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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-24 19:34:22)
AMD k10temp Driver Adds EPYC Zen 5 Per-CCD Temperature Monitoring With Linux 7.3
Merged last week for the Linux 7.3 kernel were all the hardware monitoring (HWMON) driver updates for Linux 7.3, which included supporting several more ASUS desktop motherboards, a few AIO liquid cooling products, more Lenovo system support, and per-CCD temperature monitoring on AMD EPYC 9005 server processors...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-HWMON
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-24 10:23:44)
Linux 7.3 Improving RAID 5/6 Benchmark-Based Algorithm Selection
Following the main set of memory management "MM" changes submitted for Linux 7.3, Andrew Morton sent in his "non-MM" pull request of the other patches he's been collecting from various developers for this next Linux kernel release. Standing out there were some improvements to the RAID 5/6 benchmark-based algorithm selection...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-XOR-RAID6-Benchmark
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-24 04:30:52)
Linux 7.3 Better Protects Against Buggy EFI Firmware Taking Down The Rest Of User-Space
The EFI updates were merged today for the in-development Linux 7.3 kernel. Most notable with the EFI updates is now enforcing a timeout foe EFI runtime service completions rather than potentially hanging indefinitely...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-EFI
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-24 03:29:59)
Linux 7.3 Delivers Graphics Driver Improvements From Old GPUs To Next-Gen Hardware
The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem updates have been merged for the ongoing Linux 7.3 merge window. There is a lot of exciting GPU kernel driver improvements this cycle ranging from some notable enhancements to old AMD Radeon graphics hardware up through enabling support for some next-generation AMD graphics IP blocks to over on the Intel side where Nova Lake S graphics are bein…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-DRM
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-23 20:59:04)
ReactOS Merges Support For Job Objects As Step To Running Modern Windows Apps
Merged yesterday to the ReactOS code-base is initial support for Job Objects, which is an important milestone in the road to being able to run more modern Windows software under this open-source operating system striving for Windows driver/application compatibility...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/ReactOS-Job-Objects
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-23 20:42:24)
Linux 7.3 Makes Preparations Toward Upstreaming FAMFS File-System
The NVDIMM and direct access (DAX) patches have been merged for the Linux 7.3 cycle. Most of the DAX/NVDIMM activity this cycle is on making preparations for the upcoming submission of Micron's FAMFS file-system...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Preps-Toward-FAMFS
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-23 20:16:31)
GCC Patch Adjusting AMD Zen 5 Misprediction Cost Nets 12% Win In Benchmark
An AMD compiler engineer posted a patch on Saturday for the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC). The two-line patch adjusts the misprediction cost for Zen 4 and Zen 5 processors, which ends up yielding a 12% improvement in one SPEC CPU benchmark on Zen 5 and a 9% improvement on Zen 4...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Zen-5-Mispredict-Cost
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-23 20:07:19)
Linux 7.3 Introduces New AES Encryption APIs - Will Open Up More Performance
Eric Biggers of Google continues carrying out great work on the Linux kernel crypto code. For Linux 7.3 he's landed work on new library APIs for most of the AES encryption modes used within the kernel. Moving forward this will open the door to more performance optimizations, reducing code duplication, and other enhancements...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-New-Crypto-AES-APIs
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-23 20:05:08)
Linux 7.3 Input Subsystem Updates Merged With Security Fixes, Other Improvements
The big set of input subsystem updates were merged earlier this week for the Linux 7.3 cycle. It's a random assortment of different improvements as well as bug/security fixes driven in part by the flow of AI/LLM generated discoveries...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Input
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-23 04:57:49)
Redox OS Switches To EEVDF-Based Scheduler For 2.6x Throughput
The Rust-written, from-scratch Redox OS operating system has switched to using an EEVDF based scheduler design. In doing so they are promoting a 2.6x increase in throughput and a 782x improvement in fairness...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Redox-OS-Goes-EEVDF
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-23 04:10:07)
Apple HFS / HFS+ File-System Support Continues Seeing Fixes With Linux 7.3
In early 2025 it was being discussed to potentially drop the HFS and HFS+ file-system support with the code having been orphaned over a decade and becoming a maintenance burden. But that dismal outlook quickly turned around with some developers stepping up to maintain the old Apple file-system support. Over a year later, fortunately, it's turned out to be a success story with more HFS/HFS+ file-s…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Apple-HFS-Linux-7.3
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-23 00:27:09)
Longtime Linux CIFS/SMB3 Maintainer Steps Down
There is a changing of the guard with Linux 7.3 as the maintainer of the Common Internet File System (CIFS) / SMB3 code within the Linux kernel. Longtime maintainer, principal Linux CIFS author, and current Microsoft employee Steve French has stepped down due to health reasons...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/SMB3-CIFS-Maintainer-Change
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-22 21:56:23)
Specially Crafted NTFS File-System Image Allows Root Access On Linux With NTFS3 Driver
A reported security vulnerability for the NTFS3 driver has gone unaddressed since being reported earlier this summer. The vulnerability allows a pre-crafted NTFS image on a USB flash drive or similar to allow the user to gain root access to the running Linux system...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NTFS3-Vulnerability-For-Root
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-22 20:27:19)
AMD RDNA 4m Firmware Published For Linux Ahead Of Launch
In addition to AMD's Friday afternoon big code drop of all the UALink enablement patches for the Linux kernel and the AMDGPU driver, there was another big drop from AMD to end out the week... Upstreamed to the linux-firmware.git repository is all the firmware binaries needed by the open-source driver stack for initializing their forthcoming RDNA 4m "GFX 11.7" graphics...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-RDNA-4m-Firmware-Published
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-22 20:09:04)
NVK Vulkan Video Merged For Mesa 26.3
The newest major feature to land in Mesa's open-source NVIDIA "NVK" Vulkan driver is support for Vulkan Video!..
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVK-Vulkan-Video-Mesa-26.3
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-22 19:24:38)
Red Hat's Tuned 2.28 To Improve Out-Of-The-Box WiFi Power Savings On Fedora
Tuned 2.28 released this Saturday as the newest version of Red Hat's tuning profile delivery mechanism for Linux. Tuned is used notably out-of-the-box on Fedora Linux for monitoring and adaptively tuning systems...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Red-Hat-Tuned-2.28
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-22 19:24:36)
Open-Source Etnaviv Driver Now Able To Run YOLOX
The open-source, reverse-engineered Etnaviv driver stack that began for providing accelerated graphics support on Vivante GPU IP and since expanded to handle Vivante NPUs as well is now able to handle YOLOX object detection...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Etnaviv-YOLOX
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-22 19:14:08)
Linux 7.3 x86/mm Lands Patches To Greatly Improve Latency-Sensitive Workloads
The highlight of this week's x86/mm pull request of changes for the Linux 7.3 kernel are fixes that reduce the time that the TLB flushing code has interrupts disabled. This helps significantly with latency-sensitive workloads but Intel engineer Dave Hansen noted in the pull request that "it's certainly something to keep an eye on" in looking out for any regressions...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-x86-mm-Latency
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-22 10:11:10)
KDE Plasma 6.8 Lands Some Enticing Performance Optimizations This Week
This Week in Plasma is out with its latest issue to highlight interesting developments in the trek towards Plasma 6.8...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.8-More-Performance
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-22 09:58:32)
OpenZFS 2.4.4 Released With Linux 7.2 Support, Dozens Of Fixes
OpenZFS 2.4.4 is out today as the newest stable point release for this ZFS file-system implementation for Linux and FreeBSD systems...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenZFS-2.4.4-Released
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-22 07:25:38)
Wine 11.16 Released With VA-API Hardware Decoding, Better ARM64 Support
Wine 11.16 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release for this software enabling Windows games and applications to run on Linux and other platforms...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-11.16-Released
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-22 06:25:37)
Proton 11.0-2 Enables More Titles With Steam Play / Linux Gaming
Just in time for those that enjoy their Linux / Steam Play gaming on weekends, Valve and CodeWeavers today released Proton 11.0-2 as the newest stable release of this Wine 11.0 downstream that powers Steam Play for running Windows games gracefully on Linux...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Proton-11.0-2
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-22 05:25:35)
AMD Posts Massive Patch Series For Enabling UALink In The Linux Kernel
Whether coincidental or intentional, AMD engineers tend to drop interesting, feature patches for the open-source/Linux space on Friday afternoons. Hitting the kernel mailing list minutes ago were two patch series sent out by AMDGPU maintainer Alex Deucher for introducing UALink infrastructure...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/UALink-Series-2-Linux
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-22 03:09:05)
Linux 7.3 Lands Improvements For Voodoo 3 / 4 / 5 & Vintage Atari Computers In 2026
At a time when Linux continues dropping older hardware drivers due to the influx of AI/LLM-generated bug reports and patches for hardware extremely unlikely to be used with modern versions of the mainline Linux kernel, Voodoo graphics cards and vintage Atari computers are seeing some reprieve with the upcoming Linux 7.3 kernel release...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-FBDEV
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-22 01:09:01)
Framework Laptop 16 With GeForce RTX 5070 12GB, One-Piece Keyboard & Haptic Touchpad
While the past few weeks have been quite busy with the new Framework Laptop 13 Pro testing with that all-new laptop model and paired with Intel's Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake", at the same time Framework Computer has begun shipping some updated components for the Framework Laptop 16 laptop. If looking for a bit more GPU compute power hor larger form factor than the 13-inch model, t…
https://www.phoronix.com/review/framework-laptop-16-2026
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-22 00:39:30)
Nginx Dark Mode Support For Error Pages Remains Elusive
In early 2025 I wrote about the upstream Nginx web server rejecting dark mode support for its error pages on the basis of wanting to keep the default error pages simple and developers arguing the extra HTML tag for the dark mode styling as superfluous. Following a lot of public backlash for being against offering native dark mode handling by default, Nginx stakeholders were polled and largely came out in favor of s…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Nginx-Dark-Mode-Mystery
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-21 22:39:05)
Intel Computer Vision Sensing Driver Now Ready For Nova Lake
The main set of media subsystem updates have been merged for the ongoing Linux 7.3 merge window. Notable this round is the Intel Computer Vision Sensing "CVS" driver merged the previous cycle now supporting next-gen Nova Lake platforms...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Media
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-21 21:54:05)
Linux 7.3 Cleans Up Stack Randomization, Ensures It Happen As Early As Possible
Merged this week for the Linux 7.3 kernel was a big clean-up to the stack randomization code for better security on Linux systems and helping unify some of the architecture-specific code...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Stack-Randomization
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-21 21:24:05)
Intel Compute Runtime 26.31.39395.13 Continues Prepping For Crescent Island, OpenCL LEO
Intel today released the Compute Runtime 26.31.39395.13 open-source GPU compute stack update for Windows and Linux systems. Big ongoing trends for the Intel Compute Runtime continue to be preparing for upcoming Crescent Island and Nova Lake Xe3P graphics hardware as well as building out their new OpenCL LEO driver...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-CR-26.31.39395.13
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-21 19:54:05)
Linux 7.3 Ready With CXL Type-2 Driver Support For AMD Solarflare NICs
With the mainline Linux 7.2 kernel there is now the basic support in place for CXL Type-2 accelerator drivers within the CXL core subsystem code. The first in-tree Type-2 driver with the Linux kernel is for the new AMD Solarflare NIC hardware...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Solarflare-NIC-CXL-Type-2
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