Notices by Phoronix (phoronix@masto.ai)

Rsync 3.5 Released As "Extraordinary" Update To Fix 33 Security Issues

Rsync as the widely-used, open-source remote sync software for synchronizing files and directories across networks is out today with a very important update...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rsync-3.5

FreeBSD 14.5 Beta 1 Released With Various Backports, Security Fixes

For those still on the FreeBSD 14 N-1 stable series rather than the latest FreeBSD 15 series, FreeBSD 14.5 is working toward release to deliver various security fixes and backports...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-14.5-Beta-1

FFmpeg 9.0 Released With More Vulkan Acceleration, Animated WebP & More AMD AMF

FFmpeg 9.0 is now available as the latest feature release for this widely used, open-source multimedia library...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-9.0-Released

Nouveau Preparing To Finally Enable Atomic Mode-Setting By Default

In addition to the Nouveau kernel driver unblocking Vulkan Video H.264 support for the Mesa NVK driver, another feature change on the way is this open-source NVIDIA Linux driver finally preparing to enable atomic mode-setting by default...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Nouveau-Atomic-Mode-Setting-26

Debian Considering General Resolution Over LLM Usage In The Project

Debian developers are discussing a general resolution whether to permit AI large language model (LLM) usage within the Debian software project...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-GR-LLM-Usage

Qualcomm QCE Driver On The Chopping Block With ~48x Slower Than Armv8 Crypto Extensions

A few days back I wrote about upstream Linux kernel developers marking the Qualcomm crypto accelerator driver as "broken" and "harmful" due to its slow performance, history of bugs, and other limitations. Now this Qualcomm Crypto Engine "QCE" driver might be removed outright from the Linux kernel source tree after discovering it's even worse than anticipated...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qualcomm-QCE-48x-Slower

More ASUS Motherboards To Enjoy Working Sensor Monitoring With Linux 7.3

Thanks to the work of the open-source community, more ASUS desktop motherboards for Intel Core and AMD Ryzen systems are seeing working sensor monitoring under Linux. With the upcoming Linux 7.3 cycle, several additional ASUS motherboards will now enjoy working sensor monitoring...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-More-ASUS-Sensors

OpenMandriva GitHub Disrupted & Nefarious Package Push In Sabotage Attempt

The OpenMandriva project put out a statement today concerning an attempted distribution sabotage effort. Part of the OpenMandriva GitHub repository was deleted and there was an empty package push made to OpenMandriva's Cooker repository in trying to obsolete all GNOME and COSMIC packages...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenMandriva-Disrupted

Linux 7.1 Released: New NTFS Driver, Intel FRED For Panther Lake, Faster Arc Graphics

Linus Torvalds just released the stable Linux 7.1 kernel and it's coming a half-day early thanks to his travel plans...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Released

Linux Sees Patches For "Critical" Vulnerability Affecting Many Arm CPUs

Made public today is CVE-2025-10263 as a "critical" security vulnerability affecting many different Arm CPU cores. CVE-2025-10263 could allow for privilege escalation on affected systems due to a specific timing condition during a memory permission change. Fundamentally it comes down to completion of affected memory accesses might not be guaranteed by the completion of a TLBI...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Arm-CPU-Critical-CVE-2025-10263

Ubuntu MATE Is Continuing Despite No Ubuntu MATE 26.04 Release

Back in March, Martin Wimpress stepped down as the longtime Ubuntu MATE leader and was looking for contributors to keep this Ubuntu derivative going with its GNOME2-derived desktop. That change in leadership paired with no Ubuntu MATE 26.04 release having occurred led to some concerns among users, but the plan is still for Ubuntu MATE to continue moving forward...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-MATE-Without-26.04

Fedora 44 RISC-V Images Released, Including New "Omni" Kernel For Broader RISC-V Hardware Support

Following the official Fedora 44 images released one month ago, Fedora 44 RISC-V images were published today for those wanting to run this newest Fedora Linux on RISC-V hardware...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-44-RISC-V-Images

Linux 7.0.8 Released & LTS Kernels Updated For ssh-keysign-pwn

Following yesterday's disclosure of the ssh-keysign-pwn vulnerability that allows unprivileged users to read root-owned files, a slew of new stable kernel releases are out today to address this latest Linux security issue...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.0.8-Released

Linux File-System Proliferation A Burden: Requirements Laid Out For Any Future File-Systems

The growing number of file-systems within the Linux kernel source tree is causing an ongoing burden for upstream developers maintaining the virtual file-system (VFS) code around it and associated code. As a result of the continuing rise of new file-systems being proposed for the Linux kernel, documentation is being introduced to establish clear guidelines for getting new file-sys…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-FS-Proliferation-Burden

FUSEX File-System Being Developed For Extended/Experimental Features

Miklos Szeredi of Red Hat has been developing the FUSEX file-system as an extended/experimental area for File-System in User-Space "FUSE" development...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FUSEX-File-System

GCC 16.1 Released With AMD Zen 6 Support, Algol 68 & Many C/C++ Improvements

GCC 16.1 is now available as the first stable release of GCC 16 as this year's major open-source GNU compiler feature release...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-16.1-Released

Linux 7.1 Removes Some Obsolete PCMCIA Drivers That Likely Haven't Been Used In Years

In addition to some network drivers on the chopping block due to AI bug reports for obsolete hardware/drivers and Linux 7.1 dropping various drivers for Russia's Baikal CPUs, the Linux 7.1 kernel as of today also dropped some obsolete PCMCIA host controller drivers...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Drops-Old-PCMCIA-Code

Oracle To Reduce The Frequency Of Solaris 11.4 Updates

Oracle announced today they are going to be reducing the frequency of software updates for Solaris 11.4 and their ZFS Storage Appliance software...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Solaris-11.4-Less-Updates

SDL Adds Policy To Forbid LLM/AI Generated Code Contributions

The SDL library widely used by cross-platform games and part of the Steam Runtime has now established a policy to block code contributions made using AI / Large Language Models (LLMs)...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/SDL-Says-No-To-AI-LLMs

Linus Torvalds Merged The Code Beginning To Remove Intel 486 CPU Support In Linux 7.1

As a follow-up to the news first-covered on Phoronix earlier this month about Linux 7.1 expected to begin removing i486 CPU support: it indeed happened. Linus Torvalds took the initial removal bits today without any fuss today for beginning the phase out of M486 / M486SX / ELAN kernel support...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Begins-Removing-i486