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      The Modern NTFS Linux Driver Adds Read Support For Windows System Compression (WOF)

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 days ago

    The pull requests for the existing Paragon NTFS3 kernel driver as well as the new modern "NTFS" drivers have been submitted for the ongoing Linux 7.3 kernel cycle. Besides bug fixes, most notable among these NTFS file-system drivers are Windows System Compression "WOF" read support for the modern NTFS driver...
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      Linux 7.3 Device Mapper Sees Many Fixes, Including Code Cleanups By Claude Opus

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 days ago

    The Linux Device Mapper "DKM" framework for mapping block devices to higher-level virtual block devices doesn't see any major new features for Linux 7.3 but there are many bug fixes, including code clean-ups carried out by AI...
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      DisplayPort 2.1 ALPM Still Being Worked On For Intel Xe3P / Nova Lake

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 days ago

    The in-development Linux 7.3 kernel is marking Nova Lake Xe3P graphics as stable in being enabled by default and no longer hidden behind the "force probe" flag. While on-by-default, there still are some features that have yet to land like the DisplayPort 2.1 ALPM functionality...
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      KDE Remote Desktop Experience Improving For Closing The X11 vs. Wayland Gap

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 days ago

    KDE developer David Edmundson is out today with a blog post around improvements that have been ongoing for the Plasma 6.8 release in improving the KDE remote desktop experience. As part of ensuring a good Wayland experience and hitting all the needs fulfilled by X11, Plasma 6.8 is seeing improvements for its remote desktop functionality...
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      Lots Of New Audio Hardware Support In Linux 7.3

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 days ago

    Linux sound subsystem maintainer Takashi Iwai of SUSE submitted all of the sound feature updates last week for the Linux 7.3 kernel. Besides the continued AI/LLM-generated patch churn, the sound code for Linux 7.3 sees a lot of new hardware support...
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      Linux 7.3 Merges Initial Kernel Driver Support For The 2026 Steam Controller

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 days ago

    The HID subsystem updates were recently merged for the ongoing Linux 7.3 kernel merge window. Among other hardware additions, the 2026 Valve Steam Controller is seeing initial kernel driver support...
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      Linux ath11k Driver Improvements For Qualcomm WiFi 6 Hardware Yields 7x Lower Latency

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 days ago

    A patch series being worked on for the ath11k mainline wireless networking driver for Qualcomm WiFi 6 / 802.11ax chipsets is yielding 7x lower latency or 2.2x throughput at identical latency...
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      New AF_ALG Restrictions With Linux 7.3 Due To The Security & Maintenance Nightmare

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 days ago

    The past few Linux kernel cycles have chipped away at AF_ALG functionality for that interface for user-space programs to access the kernel's internal cryptography API. Linux has been dropping AF_ALG features like zero-copy support and offloading. AF_ALG was quickly deprecated in Linux 7.2 while now for Linux 7.3 it's being further restricted...
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      Mozilla Presents Their Plan For Shipping JPEG-XL In Firefox 157

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 days ago

    While Firefox 152+ already offers experimental JPEG-XL support, Mozilla formally announced today their plans for officially shipping JPEG-XL image format support in the Firefox web browser...