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Ubuntu Linux Will Begin Landing AI Features Throughout The Next Year

Now that Ubuntu 26.04 LTS has shipped, Canonical is opening up on their next major focus for Ubuntu development: lots of AI features...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-AI-Features-2026

SDL Adds Policy To Forbid LLM/AI Generated Code Contributions

The SDL library widely used by cross-platform games and part of the Steam Runtime has now established a policy to block code contributions made using AI / Large Language Models (LLMs)...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/SDL-Says-No-To-AI-LLMs

OpenSSL 4.0 Released With Encrypted Client Hello, RFC 8998 Support

OpenSSL 4.0 was just released as a big update for this widely-used SSL/TLS and crypto library...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenSSL-4.0-Released

HDMI 2.1 Display Stream Compression "DSC" Also Ready For AMDGPU Linux Driver

At the beginning of the month was the surprise milestone of AMD posting AMDGPU kernel driver patches for HDMI 2.1 Fixed Rate Link (FRL) support. The HDMI FRL patches have since been updated to also enable HDMI 2.1's Display Stream Compression (DSC) functionality for higher resolutions and higher refresh rates with the open-source AMDGPU driver...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/HDMI-2.1-DSC-AMDGPU-FRL

AMD Posts HDMI 2.1 FRL Patches For Their AMDGPU Linux Driver

It's not complete HDMI 2.1 support but to much surprise hitting the mailing list today were official patches from AMD for implementing HDMI Fixed Rate Link "FRL" support for their kernel graphics driver. HDMI FRL as part of HDMI 2.1+ allows for higher bandwidth to support higher refresh rates and resolutions...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-HDMI-2.1-FRL-Patches

Linux 7.0.6 Released To Finish Mitigating the Dirty Frag Vulnerability

Linux 7.0.6 is out as stable this morning to finish mitigating the Dirty Frag vulnerability that was made public last week...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.0.6-Released

Wine 11.8 Improves VBScript Compatibility, Finally Fixes Microsoft Golf 1999

Wine 11.8 delivers the latest and greatest support for running Windows applications and games under Linux and other platforms. This newest bi-weekly development release brings several more enhancements in working toward Wine 12.0 stable due out in early 2027...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-11.8-Released

Mesa Developers Consider Branching Off Some Older GPU Drivers - Including AMD R300/R600

Mike Blumenkrantz of Valve's Linux graphics team has ignited a discussion over potentially shifting some of Mesa's older GPU drivers into a new legacy Git branch in order to better support the more modern OpenGL and Vulkan drivers without having to worry about breaking the legacy drivers and to allow for better cleaning of the Mesa codebase. Among the drivers that could be impacted a…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-Considering-Amber-2

3mdeb Gets More Bits Of AMD openSIL & Coreboot Working On Ryzen AM5 Motherboard

There are two exciting initiatives taking place simultaneously by the 3mdeb consulting firm: the open-source developers are working on an open-source firmware stack for a Gigabyte EPYC server motherboard and they are also working on a similar Coreboot + AMD openSIL port to a Ryzen AM5 consumer motherboard, the MSI PRO B850-P WiFi. While not yet ready for end-users, 3mdeb published their late…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-openSIL-AM5-USB

Niri 26.04 Wayland Compositor Adds Much Sought After Blur Support

Niri 26.04 is out today as the latest feature update to this scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Niri-26.04-Released

3mdeb Makes Progress Bringing AMD openSIL + Coreboot To Ryzen AM5 Motherboard

In addition to 3mdeb firmware engineers porting AMD openSIL and Coreboot to a Gigabyte EPYC Turin server motherboard, the staff at this firmware consulting company are also porting AMD openSIL and Coreboot to a modern Ryzen AM5 desktop motherboard. They continue making good strides with that quest for the first readily-available Ryzen desktop motherboard with open-source system firmware...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Coreboot-Progress-MSI-B850

Framework Reports More Memory Cost Increases, Some Good News For Framework 16

Framework Computer on Monday issued their latest update concerning the ongoing price increases for memory and solid state drives affecting the industry. There has been some more price increases, signs of some temporary reprieve, and then a bit of good news on pricing for select Framework hardware...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Framework-Memory-Costs-April

More SpacemiT K3 RVA23 SoC Functionality Expected For Linux 7.1

The SpacemiT K3 is exciting as one of the first RISC-V RVA23 designs coming to market. For the Linux 7.0 kernel there is initial K3 support in the mainline kernel while the upcoming Linux 7.1 merge window is expected to land more K3 enablement...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/More-SpacemiT-K3-For-Linux-7.1

Linux May Drop Old Network Drivers Now That AI-Driven Bug Reports Are Causing A Burden

Old network maintenance drivers are becoming a maintenance burden in the era of fuzzing and predominantly AI-driven bug detection causing an uptick in possible bug/security reports to upstream Linux kernel developers but with these drivers potentially having no actual users...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Old-Network-AI

EndeavourOS "Trtion" To Ship New Desktop/WM Options, Titan Neo Brings Various Updates

In addition to today's monthly ISO refresh of Arch Linux that is now pulling in the Linux 7.0 kernel and other updates, the downstream EndeavourOS also happens to be out with a new ISO release for starting the month of May...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Endeavour-OS-Titan-Neo

OpenBLAS 0.3.33 Released With Automatic "BIGNUMA" For More Than 256 CPU Cores

OpenBLAS 0.3.33 is out today as the latest update to this vendor-neutral, optimized Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms "BLAS" library...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenBLAS-0.3.33-Released

Ubuntu Looks Toward More Snap-Based Devpacks Moving Forward

Canonical is out with a new blog post today outlining toolchain changes to Ubuntu Linux from Ubuntu 24.04 LTS to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS due for release tomorrow. While those changes over the past two years aren't too news worthy if you have been following the interim Ubuntu releases, what's interesting is their road ahead on the Ubuntu toolchain front for developers...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-More-Devpacks-Future

Lenovo Laptops To Enjoy Better Fan Speed Monitoring With Linux 7.1

Set to be merged for the upcoming Linux 7.1 merge window is the "Yogafan" hardware monitoring driver to provide fan speed monitoring not only for Lenovo Yoga laptops but also various Legion and IdeaPad laptops too...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Lenovo-Yogafan-Driver

Fedora 45 To Consider Building x86_64-v3 Packages

A change proposal has been filed to build x86_64-v3 micro-architecture feature level packages alongside the existing x86_64-v1 packages for Fedora Linux...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-45-x86-64-v3-Proposal

GCC 16's Improved Error Messages, Experimental HTML Output

GCC 16.1 as the first stable version of the GCC 16 compiler is releasing as soon as later this week if all goes well. Among the many improvements in this year's open-source compiler update are continued enhancements to the error messages as well as having an experimental HTML output option for messages...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-16-Error-Messages

AMD P-State Driver Introducing New Features With Linux 7.1

A few Linux kernel releases have passed since there have been any new features to talk about for the AMD P-State driver for CPU frequency scaling / power management with modern AMD Ryzen and EPYC processors. But for the upcoming Linux 7.1 kernel there are some new features now ready for mainline...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-P-State-Linux-7.1

Brush v0.4 Released As "Significant" Release For This Rust-Based Shell

Brush v0.4 debuted today for this "Bourne Rusty Shell" as a Bash/POSIX-compatible shell written in the Rust programming language...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Brush-0.4-Shell-Released

exFAT For Linux 7.1 Helps Reduce File Fragmentation, Fixes

The exFAT file-system changes have landed for the in-development Linux 7.1 kernel...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-exFAT

Nginx 1.30 Released With Multipath TCP, ECH & More

Nginx 1.30 was just released as the newest stable version of this popular web server. Nginx 1.30 incorporates all of the changes from the Nginx 1.29.x mainline branch to provide a lot of new functionality like Multipath TCP (MPTCP)...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Nginx-1.30-Released

Linux Support Coming For The ASUS ROG RAIKIRI II: A $160 High-End Gaming Controller

The ASUS ROG RAIKIRI II is a recently-launched wireless gaming controller for both PC and Xbox gaming. This is a premium controller priced at $160 USD and has been receiving positive reviews under Windows while now it will soon be seeing mainline Linux support...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/ASUS-ROG-RAIKIRI-II-Linux

Pull Request For Linux To Remove Old Network Drivers, ISDN Subsystem Due To AI/LLM Noise

It was just days ago we reported on a proposal to drop old network drivers due to AI-driven bug reports becoming a burden on upstream kernel developers. Last night that culminated with an initial pull request to clear out some old, unused networking drivers plus also clearing out the entire ISDN subsystem and more...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-PR-Remove-Old-Net

The Good & The Bad When Using LLMs To Write Spack Packages

The Spack package manager is quite popular in the HPC / supercomputer space for scientific software. Even with the more selective niche than a typical general purpose OS package manager, large language models (LLMs) have already proven capable of being useful in generating new Spack packages. But there have also been some headaches involved too for Spack developers...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/LLVM-Generated-Spack-Packages

AMDXDNA Driver Preps Hardware Scheduler Time Quantum For Ryzen AI Multi-User Fairness

The AMDXDNA accelerator driver for Ryzen AI NPUs is preparing a new feature called hardware scheduler time quantum for ensuring fairness between multiple users/contexts wanting to leverage this neural processing unit for AI workloads...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDXDNA-Hardware-Sched-Quant

NVIDIA Provides Preview Driver With DRM Color Pipeline API Support

Following the DRM Color Pipeline API making it into the Linux 6.19 kernel, NVIDIA today released a preview Linux driver with their support for the DRM per-plane color pipeline API that will benefit the broader Linux/Wayland desktop HDR ambitions...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-Preview-DRM-Color-Pipe