Merged one year ago was the initial Rust code for the Linux kernel back in Linux 6.1. We’re now up to the Linux 6.7 development cycle and the enabling of more kernel functionality so it can be used/accessed from Rust code remains ongoing along with continuing to bump the base toolchain requirements and other functionality to make it more practical to write future Linux device drivers within this memory safe programming language…

Source: Phoronix – Rust WQ Abstractions, Rust Toolchain Upgrade & Android Kernel Builds For Linux 6.7

Less than twenty-four hours after Bcachefs was submitted for Linux 6.7, this new open-source file-system has been successfully merged for this next kernel version…

Source: Phoronix – Bcachefs Merged Into The Linux 6.7 Kernel

The x86/cpu changes for the Linux 6.7 kernel have been merged and is highlighted by a small but useful change for propagating of the AMD SVM virtualization feature flag to /proc/cpuinfo…

Source: Phoronix – /proc/cpuinfo Will No Longer Show AMD SVM When It’s Been Disabled By The BIOS

Apple tonight announced the M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max as what they are promoting as the “most advanced chips” for a personal computer and leverage the TSMC 3nm process…

Source: Phoronix – Apple Announces The M3 / M3 Pro / M3 Max

While there has already been various open-source Linux driver upstreaming work around the AMD Instinct MI300 series both for the MI300X GPU-only solution and the MI300A APU-based accelerator, for Linux 6.7 more work is happening…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.7 Makes More Preparations For The AMD Instinct MI300A APUs

While we wait to see if Bcachefs will be merged for Linux 6.7, there are other exciting enhancements landing for existing Linux file-systems. With Btrfs in Linux 6.7 comes three new features plus some performance optimizations and other improvements…

Source: Phoronix – Btrfs Picks Up New Features For Linux 6.7

While the original AMD Navi GPUs featured Next-Gen Geometry (NGG) support, it was borked for some GPUs and initially didn’t work out quite as well as planned for vertex and geometry processing. The Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver “RADV” has worked on the NGG code for years and with RDNA3 GPUs it’s finally been working out very well from the start and better than their legacy pipeline. All the while the RDNA1/RDNA2 experimental NGG stream-out support has continued to exist but hidden behind a feature/debug flag. That code is now being removed…

Source: Phoronix – RADV Driver Drops NGG Stream-Out Code For RDNA1/RDNA2 GPUs

GhostBSD 23.10.1 released this weekend as the newest version of this FreeBSD-based desktop-focused operating system that employs the GNOME2-forked MATE desktop by default…

Source: Phoronix – GhostBSD 23.10.1 For FreeBSD-Based MATE Desktop OS

Guenter Roeck today sent out the hardware monitoring “HWMON” subsystem updates for the Linux 6.7 merge window…

Source: Phoronix – ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR X670E GENE & ASRock X670E Taichi Sensor Support For Linux 6.7

Another merge window, another attempt for Bcachefs to be mainlined. This file-system was submitted again today for the now-open Linux 6.7 merge window and it stands better chances this cycle of being upstreamed…

Source: Phoronix – Bcachefs Pull Request Submitted For Linux 6.7

Following the Linux 6.6 release, the GNU FSFLA folks are out with their GNU Linux-libre 6.6 downstream that strips out support for proprietary kernel modules, code considered non-free, and other de-blobbing activities in the name of software freedom…

Source: Phoronix – GNU Linux-libre 6.6-gnu Released For Those Wanting A Stripped Down Kernel

Linux’s FSCRYPT file-system encryption framework allows for native file encryption support on the likes of EXT4, F2FS, and UBIFS. FSCRYPT can make use of inline encryption hardware for accelerating the file-system encryption support and with the Linux 6.7 kernel will work for more scenarios…

Source: Phoronix – FSCRYPT In Linux 6.7 More Adaptable For Inline Encryption Hardware

While Mozilla has always produced Firefox Nightly builds for Linux as traditional binaries, they have finally decided to offer up an APT repository of Firefox Nightly builds to make it easy to stay up-to-date with new Firefox Nightly releases on Debian and Ubuntu Linux based distributions…

Source: Phoronix – Mozilla Finally Launches An APT Repository For Easy Firefox Nightly Updating

As anticipated Linus Torvalds just released the Linux 6.6 kernel as stable…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.6 Released With EEVDF, Shadow Stack & Performance Optimizations

While KDE Plasma 6 and associated KDE software components are getting ready for their debut in February, Trinity Desktop continues loosely maintaining a KDE 3.5 fork for that aging desktop environment…

Source: Phoronix – KDE 3.5 Fork Trinity Desktop 14.1.1 Released

It’s slightly off its usual Friday release target, but Wine 8.19 was released today as the newest bi-weekly unstable release of this open-source software to enjoy Windows games and applications under Linux…

Source: Phoronix – Wine 8.19 Released With Updated Mono, More DirectMusic Code

From the perspective of Linux distributions trying to reduce their attack surface while still making it possible for users to run legacy software without recompiling their kernel, SUSE has spearheaded the effort for boot-time enabling/disabling of x86 32-bit support for whether 32-bit user-space programs and 32-bit system calls can be executed. That code has been submitted for the imminent Linux 6.7 merge window…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.7 Will Let You Enable/Disable 32-bit Programs Support At Boot-Time

The Xiph.Org-developed Theora lossy video compression format was once popular for open-source video compression but in an era of VP9 and AV1 its usage has waned. Google engineers are now working to remove Theora support from their Chrome/Chromium web browser…

Source: Phoronix – Google Chrome To Remove Theora Video Codec Support

A NVIDIA compiler engineer last week laid out the company’s plans for implementing OpenACC 3.3 offloading support within the LLVM Clang compiler…

Source: Phoronix – NVIDIA Looking To Add OpenACC 3.3 Support To Upstream LLVM Clang

One of the many early pull requests sent in for Linux 6.7 were the x86/boot changes that are headlined by a rework to the PE header generation in order to generate a modern, 4K-aligned kernel image view to ultimately aim for better system security…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.7 Reworks PE Header Generation To Reduce Attack Area