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Linux 6.12 EDAC Prepares For Address Translation On Future AMD Platforms

The Error Detection And Correction (EDAC) driver updates were among the early pull requests submitted for the Linux 6.12 kernel cycle in advance of this week's Linux Kernel Maintainer Summit in Austria. Among the EDAC work this cycle is preparing memor...

2024-09-16 05:00

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Linux 6.12 To Support Arm's Permission Overlay Extension

The 64-bit ARM changes were submitted in advance for the now-open Linux 6.12 kernel merge window. There is work for Arm on the confidential computing side this cycle and other new features...

2024-09-16 00:00

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Valkey 8.0 Released As Speedy Redis Fork Achieving One Million RPS

Valkey 8.0 was released today as this leading fork of the Redis open-source code that was started by the Linux Foundation early in the year and backed by organizations from Amazon/AWS to Google Cloud, Oracle, and others. With the Valkey 8.0 release a b...

2024-09-15 19:19

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IO_uring Async Discard Submitted For Linux 6.12

Jens Axboe submitted the block and IO_uring changes already for the now-open Linux 6.12 merge window. Most notable from this Linux I/O work is adding async discard support to IO_uring...

2024-09-15 15:51

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Linux 6.11 Kernel Released With Some Snapdragon X1 Laptop Support & Other New Hardware

As expected the Linux 6.11 kernel has been promoted to stable and in time for appearing in the likes of Ubuntu 24.10, Fedora 41, and other autumn Linux distribution releases...

2024-09-15 11:12

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Linux 6.11 Features Many Exciting Updates For AMD Hardware & More

It's expected to be the Linux 6.11 release day! We are just hours away from hopefully seeing Linux 6.11 stable christened as the kernel set to power the likes of Ubuntu 24.10 and Fedora 41. Here's a reminder of some of the most interesting new features...

2024-09-15 09:03

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AMD GPU Linux Driver Becoming "Really Really Big" That It's Starting To Cause Problems

The modern AMD kernel graphics driver "AMDGPU" is the biggest driver within the mainline Linux kernel and is approaching six million lines of code albeit a large chunk of that is made up of auto-generated header files for each supported GPU. But this A...

2024-09-15 06:00

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Legacy Intel Sound Driver Support Being Removed In Linux 6.12, Other Big Changes

Yet another early pull request for the imminent Linux 6.12 merge window is the sound (audio) driver updates for this next kernel cycle. There is a lot of sound driver work this cycle from new audio bits to removing legacy Intel driver support...

2024-09-15 05:00

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Many ACPI Updates Head To The Linux 6.12 Kernel

Ahead of the expected Linux 6.11 stable release today and the Linux Kernel Maintainer Summit happening this coming week in Vienna, Intel engineer Rafael Wysocki submitted early the ACPI updates among the other areas of the kernel he oversees as part of...

2024-09-15 04:00

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Ubuntu Developers Begin Working On Snapdragon X1 Elite Support

With the mainline Linux kernel beginning to see DeviceTree support for a few Snapdragon X1 powered laptops like the ASUS Vivobook S15 and Lenovo Yoga Slim7x, Ubuntu developers at Canonical appear to be beginning their exploration around supporting some...

2024-09-15 00:00

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Linux 6.11 Adds Last Minute Addition For Intel Arrow Lake

The Linux 6.11 kernel is expected to be christened as stable tomorrow. Ahead of that stable release one of the last minute "fixes" is adding in another ID for upcoming Intel Arrow Lake processors...

2024-09-14 15:57

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GNOME Mutter Merges XDG Session Management Wayland Protocol

As a very last minute change ahead of tagging GNOME Mutter 47, merged this morning to Mutter is support for the XDG session management Wayland protocol. This protocol is useful for letting clients request support from the compositor for saving the wind...

2024-09-14 10:33

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Niri 0.1.9 Scrollable-Tiling Wayland Compositor Brings New IPC Functionality

Niri 0.1.9 is out today as the latest update to this scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor that is written in Rust...

2024-09-14 09:00

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Casilda Is A New Project As A GTK4 Wayland Compositor Widget

Casilda is a new open-source project by GNOME developer Juan Pablo Ugarte to serve as a Wayland compositor widget. Casilda allows for embedding other processes windows within a GTK4 application...

2024-09-14 07:10

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Printk Changes Submitted For Linux 6.12 Finish NBCON Console Preparations

Ahead of the Linux 6.12 kernel merge window opening on Monday, the printk updates were submitted in advance given the Linux Kernel Maintainer Summit also taking place next week in Vienna. Notable with the printk updates is finishing up the NBCON consol...

2024-09-14 06:53

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EROFS Adding Support For File-Backed Mounts To Benefit Containers & Sandboxes

The EROFS read-only file-system changes have been submitted now for ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.12 merge window. Notable this cycle is EROFS adding support for file-backed mounts...

2024-09-14 06:42

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KDE Releases Plasma 6.2 Beta, Early Feature Work Begins For Plasma 6.3

KDE developers were busy this week in Germany for their annual Akademy developer conference but they still managed to release a Plasma 6.2 Beta as well as some early feature work toward Plasma 6.3...

2024-09-14 06:30

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GNOME Continues Hashing Out Individual Home Directory Encryption, Modernizing Platform

GNOME developers have been making progress on being able to individually encrypt user home directories as well as modernizing platform infrastructure as part of the investments made by Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund...

2024-09-13 20:36

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Linux 6.12 Finishing The Transition For Moving Intel CPUs Past The "Family 6" Era

As written about early in the year, future Intel CPUs will be moving past the "Family 6" identification used since the mid-1990s with the P6 micro-architecture. Since then Intel has continued releasing new CPUs under "Family 6" with different model IDs...

2024-09-13 16:22

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AMD Posts Linux Patches For New Secure AVIC Guest Feature

AMD engineers today posted the first "request for comments" patches in enabling support for Secure AVIC guest handling as a new hardware feature with upcoming processors...

2024-09-13 14:46

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