📰 Kernel 7.2: RK3588 media, smarter GPU memory, and Rust foundations

Linux kernel 7.2 adds broad core, Rust, and hardware-support updates, with Collabora contributing 102 patches across graphics, media, virtualization, networking, power management, and SoC enablement.

🔗 Source: https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/kernel-7.2-rk3588-media,-smarter-gpu-memory,-and-rust-foundations.html

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https://collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/kernel-7.2-rk3588-media,-smarter-gpu-memory,-and-rust-foundations.html

📰 New AF_ALG Restrictions With Linux 7.3 Due To The Security & Maintenance Nightmare

The past few Linux kernel cycles have chipped away at AF_ALG functionality for that interface for user-space programs to access the kernel's internal cryptography API. Linux has been dropping AF_ALG features like zero-copy support and offloading. AF_ALG was quickly deprecated in Linux 7.2 while now for Linux 7.3 it's being further restricted...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-AF-ALG-Restrictions

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https://phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-AF-ALG-Restrictions

📰 Vanilla OS 3 “Reunion” Released with Reproducible Builds, ARM64 Support

Vanilla OS 3 “Reunion” is now available for download based on Debian GNU/Linux and powered by Linux kernel 7.1 and featuring the latest GNOME 50 desktop environment.

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https://9to5linux.com/vanilla-os-3-reunion-released-with-reproducible-builds-arm64-support

📰 Lots Of New Audio Hardware Support In Linux 7.3

Linux sound subsystem maintainer Takashi Iwai of SUSE submitted all of the sound feature updates last week for the Linux 7.3 kernel. Besides the continued AI/LLM-generated patch churn, the sound code for Linux 7.3 sees a lot of new hardware support...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Sound

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https://phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Sound

📰 DisplayPort 2.1 ALPM Still Being Worked On For Intel Xe3P / Nova Lake

The in-development Linux 7.3 kernel is marking Nova Lake Xe3P graphics as stable in being enabled by default and no longer hidden behind the "force probe" flag. While on-by-default, there still are some features that have yet to land like the DisplayPort 2.1 ALPM functionality...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-DP-2.1-ALPM-v5

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https://phoronix.com/news/Intel-DP-2.1-ALPM-v5

📰 The Modern NTFS Linux Driver Adds Read Support For Windows System Compression (WOF)

The pull requests for the existing Paragon NTFS3 kernel driver as well as the new modern "NTFS" drivers have been submitted for the ongoing Linux 7.3 kernel cycle. Besides bug fixes, most notable among these NTFS file-system drivers are Windows System Compression "WOF" read support for the modern NTFS driver...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-NTFS-Driver-WOF

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https://phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-NTFS-Driver-WOF

📰 Armbian 26.8 Released with Linux Kernel 7.1 and Rewritten Installer

Armbian 26.8 is now available with Linux kernel 7.1, a completely rewritten installer, Armbian Imager 2.0, and bootable UEFI ISO images.

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https://linuxiac.com/armbian-26-8-released-with-linux-kernel-7-1-and-rewritten-installer

📰 Multikernel Linux Releases First Public Kernel Tree Based on Linux 7.0

The first public Multikernel Linux release lets several independent kernels run side by side on one machine with dedicated CPUs, memory, and devices.

🔗 Source: /

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https://linuxiac.com/multikernel-linux-releases-first-public-kernel-tree-based-on-linux-7-0

📰 Fedora + Tuned-PPD Performance Regression Should Be Fixed With New Linux Kernel

Earlier this month when benchmarking six Linux distributions on the new Framework Laptop 13 Pro powered by Intel Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake", the performance was strangely slow on Fedora Workstation 44. When digging further into it, the performance loss was with Fedora 44 using Tuned-PPD by default where as other Linux distributions default to Power Profiles Daemon.

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-Tuned-PPD-Perf-Fix

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https://phoronix.com/news/Fedora-Tuned-PPD-Perf-Fix

📰 Patches Provide For Much Faster In-Kernel Zstd Due To Embarrassingly Bad Inefficiency

Patches sent out to the Linux kernel mailing list today can provide much more efficient Zstd compression and decompression by addressing a very unfortunate oversight in the existing code...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/In-Kernel-Zstd-BMI2-Probing

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https://phoronix.com/news/In-Kernel-Zstd-BMI2-Probing

📰 Btrfs, EXT4, F2FS & XFS On Linux 7.2 vs. Linux 7.3 Performance

Earlier this week I showed off some of the very nice Btrfs performance gains on Linux 7.3. For those wondering what kernel optimizations may have carried over to other file-systems or other file-system specific enhancements, here are Linux 7.2 vs. 7.3 Git performance benchmarks across Btrfs, EXT4, F2FS, and XFS on the same system.

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-73-filesystems

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https://phoronix.com/review/linux-73-filesystems

📰 AMD Preparing To Enable HDMI 2.1 FRL Support By Default For Linux

It was back in May that the surprising event happened of AMD posting HDMI 2.1 FRL patches for their open-source AMDGPU Linux driver as part of their broader HDMI 2.1 bring-up. For years the open-source HDMI 2.1 support in AMDGPU was blocked by the HDMI Forum but whether it was due to Valve or some other event, the code was finally unblocked. While it's been part of the kernel since Linux 7.

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-HDMI-2.1-FRL-Default

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https://phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-HDMI-2.1-FRL-Default

📰 Intel Linux Driver Orphaned For Limiting RF Exposure To Humans

Over the past year and a half a number of open-source drivers in the Linux kernel have been orphaned as a result of departures from the company. The impact has ranged from the Intel CPU "coretemp" temperature driver being orphaned without a maintainer to other lesser known Intel drivers. Another lesser known Intel driver is now being orphaned with no longer having a maintainer at the company: the Intel Specific Absorption Rate Driver...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Linux-SAR-Driver-Orphaned

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https://phoronix.com/news/Intel-Linux-SAR-Driver-Orphaned

📰 New Linux “Steal Governor” Targets CPU Contention in Overcommitted Virtual Machines

by George WhittakerLinux kernel developers are considering a new “steal governor” designed to improve performance when multiple virtual machines compete for limited physical CPU resources. The proposal uses the amount of CPU steal time observed inside a guest to dynamically reduce or expand the number of virtual CPUs on which that VM prefers to schedule work.

🔗 Source: https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/new-linux-steal-governor-targets-cpu-contention-overcommitted-virtual-machines

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https://linuxjournal.com/content/new-linux-steal-governor-targets-cpu-contention-overcommitted-virtual-machines

📰 The Linux Kernel Is Approaching 2,000 CVEs Per Release

With the proliferation of AI/LLM models analyzing the Linux kernel's vast codebase, there has been a surge in the number of CVEs per kernel release. After typically being around 500 CVEs fixed per release, we are now approaching 2,000 CVEs fixed per release and perhaps will break that threshold for Linux 7.3...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Kernel-CVEs-Nearly-2000

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https://phoronix.com/news/Linux-Kernel-CVEs-Nearly-2000