XFS Atomic Writes Support Merged For Linux 6.16
Building off the atomic write preparations that landed in prior Linux kernel versions, merged for the Linux 6.16 cycle is atomic write support for the XFS file-system… ⌘ Read more

Linux 6.16 Adds “X86_NATIVE_CPU” Option To Optimize Your Kernel Build For Your CPU
The X86_NATIVE_CPU Kconfig build time option has been merged for the Linux 6.16 merge window as an easy means of enforcing “-march=native” compiler behavior on AMD and Intel processors to optimize your kernel build for the local CPU architecture/family of your system… ⌘ Read more

Linux 6.16 Lands “rt_group_sched” Option, Faster Core Offlining & Scheduler Improvements
The many scheduler updates have been merged for the Linux 6.16 kernel which include a wide assortment of different fixes and new improvements… ⌘ Read more

Qt Bridges To Take The UI Toolkit To New Programming Languages: Rust, C#, Java & Swift
The open-source Qt toolkit is deeply rooted in C++ code but over the past decade also has enjoyed Python language bindings. Now thanks to new work by the Qt Group on what they are calling Qt Bridging Technology, the toolkit will be enjoying more robust support across different programming languages… ⌘ Read more

Intel Auto Count Reload & Clearwater Forest PMU Support Merged For Linux 6.16
The Linux kernel Performance Events changes were merged for the newly-opened Linux 6.16 cycle. Most notable are some new additions on the Intel side while AMD also saw a few changes too… ⌘ Read more

FUTEX2 Improvements Merged For Linux 6.16
On this first day of the Linux 6.16 merge window, Linus Torvalds merged the locking code changes for the kernel that includes some additions to the FUTEX2 interface… ⌘ Read more

Linux 6.16 Adds Ability For Power Code To Freeze The File-System For Suspend & Hibernate
Among the many VFS pull requests merged today by Linus Torvalds for the now-open Linux 6.16 merge window is support by the power subsystem for being able to initiate file-system freeze/thaw events as part of the system suspend and resume cycle… ⌘ Read more

New Linux Patches Properly Handle The Audio Jack On Sony’s PS5 DualSense Controller
While there has been the Sony PlayStation 5 DualSense controller support for Linux going back several years and has been improved upon with more recent versions of the Linux kernel, there’s been some shortcomings around the audio jack handling with the DualSense controller. A new patch series out today aims to enhance that capability… ⌘ Read more

GNU Linux-libre 6.15-gnu Neuters The New NOVA NVIDIA Driver
Following last night’s release of the Linux 6.15 stable kernel, the FSF Latin America team has released GNU Linux-libre 6.15-gnu for their downstream kernel that strips out the ability to load non-free firmware/microcode and other elements of the Linux kernel deemed for not aligning with their software freedoms… ⌘ Read more

Rust Makes Progress On Async Rust Experience, Stabilizing Tooling For Rust In The Kernel
The Rust project this morning published a status update on some of their top project goals, including for enhancing the async Rust experience to make it closer to the sync programming experience as well as stabilizing the tooling needed for Rust programming use within the Linux kernel… ⌘ Read more

New AMD SPI Driver Going Upstream In Linux 6.16
Among the early pull requests sent out today with the Linux 6.16 merge window now open are all of the Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) subsystem updates… ⌘ Read more

Firefox 139.0 Now Available With Faster HTTP/3 Upload Performance
Mozilla Firefox 139.0 release binaries have been pushed out to mirrors today ahead of the formal announcement tomorrow. With the Firefox 139 browser update comes a few new features worth mentioning… ⌘ Read more

Bcachefs: Performance Improvements, Recovery Work & Nicer Error Messages For Linux 6.16
Bcachefs lead developer Kent Overstreet has already sent out the plethora of feature updates destined for the now-open Linux 6.16 kernel cycle. There has been a lot of work going on for Bcachefs that is ready for merging in Linux 6.16 with several performance improvements, continued self-healing / recovery work, improved error messages, and more for this copy-on-write file-system… ⌘ Read more

POWER CPUs Ready With Dynamic Preemption For Linux 6.16
Merged for Linux 5.12 back in early 2021 was a new dynamic preemption mode. Finally now for H2’2025, the IBM POWER CPU ISA kernel code is supporing dynamic preemption… ⌘ Read more

Linux 6.15 Released With Continued Rust Integration, Bcachefs Stabilizing
As anticipated the Linux 6.15 kernel is out today in stable form. Linux 6.15 brings a lot of new hardware support, security improvements, various other kernel innovations, and more… ⌘ Read more

ConfigFS Prepares Rust Support For Linux 6.16
ConfigFS is seeing a new maintainer step up to manage this RAM-based file-system. With Andreas Hindborg taking over maintainership of ConfigFS he’s also landing patches authored by him for adding Rust programming language support to this file-system… ⌘ Read more

Btrfs To See More Performance Improvements With Linux 6.16
Ahead of the Linux 6.16 merge window opening, several early pull requests were already sent out this week in advance of Linux 6.15 expected for release later today. Among those early feature pulls was Btrfs maintainer David Sterba sending out updates to this advanced copy-on-write file-system… ⌘ Read more

Dell Latitude 7455 Is The Newest Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite Laptop Seeing Linux Patches
The Dell Latitude 7455 (X1E-80-100) is the latest laptop powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite SoC seeing patches for enabling Linux support… ⌘ Read more

Linux 6.16 Features Include A Lot From Intel, NVIDIA Blackwell, AMDGPU User Mode Queues
With Linux 6.15 there are many exciting new features for this kernel version expected to debut as stable later today. Following the Linux 6.15 stable release, the Linux 6.16 merge window will then open. Here is an early look at a portion of the changes anticipated to be submitted and more than likely merged for this next kernel version… ⌘ Read more

More Gaming Controllers From Turtle Beach & PowerA Supported By Linux 6.15
Ahead of the Linux 6.15 kernel stable release expected later today, more input driver updates have been merged for this new kernel version that include introducing compatibility with some newer gaming controllers… ⌘ Read more

Rust Coreutils 0.1 Released With Big Performance Gains - Can Match Or Exceed GNU Speed
With Ubuntu 25.10 planning to ship the Rust-based Coreutils “uutils” by default, it’s a big year ahead for this alternative to GNU Coreutils. In furthering along the project’s goals, today marks the Rust Coreutils v0.1 release… ⌘ Read more

GNOME Web Making It Easier To Toggle WebKit Features
The GNOME Web “Epiphany” web browser is making it easier to toggle WebKit web engine features at run-time… ⌘ Read more

Mike Blumenkrantz Axes Old Mesa Code: Goodbye Gallium Nine
While there was the big 62k lines of code patch from Microsoft merged yesterday to Mesa, separately there was also some code cleaning to remove some previously-deprecated code from the codebase… ⌘ Read more

Cloud Hypervisor 46 Deprecates SGX Support, Google To Take Over TDX Maintenance
While the open-source, Rust-based Cloud Hypervisor project was started by Intel as a modern VMM for cloud workloads and focused on security, some Intel CPU features are now bit-rotting. In turn the new Cloud Hypervisor 46 release has deprecated support for Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX) while even their modern Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) feature is in jeopardy but now with Google engineers set to takeover that code… ⌘ Read more

KDE Plasma 6.4 Adds Time-Of-Day Wallpapers, Disabling Adaptive-Sync By Default
KDE developers have been busy addressing bugs within the Plasma 6.4 desktop ahead of its stable release in June. But there has been some last minute feature work to arrive, including support for time-of-day wallpapers with Plasma 6.4… ⌘ Read more

More Intel Panther Lake Graphics PCI IDs Added To Linux 6.15
Ahead of the Linux 6.15 kernel release expected on Sunday, a final round of Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics driver fixes were merged today to the kernel. Notable with these updates on the Intel side is squeezing in some additional PCI device IDs for upcoming Panther Lake integrated graphics… ⌘ Read more

Microsoft Lands 62k Lines Of Code Patch In Mesa: Adds New “MFT” Gallium3D Frontend
Microsoft’s open-source code contributions to the Mesa 3D graphics stack continues… Hitting Mesa 25.2-devel today was a patch adding 61,925 lines of code patch as they introduce a new Gallium3D front-end… ⌘ Read more

Linux 6.15 Brings Many Features For Intel & AMD Hardware
With the Linux 6.15 kernel expected to be released as stable on Sunday unless Linus Torvalds has last-minute reservations, here’s a look back at some of the most interesting Linux 6.15 changes… ⌘ Read more

GNOME Help & Documentation Are In Need Of Help
The GNOME Release Team is issuing a call for help as GNOME Help and the associated GNOME documentation are much in need of some assistance… ⌘ Read more

Benchmarks: OpenCL Kernel Latency ~76x Lower For Intel Lunar Lake With Updated Compute Runtime
This week Intel released the Compute Runtime 25.18.33578.6 release for Windows and Linux. This updated open-source GPU compute stack for OpenCL and Level Zero brings the latest work on Ultra Low Latency Scheduling (ULLS) for Xe2 Lunar Lake graphics and other ongoing Xe2 improvements along with further preparations for next-gen Xe3 hardware. This new Intel Compute Runtime release is clocking in around 76x lower Op … ⌘ Read more

GCC 14.3 Compiler Released With 200+ Bug Fixes
For those not yet on the newest GCC 15 compiler that debuted as stable one month ago, GCC 14.3 is out today in delivering the latest fixes for the GCC 14 stable series… ⌘ Read more

Linux 6.15 Sees Last Minute Power Savings Fix For Intel Arrow Lake U/H
Sent out today as part of last minute x86 platform driver fixes for Linux 6.15 is a rather important power-savings fix for Intel Arrow Lake U and Arrow Lake H laptops… ⌘ Read more

Mesa Will Stop Building Gallium-XA By Default
Back in April Mesa deprecated Gallium Nine alongside the XA state tracker used for X.Org Server acceleration. Gallium-XA was developed by VMware for use with their DDX driver for accelerating X11 within their virtualized environments. XA isn’t really used these days and the generic GLAMOR code is in much better shape. Thus Mesa is now no longer building the XA code as the next step toward its removal… ⌘ Read more

AMD Previews Mysterious Linux Runtime Stack For Ryzen AI NPUs
While there is the AMDXDNA accelerator driver that was upstreamed to the mainline kernel earlier this year with Linux 6.14 for supporting the AMD Ryzen AI NPUs and also their AIE Plugin for IREE user-space components, it seems something more is on the way… ⌘ Read more

Wayland 1.24 Release Candidate Brings Few Changes
Following the recent decision to no longer issue alpha or beta releases of Wayland, the Wayland 1.24 release candidate was issued on Thursday in working toward that next release… ⌘ Read more