The LLVM 17 compiler stack has been released as stable as LLVM 17.0.1 — a slight mistake leaving the 17.0.0-rc tag meant the original v17.0.0 tag was skipped. This LLVM 17.0.1 stable release along with sub-projects like the Clang 17 C/C++ compiler bring many new features and improvements…

Source: Phoronix – LLVM 17.0 + Clang 17.0 Released With Many New Compiler Features

Hours after posting a large patch series for enabling the Nouveau kernel driver to use NVIDIA’s GSP for improving the support for RTX 20/30 series hardware and finally enabling accelerated graphics support on RTX 40 “Ada Lovelace” GPUs, the Red Hat maintainer has resigned from his duties…

Source: Phoronix – The Maintainer Of The NVIDIA Open-Source “Nouveau” Linux Kernel Driver Resigns

Microsoft has published a big feature update to Windows Subsystem for Linux “WSL” for running Linux binaries within the confines of Windows 11…

Source: Phoronix – Microsoft Releases A Big Update To Windows Subsystem For Linux, New Experimental Options

The long-awaited patches for allowing the open-source NVIDIA “Nouveau” upstream Linux kernel driver to leverage NVIDIA’s GPU System Processor “GSP” firmware for handling GPU re-clocking and other hardware tasks with RTX 20 GPUs and newer have been posted. With this set of 44 patches also comes the initial GPU hardware accelerated support for the GeForce RTX 40 “Ada Lovelace” GPUs that is built upon this new GSP driver code path…

Source: Phoronix – Nouveau Patches Posted For Running On NVIDIA GSP-RM Firmware, Initial RTX 40 Ada Support

Since March of 2022 the ReiserFS file-system has been deprecated and with Linux 6.6 ReiserFS is marked outright as “obsolete” with plans to remove the file-system from the mainline kernel code-base in 2025. In stepping toward that eventual milestone, a new kernel patch series begins removing ReiserFS from the default kernel configurations…

Source: Phoronix – Linux Patches To Begin Removing ReiserFS From Default Kernel Builds

XDG-Desktop-Portal 1.18 is out today as the newest stable release for this leading open-source app sandboxing and distribution tech. Flatpak’s XDG-Desktop-Portal 1.18 adds yet more features for this cross-distribution solution for software deployment and package management…

Source: Phoronix – XDG-Desktop-Portal 1.18 Released With Accent Color Support, New Clipboard & Input Capture Portals

Released late on Friday was the much anticipated SteamOS 3.5 preview for the Steam Deck with ongoing work around HDR and enhancing color management, VRR for external USB-C displays, various platform issues resolved, auto-mounting external storage, and more. With SteamOS 3.5 it also means some lower-level OS upgrades too like moving to the Linux 6.1 LTS kernel. For those wondering about the performance impact of going from SteamOS 3.4 stable to the SteamOS 3.5 preview release, here are some early benchmarks on the Steam Deck.

Source: Phoronix – SteamOS 3.5 Delivering Some Decent Performance Gains For The Steam Deck

Last November AMD introduced the first of the 4th Gen EPYC series with the EPYC 9004 “Genoa” processors and that was then complemented earlier this year by the July launch of the Genoa-X processors for sporting AMD 3D V-Cache to help technical computing workloads and as well launching Bergamo for the Zen 4C based processor designs that allow up to 128 cores / 256 threads per socket. While AMD has a very robust portfolio for the high-end server space with 4th Gen EPYC, today AMD is introducing the EPYC 8004 “Siena” processors for “intelligent edge” servers. Siena is a step below Genoa but still very capable offering and coming in at a lower price point while being geared more for maximizing power efficiency and opening up EPYC to more deployments outside of the data center.

Source: Phoronix – AMD Launches The EPYC 8004 “Siena” 4th Gen EPYC Processors

Stemming from Intel engineers finding significant overhead in some Linux scheduler functions when running PostgreSQL within a Docker instance, a new scheduler patch is on the way for Linux 6.7 that will help out at least Ice Lake and Sapphire Rapids with some migration-heavy workloads. With the change being in the common scheduler code, it’s also likely to help out other hardware platforms too…

Source: Phoronix – New Scheduler Optimization Can Help Out PostgreSQL & More On Sapphire Rapids

Since 2021 the Itanium IA-64 code was orphaned in the Linux kernel and over the course of this year there’s been talk of retiring the Itanium code from the kernel, a.k.a. strip it out. It looks like 2023 will end with the Itanium IA-64 code indeed being removed from the Linux kernel…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.7 Set To Drop Support For Itanium IA-64

Given the recent discussions stemming from Fedora 40 planning to ship KDE Plasma 6 and drop the KDE Plasma X11 session to focus solely on Wayland for the next-gen KDE desktop, prominent KDE developer Nate Graham has written a lengthy blog post to outline the current state and his thoughts on KDE Wayland support…

Source: Phoronix – KDE On Wayland: “The Biggest Thing Needed Now Is Adoption By 3rd Party Apps”

Intel’s OpenVINO 2023.1 was just published to GitHub as the newest version of this open-source toolkit for optimizing and deploying AI workloads across their CPUs, GPUs, and now also having official support for the new VPU being found with Meteor Lake SoCs…

Source: Phoronix – OpenVINO 2023.1 Released – More GenAI, Expanded LLM Support & Meteor Lake VPU

Linus Torvalds released Linux 6.6-rc2 today and it also happens to be 32 years to the day since he introduced the Linux 0.01 kernel version…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.6-rc2 Released – 32 Years Since Linux 0.01 Released

While there is (sadly) once again no Phoronix pilgrimage/meet-up at Oktoberfest this year, there is the annual Phoronix Premium sale special for those wishing to support the site at a discounted rate to enjoy ad-free viewing, multi-page articles on a single page, native dark mode, and other benefits…

Source: Phoronix – Go Ad-Free & Single Page Articles With The Phoronix 2023 Oktoberfest Sale

For those curious about the power consumption of USB-C devices, there are some nifty devices out there that have a LED display and can report the voltage, Amps, Wattage, and USB power delivery protocol version of connected devices. It’s a neat display but with a new POWER-Z driver coming to the Linux kernel it’s possible to propagate that information from the system itself with this new driver…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.7 To Add POWER-Z Driver For Exposing USB Power Measurements

Following SLOB’s removal and SLAB being deprecated and set for removal, the Linux kernel is all-in on the SLUB allocator. A new patch series posted on Friday is aiming to help prevent the possibility of cross-cache attacks with the SLUB memory allocator in the kernel…

Source: Phoronix – Linux’s SLUB Allocator Preparing To Better Fend Off Cross-Cache Attacks

Building off Friday’s release of Wine 8.16 is now Wine-Staging 8.16 for this experimental blend of Wine that offers up nearly 500 additional testing/in-development patches…

Source: Phoronix – Wine-Staging 8.16 Fixes A 16 Year Old Bug For Games Crashing

The threaded / atomic console support for the Linux kernel is the last main blocker before the real-time “RT” patches can finally be mainlined…

Source: Phoronix – NBCON Console Patches Updated For Eventually Unblocking Real-Time Linux Kernel

With the AMD performance uplift on the Linux 6.6 kernel due to the EEVDF scheduler code, the workqueue enhancements for chiplet-based processor designs, and other improvements, many Phoronix readers have speculated over AMD Linux gaming performance improvements with this in-development kernel…

Source: Phoronix – AMD Linux Gaming Performance Largely Unchanged With Linux 6.6 Git

Version 3.3.3 of the Lightweight Java Game Library (LWJGL) is now available for this Java library that makes it easy to utilize native APIs from OpenGL and Vulkan to OpenCL compute and other OS APIs within Java’s confines. LWJGL is used for Java games and can also be used with other Java software looking for rich API support particularly around GPU integration…

Source: Phoronix – LWJGL 3.3.3 Released With Updated Bindings, GraalVM Native Image Support