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PostgreSQL Database Lands Initial Support For IO_uring: "Can Be Considerably Faster"

([Linux Storage] 27 March 06:43 AM EDT PostgreSQL + IO_uring)

As a very exciting improvement for the open-source PostgreSQL database server, it has merged initial support for making use of IO_uring on Linux servers for asynchronous I/O and can provide for some nice performance improvements.



Linux 6.15 Brings Support For New Sound Hardware, Continued SoundWire Improvements

([Multimedia] 27 March 06:23 AM EDT Linux 6.15 Sound)

Linux sound subsystem maintainer Takashi Iwai of SUSE has submitted all the feature updates slated for Linux 6.15. There is a lot of new audio hardware support and other enhancements that are now merged for this next kernel release.



RadeonSI Goes Rusticl-Only, Clearing Out Support For Old Clover OpenCL

([Radeon] 27 March 06:07 AM EDT RadeonSI)

Earlier this month Mesa deprecated the Clover OpenCL driver in favor of the modern Rust-written Rusticl Gallium3D state tracker. Clover is expected to be removed in Q3's Mesa 25.2 release while today the RadeonSI driver has decided to preemptively remove its Clover support.



NVIDIA Vulkan Beta Driver Introduces BFloat16 Support

([Nouveau] 26 March 08:32 PM EDT NVIDIA + VK_KHR_shader_bfloat16)

NVIDIA has published new Vulkan beta driver builds for Windows and Linux that introduce VK_KHR_shader_bfloat16 for BFloat16 "BF16" support within shaders.



Linux 6.15 Adds Support For The New AMD Versal NET SoC

([AMD] 26 March 03:38 PM EDT FPGA + ARM Cotex-A78 Cores)

Submitted today for upstreaming into the Linux 6.15 kernel is support for the Versal NET SoC, an addition to the AMD/Xilinx Versal family that doesn't appear to have been talked about much publicly yet but should be an interesting addition to their product line-up.



Microsoft Announces Open-Source "Hyperlight Wasm" Project

([Microsoft] 26 March 01:44 PM EDT Hyperlight Wasm)

Microsoft last year announced the open-source Hyperlight project as an embedded VMM for use as a micro-VM manager of sorts that can be run within Windows and Linux applications. This VM-based security for small embedded functions now has its scope expanded with the open-source release today of Hyperlight Wasm for bringing in WebAssembly to the party.



Linux 6.15 Adds AMD Zen 5 SRSO Mitigation For KVM, Preps For Attack Vector Controls

([Linux Security] 26 March 01:36 PM EDT Linux 6.15 x86 bugs)

While there is a lot of exciting new x86_64 CPU features coming with Linux 6.15, there is also some of the not so fun changes too: namely the "x86/bugs" pull request to bring the latest CPU security mitigation work to the mainline kernel.



Linux 6.15 Continues Improving Laptop Support

([Hardware] 26 March 10:47 AM EDT Linux 6.15 Laptops)

The x86 platform drivers co-maintainer Ilpo Järvinen sent out the pull request today of all the feature additions set for the in-development Linux 6.15 kernel. As usual, most of the platform-drivers-x86 material is around improvements to benefit modern Intel Core and AMD Ryzen laptops.



Linux 6.15 Adds Raptor Lake-S Support To Intel EDAC Driver

([Hardware] 26 March 08:53 AM EDT Out-Of-Bad ECC + Multi Memory Controller)

The Linux Error Detection And Correction (EDAC) subsystem updates have been merged for the ongoing Linux 6.15 kernel.



AerynOS 2025.03 Released Following Rebrand From Serpent OS

([Operating Systems] 26 March 07:01 AM EDT AerynOS 2025.03)

AerynOS 2025.03 is now available for this Linux distribution that began life as Serpent OS as a new original distribution started by Ikey Doherty of Solus Linux fame.



KDE Developers Begin Working On A New Login Manager

([KDE] 26 March 06:48 AM EDT KDE Login Manager)

KDE developer David Edmundson has published a lengthy blog post today outlining the long-standing challenges they have with the SDDM display manager, unimplemented features they want out of a log-in manager, and acknowledging GNOME's GDM as a "gold standard" for display managers. While not yet an official project, they have begun working on a new KDE Login Manager for improving the situation.



IBM Says Goodbye To Cell Blade Servers With Linux 6.15

([Hardware] 26 March 06:34 AM EDT IBM Cell Blades)

The Linux 6.15 kernel is set to remove support for IBM Cell Blade servers for those server platforms from around two decades ago that used the Cell Broadband Engine Architecture processors. IBM Cell Blades at the time powered a few supercomputers but these IBM QS20 / QS21 / QS22 platforms are no longer relevant and the IBM Linux kernel maintainers no longer even have these platforms available/running. With no apparent users remaining, it's time to say goodbye to the IBM Cell Blades from the mainline kernel.



Minor VFS File Optimizations Merged For Linux 6.15

([Linux Kernel] 26 March 05:12 AM EDT VFS File)

Among other Linux Virtual File-System (VFS) changes submitted and already merged for Linux 6.15 was a set of minor performance optimizations around VFS file operations.



Intel Low Power Mode Daemon 0.0.9 Released For Linux Users

([Intel] 26 March 06:08 AM EDT Intel LPMD)

Intel engineers today released LPMD 0.0.9, the newest version of their open-source Low Power Mode Daemon for Linux systems to optimize active idle power consumption on Intel Core processors.



Microsoft Brings Two More Features To Hyper-V With Linux 6.15

([Microsoft] 26 March 05:53 AM EDT Hyper-V)

With the Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization updates for the Linux 6.15 kernel there are two new features worth mentioning.



Linux 6.15 Goes Very Heavy On Intel & AMD x86_64 CPU Changes

([Hardware] 25 March 08:42 PM EDT x86/core)

Merged today for the recently-opened Linux 6.15 merge window were all of the "x86/core" changes that are particularly heavy on new feature work for both Intel and AMD x86/x86_64 processors. This is easily quite one of the most significant Intel/AMD CPU set of updates in a given kernel cycle in quite some time.



XZ 5.8 Debuts As First Major Feature Release Since The Backdoor Disaster

([Free Software] 25 March 02:33 PM EDT XZ 5.8)

XZ 5.8 is out today as the first notable feature release since last year's malicious backdoor in XZ 5.6 inserted by a then-co-maintainer of the project. XZ 5.6.2 was out last May while XZ 5.8.0 is now stable today for bringing new features to this lossless data compressor project.



MPV 0.40 Media Player Released With Wayland HDR Support

([Multimedia] 25 March 01:43 PM EDT MPV 0.40)

MPV 0.40 was just released as the newest version of this open-source media player derived from MPlayer/MPlayer2. With the MPV 0.40 release there is support for HDR videos on Wayland using the new color management protocol along with a variety of other new features.



Fwupd 2.0.7 Released With New Plug-Ins & Additional Hardware Support

([LVFS] 25 March 12:40 PM EDT Fwupd 2.0.7)

Fwupd 2.0.7 brings the newest plug-ins and expanded hardware support for being able to update a variety of system and device/peripheral firmware under Linux.



NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Linux Gaming/Graphics Performance

([Graphics Cards] 25 March 12:45 PM EDT 14 Comments)

Earlier this month for launch-day there were NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Linux GPU compute benchmarks. The graphics/gaming benchmarks of the GeForce RTX 5070 on Linux were held up by waiting for a new R570 Linux driver release with proper support for this new Blackwell graphics card. Last week that new Linux driver arrived in the form of the NVIDIA 570.133.07 Linux build. That new NVIDIA Linux driver is working out great with the GeForce RTX 5070 Founder's Edition and in this article are some initial Linux gaming/graphics performance benchmarks for that new graphics card competing with the AMD Radeon RX 9070 series.



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