The ReactOS project today published their latest newesletter that outlines development progress made in recent months for this open-source operating system project striving for binary compatibility with Windows device drivers and application/user-space software…

Source: Phoronix – ReactOS “Open-Source Windows” Improving UEFI Boot, DirectX Work & NT6+ API Prep

LXQt 1.4 debuted today as the newest feature release for this lightweight Qt desktop environment that was formed years ago as the merging of the LXDE and Razor-qt projects…

Source: Phoronix – LXQt 1.4 Debuts As Last Planned Qt5 Desktop Release

The first week of the Linux 6.7 merge window began with the surprise of the Bcachefs file-system being merged and now capping off the first week is another surprise… Nouveau GPU System Processor (GSP) firmware integration that allows making use of NVIDIA’s binary GSP firmware on RTX 20 “Turing” and newer GPUs for having improved support. In turn this GSP route also provides initial support for GeForce RTX 40 series support…

Source: Phoronix – Nouveau NVIDIA GSP Firmware Support Merged For Linux 6.7

The hardening updates for the Linux 6.7 kernel bring a new hardening configuration profile to help in building a security hardened kernel with some sane defaults…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.7 Introduces “make hardening.config” To Help Build A Hardened Kernel

The Linux kernel’s subsystem for Compute Express Link that is playing a vital role in servers moving forward continues picking up new features and evolving the code-base as more CXL hardware enters the world…

Source: Phoronix – Linux Can Now Natively Handle CXL Link Protocol Errors, Fixes For Next-Gen VH Topologies

As part of the effort to make GNOME Terminal and the VTE terminal emulator library render faster, the GNOME Terminal has been seeing more work lately in being ported over to using the GTK 4 toolkit. Additionally, the VTE terminal library has been working to overcome its long-standing 40 FPS rendering cap…

Source: Phoronix – GNOME Terminal Working To Migrate To GTK 4, VTE To Overcome 40 FPS Cap

The Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) continues to be improved upon in the mainline Linux kernel and with the ongoing v6.7 merge window has received some additional enhancements…

Source: Phoronix – F2FS In Linux 6.7 Supports Larger Page Size, Continued Zone Block Device Work

Blosc (c-blosc2) is a high performance compressor focused on binary data for efficient storage of large binary data-sets in-memory or on-disk and helping to speed-up memory-bound computations…

Source: Phoronix – Blosc Compressor Adds AVX-512 Bitshuffle: 20% Faster Compression For Zen 4 X3D CPU

Linux 6.6 saw EEVDF merged and Intel hybrid cluster scheduling re-introduced. The core scheduler improvements merged this past week for the in-development Linux 6.7 isn’t quite as exciting but still there are some healthy scheduler improvements this round…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.7 Boasts Some Scheduler Improvements & Intel IBRS Mitigation Change

Mesa’s Rust-based OpenCL implementation “Rusticl” has added initial support for the cl_khr_gl_sharing extension for working on OpenGL and OpenCL interoperability…

Source: Phoronix – Mesa’s Rusticl Adds cl_khr_gl_sharing For Advancing OpenGL/OpenCL Interoperability

The Linux 6.7 sound subsystem changes submitted this week by maintainer Takashi Iwai include support for a number of new audio devices/platforms…

Source: Phoronix – New AMD & Intel Sound Support Ready For Playback In Linux 6.7

Recently there was some tuning in Mesa Git for helping with higher quality Radeon video encoding on Linux for GPUs using Video Core Next (VCN). Similar tuning has now been back-ported for older Radeon GPUs using the VCE encode engine and UVD video decoding…

Source: Phoronix – Mesa 24.0 Improving Radeon VCE/UVD Video Encoding Quality

The crypto subsystem updates for the Linux 6.7 kernel includes the usual churn like various crypto acceleration updates for different SoCs and other routine changes plus is also limiting the role of some insecure and/or obsolete crypto hashing algorithms…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.7 Reducing The Roles For Some Insecure/Obsolete Crypto Algorithms

The KDE Plasma 6 Alpha release is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, 8 November, along with the soft feature freeze for Plasma 6.0 at that time…

Source: Phoronix – KDE Plasma 6 Alpha Approaches Next Week With The Soft Feature Freeze

FreeBSD 14.0-RC4 was issued today and as a last minute change they have decided to keep (non-PNP) ISA and GIANT-locked drivers around until FreeBSD 15…

Source: Phoronix – After A Delay, ISA Drivers Will Be Kept Around Until FreeBSD 15

Last year Intel made available a packaged “Arc Graphics Driver” for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and later Ubuntu 23.04 to provide a DKMS-backported kernel driver and packaged Mesa driver to make it easier to use Arc Graphics (DG2/Alchemist) during the phase when the upstream kernel support was still stabilizing and not yet found out-of-the-box on Linux distributions at the time. This week marked another rare update for this packaged driver…

Source: Phoronix – Intel Updates Its Packaged Arc Graphics Driver For Ubuntu

The Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) changes were sent out on Thursday for the Linux 6.7 merge window…

Source: Phoronix – KVM Virtualization With Linux 6.7 Adds LoongArch, Up To 4096 x86 vCPUs

The biggest surprise this week so far with the Linux 6.7 merge window has been the landing of the Bcachefs file-system. Here is an early look at Bcachefs with Linux 6.7 and some preliminary benchmarks.

Source: Phoronix – Trying Out & Benchmarking Bcachefs On Linux 6.7

As with each kernel cycle, the networking subsystem updates for Linux 6.7 are heavy with a wide assortment of core networking infrastructure improvements, (e)BPF features continue to be tacked on, and new wired and wireless network hardware is supported…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.7 Networking Adds New Hardware Support, A ~20% Perf Boost For Single TCP Flow

The AppArmor Linux security system has picked up a few improvements and new features with the in-development Linux 6.7 kernel…

Source: Phoronix – AppArmor Adds IO_uring Mediation & Some Performance Optimizations