As part of updates to the older file-system drivers for Linux 6.6, the ReiserFS file-system is no longer marked as “Supported” but is officially treated as “Obsolete” within the Linux kernel…

Source: Phoronix – ReiserFS Officially Declared “Obsolete”

The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem updates for the Linux 6.6 kernel to provide new features for the number of kernel graphics drivers and other AI accelerator drivers within the mainline kernel…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.6 Graphics Drivers: NVK uAPI, New AMD GPUs, More Meteor Lake, CI Support

A pull request was sent out this week to introduce the GenPD subsystem and add a new drivers/genpd area for the GenPD provider drivers to the kernel… To which Linus Torvalds wonders what the heck is a “GenPD” as probably most of you are also wondering about…

Source: Phoronix – GenPD Subsystem Posted For Linux 6.6 – Torvalds Wonders What The Heck Is “GenPD”

As part of the long ongoing effort around Wine Wayland support for upstream in order to be able to utilize Wayland directly without a reliance on XWayland when running Windows games/apps, the sixth part to that enablement has been posted for review…

Source: Phoronix – More Wine Wayland Code Submitted For Review – Part 6

The hardware monitoring “HWMON” subsystem updates have been submitted and merged for the ongoing Linux 6.6 kernel merge window…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.6 Gets More Voltage & Temperature Sensors Working On Some Desktop Motherboards

There are some notable changes around the XFS file-system for the in-development Linux 6.6 kernel, including a new release manager taking over duties…

Source: Phoronix – XFS Begins Landing Online Repair, New Release Manager Takes Over

Moving forward Google engineers are working to roll-out new Chrome stable releases even faster…

Source: Phoronix – Google Preparing To Rollout Stable Chrome Releases Even Faster

For those making use of the IntelliJ integrated development environment (IDE), JetBrains has been working to enable native Wayland support…

Source: Phoronix – JetBrains Enabling Wayland Support For IntelliJ-Based IDEs

The various Arm platform and SoC changes have been submitted for the ongoing Linux 6.6 merge window…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.6 Adds Support For Intel Agilex 5 FPGAs, Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2

While I have been eagerly following the AMD openSIL project for open-source CPU initialization that will eventually replace AGESA, today AMD announced a new open-source firmware drop: the SEV firmware has been made open-source…

Source: Phoronix – AMD Publishes SEV Firmware As Open-Source

AMD’s open-source Linux graphics driver engineers are working on a new set of interfaces for user-space to support OverDrive overclocking. While AMD GPU OverDrive overclocking has been supported on Linux for years, the current interface isn’t sufficient for all the power/overclocking controls moving forward…

Source: Phoronix – AMD Working On New OverDrive GPU Overclocking Controls For Linux

Some code cleaning within the sysctl space of the Linux kernel will eventually eliminate around 64 bytes of bloat per array within the kernel where a sentinel can be removed…

Source: Phoronix – Linux Sysctl Cleaning To Eventually Erase ~64 Bytes Of Bloat Per Array

While we are eagerly awaiting ROCm support for more RDNA3 GPUs said to be coming later this calendar year, shipping Tuesday night was ROCm 5.6.1 as the newest point release for this open-source GPU compute stack…

Source: Phoronix – AMD ROCm 5.6.1 Compute Stack Released With A Few Fixes

MidnightBSD 3.1 is now available for this desktop-minded, FreeBSD-forked operating system that aims to be “the BSD for everyone” with an Xfce-based desktop and focus on ease of use…

Source: Phoronix – MidnightBSD 3.1 Released With Ravenports Integration

Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux) has been part of the mainline kernel for two decades to provide a security module implementing access control security policies and is now widely-used for enhancing the security of production Linux servers and other systems. Those that haven’t been involved with Linux for a long time may be unaware that SELinux originates from the US National Security Agency (NSA). But now with Linux 6.6 the NSA references are being removed…

Source: Phoronix – SELinux In Linux 6.6 Removes References To Its Origins At The US NSA

The Linux 6.6 modules infrastructure is changing to better protect against the illicit behavior of NVIDIA’s proprietary kernel driver…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.6 To Better Protect Against The Illicit Behavior Of NVIDIA’s Proprietary Driver

XDG-Desktop-Portal as the portal front-end for Flatpaks is out with a new development release that brings accent color support to sandboxed desktop apps as well as other new features…

Source: Phoronix – XDG-Desktop-Portal 1.17.1 Released With Accent Color Support

GNU Coreutils 9.4 is out today as the latest version of this collection of utilities common to GNU/Linux systems and other platforms…

Source: Phoronix – GNU Coreutils 9.4 Adds Experimental “–enable-systemd” Option, Faster Split

The big set of Linux networking subsystem updates were sent out today for the recently-started Linux 6.6 kernel merge window. There are a number of core networking improvements this cycle, support for various new wired and wireless chipsets, and improvements made to existing Ethernet and WiFi drivers…

Source: Phoronix – Intel Gale Peak, New BPF Features & Other Networking Changes For Linux 6.6

To help harden the Linux kernel from memory vulnerabilities and in particular heap spraying, set to be merged into the Linux 6.6 kernel is optional support for randomized slab caches for kmalloc() calls…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.6 Adding Randomized Kmalloc Caches For Further System Hardening