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  Fedora Linux 45 Shipping Next Week On 3 November Fedora 45 is ready to ship! It will be formally released on Tuesday, 3 November... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-45-Ships-Next-Week

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  RISC-V Has A Nice Portable Performance Optimization With Linux 7.4 The RISC-V architecture changes were merged today for the Linux 7.4 kernel with one nice optimization standing out... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-RISC-V

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  I3C Hub & HDR-DDR Support Merged For Linux 7.4 The I3C changes for Linux 7.4 were submitted this week by Bootlin's Alexandre Belloni and subsequently merged... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-I3C

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  Vulkan 1.4.367 Released With VK_KHR_maintenance12 Vulkan 1.4.367 is out this morning as the newest spec revision for this high performance graphics and compute API... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vulkan-1.4.367

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  Apple Silicon Linux Driver Adapted To Help Older Intel-Powered Macs The Linux kernel's "macsmc" driver was developed for supporting the system management controller (SMC) on Apple Silicon Macs for supporting the light sensor, fan control, and other sensors. That macsmc driver now is seeing work to extend it for better supporting older Intel-powered Macs... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Patches-Intel-macsmc

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  AMD PerfOpt Makes it Into Linux 7.4 As A Nice Performance Boost For AMD iGPUs As anticipated, the AMD PerfOpt feature was picked up for the Linux 7.4 kernel. As shown already in multiple Phoronix benchmarks, AMD PerfOpt makes for a nice performance boost for AMD integrated graphics, especially for AI workloads... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-IOMMU

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  Another Week, Another Vibe Coded OS; Closed-Source In The Name Of Security With today's AI/LLM capabilities, there is almost a new operating system heard about each week "coded from scratch" predominantly via AI agents. This week was no exception with another project hitting our email inbox. Though most of them are open-source, this one is closed-source in the name of security... https://www.phoronix.com/news/NULLos

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  AMD Ryzen Zen 6 Looks Like It Will Be In Good Shape With Linux 7.4, Laptop Improvements The x86 platform driver changes were merged this week to the Linux 7.4 kernel ahead of the merge window closing this weekend... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-x86-Platform-Driver

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  Ubuntu 27.04 "Tenacious T-Rex" Opens For Development Following this month's release of Ubuntu 26.10, Ubuntu 27.04 development formally got underway today... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-27.04-Opens-For-Dev

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  PostgreSQL 19 Running Behind Schedule Due To AI/LLM Burden The PostgreSQL database server typically sees its annual feature release every September~October, but it's not coming until at least November if not longer this year. Due to the increased developer burden due to increased bug reporting and patches via AI/LLM activity, the PostgreSQL developers have been overwhelmed... https://www.phoronix.com/news/PostgreSQL-19-Late

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  Wine 11.21 Released With Better WoW64 OpenGL Performance Wine 11.21 is out as the newest bi-weekly development release of Wine and as we near Wine 12.0 stable release happenings getting underway in about one month with the official v12.0 release expected early in the new year... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-11.21-Released

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  Sculpt OS 26.10 Released - Now Powered By Genode's Custom Microkernel Sculpt OS as the general purpose operating system project born out of the Genode initiative is now using the project's own microkernel rather than a third-party microkernel... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Sculpt-OS-26.10

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  CUDA Oxide 0.3 Vastly Improves Rust Support For NVIDIA CUDA Programming NVIDIA software engineers released CUDA Oxide 0.3 for closing out October. CUDA Oxide as a reminder is their experimental Rust to CUDA compiler that has been seeing a lot of activity in recent months... https://www.phoronix.com/news/CUDA-Oxide-0.3

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  DXVK-NVAPI 0.9.3 Brings Nice Improvements For Linux Gamers On Latest NVIDIA Drivers DXVK-NVAPI 0.9.3 is out this weekend as a new feature update to this NVIDIA NVAPI implementation used by Valve as part of Steam Play with Proton for nicely integrating NVIDIA technologies into various Windows games running on Linux... https://www.phoronix.com/news/DXVK-NVAPI-0.9.3

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  GNOME Now Has An Established RFC Process, GNOME OS Continues Improving In recent weeks GNOME developers have been discussing a formal Request For Comments "RFC" process for solving major technical questions and changes to GNOME. This formalized process for succeeding their ad-hoc processes up to now has reached consensus... https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Establishes-RFC

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  Ceph In Linux 7.4 Adds Global Mount Option For Lazy I/O The Ceph kernel client changes have been submitted for Linux 7.4 ahead of its merge window expected to wrap up on Sunday... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-Ceph

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  KDE Plasma 6.9 Lands Some New Performance Optimizations I love a good performance optimization and there are several this week in the KDE space with Plasma 6.9 development heating up... https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.9-More-Performance

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  New Linux 7.4 Feature For Reducing AI Noise Already Reverted Due To A "Crazy Beast" A new feature merged last week for Linux 7.4 to help reduce AI/LLM generated noise from invalid/irrelevant testing configurations is now reverted due to a "crazy beast" in the VFIO subsystem... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-Drops-Taint-Bind

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  Linux Mint Developing New Apps For Terminal & System Monitoring Linux Mint is out with their October 2026 status report to outline various initiatives they have underway in their lead-up to the Linux Mint 27 stable release happening on/around Christmas... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Mint-October-2026

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  Enlightenment 0.28 Released With Many Improvements Enlightenment 0.27 released at the beginning of 2025 and since then there's been no major feature update, falling off their roughly 12 month release cadence. But out this Halloween is Enlightenment 0.28 now with the better part of two years worth of changes... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Enlightenment-0.28

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  Steam On Linux Use Back Above 4% In July Valve just published the Steam Survey results for July 2026 and point to a small uptick in Linux gaming use... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-On-Linux-July-2026

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  Linux Ready With Fix For Intel's FRED Crashing Some Games Under Wine / Steam Play Recently there have been some bug reports to Mesa around Intel Panther Lake graphics crashing with some games like Red Dead Redemption 2 and Elden Ring crashing or freezing quite quickly. This turns out not to be an Intel Xe3 Arc Graphics B390 driver bug with Panther Lake but rather due to a kernel issue with the new Flexible and Return Event Delivery "FRED" that debuted with the Core Ultr… https://w...

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  Jemalloc 5.4 Released With Portability Improvements, Code Cleanups Earlier this year Meta announced a renewed investment into the jemalloc memory allocator that's been popular for server and HPC use among various desktop use-cases too. After stagnating a bit in recent years, Jemalloc has been off to seeing new developments since Meta's announcement and out today is Jemalloc 5.4 as the latest step forward... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Jemalloc-5.4

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  Servo 0.4 Browser Engine Gets More Websites Rendering Correctly Servo 0.4 was just released for closing out the month of July. This month the Servo browser engine with its servoshell demo browser began rendering more real-world websites correctly... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Servo-0.4-Released

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  FreeBSD Developing New NTSYNC Driver For Accelerating Windows NT Sync Primitives The FreeBSD project published today their Q2-2026 status report that highlights all of their interesting open-source development initiatives for the past quarter. A lot is happening including FreeBSD seeing an AMD ROCm port and also their own NTSYNC driver being created... https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-Q2-2026

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  GCC To Decline Any Significant Contributions Made Via AI/LLMs - Except For Test Cases The GCC Steering Committee announced today that they have accepted the recommended policy of the GCC AI Policy Working Group, which means no "legally significant" code contributions made via AI/LLM agents will be accepted into this open-source compiler... https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-Declining-AI-Contributions

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  NetworkManager 1.58 Released With 464XLAT CLAT Support & GENEVE Interface NetworkManager 1.58 is out today with the latest feature enhancements for bettering wired and wireless network management on Linux... https://www.phoronix.com/news/NetworkManager-1.58

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  AMD Posts AVX10_V2_AUX ISA Support Patches For GCC Compiler Earlier this month Intel compiler engineers posted initial GCC compiler patches for the AI Compute Extensions "ACE" that was born out of the x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group to augment AVX and scalar code with new capabilities for AI/ML workloads. Now as part of that an AMD compiler engineer posted patches over the weekend for AVX10_V2_AUX ISA support... https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-AVX10-V2-AUX-Patches

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  NVK Vulkan Performance Improving With Mesa 26.2 Against NVIDIA Proprietary Driver The performance of the Nouveau kernel driver with the Mesa NVK Vulkan driver continues to improve each feature release in its quest toward better competing with NVIDIA's official Linux graphics driver with its proprietary Vulkan driver... https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVK-Mesa-26.2-Performance

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  Realtek RTL8723BS WiFi Linux Driver Hardened Against Malicious WiFi Access Points The staging driver fixes that were sent out this week ahead of the Linux 7.2-rc3 release is predominantly made up of hardening the Realtek RTL8723BS WiFi driver. In particular, a number of fixes for addressing out-of-bounds behavior when connecting to "bad" WiFi hosts... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Realtek-RTL8723BS-WiFi-Bad-APs