Microsoft released CBL-Mariner 2.0.20230924 this week as the newest version of their in-house Linux distribution. The driving force behind this release is to get out rebuilt AArch64 packages following the recent GCC security vulnerability that affected Arm 64-bit built software…

Source: Phoronix – Microsoft CBL-Mariner 2.0.20230924 Rebuilds AArch64 Packages Due To That Nasty GCC Bug

ReactOS Deutschland e.V. has hired a longtime contributor to this “open-source Windows” project to spend the next five months working on the ReactOS GUI setup mode as an alternative to their classic text-based setup mode…

Source: Phoronix – “Open-Source Windows” ReactOS To See Improved GUI Setup/Installation

Disclosed back in August was the Inception vulnerability affecting all Zen processors. It took until today though for the mainline Linux kernel to mitigate Hygon processors for this vulnerability for those Zen 1 CPUs formed from the AMD-Chinese joint venture…

Source: Phoronix – Linux Now Mitigating Hygon CPUs For Inception/SRSO Vulnerability

The xf86-video-siliconmotion X.Org driver has seen its first new release in six years for supporting the Silicon Motion Lynx and Cougar chipsets found in vintage laptops…

Source: Phoronix – Silicon Motion X.Org Driver Sees First Release In Six Years

During the third quarter on Phoronix were 689 original Linux/open-source news articles and another 50 Linux hardware reviews / benchmark articles. Here’s a look back at what excited Linux enthusiasts this quarter…

Source: Phoronix – Raspberry Pi 5, Steam Deck & New AMD CPUs Dominated Q3

Stemming from reports of several fake crypto apps appearing in Canonical’s Snap Store that aimed to steal user funds, temporary restrictions have been put in place while Canonical investigates the security matter…

Source: Phoronix – Canonical’s Snap Store Hit By Malicious Apps

Patches have been posted to the Linux kernel mailing list in an effort to mainline support for the Milk-V Duo RISC-V development platform with the basic board retailing for $9…

Source: Phoronix – Milk-V Duo Linux Kernel Patches Submitted For This RISC-V Board

Building off yesterday’s Wine 8.17 release, Wine-Staging 8.17 is now available that consists of 494 extra patches atop the upstream Wine code-base…

Source: Phoronix – Wine-Staging 8.17 Released With Fix For Eight Year Old Bug Report

The wlroots Wayland compositor library used by Sway and other Wayland compositors to help with the heavy lifting has merged support for the tearing control protocol…

Source: Phoronix – wlroots Merges Wayland Tearing Control Support

Plasma 6 development is ending September on a high note with a number of new features and enhancements to this desktop now merged…

Source: Phoronix – KDE Plasma 6.0 Ends September With Many New Features & Enhancements

Google on Friday released libvpx 1.13.1 as the newest update to this open-source reference encoder for the VP8 and VP9 video codecs. This release is coming due to CVE-2023-5217, which is a “high” severity vulnerability that’s been exploited within at least the Google Chrome web browser…

Source: Phoronix – VP8/VP9’s libvpx 1.13.1 Released Due To A High Severity Vulnerability

Wine 8.17 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release for this open-source software that allows Windows games and applications to run on Linux as well as serving as the basis for Valve’s Proton that powers Steam Play…

Source: Phoronix – Wine 8.17 Released With VKD3D 1.9 Upgrade, Initial Window Management For Wayland Driver

With today’s release of kmod 31, Linux’s modprobe utility for loading kernel modules can finally allow arbitrary paths to allow loading new kernel modules from anywhere on the file-system…

Source: Phoronix – Linux’s modprobe Adds The Ability To Load A Module From Anywhere On The File-System

Intel’s Linux graphics driver engineers have begun submitting their feature changes to DRM-Next of new i915 kernel driver feature material they are preparing for the Linux 6.7 cycle this winter…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.7 To Support New Intel DG2-G12 Stepping, More Raptor Lake IDs

With the Intel Arrow Lake NPU being very similar to Meteor Lake for this neural processing unit, the patches enabling that NPU for next-gen Intel Core CPUs was submitted as a “fix” for the ongoing Linux 6.6 cycle…

Source: Phoronix – Intel Arrow Lake NPU Support Slides Into Linux 6.6 IVPU Driver

AMD announced today that the Windows games Immortals of Aveum and Forspoken are available today with their FidelityFX Super Resolution 3 (FSR 3) upscaling technology. More games making use of FSR 3 are on the way and the open-source code drop of FSR 3 is coming at a later date…

Source: Phoronix – AMD FSR 3 Now Available – Open-Source Code To Come Soon

After a month and a half delay from AMDVLK 2023.Q3.1 to AMDVLK 2023.Q3.2, the AMDVLK 2023.Q3.3 driver is out today after just one week. This AMD Vulkan driver update finally enables Radeon RX 7700 / RX 7800 series support and delivers on other improvements…

Source: Phoronix – AMDVLK 2023.Q3.3 Released With Radeon RX 7700 / 7800 Series Support

For those using the rolling-release openSUSE Tumbleweed Linux distribution, there is now experimental support for booting it using systemd-boot…

Source: Phoronix – openSUSE Tumbleweed Adds systemd-boot Support

Sound Open Firmware 2.7 released overnight and adds AMD Van Gogh platform support, presumably to be used by the Valve Steam Deck or some future refresh of the device or related platform like for VR hardware…

Source: Phoronix – Sound Open Firmware 2.7 Released With AMD Van Gogh Support

With my Raspberry Pi 5 review and benchmarks I focused on the CPU performance of the quad-core Cortex-A76 2.4GHz Broadcom SoC powering this new single board computer, but the graphics upgrade are just as equally impressive. Here is a look at the open-source driver support and performance for the Raspberry Pi 5’s VideoCore VII GPU.

Source: Phoronix – Raspberry Pi 5 Graphics Continue With Open-Source Driver & Crazy Fast Compared To RPi 4