ARM Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life (Terry Pratchett, Jingo)

AMD Bus Lock Trap Support Merged For Linux 6.13

([AMD] 22 November 09:00 AM EST AMD Bus Lock Trap)

Going back to early in the year AMD Linux engineers began preparing support for a new Bus Lock Trap feature with Zen 5 CPUs. With the in-development Linux 6.13 kernel that support is being merged.



Sched_Ext Changes Merged For Linux 6.13 With LLC & NUMA Awareness

([Linux Kernel] 22 November 06:47 AM EST sched_ext)

One of the most prominent new features in Linux 6.12 was the merging of sched_ext for allowing extensible scheduler innovations by altering the scheduling behavior through (e)BPF programs. With the Linux 6.13 kernel there are some nice refinements to this extensible scheduler class.



XFS With Linux 6.13 Sees Major Rework To Real-Time Volumes

([Linux Storage] 22 November 06:25 AM EST XFS + Linux 6.13)

The XFS file-system updates were merged yesterday for the ongoing Linux 6.13 merge window.



Intel NPU Library v1.4 Adds Turbo Mode & Tensor Operations

([Intel] 22 November 06:16 AM EST Intel NPU)

Version 1.4 of the Intel NPU Acceleration Library was released today as the Python library for use on Windows and Linux for interacting with the Intel Neural Processing Unit (NPU) for AI offloading on recent Intel Core Ultra processors.



New Sound Hardware Support In Linux 6.13

([Multimedia] 22 November 06:05 AM EST Linux 6.13 Sounds Great)

SUSE engineer and sound subsystem maintainer Takashi Iwai has submitted all of the sound driver updates for the Linux 6.13 kernel.



Nice File Performance Optimizations Coming With Linux 6.13

([Linux Storage] 21 November 09:02 PM EST VFS File Pull)

In addition to the pull requests managed by Microsoft engineer Christian Brauner for VFS untorn writes for atomic writes with XFS and EXT4, Tmpfs case insensitive file/folder support, new Rust file abstractions, and the renewed multi-grain timestamps work, another interesting Linux 6.13 pull submitted by Brauner revolves around VFS file enhancements.



Faster Raspberry Pi Graphics & Intel Xe3 Enablement Starts With Linux 6.13 DRM Changes

([Linux Kernel] 21 November 04:27 PM EST Linux 6.13 DRM)

The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem updates have been submitted for the Linux 6.13 merge window in bringing many updates to the open-source kernel graphics/display drivers as well as the accelerator subsystem.



ReiserFS Has Been Deleted From The Linux Kernel

([Linux Storage] 21 November 01:15 PM EST ReiserFS Killed)

Linus Torvalds just merged the change to the Linux 6.13 kernel that goes ahead and deletes the ReiserFS file-system from the source tree. Removing ReiserFS from the Linux tree lightens the kernel by 32.8k lines of code.



Mesa 24.3 Released With Many Open-Source Vulkan Driver Improvements

([Mesa] 21 November 12:20 PM EST Mesa 24.3)

Mesa 24.3 has managed to make it out today, one week ahead of the previous release plans due to the lack of any major blocker bugs appearing. Mesa 24.3 has a lot of new feature work on the contained open-source Vulkan drivers as well as evolutionary improvements to their OpenGL drivers and other user-space 3D driver code.



Linux 6.13 SoC Updates Land With Initial Support For Many Older Apple Devices

([Hardware] 21 November 10:17 AM EST Linux 6.13 SoC)

The four pull requests adding various SoC and board/platform support have now been merged for the Linux 6.13 kernel. This includes support for many older Apple iPad/iPhones, supporting another SoC with a combination of RISC-V and ARM cores, and a wide variety of other mostly ARM hardware support.



Zrythm 1.0 Released For Powerful Open-Source Digital Audio Workstation

([Free Software] 21 November 10:00 AM EST Zrythm 1.0)

Zrythm 1.0 released today as a big milestone for this open-source digital audio workstation (DAW) software that caters from professional users down to beginners.



Khronos Announces Slang Initiative From Open-Source NVIDIA Code

([Standards] 21 November 09:42 AM EST Slang Initiative)

On top of an exciting Vulkan spec update out today, The Khronos Group has announced the Slang Initiative based on NVIDIA's open-source Slang compiler code.



VKD3D 1.14 Released With Initial Metal Shading Language Output

([Vulkan] 21 November 08:35 AM EST VKD3D 1.14)

Ahead of the upcoming freeze for Wine 10.0, VKD3D 1.14 is now available for this prominent Wine component that allows Direct3D 12 to be implemented over the Vulkan API for enhancing Windows games/apps running on Linux and other platforms.



Linux 6.13 EDAC Preps For Panther Lake H & Missing Support For Old Kabylake S CPUs

([Hardware] 21 November 06:34 AM EST Linux 6.13 EDAC)

The Error Detection And Correction (EDAC) subsystem updates landed this week for the ongoing Linux 6.13 kernel merge window.



PHP 8.4 Released With Property Hooks, Lazy Objects & Other New Features

([Programming] 21 November 06:24 AM EST PHP 8.4)

PHP 8.4 is out today as the newest annual major feature release to this widely-used scripting language.



Vulkan 1.3.302 Published With AV1 Encode & NVIDIA Display Stereo Extensions

([Vulkan] 21 November 05:50 AM EST Vulkan 1.3.302)

Vulkan 1.3.302 was published this morning with a handful of new extensions, including AV1 encode support for Vulkan Video.



Bcachefs Changes Rejected Reportedly Due To CoC, Kernel Future "Uncertain"

([Linux Storage] 20 November 10:34 PM EST Bcachefs)

While the Bcachefs feature changes for Linux 6.13 were already submitted even before the Linux 6.12 stable kernel was released, merging these changes are supposedly on hold due to the kernel's Code of Conduct (CoC) board.



Linux 6.13 Adds Support For Ultra Capacity SD Cards "SDUC" For 2TB To 128TB Storage

([Hardware] 20 November 08:22 PM EST Secure Digital Ultra Capacity)

Linux 6.13 has merged support for the Secure Digital Ultra Capacity "SDUC" standard for 2TB to 128TB storage capacity SD cards.



Linux 6.13 "MM" Patches Bring Some Enticing Performance Optimizations

([Linux Kernel] 20 November 02:42 PM EST Memory Management)

Andrew Morton on Monday submitted all the memory management "MM" related patches for the Linux 6.13 merge window. As usual there's a lot of interesting performance optimizations and other low-level refinements.



Many Networking Changes In Linux 6.13 - One Line Of Code Helping WireGuard Performance

([Linux Networking] 20 November 01:22 PM EST Linux 6.13 Networking)

The abundance of networking subsystem updates have been mailed in for the Linux 6.13 kernel from wired and wireless driver enhancements to core networking code improvements.



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