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      Linux 7.0-rc1 Released With Many New Features:

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 February 2026

    Linus Torvalds just capped off the Linux 7.0 merge window with the release of Linux 7.0-rc1. While the big version bump is coincidental with Linus Torvalds liking to bump it after x.19, Linux 7.0 is quite heavy on new features...
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      Linux 7.0 Credits Now Honor The Creator Of Linux-Next

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 February 2026

    There's the usual flurry of last minute fixes and other items being herded into the Linux 7.0 codebase today right ahead of the merge window being closed with the imminent Linux 7.0-rc1 release. Among that last minute work is now recognizing Stephen Rothwell's contributions to creating and maintaining Linux-Next over the past eighteen years...
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      GNU Gawk 5.4 Released With New MinRX Regex Matcher, Faster Reading Of Files

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 February 2026

    Developers behind the widely-used GNU Awk text processing utility today released Gawk 5.4...
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      AOMedia Open Audio Codec "OAC" Aims To Be The Successor To Opus

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 February 2026

    While the Alliance For Open Media "AOMedia" is most known for developing the AV1 open video codec, the associated AV1 Image File Format (AVIF), and the next-generation AV2, they are now working on the Open Audio Codec (AOC)...
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      AMD Zen 6 Performance Events & Metrics Merged For Linux 7.0

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 February 2026

    Ahead of the Linux 7.0 merge window closing later today with the Linux 7.0-rc1 release, the performance "perf" subsystem tooling changes were merged on Saturday. Among the notable changes here are the performance events and metrics handling for upcoming AMD Zen 6 processors...
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      Yet Another Fix Coming For Older AMD GPUs On Linux - Thanks To Valve Developer

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 February 2026

    Timur Kristóf of Valve's open-source Linux graphics driver team has been doing a fantastic job enhancing the older AMD Radeon GPU support under Linux. Last year he made enough improvements to the AMDGPU open-source driver that older Radeon GCN 1.0/1.1 dGPUs switched over to AMDGPU by default for nice performance gains, RADV Vulkan driver support out of the box, and all around better experience than using the legacy Radeon driver. He's also been fixing countless bugs affecting older AMD GPUs. There is another improvement on the way for benefiting some with aging AMD GPUs...
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      Linux 7.0 Further Prepares For Intel Diamond Rapids With NTB Driver Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 February 2026

    The upstream Linux kernel appears largely ready for Intel's next-generation Xeon Diamond Rapids processors as the successor to Granite Rapids. Most of the driver support appears to have been settled for a while with just some stragglers remaining. With the ongoing Linux 7.0 kernel one new addition for Diamond Rapids is NTB driver support...
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      Microsoft Hyper-V Lands Some Useful Improvements In Linux 7.0

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 February 2026

    For those dealing with Microsoft Hyper-V for virtualization, the Linux 7.0 mainline kernel has seen a number of improvements there. This work follows KVM also bringing some nice improvements in Linux 7.0...
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      Linux 7.0 Makes Preparations For Rust 1.95

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 February 2026

    Last week was the main feature pull of Rust programming language updates for the Linux 7.0 kernel merge window. Most notable with that pull was Rust officially concluding its "experimental" in now treating Rust for Linux kernel/driver programming as stable and here to stay. Sent out today was a round of Rust fixes for Linux 7.0 that includes preparations for the upcoming Rust 1.95 release...