Faster AES-GCM & AES-XTS Crypto Performance For AMD CPUs With Linux 6.14
23 January 2025 - Linux 6.14 Crypto

The crypto subsystem updates were sent out today for the Linux 6.14 kernel. Notable this time are new x86_64-specific optimizations for the AES-GCM and AES-XTS algorithms. Benefiting the most from these new x86_64 optimizations are recent AMD processors.

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Linux 6.14 Power Management: "Dominated By AMD P-State Driver Changes"
23 January 2025 - Power Management Updates

All of the power management feature updates for the in-development Linux 6.14 kernel were sent out earlier this week and subsequently merged. As we've been seeing with recent Linux kernel releases, AMD continues investing a lot into their AMD P-State CPU frequency scaling driver for better power efficiency on Ryzen processors and since the prior kernel also now being used with the new 5th Gen AMD EPYC server processors too.

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Several Linux DRM Drivers Orphaned Due To Developer Health
24 January 2025 - Drivers Orphaned

Several of the upstream Linux Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) drivers have become orphaned due to the unfortunately declining health of their lone driver maintainer.

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KernelSU Update
2025-01-25
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Release tag:
v1.0.3

Assets:
There are too many, see here

Download apk:
KernelSU_v1.0.3_12018-release.apk (7.6 MB)

Linux 6.14 Adds Support For Blaize BLZP1600, SpacemiT K1 & Snapdragon 8 Elite SoCs
24 January 2025 - Linux 6.14 SoCs

The four SoC pull requests were sent out today for the ongoing Linux 6.14 merge window. These pull requests are principally about various ARM SoC and platform hardware additions/changes but also an increasing number of RISC-V SoC activity too.

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Uncached Buffered I/O & Some Other Nice Memory Management Optimizations With Linux 6.14
24 January 2025 - Linux 6.14 MM

Andrew Morton made for an exciting Friday evening by sending out his "MM" pull request for Linux 6.14 as the large collection of memory management related patches for this next kernel version.

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Much Faster Suspend & Resume For Some Systems With Linux 6.14
25 January 2025 - Linux 6.14 ACPI

Alongside the power management and thermal driver updates this week for the ongoing Linux 6.14 kernel cycle were also the ACPI updates. The ACPI pull request was worth calling out on its own thanks to a change that will allow for faster suspend and resume cycles on some systems with this new kernel.

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Linux Patches Allow Sharing PTEs Between Processes - Can Mean Significant RAM Savings
26 January 2025 - Sharing PTEs Between Processes

A set of patches being worked on by Oracle engineers allow for optionally sharing page table entries (PTEs) between processes. For some workloads this can equate to very significant memory savings.

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Foobox Update
2025-01-26
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Release tag:
v7.40

Assets:
foobox_x64.cn.v7.40-1.exe (14.6 MB)
foobox_x86.cn.v7.40-1.exe (14.5 MB)

Xiaomi.eu inject Module Update
2025-01-27
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Build date:
Sun, 26 Jan 2025 17:47:42 UT

MD5:
6afab001ed33c7243a9d396689e4eb42

Download:
XiaomiEUModule_2025.01.26.apk

Size:
12.8 KB

Linux 6.14 To Switch From SHA1 To SHA512 For Module Signing By Default
26 January 2025 - SHA512 Module Signing

While many Linux distribution vendor kernels are already using SHA-512 for signing modules by default rather than the default SHA-1, the upstream Linux 6.14 kernel is also now switching the default over to using SHA-512 for better security.

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- Fix root implementation check

Reduced SquashFS Memory Use With The Linux 6.14 Kernel, More NILFS2 Fixes
27 January 2025 - Linux 6.14 Non-MM

In addition to all of the exciting "MM" changes for Linux 6.14 that were submitted by Andrew Morton's pull request, he also sent out the set of "non-MM" updates for the Linux 6.14 merge window.

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Sandboxie (By DavidXanatos) Update
2025-01-27
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Release tag:
Release v1.15.5 / 5.70.5

Assets:
Sandboxie-Classic-x64-v5.70.5.exe (2.9 MB)
Sandboxie-Classic-x86-v5.70.5.exe (2.3 MB)
Sandboxie-Plus-ARM64-v1.15.5.exe (19.9 MB)
Sandboxie-Plus-x64-v1.15.5.exe (21.7 MB)
Sandboxie-Plus-x86-v1.15.5.exe (18.3 MB)
sha256-checksums.txt (493 bytes)

Completed NTSYNC Driver Merged For Linux 6.14: "Should Make Many SteamOS Users Happy"
27 January 2025 - NTSYNC Completed

The "char/misc" pull request was submitted today for the ongoing Linux 6.14 merge window and already merged to the Linux Git tree... As expected, the completed code around the NTSYNC driver has landed for better emulating the Windows NT synchronization primitves as a big win to Wine / Steam Play (Proton) Windows gaming on Linux.

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Z3fold Allocator Slated For Removal From The Linux Kernel
28 January 2025 - Z3fold

The Z3fold allocator for compressed pages was quietly deprecated several months ago with users encouraged to use zsmalloc instead. With no one vocally objecting, the Z3fold allocator code is now being positioned for removal from the Linux kernel source tree.

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Linux 6.14 With Rust: "We Are Almost At The 'Write A Real Driver In Rust' Stage Now"
28 January 2025 - Linux 6.14 Rust

Greg Kroah-Hartman today sent out the pull request of all the driver core updates for Linux 6.14, which ends up being a big deal for those interested in the prospects of Rust drivers for the Linux kernel.

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