The DeviceTree changes for Linux 6.6 add the ability to generate DeviceTree (DT) nodes for PCI devices. AMD spearheaded this effort for applying DeviceTree overlays to PCI devices containing non-discoverable downstream devices…

Source: Phoronix – AMD Patches To Generate DeviceTree Nodes For PCI Devices Merged In Linux 6.6

The media subsystem updates were sent out today for the Linux 6.6 kernel and most notably is introducing the Intel IVSC MEI drivers as well as extending the Intel IPU bridge logic to work with these new drivers…

Source: Phoronix – Intel Visual Sensing Controller “IVSC” Driver Support Coming With Linux 6.6

OpenColorIO (OCIO) as the open-source color management solution for motion picture production and maintained by the Academy Software Foundation is out with a new feature release that will be part of their 2024 VFX Reference Platform. Notable with this release are new SIMD optimizations with AVX/AVX2 and Arm NEON…

Source: Phoronix – OpenColorIO 2.3 Released With New AVX/AVX2 Optimizations

While approaching the end of summer, there’s no breaks at Phoronix and over the course of August were 240 original news articles and another 15 featured Linux hardware reviews / multi-page featured benchmark articles. Here is a look back at what was most exciting for the month…

Source: Phoronix – Inception & Downfall, Linux 6.6 Development Kicking Off & Other August Highlights

Released nearly one year ago was GNU Wget2 2.0 as a big improvement over Wget to support more protocols like HTTP/2, enabling multi-threading support and parallel connections, and a range of other feature additions. Published on Thursday was Wget2 2.1 as the newest step forward for this much-improved Wget open-source downloading solution…

Source: Phoronix – Wget2 2.1 Brings New Options, Proxies For Non-Default Ports, Better SSL Code

In addition to NFSD bringing a thrilling feature for Linux 6.6 in the form of NFSv4 write delegation support, the NFS client code for the in-development Linux 6.6 kernel also has a notable feature change…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.6 NFS Enables NFSv4.2 READ_PLUS Option By Default

Following the releases this week of Intel’s SVT-AV1 1.7 encoder and the libavif 1.0 AV1 Image File Format release, Google engineers are out with libaom 3.7 as the newest feature release to that AV1 encode library…

Source: Phoronix – Google Releases libaom 3.7 AV1 Encoder With More Optimizations

The Intel Shadow Stack support that is part of their Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET) has finally been merged for the Linux 6.6 kernel after it was previously rejected by Linus Torvalds…

Source: Phoronix – Intel Shadow Stack Finally Merged For Linux 6.6

The Linux mitigation for the Intel Gather Data Sampling (GDS) “Downfall” vulnerability was updated to reflect all Skylake and Kabylake CPUs being vulnerable to this nasty issue. Due to those Skylake client processors reaching the end of their official support life at Intel, the original Linux mitigation for GDS/Downfall didn’t properly protect those older Core processor models…

Source: Phoronix – Intel GDS/Downfall Linux Mitigation Updated To Confirm All Skylake CPUs Are Affected

Chuck Lever III of Oracle has submitted the NFSD changes for Linux 6.6 for this NFS server of which he is particularly thrilled about one of the new features this cycle…

Source: Phoronix – NFSD With Linux 6.6 Brings A Thrilling New Feature

With the in-development Linux 6.6 kernel adding support for more upcoming Radeon graphics processors, that means more auto-generated header files for the new IP blocks… I was curious to see the overall size now of the AMDGPU kernel driver along with its associated code like the AMDKFD compute driver. It’s now above 5 million lines for the kernel driver portion…

Source: Phoronix – AMD Open-Source GPU Kernel Driver Above 5 Million Lines, Entire Linux Kernel At 34.8 Million

The first release candidate of PHP 8.3 is now available for testing this annual feature release…

Source: Phoronix – PHP 8.3 RC1 Released With json_validate, Anonymous Read-Only Classes

As part of updates to the older file-system drivers for Linux 6.6, the ReiserFS file-system is no longer marked as “Supported” but is officially treated as “Obsolete” within the Linux kernel…

Source: Phoronix – ReiserFS Officially Declared “Obsolete”

The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem updates for the Linux 6.6 kernel to provide new features for the number of kernel graphics drivers and other AI accelerator drivers within the mainline kernel…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.6 Graphics Drivers: NVK uAPI, New AMD GPUs, More Meteor Lake, CI Support

A pull request was sent out this week to introduce the GenPD subsystem and add a new drivers/genpd area for the GenPD provider drivers to the kernel… To which Linus Torvalds wonders what the heck is a “GenPD” as probably most of you are also wondering about…

Source: Phoronix – GenPD Subsystem Posted For Linux 6.6 – Torvalds Wonders What The Heck Is “GenPD”

As part of the long ongoing effort around Wine Wayland support for upstream in order to be able to utilize Wayland directly without a reliance on XWayland when running Windows games/apps, the sixth part to that enablement has been posted for review…

Source: Phoronix – More Wine Wayland Code Submitted For Review – Part 6

The hardware monitoring “HWMON” subsystem updates have been submitted and merged for the ongoing Linux 6.6 kernel merge window…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.6 Gets More Voltage & Temperature Sensors Working On Some Desktop Motherboards

There are some notable changes around the XFS file-system for the in-development Linux 6.6 kernel, including a new release manager taking over duties…

Source: Phoronix – XFS Begins Landing Online Repair, New Release Manager Takes Over

Moving forward Google engineers are working to roll-out new Chrome stable releases even faster…

Source: Phoronix – Google Preparing To Rollout Stable Chrome Releases Even Faster

For those making use of the IntelliJ integrated development environment (IDE), JetBrains has been working to enable native Wayland support…

Source: Phoronix – JetBrains Enabling Wayland Support For IntelliJ-Based IDEs