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ConfigFS Prepares Rust Support For Linux 6.16

([Linux Storage] 25 May 02:52 PM EDT ConfigFS + Rust)

ConfigFS is seeing a new maintainer step up to manage this RAM-based file-system. With Andreas Hindborg taking over maintainership of ConfigFS he's also landing patches authored by him for adding Rust programming language support to this file-system.



Btrfs To See More Performance Improvements With Linux 6.16

([Linux Storage] 25 May 08:44 AM EDT Btrfs + Linux 6.16)

Ahead of the Linux 6.16 merge window opening, several early pull requests were already sent out this week in advance of Linux 6.15 expected for release later today. Among those early feature pulls was Btrfs maintainer David Sterba sending out updates to this advanced copy-on-write file-system.



Dell Latitude 7455 Is The Newest Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite Laptop Seeing Linux Patches

([Hardware] 25 May 06:41 AM EDT Dell Latitude 7455 X1E-80-100)

The Dell Latitude 7455 (X1E-80-100) is the latest laptop powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite SoC seeing patches for enabling Linux support.



Linux 6.16 Features Include A Lot From Intel, NVIDIA Blackwell, AMDGPU User Mode Queues

([Linux Kernel] 25 May 06:23 AM EDT Linux 6.16 Features)

With Linux 6.15 there are many exciting new features for this kernel version expected to debut as stable later today. Following the Linux 6.15 stable release, the Linux 6.16 merge window will then open. Here is an early look at a portion of the changes anticipated to be submitted and more than likely merged for this next kernel version.



More Gaming Controllers From Turtle Beach & PowerA Supported By Linux 6.15

([Hardware] 25 May 05:57 AM EDT Linux 6.15 XPad Driver)

Ahead of the Linux 6.15 kernel stable release expected later today, more input driver updates have been merged for this new kernel version that include introducing compatibility with some newer gaming controllers.



Rust Coreutils 0.1 Released With Big Performance Gains - Can Match Or Exceed GNU Speed

([Free Software] 24 May 07:24 PM EDT Rust Coreutils 0.1)

With Ubuntu 25.10 planning to ship the Rust-based Coreutils "uutils" by default, it's a big year ahead for this alternative to GNU Coreutils. In furthering along the project's goals, today marks the Rust Coreutils v0.1 release.



GNOME Web Making It Easier To Toggle WebKit Features

([GNOME] 24 May 09:18 AM EDT GNOME Web)

The GNOME Web "Epiphany" web browser is making it easier to toggle WebKit web engine features at run-time.



Mike Blumenkrantz Axes Old Mesa Code: Goodbye Gallium Nine

([Mesa] 24 May 06:14 AM EDT Gallium Nine Is Dead)

While there was the big 62k lines of code patch from Microsoft merged yesterday to Mesa, separately there was also some code cleaning to remove some previously-deprecated code from the codebase.



GCC 16 Lands Better Support For -march= Targeting On RISC-V

([GNU] 24 May 05:30 AM EDT GCC -march=)

Merged on Friday for the GCC 16 compiler is better handling of the "-march=" compiler option on RISC-V systems when seeing multiple -march= hits and wanting to specify the RISC-V CPU name for targeting.



Cloud Hypervisor 46 Deprecates SGX Support, Google To Take Over TDX Maintenance

([Virtualization] 24 May 05:55 AM EDT Cloud Hypervisor 46)

While the open-source, Rust-based Cloud Hypervisor project was started by Intel as a modern VMM for cloud workloads and focused on security, some Intel CPU features are now bit-rotting. In turn the new Cloud Hypervisor 46 release has deprecated support for Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX) while even their modern Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) feature is in jeopardy but now with Google engineers set to takeover that code.



KDE Plasma 6.4 Adds Time-Of-Day Wallpapers, Disabling Adaptive-Sync By Default

([KDE] 24 May 05:43 AM EDT KDE Changes)

KDE developers have been busy addressing bugs within the Plasma 6.4 desktop ahead of its stable release in June. But there has been some last minute feature work to arrive, including support for time-of-day wallpapers with Plasma 6.4.



More Intel Panther Lake Graphics PCI IDs Added To Linux 6.15

([Intel] 23 May 08:25 PM EDT More Panther Lake Parts)

Ahead of the Linux 6.15 kernel release expected on Sunday, a final round of Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics driver fixes were merged today to the kernel. Notable with these updates on the Intel side is squeezing in some additional PCI device IDs for upcoming Panther Lake integrated graphics.



Microsoft Lands 62k Lines Of Code Patch In Mesa: Adds New "MFT" Gallium3D Frontend

([Microsoft] 23 May 01:41 PM EDT Microsoft MFT Gallium3D)

Microsoft's open-source code contributions to the Mesa 3D graphics stack continues... Hitting Mesa 25.2-devel today was a patch adding 61,925 lines of code patch as they introduce a new Gallium3D front-end.



Linux 6.15 Brings Many Features For Intel & AMD Hardware

([Linux Kernel] 23 May 01:10 PM EDT Linux 6.15 Features)

With the Linux 6.15 kernel expected to be released as stable on Sunday unless Linus Torvalds has last-minute reservations, here's a look back at some of the most interesting Linux 6.15 changes.



GNOME Help & Documentation Are In Need Of Help

([GNOME] 23 May 12:31 PM EDT GNOME Help Needs Help)

The GNOME Release Team is issuing a call for help as GNOME Help and the associated GNOME documentation are much in need of some assistance.



Benchmarks: OpenCL Kernel Latency ~76x Lower For Intel Lunar Lake With Updated Compute Runtime

([Display Drivers] 23 May 09:47 AM EDT 6 Comments)

This week Intel released the Compute Runtime 25.18.33578.6 release for Windows and Linux. This updated open-source GPU compute stack for OpenCL and Level Zero brings the latest work on Ultra Low Latency Scheduling (ULLS) for Xe2 Lunar Lake graphics and other ongoing Xe2 improvements along with further preparations for next-gen Xe3 hardware. This new Intel Compute Runtime release is clocking in around 76x lower OpenCL kernel latency and other nice wins for those with current-generation Intel Lunar Lake hardware.



GCC 14.3 Compiler Released With 200+ Bug Fixes

([GNU] 23 May 08:21 AM EDT GCC 14.3)

For those not yet on the newest GCC 15 compiler that debuted as stable one month ago, GCC 14.3 is out today in delivering the latest fixes for the GCC 14 stable series.



Linux 6.15 Sees Last Minute Power Savings Fix For Intel Arrow Lake U/H

([Intel] 23 May 07:58 AM EDT s2idle)

Sent out today as part of last minute x86 platform driver fixes for Linux 6.15 is a rather important power-savings fix for Intel Arrow Lake U and Arrow Lake H laptops.



Mesa Will Stop Building Gallium-XA By Default

([Mesa] 23 May 06:24 AM EDT Stop Building XA)

Back in April Mesa deprecated Gallium Nine alongside the XA state tracker used for X.Org Server acceleration. Gallium-XA was developed by VMware for use with their DDX driver for accelerating X11 within their virtualized environments. XA isn't really used these days and the generic GLAMOR code is in much better shape. Thus Mesa is now no longer building the XA code as the next step toward its removal.



FUTEX2 NUMA, MPOL & Task-Local Hash Maps Appear Ready For Linux 6.16

([Linux Kernel] 23 May 05:33 AM EDT FUTEX2)

It looks like the upcoming Linux 6.16 kernel will feature several additions to the FUTEX2 support.



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