Fwupd 2.0.20 Brings New Hardware Support
([LVFS] 26 February 07:27 AM EST
Fwupd 2.0.20)
Fwupd/LVFS lead developer Richard Hughes of Red Hat today released Fwupd 2.0.20 with continuing to advance firmware updating on Linux systems.
ZCULL Support For Nouveau + NVK Brings Some Small Performance Gains
([Nouveau] 26 February 06:10 AM EST
NVK ZCULL)
Merged yesterday to Mesa 26.1 for the open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver "NVK" is ZCULL support for more efficient rendering and bringing some small performance gains to this open-source NVIDIA driver stack.
Intel Vulkan Driver Sees Some Minor Optimizations For DX12 Games On Linux
([Intel] 26 February 05:57 AM EST
Intel ANV)
Merged to Mesa 26.1-devel this week is a minor improvement to the Intel "ANV" Vulkan driver providing some slight enhancements to DirectX 12 games running on Linux by way of Valve's Steam Play with VKD3D-Proton.
AlmaLinux Showing Nice Growth With More Than 2M System Update Check-Ins Per Week
([Operating Systems] 26 February 05:44 AM EST
AlmaLinux 2025 Year In Review)
AlmaLinux as one of the leading, modern and community-minded alternatives to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) continues enjoying very nice growth. In their 2025 Year In Review they provided a look at their growth with now having more than two million systems per week checking in for software updates.
GStreamer 1.28.1 Adds Whisper-Based Speech-To-Text, AV1 Stateful V4L2 Decoder Support
([Multimedia] 26 February 05:30 AM EST
GStreamer 1.28.1)
Building off January's GStreamer 1.28 release with many new features, GStreamer 1.28.1 was released today as a point release bringing various fixes and minor additions to this open-source multimedia framework.
Firefox 149 Beta Released With Convenient Split-View Mode
([Mozilla] 25 February 08:17 PM EST
Firefox 149 Beta)
Following the Firefox 148 release with the new AI controls, Mozilla promoted Firefox 149 to beta today.
b4's Review TUI With AI Integration Nearing Pre-Alpha Release
([Linux Kernel] 25 February 07:41 PM EST
b4 review)
The b4 tool used for managing patch workflows to the Linux kernel has been seeing a lot of work recently on b4 review as the text user interface (TUI) to help expedite the patch review process for the Linux kernel. The b4 review TUI has been integrating AI agent code review helpers powered by the likes of Claude Code too for trying to help enhance the efficiency for Linux kernel patch reviews. That b4 review work is quickly approaching a pre-alpha state.
Linux 6.18 LTS / 6.12 LTS / 6.6 LTS Support Periods Extended
([Linux Kernel] 25 February 03:19 PM EST
Linux Long Term Support)
Greg Kroah-Hartman today extended the planned maintenance periods of the latest Linux 6.18, Linux 6.12, and Linux 6.6 Long Term Support (LTS) kernel series.
LLVM Clang 22 Compiler Performance Largely Unchanged Over Clang 21 On AMD Zen 5
([Software] 25 February 03:05 PM EST
Add A Comment)
With yesterday's stable release of the LLVM Clang 22 compiler it didn't take long for Phoronix readers to begin asking about the performance of this half-year feature update to this prominent open-source C/C++ compiler. What I am seeing so far are no big surprises with the performance largely being similar to Clang 21 across various open-source C/C++ workloads in the testing thus far. This initial round of reference benchmark results between LLVM Clang 22, Clang 21, and Clang 20 were done on an AMD EPYC Turin (Zen 5) Linux server.
Mesa 26.0.1 Released With Important Security Fix For OOB Memory Access From WebGPU
([Mesa] 25 February 11:56 AM EST
Mesa 26.0.1)
Mesa 26.0.1 is now available as the first point release of this quarter's Mesa 26.0 series. Besides the usual bug fixing, Mesa 26.0.1 is more pressing than usual since it contains a security fix for possible out-of-bounds memory access in WebGPU contexts from web browsers.
systemd 260-rc1 Released: New "mstack" Feature, System V Service Scripts No Longer Supported
([systemd] 25 February 11:16 AM EST
systemd 260)
The first release candidate of systemd 260 is now available for testing. Systemd 260 finally does away with System V service scripts support. Also notable to systemd 260 is the work around the new "mstack" feature.
Sub-Scheduler Support Could Be One Of The Most Exciting Features To Come For Linux 7.1
([Linux Kernel] 25 February 11:00 AM EST
cgroup sub-scheduler)
While there are many great Linux 7.0 features with that still-young development cycle, looking ahead to Linux 7.1 this summer there's an interesting feature on track: cgroup sub-scheduler support for sched_ext.
AMD Announces The EPYC 8005 "Sorano" Series
([AMD] 25 February 09:20 AM EST
AMD EPYC 8005 Series)
The EPYC 9005 series for high-end Zen 5 server processors is a year and a half old and then at the lower-end of the spectrum is the EPYC 4005 series AM5 server processors that launched last year. On the embedded side is also the EPYC Embedded 2005 series. AMD has now filled the void between with the long-awaited EPYC 8005 series.
Arm & Linaro Launch New "CoreCollective" Consortium - With Backing From AMD & Others
([Standards] 25 February 09:00 AM EST
CoreCollective)
The embargo just lifted on an interesting new industry consortium... CoreCollective. The CoreCollective consortium is focused on open collaboration in the Arm software ecosystem and to a large extent what Linaro has already been doing for the past decade and a half. Interestingly though with CoreCollective for open collaboration in the Arm software ecosystem, AMD is now onboard as a founding member along with various other vendors.
GTK 4.22 In Good Shape With Better SVG Support
([GNOME] 25 February 08:21 AM EST
GTK SVG)
Matthias Clasen shared an update today concerning the state of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) within GNOME's GTK toolkit.
Systing 1.0 Released For Rust-Based eBPF-Based Tracing Tool Leveraging AI
([AI] 25 February 06:11 AM EST
Systing 1.0)
Josef Bacik, of Btrfs notoriety before leaving Meta and stepping back from kernel development last year, announced the release of Systing 1.0. Systing is a newer eBPF-tracing tool for Linux complete with AI integration.
OpenZFS 2.4.1 Released With Linux 6.19 Compatibility, Many Fixes
([Linux Storage] 25 February 05:57 AM EST
OpenZFS 2.4.1)
Following the big OpenZFS 2.4 release back in December, OpenZFS 2.4.1 was released overnight to ship support for the latest Linux 6.19 stable kernel plus a variety of different bug fixes.
FreeRDP 3.23 Addresses 11 CVEs, Improved SDL Client
([Free Software] 25 February 05:43 AM EST
FreeRDP 3.23)
For those making use of the open-source FreeRDP project for your Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) needs, FreeRDP 3.23 is out today with 11 CVEs addressed in taking care of various security-related issues that have been uncovered.
AMD Posts Linux Patches For SEV-SNP BTB Isolation
([AMD] 24 February 08:44 PM EST
SEV-SNP BTB Isolation)
It's quite a mouthful but today AMD posted Linux kernel patches for preparing SEV-SNP BTB isolation support for further enhancing the security of virtual machines (VMs) for confidential computing.
Lutris 0.5.21 Adds Support For Running Games Inside Valve's Latest Steam Runtime
([Linux Gaming] 24 February 08:08 PM EST
Lutris 0.5.21 Game Manager)
Lutris 0.5.21 is now available as the latest version of this open-source Linux game manager. With Lutris 0.5.21 comes some new runners for executing games in different environments.