RISC-V With Linux 6.7 Gains Optimized TLB Flushing, Software Shadow Call Stacks

In addition to the many x86/x86_64 and AArch64 improvements this round for Linux 6.7, on the RISC-V architecture side are some exciting kernel advancements too...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.7-RISC-V

KDE Plasma 6.0 Is Enabling Wayland By Default, Initial Support For HDR-Capable Games

It's been an exciting week in the KDE space as along with releasing Plasma 6.0 Alpha, they have also committed to shipping Plasma 6.0 with the Wayland session being enabled by default...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Plasma-6.0-Wayland-Default

FFmpeg 6.1 Released With Vulkan Video Decoding, VA-API AV1 Encode

While it was supposed to ship back in H1'2023, FFmpeg 6.1 finally released last night as the newest feature update to this widely-used multimedia library...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-6.1-Released

Intel Begins Sorting Out SR-IOV Support For The Xe Kernel Graphics Driver

One of the great aspects of Intel integrated and discrete graphics is the broad support for Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV). Intel "Gen12" graphics back to Tigerlake can handle SR-IOV when there aren't any firmware woes or other issues at play. There is SR-IOV support currently with the i915 kernel driver but Intel engineers are working to architect optim…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Xe-Driver-SR-IOV-Plans