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      AF_ALG Deprecation Approved For Linux 7.2, Useless & Insecure Crypto Driver Code Removed

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 June 2026

    The cryptographic subsystem updates have been merged for the ongoing Linux 7.2 kernel merge window...
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      Ubuntu Flavors Now Mandated To Participate In Beta Releases For Official Status

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 June 2026

    Canonical and the Ubuntu Release Team have implemented an important policy change for Ubuntu flavors moving forward. If they are to have an official release, they must now successfully submit a beta release...
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      Latest LLVM Patch Further Points To AMD GFX1250/GFX1251 Being Instinct Hardware

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 June 2026

    With the ongoing work around the AMD GFX1250 (and GFX1251) in the open-source AMD Linux driver stack, it's led to a lot of speculation about these parts in the GFX12 series associated with RDNA4. RDNA4 refresh? Or a lot of signals have pointed to GFX125x being possible AI/HPC accelerators such as for the upcoming Instinct MI400 series. Adding to the intrigue is GFX1251 being an APU. The latest LLVM compiler activity is further pointing to GFX1250/GFX1251 being for enterprise hardware...
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      Linux 7.2 EDAC Drivers Prep For Diamond Rapids, Nova Lake H

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 June 2026

    The Error Detection And Correction (EDAC) drivers, such as for dealing with ECC memory error reporting, are heavy on the Intel side with Linux 7.2 in preparing for upcoming hardware...
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      SteamOS 3.8.10 Stable Released With Updated Arch, Steam Machine Support & Wayland Desktop Default

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 June 2026

    Overnight Valve released SteamOS 3.8.10 into the stable channel. for succeeding SteamOS 3.7. There's a lot happening across the board to their in-house Linux platform for the likes of the Steam Deck and upcoming Steam Machine hardware...
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      Linux 7.2 Protects Against "Stupid Or Malicious" DoS Attempts By Arming Timers In The Past

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 June 2026

    There are a number of time(r) core subsystem changes for the Linux 7.2 kernel to better harden the kernel...
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      AI/LLM Patch Craziness Having An Impact On ARM64 Linux Kernel Development

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 June 2026

    The ongoing rise in AI/LLM-generated patches hitting the mailing lists and affecting development workflows continues to impact Linux kernel development. For the ARM64 architecture updates in Linux 7.2 is an interesting anecdote over over feeling like this activity has "slowed us down a little on the feature side" and having to deal with this AI/LLM patch activity resulted in some features now being postponed from making it for this current Linux kernel development cycle...
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      Bcachefs Tools 1.38.6 Brings Many Performance Improvements

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 June 2026

    Kent Overstreet announced the release today of Bcachefs-Tools 1.38.6 as the user-space tools built around the Bcachefs copy-on-write file-system. There are a few new features and a lot of performance work in v1.38.6 without bringing any on-disk format breakage...
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      Linux 7.2 Slab Changes Include More Performance Optimizations

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 June 2026

    The slab memory allocation changes for Linux 7.2 have been merged and continue to see more work around shaves and performance optimizations...