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      Rust For Linux 7.1 Bringing Experimental Option That Can Help Performance

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 April 2026

    In advance of the Linux 7.1 merge window opening, Miguel Ojeda sent out all of the Rust feature updates on Friday. This includes bumping the minimum Rust version for building the Linux kernel as well as a new experimental option that can provide better performance for Rust code within the kernel, alongside other updates...
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      FTRFS: New Fault-Tolerant File-System Proposed For Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 April 2026

    Sent out today was an initial patch series for comment on introducing the FTRFS file-system. The FTRFS proposal is more interesting than last week's VMUFAT file-system proposal...
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      Servo Browser Engine Making It Easier For Embedded Use

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 April 2026

    The open-source, Rust-based Servo browser engine has been improving its Servoshell demo browser application while one of the most promising potentials for this engine is around embedded use as an alternative to the Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF). With the latest moves by Servo developers, they are making for a more compelling story for its use...
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      Mesa 26.1 RadeonSI Driver Lands Improvement For AMD APUs With Rusticl

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 April 2026

    For those wishing to make use of modern OpenCL 3.0 capabilities on AMD APUs/SoCs with integrated Radeon graphics using Mesa's Rusticl driver, an improvement was merged this weekend to the RadeonSI driver ahead of this quarter's Mesa 26.1 release...
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      Apple HFS / HFS+ File-System Support Seeing Many Fixes For Linux 7.1

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 April 2026

    Nearly one year ago to the day I noted Linux developers were considering the removal of the Apple HFS and HFS+ file-system drivers from the kernel. They were orphaned the past decade and turning into a maintenance burden for upstream developers. But then to some surprise, a few developers stepped up to maintain the HFS(+) drivers. One year later it's proving to be a success story with more fixes for this aging Apple file-system support continuing...
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      Btrfs Brings Performance Improvements, Shutdown ioctl Stable With Linux 7.1

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 April 2026

    Among the early pull requests sent out to Linus Torvalds even before the Linux 7.0 kernel officially released on Sunday were the Btrfs file-system updates. This feature-packed CoW file-system is seeing more performance optimizations for Linux 7.1 as well as its shutdown ioctl feature no longer being experimental and a variety of fixes...
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      GNU Linux-libre 7.0 Deals With Deblobbing More Drivers & Cleansing DT Files

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 April 2026

    Building off last night's release of the Linux 7.0 kernel is now the GNU Linux-libre 7.0-gnu kernel release for that downstream kernel that removes support for loading non-free-software kernel modules, blocks the loading of loadable microcode/firmware even when it means greatly reduced hardware support, and other sanitization of code in the name of software freedom...
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      Linux 7.0 Released With New Hardware Support, Optimizations & Self-Healing XFS

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 April 2026

    As expected the stable Linux 7.0 kernel was just released today in marking this next kernel release. The Linux 7.0 milestone comes due to Linus Torvalds' preference of bumping the major version number after hitting X.19 as opposed to any single major change, but in any event there are a lot of great improvements and changes to find with this new kernel version. Linux 7.0 is also what's powering the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release...
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      Linux Out-Of-Bounds Access Fixed For Unprivileged Users With Specially Crafted Certs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 April 2026

    An out-of-bounds access within the Linux kernel has existed in mainline the past three years that could be exploited by an unprivileged user submitting a specially crafted certificate to the kernel...