Linux Sees Patches For "Critical" Vulnerability Affecting Many Arm CPUs
…CVE-2025-10263 while assigned last year was only made public today for this issue that can allow writes to resources owned by a higher exception level as a means of achieving…
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Linux 7.2 Features Expected: Apple M3, Initial AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 FRL, USB4STREAM, Cache Aware Scheduling
…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…
Linux Out-Of-Bounds Access Fixed For Unprivileged Users With Specially Crafted Certs
…OOB access issues are particularly problematic when they can be triggered by unprivileged users. In this case the information leak would be minimal but still the possibility of a kernel crash or…
"Flatten The Pick" Linux Patches Progress For Better cgroup Scheduling While Linux Gaming
A month ago I wrote about Linux scheduler work to help boost gaming performance on old 'potato' hardware with Intel engineer Peter Zijlstra noting that Linux cgroup scheduling has continued to be…
Wine 11.11 Released With Wayland Improvements
…Wine-Staging 11.10 Fixes 14 Year Old Bug, Also Fixes Issue Of Some Games Being Too Dark Wine 11.10 Released With VKD3D 2.0, Improved VBScript Compatibility VKD3D 2.0…
KDE Plasma 6.7 To Provide A Much Better Experience For CPU-Based Rendering
…Xaver published a blog post to outline the issues with the slow performance of CPU rendering and the usage of Wayland shared memory buffers leading to excess copies before hitting the GPU…
Apple HFS / HFS+ File-System Support Seeing Many Fixes For Linux 7.1
…The HFS/HFS+ file-system driver code saw several fixes for issues raised by Syzbot. Plus some xfstests failures were also addressed. The fixes from four developers included: "- hfsplus: fix generic/642…
RADV Driver Enables Host Image Copy By Default For RDNA2 & Newer
…Last year RADV landed experimental support for https://www.phoronix.com/news/RADV-Experimental-HIC but was disabled by default due to possible performance issues. Finally now though with updated AMD ADDRLIB…
F2FS, EXT4 & XFS Focus On Fixes For Linux 7.1
…There are some memory safety issues resolved in the driver code (C language), improving the garbage collection robustness, and more, but nothing too particularly exciting for end users. "In this round, the…
Linux 7.0-rc7 Released With Improved Docs For AI Agents, WiFi Driver Performance Fix
…driver, and a performance fix for the Atheros/Qualcomm Ath11k and Ath12k drivers for an issue that has existed since the drivers were introduced, and various other fixes. Linus Torvalds wrote in…