The perf event changes were submitted this week for the ongoing Linux 6.6 kernel merge window with changes this cycle for Intel, AMD, and Arm…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.6 Perf Events Prepare For Intel’s Crestmont In Grand Ridge & Sierra Forest

There wasn’t any big Vulkan spec update for SIGGRAPH this year but the frequent point releases continue rolling on for this high performance graphics and compute API…

Source: Phoronix – Vulkan 1.3.263 Released With A New NVIDIA Extension

The tmpfs file-system that keeps all of its data within virtual memory has gained a few new features with Linux 6.6, including the long-awaited quota support to better protect against malicious users that could try to consume all of your system RAM…

Source: Phoronix – Tmpfs Gains New Features With Linux 6.6

While leading up to a US holiday weekend, KDE developers haven’t let up in their development activities around Plasma 6.0 and associated application work. KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his usual weekly development summary to outline all of the interesting changes for the week…

Source: Phoronix – KDE Plasma 6 & KWin See More Performance Tuning This Week

In July the Steam Survey results pointed to a half percent jump in the Linux gaming marketshare, taking it to nearly 2% thanks to the success of Valve’s Steam Deck that runs their Arch Linux powered SteamOS platform. After the big boost in July you are probably wondering what happened in August… Well, a few minutes ago the new Steam Survey monthly results were published…

Source: Phoronix – Steam Survey Results For August Show A Linux Dip After A Very Exciting July

For those with extra time over the US Labor Day holiday weekend, Linux From Scratch 12 has been published for those wishing to hand-roll their own Linux system build from source. Linux From Scratch 12.0 is accompanied by the Beyond Linux From Scratch (BLFS) 12.0 release too, including the systemd variant, for further extending LFS installations with more packages…

Source: Phoronix – Linux From Scratch 12.0 Published For Rolling Your Own Linux Build

Following the recent Wine summer holiday, Wine 8.15 is out today and back on track with the usual two-week release regiment…

Source: Phoronix – Wine 8.15 Released With Few Changes, 19 Bugs Fixed

Palmer Dabbelt sent out the initial batch of RISC-V processor architecture updates for the Linux 6.6 kernel port…

Source: Phoronix – New RISC-V Kernel Features Ready For Linux 6.6

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