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With the release of Linux kernel 6.19 earlier today, Linus Torvalds confirmed that the next major kernel series will have a version number bump as Linux 7.0 rather than Linux 6.20.

Catch up on the latest Linux news: COSMIC Desktop 1.0.5, Wine 11.2, Fish Shell 4.4, LibreOffice 26.2, VirtualBox gains a working KVM backend, GNU/Linux or just Linux?, and more.

Linux kernel 6.19 is now available for download, as announced today by Linus Torvalds himself, featuring enhanced hardware support through new and updated drivers, improvements to file systems and networking, and more.

Linus has released the 6.19 kernel.
“No big surprises anywhere last week, so 6.19 is out as expected – just
as the US prepares to come to a complete standstill later today
watching the latest batch of televised commercials.”

The most significant changes in 6.19 include
initial support for Intel’s linear
address-space separation feature,
support for Arm
Memory system resource Partitioning And Monitoring,
the listns() system call,
a reworked restartable-sequences
implementation,
support for large block sizes in the ext4
filesystem,
some networking changes for improved
memory safety,
the live update orchestrator,
and much more. See the LWN merge-window summaries (part 1, part 2) and the KernelNewbies 6.19 page for
details.

Following Linus Torvalds releasing Linux 6.19 stable, Linus Torvalds is now out with his customary release announcement. Notably he officially confirmed that the next kernel version is Linux 7.0 as the successor to Linux 6.19…

As anticipated due to the extra week for the cycle given end of year holidays, Linus Torvalds today released the Linux 6.19 stable kernel as the first major release of 2026. There is a lot in store with this early 2026 kernel release…

After discovering this morning that Intel archived/discontinued its On Demand “SDSi” GitHub project around that controversial feature, it was a slippery slope in noticing Intel recently archived around two dozen other open-source projects they previously maintained…

So you think Word’s DOCX format is fine because it carries an ISO standard label? Think again. LibreOffice co‑founder Italo Vignoli explains why Microsoft’s OOXML has never been, and likely never will be, a true standard.

The post Why OOXML Is Not a Standard Format for Office Documents appeared first on FOSS Force.

D7VK is a fork of the DXVK project that is an important part of Valve’s Steam Play (Proton) for Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 support atop Vulkan. With D7VK the original goal was a Direct3D 7 implementation on Vulkan. D7VK 1.1 brought experimental Direct3D 6 support and now with today’s release of D7VK 1.3 is support for Direct3D 5…

Back in 2021 on Phoronix was first to report on Intel preparing Linux patches for a “Software Defined Silicon” feature for activating extra licensed hardware features. That Software Defined Silicon support continued moving forward and was then announced as Intel On Demand with a focus on users being able to pay to activate additional accelerators found on select SKUs but not enabled by default…

Building off Friday’s release of Wine 11.2 is now Wine-Staging 11.2 as this experimental/testing version of Wine with hundreds of extra patches that have yet to be introduced in upstream proper for this open-source software enabling Windows games and applications on Linux. Notable in this bi-weekly update are more patches for continuing to improve the Adobe Photoshop installer support on Linux…

Of Intel’s different CPU accelerator IPs, the arguably most useful and with the greatest customer interest remains around QuickAssist Technology (QAT). Intel QAT allows offloading various compression and encryption tasks for better performance. Intel this week released QATlib 26.02 as the newest version of their user-space library for leveraging QuickAssist Technology on capable hardware…

Back in 2022 DreamWorks Animation announced they were open-sourcing their MoonRay renderer and was then published in early 2023 for this renderer that has been used in a variety of featured animated films. Since then they have continued advancing this MoonRay code via the open-source OpenMoonRay project and this week published their newest feature update…

PeaZip 10.9 has been released today as the latest stable update for this open-source file manager and file archiver for Linux, BSD, macOS, ReactOS, and Windows by Giorgio Tani.

With QEMU 10.2 that released at the end of last year is the new “MSHV” accelerator for allowing VMs to be created from a Microsoft Hyper-V guest without using nested virtualization. Last weekend at FOSDEM 2026 was a presentation on this MSHV accelerator for those interested…

A Linux kernel developer has proposed using user-space machine learning models to assist kernel subsystems.

Plasma 6.7 is shaping up to include an improved Window List widget with sorting and clearer grouping for easier window navigation.

Wine 11.2 is out with faster PDB loading, improved MSVC runtime support, and 32 bug fixes affecting games, tools, and audio.

With the Linux 6.19 stable kernel expected to be released tomorrow (8 February), here is a reminder about the top features to expect from this next version of the Linux kernel…