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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-10 03:40:23)
CachyOS August 2026 Release Preps For Upcoming Server Edition

CachyOS is out with its latest media refresh of the year. Beyond the usual desktop improvements for the performance-optimized CachyOS, they continue working toward the upcoming CachyOS Server Edition...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/CachyOS-August-2026
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-10 00:54:13)
Qualcomm Posts Linux Patches For Kuno SoC Support: Cortex-A7 Platform In 2026

Qualcomm engineers posted a set of 15 patches today for the Linux kernel to enable the Qualcomm Kuno SoC support and  their reference development platform...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qualcomm-Kuno-SoC-Linux
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-09 21:40:05)
Mesa 26.3 Intel Driver Code Enables Large GRF Mode For Newer GPUs

The Intel graphics compiler code in Mesa 26.3-devel has now enabled the Large GRF mode for Alchemist/DG2 and Battlemage/Xe2 graphics and VRT for Xe3 graphics...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Large-GRF-Mode-Mesa-26.3
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-09 19:54:07)
Dell Latitude 7320 2-in-1 Seeing Web Camera Support On Linux After Five Years

Launched back in 2021 was the Dell Latitude 7320 2-in-1 business laptop/tablet powered by the at-the-time impressive Intel 11th Gen Core "Tiger Lake" processors. Remaining elusive until now has been the web cameras actually working on Linux, but patches posted this weekend finally are cracking that mystery at least for the user-facing web cam...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Dell-Latitude-7320-Linux-Webcam
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-09 19:24:18)
FreeBSD 14.5 Beta 1 Released With Various Backports, Security Fixes

For those still on the FreeBSD 14 N-1 stable series rather than the latest FreeBSD 15 series, FreeBSD 14.5 is working toward release to deliver various security fixes and backports...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-14.5-Beta-1
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-09 10:09:05)
New Linux Patches Enable ASUS ROG Ryujin III Monitoring Support

For those with an ASUS ROG Ryujin III all-in-one CPU liquid cooling setup catering to gamers, there are now patches pending to enable this AIO liquid cooling setup to work under Linux for monitoring...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/ASUS-ROG-Ryujin-3-Linux
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-09 02:40:39)
Linux 7.3 To Better Handle Cluster Load Balancing On Intel Hybrid CPUs

A set of patches from Intel are set to be merged for the upcoming Linux 7.3 merge window to enhance the cluster-aware scheduling code so it better handles load balancing on modern Intel Core (Ultra) hybrid CPUs with a mix of P and E/LPE cores...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Better-Intel-Hybrid
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-09 01:54:12)
Polychromatic 0.9.8 Released With Razer Blade 16 2023 Support

For those looking to manage the RGB lighting and other features of their Razer devices on Linux, Polychromatic 0.9.8 is now available for that UI front-end that interacts with the OpenRazer kernel drivers for providing a decent albeit unofficial Linux configuration experience...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Polychromatic-0.9.8-Released
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-08 22:54:05)
Wine 11.15 Released With Wayland Fixes, Fix For A 20 Year Old MSXML3 Bug

Making its debut this Saturday rather than the usual bi-weekly Friday release regiment, Wine 11.15 is out today as the newest development release for this open-source software enabling Windows games and applications to run on Linux...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-11.15-Released
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-08 20:24:08)
GNOME Receiving Additional Design Help Thanks To Sovereign Tech Agency Fellowship

Germany's Sovereign Tech Agency announced earlier this year a new fellowship program and now as part of that, for the next two years GNOME has a fellow dedicated to working on design and community management...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Design-Fellowship
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-08 20:09:04)
HWMON Fixes For Linux 7.2-rc7: "Most Of Them Fixing Critical Or High Severity Bugs"

It's been another busy week in the Linux kernel camp with increased patch activity continuing due to AI/LLM coding agents / bots continuing to uncover different defects in the open-source codebase. The hardware monitoring (HWMON) subsystem saw many fixes this week for issues mostly raised by the Sashiko AI bot with the issues being described as mostly critical or high severity bugs...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-rc7-HWMON
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-08 19:54:08)
AI Helped Create A DirectX 11 Driver For QEMU VMs

Thanks in part to the power of Claude Opus 5 and Claude Fable 5, a new Windows DirectX 11 driver for QEMU has been created to help improve graphics acceleration for Microsoft Windows guests running under QEMU virtual machines...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Triton-DirectX-11-QEMU-Driver
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-08 19:39:50)
Linux 7.2-rc7 Adding Support For The Most Unique Or Very Funky Gaming Controller

The input subsystem fixes for the week include a number of AI-driven patches to address various information leaks, out-of-bounds accesses, validation fixes, and other coding issues that have turned up recently. Plus some device quirks and also adding support for a rather funky gaming controller to the common XPad Linux driver used by many different gaming controllers...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-rc7-Input-Changes
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-08 10:09:07)
KDE Plasma 6.8 Improvements For UI, Built-In Remote Desktop Server

It's been another busy summertime week of KDE developers working toward a great Plasma 6.8 desktop release in October...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.8-Remote-Desktop
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-08 04:39:29)
Linux 7.3 To Support Logitech HID++ 2.0 Reprogrammable Button Support

For those with newer, high-end Logitech input devices, coming with Linux 7.3 is support for the re-programmable button support of the HID++ 2.0 protocol...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-HIDPP-Reprogrammable
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-08 02:40:34)
Initial Apple M3 Pro / Max / Ultra Support Being Upstreamed For Linux 7.3

Upstreamed for the Linux 7.2 kernel was the Device Tree (DT) support for booting the mainline Linux kernel on the base Apple M3 SoC. Though it's not yet useful for end-users with many features remaining to be supported and upstreamed. Now for the upcoming Linux 7.3 kernel, the M3 Pro, Max, and Ultra variants will also have initial support for booting on the mainline kernel...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/M3-Pro-Max-Ultra-Linux-7.3
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-08 02:09:08)
Intel QATlib 26.08 Released With Gen6 Device Support, 2MB Hugepages

Intel today released an updated version of their QuickAssist Technology library (QATlib) as the user-space component for making use of QuickAssist accelerators under Linux...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-QATlib-26.08-Released
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-08 01:09:05)
TTM Memory Management For Graphics To Be More Aggresive With Linux 7.3

This week a final batch of DRM-Misc-Next feature material was submitted for DRM-Next to queue ahead of the Linux 7.3 merge window opening later in the month. Most notable is the TTM memory management code is now being more agressive when allocating below protection limits. This is an improvement coming thanks to Valve's open-source Linux graphics team...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/More-Aggressive-TTM-Linux-7.3
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-07 23:24:06)
Intel Makes Progress On HDMI 2.1 FRL With Their Linux Driver For Meteor Lake & Newer

Following AMD making progress with HDMI Fixed Rate Link (FRL) and other HDMI 2.1 functionality for their open-source Linux kernel graphics driver, Intel is out today with a big set of 44 patches working on HDMI 2.1 FRL support for their kernel graphics driver with Meteor Lake hardware and newer...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-HDMI-2.1-FRL-Linux-2026
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-07 22:54:07)
PoCL 7.2-RC1 Brings Official OpenCL 3.0 Conformance On RISC-V & x86_64 CPUs

The release candidate of PoCL 7.2 is now available for testing of this Portable Computing Language implementation of OpenCL that allows for CPU-based execution or via alternative LLVM back-ends allows for OpenCL on Level Zero, NVIDIA GPUs, and even remote devices/hardware...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/PoCL-7.2-RC1
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-07 21:39:24)
HyperX Driver Coming For Linux 7.3 Just To Report A Microphone's Mute Status

A new driver coming for the Linux 7.3 kernel is HID-HyperX. It's not some new driver to support fancy hardware and some nifty features but rather mundane in nature due to the poor behavior of a high-end HyperX USB gaming microphone...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/HID-HyperX-QuadCast-2-Linux-7.3
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-07 19:54:19)
NetworkManager Adopts Policy For AI Coding Assistants

The latest high profile open-source project to commit to an AI coding policy is NetworkManager, the widely-used software for Linux network configuration...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NetworkManager-AI-Coding-Policy
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-07 19:54:17)
AMD ROCm Spur: Providing AI-Native, Rust-Based Job Scheduling

The newest ROCm component for AMD's open-source GPU compute stack is Spur as an AI-native, Rust-written job scheduler for scaling up GPU workloads to multi-thousand GPU clusters...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ROCm-Spur
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-07 19:39:05)
Linux 7.2-rc7 Addresses A "Nasty" Race Condition Leading To Use-After-Free After 8 Years

The Linux kernel Git activity continues being quite heavy this week on fixes. It's looking like the Linux 7.2-rc7 kernel release on Sunday will be another big one with the changes continuing to flow in from both developers and AI bots...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-rc7-UAF-PTDUMP
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-07 19:24:06)
AMD Updates HDMI 2.1 VRR & ALLM Patches But Will Miss Out On Linux 7.3

Complementing the HDMI 2.1 Fixed Rate Link (FRL) support that AMD already upstreamed to the Linux kernel, AMD engineers have been further ironing out their HDMI 2.1 implementation for the open-source AMDGPU Linux kernel driver. The latest quest has been getting HDMI 2.1 variable rate refresh (VRR) support upstreamed along with HDMI Auto Low-Latency Mode (ALLM)...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-HDMI-VRR-ALLM-v2
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-07 19:09:09)
Vulkan 1.4.359 Expands Cooperative Matrix Capabilities

Vulkan 1.4.359 released today and this one week update to the Vulkan API specification brings a new extension for enhancing the cooperative matrix capabilities...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vulkan-1.4.359
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-07 19:09:06)
GCC 16.2 Released With More Than 100 Fixes

Following the GCC 16.1 compiler release from the end of April as the first stable version of GCC 16, GCC 16.2 is now available with dozens of bug fixes collected since then for further stabilizing this year's GNU compiler feature release...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-16.2-Released
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-07 09:54:07)
AMD Squeezes In A Few More Graphics Driver Updates For Linux 7.3

AMD today submitted their last planned feature updates ahead of the Linux 7.3 merge window opening later this month...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-Linux-7.3-Last-Round
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-07 09:40:21)
Zapscape Is The Latest Linux Vulnerability For KVM Guest-To-Host Escape, LPE

Made public earlier today is Zapscape as a guest-to-host escape vulnerability affecting the Linux KVM x86 code for the past six years. This 2020 kernel change to KVM x86 can also be used as a local privilege escalation (LPE) exploit too where /dev/kvm is world-writable on some Linux distributions like RHEL...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Zapscape-Vulnerability
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-07 06:24:03)
Linux 7.2-rc7 Restoring Btrfs Fixup Worker Infrastructure To Address Silent Data Loss

Back during the Linux 7.2 merge window the Btrfs file-system dropped its COW fixup mechanism, which was used to detect dirty pages without an ordered extent. This code was removed as it was believed the kernel's memory management layer had solved the underlying conditions but in reality it ended up leading to silent data loss. That Btrfs fixup worker infrastructure is now restored in t…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Btrfs-Restores-Fixup-Worker
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