New Rust PHY Network Driver To Be Merged In Linux 6.12

One year ago the first Rust-written network PHY driver was merged for the Linux 6.8 kernel. Since then we've continued seeing steady progress on more Rust-written Linux network code. With the upcoming Linux 6.12 merge window another Rust PHY driver is set to be introduced...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/New-Rust-PHY-Driver-Linux-6.12

Firefox 130 Now Available With WebCodecs API Enabled On The Desktop

Firefox 130 web browser binaries were published today ahead of the official release announcement going out on Tuesday. Firefox 130 isn't too particularly exciting but there are a few changes worth mentioning...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-130

Google Increases AVIF Image Format Support With Google Search Support

While two years ago Google notably axed support for JPEG-XL within the Chrome web browser, they remain bullish on WebP and AVIF for imaging needs. This past week they finally announced Google Search is now supporting AVIF images...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Google-Search-AVIF

Coreboot 24.08 Released With 31 New Motherboards, Initial Intel Panther Lake Support

Coreboot 24.08 debuted on Monday night as the newest feature release for this open-source system firmware project that allows replacing the proprietary BIOS/firmware on many different platforms. With Coreboot 24.08 comes more than 900 patches from 130+ developers in continuing to support new motherboards and making other improvements...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Coreboot-24.08-Released

Android 15 Released To The Android Open-Source Project

Google announced today that the Android 15 source code has been released to the Android Open-Source Project (AOSP)...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Android-15-AOSP-Release

New Patches Bring Rust Linux Kernel Support To MIPS

When it comes to the Rust programming language support within the Linux kernel one of the limitations is that the CPU architecture support isn't as widespread. Currently Rust for Linux supports x86_64, AArch64 (ARM64) little-endian, LoongArch, and RISC-V. While those cover the main targets, POWER is notably missing and many other niche CPU architectures supported by the Linux kernel…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-Linux-Kernel-MIPS-Patches

Mozilla Is Interested In A Rust JPEG-XL Decoder For Firefox & Google Might Develop It

Mozilla is interested in a Rust-written JPEG-XL image decoder for its memory safety characteristics compared to the existing C++ code they rely on for JPEG-XL image support in Firefox. While Google previously removed JPEG-XL support from Chrome/Chromium, it may be Google that comes to the rescue and writes a Rust-based JPEG-XL image decoder that can …
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mozilla-Interest-JPEG-XL-Rust

Redox OS Unlocks Faster VM Performance, "Slightly Faster" Than Linux In Some Benchmarks

The Rust-written Redox OS open-source operating system has managed to address a performance bottleneck allowing this platform to perform much faster now when running as a virtual machine (VM) and for some synthetic benchmarks even able to run "slightly faster" than Linux...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Redox-OS-Faster-VMs

getrandom() vDSO Coming To More Architectures With Linux 6.12

Linux 6.11 merged getrandom() in the vDSO Support for very fast yet secure user-space random number generation needs. That work was initially focused on x86_64 but beginning with Linux 6.12 and following on this getrandom() vDSO implementation will see expanded CPU architecture support...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/getrandom-vDSO-More-CPU-Ports

AMD Reveals Latest Plans For Open-Source openSIL With Replacing AGESA, Zen 6 Milestone

Last year to much excitement in our community was the new AMD project announcement of openSIL as an open-source CPU silicon initialization project that is an advancement for open-source firmware and to eventually replace AMD's AGESA across both client and server processors. This week an exciting new update on AMD OpenSIL was shared and that they are st…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-openSIL-September-2024

Oracle Rewrites Libresource For Standardized API Of Linux System Resource Information

Back in 2018 Oracle introduced Libresource as a standardized API for accessing system resource information around memory / network / device statistics and other metrics. Libresource v2 was announced this week as largely a rewrite of the project...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Oracle-Libresource-v2

Updated Patches Allow Compiling The Linux Kernel From Within macOS

Back in 2022 were a set of patches that allowed compiling the ARM64 Linux kernel from Apple macOS hosts. The intent was for developers just wantign to do some build/smoke testing from under an Apple Silicon device running macOS to see at least any kernel changes are successfully compiling on macOS with its LLVM/Clang-based toolchain. An updated form of those patches …
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Building-Linux-Kernel-macOS-Hos

Intel Linux Graphics Driver To Finally Expose GPU Package Temperature

With the upcoming Linux 6.12 kernel the Intel graphics driver will finally be able to report GPU fan speeds. Another long sought feature is also on the way for this open-source Linux driver: GPU package temperature reporting for Intel discrete GPUs...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Linux-GPU-Temperatures

Verso Taking Shape As A Servo-Powered Web Browser

With Mozilla having backed away from the Servo web engine years ago and recent open-source development on Servo focused on making it suitable for embed purposes into other applications/software, it's remained to be picked up by any standalone web browser project. But taking shape over the past few months has been Verso as a ground-up build of a new Rust-based web browser making use of Servo.…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Verso-Web-Browser-Servo

Device Tree Patches Posted For Review To Boot Linux On Apple A7 To A11 Devices

Device Tree patches have been posted to the Linux kernel mailing list for review and possible upstreaming to the mainline Linux kernel for booting Apple iPhones, iPads, and iPods that use the A7 to A11 SoCs...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-DT-Patches-A7-To-A11

Casilda Is A New Project As A GTK4 Wayland Compositor Widget

Casilda is a new open-source project by GNOME developer Juan Pablo Ugarte to serve as a Wayland compositor widget. Casilda allows for embedding other processes windows within a GTK4 application...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Casilda-Wayland-GTK4-Widget

A Re-Implementation Of The EROFS File-System In Rust Has Started

The EROFS read-only open-source file-system has seen initial patches posted today for beginning to re-implement the C code within the Rust programming language for better safety guarantees and the possibility of more performance optimizations...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/EROFS-Rust-Code-Starts

Fedora 41 Beta Released With Many Leading-Edge Linux Enhancements

The beta of Fedora 41 is out today ahead of the planned stable release in October for this leading-edge Linux distribution with many new features...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-41-Beta

OpenJDK Java 23 Released With ZGC Generational Mode By Default

OpenJDK 23 is now generally available as the reference implementation to Java 23...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenJDK-Java-23-Released

Linux 6.12 Landing Integrity Policy Enforcement "IPE" Module

Merged as part of the Linux Security Modules (LSM) updates for the Linux 6.12 kernel is the new Integrity Policy Enforcement (IPE) module that has been years in the making. Integrity Policy Enforcement is an alternative to access controls...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.12-IPE-LSM-Security

Autodesk Contributes Mesa Vulkan WSI Support For Apple's Metal

An interesting merge request opened this week and already merged for Mesa 24.3 comes from an Autodesk engineer adding Vulkan Windowing System Integration (WSI) around Apple's Metal API for use on macOS...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Autodesk-Mesa-WSI-Metal

Haiku OS Working On USB 3 SuperSpeed Plus Support

The Haiku open-source operating project known for letting the BeOS spirit live on is out with their newest monthly progress report...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Haiku-OS-August-2024

Ubuntu 24.10 Making Preparations For The Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5

For months there has been talk and speculations around Raspberry Pi working to release a Compute Module 5 (CM5) in putting the power of last year's Raspberry Pi 5 into the small form factor for various embedded/industrial applications. It's pretty much a given that the Compute Module 5 will come, it's just a matter of when. With recent activity by Canonical enginee…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-24.10-Compute-Module-5

Linux Preparing Support For The RISC-V Framework Laptop 13

Back in June it was teased that Framework Computer in collaboration with DeepComputing would be releasing a RISC-V motherboard for the Framework Laptop 13. That RISC-V laptop motherboard has yet to be officially released but Linux kernel patches were posted today for enabling the DeviceTree support so Linux can boot on this upcoming board...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-DT-Framework-13-RISC-V

FFmpeg 7.1 Released With VVC Decoder Promoted To Stable, Vulkan H.264/H.265 Encode

FFmpeg 7.1 is out today as the newest update to this widely-used open-source multimedia library. With FFmpeg 7.1 the VVC video decoder has been promoted to stable, there are a number of Vulkan Video improvements, and an assortment of other exciting enhancements...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-7.1-Released