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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-23 21:39:23)
Fwupd 2.0.21 Brings Fixes For More Than 250 Potential Security Issues Found Via AI

While the Fwupd 2.1 series is the latest stable channel for this open-source firmware updating solution, Fwupd 2.0.21 was released today to backport fixes for more than 250 potential security issues recently uncovered in the codebase...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fwupd-2.0.21-Released
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-23 19:39:28)
Linux 8250/16550 UART Serial Driver Seeing Some Modernization Work In 2026

The Linux 8250 serial driver as the universal/legacy driver for 8250 and 16550 type serial ports has been seeing some modernization work recently with a number of 8250 serial patches having now been merged for the Linux 7.2 kernel...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-Serial
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-23 19:24:06)
New Hygon Model 8 "Suzhou" x86 CPU Support Appears In The GCC Compiler

A seemingly new generation of Hygon x86 processors are on the way with the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) seeing support today for the Hygon Model 8 "Suzhou" c86-4g-m8 processors...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Hygon-c86-4g-m8-Suzhou-GCC
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-23 19:09:07)
Linux 7.2 RISC-V Reduces Kernel Startup Overhead, Eswin SoC Support By Default

Along with the many x86/x86_64 improvements and some ARM64 architecture improvements (albeit slowed down by the AI/LLM noise affecting the development pace), the RISC-V architecture changes were merged last week for the ongoing Linux 7.2 kernel development...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-RISC-V
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-23 18:54:05)
KDE Plasma 6.7.1 Released With Initial Batch Of Bug Fixes

Following last week's major Plasma 6.7 release, Plasma 6.7.1 is now available today with an initial assortment of bug fixes...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.7.1
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-23 06:09:12)
USB4STREAM Merged For Linux 7.2 To Quickly Send Data Between USB4 Connected Systems

As part of today's USB/Thunderbolt subsystem updates for the ongoing Linux 7.2 kernel merge window, USB4STREAM was merged as a nifty and exciting addition to opening up some interesting USB4 connnectivity use-cases for high speed, low latency data transfers...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/USB4STREAM-In-Linux-7.2
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-23 03:54:06)
Intel Optimization Zone 1.1 Lays Out Tuning Recommendations For More Workloads

Back in March Intel announced the Optimization Zone as a new initiative for helping server administrators and developers better maximize the performance of different workloads running on Intel hardware. Out today is the Intel Optimization Zone 1.1 release with more workloads now covered for squeezing out the most performance on Intel CPUs...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Optimization-Zone-1.1
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-23 02:54:10)
Steam Machine Launches, Priced $1049 To $1428 USD

Valve today finally revealed pricing on their SteamOS Linux-powered Steam Machine living room PC. Given the ongoing RAM and storage pricing pressure, the Steam Machine pricing comes in at the high-end...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Machine-1049
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-23 00:39:02)
Benchmarking Bcachefs 1.38.6: The First Release No Longer "Experimental"

Released last week was Bcachefs 1.38.6 with a host of performance improvements to this out-of-tree, copy-on-write file-system. Given all the performance improvements and this being the first release since Kent Overstreet dropped the "experimental" flag on the file-system, I decided to fire up some benchmarks looking at how the Bcachefs file-system performance has changed with this new version.
https://www.phoronix.com/review/bcachefs-1386
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-22 23:54:04)
Xfce Wayland Compositor Sees First Preview/Alpha Release

Over the past half-year, Xfwl4 has been developed as a Wayland compositor for the Xfce desktop environment. Released this weekend was the first preview release of Xfwl4 in alpha form...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Xfwl4-First-Release
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-22 23:24:05)
Linux Finally Lands Battery/Charger Driver For 14 Year Old Microsoft Surface RT Tablet

It's been 14 years already since Microsoft announced the Surface RT hybrid tablet as their first-generation Surface device for going up against the Apple iPad. All these years later, this NVIDIA Tegra 3 powered device is finally seeing a mainline Linux kernel driver for supporting battery and charger status...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Surface-RT-Charger-Driver
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-22 22:09:09)
AMD Updates ROCDXG To Deliver Better ROCm Experience On WSL

Back in March AMD introduced ROCDXG to improve their Windows Subsystem for Linux support. This improved Windows Subsystem for Linux "WSL" support with the ROCm compute stack is a cleaneer architecture, open-source compared to their legacy WSL code having closed bits, and more robust handling. Today they issued a new ROCDXG library release to further enhance their WSL support...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-librocdxg-1.2.1
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-22 20:24:04)
Miracle-WM Mir-Based Wayland Compositor Aiming For v1.0 Later This Year

Miracle-WM 0.10 released on Sunday as the newest feature release for this Mir-based Wayland compositor. With this new release is also acknowledgement they are hoping to cross the "1.0" milestone later in the year...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Miracle-WM-0.10
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-22 19:39:25)
Valve Creates The Ray-Tracing Inspector "RTI" To Help Further Optimize Linux GPU Drivers

Merged today to Mesa 26.1 is the Ray-Tracing Inspector "RTI" as a new GUI created by developers on Valve's open-source Linux graphics team. The Ray-Tracing Inspector is designed to help in analyzing and optimizing the Vulkan ray-tracing performance as part of their continued work on further bettering the Radeon RADV RT performance for Steam Play / Linux gaming...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-Ray-Tracing-Inspector-RTI
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-22 19:24:05)
OneXPlayer Configuration Driver Merged For Linux 7.2 Along With Other New Hardware

The HID subsystem updates have landed in the Linux 7.2 kernel with some treats that will excite Linux gamers and other desktop users...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-HID
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-22 19:09:07)
Linux 7.2 sched_ext Continues Working Toward Sub-Scheduler Support

Merged last week for the Linux 7.2 kernel were all of the sched_ext changes for this extensible scheduler support that allows loading BPF programs from user-space for handling scheduling tasks. Linux 7.2 continues building out sched_ext's sub-scheduler support...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-sched-ext
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-22 09:54:07)
Early AMD GCN GPUs Seeing Improved GPU Recovery - Another Valve-Led Linux Improvement

Early AMD Radeon Graphics Core Next "GCN" GPUs are seeing work to improve the GPU recovery process in the event of hangs. This work is yet another improvement for older AMD GPUs being led by Valve's open-source Linux graphics driver team...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Early-GCN-Better-Recovery
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-22 04:39:12)
zlib-rs 0.6.4 Released With Fix For Intel Raptor Lake Crash, SIMD Optimizations

As a follow-up to last week's article around  Firefox leveraging zlib-rs and some nice upstream improvements to this Rust-based Zlib implementation, the zlib-rs 0.6.4 release is now available to ship all of these latest enhancements...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/zlib-rs-0.6.4
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-21 23:54:05)
Qualcomm Posts Linux Patches For HP EliteBook X G2q X2 Elite Laptop

Last month Qualcomm engineers posted patches bringing up the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x Gen11 Snapdragon X2 laptop on Linux. Sent out this weekend were a new set of patches from Qualcomm for bringing up the HP EliteBook X G2q laptop model powered by the Snapdragon X2 Elite SoC...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/HP-EliteBook-X-G2q-Linux
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-21 21:54:04)
Mesa 26.2 Merges Vulkan Present Timing Support For X11/XWayland

Mesa's Vulkan windowing system integration (WSI) code now has support for present timing support "VK_EXT_present_timing" with X11 and XWayland...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-26.2-X11-Present-Timing
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-21 19:54:04)
Google's Gemini Partially Figures Out A Lengthy Linux Boot Time On Modern ASUS Laptop

Google Antigravity with the Gemini 3.5 Flash model helped a Linux user sort out a situation where his laptop was taking around 36 seconds to boot the kernel, which shouldn't be the case for the high-end laptop with AMD Ryzen 9 processor and 32GB of RAM. It ended up being yet another case of device firmware issues, but now a Linux kernel patch is pending for working around the issue on …
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Gemini-ASUS-Laptop-Boot-Time
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-21 19:09:06)
Linux 7.2 Begins Making Preparations For NVIDIA "Blackwell-Next"

When going through the VFIO subsystem patches for the ongoing Linux 7.2 merge window, there isn't too much to get excited about for end users with these changes. But there is the first time mentioning "Blackwell-Next" enablement by NVIDIA for the Linux kernel...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-Blackwell-Next-VFIO
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-21 09:40:16)
Broadcom Working On VMware Zero-Copy Buffer Sharing Between VMs And Hypervisor

Interesting feature work for VMware virtualization on Linux now being pursued by Broadcom is to support zero-copy buffer sharing between the VM(s) and host hypervisor, which would equate to an efficiency and performance win...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/VMware-Zero-Copy-Sharing-Linux
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-20 23:40:21)
Linux Finally Eliminates The strncpy API After Six Years Of Work, 360+ Patches

Linux 7.2 has finally eliminated the strncpy API from the Linux kernel. The strncpy() function for copying up to a specified number of bytes has long been deprecated and after six years of work and hundreds of patches, no more users of the strncpy within the Linux kernel remained that it has now been eliminated...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-Drops-strncpy
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-20 20:24:05)
Linux's ARM64 NEON Intrinsics CRC64 Code Adapted To Work On 32-bit ARM

Merged for Linux 7.1 was ARMM64 NEON-accelerated CRC64-NVMe support for around 6x the performance out of that checksumming algorithm. The generic code had been a bottleneck in NVMe and other storage subsystem code of the Linux kernel with CRC64-NVMe being used to help verify against data corruption. Now for Linux 7.2, the NEON-accelerated code will also work for those still relying on 32-bit ARM...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-CRC64-NEON-On-ARM32
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-20 20:09:05)
GIMP v0.54 From 1996 With Motif Toolkit Now Flatpak'ed For Modern Linux Desktops

The open-source world waited long enough for the GIMP 3.0 release that finally came last year with its GTK3 port and more, but for those with time on their hands this weekend and want to relive GIMP's past from long ago, GIMP 0.54 has been adapted for Flatpak to work on modern Linux desktops. What makes this version of GIMP from 1996 notable is that it was the last to use the Motif toolkit.…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GIMP-0.54-Flatpak
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-20 19:40:06)
exFAT File-System Enjoys Better Performance On Linux 7.2 With IOmap Conversion

In addition to open-source developer Namjae Jeon serving as maintainer for the new NTFS Linux driver, he also continues serving as maintainer to the exFAT file-system for that other Microsoft file-system popular with removable storage media...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-exFAT
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-20 19:24:06)
KDE Plasma 6.8 Making It Easier To Configure Multi-Monitor Setups

With KDE's Plasma 6.7 desktop having released this week, more development attention is turning to feature work toward Plasma 6.8 but there are also some fixes already accumulating for the Plasma 6.7.1 point release...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.8-Multi-Monitor
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-20 09:39:05)
New NTFS Driver Sees Hardening & Fixes, Windows Native Symlinks With Linux 7.2

Happening back in Linux 7.1 was the "NTFS resurrection" with landing a new NTFS driver into the Linux kernel that had been years in the making and began as the former NTFS read-only kernel driver many years back before the stint of the Paragon NTFS3 driver in the Linux kernel. For Linux 7.2 that new/modern NTFS driver has seen more hardening work, some fixes, and Windows native symbolic links…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-NTFS-Improvements
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-20 05:39:10)
Open-Source NVIDIA NVK Vulkan Driver Now Supports DLSS

With the code merged today to Mesa 26.2-devel, the open-source NVIDIA "NVK" Vulkan driver is capable of handling Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) with modern game titles running on Linux / Steam Play...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-NVK-Vulkan-Does-DLSS
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