Linux 6.13 Hits A "Tipping Point" With More Rust Drivers Expected Soon
30 November 2024 - Linux 6.13 char/misc

In addition to the USB updates and big staging flush merged yesterday for the Linux 6.13 kernel merge window, the "char/misc" pull was also honored for that catch-all of various kernel changes. With the char/misc pull there are some notable additions for those wanting to write kernel drivers within the Rust programming language.

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7Zip Update
2024-11-30
#7zip

Release tag:
24.09

Assets:
There are too many, see here

Clang AutoFDO + Propeller Optimization Support Merged For Linux 6.13
30 November 2024 - AutoFDO + Propeller

Last night when writing about the Clang AutoFDO and Propeller optimization patches sent in for Linux 6.13 I had wondered whether Linus Torvalds would go through with the pull request given some of his past commentary around aggressive compiler optimizations... But to much delight, this evening Linus Torvalds has merged the Kbuild pull request that introduces Clang-based AutoFDO and Propeller compiler optimization support for allowing greater kernel performance out of tailored (profiled) workloads.

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Clash Verge Rev Update
2024-12-01
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Release tag:
Clash Verge Rev v2.0.2

Assets:
There are too many, see here

NVIDIA's New Linux Patches For GPU Direct RDMA For Device-Private Pages
1 December 2024 - P2P DMA For GPU-Centric Apps

NVIDIA engineer Yonatan Maman posted a set of "request for comments" patches this Sunday to implement GPU Direct RDMA "P2P DMA" for device private pages. This is the latest in the effort by multiple vendors to allow more efficient data sharing between GPUs/accelerators and other devices like network adapters.

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Linux 6.13-rc1 Released With Many New Features
1 December 2024 - Linux 6.13

As expected, this evening Linus Torvalds released Linux 6.13-rc1 to cap-off the two-week Linux 6.13 merge window. With Linux 6.13 comes many new features.

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Magisk Canary Update
2024-12-02
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Build version:
28002

Changelog:
https://github.com/topjohnwu/Magisk/releases/download/canary-28002/notes.md

Download:
app-release.apk

LLVM Update
2024-12-03
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Release tag:
LLVM 19.1.5

Slim LLVM toolchains:
Here

New Linux Patches Cleanup Code For Running x86 32-bit Kernels On x86_64 CPUs
4 December 2024 - x86 Kernels On x86_64 CPUs

As we approach 2025, hopefully none of you are still running x86 32-bit kernels / 32-bit OS software on x86_64 processors, but should you still be into that, there are improvements on the way.

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Magisk Canary Update
2024-12-04
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Build version:
28003

Changelog:
https://github.com/topjohnwu/Magisk/releases/download/canary-28003/notes.md

Download:
app-release.apk

Scrcpy (screen copy) Update
2024-12-05
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Release tag:
scrcpy v3.0.1

Assets:
scrcpy-linux-x86_64-v3.0.1.tar.gz (11.0 MB)
scrcpy-macos-aarch64-v3.0.1.tar.gz (8.0 MB)
scrcpy-macos-x86_64-v3.0.1.tar.gz (8.3 MB)
scrcpy-server-v3.0.1 (88.3 KB)
scrcpy-win32-v3.0.1.zip (5.8 MB)
scrcpy-win64-v3.0.1.zip (5.8 MB)
SHA256SUMS.txt (568 bytes)
SHA256SUMS.txt.asc (833 bytes)

Scrcpy (screen copy) Update
2024-12-05
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Release tag:
scrcpy v3.0.2

Assets:
scrcpy-linux-x86_64-v3.0.2.tar.gz (11.0 MB)
scrcpy-macos-aarch64-v3.0.2.tar.gz (8.0 MB)
scrcpy-macos-x86_64-v3.0.2.tar.gz (8.3 MB)
scrcpy-server-v3.0.2 (88.3 KB)
scrcpy-win32-v3.0.2.zip (5.8 MB)
scrcpy-win64-v3.0.2.zip (5.8 MB)
SHA256SUMS.txt (568 bytes)
SHA256SUMS.txt.asc (833 bytes)

Linus Torvalds Comes Out Against "Completely Broken" x86_64 Feature Levels
5 December 2024 - No Feature Levels In The Kernel

With the new Linux kernel patches posted yesterday for cleaning up x86 32-bit kernels on x86_64 CPUs as part of that patch series was introducing new Kconfig build options around the x86_64 micro-architecture feature levels. It turns out though that Torvalds is completely against how the x86_64 feature levels are handled by the compiler toolchain folks and doesn't want to see it invading the kernel.

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Linux 6.12 Officially Promoted To Being An LTS Kernel
5 December 2024 - Linux 6.12 LTS

Linux stable maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman officially designated Linux 6.12 as this year's long-term support (LTS) kernel version.

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MGLRU Sees New Performance Optimizations For Linux
6 December 2024 - Multi-Gen LRU

It's been a while since there have been any new advancements or performance optimizations to talk about for Multi-Gen LRU (MGLRU) that was upstreamed to the Linux kernel two years ago as a very exciting kernel innovation. But that's changing now with some fresh performance optimizations being worked on for the MGLRU code.

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Broadcom BCM2712 MOPLET Graphics For Linux 6.14, Other Early drm-misc-next Code
6 December 2024 - drm-misc-next

While the Linux v6.13 merge window has been over for less than one week, already the first pull requests of new feature code are being submitted to DRM-Next for queuing the display/graphics driver changes ahead of the Linux 6.14 merge window in two months.

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Magisk Stable Update
2024-12-07
#Magisk

Release tag:
Magisk v28.1

Assets:
Magisk-v28.1.apk (11.2 MB)

Magisk Canary Update
2024-12-07
#MagiskCanary

Build version:
28101

Changelog:
https://github.com/topjohnwu/Magisk/releases/download/canary-28101/notes.md

Download:
app-release.apk