…Users began reporting issues around L3 cache deferred errors following a recent Linux kernel rework to the error handling code. The errors ultimately are bogus and contained "garbage values" but alas caused…
…RNDIS is known to be a fundamental security issue but disabling them has proven to be a drawn out process with some apparent users still left making use of the RNDIS Linux…
…Also coming for Linux 7.2 is Realtek RTL8159 10GbE USB Ethernet support . - Dropping ARCnet support for old ISA and PCMCIA hardware . - Other old hardware removal includes dropping an ISA speech synthesizer…
…Gedit continues working out well for some use-cases and preferred by some longtime GNOME users. I, for example, still prefer Gedit due to its much faster performance than GNOME Text Editor…
…But these atomic updates didn't quite work out as planned recently with some users finding their system(s) unbootable. But improvements are being made now for better robustness moving forward. Stemming…
…unresolved performance issues: "There are some performance issues being identified by dynamic EPP and we don't want to have distributions turning it on by default exposing them to users at this…
…For the prior stable series, Plasma 6.6.6 will correct an issue where KWin would fail to start at login for some older GPUs and GPU drivers. Plasma 6.7.1…
…programs that actually use it, and those programs would be better served by userspace code anyway. These issues have been noted in many mailing list discussions already. But until now they haven…
…received from user-space or other external data. As such data should first be validated/sanitized before making use of it within the kernel to prevent any security issues or bugs, the…
…With the merged block changes for Linux 7.1 is introducing shared memory zero-copy I/O support for ublk, the user-space block driver . This zero-copy I/O support bypasses…