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GNOME's Help Viewer Updated Due To Flatpak Sandbox Escape Vulnerability

([GNOME] 11 May 10:36 AM EDT Yelp 49.1)

GNOME's help viewer, Yelp, last year was impacted by a serious security issue for arbitrary file reads. There's a new vulnerability affecting the GNOME help viewer that led to the Yelp 49.1 release to address a possible Flatpak sandbox escape vector.


Intel IGC 2.34.4 Compiler Brings Many Improvements

([Intel] 11 May 09:20 AM EDT Intel Graphics Compiler 2.34.4)

The Intel Graphics Compiler "IGC" 2.34.4 release is out today as this compiler used by the Intel Compute Runtime for Level Zero and OpenCL compute on Intel graphics hardware plus is also used as the graphics shader compiler under Windows.


F2FS Preparing FSERROR Reporting Support

([Linux Storage] 11 May 08:26 AM EDT F2FS FSERROR)

Introduced in Linux 7.0 was FSERROR as generic I/O error reporting infrastructure. Linux to that point had no standardized mechanism for reporting metadata corruption or file I/O errors to user-space with each file-system doing its own thing. The Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) is now the latest Linux file-system preparing for FSERROR usage.


Linux 7.2 To Add Support For Switchtec PCIe Gen6 Switches

([Hardware] 11 May 07:14 AM EDT Microchip Switchtec)

The upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel will be adding support for Microchip's Switchtec PCIe Gen6 switches.


AMD Ryzen AI & Intel NPU Drivers Adding New Power Features With Linux 7.2

([Hardware] 11 May 06:19 AM EDT AMD + Intel NPU Drivers)

Last week's drm-misc-next pull request of new Direct Rendering Manager and accelerator driver feature material destined for Linux 7.2 include some new power management control features both for the AMD Ryzen AI and Intel NPU drivers.


Sculpt OS 26.04 Can Finally Be Used To Self-Host For Developing/Building Genode

([Operating Systems] 11 May 06:01 AM EDT Sculpt OS 26.04)

Sculpt OS as the general purpose operating system built off the Genode OS Framework is out with a new feature release.


Linux 7.0.6 Released To Finish Mitigating the Dirty Frag Vulnerability

([Linux Kernel] 11 May 05:51 AM EDT Linux 7.0.6)

Linux 7.0.6 is out as stable this morning to finish mitigating the Dirty Frag vulnerability that was made public last week.


Linux 7.1-rc3 Released With Many Networking Changes

([Linux Kernel] 10 May 05:45 PM EDT Linux 7.1)

Linus Torvalds just issued the third weekly test candidate of the Linux 7.1 kernel with around a third of the patches being for the networking subsystem.


Axboe Hacking On New Linux Patches For 60% Increase To Per-Core I/O Performance

([Linux Storage] 10 May 07:13 AM EDT Exciting I/O Work)

Following a presentation at last week's Linux storage, file-system, memory management and BPF summit (LSFMM) in Croatia where Linux I/O overhead compared to the Storage Performance Development Kit (SPDK) was presented, Jens Axboe was motivated to pursue some new Linux kernel optimizations for greater per-core I/O performance. This lead IO_uring developer and Linux block maintainer has managed to achieve around a 60% increase to the per-core I/O performance with his latest patches.


Debian Release Team: Debian Must Now Ship Reproducible Packages

([Debian] 10 May 06:40 AM EDT Debian Reproducible Packages)

With half-way through the Debian 14 "Forky" development cycle, the Debian release team is out with an update this weekend and some big news.


OpenAI's Coding Agent Helped Create A New AMD Temperature Driver For Linux

([AMD] 10 May 06:28 AM EDT prom21-xhci)

The newest open-source AMD Linux driver on the Linux kernel mailing list that has recently been undergoing review is prom21-xhci that exposes the temperature sensors found on the AMD Promontory 21 chipsets' xHCI controllers.


Kconfirm Is On A Quest To Clean Up The Linux Kernel's Configuration System

([Linux Kernel] 9 May 08:29 PM EDT kconfirm)

New tooling being worked on for possible mainline Linux kernel inclusion is Kconfirm as a new tool for detecting misusage and efforts stemming from Kconfig, the configuration system for kernel builds.


Microsoft Releases Azure Linux 3.0.20260506 With Many Security Fixes

([Microsoft] 9 May 02:56 PM EDT Azure Linux 3.0.20260506)

Microsoft released Azure Linux 3.0.20260506 on Saturday in order to ship the latest security fixes affecting a wide variety of open-source software projects.


Nocturne Is The Latest Music Player For GNOME To Hit v1.0

([GNOME] 9 May 10:24 AM EDT Nocturne 1.0)

While since GNOME 48 Decibels is the new audio player of the GNOME desktop, there is no shortage of other GNOME/GTK-aligned music players. Last month was the big Amerbol music player update and there are Lollypop and others. The latest GNOME-aligned music player now hitting the 1.0 milestone is Nocturne.


Hyprland 0.55 Released With Lua-Based Configuration, User-Defined Layouts

([Wayland] 9 May 09:56 AM EDT Hyprland 0.55)

Hyprland 0.55 is out today as a big feature update for this Wayland-based compositor.


FEX 2605 Brings Performance Improvements, Initial Snapdragon X2 Elite Fixes

([Linux Gaming] 9 May 06:58 AM EDT FEX 2605)

FEX 2605 is out this weekend as the newest monthly feature release to this emulator for running Linux x86_64 binaries on ARM64 (AArch64) devices. This is the open-source project sponsored by Valve and planned for use with the upcoming Steam Frame as well as being relevant to Linux gaming on other 64-bit ARM laptops and other devices.


Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.3 Improves Handling Of Desktop Apps, Other Fixes

([Ubuntu] 9 May 06:45 AM EDT Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.3)

Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.3 is out this week as the latest maintenance release for this tablet/smartphone-focused Ubuntu distribution.


NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver 0.0.17 Fixes Support For GB10 Powered Systems

([NVIDIA] 9 May 06:19 AM EDT NVIDIA VA-API Driver)

The open-source, community-developed NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver that provides a Video Acceleration API (VA-API) implementation built atop NVIDIA's NVDEC video decode interface is out with a new release. This is the open-source project that's motivated by getting accelerated video decoding to work within Mozilla Firefox and other apps when running with NVIDIA's packaged Linux driver.


Linux Enables Auto Counter Reload "ACR" For Intel Xeon Diamond Rapids

([Intel] 9 May 06:12 AM EDT Auto Counter Reload)

Merged as part of the perf subsystem fixes overnight is enabling Auto Counter Reload (ACR) functionality for upcoming Intel Xeon Diamond Rapids processors. This ACR enabling for Diamond Rapids "DMR" is happening in time for Linux 7.1-rc3 on Sunday while the work is also marked for back-porting to existing stable kernels.


KDE Plasma 6.7 To Support ICC Profiles In HDR Mode, Direct Scan-Out Improvement

([KDE] 8 May 08:53 PM EDT KDE Plasma 6.7)

KDE developers continue to be quite busy in preparing additional Plasma 6.7 desktop features ahead of the stable release due out in mid-June.


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