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      Mesa 26.1 RadeonSI Driver Lands Improvement For AMD APUs With Rusticl

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:27

    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 • 10:17

    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 • 9:55

    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 • 9:35

    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 • 13 hours ago

    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 • 15 hours ago

    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...
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      Many Wonderful Improvements Expected For Linux 7.1, Especially For AMD & Intel

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 hours ago

    With Linux 7.0 expected for release later today, in turn the Linux 7.1 merge window will kick off for the two week period of landing all sorts of exciting new features, changes, and removal of old features from the kernel. Here is a look at some of what is on the table for the Linux 7.1 merge window...
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      CMake Pursuing Tighter Integration With Package Managers, Other Improvements

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 hours ago

    While the Meson build system has been capturing much of the limelight in recent years by open-source projects, the cross-platform CMake build system also shows no signs of slowing down and continues evolving with new features and functionality...
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      Linux 7.0 Sees Last Minute Fix For Bogus Hardware Errors On AMD Zen 3

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    Ahead of the Linux 7.0 stable kernel release expected later today are some last minute pull requests sent out this morning. Notable for those using AMD Zen 3 hardware is addressing some bogus hardware errors that began appearing for some users on recent versions of the Linux kernel...