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

Foobox Update
2024-12-07
#Foobox

Release tag:
v7.38

Assets:
foobox_x64.cn.v7.38-1.exe (15.0 MB)
foobox_x86.cn.v7.38-1.exe (14.9 MB)

More Kernel Bitrot: Old & Busted UltraSPARC T2 "Niagara 2" SPU Driver Slated For Removal
7 December 2024 - Sun Niagara 2 Days...

Following 107k lines of old driver code within the staging area of the kernel removed for Linux 6.13, over in the crypto space they are looking at some cleaning as well with plans raised to remove the Stream Processing Unit (SPU) driver for the old Sun Niagara 2, the Sun UltraSPARC T2 and this SPU was also found in the UltraSPARC T3 as well.

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Raspberry Pi4 bootloader EEPROM Stable Update
2024-12-08
#RaspberryPi #eeprom

Build date:
20241207

Changelog:
https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-eeprom/blob/master/firmware-2711/release-notes.md

Download:
pieeprom-2024-12-07.bin

Size:
512.0 KB

Linux 6.13-rc2 To Workaround Buggy Intel Lunar Lake Leading To Responsiveness Issues
8 December 2024 - Broken MONITOR

Sent out this morning were the "x86/urgent" updates ahead of Linux 6.13-rc2 due out later today. There are x86 fixes for both Intel and AMD processors this week. Most notable though is fixing some buggy Intel Core Ultra "Lunar Lake" behavior that could lead to responsiveness/delay issues due to the MONITOR implementation being buggy/broken.

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Linux EFI Zboot Abandoning "Compression Library Museum", Focusing On Gzip & Zstd
8 December 2024 - EFI Zboot

The Linux kernel EFI Zboot code for carrying the Linux kernel image for EFI systems in compressed form is doing away with its "compression library museum" of offering Gzip, LZ4, LZMA, LZO, XZ, and Zstd compression options to instead just focus on Gzip and Zstd compression support.

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Linux 6.13-rc2 Released With An Initial Batch Of Fixes
8 December 2024 - Linux 6.13-rc2

Linus Torvalds just issued Linux 6.13-rc2 with an initial serving of bug/regression fixes following last week's Linux 6.13-rc1 release that capped off the feature-packed Linux 6.13 merge window.

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Scrcpy (screen copy) Update
2024-12-10
#Scrcpy

Release tag:
scrcpy v3.1

Assets:
scrcpy-linux-x86_64-v3.1.tar.gz (12.2 MB)
scrcpy-macos-aarch64-v3.1.tar.gz (8.4 MB)
scrcpy-macos-x86_64-v3.1.tar.gz (9.1 MB)
scrcpy-server-v3.1 (88.5 KB)
scrcpy-win32-v3.1.zip (6.3 MB)
scrcpy-win64-v3.1.zip (6.6 MB)
SHA256SUMS.txt (556 bytes)
SHA256SUMS.txt.asc (833 bytes)

Google Clang Prebuilt Update
#clang

Commit

Download tar.gz:
clang 19.0.1 (based on r536225) from build 12755234

Perf Support For 2,048 CPU Cores Is Becoming Not Enough - Patches Bump Kernel Limit
10 December 2024 - 4,096 CPUs

Currently the Linux kernel's "perf" performance monitoring subsystem has a limit on 2,048 CPU cores for its CPU map that is set by the MAX_NR_CPUS value. But that's becoming not enough in today's high core count era that patches are looking to raise it to a 4,096 CPU core limit by default.

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New Linux Patch Establishes "CONFIG_X86_64_NATIVE" For -march=native Kernel Builds
10 December 2024 - Optimized Kernel Builds

Last week I wrote about Linux patches cleaning up x86 32-bit kernel builds for x86_64 CPUs. The new iteration of those patches were sent out today, including the addition of a patch adding the CONFIG_X86_64_NATIVE Kconfig tunable for enabling "-march=native" kernel builds to cater your optimized kernel compilation for the CPU on which you are building the kernel.

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两把过👌

Shamiko Update
2024-12-13
#Shamiko

Release tag:
Shamiko v1.2

Assets:
Shamiko-v1.2-367-release.zip (5.1 MB)

NTSYNC Linux Driver Updated With API Design Improvements
14 December 2024 - NTSYNC v7

After some six months of silence, this past week the NTSYNC LInux kernel driver patches were revived for completing this open-source driver to better match the Windows NT synchronization primitives to help with Wine / Proton (Steam Play) Windows gaming performance on Linux. Following those "v6" patches posted a few days ago, on Friday evening a seventh iteration of the patches were volleyed to offer up some API design improvements for this NTSYNC driver.

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Linux 6.6.66 LTS Kernel Released With New Hardware Support & Many Fixes
14 December 2024 - Linux 6.6.66

Linux 6.6.66 was released today alongside other updated Long Term Support (LTS) kernel versions.

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Melt Kernel v3.4 for marble/marblein
By @pzqqt

Download
Source
XDA

Changelog & Note:
- Too long, see Github Releases page.

About KernelSU:
- Select through the volume keys during the installation process to install the kernel that supports KernelSU.
- If the installer detects that you have installed KernelSU through LKM, there will be no option to ask you whether to select KernelSU.
- Install the KernelSU app v1.0.2 for use with KernelSU.
- We don't recommend using Magisk and KernelSU at the same time. If any problems occur, it's your own responsibility!

Linux 6.13-rc3 Released With KVM Caching For "Wildly Expensive" Intel CPUID Handling
15 December 2024 - Linux 6.13-rc3

Linus Torvalds announced the release this evening of the Linux 6.13-rc3 kernel as Linux 6.13 works its way to stable release by late January.

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Linux 6.14 To Introduce New DRM Boot Logger For Kernel Messages
16 December 2024 - drm_log

Sent out today was the latest drm-misc-next pull request of various Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) changes queuing up ahead of the Linux 6.14 kernel cycle. Most exciting this week is the DRM boot logger being queued for landing to better present kernel messages.

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Linux 6.1 LTS Kernel To Receive An Extra Year Of Support
17 December 2024 - Five Years

Greg Kroah-Hartman has decided to extend the Linux 6.1 LTS planned lifespan from four to five years.

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LineageOS for Raspberry Pi Update
2024-12-17
#RaspberryPi #LineageOS

Release tag:
LineageOS 22 20241217

Assets:
lineage-22.0-20241217-UNOFFICIAL-KonstaKANG-rpi4-atv-ota.zip (596.5 MB)
lineage-22.0-20241217-UNOFFICIAL-KonstaKANG-rpi4-ota.zip (778.7 MB)
lineage-22.0-20241217-UNOFFICIAL-KonstaKANG-rpi5-atv-ota.zip (597.2 MB)
lineage-22.0-20241217-UNOFFICIAL-KonstaKANG-rpi5-ota.zip (779.3 MB)