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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-29 19:39:04)
Linux 7.3 UBI Adds Support For Per-Device Wear-Leveling Thresholds

The Unsorted Block Images "UBI" layer in the Linux kernel for NAND flash memory tracking and wear leveling finally has the notion of per-device wear-leveling thresholds...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-UBI
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-29 09:54:04)
Debian Votes To Allow "Responsible Use Of Generative AI"

The voting is over and there is a winner now known in the much-debated Debian General Resolution voting over an AI policy for the Linux distribution...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-Votes-Responsible-AI-Use
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-29 06:24:04)
Union QtWidgets Sees Initial Release For Advancing KDE Plasma's Union

Premiering in KDE Plasma 6.7 was Union as the new CSS-based style/theming engine for Plasma. Union ultimately aims to address KDE's fragmented ways of styling apps. As a step closer to that goal, there is now the initial release of Union for QtWidgets support...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Union-QtWidgets
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-29 04:24:04)
Linux 7.3 TPM Makes Cleanup Preparations For TrenchBoot

The Trusted Platform Module (TPM) subsystem changes for the Linux 7.3 kernel are centered around code clean-ups and improvements being made as a precursor toward TrenchBoot support...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-TPM
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-29 01:54:04)
DXVK 3.1 Released With DXGI Incremental Presentation, D3D11 Buffer Render Targets

DXVK 3.1 is out today as the newest feature release for this Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 implementation built atop the Vulkan API as a key component to Valve's Steam Play (Proton)...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/DXVK-3.1-Released
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-28 23:39:02)
HP Z4 G6i: A Linux-Friendly Workstation Powered By The Intel Xeon 600 Series

The past month I have been testing out the HP Z4 G6i workstation across many different workloads and grueling tasks. This HP workstation powered by the Intel Xeon 600 series "Granite Rapids WS" and NVIDIA RTX graphics offers a lot of compute power, but with the top-end configuration retailing for over $41k USD is quite pricey in today's environment. Windows 11 Pro is the default operating syste…
https://www.phoronix.com/review/hp-z4-g6i


Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-28 22:24:05)
The Linux Kernel Is Approaching 2,000 CVEs Per Release

With the proliferation of AI/LLM models analyzing the Linux kernel's vast codebase, there has been a surge in the number of CVEs per kernel release. After typically being around 500 CVEs fixed per release, we are now approaching 2,000 CVEs fixed per release and perhaps will break that threshold for Linux 7.3...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Kernel-CVEs-Nearly-2000
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-28 21:24:05)
GPU Reset Recovery Merge Request For GNOME Mutter Submitted

Google Summer of Code 2026 featured a project working on GPU reset recovery for GNOME's Mutter compositor. GSoC has now wrapped up and the project overall was largely successful although some outstanding work remains. In this last week the merge request has been opened to conduct code review on this GPU reset recovery implementation for GNOME...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-GPU-Reset-Recovery-PR
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-28 21:09:04)
Vulkan 1.4.361 Released With New NVIDIA Vendor Extension

The Khronos Group is closing out the month of August with the Vulkan 1.4.361 specification update...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vulkan-1.4.361
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-28 20:24:05)
Chris Mason Steps Down As Btrfs Co-Maintainer, Departing Meta

Longtime Linux kernel developer Chris Mason is departing Meta. In the process of doing so, he is also stepping down from his co-maintainership role of the Btrfs file-system...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Chris-Mason-Leaving-Meta
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-28 19:24:58)
Linux 7.3 Will Begin Checking USB-C Cables For Alt-Mode Support

The USB and Thunderbolt changes have been merged for Linux 7.3. Two changes stand out for me in the USB subsystem code with Linux 7.3. First, the kernel arguably being long overdue for checking USB-C cables capabilities whether they support alt-modes. Second, a new low-latency USB4STREAM option for lower latency data transfers between USB4-connected systems...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-USB
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-28 19:09:06)
Old IBM Driver Joins Insecure SGI Drivers In Being Removed For Linux 7.3

The char/misc changes were merged this week for the Linux 7.3 cycle. While there is a lot of IIO driver churn as usual and updates to the likes of the Google Binder drivers, there continues to be the 2026 trend of removing old hardware drivers that are rarely updated these days and likely have no active users left on the mainline Linux kernel. This trend is further pushed along by the surplus of AI…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Old-IBM-SGI-Drivers-Linux-7.3
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-28 09:54:04)
Sovereign Tech Agency Providing Massive Investment Into Flatpak

The latest beneficiary of Germany's Sovereign Tech Agency is Flatpak where more than half a million Euros will be invested over the next two years to help with app sandboxing and other functionality...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Sovereign-Tech-Agency-Flatpak
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-28 09:24:06)
Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS Released With Initial Collection Of Fixes

Canonical today published Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS as their first point release in the long-term support series for the "Resolute Raccoon"...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-26.04.1-LTS-Released
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-28 06:24:04)
Intel Linux Driver Orphaned For Limiting RF Exposure To Humans

Over the past year and a half a number of open-source drivers in the Linux kernel have been orphaned as a result of departures from the company. The impact has ranged from the Intel CPU "coretemp" temperature driver being orphaned without a maintainer to other lesser known Intel drivers. Another lesser known Intel driver is now being orphaned with no longer having a maintainer at the company: the Intel Speci…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Linux-SAR-Driver-Orphaned
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-28 04:54:04)
AMD Preparing To Enable HDMI 2.1 FRL Support By Default For Linux

It was back in May that the surprising event happened of AMD posting HDMI 2.1 FRL patches for their open-source AMDGPU Linux driver as part of their broader HDMI 2.1 bring-up. For years the open-source HDMI 2.1 support in AMDGPU was blocked by the HDMI Forum but whether it was due to Valve or some other event, the code was finally unblocked. While it's been part of the kernel since Linux 7.2, it's been di…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-HDMI-2.1-FRL-Default
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-28 03:39:04)
Linux 7.3 MGLRU Change Helps Executable Code Stays In Memory, Improving Performance

Following last week's main set of memory management "MM" related updates for Linux 7.3, another batch of MM code updates were submitted and merged today as we prepare to close out the Linux 7.3 merge window. There are a few optimization patches that stand out along with other mostly small fixes/changes...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-MGLRU-Executable-Mem
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-28 00:39:06)
AMD Jumps From ROCm 7.14 To ROCm 10.0 With ROCm.AI

Back in July ROCm 7.14 was announced as their new production release built atop TheRock build system and introducing Ryzen AI 400 series support. The versioning choice was a bit odd since ROCm 7.2 was the stable release at the time while ROCm 7.9+ turned into "tech preview" releases. With ROCm 7.14, it was declared stable. In clearing up that versioning mess, they have done a major version bump... to ROCm 10.0...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ROCm-10.0
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-28 00:39:03)
Btrfs, EXT4, F2FS & XFS On Linux 7.2 vs. Linux 7.3 Performance

Earlier this week I showed off some of the very nice Btrfs performance gains on Linux 7.3. For those wondering what kernel optimizations may have carried over to other file-systems or other file-system specific enhancements, here are Linux 7.2 vs. 7.3 Git performance benchmarks across Btrfs, EXT4, F2FS, and XFS on the same system.
https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-73-filesystems


Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-27 23:24:04)
Linux 7.3 Adds RWF_DONTCACHE Support For Block Devices

With the never-ending quest for greater I/O performance in the HPC space and the demands all the more relentless in the AI era, the Linux kernel block subsystem activity continues to be as vibrant as ever along with the ongoing innovations in the IO_uring space...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Block
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-27 22:39:05)
Lemonade 11.8 Makes It Easy To Run DeepSeek V4 Flash On AMD Strix Halo

For those interested in making use of the recently released DeepSeek V4 Flash model, AMD developers have released Lemonade 11.8 that now makes it rather trivial to get DeepSeek V4 Flash up and running on AMD Ryzen AI+ Max "Strix Halo" systems...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Lemonade-11.8
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-27 21:39:04)
Libgcrypt 1.12.3 Brings Intel SM3 / SM4 / SHA512 Optimizations

Werner Koch announced today the release of Libgcrypt 1.12.3 with various bug fixes and more exciting are the performance improvements...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/libgcrypt-1.12.3
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-27 19:39:05)
Intel ANV Driver Improves Vulkan Video H.265 Decoding

Merged back in 2023 was Intel ANV Vulkan Video support for H.265 decoding. But it's been slightly out of compliant with the Vulkan spec, which is now fixed with the newest code for Mesa 26.3 by engaging the HuC firmware...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-ANV-HuC-H265-Vulkan-Video
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-27 19:24:04)
AppArmor In Linux 7.3 Adds Support For User-Space Compressed Policies

The AppArmor improvements have been merged for Linux 7.3 for this kernel security module providing per-program Linux application security controls around system resources. Most notable this cycle is being able to load user-space compressed policies...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-AppArmor
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-27 19:09:06)
LLVM Improves Zen 1 / Zen 2 Support To Deal With "Notoriously Bad" PDEP/PEXT

The LLVM/Clang compiler toolchain merged overnight better support for the nearly decade-old AMD Zen 1 processors and also helps with Zen+ and Zen 2 processors too. This latest work thanks to the open-source community is for providing more informed instruction scheduling around PDEP and PEXT that end up being quite costly for these original Zen processors...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/LLVM-Improve-AMD-PDEP-PEXT
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-27 18:54:06)
NFS Improvements Arrive For Linux 7.3

The Network File-System (NFS) improvements for both the client and server code have been merged for the nearly-over Linux 7.3 merge window...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-NFS
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-27 09:39:05)
Asahi Linux Hopes To Ship A Release Soon With Apple M3 Device Support

The Asahi Linux crew working to bring Linux support to Apple Silicon hardware is out today with a new status update on their initiatives, largely around Apple M3 bring-up as well as some M4/M5 achievements...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Asahi-Linux-M3-Release-Soon
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-27 05:09:05)
Patches Provide For Much Faster In-Kernel Zstd Due To Embarrassingly Bad Inefficiency

Patches sent out to the Linux kernel mailing list today can provide much more efficient Zstd compression and decompression by addressing a very unfortunate oversight in the existing code...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/In-Kernel-Zstd-BMI2-Probing
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-27 04:24:05)
Linux 7.3 KSMBD Adds Interoperability For Apple Time Machine Backups

KSMBD as the in-kernel SMB3/CIFS server for higher performance and lower resource usage than user-space SMB/CIFS protocol implementations is becoming even more useful with the in-development Linux 7.3 kernel...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-KSMBD
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-27 01:39:01)
Intel Granite Rapids WS Core Scaling Performance With The Xeon 678X

Last week I provided a look at the Intel Xeon 600 series Hyper Threading performance with the Xeon 678X "Granite Rapids WS" processor for HT/SMT on and off. That was interesting while another reader request was to look at the CPU core scaling performance for this high-end workstation processor. Here are those benchmarks for showing the performance, power, and frequency/thermal impact of the Xeon 678X wh…
https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-xeon-678x-scaling

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