Fixes Head To Linux 6.5-rc7**
Earlier this month the AMD Inception vulnerability was disclosed and quickly mitigated within the mainline Linux kernel and back-ported to the stable kernels. In the rush to get the code merged and the mitigation being under embargo until the disclosure date, some bugs and clean-ups with the mitigation code were discovered. That revised code was now submitted today for merging ahead of the Linux 6.5-rc7 kernel release this weekend... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Inception-Cleanups)
2023-08-19T10:45:23Z	**Orange Pi 5 Support Nears The Mainline Linux Kernel**
The DeviceTree additions to allow the Orange Pi 5 64-bit ARM single board computer (SBC) to work on the upstream Linux kernel are working their way closer to mainline... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Orange-Pi-5-DT-Mainline-Patches)
2023-08-19T13:22:44Z	**FreeBSD 14 Alpha 2 Available For Testing - The Last Series For 32-bit Platforms**
Last week the FreeBSD 14 alpha phase kicked off and available today is the second weekly alpha release for this upcoming major BSD operating system update... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-14-Alpha-2)
2023-08-19T13:32:11Z	**Intel ISPC 1.21 Released With Meteor Lake Xe-LPG Support**
Intel ISPC 1.21 is now available as the newest feature update to this Implicit SPMD Program Compiler for a C language variant focused on single program, multiple data (SPMD) programming for exploiting the full potential of modern CPUs and GPUs... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-ISPC-1.21)
2023-08-19T16:16:14Z	**Box64 0.2.4 Released - Some x86-64 Games Now Playable On RISC-V**
A new release of Box64 is now available, the Linux x86\_64 emulator for running programs and games on non-x86\_64 architectures like ARM/AArch64 and RISC-V... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Box64-0.2.4)
2023-08-20T13:17:50Z	**Linux 6.5-rc7 Released: Stable Linux 6.5 Expected Next Week**
Linus Torvalds released the Linux 6.5-rc7 test kernel today, a few hours ahead of schedule... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.5-rc7)
2023-08-20T14:05:02Z	**Linux DRM Firmware Repo Established For Queuing New GPU Firmware**
The linux-firmware.git Git repository on the kernel.org Git repository has been the de facto location for collecting all of the microcode/firmware files needed by upstream Linux kernel drivers. The linux-firmware.git repository is the centralized repository for all firmware files, including the GPU/DRM graphics drivers. Now though a dedicated DRM firmware repository is being established as a staging area for new GPU firmware prior to being pick ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-DRM-Firmware-Repository)
2023-08-20T21:23:29Z	**Mesa Adds GPUVis Integration - GPU Trace Visualizer**
Mesa has landed GPUVis integration with a focus on CPU side tracing for help to uncover where games are blocking on the GPU. This GPU Trace Visualizer integration for Mesa was spearheaded by RADV developer Bas Nieuwenhuizen... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-GPUVis-Integration)
2023-08-20T21:14:46Z	**Budgie 10.8 Linux Desktop Released**
Budgie 10.8 is out today as the newest feature release for this Linux desktop environment... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Budgie-10.8)
2023-08-21T10:14:50Z	**Wine-Staging 8.14 Released - Less Than 500 Patches Atop Upstream**
Following last Friday's release of Wine 8.14 following a summer holiday, Wine-Staging 8.14 is out today with its re-base for this testing/experimental flavor of Wine... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-Staging-8.14)
2023-08-21T10:39:00Z	**FreeBSD Experimenting With A Port Of NVIDIA's Linux Open DRM Kernel Driver**
The new nvidia-drm-kmod is a FreeBSD port of Linux's nvidia-drm.ko open-source kernel module... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-Port-Linux-DRM-KO)
2023-08-21T12:04:58Z	**LibreOffice 7.6 Now Available For This Best Free Software Office Suite**
LibreOffice 7.6 is now available as the latest major release to this leading open-source office suite that is widely used on the Linux desktop and elsewhere... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/LibreOffice-7.6)
2023-08-21T13:40:45Z	**AMD Color Management Improvements For Linux & The Steam Deck Continue**
Melissa Wen with consulting firm Igalia continues working with AMD and Valve engineers on supporting AMD driver-specific color management properties for Linux to benefit the Steam Deck but ultimately to benefit all AMD Linux users as well... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Color-Management-Part-1)
2023-08-21T14:09:00Z	**Lenovo ThinkPad P14s Gen4 AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U Linux Tests Forthcoming**
For those that have been eyeing an AMD Ryzen 7 7040 "Phoenix" series laptop for Linux use, over the coming weeks ahead there will be benchmarks and a review on the Lenovo ThinkPad P14s Gen4 with AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U laptop. With this 8-core / 16-thread Zen 4 mobile processor clocking up to 5.1GHz, 64GB of LPDDR5x-6400 memory, 1TB NVMe SSD, and 2.8K OLED display it should be a real treat if the Linux support is all in good shape... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/ThinkPad-P14s-Gen4-AMD)
2023-08-21T14:46:06Z	**Linux 6.6 AMDGPU Driver To Expose Current & Average Power For Capable GPUs**
On Friday AMD sent out another pull request of AMDGPU/AMDKFD driver changes for the upcoming Linux 6.6 merge window. With the Linux 6.5 release due out likely in one week and the cut-off having passed for new "feature" code for DRM-Next, this latest AMDGPU pull request was centered around bug-fixes but also with a few minor additions... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-AMDGPU-More-HWMON)
2023-08-21T15:22:46Z	**Coreboot's amdfwtool Updated For EPYC Genoa**
The amdfwtool utility living within the Coreboot repository for dealing with AMD platform firmware files has now added support for EPYC 9004 "Genoa" processors... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Coreboot-amdfwtool-Genoa)
2023-08-21T18:10:36Z	**Several HID Driver Improvements Ready For Linux 6.6**
In recent days a number of feature patches were queued in HID-next to provide new driver features and hardware support within the Human Interface Device subsystem... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-HID-Work)
2023-08-21T18:53:48Z	**Git 2.42 Released With Less Warnings For SHA-256 Usage**
Git 2.42 is out today as the newest feature update for this dominant open-source distributed revision control system... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Git-2.42-Released)
2023-08-21T19:12:12Z	**NVIDIA BIOS Signature Lock Broken - What Caused Pains For Open-Source For Years**
New (Windows) tools have been released that break the NVIDIA BIOS Signature Lock, the "security" functionality in use since the GeForce GTX 900 days around signed firmware/BIOS handling. This authentication mechanism is what in turn has led to the GeForce GTX 700 series still being the best supported series by the open-source Nouveau driver while the GTX 900 series and later have been crippled to their low boot clock speeds due to PMU/re-cl ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-Lock-Broken)
2023-08-21T20:16:12Z	**NVIDIA BIOS Signature Lock Broken - What Caused Open-Source Pains For Years**
New (Windows) tools have been released that break the NVIDIA BIOS Signature Lock, the "security" functionality in use since the GeForce GTX 900 days around signed firmware/BIOS handling. This authentication mechanism is what in turn has led to the GeForce GTX 700 series still being the best supported series by the open-source Nouveau driver while the GTX 900 series and later have been crippled to their low boot clock speeds due to PMU/re-clocki ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-Lock-Broken)
2023-08-21T23:00:00Z	**Intel Releases Updated Version Of Its Open-Source Font For Developers**
Intel is well regarded for their vast open-source contributions from being a major contributor to the Linux kernel and other areas like Mesa, GCC/glibc, and other key open-source projects to various niche projects like ConnMan and other smaller software projects. Debuting a few months ago as one of the newest open-source Intel projects catching us by surprise was Intel One Mono as a font designed for developers. Today brings a new version of that fon ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-One-Mono-1.3)
2023-08-22T09:41:57Z	**LibreOffice 24.2 Will Succeed LibreOffice 7.6**
One nugget of information in the LibreOffice 7.6 release announcement for those who missed it and deserves calling out specifically... Succeeding LibreOffice 7.6 will not be v7.7 or v8.0 but rather v24.2... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/LibreOffice-24.2-Up-Next)
2023-08-22T09:53:50Z	**GNOME's Sysprof Integrates CPU Scheduler Data**
GNOME's Sysprof is a wonderful system-wide profiling tool for helping developers analyze bottlenecks and debug other challenging issues. This system profiler has covered both kernel and user-space but to date has not provided any insight around the CPU scheduler behavior and thus developers have had to resort to other tooling there. But for the GNOME 45 release, Sysprof has integrated CPU scheduler details... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Sysprof-Adds-CPU-Scheduler-Data)
2023-08-22T10:35:06Z	**Fwupd 1.9.4 Released With Linux Firmware Updating For More Devices**
Richard Hughes of Red Hat has just released Fwupd 1.9.4 as the newest version of thus open-source software that goes along with the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) for making it easy to deploy new firmware/BIOS updates for systems and countless peripherals under Linux... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fwupd-1.9.4)
2023-08-22T12:54:50Z	**NVIDIA 535.104.05 Fixes An Issue Using The Open Kernel Driver With SLI**
While we are waiting on NVIDIA to roll out a beta of their next post-R535 Linux driver release stream, available today is the NVIDIA 535.104.05 Linux driver as their latest in this production driver branch... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-535.104.05-Linux)
2023-08-22T13:10:54Z	**Linux Microcode Loading For x86 32-bit CPUs Being Cleaned Up & Corrected**
Continuing to support x86 32-bit processors with the mainline Linux kernel continues to be a maintenance burden and uncovering ugly bits of code that are seldom touched. The latest work is on fixing up the 32-bit early microcode loading code so that it's more robust and actually correct... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-x86-32-bit-Microcode-Woes)
2023-08-22T15:55:32Z	**Benchmarking Mercury As The "Fastest Firefox Fork" With AVX, AES, LTO + PGO**
Following the news last week of Firefox outperforming Chrome in SunSpider, a Phoronix reader pointed out Mercury that is an open-source web browser claiming to be the "fastest Firefox fork" and making use of Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX) and AES instructions along with compiler features like Link-Time Optimizations (LTO) and Profile-Guided Optimizations (PGO). The project advertises as being 8-20% faster than upstream Firefox. Curious I  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/mercury-firefox-perf)
2023-08-22T17:45:16Z	**Asahi Linux's Apple M1/M2 Gallium3D Driver Now OpenGL ES 3.1 Conformant**
The AGX Gallium3D driver developed by the Asahi Linux crew for providing reverse-engineered OpenGL / GLES support on Apple Silicon M1/M2 hardware is now formally compliant with OpenGL ES 3.1... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Asahi-Linux-GLES-3.1-AGX-M1-M2)
2023-08-22T23:50:05Z	**QEMU 8.1 Released With New PipeWire Audio Backend, Many CPU Improvements**
QEMU 8.1 is now available as the latest feature update to this important piece of the open-source Linux virtualization stack... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/QEMU-8.1-Released)
2023-08-23T09:56:00Z	**More Linux Fixes/Cleanups Coming For AMD Inception/SRSO Mitigation Code**
Earlier this month when the AMD Inception CPU vulnerability was disclosed the initial mitigation was merged to Linux kernel right away for what there is referred to as the Speculative Return Stack Overflow (SRSO). Within a day of that code being published there were already efforts to clean it up and merged last week for Linux 6.5-rc7 was that AMD Inception code cleaning. This week a new set of 22 patches were published for further improvi ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/More-AMD-Inception-Cleaning)
2023-08-23T10:12:21Z	**RADV Implements NVIDIA DGC Compute Extension**
The VK\_NV\_device\_generated\_commands\_compute extension introduced in Vulkan 1.3.258 is now wired up for Mesa's Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver and should further benefit VKD3D-Proton for Steam Play gaming... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/RADV-NV-DGC-Compute-Proton)
2023-08-23T10:32:14Z	**Linux 6.6 MSM DRM Driver Preps For New Hardware, Overhead Optimizations**
Googler Rob Clark on Sunday sent out the set of MSM DRM patches prepped for the upcoming Linux 6.6 merge window. The MSM DRM driver is the kernel component for open-source Qualcomm Adreno graphics that goes along with the Freedreno Gallium3D and TURNIP Vulkan drivers in Mesa for having a nice Qualcomm Linux graphics stack... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-MSM-DRM-Next)
2023-08-23T11:56:00Z	**More Linux Fixes/Cleanups Coming For AMD Inception/SRSO Mitigation Code**
Earlier this month when the AMD Inception CPU vulnerability was disclosed the initial mitigation was merged to Linux kernel right away for what there is referred to as the Speculative Return Stack Overflow (SRSO). Within a day of that code being published there were already efforts to clean it up and merged last week for Linux 6.5-rc7 was that AMD Inception code cleaning. This week a new set of 22 patches were published for further improvi ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/More-AMD-Inception-Cleaning)
2023-08-23T14:55:14Z	**Mir 2.15 Released With Cleaning Up Some APIs, Improved Alt+Tab**
Mir 2.15 is out today as the newest version of this Ubuntu-focused Wayland compositor developed by Canonical that makes it easy for building out Wayland-based shells... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mir-2.15-Released)
2023-08-23T16:55:16Z	**Fedora Workstation 39 Planning To Drop Custom Qt Theming**
Fedora Workstation has long maintained the QGnomePlatform and Adwaita-qt projects for applying a GNOME/GTK-like interface and styling to Qt applications in order to enhance the experience. However, to reduce the maintenance burden and the ongoing technical debt, Fedora Workstation 39 is planning to eliminate the custom Qt theming and just rely on Qt upstream... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-Dropping-Custom-Qt-Theme)
2023-08-23T17:13:42Z	**AMD Sends Out Patches Enabling New "DCN 3.5" GPU Display Block**
Last week AMD sent out initial patches for enabling the "GFX 11.5" graphics IP under Linux for this presumed RDNA3 refresh that is likely for their next-gen Ryzen 8000 series APUs. Today AMD open-source Linux driver engineers sent out DCN 3.5 patches as an updated version of their Display Core Next IP... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-DCN-3.5-Display-Enablement)
2023-08-23T19:15:28Z	**Intel Brings Up Lunar Lake Display Support For Linux**
In addition to AMD sending out DCN 3.5 display patches for that next-gen display IP block presumably for their upcoming Ryzen 8000 series APUs, Intel's open-source engineers today sent out the patches enabling Lunar Lake display support for their i915 kernel driver while there is also support baking for their in-development Xe kernel driver... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Lunar-Lake-Display-Linux)
2023-08-23T22:33:19Z	**Ubuntu 23.10 Won't Be Shipping A GIMP 3.0 Snapshot**
With Ubuntu 23.10 shipping next month one of the changes expected on the desktop side was using a GIMP 3.0 snapshot for this open-source Adobe Photoshop alternative rather than sticking to the aging GIMP 2.10 series. But now it's been determined that this will not happen and GIMP 2.10 will continue to be used... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-23.10-No-GIMP-3.0)
2023-08-24T09:58:05Z	**Intel Adds New Raptor Lake IDs To Mesa Graphics Drivers**
Seemingly for Intel's upcoming Raptor Lake Refresh processors, some new graphics PCI IDs were added today to Mesa for the Iris Gallium3D and ANV Vulkan drivers... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-More-RPL-Mesa-IDs)
2023-08-24T10:15:28Z	**AMD Acquires An AI Software Company**
While AMD has acquired a number of hardware companies in the past several years, software company acquisitions by AMD has been much more rare. This morning AMD announced the acquisition of Mipsology as an AI software company... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Acquires-Mipsology)
2023-08-24T10:28:23Z	**KDE Gear 23.08 Released With Kalendar Becoming Merkuro, Many App Improvements**
KDE Gear 23.08 is available today as the four-month update to this collection of KDE desktop applications... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Gear-23.08)
2023-08-24T14:08:54Z	**Mesa's Vulkan WSI/Wayland Code Adds "IMMEDIATE" Present Mode Support**
Mesa's Vulkan windowing system integration (WSI) code for Wayland has added the "IMMEDIATE" present mode option that uses Wayland's tearing-control unstable extension to allow for images to be presented immediately but at the risk of visible screen tearing... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-VLK-WSI-Wayland-IMMEDIATE)
2023-08-24T14:43:32Z	**Coreboot Lands Support For The MSI PRO Z790-P Motherboards**
Upstreamed into the Coreboot Git repository this week is the ability to run on the MSI PRO Z790-P DDR4 and DDR5 motherboards for enjoying a latest-generation Intel desktop motherboard that is readily available as an alternative to using the proprietary BIOS implementations... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/MSI-Z790-P-Coreboot-Mainline)
2023-08-24T17:09:53Z	**Thunderbird 115 Will Be Rolling Out To Fedora Users**
Fedora with their more liberal update policies will soon be rolling out the Thunderbird 115 mail client to stable Fedora Linux users... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-Gets-Thunderbird-115)
2023-08-24T17:23:48Z	**OpenMandriva ROME 23.08 Brings KDE Plasma 6 TP Option, Continues With AMD Zen Spin**
OpenMandriva developers today formally announced the release of their rolling-release OpenMandriva ROME 23.08 Linux OS installation images, which are also being treated as a release candidate for the OMLx 5.0 non-rolling distribution variant. Making OpenMandriva ROME 23.08 more exciting is that they are now offering separate install media as well that features the KDE Plasma 6 desktop environment in its current experimental state bu ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenMandriva-ROME-23.08)
2023-08-24T17:43:05Z	**SQLite 3.43 Released With Up To 2x Performance For JSON Processing**
SQLite 3.43 is out today as the newest version of this popular open-source embedded SQL database library that is widely used by countless applications and other software for a variety of data storage purposes... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/SQLite-3.43-Released)
2023-08-24T18:47:53Z	**Ryzen 9 7950X Performance With The New AMD P-State Default Of Linux 6.5**
The Linux 6.5 kernel is expected to be released as stable this weekend barring any last minute issues from being raised. One of the notable changes with this new kernel version is Linux now defaulting to the AMD P-State "EPP" active driver configuration for modern Ryzen systems rather than the long-used generic ACPI CPUFreq driver default. In some cases this can mean better performance but particularly should yield a nice improvement to the powe ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux65-ryzen-7950x)
2023-08-24T23:40:13Z	**AMD Posts LInux Driver Patches For New VPE & UMSCH Components With Future GPUs**
Following AMD recently posting Linux graphics driver patches for enabling a GFX 11.5 graphics engine and new DCN 3.5 display block that are presumably for an RDNA3 refresh such as for the Ryzen 8000 series APUs, today AMD posted additional open-source driver patch series for enabling additional new IP... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-New-VPE-UMSCH)
2023-08-25T09:46:56Z	**Vulkan 1.3.262 Rolls Out With Four New Extensions**
The Vulkan 1.3.262 revision to this industry standard for high performance graphics and compute is now published. There is the usual assortment of minor changes/fixes plus four new extensions, which all happen to be new vendor extensions from Qualcomm... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vulkan-1.3.262)
2023-08-25T10:00:31Z	**libinput 1.24 Brings Changes For Apple Touchpads, Drawing Tablets**
Libinput 1.24 is available today for this input handling library used by Linux systems both legacy X11/X.Org desktops and especially by modern Wayland compositors for unifying input handling in the open-source world... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/libinput-1.24-Released)
2023-08-25T10:06:31Z	**libinput 1.24 Brings Changes For Apple Touchpads, Drawing Tablets**
Libinput 1.24 is available today for this input handling library used by Linux systems both legacy X11/X.Org desktops and especially by modern Wayland compositors for unifying input handling in the open-source world... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/libinput-1.24-Released)
2023-08-25T10:18:34Z	**Linux 6.6 To Bring Another Rust Toolchain Upgrade**
Miguel Ojeda who leads the "Rust for Linux" effort of integrating Rust programming language support into the Linux kernel has already submitted his pull request of planned feature updates for the upcoming Linux 6.6 cycle... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-Rust-Changes)
2023-08-25T10:35:57Z	**Coreboot 4.21 Brings More System76 Laptops, Star Labs & MSI Z790-P Support**
Coreboot 4.21 is available this week as the newest tagged release for this open-source system BIOS/firmware solution. Coreboot 4.21 brings a number of new motherboard ports as well as various core improvements... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Coreboot-4.21-Released)
2023-08-25T12:08:04Z	**Further Cleaned-Up AMD Inception/SRSO Mitigation Code Ready Ahead Of Linux 6.6**
It looks like the further-tuned AMD Inception / SRSO (Speculative Return Stack Overflow) mitigation code will be submitted for the upcoming Linux 6.6 merge window... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-x86-bugs-AMD-SRSO)
2023-08-25T13:50:50Z	**Ubuntu Delays Transition To Snap'ed CUPS Print Server**
Since 2021 among other Snap'ing efforts for converting formerly Ubuntu DEB packages to Canonical's Snap sandboxed app packaging format has been the CUPS print server. The plan was to replace the Debian-packaged CUPS with the Snap-based CUPS for Ubuntu 23.10 but now that is being pushed back to next year... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Delays-Snap-CUPS)
2023-08-25T14:19:19Z	**Ubuntu Desktop "Charting A Course For The Future" With Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Next Year**
Oliver Smith at Canonical who serves as the Product Manager for Ubuntu Desktop published a post on "charting a course for the future" of the Ubuntu desktop... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Desktop-2023-Future)
2023-08-25T15:30:00Z	**AMD Announces The Radeon RX 7700 XT & RX 7800 XT Graphics Cards**
AMD used the Gamescom gaming conference in Cologne, Germany for announcing the Radeon RX 7700 XT and Radeon RX 7800 XT graphics cards as the newest consumer cards in the RDNA3 family. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-rx-7700xt-7800xt)
2023-08-26T09:50:16Z	**KDE Plasma 6 Now Enables Tap-To-Click By Default**
Last week KDE Plasma 6 made the default change from single click to double click for opening files/folders while this week brings another notable default settings change for the desktop... Tap-to-click is finally enabled by default... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6-Tap-To-Click)
2023-08-26T10:08:23Z	**GNOME's Sysprof Adds FlameGraphs To Better Visualize Output**
In addition to GNOME's Sysprof integrating CPU scheduler data this week for GNOME 45, this system-wide profiling tool has also added support for FlameGraphs... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Sysprof-FlameGraphs)
2023-08-26T10:24:01Z	**Linux 6.5 Ready To Ship With Initial USB4 v2, More WiFi 7, AMD P-State EPP Default & Mor**
Barring any last minute problems from coming up, the Linux 6.5 kernel is expected to be released as stable tomorrow, 27 August. Here's a reminder about all of the great changes and new features with this next kernel version, which is especially heavy on exciting additions for Intel and AMD Linux users... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.5-Features)
2023-08-26T16:19:23Z	**Canonical Releases LXD 5.17 With OpenZFS 2.2 Delegation Support**
LXD 5.17 is now available as the system container and virtual machine manager, which since last month has been reigned into control by Canonical and maintainership being limited to Canonical engineers. With this new LXD release there is ZFS delegation support as found with the upcoming OpenZFS 2.2... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/LXD-5.17-Released)
2023-08-26T23:55:33Z	**Linux 6.5 Last Minute Fixes A Performance Regression - 34% Drop In A Micro-Benchmark**
While Linux 6.5 is expected for release tomorrow, the flow of last minute fixes isn't over... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.5-x86-Fix-34p-Drop)
2023-08-27T09:51:48Z	**Mageia 9 Released With SQLite-Based RPM Package Database, Zstd Compressed Images**
While the release cycle dragged on for several extra months, available this weekend is the release of Mageia 9 for this Linux distribution long ago derived from Mandriva that in turn was an evolution going back to the glorious Mandrake days. Mageia 9 is a nice update pulling in many package updates along with other fundamental changes like shifting to SQLite for its RPM package database... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mageia-9-Released)
2023-08-27T10:32:34Z	**Many Features Ahead With Linux 6.6: EEVDF Scheduler, New AMD CPU Features, NVK uAPI**
While there are many exciting features with Linux 6.5 which will hopefully be released as stable later today, ahead for the imminent Linux 6.6 merge window are another hearty batch of new features set to be introduced... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-Early-Features)
2023-08-27T13:18:29Z	**Flatpak Lands Support For Wayland Security Context**
The Flatpak open-source app sandboxing tech has merged support for the Wayland security context protocol... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Flatpak-Wayland-Security-Ctx)
2023-08-27T15:46:23Z	**fchmodat2 System Call Submitted For Linux 6.6**
Ahead of the Linux 6.5 stable kernel being released there have already been a few pull requests submitted of new feature material for Linux 6.6. Among the early pulls for v6.6 is one from prominent Linux developer Christian Brauner at Microsoft that introduces the fchmodat2() system call as an evolution of fchmodat()... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/fchmodat2-For-Linux-6.6)
2023-08-27T16:06:18Z	**Ampere Computing Publishes Guide For Steam Play Games On Their AArch64 Server CPUs**
While Ampere Computing's wares with the Altra (Max) and forthcoming AmpereOne families of AArch64 server processors are designed for the data center, if you feel so inclined they have published a guide on being able to run Steam for Linux on these ARM64 processors -- including Steam Play (Proton) for enjoying Windows games on these Linux servers... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ampere-Computing-Steam-Play)
2023-08-27T16:30:18Z	**Ampere Computing Publishes Guide For Steam Play Games On Their AArch64 Server CPUs**
While Ampere Computing's wares with the Altra (Max) and forthcoming AmpereOne families of AArch64 server processors are designed for the data center, if you feel so inclined they have published a guide on being able to run Steam for Linux on these ARM64 processors -- including Steam Play (Proton) for enjoying Windows games on these Linux servers... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ampere-Computing-Steam-Play)
2023-08-27T22:07:15Z	**Linux 6.5 Released With AMD P-State EPP Default, USB4 v2, MIDI 2.0 & More Hardware Bits**
While at the start of Linux 6.5 cycle Linus Torvalds was concerned this release "may be one of those releases that may drag out", in the end it is releasing today and right on schedule. Linux 6.5 was just published rather than going into overtime without any extra release candidate... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.5-Released)
2023-08-28T09:54:22Z	**Multi-Grained Timestamps Submitted For Linux 6.6**
In addition to the fchmodat2 system call, another early pull request submitted by Microsoft's Christian Brauner even before the Linux 6.5 kernel was released is one to introduce multi-grained timestamps with Linux 6.6. Multi-grained timestamps are intended to address an issue exhibited with NFS around caching and the current coarse-grained timestamp handling used for (in)validating caches... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Multi-Grained-Timestamps)
2023-08-28T10:18:19Z	**Linux 6.6 Will Avoid Unnecessary Kernel Panics On AMD Zen Systems**
As part of the Reliability, Availability and Serviceability (RAS) updates submitted today for the Linux 6.6 kernel is adding a quirk/workaround for dealing with current AMD Zen systems where a processor bug could lead to erroneously increased error severity and unneeded kernel panics... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-RAS-Zen-Kernel-Panic)
2023-08-28T10:29:29Z	**An Automated Gentoo Linux System Updater Developed Via GSoC**
Thanks to this year's Google Summer of Code (GSoC), a student developer took the initiative in working on an automated Gentoo Linux system updater to help begineers and ease the roll-out of security updates to users... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Automated-Gentoo-Updates)
2023-08-28T10:41:29Z	**An Automated Gentoo Linux System Updater Developed Via GSoC**
Thanks to this year's Google Summer of Code (GSoC), a student developer took the initiative in working on an automated Gentoo Linux system updater to help begineers and ease the roll-out of security updates to users... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Automated-Gentoo-Updates)
2023-08-28T13:01:13Z	**GNU Linux-libre 6.5-gnu Released With More Kernel Deblobbing**
Building off yesterday's release of Linux 6.5, GNU Linux-libre 6.5-gnu is now available for this downstream kernel maintained by the Free Software Foundation Latin America crew that removes support for binary-only kernel modules and stripping out other kernel code that depends on non-free-software microcode/firmware and other elements not deemed in the interests of pure free software... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Linux-Libre-6.5)
2023-08-28T14:09:54Z	**AMD Dynamic Boost Control Submitted For Linux 6.6**
Back in April AMD Linux engineers posted enabling a new CPU feature called Dynamic Boost Control to be found with some unspecified Ryzen SoCs for tuning the processor cores for optimal performance. The Dynamic Boost Control functionality depends upon the AMD Cryptographic Co-Processor (CCP) / Platform Security Processor (PSP) and this functionality was submitted today as part of the crypto updates for Linux 6.6... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Dynamic-Boost-Control)
2023-08-28T15:00:18Z	**CentOS ISA SIG Experimenting With New x86-64 Baseline For Better Performance**
The CentOS ISA special interest group (SIG) has been evaluating the performance of CentOS Stream in the event its x86\_64 baseline were to be raised from x86-64-v2 to x86-64-v3. Currently CentOS Stream 9 targets x86-64-v2 but in upping the support requirements to x86-64-v3, it would allow the ability to engage AVX/AVX2 by default and make use of other newer instruction set features. The x86-64-v3 baseline roughly correlates to Intel ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/CentOS-ISA-Experiment-Perform)
2023-08-28T16:40:43Z	**Firefox 117 Available With Local Automated Translation Support**
The Firefox 117 release binaries are now available for download ahead of Mozilla's official announcement going out on Tuesday... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-117-Released)
2023-08-28T20:18:50Z	**AMD Zen 5 / Family 1Ah Temperature Support & EDAC Submitted For Linux 6.6**
Over the summer AMD Linux engineers began sending kernel patches for Family 1Ah (Family 26) processors that almost surely are for next-gen Zen 5 processors. Among the initial bits sent out for this next-generation AMD CPU Family are HWMON temperature monitoring and EDAC reporting, which are now on their way for the Linux 6.6 kernel... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-AMD-Zen-5-EDAC-HWMON)
2023-08-28T21:00:00Z	**Intel Talks Up 2024 Xeon Sierra Forest & Granite Rapids At HotChips**
For HotChips 2023, Intel has made some new disclosures around Granite Rapids and Sierra Forest. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-hotchips-2023)
2023-08-28T21:10:00Z	**Intel Talks Up 2024 Xeon Sierra Forest & Granite Rapids At Hot Chips**
For HotChips 2023, Intel has made some new disclosures around Granite Rapids and Sierra Forest. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-hotchips-2023)
2023-08-28T23:41:41Z	**libavif 1.0 Released With Stable ABI, Experimental AV2 Support**
The Alliance For Open Media has released libavif 1.0, the reference library for the AV1 Image File Format (AVIF) with image encode and decode support... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/libavif-1.0-Released)
2023-08-29T10:00:00Z	**Intel's SVT-AV1 1.7 Video Encoder Delivers Faster Performance**
The Intel-led SVT-AV1 open-source AV1 video encoder is out with a major release that delivers on more performance improvements across the board... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-SVT-AV1-1.7)
2023-08-29T10:26:38Z	**EEVDF Scheduler Merged For Linux 6.6, Intel Hybrid Cluster Scheduling Re-Introduced**
The EEVDF scheduler code has been merged for the in-development Linux 6.6 kernel. EEVDF replaces the existing CFS scheduler code. There is the likelihood of some performance regressions initially though but the developers will be working to address them as they arise. Additionally, this scheduler pull also re-introduces cluster scheduling for Intel Core hybrid processors... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-EEVDF-Merged)
2023-08-29T10:40:38Z	**EEVDF Scheduler Merged For Linux 6.6, Intel Hybrid Cluster Scheduling Re-Introduced**
The EEVDF scheduler code has been merged for the in-development Linux 6.6 kernel. EEVDF replaces the existing CFS scheduler code. There is the likelihood of some performance regressions initially though but the developers will be working to address them as they arise. Additionally, this scheduler pull also re-introduces cluster scheduling for Intel Core hybrid processors... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-EEVDF-Merged)
2023-08-29T10:33:28Z	**ClamAV 1.2 Now Extracts UDF Partitions, New systemd Timer**
ClamAV 1.2 was released on Monday as the newest version of this open-source, cross-platform anti-virus engine currently maintained by Cisco Systems... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/ClamAV-1.2-Released)
2023-08-29T11:30:00Z	**Linux 6.6 Lands "Pretty Juicy" IOmap Improvements, Lower Latency With IO_uring**
Among the exciting early pull requests to land in the new Linux 6.6 kernel cycle are some nice improvements to the IOmap code that should yield some substantive I/O benefits with this new kernel... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-IOmap-Improvements)
2023-08-29T12:00:00Z	**Google Announces C3A Instances Coming, Powered By AmpereOne CPUs**
Google is using their NEXT'23 conference today to announce that C3A instances are debuting in private preview form for these new AArch64 VMs powered by AmpereOne processors... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Google-Cloud-C3A-AmpereOne)
2023-08-29T12:15:00Z	**Linux 6.6 Lands "Pretty Juicy" IOmap Improvements, Lower Latency With IO_uring**
Among the exciting early pull requests to land in the new Linux 6.6 kernel cycle are some nice improvements to the IOmap code that should yield some substantive I/O benefits with this new kernel... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-IOmap-Improvements)
2023-08-29T15:28:57Z	**Linux 6.6 Adding Randomized Kmalloc Caches For Further System Hardening**
To help harden the Linux kernel from memory vulnerabilities and in particular heap spraying, set to be merged into the Linux 6.6 kernel is optional support for randomized slab caches for kmalloc() calls... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Randomize-Kmalloc-Cache)
2023-08-29T13:00:38Z	**EEVDF Scheduler Merged For Linux 6.6, Intel Hybrid Cluster Scheduling Re-Introduced**
The EEVDF scheduler code has been merged for the in-development Linux 6.6 kernel. EEVDF replaces the existing CFS scheduler code. There is the likelihood of some performance regressions initially though but the developers will be working to address them as they arise. Additionally, this scheduler pull also re-introduces cluster scheduling for Intel Core hybrid processors... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-EEVDF-Merged)
2023-08-29T15:51:16Z	**Intel Gale Peak, New BPF Features & Other Networking Changes For Linux 6.6**
The big set of Linux networking subsystem updates were sent out today for the recently-started Linux 6.6 kernel merge window. There are a number of core networking improvements this cycle, support for various new wired and wireless chipsets, and improvements made to existing Ethernet and WiFi drivers... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-Networking)
2023-08-29T15:55:16Z	**Intel Gale Peak, New BPF Features & Other Networking Changes For Linux 6.6**
The big set of Linux networking subsystem updates were sent out today for the recently-started Linux 6.6 kernel merge window. There are a number of core networking improvements this cycle, support for various new wired and wireless chipsets, and improvements made to existing Ethernet and WiFi drivers... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-Networking)
2023-08-29T16:28:13Z	**GNU Coreutils 9.4 Adds Experimental "--enable-systemd" Option, Faster Split**
GNU Coreutils 9.4 is out today as the latest version of this collection of utilities common to GNU/Linux systems and other platforms... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Coreutils-9.4)
2023-08-29T19:29:01Z	**XDG-Desktop-Portal 1.17.1 Released With Accent Color Support**
XDG-Desktop-Portal as the portal front-end for Flatpaks is out with a new development release that brings accent color support to sandboxed desktop apps as well as other new features... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/XDG-Desktop-Portal-1.17.1)
2023-08-29T21:10:09Z	**Linux 6.6 To Better Protect Against The Illicit Behavior Of NVIDIA's Proprietary Driver**
The Linux 6.6 modules infrastructure is changing to better protect against the illicit behavior of NVIDIA's proprietary kernel driver... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-Illicit-NVIDIA-Change)
2023-08-29T23:51:16Z	**SELinux In Linux 6.6 Removes References To Its Origins At The US NSA**
Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux) has been part of the mainline kernel for two decades to provide a security module implementing access control security policies and is now widely-used for enhancing the security of production Linux servers and other systems. Those that haven't been involved with Linux for a long time may be unaware that SELinux originates from the US National Security Agency (NSA). But now with Linux 6.6 the NSA references a ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/SELinux-Drops-NSA-References)
2023-08-29T23:56:16Z	**SELinux In Linux 6.6 Removes References To Its Origins At The US NSA**
Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux) has been part of the mainline kernel for two decades to provide a security module implementing access control security policies and is now widely-used for enhancing the security of production Linux servers and other systems. Those that haven't been involved with Linux for a long time may be unaware that SELinux originates from the US National Security Agency (NSA). But now with Linux 6.6 the NSA references a ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/SELinux-Drops-NSA-References)
2023-08-30T01:00:00Z	**SELinux In Linux 6.6 Removes References To Its Origins At The US NSA**
Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux) has been part of the mainline kernel for two decades to provide a security module implementing access control security policies and is now widely-used for enhancing the security of production Linux servers and other systems. Those that haven't been involved with Linux for a long time may be unaware that SELinux originates from the US National Security Agency (NSA). But now with Linux 6.6 the NSA references a ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/SELinux-Drops-NSA-References)
2023-08-30T09:59:26Z	**MidnightBSD 3.1 Released With Ravenports Integration**
MidnightBSD 3.1 is now available for this desktop-minded, FreeBSD-forked operating system that aims to be "the BSD for everyone" with an Xfce-based desktop and focus on ease of use... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/MidnightBSD-3.1)
2023-08-30T10:13:03Z	**AMD ROCm 5.6.1 Compute Stack Released With A Few Fixes**
While we are eagerly awaiting ROCm support for more RDNA3 GPUs said to be coming later this calendar year, shipping Tuesday night was ROCm 5.6.1 as the newest point release for this open-source GPU compute stack... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ROCm-5.6.1)
2023-08-30T10:30:42Z	**Linux Sysctl Cleaning To Eventually Erase ~64 Bytes Of Bloat Per Array**
Some code cleaning within the sysctl space of the Linux kernel will eventually eliminate around 64 bytes of bloat per array within the kernel where a sentinel can be removed... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-Sysctl-Cleaning)
2023-08-30T11:30:00Z	**AMD Working On New OverDrive GPU Overclocking Controls For Linux**
AMD's open-source Linux graphics driver engineers are working on a new set of interfaces for user-space to support OverDrive overclocking. While AMD GPU OverDrive overclocking has been supported on Linux for years, the current interface isn't sufficient for all the power/overclocking controls moving forward... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-New-OverDrive-Linux)
2023-08-30T13:50:00Z	**AMD Publishes SEV Firmware As Open-Source**
While I have been eagerly following the AMD openSIL project for open-source CPU initialization that will eventually replace AGESA, today AMD announced a new open-source firmware drop: the SEV firmware has been made open-source... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-SEV-Firmware-Open-Source)
2023-08-30T14:00:00Z	**AMD Publishes SEV Firmware As Open-Source**
While I have been eagerly following the AMD openSIL project for open-source CPU initialization that will eventually replace AGESA, today AMD announced a new open-source firmware drop: the SEV firmware has been made open-source... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-SEV-Firmware-Open-Source)
2023-08-30T14:20:00Z	**Linux 6.6 Adds Support For Intel Agilex 5 FPGAs, Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2**
The various Arm platform and SoC changes have been submitted for the ongoing Linux 6.6 merge window... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-Arm-Changes)
2023-08-30T19:34:56Z	**JetBrains Enabling Wayland Support For IntelliJ-Based IDEs**
For those making use of the IntelliJ integrated development environment (IDE), JetBrains has been working to enable native Wayland support... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/IntelliJ-Wayland-Support)
2023-08-30T21:15:24Z	**Google Preparing To Rollout Stable Chrome Releases Even Faster**
Moving forward Google engineers are working to roll-out new Chrome stable releases even faster... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Google-Chrome-Faster-Releases)
2023-08-30T23:42:28Z	**XFS Begins Landing Online Repair, New Release Manager Takes Over**
There are some notable changes around the XFS file-system for the in-development Linux 6.6 kernel, including a new release manager taking over duties... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-XFS)
2023-08-31T09:45:32Z	**Linux 6.6 Gets More Voltage & Temperature Sensors Working On Some Desktop Motherboards**
The hardware monitoring "HWMON" subsystem updates have been submitted and merged for the ongoing Linux 6.6 kernel merge window... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-HWMON)
2023-08-31T09:58:02Z	**More Wine Wayland Code Submitted For Review - Part 6**
As part of the long ongoing effort around Wine Wayland support for upstream in order to be able to utilize Wayland directly without a reliance on XWayland when running Windows games/apps, the sixth part to that enablement has been posted for review... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-Wayland-Part-6)
2023-08-31T10:19:17Z	**GenPD Subsystem Posted For Linux 6.6 - Torvalds Wonders What The Heck Is "GenPD"**
A pull request was sent out this week to introduce the GenPD subsystem and add a new drivers/genpd area for the GenPD provider drivers to the kernel... To which Linus Torvalds wonders what the heck is a "GenPD" as probably most of you are also wondering about... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-GenPD)
2023-08-31T10:39:09Z	**Linux 6.6 Graphics Drivers: NVK uAPI, New AMD GPUs, More Meteor Lake, CI Support**
The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem updates for the Linux 6.6 kernel to provide new features for the number of kernel graphics drivers and other AI accelerator drivers within the mainline kernel... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-DRM-Graphics-Drivers)
2023-08-31T11:53:36Z	**ReiserFS Officially Declared "Obsolete"**
As part of updates to the older file-system drivers for Linux 6.6, the ReiserFS file-system is no longer marked as "Supported" but is officially treated as "Obsolete" within the Linux kernel... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/ReiserFS-Obsolete)
2023-08-31T13:42:37Z	**PHP 8.3 RC1 Released With json_validate, Anonymous Read-Only Classes**
The first release candidate of PHP 8.3 is now available for testing this annual feature release... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/PHP-8.3-RC1)
2023-08-31T15:13:08Z	**AMD Open-Source GPU Kernel Driver Above 5 Million Lines, Entire Linux Kernel At 34.8 Million**
With the in-development Linux 6.6 kernel adding support for more upcoming Radeon graphics processors, that means more auto-generated header files for the new IP blocks... I was curious to see the overall size now of the AMDGPU kernel driver along with its associated code like the AMDKFD compute driver. It's now above 5 million lines for the kernel driver portion... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-5-Million-Lines)
2023-08-31T16:58:37Z	**NFSD With Linux 6.6 Brings A Thrilling New Feature**
Chuck Lever III of Oracle has submitted the NFSD changes for Linux 6.6 for this NFS server of which he is particularly thrilled about one of the new features this cycle... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-NFSD)
2023-08-31T18:41:32Z	**Intel GDS/Downfall Linux Mitigation Updated To Confirm All Skylake CPUs Are Affected**
The Linux mitigation for the Intel Gather Data Sampling (GDS) "Downfall" vulnerability was updated to reflect all Skylake and Kabylake CPUs being vulnerable to this nasty issue. Due to those Skylake client processors reaching the end of their official support life at Intel, the original Linux mitigation for GDS/Downfall didn't properly protect those older Core processor models... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Downfall-All-Skylake)
2023-08-31T21:04:25Z	**Intel Shadow Stack Finally Merged For Linux 6.6**
The Intel Shadow Stack support that is part of their Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET) has finally been merged for the Linux 6.6 kernel after it was previously rejected by Linus Torvalds... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Shadow-Stack-Linux-6.6)
2023-09-01T09:52:29Z	**Google Releases libaom 3.7 AV1 Encoder With More Optimizations**
Following the releases this week of Intel's SVT-AV1 1.7 encoder and the libavif 1.0 AV1 Image File Format release, Google engineers are out with libaom 3.7 as the newest feature release to that AV1 encode library... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Google-libaom-3.7-AV1)
2023-09-01T10:02:33Z	**Linux 6.6 NFS Enables NFSv4.2 READ_PLUS Option By Default**
In addition to NFSD bringing a thrilling feature for Linux 6.6 in the form of NFSv4 write delegation support, the NFS client code for the in-development Linux 6.6 kernel also has a notable feature change... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-Default-NFS-READ_PLUS)
2023-09-01T10:29:47Z	**Inception & Downfall, Linux 6.6 Development Kicking Off & Other August Highlights**
While approaching the end of summer, there's no breaks at Phoronix and over the course of August were 240 original news articles and another 15 featured Linux hardware reviews / multi-page featured benchmark articles. Here is a look back at what was most exciting for the month... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/August-2023-Highlights)
2023-09-01T10:41:01Z	**OpenColorIO 2.3 Released With New AVX/AVX2 Optimizations**
OpenColorIO (OCIO) as the open-source color management solution for motion picture production and maintained by the Academy Software Foundation is out with a new feature release that will be part of their 2024 VFX Reference Platform. Notable with this release are new SIMD optimizations with AVX/AVX2 and Arm NEON... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenColorIO-2.3)
2023-09-01T14:19:09Z	**Intel Visual Sensing Controller "IVSC" Driver Support Coming With Linux 6.6**
The media subsystem updates were sent out today for the Linux 6.6 kernel and most notably is introducing the Intel IVSC MEI drivers as well as extending the Intel IPU bridge logic to work with these new drivers... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-IVSC-Media-Linux-6.6)
2023-09-01T14:51:34Z	**AMD Patches To Generate DeviceTree Nodes For PCI Devices Merged In Linux 6.6**
The DeviceTree changes for Linux 6.6 add the ability to generate DeviceTree (DT) nodes for PCI devices. AMD spearheaded this effort for applying DeviceTree overlays to PCI devices containing non-discoverable downstream devices... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-DeviceTree)
2023-09-01T15:31:23Z	**New RISC-V Kernel Features Ready For Linux 6.6**
Palmer Dabbelt sent out the initial batch of RISC-V processor architecture updates for the Linux 6.6 kernel port... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/RISC-V-Linux-6.6)
2023-09-01T20:32:07Z	**Wine 8.15 Released With Few Changes, 19 Bugs Fixed**
Following the recent Wine summer holiday, Wine 8.15 is out today and back on track with the usual two-week release regiment... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-8.15-Released)
2023-09-01T23:07:22Z	**Linux From Scratch 12.0 Published For Rolling Your Own Linux Build**
For those with extra time over the US Labor Day holiday weekend, Linux From Scratch 12 has been published for those wishing to hand-roll their own Linux system build from source. Linux From Scratch 12.0 is accompanied by the Beyond Linux From Scratch (BLFS) 12.0 release too, including the systemd variant, for further extending LFS installations with more packages... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-From-Scratch-12.0)
2023-09-02T00:19:16Z	**Steam Survey Results For August Show A Linux Dip After A Very Exciting July**
In July the Steam Survey results pointed to a half percent jump in the Linux gaming marketshare, taking it to nearly 2% thanks to the success of Valve's Steam Deck that runs their Arch Linux powered SteamOS platform. After the big boost in July you are probably wondering what happened in August... Well, a few minutes ago the new Steam Survey monthly results were published... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Survey-August-2023)
2023-09-02T10:09:30Z	**KDE Plasma 6 & KWin See More Performance Tuning This Week**
While leading up to a US holiday weekend, KDE developers haven't let up in their development activities around Plasma 6.0 and associated application work. KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his usual weekly development summary to outline all of the interesting changes for the week... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6-KWin-Performance)
2023-09-02T10:26:50Z	**Tmpfs Gains New Features With Linux 6.6**
The tmpfs file-system that keeps all of its data within virtual memory has gained a few new features with Linux 6.6, including the long-awaited quota support to better protect against malicious users that could try to consume all of your system RAM... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-Tmpfs)
2023-09-02T10:35:26Z	**Vulkan 1.3.263 Released With A New NVIDIA Extension**
There wasn't any big Vulkan spec update for SIGGRAPH this year but the frequent point releases continue rolling on for this high performance graphics and compute API... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vulkan-1.3.263-Released)
2023-09-02T10:52:07Z	**Linux 6.6 Perf Events Prepare For Intel's Crestmont In Grand Ridge & Sierra Forest**
The perf event changes were submitted this week for the ongoing Linux 6.6 kernel merge window with changes this cycle for Intel, AMD, and Arm... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-Perf-Events)
2023-09-02T11:00:00Z	**Linux 6.6 Perf Events Prepare For Intel's Crestmont In Grand Ridge & Sierra Forest**
The perf event changes were submitted this week for the ongoing Linux 6.6 kernel merge window with changes this cycle for Intel, AMD, and Arm... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-Perf-Events)
2023-09-02T12:49:16Z	**David Airlie Shares His Thoughts On Current Challenges With Linux GPU Compute Stacks**
Sriram Ramkrishna at Intel, who serves as the community manager and developer relations for oneAPI, held a virtual oneAPI meetup this week with Red Hat's David Airlie. Airlie should not need any introduction for longtime Phoronix readers given his longtime contributions to the Linux kernel graphics drivers, Mesa, and related open-source graphics work at Red Hat. Airlie shared some interesting remarks around the current Linux GP ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/David-Airlie-oneAPI-Meetup)
2023-09-02T16:49:10Z	**EROFS Lands DEFLATE Compression, F2FS Improves Zoned Devices In Linux 6.6**
The EROFS read-only file-system and F2FS Flash Friendly File-System were among the FS updates to land this week for Linux 6.6 -- in addition to marking ReiserFS as obsolete... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/EROFS-F2FS-Linux-6.6)
2023-09-02T19:11:55Z	**Debian Dropping Its 32-bit MIPS Little Endian "mipsel" Port**
Debian developers will be discontinuing their 32-bit MIPS little-endian "mipsel" CPU architecture port moving forward... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-Dropping-MIPSEL)
2023-09-03T10:15:21Z	**Bcachefs File-System Re-Submitted For Linux 6.6**
The Bcachefs file-system code born out of the Linux kernel's block cache code was submitted for Linux 6.5 but ultimately rejected. Bcachefs is now trying again to land for the current Linux 6.6 merge window... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Bcachefs-For-Linux-6.6-PR)
2023-09-03T10:32:26Z	**Initial AMD EPYC Genoa Support Added To Coreboot, New Onyx Motherboard Target**
Going along with AMD's work on AMD openSIL for open-sourcing the CPU silicon initialization code to ultimately replace AGESA in future hardware platforms, the initial EPYC "Genoa" code for Coreboot has been upstreamed along with the Onyx motherboard target... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Genoa-Onyx-Coreboot)
2023-09-03T10:46:56Z	**Linux 6.6 Unconditionally Enables x86 CPU Microcode Loading Support**
Among the many changes to land during this first week of the Linux 6.6 cycle were the x86 CPU microcode loader updates that now unconditionally makes that support part of the x86/x86\_64 kernel builds... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-x86-microcode)
2023-09-03T14:30:00Z	**Stadia Controller Rumbles & New Gaming Peripherals Supported By Linux 6.6**
There are new and improved gaming controller and peripheral support to find with the in-development Linux 6.6 kernel... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-HID)
2023-09-03T16:24:44Z	**EXT4 Lands  A Nice Performance Improvement For Appending To Delalloc Files**
With the EXT4 file-system updates for Linux 6.6 there is mostly some code clean-ups and other bug fixing. But one change in particular stands out for its performance impact... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-EXT4)
2023-09-03T23:45:35Z	**OpenBLAS 0.3.24 Released With Intel Sapphire Rapids Improvements, Apple M2 Detection**
OpenBLAS 0.3.24 is now available for this latest open-source BLAS and LAPACK implementation known for its advanced CPU optimizations and extensive tuning for providing for very speedy linear algebra kernels... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenBLAS-0.3.24-Released)
2023-09-04T10:03:42Z	**Partial SMT Enablement Support Lands For Linux 6.6**
As part of the "smp/core" changes that were merged last week for the Linux 6.6 kernel, partial SMT enablement landed for processors that support more than two threads per physical core to allow greater run-time control over just how many threads to enable... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-Partial-SMT-Enable)
2023-09-04T10:20:15Z	**Armbian 23.08 Released With Work-In-Progress ThinkPad X13s Support, New SBCs**
Armbian 23.08 is out as the latest quarterly update to this Debian-based Linux distribution optimized for use on Arm single board computers and other devices... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Armbian-23.08-Released)
2023-09-04T10:30:40Z	**Fwupd 1.9.5 Released With Optional Passim Support, Firmware Updating For New Devices**
Fwupd 1.9.5 is out today as the newest version of this open-source software for enabling system and peripheral firmware updating under Linux that ties into the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS). With the Fwupd 1.9.5 some additional devices are now supported plus there are some other core improvements... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fwupd-1.9.5-Released)
2023-09-04T11:58:56Z	**Printk Cleanups Ready For Linux 6.6 - Stepping Towards Threaded/Atomic Console Printing**
A set of printk clean-ups were sent in today for the Linux 6.6 merge window. These clean-ups are important as they are a stepping stone towards the threaded / atomic console printing and in turn that is the last major blocker before the real-time (PREEMPT\_RT) support can finally be upstreamed in the kernel... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-printk)
2023-09-04T12:17:13Z	**uutils 0.0.21 Released With More Improvements For GNU Coreutils Written In Rust**
Released at the end of August was GNU Coreutils 9.4 while out this weekend is uutils 0.0.21 as the open-source, Rust-written re-implementation of the Coreutils utilities... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/uutils-0.0.21-Rust-Coreutils)
2023-09-04T14:07:13Z	**AMD P-State Fixes & Other Power Management Changes For Linux 6.6**
The ACPI and power management updates were merged last week for the Linux 6.6 kernel... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-ACPI-Power-Management)
2023-09-04T16:10:15Z	**DXVK 2.3 Brings Presentation Improvements, More Game Fixes, "hideNvidiaGpu" Option**
It's been nearly four months since the release of DXVK 2.2 for this Direct3D 9/10/11 API implementation built atop the Vulkan API that is used by Valve's Steam Play (Proton) for enjoying Windows games on Linux. Out today is DXVK 2.3 as the latest major step forward for the project... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/DXVK-2.3-Released)
2023-09-04T21:14:28Z	**Microsoft Adds AMD SEV-SNP & Intel TDX Guest Support To Hyper-V With Linux 6.6**
Microsoft continues improving the Hyper-V support within the Linux kernel for benefiting Linux guest VMs running within this hypervisor on Windows. With Linux 6.6 the Hyper-V code adds support for SEV-SNP secure guests on the AMD EPYC side while over on the Intel Xeon Scalable Sapphire Rapids side is initial support for Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) protected guests... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-Hyper-V-SEV-TDX)
2023-09-04T23:58:55Z	**Linux Fix Incoming For Intel Fallout After The Kernel Disabled Buggy AMD fTPM RNG**
The decision last month for the Linux kernel to disable random number gemeration (RNG) for all AMD fTPMs ended up having some unintended consequences on Intel systems that ended up breaking S3 suspend behavior... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-fTPM-RNG-Intel-Fix-6.6)
2023-09-05T09:26:08Z	**Manjaro 23.0 Released With GNOME 44, KDE Plasma 5.27 & Xfce 4.18 Desktop Options**
Manjaro 23.0 "Uranos" has been released as the latest version of this desktop-focused Linux distribution built atop Arch Linux... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Manjaro-23.0-Released)
2023-09-05T09:50:00Z	**Some AMD CPUs To Benefit From New Micro-Optimization In Linux 6.6**
One of the patches to be picked up by the Linux 6.6 kernel this week brings back REP MOSQ for user-access on CPUs without Enhanced REP MOVSB (ERMS) support. In turn this can equate to some performance benefits on AMD CPUs lacking ERMS... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-Optimize-Lacking-ERMS)
2023-09-05T10:15:06Z	**Hangover 8.15 Released With Box64 Integration As PE Library**
Building off Friday's release of Wine 8.15 is a new version of Hangover, the Wine-based software that aims to ease the deployment of Wine with x86/x86\_64 Windows software support atop AArch64 processors and other CPU architectures... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Hangover-8.15-Released)
2023-09-05T10:45:45Z	**Linux 6.6 Adds New Sound Support For AMD Van Gogh, Valve Galileo**
The sound subsystem and audio driver updates were merged last week for the ongoing Linux 6.6 merge window. Interesting about the sound work this cycle is a fair amount of work around AMD Van Gogh platforms, which so far is just the APU that's known to power Valve's Steam Deck... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-Sound)
2023-09-05T12:08:38Z	**Intel & Tower Semiconductor Reach Foundry Agreement**
Following Intel's acquisition of Tower Semiconductor falling through due to failing to obtain all the necessary regulatory approvals, Intel and Tower today announced a foundry agreement... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Tower-Foundry-Agreement)
2023-09-05T12:24:32Z	**PoCL-Remote Allows OpenCL To Be Transparently Used Across Networked Systems**
PoCL began as an open-source project providing a CPU-based OpenCL implementation and over the years has added support for various LLVM back-ends such as for targeting AMD HSA, Intel Level Zero, and NVIDIA CUDA/PTX with its OpenCL implementation. The latest back-end merged ahead of Portable Computing Language 5.0 is a remote back-end that allows for OpenCL codes to be transparently utilized on networked systems for distributed computing ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/PoCL-Remote-OpenCL-Networks)
2023-09-05T12:25:32Z	**PoCL-Remote Allows OpenCL To Be Transparently Used Across Networked Systems**
PoCL began as an open-source project providing a CPU-based OpenCL implementation and over the years has added support for various LLVM back-ends such as for targeting AMD HSA, Intel Level Zero, and NVIDIA CUDA/PTX with its OpenCL implementation. The latest back-end merged ahead of Portable Computing Language 5.0 is a remote back-end that allows for OpenCL codes to be transparently utilized on networked systems for distributed computing ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/PoCL-Remote-OpenCL-Networks)
2023-09-05T13:30:00Z	**AMD Ryzen 7000 Series Make For Compelling Budget Servers, Leading Performance & Value Over Xeon E**
While this summer has been a busy season of benchmarking with the new AMD EPYC Bergamo processors providing up to 128-cores / 256-threads per socket and the new EPYC Genoa-X parts providing up to 1.1GB of L3 cache with 3D V-Cache to provide for excellent HPC performance, not everyone needs such levels of performance nor having the budget for such platforms. It's always fun talking about the high-end server platforms, but ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/ryzen-7000-servers)
2023-09-05T13:36:00Z	**AMD Ryzen 7000 Series Make For Compelling Budget Servers, Leading Performance & Value Over Xeon E**
While this summer has been a busy season of benchmarking with the new AMD EPYC Bergamo processors providing up to 128-cores / 256-threads per socket and the new EPYC Genoa-X parts providing up to 1.1GB of L3 cache with 3D V-Cache to provide for excellent HPC performance, not everyone needs such levels of performance nor having the budget for such platforms. It's always fun talking about the high-end server platforms, but ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/ryzen-7000-servers)
2023-09-05T14:00:00Z	**AMD Ryzen 7000 Series Make For Compelling Budget Servers, Leading Performance & Value Over Xeon E**
While this summer has been a busy season of benchmarking with the new AMD EPYC Bergamo processors providing up to 128-cores / 256-threads per socket and the new EPYC Genoa-X parts providing up to 1.1GB of L3 cache with 3D V-Cache to provide for excellent HPC performance, not everyone needs such levels of performance nor having the budget for such platforms. It's always fun talking about the high-end server platforms, but ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/ryzen-7000-servers)
2023-09-05T17:09:27Z	**AMD Open Hardware Competition Winners Announced For 2023**
AMD by way of their Xilinx acquisition has been running the Open Hardware Competition since 2015 for helping to drive new innovations around FPGAs and the ACAP compute platform. The winners of the AMD Open Hardware Competition 2023 were recently announced... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Open-Hardware-2023)
2023-09-05T17:56:50Z	**Mesa 23.2-rc3 Released After Five Week Hiatus**
Mesa 23.2 was supposed to have been released by now following a series of weekly release candidates that started in mid-July when feature work ended. After a five week hiatus, Mesa 23.2-rc3 is now available for testing... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-23.2-rc3-Released)
2023-09-05T19:00:00Z	**AMD Ryzen 7000 Series Make For Compelling Budget Servers, Leading Performance & Value Over Xeon E**
While this summer has been a busy season of benchmarking with the new AMD EPYC Bergamo processors providing up to 128-cores / 256-threads per socket and the new EPYC Genoa-X parts providing up to 1.1GB of L3 cache with 3D V-Cache to provide for excellent HPC performance, not everyone needs such levels of performance nor having the budget for such platforms. It's always fun talking about the high-end server platforms, but ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/ryzen-7000-servers)
2023-09-05T19:51:00Z	**Linux 6.6 Bringing Qt6 Port To "make xconfig" Interface**
Masahiro Yamada submitted today all of the Kconfig feature updates targeting the Linux 6.6 merge window. Most notable with the Kconfig work is the "make xconfig" GUI seeing a port for Qt6 toolkit compatibility... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-Kconfig-Updates)
2023-09-05T21:14:41Z	**Intel Ready To Declare Meteor Lake Linux Graphics Driver Support Stable**
Ahead of Intel expecting to formally reveal more Meteor Lake processor details in the coming weeks, Intel's open-source Linux graphics driver developers are ready to declare the new integrated graphics stable with the upstream Linux kernel -- dropping the existing flag that treated them as experimental and not enabled by default unless passing a special kernel module parameter... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-MTL-Graphics-Linux-Stable)
2023-09-05T23:00:00Z	**Intel Ready To Declare Meteor Lake Linux Graphics Driver Support Stable**
Ahead of Intel expecting to formally reveal more Meteor Lake processor details in the coming weeks, Intel's open-source Linux graphics driver developers are ready to declare the new integrated graphics stable with the upstream Linux kernel -- dropping the existing flag that treated them as experimental and not enabled by default unless passing a special kernel module parameter... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-MTL-Graphics-Linux-Stable)
2023-09-06T09:53:26Z	**Linux 6.6 char/misc Brings Intel PECI Updates, Sapphire Rapids Support**
Greg Kroah-Hartman last Friday sent out the "char/misc" changes for the Linux 6.6 kernel merge window that include the catch-all of different driver changes. This cycle the char/misc updates aren't particularly exciting but the Intel PECI updates do stand-out... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-char-misc)
2023-09-06T10:15:25Z	**USB MIDI 2.0 Gadget Function Driver Merged For Linux 6.6, Lunar Lake USB Work**
The USB/Thunderbolt subsystem updates were merged this past weekend for the ongoing Linux 6.6 kernel merge window... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-USB)
2023-09-06T10:39:35Z	**FUSE Adds Initial Support For Statx, File Birth Times For File-Systems In User-Space**
The Linux 6.6 FUSE driver code for enabling file-systems in user-space is adding support for STATX to the protocol as part of focusing on enabling file birth time "btime" support... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-FUSE)
2023-09-06T12:08:09Z	**AMD Preferred Core Patches Updated For Linux**
On the AMD CPU side of the house, one of the patch series we are looking forward to seeing upstreamed in the Linux kernel is the AMD Preferred Core functionality that was initially sent out this summer. This AMD Preferred Core handling is built onto the AMD P-State driver and has been undergoing a few rounds of iteration with the latest "v5" patches having been posted this week... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Preferred-Core-Linux-v5)
2023-09-06T13:00:00Z	**AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT & RX 7700 XT Linux Performance**
Last month AMD announced the Radeon RX 7700 XT and RX 7800 XT graphics cards while today these graphics cards go on sale for $449 and $499 USD, respectively. Today also marks the review embargo lift so I'm now able to talk about the Linux support and performance for these new RDNA3 graphics cards that are designed for 1440p gaming, ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/radeon-rx7700xt-rx7800xt-linux)
2023-09-06T15:20:46Z	**GNOME Mutter 45 Release Candidate Brings Meta Toolkit Library, Other Last Minute Work**
The release candidates were tagged this morning of GNOME Shell and Mutter ahead of the "GNOME 45.rc" test release coming out within the next few days. With the release candidates are some last-minute changes worth mentioning... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Shell-Mutter-45-RC)
2023-09-06T18:00:58Z	**CephFS Completes Multi-Year Effort Adding FSCRYPT Support**
The Ceph changes were submitted today for the ongoing Linux 6.6 merge window and with it comes one big shiny feature addition: support for making use of the FSCRYPT file-system encryption framework... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-CephFS-FSCRYPT)
2023-09-06T19:22:28Z	**Raspberry Pi's V3D Kernel Driver Prepares For "CPU Jobs" To Assist Vulkan**
Igalia developers are working on extending the Broadcom V3D DRM kernel graphics driver, which is most notably used by the latest Raspberry Pi devices, to support the notion of "CPU jobs" in kernel space to assist in their Vulkan support. These CPU jobs are for assisting the support where their Broadcom GPU driver isn't capable of some Vulkan commands and thus needs to be punted off and handled by the processor... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Raspberry-Pi-V3D-CPU-Jobs)
2023-09-06T20:47:03Z	**Linus Torvalds Comments On Bcachefs Prospects For Linux 6.6**
A few days ago Bcachefs was proposed for inclusion to Linux 6.6 after it failed to be pulled for the prior Linux 6.5 kernel cycle. Since then we've been waiting to see what action Linus Torvalds would take with including Bcachefs... He's finally commented on it today but remains to be seen if it will land for this kernel release... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linus-Comments-Bcachefs-6.6)
2023-09-07T10:09:04Z	**XPad Driver Extends Gaming Controller Support With Linux 6.6**
In addition to the HID updates bringing rumble for Google's Stadia controller and other gaming peripheral improvements, the input subsystem updates were sent out this week for Linux 6.6 that bring more enhancements for Linux gamers. In particular, the common XPad driver saw some additions for this next kernel version... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-Input)
2023-09-07T10:18:48Z	**TURNIP Vulkan Driver Lands Initial Support For Adreno A730/A740 GPUs**
Going along with the MSM DRM driver support for the Qualcomm Adreno 700 series, the open-source TURNIP Vulkan driver this week merged its initial support for the Adreno 700 series... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/TURNIP-Vulkan-Adreno-A700)
2023-09-07T10:28:29Z	**OpenSSL 3.2 Alpha Released With Client-Side QUIC, Raw Public Key, SM4-XTS**
The first alpha release of the OpenSSL 3.2 library is now available for testing. With OpenSSL 3.2 there are a number of new features, most notably the client-side work around QUIC support... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenSSL-3.2-Alpha)
2023-09-07T10:39:38Z	**Intel Arc Graphics Enjoy Another Open-Source Vulkan Driver Performance Optimization**
Intel's open-source "ANV" Vulkan Linux driver has landed a set of 15 patches that can further help the Linux gaming performance for those using DG2/Alchemist Arc Graphics... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Vulkan-MSAA-Compute-Queue)
2023-09-07T12:07:25Z	**KDE Plasma 6.0 Planned For Release In Early February**
As part of a monthly status update concerning Plasma 6 development, KDE developer Nate Graham confirmed that the team is planning to release Plasma 6.0 in February of 2024... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.0-February)
2023-09-07T12:11:25Z	**KDE Plasma 6.0 Planned For Release In Early February**
As part of a monthly status update concerning Plasma 6 development, KDE developer Nate Graham confirmed that the team is planning to release Plasma 6.0 in February of 2024... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.0-February)
2023-09-07T13:45:23Z	**AMD UIF 1.2 Released With Initial Radeon GPU Support**
AMD today published version 1.2 of their Unified Inference Frontend (UIF) that is for supporting deep learning inference across AMD CPUs, GPUs, as well as Versal adaptive SoCs and FPGAs. AMD UIF aims to accelerate AI inference across all AMD compute platforms with machine learning frameworks like PyTorch and TensorFlow. With UIF 1.2 adds initial support for Radeon GPUs... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-UIF-1.2-Inference-Frontend)
2023-09-07T13:55:41Z	**Ubuntu 23.10 Adding Experimental TPM-Backed Full Disk Encryption**
As an experimental feature for next month's Ubuntu 23.10 release, Canonical is introducing initial support for TPM-based full disk encryption to make use of your system's Trusted Platform Module (TPM). The downside though is this extra security relies on Snaps, including for the kernel and GRUB bootloader... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-23.10-TPM-FDE)
2023-09-07T15:21:16Z	**Radeon Software For Linux 23.20 Brings RX 7700 XT / RX 7800 XT Support**
As covered in the launch-day Radeon RX 7700 XT and RX 7800 XT Linux review/testing, there is already upstream open-source driver support for these new RDNA3 graphics cards in recent versions of the Linux kernel and Mesa. It's a pleasant open-source out-of-the-box experience with the Radeon RX 7000 series graphics cards with the possible exception of just needing to grab the recent AMDGPU firmware. But for those running older, enterprise Lin ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Radeon-Software-Linux-23.20)
2023-09-07T17:05:51Z	**New ASUS Laptop Features & HP BIOS Settings Driver For Linux 6.6**
Merged a few days ago for the ongoing Linux 6.6 merge window were the x86 platform driver updates, which bring a few interesting Intel/AMD laptop improvements as well as a new driver to support altering select HP BIOS settings from within the confines of Linux... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-x86-Platform-Drivers)
2023-09-07T19:00:00Z	**Linux 6.6 Lands Support For The Cirrus Logic CS42L43 Audio Codec**
In addition to the notable sound changes that merged last week for Linux 6.6 that included AMD VanGogh SOF support and enablement around a Valve "Galileo" device, sent in via the MFD pull request this week is work enabling the new Cirrus Logic CS42L43 audio codec... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-Cirrus-Logic-CS42L43)
2023-09-08T00:00:20Z	**KDE Frameworks 6 & Qt6'ed Gear Apps Will Release Alongside Plasma 6.0 In February**
Going along with KDE Plasma 6.0 releasing in early February will also be the Qt6-based KDE Gear applications and KDE Frameworks 6 happening in-sync... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-KF6-Qt6-Gear-February)
2023-09-08T09:59:29Z	**Intel QAT Zstd Plugin v0.1 Released For Speeding Up Zstandard Compression**
As a big win for Intel's QuickAssist Technology (QAT) accelerator found as an option with Sapphire Rapids processors and prior QAT hardware, there's been a QAT Zstd plug-in to provide big performance/efficiency benefits. Version 0.1 of that plug-in was released today... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-QAT-Zstd-0.1)
2023-09-08T10:25:11Z	**Linux 6.6 KVM Brings Intel & AMD Fixes, SEV-ES DebugSwap, New RISC-V Extensions**
Merged on Thursday were a batch of KVM virtualization changes for the Linux 6.6 kernel... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-KVM)
2023-09-08T10:14:00Z	**OpenZFS 2.2-rc4 Delivers Last Minute Fixes**
OpenZFS 2.2 has been in the works to provide Linux container support, BLAKE3 checksumming, block cloning and other new features. It's looking like that release will be wrapped up soon while released on Thursday was v2.2-rc4 to help encourage last minute testing of this file-system driver for Linux and FreeBSD systems... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenZFS-2.2-rc4)
2023-09-08T10:42:01Z	**Bcachefs Looks Like It Won't Make It For Linux 6.6**
While we've been looking forward to Bcachefs landing and carrying out a fresh round of performance testing of Bcachefs against other file-system options, it's looking clear now that Bcachefs won't be landing for the Linux 6.6 merge window... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Bcachefs-Delayed-Linux-6.6)
2023-09-08T13:59:02Z	**Expanded Platform Support For AMD Dynamic Boost Control Being Worked On For Linux**
Since early this year AMD has been working on Linux enablement patches for Dynamic Boost Control (DBC). This is a new feature of some AMD SoCs that allow an "authenticated entity" to have greater control over certain SoC characteristics to improve the power/performance. AMD DBC was merged for Linux 6.6 just days ago while already new patches have been posted that extend the supported platforms for this Dynamic Boost Control functi ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-DBC-Expanded-Platforms)
2023-09-08T14:15:00Z	**Linux Driver Preparing Support For ASUS Screenpad On High-End Laptops**
In addition to the ASUS laptop improvements for Linux 6.6 with the ASUS-WMI driver, additional feature work is on the way for future kernel versions with one of those interesting additions being support for the ASUS Screenpad. Some higher-end ASUS laptops feature a secondary screen "screenpad" on the laptops and the pending ASUS-WMI driver patch will properly support it... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/ASUS-Screenpad-Linux-Patches)
2023-09-08T15:21:37Z	**Linux 6.5+ Bringing Some Performance/Efficiency Improvements For The AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme / ASUS ROG Ally**
With the recently released Linux 6.5 kernel bringing AMD P-State EPP by default for modern Ryzen systems rather than the generic ACPI CPUFreq driver, running Linux 6.5 (or newer) in various workloads can lead to improved performance and/or power efficiency. Curious about the impact on the mobile side, I recently carried out some benchmarks of the ASUS ROG Ally gaming handheld with AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme SoC from Linu ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/ryzen-z1-linux65)
2023-09-08T23:06:53Z	**Vulkan 1.3.264 Released With Microsoft Layered Driver Extension**
Earlier this year I wrote about Microsoft working on their first Vulkan extension and today it finally debuted within the Vulkan 1.3.264 spec update... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vulkan-1.3.264-Released)
2023-09-09T10:19:22Z	**FreeBSD 14 Beta Released - Initial WiFi 6 Support, Updated LLVM Toolchain, Fwget Utility**
FreeBSD 14 Beta 1 is available this weekend for helping to test out this major BSD operating system update that should debut as stable before the end of October... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-14-Beta-1)
2023-09-09T10:42:18Z	**GNOME 45.rc Brings GDM Wayland Multi-Seat, More libadwaita Adoption**
The GNOME 45 release candidate is now available for testing ahead of the desktop's stable release later this month... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-45-rc)
2023-09-09T10:30:33Z	**KDE Lands More Power Management Tuning, Behaves Better On Btrfs File-Systems**
KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his newest weekly development summary as the developers work toward releasing Plasma 6.0 in February... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-PM-And-Btrfs)
2023-09-09T12:04:25Z	**DXVK-NVAPI 0.6.4 Implements HDR Support Via DXVK**
A new version of DXVK-NVAPI is now available, the NVIDIA public NVAPI interface implemented atop DXVK for use by Direct3D games running on Valve's Steam Play (Proton). DXVK-NVAPI allows for NVIDIA DLSS for Vulkan / D3D11 / D3D12, NVIDIA Reflex support, PhysX, and other NVIDIA features to be enabled for popular Windows games running on Linux... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/DXVK-NVAPI-0.6.4)
2023-09-09T13:30:06Z	**KSMBD Declared Stable - No Longer "Experimental" - In Linux 6.6**
Back in 2021 Samsung engineers posted KSMBD as an in-kernel SMB3 server alternative to the likes of the user-space Samba server. KSMBD merged into Linux 5.15 as an experimental SMB server while after two years of fixes and other improvements has now dropped its "experimental" marking... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/KSMBD-Stable-Linux-6.6)
2023-09-09T19:34:47Z	**LoongArch With Linux 6.6 Adds KGDB/KDB, KFence, KASAN, LBT Binary Translation**
The LoongArch CPU port is seeing a number of new kernel features enabled with Linux 6.6 as well as seeing some new hardware features wired up such as for Loongson Binary Translation (LBT) and allowing LSX/LASX instruction use in kernel-space... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-LoongArch)
2023-09-10T11:52:46Z	**AmpereOne Core PMU Perf Events Added For Linux 6.6**
Merged overnight were the perf subsystem tooling updates for the Linux 6.6 merge window that is set to close later on Sunday... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AmpereOne-Perf-Events-Linux-6.6)
2023-09-10T12:23:15Z	**RISC-V With Linux 6.6 Offers Better Kernel Security With KASLR**
More RISC-V architecture updates were merged this weekend for the ongoing Linux 6.6 merge window... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-RISC-V-KASLR)
2023-09-10T12:39:02Z	**Linux 6.6 Allowing Per-Policy CPUFreq Performance Boost Control**
While last week saw the main set of power management updates for the Linux 6.6 kernel, this week a follow-on pull request was submitted -- and merged -- with a few last minute additions... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Per-Policy-CPUFreq-Boost)
2023-09-10T14:39:13Z	**Mesa 23.3 Fixes Zink Rendering For X.Org/XWayland GLAMOR**
Mike Blumenkrantz working for Valve's Linux graphics driver team has added implicit sync support to the Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver, which in turn now opens this generic driver up for correctly providing GLAMOR rendering with X11 and XWayland environments... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Zink-GLAMOR-Renders)
2023-09-10T15:00:45Z	**Linux 6.6 SMB Client To Allow Adjusting Cache Time For Directory Contents**
With Linux 6.6 the KSMBD server is no longer "experimental" while this new kernel on the SMB3 client side also brings a notable addition: the new "dir\_cache\_timeout" option to control the cache time for directory contents... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-SMB3-max_dir_cache)
2023-09-10T17:18:41Z	**Linux 6.6 WQ Change May Help Out AMD CPUs & Other Systems With Multiple L3 Caches**
In addition to the EEVDF scheduler replacing the CFS code in Linux 6.6, another fundamental and interesting change with Linux 6.6 is on the workqueue (WQ) side with a rework that can benefit systems with multiple L3 caches like modern AMD chiplet-based systems... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-Workqueue)
2023-09-10T19:26:23Z	**DRM CI Merged Into Linux 6.6 - Linus Torvalds: "Let's See Where It Goes"**
In addition to all the open-source kernel graphics/display driver updates for Linux 6.6, merged this afternoon ahead of the Linux 6.6-rc1 tagging is merging of the DRM continuous integration (CI) code to hopefully lead to better testing of DRM subsystem/driver changes... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/DRM-CI-In-Linux-6.6)
2023-09-10T21:00:41Z	**Linux 6.6 WQ Change May Help Out AMD CPUs & Other Systems With Multiple L3 Caches**
In addition to the EEVDF scheduler replacing the CFS code in Linux 6.6, another fundamental and interesting change with Linux 6.6 is on the workqueue (WQ) side with a rework that can benefit systems with multiple L3 caches like modern AMD chiplet-based systems... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-Workqueue)
2023-09-11T00:00:00Z	**Linux 6.6-rc1 Released With EEVDF, AMD DBC & Intel Shadow Stack But No Bcachefs**
The Linux 6.6 merge window is over as the period by which new features and improvements are added to the kernel. Linux 6.6-rc1 is out the door as the kernel developers and testing community begin stabilizing this next major Linux kernel release. With Linux 6.6 there are many exciting feature additions but also one notable addition that once again didn't make the cut... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-rc1)
2023-09-11T10:32:10Z	**GNU Boot 0.1 RC1 Released For This Coreboot/Libreboot Fork**
The first release candidate of the inaugural GNU Boot has been released with users sought to try out this fork of Libreboot that in turn is derived from Coreboot... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Boot-0.1-RC1)
2023-09-11T12:22:41Z	**RADV Ray-Tracing Monolithic Pipelines Support Merged For Better Performance**
The open-source Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" has merged support in its ray-tracing (RT) code path for monolithic pipelines... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/RADV-RT-Mono-Pipelines)
2023-09-11T13:03:38Z	**Linux 6.6 Enables Tracking Per-CPU Cgroup CPU Usage Stats**
With the Linux 6.6 merge window the cgroup changes brought one change worth mentioning... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-cgroup)
2023-09-11T14:00:00Z	**VKD3D-Proton 2. 10 Released With More Performance Improvements, Game/Driver Workarounds**
Hans-Kristian Arntzen of Valve's stellar Linux graphics/Proton team has released VKD3D-Proton 2.10 as the newest feature release for this Direct3D 12 API implementation built atop Vulkan that allows for modern Windows games to run on Linux atop Steam Play... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/VKD3D-Proton-2.10)
2023-09-11T14:32:20Z	**Qt 6.6 Wayland Compositor Handoffs Look Promising For More Robust Experience**
KDE developer David Edmundson has written an interesting blog post looking at robustness improvements coming with Qt 6.6 via QtWayland compositor handoffs support... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qt-6.6-QtWayland-Handoffs)
2023-09-11T18:44:20Z	**Intel Fixing Up Sub-NUMA Clustering For Linux So That It Behaves With RDT**
Sub-NUMA Clustering with Intel Xeon processors allows for splitting up the CPU cores, cache, and memory into multiple NUMA domains for enhancing the performance of NUMA-aware applications. While SNC can help in a number of cases especially plenty of HPC and server workloads, currently it's not properly supported if making use of Resource Director Technology (RDT) on modern Intel CPUs. That is in the process of changing with new Linux kernel  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-SNT-RDT-Fixing-Up)
2023-09-11T22:24:00Z	**openSUSE Slowroll Released As A Slower Alternative To openSUSE Tumbleweed**
The openSUSE Slowroll distribution is a middle-ground between the rolling-release openSUSE Tumbleweed Linux distribution and the SUSE Linux Enterprise aligned openSUSE Leap with its fixed releases. The new openSUSE Slowroll is a rolling-release-like distribution with updates "every one or two months" but with constant bug/security fixes... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/openSUSE-Slowroll)
2023-09-11T23:00:00Z	**Mesa 23.3 Lands Optional Support For Allowing Game Tearing On Wayland**
Merged for Mesa 23.3 today is the Vulkan windowing system integration (WSI) to allow for the "PresentOptionAsyncMayTear" option that can be used to enable tearing under (X)Wayland if desiring peak performance at the cost of possible imperfect rendering... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-23.3-Wayland-Tearing)
2023-09-12T10:00:37Z	**TCP Authentication Option "TCP-AO" Support Nears For The Linux Kernel**
One of the new Linux networking features we've been looking forward to seeing in the kernel is TCP Authentication Option (TCP-AO / RFC5925) as a means of improving TCP security and authenticity. The eleventh iteration of the TCP-AO patches were posted today for the Linux kernel with it looking like work on this network addition potentially wrapping up soon... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/TCP-AO-Linux-Kernel-Updated)
2023-09-12T10:17:14Z	**Intel's DRM Scheduler Patches Updated That Are A Prerequisite For Merging The Xe Driver**
One of the driver additions we've been eager to see for the mainline Linux kernel that didn't pan out in time for the recently closed Linux 6.6 merge window is the Intel Xe DRM kernel graphics driver as a modern alternative to their i915 driver. The Xe driver better supports non-x86 CPU architectures, better designed and more performant around their modern integrated and discrete GPUs, and overall is able to make better design  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/DRM-Scheduler-Prereq-Xe)
2023-09-12T10:25:20Z	**Bcachefs Merged Into Linux-Next**
While Bcachefs was not merged for the Linux 6.6 cycle with one of the concerns raised by Linus Torvalds being that it hadn't been vetted via the "linux-next" staging area, that process has now begun to raise hopes of potentially seeing the new file-system driver introduced for Linux 6.7... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Bcachefs-In-Linux-Next)
2023-09-12T12:00:40Z	**Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Now Enables Mesh Shader Support By Default**
Intel's open-source "ANV" Vulkan driver used by Linux systems is now enabling by default the VK\_EXT\_mesh\_shader extension for their graphics processors with mesh shader support... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Default-Mesh-Shader)
2023-09-12T13:00:13Z	**Linux 6.6-rc2 Picking Up Quirk For ASUS ROG Flow X16 Tablet Mode Handling**
While the Linux 6.6 merge window is over, sent out today were a set of x86 platform driver fixes that include adding a quirk so that the tablet mode switch event properly occurs with the new ASUS ROG Flow X16 laptop... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/ASUS-ROG-Flow-X16-Tablet-Linux)
2023-09-12T13:36:48Z	**Intel Announces Thunderbolt 5 With 120 Gbps Bandwidth Boost**
Intel today announced Thunderbolt 5 as their next-gen Thunderbolt standard that will allow 80 Gbps of bi-directional bandwidth or a "Bandwidth Boost" mode of up to 120 Gbps... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Thunderbolt-5)
2023-09-12T14:49:18Z	**Linux 6.6 Features Include The EEVDF Scheduler, Shadow Stack, Intel IVSC, AMD DBC & More**
With the Linux 6.6 merge window over, here's a look at the most interesting new features, hardware support, and other changes to find with this kernel that will debut as stable around the end of October. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-66-features)
2023-09-12T15:00:00Z	**Linux 6.6 Features Include The EEVDF Scheduler, Shadow Stack, Intel IVSC, AMD DBC & More**
With the Linux 6.6 merge window over, here's a look at the most interesting new features, hardware support, and other changes to find with this kernel that will debut as stable around the end of October. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-66-features)
2023-09-12T20:09:52Z	**AMD AOMP 18.0-0 Compiler Brings Support For HIP Bundles, Zero Copy For MI300A**
AOMP 18.0-0 has been released as the newest version of AMD's LLVM/Clang compiler downstream that is focused on providing the very latest patches around Radeon OpenMP GPU offloading and goes along with their ROCm compute stack... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-AOMP-18.0-0-Compiler)
2023-09-12T20:30:46Z	**Coreboot-Based Dasharo Updated For MSI Z690-A With Raptor Lake S, MSI FLASHBIOS**
The firmware folks at 3mdeb have released Dasharo 1.1.2 for the MSI PRO Z690-A motherboard. In case you missed it, last year 3mdeb ported Coreboot/Dasharo to select MSI desktop motherboards that are readily available in retail channels and supporting the latest Intel processors. This started with the MSI PRO Z690-A and since extended to the Z790 series. 3mdeb has released an updated Dasharo build with some new features for replacing t ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Dasharo-1.1.2-MSI-Z690-A)
2023-09-13T10:02:31Z	**Linux Mint Debian Edition 6 Reaches Beta**
Linux Mint Debian Edition 6 "LMDE 6" is now available in beta form for this desktop Linux distribution spin from the Linux Mint crew derived directly from Debian packages rather than Ubuntu... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Mint-Debian-6-Beta)
2023-09-13T10:24:21Z	**Following Criticism By Linus Torvalds, GenPD Subsystem Renamed To "pmdomain"**
During the Linux 6.6 merge window a pull request submitted the new "GenPD" subsystem. While the pull request did land for Linux 6.6, Linus Torvalds took issue with it -- not because of the code but over the lack of clarity on what "GenPD" is for those not domain experts in this area. To help clear things up, GenPD is being renamed to "pmdomain" to provide a bit more clarity... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GenPD-Renamed-pmdomain)
2023-09-13T11:48:50Z	**Real-Time "RT" Patches Updated Against Linux 6.6 Git**
Still not over the finish line for the mainline Linux kernel are the real-time "RT" patches but it continues inching toward that long-awaited goal. Out today is v6.6-rc1-rt1 as the real-time kernel patch series updated against the initial Linux 6.6 Git state... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-RT-Patches-Linux-6.6)
2023-09-13T13:39:03Z	**Microsoft Issues Updated CBL-Mariner Linux Distro With Many Security Fixes**
While Microsoft is known for their own set of security issues on Windows and related software, Microsoft on Patch Tuesday ended up releasing CBL-Mariner 2.0.20230904 as their open-source Linux distribution that with this update is primarily driven by security fixes... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/CBL-Mariner-2.0.20230904)
2023-09-13T13:51:03Z	**Xfce's Wayland Roadmap Updated**
Xfce 4.18 released last December with some strides on the Wayland front for this lightweight GTK-based desktop environment, but more work remains before Xfce will be fully compatible with Wayland and its own robust compositor. The Xfce Wayland road-map was recently updated to reflect the latest work on this major undertaking... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Xfce-Wayland-Roadmap-2023)
2023-09-13T14:55:00Z	**Intel Compute Runtime 23.26.26690.22 Is A Big Update For Intel's OpenCL/L0 Stack**
Intel's open-source Compute Runtime 23.26.26690.22 was released today, which is a big update for this OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero (L0) stack for Windows and Linux systems. Due to the summer holidays and Intel's current release regiment for the Compute Runtime, v23.26.26690.22 is the first new release since mid-July... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-CR-23.26.26690.22)
2023-09-13T16:25:06Z	**AMD Versal HBM Adaptive SoCs Enter Production**
AMD announced today that their Versal HBM adaptive SoCs have entered production for these newest wares with high bandwidth memory... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Versal-HBM-SoCs-Production)
2023-09-13T17:00:00Z	**Fedora 40 Looks To Offer KDE Plasma 6 Desktop, Drop The KDE X11 Session**
Fedora developers are looking at offering KDE Plasma 6.0 and KDE Frameworks 6 in next year's Fedora 40 release. With the upgrade to Plasma 6 it's also planned by the Fedora packagers to drop support for the KDE X11 session -- thereby just leaving the KDE on Wayland session... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-40-KDE-Plasma-6-Plan)
2023-09-13T18:20:17Z	**Ubuntu 23.10 Restores ZFS File-System Support In Its Installer**
When Canonical rolled out their new Flutter-based Ubuntu Linux desktop installer it lacked support for ZFS root file-system installations. Canonical has been quiet about their (Open)ZFS intentions after years of offering it as an Ubuntu install option with their prior installer, but for Ubuntu 23.10 this support is being restored... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-23.10-ZFS-Install)
2023-09-13T20:00:00Z	**A Nasty Performance Regression For Some Intel Systems Wound Up In Linux 6.5 Stable**
While catching up on my Linux kernel benchmarking across different systems the Intel Core i9 13900K "Raptor Lake" desktop performance has been particularly volatile. Linux 6.5 is running slower for the Core i9 13900K compared to Linux 6.4 for a number of different workloads. Buckle up for a wild ride but the good news is a stable fix is forthcoming. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux65-intel-regression)
2023-09-14T04:00:00Z	**ReactOS "Open-Source Windows" Shown Running On Valve's Steam Deck**
As part of the effort for enabling UEFI support with ReactOS, an open-source operating system re-implementing binary compatibility with Microsoft Windows, a development build of ReactOS is up and running on Valve's Steam Deck handheld game console... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Deck-ReactOS)
2023-09-14T09:29:31Z	**PipeWire 0.3.80 Released With Vulkan DMA-BUF Support, Tag Param**
Red Hat multimedia expert Wim Taymans has released PipeWire 0.3.80 as the newest version of this open-source solution for efficiently handling video and audio streams on the Linux desktop... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/PipeWire-0.3.80)
2023-09-14T10:03:06Z	**Intel IFS Driver Prepares For Granite Rapids & Sierra Forest**
One of the nifty new features with Intel Xeon Scalable "Sapphire Rapids" processors not talked about much is the In-Field Scan (IFS) functionality for allowing various tests to be carried out prior to deploy the new processors or over time in the data center for trying to spot any silicon-level issues. IFS aims to uncover any processor issues not caught by ECC, parity checks, RAS, or other safeguards when new CPUs reach the data center or as they ag ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-IFS-Granite-Rapids-SRF)
2023-09-14T10:17:53Z	**AMD To Enable Seamless Boot Across Modern Radeon Graphics Hardware**
The past two years AMD's AMDGPU Linux kernel driver has supported Seamless Boot on Van Gogh APUs notably used by Valve's Steam Deck. AMD Seamless Boot is for a seamless or flicker-free boot experience by aiming to avoid redundant/unnecessary mode-sets by the driver. After a few years being limited in its scope of supported hardware, new patches are aiming to open up Seamless Boot usage to more AMD Radeon graphics hardware... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-More-Seamless-Boot)
2023-09-14T10:32:00Z	**GNU Assembler Starts Getting Ready For Intel AVX10.1**
Back in July Intel announced AVX10 as the future of AVX-512 and how they ultimately plan to support more Advanced Vector Extensions capabilities on both future P and E cores. Since then they've begun making preparations to the open-source compiler toolchains around enabling AVX10... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Assembler-AVX10.1)
2023-09-14T12:14:31Z	**Linux 6.7 To Make It Easier To Toggle Support For x86 32-bit Programs**
The Linux kernel currently allows disabling support for 32-bit programs and 32-bit system calls at compile-time, but a new option expected to be introduced with Linux 6.7 this winter will provide a new "ia32\_emulation" boot time option to allow unconditionally disabling support for 32-bit programs and system calls... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.7-ia32_emulation-Boot)
2023-09-14T13:30:00Z	**Linux 6.6 Delivers Some Impressive Gains For AMD EPYC 9754 "Bergamo" Server Performance**
From my early testing thus far of the Linux 6.6 kernel in its very early state, some of the most impressive gains are happening on AMD's high core count server processors, the EPYC 9754 "Bergamo" in particular is enjoying some stellar improvements for various server workloads on this forthcoming kernel. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-66-bergamo)
2023-09-14T19:52:03Z	**sdl12-compat 1.2.66 Gets More Games/Software Working On This SDL2 Portability Layer**
The sdl12-compat project is an interesting effort to allow for aging software and games targeting the SDL 1.2 APIs to work atop this compatibility layer so it in turn runs atop the SDL2 libraries. With the sdl12-compat 1.2.66 release more games and other software are now successfully working on this library... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/sdl12-compat-1.2.66)
2023-09-14T20:03:55Z	**PostgreSQL 16 Released With More Performance Improvements, SIMD For x86 & Arm**
PostgreSQL 16 released today as a very exciting update for this popular open-source SQL server... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/PostgreSQL-16-Released)
2023-09-15T10:13:46Z	**Red Hat Working On Delayed Module Signature Verification To Speed-Up Linux Boot Times**
A Red Hat engineer has published patches to optionally allow delayed module signature verification in an effort to have a secure Linux system but to allow for faster boot times... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Delay-Module-Verification)
2023-09-15T10:28:15Z	**AMD ZenDNN 4.1 Released For Speeding Up Deep Learning Inference On Ryzen / EPYC CPUs**
AMD on Thursday released ZenDNN 4.1 as the newest release of their Zen Deep Neural Network Library for accelerating inference workloads on AMD Ryzen and EPYC processors. The ZenDNN library remains API compatible with Intel's oneDNN library and helps for building out optimized AI workloads for use on AMD Zen processors... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ZenDNN-4.1)
2023-09-15T10:41:02Z	**Intel Starts Work On Enabling "Xe2" Graphics Within Their Open-Source Mesa Driver Code**
Tucked away within a merge to Mesa entitled, "intel/genxml: Support importing, which cuts the overall xml file size almost in half" Intel Linux graphics driver engineers are slowly beginning to start work on the "Xe2" graphics support to be found with Lunar Lake processors... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Xe2-Mesa-Start)
2023-09-15T14:52:39Z	**Ubuntu 23.04 & 22.04.3 Installs Haven't Been Following Their Own Security Best Practices**
It turns out that Ubuntu Linux installations of Ubuntu 23.04, 23.04.3 LTS, and installs done since April 2023 that accepted the Snap version update haven't been following Ubuntu's own recommended security best practices for their security pocket configuration for packages. A new Subiquity release was issued today to fix this problem while those on affected Ubuntu installs are recommended to manually edit their /etc/apt/so ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Security-Pocket-Issue)
2023-09-15T15:11:11Z	**Servo Browser Engine Enables New Default UI, Improves Crash Error Page, Replaces OpenSSL**
The Servo web rendering engine that is written in Rust and started originally by Mozilla while now being developed as a Linux Foundation Europe project has issued a status update around recent changes to this memory-safe and modular web browser engine... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Servo-September-2023)
2023-09-15T19:49:40Z	**GCC Preparing To Introduce "-fhardened" Security Hardening Option**
Following discussions among compiler developers and other stakeholders, the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) is preparing to add a "-fhardened" compiler option that will enable various hardening features aimed at increasing the security/robustness of the generated binaries... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-fhardened-Hardening-Option)
2023-09-15T20:10:53Z	**Wine 8.16 Restarts Work On Implementing Microsoft's Deprecated DirectMusic API**
Wine 8.16 is out as the newest bi-weekly development release for this open-source software to enjoy Windows games and applications under Linux and other platforms... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-8.16-Released)
2023-09-15T22:40:15Z	**SteamOS 3.5 Rolls Out In Preview On The Steam Deck With Many New Features**
In time for the weekend gamers, SteamOS 3.5 has just rolled out into Valve's preview channel for the Steam Deck. Those switching over to the "Preview" mode from the System Update Channel setting can begin to enjoy this huge feature update for the Arch Linux based SteamOS... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/SteamOS-3.5-Preview)
2023-09-15T21:00:40Z	**GCC Preparing To Introduce "-fhardened" Security Hardening Option**
Following discussions among compiler developers and other stakeholders, the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) is preparing to add a "-fhardened" compiler option that will enable various hardening features aimed at increasing the security/robustness of the generated binaries... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-fhardened-Hardening-Option)
2023-09-16T04:00:19Z	**Ubuntu 23.10's Firefox Snap Enabling Wayland By Default**
While the Ubuntu desktop has been using the GNOME Wayland session by default, Ubuntu's default Firefox browser build within its Snap confinements has continued relying upon XWayland. But the Firefox Snap beginning with Ubuntu 23.10 is now enabling the native Wayland support by default... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-23.10-Firefox-Wayland)
2023-09-16T10:15:28Z	**KDE Plasma 6.0 Lands More Performance Optimizations, Better Wayland Gaming Experience**
KDE developers continue adding new functionality and performance optimizations for the Plasma 6.0 desktop that is aiming for its release in early February... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6-Better-Gaming)
2023-09-16T10:38:15Z	**AMD Releases ROCm 5.7 GPU Compute Stack**
ROCm 5.7 was released on Friday with the introduction of a new "hipTensor" library, the ROCgdb debugger being extended with Fortran and OMPD support, and new optimizations to the rocRAND and MIVisionX libraries. AMD has also announced end-of-support for the AMD Instinct MI50 accelerator while not yet formally announcing any new RDNA3 GPU support... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ROCm-5.7-Released)
2023-09-16T13:03:33Z	**Linux 6.5 Now Powering Ubuntu 23.10**
Just as anticipated, the Linux 6.5 kernel has landed in the Ubuntu 23.10 Mantic archive as the default kernel powering this next Ubuntu distribution release due out in October... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-23.10-Lands-Linux-6.5)
2023-09-16T16:30:00Z	**LWJGL 3.3.3 Released With Updated Bindings, GraalVM Native Image Support**
Version 3.3.3 of the Lightweight Java Game Library (LWJGL) is now available for this Java library that makes it easy to utilize native APIs from OpenGL and Vulkan to OpenCL compute and other OS APIs within Java's confines. LWJGL is used for Java games and can also be used with other Java software looking for rich API support particularly around GPU integration... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/LWJGL-3.3.3)
2023-09-16T17:28:23Z	**AMD Linux Gaming Performance Largely Unchanged With Linux 6.6 Git**
With the AMD performance uplift on the Linux 6.6 kernel due to the EEVDF scheduler code, the workqueue enhancements for chiplet-based processor designs, and other improvements, many Phoronix readers have speculated over AMD Linux gaming performance improvements with this in-development kernel... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Gaming-Linux-6.6-6.5)
2023-09-17T10:12:13Z	**Wine-Staging 8.16 Fixes A 16 Year Old Bug For Games Crashing**
Building off Friday's release of Wine 8.16 is now Wine-Staging 8.16 for this experimental blend of Wine that offers up nearly 500 additional testing/in-development patches... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-Staging-8.16)
2023-09-17T10:25:00Z	**Linux's SLUB Allocator Preparing To Better Fend Off Cross-Cache Attacks**
Following SLOB's removal and SLAB being deprecated and set for removal, the Linux kernel is all-in on the SLUB allocator. A new patch series posted on Friday is aiming to help prevent the possibility of cross-cache attacks with the SLUB memory allocator in the kernel... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-SLUB-Prevent-Cross-Cache)
2023-09-17T12:30:00Z	**Linux 6.7 To Add POWER-Z Driver For Exposing USB Power Measurements**
For those curious about the power consumption of USB-C devices, there are some nifty devices out there that have a LED display and can report the voltage, Amps, Wattage, and USB power delivery protocol version of connected devices. It's a neat display but with a new POWER-Z driver coming to the Linux kernel it's possible to propagate that information from the system itself with this new driver... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-POWER-Z-USB-Power-Driver)
2023-09-17T13:45:38Z	**Go Ad-Free & Single Page Articles With The Phoronix 2023 Oktoberfest Sale**
While there is (sadly) once again no Phoronix pilgrimage/meet-up at Oktoberfest this year, there is the annual Phoronix Premium sale special for those wishing to support the site at a discounted rate to enjoy ad-free viewing, multi-page articles on a single page, native dark mode, and other benefits... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/2023-Oktoberfest-Sale)
2023-09-17T22:07:59Z	**Linux 6.6-rc2 Released - 32 Years Since Linux 0.01 Released**
Linus Torvalds released Linux 6.6-rc2 today and it also happens to be 32 years to the day since he introduced the Linux 0.01 kernel version... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-rc2-Released)
2023-09-18T09:57:01Z	**OpenVINO 2023.1 Released - More GenAI, Expanded LLM Support & Meteor Lake VPU**
Intel's OpenVINO 2023.1 was just published to GitHub as the newest version of this open-source toolkit for optimizing and deploying AI workloads across their CPUs, GPUs, and now also having official support for the new VPU being found with Meteor Lake SoCs... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenVINO-2023.1-Released)
2023-09-18T10:18:29Z	**KDE On Wayland: "The Biggest Thing Needed Now Is Adoption By 3rd Party Apps"**
Given the recent discussions stemming from Fedora 40 planning to ship KDE Plasma 6 and drop the KDE Plasma X11 session to focus solely on Wayland for the next-gen KDE desktop, prominent KDE developer Nate Graham has written a lengthy blog post to outline the current state and his thoughts on KDE Wayland support... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Wayland-Good-Shape)
2023-09-18T10:33:34Z	**Linux 6.7 Set To Drop Support For Itanium IA-64**
Since 2021 the Itanium IA-64 code was orphaned in the Linux kernel and over the course of this year there's been talk of retiring the Itanium code from the kernel, a.k.a. strip it out. It looks like 2023 will end with the Itanium IA-64 code indeed being removed from the Linux kernel... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.7-To-Drop-Itanium-IA-64)
2023-09-18T10:46:00Z	**New Scheduler Optimization Can Help Out PostgreSQL & More On Sapphire Rapids**
Stemming from Intel engineers finding significant overhead in some Linux scheduler functions when running PostgreSQL within a Docker instance, a new scheduler patch is on the way for Linux 6.7 that will help out at least Ice Lake and Sapphire Rapids with some migration-heavy workloads. With the change being in the common scheduler code, it's also likely to help out other hardware platforms too... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Sched-Postgres-SPR)
2023-09-18T13:00:00Z	**AMD Launches The EPYC 8004 "Siena" 4th Gen EPYC Processors**
Last November AMD introduced the first of the 4th Gen EPYC series with the EPYC 9004 "Genoa" processors and that was then complemented earlier this year by the July launch of the Genoa-X processors for sporting AMD 3D V-Cache to help technical computing workloads and as well launching Bergamo for the Zen 4C based processor designs that allow up to 128 cores / 256 threads per socket. While AMD has a very robust portfolio for the high-end server space with 4th ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-epyc-8004-linux)
2023-09-18T15:38:44Z	**SteamOS 3.5 Delivering Some Decent Performance Gains For The Steam Deck**
Released late on Friday was the much anticipated SteamOS 3.5 preview for the Steam Deck with ongoing work around HDR and enhancing color management, VRR for external USB-C displays, various platform issues resolved, auto-mounting external storage, and more. With SteamOS 3.5 it also means some lower-level OS upgrades too like moving to the Linux 6.1 LTS kernel. For those wondering about the performance impact of going from SteamOS 3.4 stable to ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/steamos-35-benchmarks)
2023-09-18T18:45:31Z	**Linux Patches To Begin Removing ReiserFS From Default Kernel Builds**
Since March of 2022 the ReiserFS file-system has been deprecated and with Linux 6.6 ReiserFS is marked outright as "obsolete" with plans to remove the file-system from the mainline kernel code-base in 2025. In stepping toward that eventual milestone, a new kernel patch series begins removing ReiserFS from the default kernel configurations... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/ReiserFS-Drop-From-Defconfigs)
2023-09-18T18:55:00Z	**Flatpak 1.18 Released With Accent Color Support, New Clipboard & Input Capture Portals**
Flatpak 1.18 is out today as the newest stable release for this leading open-source app sandboxing and distribution tech. Flatpak 1.18 adds yet more features for this cross-distribution solution for software deployment and package management... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Flatpak-1.18-Released)
2023-09-18T19:02:00Z	**Flatpak 1.18 Released With Accent Color Support, New Clipboard & Input Capture Portals**
Flatpak 1.18 is out today as the newest stable release for this leading open-source app sandboxing and distribution tech. Flatpak 1.18 adds yet more features for this cross-distribution solution for software deployment and package management... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Flatpak-1.18-Released)
2023-09-18T19:18:44Z	**SteamOS 3.5 Delivering Some Decent Performance Gains For The Steam Deck**
Released late on Friday was the much anticipated SteamOS 3.5 preview for the Steam Deck with ongoing work around HDR and enhancing color management, VRR for external USB-C displays, various platform issues resolved, auto-mounting external storage, and more. With SteamOS 3.5 it also means some lower-level OS upgrades too like moving to the Linux 6.1 LTS kernel. For those wondering about the performance impact of going from SteamOS 3.4 stable to ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/steamos-35-benchmarks)
2023-09-18T19:15:00Z	**XDG-Desktop-Portal 1.18 Released With Accent Color Support, New Clipboard & Input Capture Portals**
XDG-Desktop-Portal 1.18 is out today as the newest stable release for this leading open-source app sandboxing and distribution tech. Flatpak's XDG-Desktop-Portal 1.18 adds yet more features for this cross-distribution solution for software deployment and package management... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Flatpak-1.18-Released)
2023-09-18T19:28:00Z	**SteamOS 3.5 Delivering Some Decent Performance Gains For The Steam Deck**
Released late on Friday was the much anticipated SteamOS 3.5 preview for the Steam Deck with ongoing work around HDR and enhancing color management, VRR for external USB-C displays, various platform issues resolved, auto-mounting external storage, and more. With SteamOS 3.5 it also means some lower-level OS upgrades too like moving to the Linux 6.1 LTS kernel. For those wondering about the performance impact of going from SteamOS 3.4 stable to ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/steamos-35-benchmarks)
2023-09-18T20:37:57Z	**Nouveau Patches Posted For Running On NVIDIA GSP-RM Firmware, Initial RTX 40 Ada Support**
The long-awaited patches for allowing the open-source NVIDIA "Nouveau" upstream Linux kernel driver to leverage NVIDIA's GPU System Processor "GSP" firmware for handling GPU re-clocking and other hardware tasks with RTX 20 GPUs and newer have been posted. With this set of 44 patches also comes the initial GPU hardware accelerated support for the GeForce RTX 40 "Ada Lovelace" GPUs that is built upon this new GSP driver  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Nouveau-Patches-Run-On-GSP-Blob)
2023-09-18T21:10:00Z	**Microsoft Releases A Big Update To Windows Subsystem For Linux, New Experimental Options**
Microsoft has published a big feature update to Windows Subsystem for Linux "WSL" for running Linux binaries within the confines of Windows 11... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/WSL-Big-September-Update)
2023-09-19T01:13:47Z	**The Maintainer Of The NVIDIA Open-Source "Nouveau" Linux Kernel Driver Resigns**
Hours after posting a large patch series for enabling the Nouveau kernel driver to use NVIDIA's GSP for improving the support for RTX 20/30 series hardware and finally enabling accelerated graphics support on RTX 40 "Ada Lovelace" GPUs, the Red Hat maintainer has resigned from his duties... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Nouveau-Maintainer-Resigns)
2023-09-19T01:17:47Z	**The Maintainer Of The NVIDIA Open-Source "Nouveau" Linux Kernel Driver Resigns**
Hours after posting a large patch series for enabling the Nouveau kernel driver to use NVIDIA's GSP for improving the support for RTX 20/30 series hardware and finally enabling accelerated graphics support on RTX 40 "Ada Lovelace" GPUs, the Red Hat maintainer has resigned from his duties... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Nouveau-Maintainer-Resigns)
2023-09-19T09:52:11Z	**LLVM 17.0 + Clang 17.0 Released With Many New Compiler Features**
The LLVM 17 compiler stack has been released as stable as LLVM 17.0.1 -- a slight mistake leaving the 17.0.0-rc tag meant the original v17.0.0 tag was skipped. This LLVM 17.0.1 stable release along with sub-projects like the Clang 17 C/C++ compiler bring many new features and improvements... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/LLVM-17.0-Released)
2023-09-19T10:21:08Z	**Fedora 40 Eyes Dropping GNOME X11 Session Support**
In addition to Fedora 40 planning to ship KDE Plasma 6.0 and without any X11 session support, Fedora stakeholders are also looking at shipping GNOME for the Fedora Workstation 40 release without any X11 session support... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-40-Eyes-No-X11-Session)
2023-09-19T13:00:00Z	**Intel oneAPI Initiative Evolves Into The Unified Acceleration "UXL" Foundation**
Here's a surprise announcement I was briefed on last week and now made public by the Linux Foundation and Intel... The Linux Foundation is forming the Unified Acceleration (UXL) Foundation that is an evolution of Intel's oneAPI initiative and has the potential to make the compute accelerator ecosystem as a whole more open and unified across vendors. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/oneapi-uxl-foundation)
2023-09-19T14:26:22Z	**Fedora 39 Beta Released With Faster DNF, GNOME 45 Desktop**
The beta release of Fedora 39 is now available for testing ahead of its planned stable release prior to the end of October... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-39-Beta-Released)
2023-09-19T14:38:49Z	**Java 21 / JDK 21 Reaches GA With Virtual Threads, Generational ZGC**
Java 21 and the JDK 21 release under a general availability (GA) status occurred a short time ago as the newest major update to the Java programming language... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Java-21-Released)
2023-09-19T15:35:00Z	**Intel Innovation 2023 Kicks Off With Meteor Lake & Emerald Rapids Launch Date: 14 Dec**
Intel is kicking off their Innovation 2023 conference in San Jose with many exciting announcements. Freed from embargo this morning is news around their upcoming mobile and server processors, lots of AI talk, Intel's continued software advancements to complement their hardware, and more... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Innovation-2023)
2023-09-19T18:10:52Z	**Linux 6.6 Looks To Be Very Lucrative For AMD Server Performance**
As a continuation of last week's article looking at Linux 6.6 bringing some impressive gains for AMD EPYC Bergamo, over the past few days I've also tested Linux 6.5 stable and Linux 6.6 Git on Genoa and Genoa-X processors as well as Intel Xeon Scalable "Sapphire Rapids" in looking at this next kernel version's performance. The Sapphire Rapids performance was largely flat while for an interesting class of workloads the Linux 6.6 performance drives the AMD  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux66-epyc-xeon)
2023-09-20T10:23:26Z	**NVIDIA Preparing Their Linux InfiniBand Driver For 800Gb/s XDR**
NVIDIA's latest patches intended for the upstream Linux kernel are over on the networking side of the house with their Mellanox wares as they prepare 800Gb/s (XDR) support within the RDMA/InfiniBand code... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-800Gbs-XDR-MLX5-Linux)
2023-09-20T10:34:08Z	**GraalVM Updated For Java/JDK 21, Great Performance Results**
In addition to Oracle releasing OpenJDK 21 / Java 21 on Tuesday, their GraalVM team also carried out a same-day release of GraalVM with the new Java 21 features and more... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GraalVM-JDK-Java-21)
2023-09-20T12:27:50Z	**HiSilicon Posts SMT Run-Time Control Patches For ARM64 Linux**
While Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) isn't as common on Arm SoCs as it is in the x86 and POWER worlds, there are some SMT-capable designs like with the HiSilicon Kupeng 930 for Arm servers. HiSilicon engineers are working now to extend Linux's SMT run-time controls to work on ARM64 (AArch64)... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-ARM64-Run-Time-SMT-Switch)
2023-09-20T14:14:13Z	**Glibc Lands HWCAPs Support For LoongArch**
When it comes to Glibc HWCAPs for allowing the C library to load optimized libraries based upon the CPU features at run-time, it's mostly been focused on the x86\_64 world for targeting higher x86-64 levels or being able to load optimized libraries for systems with AVX support. Loongson though has now contributed initial LoongArch HWCAPs support... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Glibc-HWCAPs-LoongArch)
2023-09-20T14:29:51Z	**XDC 2023 To Provide Update On AMD HDR For The Steam Deck, Rusticl & Wine Wayland**
There's just under one month to go now until the X.Org Developers' Conference (XDC) returns to A Coruña, Spain for the annual development conference focused on open-source graphics drivers (Mesa), Wayland, and related Linux display/graphics infrastructure although the X.Org Server itself hasn't received much attention in recent years. Here's a look at some of the planned talks for the exciting XDC 2023... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/XDC-2023-Talks)
2023-09-20T16:35:01Z	**Intel To Further Collaborate With Red Hat, Canonical & SUSE For Intel-Optimized Linux Distros**
Intel announced this morning on the second day of their Innovation 2023 conference that they are collaborating with software vendors such as Red Hat, Canonical, and SUSE for providing Intel-optimized Linux distributions... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Optimized-Linux-Distros)
2023-09-20T16:35:00Z	**Project Amber Officially Launches As The Intel Trust Authority**
Last year Intel announced Project Amber as an effort to verify the trustworthiness of clouds. Project Amber was talked up as "an innovative service-based security implementation" for the remote verification of the trustworthiness of compute assets. Project Amber is now rolling out as the Intel Trust Authority... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Trust-Authority)
2023-09-20T17:13:22Z	**Wine Wayland Driver Updated With Basic Window Management Capabilities**
The latest set of patches for the Wine Wayland driver have been posted for review that continue working on enabling native Wayland support for this open-source software that allows Windows applications and games to be enjoyed under Linux... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-Wayland-WM)
2023-09-20T20:30:07Z	**GNOME 45 Released With New Apps, New Activities Indicator**
GNOME 45 is out as stable today as the latest six-month update to this open-source desktop environment that will be powering the likes of Ubuntu 23.10 and Fedora Workstation 39... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-45-Released)
2023-09-21T04:00:00Z	**Mesa 23.1.8 Released While Waiting On Mesa 23.2**
Mesa 23.1.8 was released on Wednesday as yet another bi-weekly stable release for the Mesa 23.1 release as that series drags on while waiting for Mesa 23.2 to materialize... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-23.1.8-Released)
2023-09-21T08:00:00Z	**CentOS Starts An Integration SIG To Help Products/Services Built On RHEL / CentOS Stream**
The CentOS board has approved the creation of a CentOS Integration Special Interest Group (SIG) to assist those building products and services atop Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) or in particular its upstream, CentOS Stream... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/CentOS-Integration-SIG)
2023-09-21T10:39:04Z	**AMDGPU LLVM Backend Begins Seeing Additions For New RDNA3 Refresh Instructions**
Over the summer the AMDGPU compiler back-end in upstream LLVM began with new targets for GFX1150 and GFX1151 which given all things known are likely the "RDNA3 Refresh" APUs. That work started out light with not much in the way of different code paths from the existing GFX11 support but we're beginning to see some new instructions added for the RDNA3 refresh graphics processors... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GFX1150-SALU-Float)
2023-09-21T11:56:58Z	**PuzzleFS Continues Striving To Be The Best File-System For Containers**
Amid all the recent chatter around Bcachefs working its way toward mainline and all the ongoing improvements to existing Linux file-systems, you may have forgotten about Puzzlefs as the new file-system aiming to be an optimal solution for containers and with a kernel driver written in the Rust programming language... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/PuzzleFS-Development-Continues)
2023-09-21T13:25:00Z	**Linux 6.5 With AMD P-State EPP Default Brings Performance & Power Efficiency Benefits For Ryzen Servers**
With the new Linux 6.5 kernel stable series one of the many new features is defaulting to the AMD P-State driver with the EPP/active mode compared to the long-used default of the ACPI CPUFreq driver. As shown in various Phoronix articles this can help with the mobile/desktop performance with this new default change while this article is looking at the Ryzen for server benefits too. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux65-ryzen-servers)
2023-09-21T14:30:00Z	**Linux 6.5 With AMD P-State EPP Default Brings Performance & Power Efficiency Benefits For Ryzen Servers**
With the new Linux 6.5 kernel stable series one of the many new features is defaulting to the AMD P-State driver with the EPP/active mode compared to the long-used default of the ACPI CPUFreq driver. As shown in various Phoronix articles this can help with the mobile/desktop performance with this new default change while this article is looking at the Ryzen for server benefits too. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux65-ryzen-servers)
2023-09-21T23:49:25Z	**AMD's GPUOpen Releases Updated RGP, RGA & RMV Tools For Developers**
AMD's GPUOpen team today released a number of updated components for graphics application/engine developers... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GPUOpen-Updated-RGP-RGA-RMV)
2023-09-22T09:32:14Z	**Cloud Hypervisor 35 Released With Few New Features & Fixes**
Cloud Hypervisor 35 was released on Thursday for this open-source, Rust-based VMM that was originally started by Intel software engineers before evolving into a multi-vendor initiative for secure and cloud focused workloads... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Cloud-Hypervisor-35)
2023-09-22T09:54:05Z	**Ubuntu 23.10 Beta Released - Powered By Linux 6.5, GNOME 45 & Other Updates**
The beta images of the Ubuntu 23.10 "Mantic Minotaur" release are now available for testing ahead of the planned official release in October... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-23.10-Beta-Released)
2023-09-22T10:07:12Z	**Compute Runtime 23.30.26918.9 Released For Intel's Open-Source GPU Compute Stack**
Intel engineers have published their Compoute Runtime 23.30.26918.9 that provides their open-source Level Zero and OpenCL support for use on Windows and Linux platforms with Intel integrated/discrete graphics hardware... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-CR-23.30.26918.9)
2023-09-22T10:18:22Z	**Valve Is A Wonderful Upstream Contributor To Linux & The Open-Source Community**
This shouldn't come as any surprise to any longtime Phoronix readers and dedicated open-source/Linux enthusiasts, but Valve with their work on the Steam Deck and SteamOS have been lifting the open-source ecosystem as a whole. A talk this week at the Linux Foundation Europe's Open-Source Summit highlighted some of the great and ongoing contributions by Valve and their partners... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Valve-Upstream-Everything-OSS)
2023-09-22T10:44:23Z	**AMDVLK 2023.Q3.2 Released With Quadbuffer Stereo, Quake 2 RTX Optimizations**
AMD used to release new AMDVLK Vulkan driver updates on a near weekly basis for Linux users but that has slowed down for a while. We are approaching the end of Q3 and now AMDVLK 2023.Q3.2 has been published as their first new open-source driver release since early August... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDVLK-2023.Q3.2-Released)
2023-09-22T11:00:23Z	**AMDVLK 2023.Q3.2 Released With Quadbuffer Stereo, Quake 2 RTX Optimizations**
AMD used to release new AMDVLK Vulkan driver updates on a near weekly basis for Linux users but that has slowed down for a while. We are approaching the end of Q3 and now AMDVLK 2023.Q3.2 has been published as their first new open-source driver release since early August... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDVLK-2023.Q3.2-Released)
2023-09-22T23:57:03Z	**VKD3D 1.9 Released With HLSL Compiler Improvements, Ability To Inspect DXBC Blobs**
While VKD3D-Proton continues to be the downstream used by Valve's Steam Play (Proton) and receiving a bulk of the Windows D3D12 gaming optimizations, Wine's upstream VKD3D project continues to evolve for mapping the Direct3D 12 API atop Vulkan. Released on Thursday was VKD3D 1.9 as the newest feature update... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/VKD3D-1.9-Released)
2023-09-23T10:24:11Z	**KDE Plasma 6 Seeing Many Bug Fixes -- Including For The Plasma Wayland Session**
With Plasma 6.0 aiming for an early February release, more of the KDE developer attention is turning to bug fixing... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Bug-Fixing-Plasma-6)
2023-09-23T10:36:20Z	**Wayland Color Management Protocol Posted For Weston**
The Wayland Color Management protocol has been years in the making and is needed for a client to specify the color space and HDR metadata of a surface. This color management protocol is ultimately needed for getting high dynamic range (HDR) support working out well within Wayland environments. This week an initial merge request was opened for implementing the draft color management protocol with the Weston reference compositor... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayland-CM-Weston)
2023-09-23T10:48:32Z	**Intel Arrow Lake's NPU/VPU Very Similar To Meteor Lake - Linux Driver Patch Posted**
With Meteor Lake comes the introduction of the Versatile Processing Unit (VPU) that is now marketed by Intel as the Neural Processing Unit (NPU). Recent versions of the Linux kernel have the "IVPU" accelerator driver to support Meteor Lake's VPU/NPU while now a patch is pending to extend that support for next-generation Arrow Lake processors... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Arrow-Lake-VPU-NPU-Driver)
2023-09-23T12:32:27Z	**Linux Terminal Emulators Have The Potential Of Being Much Faster**
Prominent GNOME developer Christian Hergert announced he created a new terminal emulator that is twice as fast as the closest GPU-based renderer he's found yet so far on Linux, which was Alacritty. Unfortunately though he currently doesn't have any plans to develop this experimental speedy terminal emulator any further... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Terminals-Could-Be-Faster)
2023-09-23T13:30:57Z	**Arch Linux Installer Update Allows More Control Over Parallel Downloads, Ly**
Archinstall 2.6.1 was released today as the newest version of this Arch Linux text-based OS installer, ahead of next month's October Arch Linux ISO refresh... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Archinstall-2.6.1-Released)
2023-09-23T16:24:27Z	**Cairo 1.18 Released - First Stable Release In Five Years**
Cairo 1.18 was released today as the first major stable release to this 2D graphics library in five years. This vector-based graphics library is widely-used for a variety of purposes from GNOME's GTK toolkit to other apps making use of Cairo for targeting different back-ends from PDFs to OpenGL contexts. Mozilla Firefox, WebKit, Mono, and many other open-source projects are notable users of Cairo... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Cairo-1.18-Released)
2023-09-23T19:05:06Z	**Blumenkrantz Optimizes Mesa Vulkan Submission Merging - Some Test Cases Improve 1000%+**
Mike Blumenkrantz, who is part of Valve's stellar Linux graphics driver team, has managed another impressive feat of further optimizing the Mesa Vulkan driver code that benefits multiple drivers / hardware vendors... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mike-Optimize-Submissions)
2023-09-24T10:20:06Z	**Mold 2.2 Linker Released With More Optimizations, BLAKE3 Crypto Hashing**
Rui Ueyama published today a new version of Mold, the open-source high speed linker that has easily outpaced the common linkers from the GNU and LLVM projects. Mold 2.2 continues work on its performance quest, expanding its multiple CPU architectures supported, and other new work... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mold-2.2-Linker)
2023-09-24T10:40:00Z	**Intel's DAOS 2.4 Storage Engine Released**
While Intel divested its storage business and Intel Optane was sadly discontinued, one of the interesting open-source software projects from its storage efforts has been DAOS, the Distributed Asynchronous Object Storage engine. Version 2.4 of the DAOS software-defined object store designed for high-speed storage was released this past week... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/DAOS-2.4-Released)
2023-09-24T10:54:47Z	**Linux's Multi-Grain Timestamps Short-Lived: Removed From The Kernel After A Few Weeks**
One of the new features merged for the Linux 6.6 kernel was multi-grained timestamps for the VFS layer and wiring it up for the EXT4, Btrfs, XFS, and Tmpfs file-systems. This alternative though to coarse-grained timestamps ended up exposing some problems and this week ahead of Linux 6.6-rc3, the feature has been stripped entirely from the kernel... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Revert-MG-Timestamps)