One of the great open-source achievements for 2023 was DreamWorks Animation open-sourcing their MoonRay renderer as the OpenMoonRay project. Since then DreamWorks along with other open-source stakeholders have continued advancing this open-source renderer and today marks the release of OpenMoonRay 1.4…

Source: Phoronix – DreamWorks’ OpenMoonRay 1.4 Released With Intel OIDn GPU Acceleration

Landlock was merged back in 2021 with Linux 5.13 for unprivileged application sandboxing. Landlock is focused on restricting ambient rights and is implemented as a stackable Linux security module (LSM). With Linux 6.7 the Landlock LSM is now moving beyond just file-system access controls to also introduce initial networking support…

Source: Phoronix – Landlock Access Controls Extended To Networking With Linux 6.7

While confidential computing is a hot area right now, there’s been a limited amount of cross-vendor cooperation with AMD having their own route with Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) and Intel designing the Trusted Domain Extensions (TDX) that is still available in limited form. As one improvement coming with Linux 6.7, “configfs-tsm” has been submitted for pulling as a cross-vendor solution for confidential computing attestation reports…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.7 Adds A Cross-Vendor Solution For Confidential Computing Attestation Reports

Following some release delays the past few weeks, it’s been decided today that Fedora Linux 39 is now ready to ship next week…

Source: Phoronix – Fedora Linux 39 To Be Released On Tuesday

One of the last major blockers before the remaining real-time “PREEMPT_RT” patches can be upstreamed is sorting out threaded / atomic console printing. With the in-development Linux 6.7 kernel, there’s been more work upstreamed in that endeavor…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.7 Continues Work On printk Threaded Printing

Last week with the AMDVLK 2023.Q4.1 driver, AMD removed support for Polaris and Vega GPUs from this official open-source Vulkan driver. But as mentioned this doesn’t impact the Mesa RADV Vulkan driver maintained by Valve, Red Hat, and other open-source developers. In fact, this week another optimization for Vega/GFX9 was merged for Mesa 24.0-devel…

Source: Phoronix – AMDVLK Dropped Vega While Mesa’s RADV Is Continuing To Make Vega Faster In 2023

The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) has signed off on shipping KDE Plasma 6.0 as the KDE desktop option for Fedora 40. Additionally, as part of this change, the plan is to drop the KDE X11 session to leave only the KDE Plasma Wayland session available…

Source: Phoronix – KDE Plasma 6.0 Approved For Fedora 40 – Including Dropping The X11 Session

Following Red Hat’s decision to limit access to the RHEL source code to their customers, various RHEL-based Linux distributions were caught in a tailspin. CIQ (Rocky Linux), SUSE, and Oracle decided to form the Open Enterprise Linux association (OpenELA) to collaborate around the development of distributions with compatibility against Red Hat Enterprise Linux and ensuring open and free access to EL source code. Today they are announcing initial source available for their EL8 and EL9 packages…

Source: Phoronix – OpenELA Publishes Initial Source Code For Building RHEL Derivatives

Google engineers on Wednesday posted an initial “request for comments” set of patches that re-implement Android’s Binder code within the Linux kernel in the Rust programming language rather than C…

Source: Phoronix – Google Rewriting Android’s Binder In Rust With Promising Results

We’ve been impressed with AMD Zen 4C cores with their initial appearance in Bergamo with the flagship EPYC 9754 and then over the summer with Siena for the likes of the EPYC 8324P(N) plus the EPYC 8354P(N) review soon. Today AMD is confirming what many had anticipated: Zen 4C cores will be coming to new Ryzen laptop SoCs.

Source: Phoronix – AMD Announces Zen 4C Cores Coming To Ryzen Laptops

There is some interesting new Arm and RISC-V SoC support to be found in the in-development Linux 6.7 kernel…

Source: Phoronix – AMD-Pensando Elba SoC & A Massive RISC-V 64-Core Chip Supported In Linux 6.7

Overnight the mainline Linux kernel has retired support for Intel Itanium (IA-64) processors…

Source: Phoronix – Intel Itanium IA-64 Support Removed With The Linux 6.7 Kernel

XWayland has added a new “-glamor” command-line argument to allow specifically choosing between OpenGL or OpenGL ES use for acceleration…

Source: Phoronix – XWayland Now Allows For Better Choosing Between OpenGL & OpenGL ES

More Linux kernel code around Intel’s Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) has landed with the in-development Linux 6.7 kernel…

Source: Phoronix – More Intel TDX Improvements Come With Linux 6.7

Valve just published their October 2023 stats for the monthly Steam Survey and they point to a nearly quarter point drop in the Linux usage after previously hitting its own highs…

Source: Phoronix – Steam Linux Usage Dropped Lower In October But With More Questionable Data

OpenRazer as the community-driven, open-source project providing driver support for Razer peripherals on Linux is out with a new feature release…

Source: Phoronix – OpenRazer 3.7 Adds Support For Many Newer Razer Devices On Linux

Since Linux 6.6 we’ve been seeing work upstreamed for sysctl working to remove its sentinel, the final empty element on each sysctl array. This will cut-down on around 64 bytes of bloat per array, help with kernel build times, and an all-around improvement. With Linux 6.7 more of the sysctl changes are ready and hopefully for the v6.8 kernel cycle next year the effort will be completed…

Source: Phoronix – Sysctl With Linux 6.7 Continues Work To Remove Kernel Bloat

Eric Engestrom has put out another on-time Mesa release candidate for what’s culminating with the Mesa 23.3 release in the coming weeks…

Source: Phoronix – Mesa 23.3-rc2 Released With Fixes For Zink, Rusticl, RADV & Other Drivers

Following Google’s plans for removing Theora codec format support from the Chrome/Chromium browser, Mozilla is also eyeing a similar move for retiring Theora from Firefox…

Source: Phoronix – Mozilla Eyes Removal Of Theora Support In Firefox

Bcachefs was merged for Linux 6.7 and Btrfs is seeing some shiny new features with this next kernel version. But Linux 6.7 isn’t just about leading-edge file-system fun: the three decade old IBM Journaled File-System (JFS) is even seeing some minor changes…

Source: Phoronix – JFS File-System Seeing Minor Stability Improvements With Linux 6.7