FUTEX2 NUMA, MPOL & Task-Local Hash Maps Appear Ready For Linux 6.16
23 May 2025 - FUTEX2

It looks like the upcoming Linux 6.16 kernel will feature several additions to the FUTEX2 support.

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Linux 6.15 Brings Many Features For Intel & AMD Hardware
23 May 2025 - Linux 6.15 Features

With the Linux 6.15 kernel expected to be released as stable on Sunday unless Linus Torvalds has last-minute reservations, here's a look back at some of the most interesting Linux 6.15 changes.

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Foobox Update
2025-05-24
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Release tag:
v8.3

Assets:
foobox_x64.cn.v8.3-1.exe (17.2 MB)
foobox_x64.cn.v8.3-win7-1.exe (14.1 MB)
foobox_x86.cn.v8.3-1.exe (16.6 MB)
foobox_x86.cn.v8.3-win7-1.exe (13.6 MB)

Linux 6.16 Features Include A Lot From Intel, NVIDIA Blackwell, AMDGPU User Mode Queues
25 May 2025 - Linux 6.16 Features

With Linux 6.15 there are many exciting new features for this kernel version expected to debut as stable later today. Following the Linux 6.15 stable release, the Linux 6.16 merge window will then open. Here is an early look at a portion of the changes anticipated to be submitted and more than likely merged for this next kernel version.

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Linux 6.15 Released With Continued Rust Integration, Bcachefs Stabilizing
25 May 2025 - Linux 6.15

As anticipated the Linux 6.15 kernel is out today in stable form. Linux 6.15 brings a lot of new hardware support, security improvements, various other kernel innovations, and more.

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POWER CPUs Ready With Dynamic Preemption For Linux 6.16
26 May 2025 - IBM POWER

Merged for Linux 5.12 back in early 2021 was a new dynamic preemption mode. Finally now for H2'2025, the IBM POWER CPU ISA kernel code is supporing dynamic preemption.

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FUTEX2 Improvements Merged For Linux 6.16
26 May 2025 - FUTEX2

On this first day of the Linux 6.16 merge window, Linus Torvalds merged the locking code changes for the kernel that includes some additions to the FUTEX2 interface.

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Linux 6.16 Adds "X86_NATIVE_CPU" Option To Optimize Your Kernel Build For Your CPU
27 May 2025 - CONFIG_X86_NATIVE_CPU

The X86_NATIVE_CPU Kconfig build time option has been merged for the Linux 6.16 merge window as an easy means of enforcing "-march=native" compiler behavior on AMD and Intel processors to optimize your kernel build for the local CPU architecture/family of your system.

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Linux 6.16 Lands "rt_group_sched" Option, Faster Core Offlining & Scheduler Improvements
27 May 2025 - Linux 6.16 Scheduler

The many scheduler updates have been merged for the Linux 6.16 kernel which include a wide assortment of different fixes and new improvements.

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Linux 6.16 Will Be Able To Exit User Mode Faster: 2~11% Improvement
28 May 2025 - syscall_exit_to_user_mode

While the "core/entry" changes for the Linux kernel merge window aren't typically too exciting to write about, there is a new optimization for all CPU architectures worth mentioning for the Linux 6.16 cycle.

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Linux 6.16 GPU Driver Changes Land: NVIDIA Blackwell, Asahi UAPI, Intel Xe Fan Speeds
28 May 2025 - Linux 6.16 DRM

The hearty set of Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics/display driver changes were merged today for the in-development Linux 6.16 kernel. Most notable is preliminary NVIDIA Blackwell and Hopper GPU support atop the mainline kernel with an open-source driver but there are also big ticket items added for the AMD Radeon/Instinct and Intel graphics drivers too as well as the other smaller drivers.

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LLVM Update
2025-05-29
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Release tag:
LLVM 20.1.6

Slim LLVM toolchains:
Here

Linux 6.16 Crypto Brings Faster AES-XTS On AVX-512 CPUs, Intel QAT Gen6 Support
29 May 2025 - Cryptography Subsystem

The cryptography subsystem updates have been merged for the start of the Linux 6.16 cycle. Notable with the crypto updates this round are more performance optimizations for Intel and AMD CPUs with AVX-512 and also enabling next-generation Intel QAT accelerators.

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Moto Widget (ported by @meoify) Update
2025-05-30
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Build version:
4.13.32

Build date:
2025-05-30 05:58:08

MD5:
00fb982601fba789f1d39b8ce0521b20

Download:
Moto-Widget-4.13.32.apk
Pling | Direct

Size:
48.75 MB

Coredump Socket Support Merged For Linux 6.16
30 May 2025 - Coredump Over Sockets

As an alternative to Coredumps dumping to a file or a pipe connected to a user-mode helper process, Linux 6.16 is introducing the ability to send Coredumps over an AF_UNIX socket.

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Clash Meta for Android Update
2025-05-31
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Release tag:
v2.11.13

Assets:
cmfa-2.11.13-meta-arm64-v8a-release.apk (24.0 MB)
cmfa-2.11.13-meta-armeabi-v7a-release.apk (24.1 MB)
cmfa-2.11.13-meta-universal-release.apk (58.5 MB)
cmfa-2.11.13-meta-x86-release.apk (25.0 MB)
cmfa-2.11.13-meta-x86_64-release.apk (24.7 MB)
output-metadata.json (2.5 KB)

Linux 6.16 Now Enforces A Minimum Compiler Version Of GCC 8
31 May 2025 - Compiler Requirement Bump

To compile the Linux x86/x86_64 kernel has already enforced a minimum compiler version of GCC 8 while now with Linux 6.16 this requirement is in place for all other architectures. The GCC 8 and GNU Binutils 2.30 baseline for all Linux kernel architectures now allows removing a number of old workarounds from the codebase.

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Apparent Git Scripting Issue Raised Concerns Of Possible Malicious Linux Kernel Activity
1 June 2025 - Git Gone Wrong

The Linux 6.16 merge window this weekend suffered an unexpected twist this weekend when Linus Torvalds noticed some unusual Git activity by a longtime Linux kernel developer. The issue is still being sorted through but it would appear that the possible malicious activity came down to some scripting issues around Git.

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