Over the summer AMD Linux engineers began sending kernel patches for Family 1Ah (Family 26) processors that almost surely are for next-gen Zen 5 processors. Among the initial bits sent out for this next-generation AMD CPU Family are HWMON temperature monitoring and EDAC reporting, which are now on their way for the Linux 6.6 kernel…

Source: Phoronix – AMD Zen 5 / Family 1Ah Temperature Support & EDAC Submitted For Linux 6.6

The Firefox 117 release binaries are now available for download ahead of Mozilla’s official announcement going out on Tuesday…

Source: Phoronix – Firefox 117 Available With Local Automated Translation Support

The CentOS ISA special interest group (SIG) has been evaluating the performance of CentOS Stream in the event its x86_64 baseline were to be raised from x86-64-v2 to x86-64-v3. Currently CentOS Stream 9 targets x86-64-v2 but in upping the support requirements to x86-64-v3, it would allow the ability to engage AVX/AVX2 by default and make use of other newer instruction set features. The x86-64-v3 baseline roughly correlates to Intel / AMD CPUs from 2015 and newer…

Source: Phoronix – CentOS ISA SIG Experimenting With New x86-64 Baseline For Better Performance

Back in April AMD Linux engineers posted enabling a new CPU feature called Dynamic Boost Control to be found with some unspecified Ryzen SoCs for tuning the processor cores for optimal performance. The Dynamic Boost Control functionality depends upon the AMD Cryptographic Co-Processor (CCP) / Platform Security Processor (PSP) and this functionality was submitted today as part of the crypto updates for Linux 6.6…

Source: Phoronix – AMD Dynamic Boost Control Submitted For Linux 6.6

Building off yesterday’s release of Linux 6.5, GNU Linux-libre 6.5-gnu is now available for this downstream kernel maintained by the Free Software Foundation Latin America crew that removes support for binary-only kernel modules and stripping out other kernel code that depends on non-free-software microcode/firmware and other elements not deemed in the interests of pure free software…

Source: Phoronix – GNU Linux-libre 6.5-gnu Released With More Kernel Deblobbing

Thanks to this year’s Google Summer of Code (GSoC), a student developer took the initiative in working on an automated Gentoo Linux system updater to help begineers and ease the roll-out of security updates to users…

Source: Phoronix – An Automated Gentoo Linux System Updater Developed Via GSoC

As part of the Reliability, Availability and Serviceability (RAS) updates submitted today for the Linux 6.6 kernel is adding a quirk/workaround for dealing with current AMD Zen systems where a processor bug could lead to erroneously increased error severity and unneeded kernel panics…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.6 Will Avoid Unnecessary Kernel Panics On AMD Zen Systems

In addition to the fchmodat2 system call, another early pull request submitted by Microsoft’s Christian Brauner even before the Linux 6.5 kernel was released is one to introduce multi-grained timestamps with Linux 6.6. Multi-grained timestamps are intended to address an issue exhibited with NFS around caching and the current coarse-grained timestamp handling used for (in)validating caches…

Source: Phoronix – Multi-Grained Timestamps Submitted For Linux 6.6

While at the start of Linux 6.5 cycle Linus Torvalds was concerned this release “may be one of those releases that may drag out”, in the end it is releasing today and right on schedule. Linux 6.5 was just published rather than going into overtime without any extra release candidate…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.5 Released With AMD P-State EPP Default, USB4 v2, MIDI 2.0 & More Hardware Bits

While Ampere Computing’s wares with the Altra (Max) and forthcoming AmpereOne families of AArch64 server processors are designed for the data center, if you feel so inclined they have published a guide on being able to run Steam for Linux on these ARM64 processors — including Steam Play (Proton) for enjoying Windows games on these Linux servers…

Source: Phoronix – Ampere Computing Publishes Guide For Steam Play Games On Their AArch64 Server CPUs

Ahead of the Linux 6.5 stable kernel being released there have already been a few pull requests submitted of new feature material for Linux 6.6. Among the early pulls for v6.6 is one from prominent Linux developer Christian Brauner at Microsoft that introduces the fchmodat2() system call as an evolution of fchmodat()…

Source: Phoronix – fchmodat2 System Call Submitted For Linux 6.6

The Flatpak open-source app sandboxing tech has merged support for the Wayland security context protocol…

Source: Phoronix – Flatpak Lands Support For Wayland Security Context

While there are many exciting features with Linux 6.5 which will hopefully be released as stable later today, ahead for the imminent Linux 6.6 merge window are another hearty batch of new features set to be introduced…

Source: Phoronix – Many Features Ahead With Linux 6.6: EEVDF Scheduler, New AMD CPU Features, NVK uAPI

While the release cycle dragged on for several extra months, available this weekend is the release of Mageia 9 for this Linux distribution long ago derived from Mandriva that in turn was an evolution going back to the glorious Mandrake days. Mageia 9 is a nice update pulling in many package updates along with other fundamental changes like shifting to SQLite for its RPM package database…

Source: Phoronix – Mageia 9 Released With SQLite-Based RPM Package Database, Zstd Compressed Images

While Linux 6.5 is expected for release tomorrow, the flow of last minute fixes isn’t over…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.5 Last Minute Fixes A Performance Regression – 34% Drop In A Micro-Benchmark

LXD 5.17 is now available as the system container and virtual machine manager, which since last month has been reigned into control by Canonical and maintainership being limited to Canonical engineers. With this new LXD release there is ZFS delegation support as found with the upcoming OpenZFS 2.2…

Source: Phoronix – Canonical Releases LXD 5.17 With OpenZFS 2.2 Delegation Support

Barring any last minute problems from coming up, the Linux 6.5 kernel is expected to be released as stable tomorrow, 27 August. Here’s a reminder about all of the great changes and new features with this next kernel version, which is especially heavy on exciting additions for Intel and AMD Linux users…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.5 Ready To Ship With Initial USB4 v2, More WiFi 7, AMD P-State EPP Default & More

In addition to GNOME’s Sysprof integrating CPU scheduler data this week for GNOME 45, this system-wide profiling tool has also added support for FlameGraphs…

Source: Phoronix – GNOME’s Sysprof Adds FlameGraphs To Better Visualize Output

Last week KDE Plasma 6 made the default change from single click to double click for opening files/folders while this week brings another notable default settings change for the desktop… Tap-to-click is finally enabled by default…

Source: Phoronix – KDE Plasma 6 Now Enables Tap-To-Click By Default

AMD used the Gamescom gaming conference in Cologne, Germany for announcing the Radeon RX 7700 XT and Radeon RX 7800 XT graphics cards as the newest consumer cards in the RDNA3 family.

Source: Phoronix – AMD Announces The Radeon RX 7700 XT & RX 7800 XT Graphics Cards