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
#Foobox

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
#XiaomiEU

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
#Sandboxie

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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最近我注意到有人修改了Melt Kernel并进行了二次发布，在此谈一谈我的看法。

首先必须要说的是，感谢大家对Melt Kernel的喜爱和认同。

其次，如果你想要对Melt Kernel进行二改再发布，请遵循以下几点：

1. 如果是对Melt Kernel的安装包进行修改，请注明原作者（@Pzqqt），并注明你自己（避免误导用户），同时详细说明你做了哪些修改。
2. 如果是对Melt Kernel的源代码进行修改并重新编译，请在注明原作者（@Pzqqt）和你自己的同时，依据GPL 3.0 2.0协议开源你修改后的源代码。
3. 对我保持尊重。
4. 不得做出损害我的名誉或者损坏用户设备的行为（比如：冒充我并发布假的Melt Kernel官方版本，添加恶意代码，等等）。
5. 在遵循以上几点的前提下，无需询问我是否同意二改。我每天需要做的事情有很多，我不想在这上面浪费时间。

与此同时，从下个版本开始，我将对Melt Kernel的安装包进行签名。

Recently I noticed that some people modified Melt Kernel and re-released it. Here I would like to share my thoughts.

First of all, I must say thank you for your love and recognition of Melt Kernel.

Secondly, if you want to re-release Melt Kernel, please follow the following points:

1. If you modify the installation package of Melt Kernel, please indicate the original author (@Pzqqt) and yourself (to avoid misleading users), and explain in detail what changes you made.
2. If you modify the source code of Melt Kernel and recompile it, please indicate the original author (@Pzqqt) and yourself, and open source your modified code under the GPL 3.0 2.0 agreement.
3. Be respectful to me.
4. Do not do anything that damages my reputation or damages user devices (for example: impersonate me and release a fake official version of Melt Kernel, add malicious code, etc.).
5. Under the premise of following the above points, there is no need to ask me for permission. I have a lot of things to do every day, and I don’t want to waste time on this.

At the same time, starting from the next version, I will digitally sign the installation package of Melt Kernel.

Yandex Open-Sources Perforator: Find Code Inefficiencies & "Save Billions of Dollars"
30 January 2025 - Perforator

Internet tech company Yandex announced the open-source release today of Perforator as a tool to help identify and evaluate code inefficiencies at scale. They say Perforator can lead to businesses saving "billions of dollars a year on server infrastructure."

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Magisk Canary Update
2025-01-31
#MagiskCanary

Build version:
28102

Changelog:
https://github.com/topjohnwu/Magisk/releases/download/canary-28102/notes.md

Download:
app-release.apk

Google Clang Prebuilt Update
#clang

Commit

Download tar.gz:
clang 20.0.0 (based on r547379) from build 12976843