Debian 10 “Buster” already is making use of IPTables’ Netfilter back-end by default in their path to deprecate IPTables while for Debian 11 the deprecation will continue further…
Source: Phoronix – Debian 11 To Further Deprecate IPTables In Favor Of Nftables Plus Promoting Firewalld
Sony engineers working on the PlayStation compiler toolchain continue upstreaming various improvements to the LLVM source tree for helping the AMD APUs powering their latest game console…
Source: Phoronix – Sony Pushes More AMD Jaguar Optimizations To Upstream LLVM 10 Compiler
Google announced their new USB-C Titan Security Key will begin shipping tomorrow for offering two-factor authentication support with not only Android devices but all the major operating systems as well…
Source: Phoronix – Google USB-C Titan Security Keys Begin Shipping Tomorrow
For those that have been interested in AMD’s EPYC 7002 “Rome” processors for your own server build, more 7002 series supported motherboards have been hitting Internet stores in recent weeks. If you are looking for one of the lower-cost motherboards, ASRock Rack’s EPYCD8 motherboards have been refined with 7001/7002 series processor support.
Source: Phoronix – ASRock Rack EPYCD8 Series Make For Great Value AMD EPYC Motherboards With Rome Support
With devices beginning to hit store shelves using the new Intel WiFi 6 AX200 series chipsets, the firmware binaries have landed in linux-firmware.git for rounding out support for these latest WiFi/Bluetooth adapters…
Source: Phoronix – Intel Firmware Binaries Land For AX200/AX201 Bluetooth Linux Support
Two years after the “Stack Clash” vulnerability came to light, the LLVM compiler is working on adding protection against it similar to the GCC compiler mitigation…
Source: Phoronix – LLVM “Stack Clash” Compiler Protection Is Under Review
SHADERed is the open-source, cross-platform project for creating and testing HLSL/GLSL shaders. While a version number of 1.2.3 may not seem like a big update, some notable additions can be found within this new SHADERed release…
Source: Phoronix – SHADERed 1.2.3 Released With Support For 3D Textures & Audio Shaders
Version 1.4 has been released of POCL, the “Portable Computing Language” implementation that allows for a portable OpenCL implementation to be executed on CPUs as well as optionally targeting other accelerators via HSA or even CUDA devices…
Source: Phoronix – POCL 1.4 Released For Advancing OpenCL On CPUs – Now Supports LLVM 9.0
Succeeding Vulkan 1.1.124 one week later is now Vulkan 1.1.125 with a lone new extension…
Source: Phoronix – Vulkan 1.1.125 Released With SPIR-V 1.4 Support
Linus Torvalds has just issued the third weekly release candidate of the forthcoming Linux 5.4 kernel that should debut as stable before the end of November…
Source: Phoronix – Linux 5.4-rc3 Released Ahead Of Official Kernel Debut In November
For those not following on Twitter, recently I picked up one of the new Dell XPS 7390 laptops for finally being able to deliver Linux benchmarks from Intel Ice Lake! Yes, it’s real and running under Linux! For those eyeing the Dell XPS 7390 with this being the first prominent laptop with Ice Lake, here is a brief look at the initial experience with using Ubuntu 19.10.
Source: Phoronix – Ubuntu 19.10 Provides Good Out-Of-The-Box Support For The Dell XPS 7390 Icelake Laptop
WireGuard is still working on transitioning to the Linux kernel’s existing crypto API as a faster approach to finally make it into the mainline kernel, but for those using the out-of-tree WireGuard secure VPN tunnel support, a new development release is available…
Source: Phoronix – WireGuard 0.0.20191012 Released With Latest Fixes
The openSUSE’s Open Build Service (OBS) has been picking up the ability to build Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) images for those wishing to craft their own WSL distribution or just rebuild openSUSE from source as a reproducible/verifiable build…
Source: Phoronix – OpenSUSE’s OBS Can Now Spin Windows Subsystem for Linux Images
While longtime X11 developer Keith Packard is now working for SiFive on RISC-V processors by day, he’s still involved in the Linux graphics world through his contract work for Valve. At the XDC2019 conference earlier this month he presented on display timing, the current Linux plumbing for it, and also bringing up Vulkan will better support variable rate displays in the future…
Source: Phoronix – Vulkan To Better Handle Variable Rate Displays / Adaptive-Sync In The Future
With many of the prominent fixes that we’ve talked about for GNOME Shell and Mutter since last month’s 3.34 release having been back-ported to 3.34.1, this weekend’s release of GNOME Shell 3.35.1 and Mutter 3.35.1 as the first steps towards GNOME 3.36 aren’t all that big. But at least in the case of this new Mutter development release are some worthwhile fixes…
Source: Phoronix – GNOME’s Mutter 3.35.1 Fixes The Night Light Mode On Wayland
Lead developer of the open-source Godot 2D/3D game engine Juan Linietsky has continued working daily on the engine’s Vulkan renderer ahead of Godot 4.0…
Source: Phoronix – Godot’s Vulkan Renderer Is Getting Into Increasingly Good Shape
With KDE Plasma 5.17 releasing soon, it’s been seeing a lot of last minute fixes while feature activity is also brewing around Plasma 5.18…
Source: Phoronix – KDE Plasma 5.17 Seeing Last Minute Bug Fixing
GNU Binutils 2.33 was tagged in Git two weeks ago but seemingly without any release announcement while now Binutils 2.33.1 has been released…
Source: Phoronix – GNU Binutils 2.33.1 Released With Support For Newer Arm Cortex CPUs, SVE2/TME/MVE
Red Hat had been looking to hire another experienced open-source graphics driver developer and for that their newest member on their growing open-source graphics team is a longtime AMD/ATI developer…
Source: Phoronix – Red Hat’s New Graphics Engineer Is A Longtime AMD/ATI Linux Developer
FreeBSD 12.1 is near with the first release candidate shipping this weekend. While a point release over the nearly one year old FreeBSD 12.0, it does come with some notable changes in tow…
Source: Phoronix – FreeBSD 12.1 Is Near With Libomp Finally In Base, LLD Linker By Default For i386