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Nouveau Lands Display Fixes For NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs As It Works Toward HDMI 2.1

([Nouveau] 5 September 07:20 AM EDT Nouveau + Blackwell GPU Displays)

This week's Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) fixes that were merged ahead of Sunday's Linux 7.3-rc2 release contain a number of fixes to the open-source Nouveau driver's display support for current-generation NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs.



Linux Patches Posted For Initial Enablement Of The Apple A18 Pro + MacBook Neo

([Apple] 5 September 07:11 AM EDT Linux On MacBook Neoo)

In addition to Linux developers focused on Apple Silicon being busy enabling functionality for the M3 and newer SoCs under the Linux kernel, there are also developers working on enabling the A18 Pro SoC used by the new, budget-friendly MacBook Neo laptop. Patches were posted this week for initial enablement of the A18 Pro and the MacBook Neo Device Tree... But even with these patches, the Linux support is still severely limited for now.



AMD Working To "Push Rust Deep Into The GPU Stack"

([AMD] 5 September 06:48 AM EDT AMD GPUs + Rust)

AMD is building out what they are describing as an "elite" team of developers for driving Rust code "deep into the GPU stack" from firmware to drivers, shader compilers, and other GPU software in Rust.



GNOME Stakeholders Discussing RFC Process For Solving Major Technical Changes

([GNOME] 5 September 06:31 AM EDT GNOME RFC Process)

GNOME has been working to establish a formal request for comments (RFC) process for solving major technical questions and changes moving forward. A drafted RFC is now under discussion by GNOME stakeholders for moving this process forward.



KDE Plasma 6.8 Lands Windows-Like Auto-Scrolling, Lower vRAM Usage For Breeze Theme

([KDE] 4 September 05:00 PM EDT KDE Plasma 6.8)

It's been an exciting start to the month of September for KDE Plasma developers with continuing to land last minute improvements for Plasma 6.8 ahead of its official release in mid-October.



Wine 11.17 Released With Initial Support For Display Mode Emulation

([WINE] 4 September 04:11 PM EDT Wine 11.17)

Wine 11.17 is out today as the newest bi-weekly feature development release for this software enabling Windows games and apps to run on Linux.



Amazon Linux 2027 Shows Off Nice Performance Gains On AMD EPYC In The AWS Cloud

([Cloud] 4 September 11:33 AM EDT 5 Comments)

Yesterday AWS announced the public preview of Amazon Linux 2027 as their successor to the current Amazon Linux 2023 in-house distribution. With all the software upgrades and improvements like building packages now with link-time optimizations (LTO), enforcing x86-64-v3 builds, and other changes, I was eager to run some performance benchmarks of Amazon Linux 2023 vs. Amazon Linux 2027 in the EC2 cloud.



NetworkManager Works To Enforce AI Policy By Tricking AI Agents To Add A Canary

([Linux Networking] 4 September 10:52 AM EDT NetworkManager Blocking AI)

Last month the NetworkManager project adopted an AI coding policy where authors are responsible for 100% of the code they submit and must be able to explain it all. In an attempt to catch AI coding agents that may be trying to bypass their policy, they have added an interesting canary to the project to try to catch such AI-generated patches so they can then be automatically dealt with.



PoCL 7.2 Released With Official OpenCL 3.0 Conformance On RISC-V & x86_64 CPUs

([Standards] 4 September 10:33 AM EDT PoCL 7.2)

The Portable Computing Language project is out today with PoCL 7.2 as this portable, MIT-licensed OpenCL implementation that runs across various CPU architectures as well as targeting other GPUs/hardware with LLVM back-ends. Notable with PoCL 7.2 is bringing official OpenCL 3.0 conformance on x86_64 and RISC-V processors.



XDC 2026 Will Feature Many Interesting Talks: Vulkan Gallium, OpenCL On CUDA & More

([X.Org] 4 September 09:05 AM EDT XDC 2026)

The annual X.Org Developer's Conference "XDC 2026" is happening later this month in Toronto. A great number of interesting talks are planned this year from new Wayland features to OpenCL over CUDA, the possibility of Vulkan Gallium, and a lot of exciting driver developments.



Linux 7.4 To Improve Apple Silicon Audio Support & Its "Impossible" Power Management

([Apple] 4 September 08:13 AM EDT Shared GPIO)

The Apple Silicon audio driver code within the Linux kernel is preparing to make use of the recent shared GPIO infrastructure for allowing multiple drivers / kernel components to nicely share the same GPIO lines. This should help clean things up in the mainline kernel for the Apple Silicon audio support and with a cleaner architecture than the current downstream Asahi Linux code.



Fedora 47 Considering Use Of Thin LTO Compiler Optimizations

([Fedora] 4 September 06:32 AM EDT Thin LTO vs. Fat LTO)

A change proposal filed for what would be part of Fedora Linux 47 is on making use of Thin LTO rather than Fat LTO for link-time optimizations. With Thin LTO being more memory efficient and faster build speeds, the hope is that more Fedora packages could also use Thin LTO for packages where no link-time optimizations are currently leveraged.



Mesa 26.3 Preps For Intel Nova Lake P's New 64-bit GPU Mode

([Intel] 4 September 06:20 AM EDT New Intel 64-bit Mode For GPUs)

Merged overnight for Mesa 26.3 are changes to Intel's graphics compiler code for supporting a new 64-bit shader addressing mode. It turns out with upcoming Nova Lake P graphics will be a big fundamental change.



Vulkan 1.4.362 Released With New Extension Developed By Valve

([Vulkan] 4 September 05:56 AM EDT Vulkan 1.4.362)

Vulkan 1.4.362 is out this morning as the newest routine spec update. Making Vulkan 1.4.362 more notable beyond a couple bug fixes are two new Vulkan API extensions, both of which were worked on by Valve's Linux graphics team and one of them being a Valve vendor extension.



Ubuntu 26.10 Snapshot 3 Monthly ISOs Released For Testing

([Ubuntu] 3 September 08:15 PM EDT Ubuntu 26.10)

Released tonight is Ubuntu 26.10 "Stonking Stingray" Snapshot 3 as the newest monthly ISO candidates for Ubuntu Linux.



Amazon Linux 2027 Now in Preview: Powered By Linux 7.1, x86-64-v3 & Built With LTO

([Operating Systems] 3 September 05:13 PM EDT Amazon Linux 2027)

AWS announced today the public preview of Amazon Linux 2027. Given the time since Amazon Linux 2023, Amazon Linux 2027 comes with a heavy arsenal of software updates as well as many performance optimizations and other tuning for better running workloads geared for the AWS cloud.



Intel Improving Its Content Match Refresh Rate "CMRR" Feature With Linux 7.4

([Intel] 3 September 01:57 PM EDT Intel CMRR)

Introduced with the Xe2 Lunar Lake graphics hardware was support for Content Match Refresh Rate (CMRR) as an improvement over typical Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) / Adaptive-Sync to more precisely match the video or content frame rates. Particularly for video playback it aims for no stuttering or frame drops. With the upcoming Linux 7.4 kernel will be better support for CMRR with the Intel graphics driver.



Mir 2.29 Released With Additional Wayland Protocols

([Ubuntu] 3 September 01:18 PM EDT Mir 2.29)

For those using Canonical's Mir compositor for building Wayland-based shells, Mir 2.29 is now available with various improvements and new Wayland protocol coverage.



LLVM Developers Begin Debate Over AGENTS.md For Helping AI Agents

([LLVM] 3 September 11:45 AM EDT LLVM AGENTS.md?)

LLVM developers have begun a discussion on whether the project should host an AGENTS.md file (and CLAUDE.md) in their Git repository for helping to guide AI agents.



21st Revision Of Patches For Getting Linux To Shutdown Devices Asynchronously

([Linux Kernel] 3 September 09:03 AM EDT Shutdown Async)

Being worked on for over two years has been the latest attempt for async device shutdown support for Linux for getting Linux systems -- especially servers with lots of hardware like many NVMe drives -- to shutdown faster. That work is now up to its 21st version as it works toward hopefully making it to the mainline kernel in the not too distant future.



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