The USB I2C / SPI / GPIO drivers for Intel’s La Jolla Cove Adapter (LCJA) are set to be mainlined with the upcoming Linux 6.7 kernel merge window opening at the end of the month…

Source: Phoronix – Intel La Jolla Cove Adapter “LJCA” Drivers Coming With Linux 6.7

Released on Sunday was uutils 0.0.22 as the open-source software aiming to be a drop-in replacement to GNU Coreutils while being written in the Rust programming language for memory safety, better performance, and a modernized codebase…

Source: Phoronix – Rust-Written Coreutils Increases GNU Compatibility, Adds NetBSD Support

Linus Torvalds just released Linux 6.6-rc6 and expressed his intention of releasing Linux 6.6 stable in two weeks unless anything wild happens as we approach the end of this kernel cycle…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.6-rc6 Released: Plan For 6.6 Stable In Two Weeks

Queued up this week as part of the HID subsystem fixes ahead of today’s Linux 6.6-rc6 kernel test release has been a rather embarrassing bug: unplugging Logitech USB receivers has for the past several months been causing the Linux kernel to crash. After a number of bug reports around this issue from unplugging Logitech keyboard/mice receivers to simply switching away on a USB switch with the device(s) attached, the Linux 6.6-rc6 kernel is carrying the fix and it’s also marked for back-porting to existing stable Linux kernel series…

Source: Phoronix – Unplugging Logitech USB Receivers Has Been Causing The Linux Kernel To Crash

Over the past two weeks there has been a pleasant uptick in new commits to Coreboot as part of enabling EPYC 9004 “Genoa” series platform support…

Source: Phoronix – More AMD EPYC Zen 4 “Genoa” Code Heads Into Coreboot

Next week in DRM-Next will hopefully see the patch promoting Intel Meteor Lake graphics to stable in time for the upcoming Linux 6.7 merge window. Ahead of that an i915 drm-intel-next pull request on Friday sent out more Meteor Lake patches while concurrently working on more driver enablement code for Lunar Lake…

Source: Phoronix – Intel i915 Driver Prepares Finishing Touches For Meteor Lake, More Lunar Lake Enabling

While Python 3.12 was just released earlier this month, already the first alpha release of Python 3.13 is now available for early-stage testing and evaluation…

Source: Phoronix – Python 3.13 Alpha Kicks Off The Cycle With New Deprecations

On Friday AMD sent in another batch of feature patches that are ready for DRM-Next to in turn be upstreamed with the quickly approaching Linux 6.7 merge window. Most notable with this latest round of feature patches is enabling more next-generation graphics processor IP…

Source: Phoronix – More Patches For Next-Gen AMD GPU Support Queued Ahead Of Linux 6.7

Released on Friday was Wine 8.18 as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software to run Windows games and applications on Linux and other platforms. Now available is Wine-Staging 8.18 as the more experimental blend of Wine that integrates just shy of 500 extra patches atop Wine…

Source: Phoronix – Wine-Staging 8.18 Brings Patch For An 8 Year Old Bug Report

Merged to Mesa 23.3 this weekend is initial support in the V3D Gallium3D (OpenGL) and V3DV Vulkan drivers for the Broadcom VideoCore 7.1.x graphics IP that is found within the new Raspberry Pi 5 single board computer…

Source: Phoronix – Mesa Merges Initial OpenGL/Vulkan Support For Raspberry Pi 5’s GPU

Similar to the Radeon RADV driver recently implementing software-based decoding for Adaptive Scalable Texture Compression (ASTC), the Intel “ANV” Vulkan driver within Mesa has also now wired up ASTC LDR emulation…

Source: Phoronix – Intel Vulkan Driver Lands ASTC LDR Emulation For Latest GPUs

AMD on Friday released ROCm 5.7.1 as their latest tagged release to this open-source GPU compute stack that continues progressing to better take on NVIDIA CUDA and Intel oneAPI…

Source: Phoronix – AMD Releases ROCm 5.7.1 With rocBLAS-GEMM-Tune & Bug Fixes

Merged for this quarter’s Mesa 23.3 release is the ability to have the Rusticl Rust-written OpenCL driver running atop Zink, the Gallium3D driver known for OpenGL-on-Vulkan. With Rusticl on Zink this now means getting this OpenCL 3.0 driver working atop Vulkan hardware drivers…

Source: Phoronix – Mesa 23.3 Lands Support For Rusticl On Zink To Have OpenCL Atop Vulkan Drivers

The release candidate is out this weekend for FreeBSD 14.0 as the developers work toward releasing FreeBSD 14 stable in early November…

Source: Phoronix – FreeBSD 14 Nears Release With Support For Up To 1024 CPU Cores, Updated Drivers

It was another exciting week in the KDE Plasma 6 and KDE Frameworks 6 space with a number of notable new features being merged…

Source: Phoronix – KDE Plasma 6 Has New Role For “F10”, Kate/KWrite Text-To-Speech & Smooth Scrolling

The PXN V900 gaming racing wheel is supported now by the mainline Linux kernel as of last night with the latest merged changes for the v6.6 kernel…

Source: Phoronix – PXN V900 Racing Wheel Support Added To Linux 6.6

Wine 8.18 is out as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source program for running Windows applications and games on Linux. Wine 8.18 is another step closer to Wine 9.0 stable that is due out in early 2024…

Source: Phoronix – Wine 8.18 Released WIth Continued Work On Wayland Window Management

OpenZFS 2.2 was promoted to stable today as the latest major update to this open-source ZFS file-system implementation for Linux and FreeBSD systems. With OpenZFS 2.2 comes many exciting new features, performance improvements, and other enhancements for this evolution of open-source ZFS…

Source: Phoronix – OpenZFS 2.2 Released With Block Cloning, Linux Container Support & Better Performance

While the Linux kernel tends to keep around drivers for even very old hardware, once there are no known users left that would still be updating to new Linux kernel versions or the drivers pose a significant maintenance burden, it’s eventually time to let them go. We’ve seen the WiMAX wireless code removed and now the latest on the Linux wireless networking side inching close to the chopping block are old WiFi drivers…

Source: Phoronix – Linux Looks Toward Dropping Very Old WiFi Drivers

For those using the stock kernel and Mesa drivers when running Ubuntu Linux, the upgrade from Ubuntu 23.04 to the newly-released Ubuntu 23.10 can mean some nice graphics performance improvements for Intel Arc Graphics users. Here is a look at some Arc Graphics A770 benchmarks on Ubuntu 23.04 to 23.10 plus the gains that are coming up when moving to Linux 6.6 and Mesa 23.3-devel.

Source: Phoronix – Intel Arc Graphics See Faster Performance On Ubuntu 23.10