Linux 6.1 POWERs Up With KFENCE, Syscall Wrappers, Execute-Only Memory
The IBM POWER/PowerPC changes were merged this week for the Linux 6.1 kernel with this cycle’s merge window closing later today… ⌘ Read more

XFS & F2FS Changes Are Tame For Linux 6.1
For the Linux 6.1 kernel Btrfs is bringing some significant performance optimizations and with EXT4 there is also some performance tuning. But when it comes to the Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) and the XFS file-systems this cycle is on the lighter side… ⌘ Read more

Google Announces KataOS As Security-Focused OS, Leveraging Rust & seL4 Microkernel
Google this week has announced the release of KataOS as their newest operating system effort focused on embedded devices running ambient machine learning workloads. KataOS is security-minded, exclusively uses the Rust programming language, and is built atop the seL4 microkernel as its foundation… ⌘ Read more

Ardour 7.0 Digital Audio Workstation Released
While there has been more open-source digital audio workstation (DAW) software solutions in recent years, Ardour that has been in development since 2005 remains one of the best professional-grade and cross-platform digital audio workstation solutions. It’s now even better with today’s big Ardour 7.0 release… ⌘ Read more

HP-BIOSCFG Driver Being Worked On For HP Laptop BIOS Management Under Linux
HP’s commercial/business-focused laptops expose a Windows WMI interface that supports the web-based enterprise management of the BIOS configurations. The “HP-BIOSCFG” Linux driver is now being worked on to allow managing the BIOS settings for these HP laptops from within Linux… ⌘ Read more

Linux 6.1 Brings VirtIO Block “Secure Erase”, vDPA Feature Provisioning
The VirtIO changes were merged this week for the Linux 6.1 merge window that is ending this weekend… ⌘ Read more

Intel’s Vulkan Driver Lands More Patches To Help Reduce CPU Overhead
A set of 12 patches adding 720 lines of new code and removing 222 lines of existing code to Intel’s “ANV” open-source Vulkan driver have been merged for Mesa 22.3 to help reduce the Vulkan push descriptor CPU overhead… ⌘ Read more

Linux 6.1 Picks Up Some Improvements For Pressure Stall Information (PSI)
Among the pull requests coming in late in the merge window for the Linux 6.1 cycle is the “sched/psi” updates for the code improvements around Pressure Stall Information… ⌘ Read more

Intel XeSS 1.0.1 Released With Bug Fixes
Last month Intel published the XeSS 1.0 SDK for their Xe Super Sampling technology showcased with Arc Graphics discrete graphics cards. Sadly their initial SDK drop included Windows binaries and wasn’t fully open-source. On Friday XeSS 1.0.1 was published with some bug fixes but still not being fully open-source… ⌘ Read more

KDE Plasma Wayland Now Supports High Resolution Scrolling
The KDE Plasma Wayland session is finally supporting high resolution scroll wheel support that was engineered by Red Hat and originally supported under GNOME for allowing a smoother scrolling experience on the Linux desktop… ⌘ Read more

Linux 6.0.2, 5.19.16 & Other Point Releases Arrive For Fixing WiFi Stack Vulnerabilities
This morning’s batch of Linux kernel point releases to existing stable series is worth upgrading to given the important security fixes… ⌘ Read more

Wine 7.19 Released With VKD3D 1.5, MPEG-4 Audio Support
While the freeze ahead of Wine 8.0 is quickly approaching, Wine 7.19 is out today as the newest development release for this open-source software allowing Windows games and applications to run on Linux and macOS… ⌘ Read more

Genode’s Sculpt OS 22.10 Brings Performance Optimizations, Better USB Hotplug
Genode Labs as the creators of the open-source Genode Operating System Framework have released Sculpt OS 22.10 as the newest version of their general purpose operating system… ⌘ Read more

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X “Zen 4” Rocks On Intel’s Clear Linux
This shouldn’t be too surprising to long-time Phoronix readers, but Intel’s performance-optimized Clear Linux operating system is yielding great performance with AMD Ryzen 7000 series “Zen 4” processors. Intel’s Clear Linux has long shipped HWCAPS support and tuning for AVX-512 and the like to be able to provide optimized libraries when running on their own AVX-512 processors. But with AMD now joining the AVX-512 party – and Zen 4’s AVX-512 implementation performi … ⌘ Read more

Intel Sends Out Meteor Lake & Sierra Forest Patches For The GCC Compiler
Intel has today sent out new compiler patches as they work to get their next-generation processors all set for the open-source GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), including the introduction of some new x86_64 instruction set extensions coming with the high core count Sierra Forest processors… ⌘ Read more

Intel Sends Out Meteor Lake & Sierra Forest Patches For The GCC Compiler
Intel has today sent out new compiler patches as they work to get their next-generation processors all set for the open-source GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), including the introduction of some new x86_64 instruction set extensions coming with the high core count Sierra Forest processors… ⌘ Read more

Intel Sends Out Meteor Lake & Sierra Forest Patches For The GCC Compiler
Intel has today sent out new compiler patches as they work to get their next-generation processors all set for the open-source GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), including the introduction of some new x86_64 instruction set extensions coming with the high core count Sierra Forest processors… ⌘ Read more

Linux 6.1 To Allow Faster File Sharing Between Host & Guests With 9P VirtIO Optimization
The 9P network protocol is commonly used – such as with with QEMU’s 9pfs pass-through file-system – for being able to share certain directories/files on host machines with the guest operating systems. With Linux 6.1 the 9p code has seen a nice set of optimizations that can allow for faster communication between the host and guest(s)… ⌘ Read more

Intel Publishes New Media Driver, oneVPL GPU Runtime “2022Q3” Releases
Intel has published their “2022Q3” releases for their open-source Media Driver with VA-API support as well as their Intel oneVPL GPU Runtime… ⌘ Read more

Rusticl Lands Fixes For Rust-OpenCL Discrete GPU Support, Preps SPIR-V Program Support
Merged for Mesa 22.3 one month ago was Rusticl as a new OpenCL implementation written in Rust. Since then Karol Herbst of Red Hat, who has led the work on this new driver front-end, has been working to get Rusticl running on more Gallium3D drivers and even atop Zink for execution with Vulkan drivers. Much of his testing/focus so far has been making use of integrated GPUs while an important patch series was merged this evening … ⌘ Read more

Linux Gets Patched For WiFi Vulnerabilities That Can Be Exploited By Malicious Packets
A set of Linux kernel WiFi stack security issues were made public today. The Linux 6.1 Git kernel has now merged fixes for these vulnerabilities while the fixes also work their way to being back-ported to existing stable series… ⌘ Read more

Intel Sends In More Habana Labs Gaudi2 AI Accelerator Code For Linux 6.1
The “char/misc” changes landed recently into mainline for the ongoing Linux 6.1 merge window. In addition to many FPGA subsystem updates, this random catch-all driver area of the kernel has also seen many updates to the Habana Labs AI driver for supporting Intel’s forthcoming Gaudi2 accelerator… ⌘ Read more

PostgreSQL 15 Released With Better Sort Performance, Supports LZ4 & Zstd Compression
PostgreSQL 15 is out today as the newest major feature release to this leading open-source database solution… ⌘ Read more

FEX-Emu 2210 Eyes Emulating AVX On Arm, Various Fixes
FEX-Emu as the open-source project aiming for speedy x86/x86_64 games and other software on Arm AArch64 including the likes of Steam has issued their newest feature update. FEX-Emu 2210 is today’s newest release for this binary emulator and continues on a nice trajectory for being able to enjoy x86 64-bit binaries on modern Arm Linux systems… ⌘ Read more

Debian 14 Codenamed “Forky”
The upcoming Debian GNU/Linux 12 release is codenamed “Bookworm” and is expected to be released in 2023. Meanwhile Debian 13 will be out around 2024 and it was already announced under the Trixie codename. Now today it’s been announced that Debian 14 come 2024 will also be known as the “Forky” release… ⌘ Read more