GCC 12 Adds Stack Variable Auto-Initialization, Other Security Improvements Forthcoming
23 September
Lennart: Linux Comes Up Short Around Disk Encryption, Authenticated Boot Security
06:23 AM EDT - systemd - Improvements Needed - 19 Comments
"panel-edp" Driver On Its Way To Linux 5.16 To Make For Less Hard-Coded eDP Panel Configs
06:12 AM EDT - Hardware - panel-edp - Add A Comment
systemd OOMD Maturing Nicely, Adds Support For User Services
12:00 AM EDT - systemd - systemd-oomd - 8 Comments
22 September
Valve Publishes New Steam Deck FAQ With A Few New Details Shared
08:18 PM EDT - Valve - Steam Deck FAQ - 16 Comments
Google Finally Shifting To "Upstream First" Linux Kernel Approach For Android Features
02:38 PM EDT - Google - Upstream First - 39 Comments
Mesa Merge Pending For Vulkan Ray-Tracing On Older AMD GPUs
01:14 PM EDT - Mesa - Ray-Tracing On Older GPUs - 15 Comments
GNOME 41 Released With Wayland Improvements, More Performance Tuning
11:23 AM EDT - GNOME - GNOME 41 - 62 Comments
An Early Look At The AMD P-State CPPC Driver Performance vs. ACPI CPUFreq
09:38 AM EDT - Software - 19 Comments
Better Support & Performance For OpenACC Kernels Is Coming To GCC
06:40 AM EDT - GNU - OpenACC Performance - Add A Comment
Aya Makes It Easy To Write Rust-Based eBPF Programs For The Linux Kernel
05:57 AM EDT - Linux Networking - Aya - 20 Comments
Ubuntu Touch OTA-19 Released - Still Based On Ubuntu 16.04
03:40 AM EDT - Ubuntu - Ubuntu Touch OTA-19 - 13 Comments
Mesa 21.2.2 Released "Late & Very Large"
12:00 AM EDT - Mesa - Mesa 21.2 - 17 Comments
21 September
X.Org Server 21.1 RC1 Released With VRR Support For Modesetting Driver, Other Features
06:55 PM EDT - X.Org - xserver 21.1 - 25 Comments
AMDGPU Linux Driver To Overhaul Its Approach To Device Enumeration
05:00 PM EDT - Radeon - IP Discovery - 8 Comments
Cycles X Merged Into Blender 3.0 With NVIDIA CUDA/OptiX Support, AMD HIP Pending
03:33 PM EDT - Free Software - Blender 3.0 + Cycles X - 8 Comments
Chrome 94 Released With WebGPU For Testing, WebCodecs API Now Official
02:48 PM EDT - Google - Chrome 94 - 33 Comments
Oracle's Next-Generation GNU Profiler "gprofng" Is Looking Great For Developers
02:21 PM EDT - GNU - gprofng - 10 Comments
Linux Foundation To Host PaSh For Automatic Parallelizing Of Shell Scripts
01:16 PM EDT - Programming - PaSh - 14 Comments
Samba 4.15 Released With Improved CLI Experience, Modernized VFS Interface
08:40 AM EDT - Linux Storage - Samba 4.15 - Add A Comment
Canonical Extending Ubuntu 14.04/16.04 LTS Support To Ten Years
08:00 AM EDT - Ubuntu - Ubuntu 18.04/20.04 Unchanged - 36 Comments
Vulkan Video Decoding Still In The Early Stages For Open-Source
06:33 AM EDT - Vulkan - Vulkan Video - 5 Comments
Mesa 21.3 Lands Initial Radeon Ray-Tracing Support In Open-Source RADV Vulkan Driver
05:25 AM EDT - Mesa - RADV Ray-Tracing - 10 Comments
AMD Extending DWARF To Better Handle GPU Debugging, Continues Collaborating With GCC & LLVM
12:00 AM EDT - Radeon - DWARF6 - 2 Comments
20 September
Phoronix Ad-Free/Premium Special For Oktoberfest 2021
11:59 PM EDT - Premium - Go Premium - 9 Comments
Intel Posts New Linux Patches Looking To Re-Enable ENQCMD Ahead Of Sapphire Rapids
04:25 PM EDT - Intel - Restoring ENQCMD - Add A Comment
CUPS 2.4 Coming Next Month, CUPS 2.5 + CUPS 3.0 Already In Planning
03:02 PM EDT - Free Software - CUPS Printing - 14 Comments
OpenVPN DCO Linux Kernel Module Aims To Offer Faster VPN Performance
02:31 PM EDT - Linux Networking - Data Channel Offload - 17 Comments
NVIDIA 470.74 Linux Driver Released With Several Fixes
09:47 AM EDT - NVIDIA - NVIDIA 470.74 - 24 Comments
DXVK 1.9.2 Released With More Games In Better Shape
09:36 AM EDT - Linux Gaming - DXVK 1.9.2 - 7 Comments
Rust Lands Support For The Motorola 68000 Processors
09:02 AM EDT - Programming - M68k - 23 Comments
AMD Continues CRIU Work To Checkpoint/Restore ROCm Compute Workloads
NVIDIA Prepares The Linux Kernel For Future Laptops With EC-Driven Backlights
Red Hat's Upstream Contributions Are Making For A Great Fedora Workstation 35
06:00 AM EDT - Fedora - Fedora Workstation 35 Features - 22 Comments
xf86-input-libinput 1.2 Brings Touchpad Gestures, High Resolution Scrolling
05:38 AM EDT - X.Org - xf86-input-libinput 1.2 - 9 Comments
19 September
Linux 5.15-rc2 Released With Many Fixes, Addressing Issues Raised By "-Werror"
08:48 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.15 - 23 Comments
HarfBuzz 3.0 Released With Unicode 14.0 Support, More APIs Considered Stable
04:11 PM EDT - Desktop - HarfBuzz 3.0 - 13 Comments
That Didn't Take Long: KSMBD In-Kernel File Server Already Needs Important Security Fix
01:05 PM EDT - Linux Security - SMB3 In-Kernel File Server - 30 Comments
Linux 5.16 To Support Sensor Readings On More ASUS Motherboards
06:19 AM EDT - Hardware - ASUS-WMI + nct6775 - 40 Comments
Jolla Releases Sailfish OS 4.2 For Continuing To Improve This Linux-Based Smartphone OS
05:53 AM EDT - Operating Systems - Sailfish OS 4.2 - 35 Comments
SDL Still Has A Number Of Issues To Address Before Defaulting To Wayland
05:45 AM EDT - Linux Gaming - SDL Wayland State - 2 Comments
18 September
Linux 5.15 Is Now Slightly Less Broken For The DEC Alpha "Jensen"
07:36 PM EDT - Hardware - DEC PC 150 AXP - 13 Comments
DRM Driver Posted For AI Processing Unit - Initially Focused On Mediatek SoCs
01:12 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - DRM APU - 6 Comments
Apple M1 USB Type-C Linux Support Code Sent Out For Testing
09:05 AM EDT - Hardware - USB Type-C - 11 Comments
AMD + Valve Focusing On P-State / CPPC Driver With Schedutil For Better Linux Efficiency
07:26 AM EDT - AMD - AMD P-State - 29 Comments
GIMP 2.10.28 Released With More Fixes
05:56 AM EDT - Desktop - GIMP 2.10.28 - 24 Comments
KDE Sees Another Big Batch Of Plasma Wayland Improvements
05:42 AM EDT - KDE - Better Plasma Wayland - 24 Comments
17 September
Red Hat Is Hiring So Linux Can Finally Have Good HDR Display Support
03:15 PM EDT - Red Hat - High Dynamic Range - 129 Comments
Apple Silicon / M1 Port Planned For GCC 12
02:41 PM EDT - GNU - GCC 12 - 15 Comments
Experimenting Is Underway For Rust Code Within Mesa
01:39 PM EDT - Mesa - Rust + Mesa - 68 Comments
Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS Released To Correct Broken Install Media
01:06 PM EDT - Ubuntu - Ubuntu 18.04.6 - 2 Comments
The Current State Of Intel Discrete Graphics On Linux: Almost "Fully Functional"
09:25 AM EDT - Intel - Intel DG1 Status - 8 Comments
The Increasing Importance Of ACPI Platform Profiles With Today's Throttle-Happy Hardware
08:58 AM EDT - Hardware - Platform Profiles - 32 Comments
LVFS Serves Up 2+ Million Firmware Downloads In The Past Month
07:54 AM EDT - Hardware - Linux Vendor Firmware Service - 10 Comments
KWinFT Continues Working On WLROOTS Render, Library Split
05:55 AM EDT - Wayland - KDE KWin Fork - 17 Comments
Multiple Games Are Now Working With RADV's Ray-Tracing Code
05:00 AM EDT - Mesa - RADV Ray-Tracing - 8 Comments
Intel's PSH ISHTP Driver Readied On Linux For Systems Wanting To Forego A Traditional EC
12:00 AM EDT - Intel - EC Lite - Add A Comment
16 September
X.Org Could Use More Help Improving & Addressing Its Security
04:10 PM EDT - X.Org - X.Org Security - 132 Comments
OpenZFS 2.1.1 Arrives As A Big Point Release
02:17 PM EDT - Linux Storage - OpenZFS 2.1.1 - 3 Comments
Intel Talks More About Their Open-Source Vulkan Ray-Tracing Bring-Up
KDE Plasma 5.23 Beta Released As The 25th Anniversary Edition
09:00 AM EDT - KDE - KDE Plasma 5.23 - 31 Comments
Running Linux 5.15-rc1 Causing A New Slowdown... Here's A Look
07:00 AM EDT - Software - 27 Comments
Linux 5.16 To Add Quirk For The Steam Deck, Other DRM-Misc-Next Changes
05:22 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - DRM-Misc-Next - 4 Comments
Mesa's LLVMpipe + Lavapipe Land FP16 Support
05:00 AM EDT - Mesa - 16-bit floating point - 2 Comments
Google Is Successfully Using The Open-Source Qualcomm GL/VLK Drivers On Chromebooks
03:00 AM EDT - Mesa - Mesa Drivers - 19 Comments
Early Patches Bring BPF To The Linux Scheduler
12:00 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - BPF Scheduler - 1 Comment
15 September
Microsoft Adds An EGL Implementation To Mesa For Windows
06:14 PM EDT - Mesa - EGL On Windows - 31 Comments
Reverse Engineering, Open-Source Driver Writing Continues For Apple's M1 GPU
02:11 PM EDT - X.Org - Apple AGX - 33 Comments
Radeon Pro Software for Enterprise 21.Q3 Released For Linux
01:32 PM EDT - Radeon - Radeon Pro Software - 27 Comments
AMD Publishes Initial Firmware For Yellow Carp APUs
09:25 AM EDT - Radeon - AMDGPU Yellow Carp Firmware - 8 Comments
Raspberry Pi V3DV Driver Still Working On Vulkan 1.1 Conformance, More Performance
08:07 AM EDT - Vulkan - V3DV Status - 2 Comments
Orange Publishes An In-Kernel eBPF-Powered Cache - Can Speed Up Memcached By ~18x
06:28 AM EDT - Free Software - BPF Memory Cache - 3 Comments
HP OMEN Laptops To Be Better Supported With Linux 5.16
06:08 AM EDT - Hardware - HP OMEN - 14 Comments
New Intel Tremont Optimizations Heading To The GCC Compiler
05:45 AM EDT - GNU - Faster Tremont / Jasper Lake - 2 Comments
14 September
RadeonSI Lands Big Batch Of Improvements To Lower CPU Overhead
04:35 PM EDT - Radeon - Lower Overhead - 11 Comments
oneAPI Level Zero Loader v1.5 Released With VPU Driver Recognition, Multi-Driver Support
02:22 PM EDT - Intel - oneAPI Level Zero Loader 1.5 - 7 Comments
Java 17 / OpenJDK 17 Hits GA With Maturing Vector API, Removal Planned For Applet API
01:48 PM EDT - Oracle - Java 17 - 34 Comments
NVIDIA RTX 30 Series Resizable BAR Support Continues Helping Performance On Linux
09:09 AM EDT - Display Drivers - 9 Comments
Intel Seamless Update: Intel Preparing For System Firmware Updates Without The Reboot
06:05 AM EDT - Intel - Intel Seamless Update - 16 Comments
Libinput 1.19 Released With Hold Gestures & High Resolution Wheel Scrolling
05:42 AM EDT - Wayland - libinput 1.19 - 11 Comments
Linux 5.15 Raises Its GCC Compiler Version Requirement
03:00 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.15 - 21 Comments
13 September
Mesa Lands Option That Can Help XWayland-Based Gaming On The Steam Deck
08:48 PM EDT - Mesa - No Waiting Under XWayland - 23 Comments
Intel Posts Initial Code For x86 User Interrupts On Linux - Shows Great Performance Potential
04:38 PM EDT - Intel - x86 User Interrupts - 13 Comments
FUTEX2 System Call Updated To Work On ARM
02:45 PM EDT - Linux Gaming - FUTEX2 For ARM - 9 Comments
Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan Tackling Support For More Games
01:54 PM EDT - Mesa - Getting More Games Working - 8 Comments
GNU Debugger 11.1 Released With MTE Support, Core File Debugging For 64-bit Cygwin Apps
01:34 PM EDT - GNU - GDB 11.1 - 6 Comments
Linux 5.15 Delivers Many Features With New NTFS Driver, In-Kernel SMB3 Server, New Hardware
09:16 AM EDT - Software - 15 Comments
Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS Special Being Prepared To Deal With Unbootable Media
08:56 AM EDT - Ubuntu - Ubuntu 18.04.6 - 5 Comments
Still-Pending AMD PSF Control Patch To Be Retailored For KVM
08:40 AM EDT - AMD - Predictive Store Forwarding - Add A Comment
Linux Developers Talk Again About An Accelerator Subsystem - Or Moving Them Into The GPU/DRM Area
05:57 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - drivers/accel - 5 Comments
12 September
Linux 5.15-rc1 Brings New NTFS Driver, In-Kernel SMB3 Server, AMD Changes, Intel DG2
08:22 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.15 - 17 Comments
Linux 5.15 Is A Very Exciting Kernel For AMD
02:00 PM EDT - AMD - Lots Of AMD Enablement - 40 Comments
Apache Software Foundation Saw $3M In Revenue, ~134M Changed Lines Of Code Last Year
07:11 AM EDT - Free Software - Apache - 8 Comments
It's Looking Like Folios / Pagesets Might Miss Making It Into Linux 5.15
06:20 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Folios Or Pagesets - 4 Comments
RISC-V Gets Expanded Stack Randomization With Linux 5.15
06:04 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Stack Randomization - 9 Comments
Linux Preparing To Slightly Loosen Its Spectre Defaults
12:00 AM EDT - Linux Security - Spectre V2 + V4 Change - 5 Comments
11 September
The Latest Progress On Rust For The Linux Kernel
02:30 PM EDT - Programming - Rust + Linux Kernel - 178 Comments
Another Batch Of RadeonSI Optimizations Land In Mesa 21.3
01:15 PM EDT - Radeon - RadeonSI Optimizations - 9 Comments
Alder Lake Support Added To Intel's TCC Driver In Linux 5.15
09:00 AM EDT - Intel - Alder Lake TCC - 2 Comments
CoreCtrl 1.2 Brings Support For More Sensors, Voltage Offsets
07:45 AM EDT - Radeon - CoreCtrl 1.2 - 14 Comments
OpenShot 2.6.1 Released For This Open-Source Video Editor
06:37 AM EDT - Free Software - OpenShot 2.6.1 - 6 Comments
KDE Sees More Plasma Wayland Fixes As Plasma 5.23 Hits Its Soft Feature Freeze
06:13 AM EDT - KDE - KDE Fixes - 5 Comments
10 September
Wine 6.17 Released With Better HiDPI Support For Built-In Apps
04:30 PM EDT - WINE - Wine 6.17 - 16 Comments
Habana Labs AI Driver Updates Submitted For Linux 5.15
01:57 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Habana Labs - 1 Comment
Ubuntu 21.10 Performance Still Pushing Ahead Of Windows 10, Latest Windows 11 Build
07:55 AM EDT - Operating Systems - 22 Comments
Habana Labs Opens Up The Code To Their AI Compiler, SynapseAI Core
06:00 AM EDT - Intel - Habana Labs Open-Source - 3 Comments
Linux 5.15 Readies More Code For Compile & Run-Time Detection Of Buffer Overflows
05:29 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Buffer Overflow Detection - 17 Comments
AMD Just Squeezed More Workstation Performance Out Of Its RadeonSI Driver
03:00 AM EDT - Radeon - SPECViewPerf SN - 21 Comments
Privacy-Screen DRM API With Intel Support Ready Now That GNOME Is Prepared To Use It
12:00 AM EDT - Hardware - Privacy Screen API - 4 Comments
9 September
X.Org Server Adds "AsyncFlipSecondaries" To Deal With Crappy Multi-Monitor Experience
04:00 PM EDT - X.Org - AsyncFlipSecondaries - 64 Comments
Microsoft Releases Its August Update For The CBL-Mariner Linux Distribution
Intel's Cloud-Hypervisor 18.0 Brings AArch64 Improvements, VHDX Disk Image Support
02:37 PM EDT - Virtualization - Cloud-Hypervisor 18 - 6 Comments
Linux 5.15 Adds VDUSE For vDPA Devices In User-Space
02:12 PM EDT - Virtualization - Linux 5.15 VDUSE - 2 Comments
AMD Posts New "AMD-PSTATE" CPUFreq Driver Leveraging CPPC For Better Perf-Per-Watt
07:48 AM EDT - AMD - AMD-PSTATE - 68 Comments
AMDVLK 2021.Q3.6 Brings New Extensions, Valheim Shader Optimization
06:51 AM EDT - Radeon - AMDVLK 2021.Q3.6 - 3 Comments
AMD Branch Sampling Support Being Worked On For Linux
06:00 AM EDT - AMD - AMD BRS - 3 Comments
AMD PTDMA Driver Landing For Linux 5.15 After Two Years In The Works
03:00 AM EDT - AMD - Pass Through DMA - 4 Comments
SLUB Adapted To Be Real-Time Linux Compatible (PREEMPT_RT)
12:00 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux RT - 4 Comments
8 September
GNOME 41 Release Candidate Arrives With Many Improvements
07:05 PM EDT - GNOME - GNOME 41.rc - 45 Comments
Amazon's DAMON Merged Into Linux 5.15 For Data Access Monitoring Framework
04:22 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Amazon DAMON - 5 Comments
Ubuntu 21.10 Delivering Some Performance Gains On The Intel Core i9 11900K
AMD Has An Important Suspend/Resume Fix With Linux 5.15
02:47 PM EDT - AMD - Fixing - 24 Comments
Not All Of The IBM POWER10 Firmware Is Currently Open-Source
08:00 AM EDT - Hardware - Not Open - 24 Comments
OverlayFS On Linux 5.15 Improves Performance, Copies Up More Attributes
07:02 AM EDT - Linux Storage - Linux 5.15 OverlayFS - 5 Comments
Facebook Opens Up CacheLib As Their New Caching Engine
06:22 AM EDT - Free Software - CacheLib - 4 Comments
Intel Working On DP 2.0 Panel Replay Power Savings For Linux
05:57 AM EDT - Intel - DP 2.0 Panel Replay - 5 Comments
Linux 5.15 Hit By Some Early Performance Regressions But Quickly Reverted
05:37 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Memcg Accounting Woes - 14 Comments
7 September
Linux 5.15's New "-Werror" Behavior Is Causing A Lot Of Pain
08:48 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.15 Fallout - 129 Comments
GhostBSD 21.09.06 Released For This FreeBSD-Based Desktop OS
06:07 PM EDT - BSD - GhostBSD 21.09.06 - 7 Comments
Linux 5.15 KVM Defaults To The New x86 TDP MMU, Enables AMD SVM 5-Level Paging
02:43 PM EDT - Virtualization - KVM x86 - 8 Comments
The Khronos Group Is Hosting A Virtual Vulkan Event Next Month
AMD Ryzen 5 5600G / Ryzen 7 5700G Linux Gaming Benchmarks
09:20 AM EDT - Linux Gaming - 23 Comments
OpenSSL 3.0 Officially Released
09:08 AM EDT - Linux Security - OpenSSL 3.0 - 32 Comments
X.Org DMX Dropped After More Than A Decade Of Crashes
07:53 AM EDT - X.Org - Distributed Multihead X - 33 Comments
FUSE With Linux 5.15 Now Allows Mounting An Active FUSE Device
07:44 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - User-Space File-Systems - 27 Comments
Vulkan 1.2.191 Released With New Extension To Make Wiser Memory Decisions
05:56 AM EDT - Vulkan - Vulkan 1.2.191 - 2 Comments
Finer Grained KASLR Patches Revived For The Linux Kernel To Enhance Security
03:00 AM EDT - Linux Security - FGKASLR - 4 Comments
6 September
Linux 5.15 Adds New Syscall To More Quickly Free Memory Of Dying Processes
07:23 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - process_mrelease - 11 Comments
Linux 5.15 Further Tunes Its RISC-V Support
03:13 PM EDT - RISC-V - Linux 5.15 RISC-V - 6 Comments
Notcurses 2.4 Released - Now Works On Windows & macOS For Terminal "Bling"
01:39 PM EDT - Programming - Notcurses 2.4 - 17 Comments
Intel Compute-Runtime Prepares oneAPI Level Zero 1.2 Support
12:00 PM EDT - Intel - Level Zero 1.2 - 4 Comments
OpenRISC Gets Working Ethernet With LiteX FPGA SoC Setups
11:40 AM EDT - Hardware - OpenRISC Ethernet - Add A Comment
ASUS Platform Profile Support, Alder Lake PMC Support + More Land For Linux 5.15
05:51 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - x86 Platform Drivers - 2 Comments
5 September
Linux 5.15 Enabling "-Werror" By Default For All Kernel Builds
03:45 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - -Werror - 48 Comments
High Resolution Scrolling On Linux Progressing, Apple Magic Mouse Support In Linux 5.15
10:14 AM EDT - Hardware - High Resolution Scrolling - 33 Comments
FUTEX2 Revised Again For Helping Steam Play But Will Miss Out On Linux 5.15
06:02 AM EDT - Linux Gaming - FUTEX2 - 9 Comments
F2FS Sees More Performance Work For Linux 5.15
05:41 AM EDT - Linux Storage - F2FS - 12 Comments
Dav1d 0.9.2 Released With More SSSE3, SSE4, AVX2, NEON Optimizations
02:00 AM EDT - Multimedia - dav1d 0.9.2 - 18 Comments
4 September
Linux Has A New Maintainer For Its CD-ROM Driver Code
04:28 PM EDT - Hardware - Linux CD-ROM - 31 Comments
NVIDIA Confirms Sway Wayland Compositor Works Fine With Their New GBM Driver Support
12:24 PM EDT - NVIDIA - Generic Buffer Manager - 46 Comments
Samsung 860/870 SSDs Continue Causing Problems For Linux Users
07:24 AM EDT - Linux Storage - More Quirks Needed - 69 Comments
Apple M1 IOMMU Driver Merged For Linux 5.15, Intel Scalable Mode By Default
05:45 AM EDT - Hardware - Apple M1 IOMMU - 2 Comments
KDE's Plasma Wayland Session Is "Finally Reaching Stability" Following Many Fixes
05:27 AM EDT - KDE - KDE Fixes - 41 Comments
X.Org Looks To Drop DMX After Being Rather Broken For ~14 Years
03:00 AM EDT - X.Org - Xdmx - 56 Comments
3 September
Linux 5.15 Has A Critical Improvement For Tiered Memory Servers
03:48 PM EDT - Intel - Demoting During Reclaim - Add A Comment
The New NTFS File-System Driver Has Been Submitted For Linux 5.15
01:25 PM EDT - Linux Storage - NTFS3 For Linux 5.15 - 49 Comments
Gzip 1.11 Released With "Orders of Magnitude Faster" Performance On IBM Z
12:53 PM EDT - GNU - Gzip 1.11 - 5 Comments
Benchmarking The Performance Impact Of Linux 5.15's Newest Protection Around Side Channel Attacks
09:05 AM EDT - Software - 13 Comments
Snapcraft 6.0 Coming To Finally Move From Ubuntu 18.04 To 20.04 LTS Base, Phase Out i386
08:45 AM EDT - Ubuntu - Snapcraft 6.0 - 40 Comments
Freedesktop SDK 21.08 Released With RISC-V Support
07:41 AM EDT - Free Software - Freedesktop-SDK 21.08 - 7 Comments
Linux 5.15 Working Towards Comprehensive Compile-Time & Run-Time Detection Of Buffer Overflows
07:17 AM EDT - Linux Security - Buffer Overflows - 38 Comments
Haiku Upstreams Its GNU Binutils Support
06:40 AM EDT - GNU - Binutils - 2 Comments
NFS Client Changes For Linux 5.15 Bring Connection Sharing, Better Responsiveness
05:19 AM EDT - Linux Storage - NFS Client - 13 Comments
Red Hat Looking To Bolster EPEL
03:00 AM EDT - Red Hat - Extra Packages - 23 Comments
2 September
GCC 12 Looking At Enabling Its Vectorizer For "-O2" Optimization Level
08:30 PM EDT - GNU - GCC -O2 Vectorization - 15 Comments
AMD Ryzen 5 5600G Linux Performance
03:00 PM EDT - Processors - 36 Comments
EXT4 Ready With Some New Optimizations - Orphan_File, Moving Discard's Work
01:44 PM EDT - Linux Storage - EXT4 For Linux 5.15 - 2 Comments
NVIDIA Jetson TX2 NX + Other ARM Platforms Now Supported By Linux 5.15
09:10 AM EDT - Arm - ARM Platforms - Add A Comment
The Big Batch Of New AMD RDNA2 PCI IDs Is Heading To Linux 5.15
07:50 AM EDT - Radeon - RDNA2 PCI IDs - 34 Comments
Qt 6.2 LTS Will Nearly Be At Feature Parity To Qt 5.15
06:02 AM EDT - Qt - Qt 6.2 vs. Qt 5.15 - 26 Comments
AMD Van Gogh Audio Driver Lands For Linux 5.15
05:29 AM EDT - Multimedia - Van Gogh Audio - 9 Comments
Steam On Linux Continues Hovering Around The 1% Mark
05:05 AM EDT - Valve - Falls - 31 Comments
Genode OS Framework 21.08 Streamlining Its Porting Of Linux Driver Code
03:00 AM EDT - Operating Systems - Genode OS 21.08 - 8 Comments
1 September
Linux 5.15 Addressing Scalability Issue That Caused Huge IBM Servers 30+ Minutes To Boot
04:00 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.15 Kernfs Improvements - 31 Comments
Linux 5.15 Staging Replaces Its Realtek RTL8188EU WiFi Driver
02:27 PM EDT - Linux Networking - RTL8188EU - 12 Comments
Windows Server 2022 Reaches General Availability With Focusing On Hybrid Clouds, Containers
01:30 PM EDT - Microsoft - Windows Server 2022 - 19 Comments
Intel "Crocus" Gallium3D Now Part Of Mesa's Default Drivers To Build
09:15 AM EDT - Intel - Old Intel Graphics - 9 Comments
Linux 5.15 Hardware Monitoring Is Big But Overdue For AMD
09:00 AM EDT - Hardware - Linux 5.15 HWMON - 29 Comments
RadeonSI Enables DCC Stores For RDNA2 APUs To Squeeze Out More Performance
07:56 AM EDT - Radeon - Copying RADV Optimization - Add A Comment
Wayland Protocols 1.22 Released With DRM Object Leasing Support For VR HMDs
06:56 AM EDT - Wayland - DRM Leasing Protocol - 4 Comments
XFS & EROFS File-Systems Have Big Changes For Linux 5.15
06:07 AM EDT - Linux Storage - XFS + EROFS - 1 Comment
Linux 5.15 Power Management Changes Merged
05:55 AM EDT - Hardware - Linux 5.15 - Add A Comment
BPF Timers To Intel Additions Lead The Networking Changes With Linux 5.15
01:00 AM EDT - Linux Networking - Linux 5.15 Networking - 12 Comments
Debian 11, Valve Happenings, Linux 5.14 & More Excitement From August
31 August
Chrome 93 Released With WebOTP Cross-Device Support, CSS Module Scripts
06:40 PM EDT - Google - Chrome 93 - 15 Comments
Zink Now Achieves OpenGL ES 3.2 Atop Vulkan
04:30 PM EDT - Mesa - OpenGL ES 3.2 On Vulkan - 20 Comments
Btrfs Adds Degenerate RAID Support, Performance Improvements With Linux 5.15
03:08 PM EDT - Linux Storage - Btrfs + Linux 5.15 - 34 Comments
KSMBD As An In-Kernel SMB3 File Server Merged For Linux 5.15
01:52 PM EDT - Linux Storage - KSMBD Lands - 16 Comments
GNU Linux-libre Was Mistakenly Including Non-Free Code, So Releases Now Re-Spun + 5.14
01:17 PM EDT - GNU - Libre Oops - 15 Comments
GCC 11 PGO With The AMD Ryzen 9 5950X For Faster Performance
09:16 AM EDT - Software - 13 Comments
Linux 5.15 Adds Another Knob To Harden Against Side Channel Attacks
08:30 AM EDT - Linux Security - CONFIG_ZERO_CALL_USED_REGS - 71 Comments
Con Kolivas Contemplates Ending Kernel Development, Retiring MuQSS & -ck Patches
06:30 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Con Kolivas - 36 Comments
Linux 5.15 Graphics Driver Changes Bring Intel DG2/Alchemist, XeHP, AMD Cyan Skillfish
05:36 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.15 - 3 Comments
Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan Fixes Up Support For Another Game
04:00 AM EDT - Mesa - Another Fix - 11 Comments
Linux 5.15 In 2021 Is Still Improving Intel 486 Era Hardware Support
03:00 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - x86 IRQ Changes - 17 Comments
30 August
The PREEMPT_RT Locking Code Is Merged For Linux 5.15
07:30 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Almost Real-Time - 31 Comments
Experimental Ray-Tracing For Open-Source Radeon Vulkan Driver Nears Upstream Mesa
04:20 PM EDT - Radeon - RADV Ray-Tracing - 14 Comments
Linux 5.15 I/O Can Achieve Up To ~3.5M IOPS Per-Core
03:00 PM EDT - Hardware - Speedy I/O - 14 Comments
Pyston Developers Join Anaconda To Continue Their Speedy Python Implementation
01:52 PM EDT - Programming - Pyston Joins Anaconda - 3 Comments
Linux 5.15 Block Changes From Removing LightNVM To Fixing Up The Floppy Driver
01:39 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.15 Block - 3 Comments
Scheduler Changes For Linux 5.15 - Still No Sign Of Any Intel Thread Director Optimizations
09:00 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.15 Scheduler - 14 Comments
Opt-In L1 Cache Flushing To Try For Linux 5.15 To Help With The Paranoid, Future CPU Vulnerabilities
08:00 AM EDT - Linux Security - L1 Data Cache Flushing - 17 Comments
Endeavour OS ISOs Updated With Better Btrfs Support, Pacman Parallel Downloads
05:57 AM EDT - Operating Systems - August 2021 - 11 Comments
In-Kernel SMB3 File Server Looks To Land In Linux 5.15
05:42 AM EDT - Linux Storage - KSMBD - 26 Comments
Vulkan 1.2.190 Released With SPIR-V Integer Dot Product Support
12:00 AM EDT - Vulkan - Vulkan 1.2.190 - Add A Comment
29 August
Linux 5.14 Released With New Hardware Support, Core Scheduling, MEMFD_SECRET
06:30 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.14 - 4 Comments
AMD Yellow Carp + Another Water Cooling Pump Head To Linux's Hardware Monitoring Code
05:45 PM EDT - Hardware - Linux HWMON - 12 Comments
Yet-To-Be-Released Intel "Bz" WiFi Chipset To Be Supported By Linux 5.15
03:00 PM EDT - Intel - Intel Bz WiFi - 4 Comments
Linux 5.15 To Fix Regression In Its Floppy Disk Driver
01:48 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Still Flopping In 2021 - 17 Comments
Some Of The Features Expected For Linux 5.15: DG2/Alchemist, BPF Timers, DAMON + More
06:00 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.15 Features - 3 Comments
Chrome/Chromium's Ozone X11 Code Now Fully Enabled, Old Legacy X11 Code To Be Removed
03:15 AM EDT - Google - Ozone X11 - 130 Comments
28 August
A Prominent, Longtime Dell Linux Engineer Recently Joined AMD's Linux Team
09:30 AM EDT - AMD - Great News - 31 Comments
Intel Lands Initial Code For Mesh Shaders Within Mesa
07:00 AM EDT - Intel - Mesh Shaders For Mesa - Add A Comment
Wine-Staging 6.16 Implements Two More D3DX Functions To Help Some Windows Games
05:44 AM EDT - WINE - Wine-Staging 6.16 - 3 Comments
KDE Plasma 5.23 Will Be Another Exciting Release With Many Improvements Abound
05:32 AM EDT - KDE - More KDE Work - 21 Comments
AMD ROCm 4.3.1 Released With RHEL 8.4 + SLES 15 SP3 Support
12:00 AM EDT - Radeon - Radeon Open eCosystem 4.3.1 - 8 Comments
27 August
Wine 6.16 Released With Better HiDPI Theming, Initial HID-Based Joystick Backend
04:14 PM EDT - WINE - Wine 6.16 - 24 Comments
Linux Could Use A New Maintainer For Its CD-ROM Code
01:53 PM EDT - Hardware - New CD-ROM Maintainer - 34 Comments
Linux 5.14 SSD Benchmarks With Btrfs vs. EXT4 vs. F2FS vs. XFS
09:15 AM EDT - Linux Storage - Linux 5.14 File-Systems - 95 Comments
AVX2-Optimized SM4 Cipher Implementation Queued Ahead Of Linux 5.15
09:10 AM EDT - Intel - AES-NI AVX2 Optimized - 2 Comments
Red Hat Patch Proposal To Split FBDEV Core Support
06:34 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Allow Some Junk To Be Disabled - 28 Comments
AMD Adds 17 More PCI IDs For RDNA2 GPUs To Their Linux Driver
05:37 AM EDT - Radeon - More Models Coming - 12 Comments
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Release Schedule Published
12:00 AM EDT - Ubuntu - Ubuntu 22.04 Release Date - 13 Comments
26 August
PipeWire 0.3.34 Released With Yet More Improvements, Fixes
08:06 PM EDT - Multimedia - PipeWire 0.3.34 - 33 Comments
Chrome 94 Beta Released With WebCodecs API Promoted, WebGPU Origin Trial
03:30 PM EDT - Google - Chrome 94 - 26 Comments
NetBSD Continues Long Overdue Push To Modernize Their WiFi Drivers
02:30 PM EDT - BSD - Updated WiFi - 12 Comments
LLVM Clang 13 Performance Is In Great Shape For Intel Xeon "Ice Lake"
09:20 AM EDT - Software - 5 Comments
Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS Released With Fixes, Newer Hardware Enablement Stack
09:16 AM EDT - Ubuntu - Ubuntu 20.04.3 - 54 Comments
"Apps For GNOME" Launches To Highlight GNOME Apps
06:30 AM EDT - GNOME - apps.gnome.org - 42 Comments
Qt Creator 5.0 Released With Experimental Clangd Backend, Experimental Docker Builds
06:11 AM EDT - Qt - Qt Creator 5.0 - 7 Comments
Google Working On Making VirtIO-GPU More Extensible
05:47 AM EDT - Virtualization - VirtIO Context Type - 12 Comments
Intel AMX Patches For The Kernel Posted A 10th Time, But To Miss Out On Linux 5.15
12:00 AM EDT - Intel - Advanced Matrix Extensions - 2 Comments
25 August
Linux Pipe Code Again Sees Patch To Restore Buggy/Improper User-Space Behavior
07:38 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - What Is In The Pipe - 26 Comments
Optimized C3 Entry Handling For AMD CPUs Queued For Linux 5.15
OpenShot 2.6 Video Editor Released With Computer Vision + AI Effects
01:05 PM EDT - Multimedia - OpenShot 2.6 - 11 Comments
AMD Ryzen 7 5700G Linux Performance
09:30 AM EDT - Processors - 44 Comments
Linux 5.14 Features Aplenty With New AMD GPUs, SmartShift, More Alder Lake, Core Scheduling
09:18 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.14 - 6 Comments
AMD Posts Latest Linux Patches For Supporting The Frontier Supercomputer
Loongson Continues Working On LoongArch For Linux, But It's Mostly Copying MIPS Code
05:48 AM EDT - Hardware - LoongArch - 23 Comments
Clang CFI Patches For The Linux Kernel Updated To Beef Up Security
12:00 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Control Flow Integrity - Add A Comment
24 August
QEMU 6.1 Released With RISC-V Improvements, AMD Emulation Fixes
06:16 PM EDT - Virtualization - QEMU 6.1 - 22 Comments
Early Ubuntu 21.10 Performance Is Looking Good - Especially For Radeon Graphics
03:00 PM EDT - Operating Systems - 12 Comments
Haiku OS Gets TRIM Working For SSDs, Continues Bringing Up RISC-V Support
02:54 PM EDT - Operating Systems - Haiku - 2 Comments
DebConf21 Kicks Off Online For Annual Debian Conference
02:13 PM EDT - Linux Events - DebConf21 - 1 Comment
Linux Kernel Changes Proposed So Intel TDX KVM Guests Avoid Crashing The Host
Arm Posts New GCC Compiler Patches Due To New Vulnerability Affecting ARMv8-M TrustZone
HSE 2.0 Open-Source Storage Engine Is On The Way From Micron
06:39 AM EDT - Linux Storage - HSE Storage Engine - Add A Comment
AMD's Open-Source Mesa Driver Continues To Be Ruthlessly Optimized For Workstation Performance
06:05 AM EDT - Radeon - RadeonSI vs. PRO - 27 Comments
Intel Releases OSPray Studio 0.8
05:36 AM EDT - Intel - OSPray Studio - 3 Comments
AMDVLK 2021.Q3.5 Released With Radeon RX 6600 XT Support
04:56 AM EDT - Radeon - AMDVLK 2021.Q3.5 - 5 Comments