While the next revision of the C standard won’t see its formal publishing until the 2024 calendar year, the ISO C++ standards committee already decided on keeping “C23” as the informal name for this next major C update. As such, with today’s GCC 14 Git the -std=c23 compiler option for targeting C23 is now honored along with -std=gnu23 for the GNU dialect of C23…

Source: Phoronix – GCC 14 Now Honors The -std=c23 & -std=gnu23 Compiler Options For C23

Systemd 255-rc1 is out this morning and it’s packed with even more features for this dominant Linux init system and a growing list of other system utilities. Systemd 255 even is introducing systemd-bsod as a “Blue Screen of Death” for displaying important error messages during boot failure, systemd-vmspawn as a new tool to spawn virtual machines, and other new features…

Source: Phoronix – systemd 255-rc1 Brings “Blue Screen of Death” Support & New Tool To Spawn VMs

After more than two years of work, a patch series was posted this weekend for a “fully functional” ffmpeg multi-threaded command-line application with multi-threaded transcoding pipelines being wired up…

Source: Phoronix – FFmpeg Patches Allow For “Fully Functional” Multi-Threaded CLI

“FIREFOX DEVELOPMENT IS MOVING FROM MERCURIAL TO GIT,” began the email today from Mozilla announcing Firefox is finally shifting over to Git!..

Source: Phoronix – Mozilla Firefox Development Finally Moving Entirely To Git

A wide variety of x86 platform driver changes were merged for the in-development Linux 6.7 kernel from new hardware support to improving the state of Linux on various Intel/AMD laptops…

Source: Phoronix – ASUS Screenpad Support, More MSI Laptops & Intel IFS Gen2 Changes In Linux 6.7

Released last week was the newest version of Hangover, the project from Wine developers for helping Wine run on non-x86 CPU architectures for ultimately helping to make it easier to run x86/x86_64 Windows games/applications more easily on Linux AArch64, POWER, and RISC-V environments. The main focus still so far though is about allowing these Windows apps/games on ARM Linux systems…

Source: Phoronix – Hangover 8.19 Improves Box64 Integration For Running Windows Apps On AArch64 Wine

Since the AMD Inception vulnerability was made public in August there were kernel patches merged that day and since then there’s been a few rounds of clean-ups and fixes for this mitigation code formally known as the Speculative Return Stack Overflow (SRSO). With Linux 6.7, more SRSO mitigation clean-ups have been merged…

Source: Phoronix – AMD Inception / SRSO Mitigation Further Cleaned Up With Linux 6.7

The NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver is an open-source independently-developed project that implements the Video Acceleration API (VA-API) atop NVIDIA’s NVDEC interface so that software like Mozilla Firefox can enjoy video hardware acceleration on Linux using NVIDIA’s proprietary driver…

Source: Phoronix – NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver 0.0.11 Delivers Various Fixes

The ReactOS project today published their latest newesletter that outlines development progress made in recent months for this open-source operating system project striving for binary compatibility with Windows device drivers and application/user-space software…

Source: Phoronix – ReactOS “Open-Source Windows” Improving UEFI Boot, DirectX Work & NT6+ API Prep

LXQt 1.4 debuted today as the newest feature release for this lightweight Qt desktop environment that was formed years ago as the merging of the LXDE and Razor-qt projects…

Source: Phoronix – LXQt 1.4 Debuts As Last Planned Qt5 Desktop Release

The first week of the Linux 6.7 merge window began with the surprise of the Bcachefs file-system being merged and now capping off the first week is another surprise… Nouveau GPU System Processor (GSP) firmware integration that allows making use of NVIDIA’s binary GSP firmware on RTX 20 “Turing” and newer GPUs for having improved support. In turn this GSP route also provides initial support for GeForce RTX 40 series support…

Source: Phoronix – Nouveau NVIDIA GSP Firmware Support Merged For Linux 6.7

The hardening updates for the Linux 6.7 kernel bring a new hardening configuration profile to help in building a security hardened kernel with some sane defaults…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.7 Introduces “make hardening.config” To Help Build A Hardened Kernel

The Linux kernel’s subsystem for Compute Express Link that is playing a vital role in servers moving forward continues picking up new features and evolving the code-base as more CXL hardware enters the world…

Source: Phoronix – Linux Can Now Natively Handle CXL Link Protocol Errors, Fixes For Next-Gen VH Topologies

As part of the effort to make GNOME Terminal and the VTE terminal emulator library render faster, the GNOME Terminal has been seeing more work lately in being ported over to using the GTK 4 toolkit. Additionally, the VTE terminal library has been working to overcome its long-standing 40 FPS rendering cap…

Source: Phoronix – GNOME Terminal Working To Migrate To GTK 4, VTE To Overcome 40 FPS Cap

The Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) continues to be improved upon in the mainline Linux kernel and with the ongoing v6.7 merge window has received some additional enhancements…

Source: Phoronix – F2FS In Linux 6.7 Supports Larger Page Size, Continued Zone Block Device Work

Blosc (c-blosc2) is a high performance compressor focused on binary data for efficient storage of large binary data-sets in-memory or on-disk and helping to speed-up memory-bound computations…

Source: Phoronix – Blosc Compressor Adds AVX-512 Bitshuffle: 20% Faster Compression For Zen 4 X3D CPU

Linux 6.6 saw EEVDF merged and Intel hybrid cluster scheduling re-introduced. The core scheduler improvements merged this past week for the in-development Linux 6.7 isn’t quite as exciting but still there are some healthy scheduler improvements this round…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.7 Boasts Some Scheduler Improvements & Intel IBRS Mitigation Change

Mesa’s Rust-based OpenCL implementation “Rusticl” has added initial support for the cl_khr_gl_sharing extension for working on OpenGL and OpenCL interoperability…

Source: Phoronix – Mesa’s Rusticl Adds cl_khr_gl_sharing For Advancing OpenGL/OpenCL Interoperability

The Linux 6.7 sound subsystem changes submitted this week by maintainer Takashi Iwai include support for a number of new audio devices/platforms…

Source: Phoronix – New AMD & Intel Sound Support Ready For Playback In Linux 6.7

Recently there was some tuning in Mesa Git for helping with higher quality Radeon video encoding on Linux for GPUs using Video Core Next (VCN). Similar tuning has now been back-ported for older Radeon GPUs using the VCE encode engine and UVD video decoding…

Source: Phoronix – Mesa 24.0 Improving Radeon VCE/UVD Video Encoding Quality