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• AMD Zen 6 performance events and metrics merged into Linux 7.0, enabling profiling on new processors. • Added vendor event handling for Zen 6 core, uncore, and metrics mapping ch

• Yet Another Fix Coming For Older AMD GPUs On Linux - Thanks To Valve Developer Timur Kristóf of Valve’s open-source Linux graphics driver team has been doing a fantastic job enha

• Linux 7.0 Further Prepares For Intel Diamond Rapids With NTB Driver Support The upstream Linux kernel appears largely ready for Intel’s next-generation Xeon Diamond Rapids proces

• Microsoft Hyper-V Lands Some Useful Improvements In Linux 7.0 For those dealing with Microsoft Hyper-V for virtualization, the Linux 7.0 mainline kernel has seen a number of impr

• Linux 7.0 Makes Preparations For Rust 1.95 Last week was the main feature pull of Rust programming language updates for the Linux 7.0 kernel merge window. • Most notable with tha

• Changes done in each Linux kernel release. • Other places to get news about the Linux kernel are LWN kernel status or the Linux Kernel mailing list (there is a web interface in w

• Linux 6.19 changelog. • Summary: Linux 6.19 adds a new listns(2) system call that makes much easier to list the namespaces present on the system; support for the Live Update Orch

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• AppArmor Enhancements Merged For Linux 7.0 The AppArmour security module for the Linux kernel, which most notably is backed by Canonical for Ubuntu, has some small improvements a

• eCryptfs, a stackable in‑tree filesystem, offers per‑directory encryption for Linux users. • Linux 7.0 sees the most eCryptfs patches in years, reviving developer interest. • Tyl

• ollama 0.17 Released With Improved OpenClaw Onboarding The open-source ollama project that makes it easy to get up and running with a variety of LLMs under Windows, macOS, and Li

• Linux 7.0 Lands More AMDGPU Fixes For Old Radeon Hardware Following last week’s main set of DRM kernel graphics driver feature updates for Linux 7.0, merged on Friday to Linux 7.

• AMD AOMP 23.0-0 Compiler Continues Enhancing Fortran Support AMD AOMP 23.0-0 was released overnight as the latest build of this LLVM/Clang downstream that continues to carry the

• Ceph In Linux 7.0 Lands Support For AES256K Keys For those making use of the Ceph open-source, distributed storage platform, with the upcoming Linux 7.0 kernel they are introduci

• KDE Plasma 6.7 Preps More Improvements While Plasma 6.6.1 Fixes Begin Accumulating This week marked the release of KDE’s Plasma 6.6 desktop as a very successful release that over

• Intel Hiring More Linux Developers - Including For GPU Drivers / Linux Gaming Stack As some good news out of Intel today on the Linux/open-source side following last year’s layof

• Drgn v0.1 Released For Very Versatile Programmable Debugger Drgn is the programmable debugger developed by Meta engineer Omar Sandoval that has proven quite versatile and popular

• Linux 7.0 Shows Significant PostgreSQL Performance Gains On AMD EPYC When beginning some early Linux 7.0 kernel benchmarking this week for looking at its performance in its early

• The closed-source chat platform Discord announced on February 9 that it would soon require some users to verify their ages in order to access some content - although the company

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• GNOME 50 Lands Updated Wayland Color Management v2 Support Following GNOME 50’s Mutter merging sdr-native color mode support for wide color gamut displays this week, another late

• Security updates for Friday Dist. • | ID | Release | Package | Date | —|—|—|—|—| AlmaLinux | ALSA-2026:2914 | 10 | grafana | 2026-02-20 | Debian | DSA-6142-1 | stable |

• Linux Begins Seeing Early Preparations For PCIe 7.0 While we are on the horizon of seeing PCI Express 6.0 devices, there are already early Linux kernel patches beginning to surfa

• Linux 7.0 Brings Apple Type-C PHY, Snapdragon X2 & Rockchip HDMI 2.1 FRL Additions Ahead of the Linux 7.0 merge window ending this weekend, the PHY updates were merged this week

• Ubuntu 26.04 Begins Its Feature Freeze Canonical engineer Utkarsh Gupta announced today on the behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team that the Ubuntu 26.04 ‘Resolute Raccoon’ has ente

• Cloud Hypervisor 51 Brings Performance Improvements, Better QCOW2 v3 Support Cloud Hypervisor 51 is now available for this Rust-based VMM focused on secure cloud computing. • For

• Mesa KosmicKrisp Driver Is Coming To iOS, More Performance & Vulkan 1.4 Expected Last year LunarG announced KosmicKrisp as a new Vulkan implementation atop Apple’s Metal API. • I

• USB Driver For Google Tensor SoCs, UCSI Thunderbolt Alt Mode In Linux 7.0 All of the Thunderbolt/USB driver changes were merged this week for the nearly-over Linux 7.0 merge wind

• Vulkan 1.4.344 Released With New Extension From Valve Vulkan 1.4.344 is out today as the latest routine spec update for this high performance graphics and compute API. • Besides

• Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Moving To OpenJDK 25 By Default It’s not too surprising but the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 Long Term Support release will be transitioning to OpenJDK 25 as its defaul

• Intel Vulkan Driver Lands One-Line Change That Can Bring Minor Performance Benefits Merged today to Mesa 26.1 Git is a one-line change to the Intel ‘ANV’ Vulkan driver that is sh

• Turbostat With Linux 7.0 Can Report New L2 Cache Statistics The Turbostat command-line utility for reporting processor frequency and idle statistics along with other useful infor

• AI Helped Uncover A ‘50-80x Improvement’ For Linux’s IO_uring Linux block maintainer and IO_uring lead developer Jens Axboe recently was debugging some slowdowns in the AHCI/SCSI

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• The kernel’s unloved but performance-critical swapping subsystem has been undergoing multiple rounds of improvement in recent times. • Recent articles have described the addition

• Gigabyte MZ33-AR1: A Uniquely Positioned AMD EPYC 9005 Motherboard For Open-Source Firmware The Gigabyte MZ33-AR1 is a single socket AMD EPYC 9004/9005 E-ATX server motherboard f

• AMD Announces hipThreads For Easier Porting Of C++ Code To GPUs The newest addition to AMD’s ROCm/HIP portfolio is HIP Threads ‘hipThreads’ as a C++ style concurrency library for

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• Mediatek MT7902 WiFi Finally Seeing Open-Source Linux Driver Activity When searching for ‘MT7902’ and ‘Linux’ there is no shortage of users asking about Linux driver support for

• Weston 15.0 Wayland Compositor Released With Vulkan Renderer, New Protocols After delays, Weston 15.0 shipped this morning as the latest feature release to this reference Wayland

• Linux 7.0 Speeds Up Reclaiming File-Backed Large Folios By 50~75% Merged on Wednesday were some additional memory management ‘MM’ updates for the Linux 7.0 merge window. • Most i

• Simdjson Shows More Speed-Ups Possible For SIMD In JSON Parsing: Another 30% Boost Simdjson is the open-source project for high performance JSON parsing by leveraging SIMD instru

• PipeWire 1.6 Released With Many New Features PipeWire 1.6 is out today as the newest feature release for this software widely used by the Linux desktop for managing of audio and

• Linux Still Working To Clean Up The Realtek RTL8723BS 802.11b/g/n WiFi Driver In 2026 Introduced to the Linux 4.12 kernel’s staging area back in 2017 was the Realtek RTL8723BS Wi

• Inside this week’s LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front : AI agent goes rogue; debuginfo; iocaine; revocable resource-management patches; 7.0 merge window; AccECN; LLMs and security; Hu

• More ISA Differences Come To Light With The New AMD GFX1170 ‘RDNA 4m’ Earlier this month we spotted the addition of a new GFX1170 GPU target in the AMDGPU LLVM back-end. • Making

• Linux 7.0 Showing Some Early Performance Regressions On Intel Panther Lake With the Linux 7.0 merge window beginning to calm down ahead of the 7.0-rc1 release due out on Sunday,

• Linux 7.0 kernel removes obsolete Mwave driver for 3780i ACP Modem in 1990s IBM ThinkPads. • Driver removal cuts over 2,600 lines of legacy code, freeing kernel space. • Modems w

• Intel’s Discontinued Open-Source OpenPGL Project Finds A New Home Back in 2022 Intel announced OpenPGL as an open-source library for path guiding to help enhance the quality of p

• System76 Preparing To Introduce Redesigned Thelio Hardware Linux hardware vendor System76 has begun teasing a redesign of their Thelio chassis that is used by their modern deskto

• Linux 7.0 Brings Several Enhancements For Modern Laptops Some of the x86 platform driver highlights for Linux 7.0 include: - The AMD Platform Management Framework (PMF) driver ha

• The ‘More Accurate Explicit Congestion Notification’ (AccECN) mechanism is defined by this RFC draft . • The Linux kernel has been gaining support for AccECN with TCP over the la

• Dell UltraSharp U5226KW: An Outstanding 52-Inch 6K Monitor With Extensive Connectivity Earlier this month Dell sent over a review sample of their new UltraSharp U5226KW monitor.

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• Security updates for Wednesday Dist. • | ID | Release | Package | Date | Debian | DLA-4482-1 | LTS | ceph | 2026-02-17 | Debian | DSA-6139-1 | stable | gimp | 2026-02-18 | Debian

• Linux 7.0 adds SMT hot-plug support for LoongArch, boosting multi-threading flexibility. • 128‑bit atomic CMPXCHG instructions now supported, enhancing concurrency primitives for

• Various forms of tools, colloquially known as ‘AI’, have been rapidly pervading all aspects of open-source development. • Many developers are embracing LLM tools for code creatio

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• Multiple distributions released critical security patches for popular packages like gimp, golang, and gnupg2. • Kernel updates appeared across Oracle, SUSE, and Debian, addressin