New Intel/AMD GPU Features, Apple Touch Bar Drivers & Other Likely Changes For Linux 6.15
21 March 2025 - Linux 6.15 Likely Features

With the Linux 6.14 stable kernel likely debuting on Sunday, the Linux 6.15 merge window will then open for kicking off the next development cycle. There's a lot of exciting changes and new features building up ahead of the Linux 6.15 merge window.

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Linux 6.14 Sees Last Minute Fix For A Two Year Old Regression Causing A 30% Performance Drop
21 March 2025 - Linux 6.14 Performance Fix

Submitted today ahead of the Linux 6.14 stable release expected Sunday is a lone scheduler fix for the kernel. This patch is for reverting a change made to the Linux kernel two years ago that ended up regressing some workloads with a significant performance hit.

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Linux Security Hardening Cache Randomization Was Inadvertently Using The Same Seed
21 March 2025 - slab Fix For Linux 6.15

Ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel cycle a few early pull requests have already been sent in to Linus Torvalds in advance of the anticipated v6.14 release on Sunday. Among those early changes for Linux 6.15 are the SLAB allocator updates that include a fix for cache randomization with kvmalloc inadvertently being inadequate due to accidentally using the same randomization seed.

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Magisk Canary Update
2025-03-22
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Build version:
28103

Changelog:
https://github.com/topjohnwu/Magisk/releases/download/canary-28103/notes.md

Download:
app-release.apk

Foobox Update
2025-03-22
#Foobox

Release tag:
v7.43

Assets:
foobox_x64.cn.v7.43-1.exe (17.2 MB)
foobox_x64.cn.v7.43-win7-1.exe (14.2 MB)
foobox_x86.cn.v7.43-1.exe (17.1 MB)
foobox_x86.cn.v7.43-win7-1.exe (14.2 MB)

Linux 6.15 Plans To Drop Support For A Useless CRC-32 Checksum In The Kernel Image
22 March 2025 - Removing Useless CRC32 Bits

Ingo Molnar began sending out the pull requests today for the upcoming Linux 6.15 merge window of code areas he oversees for the Linux kernel. Among those early pulls are of the x86/build updates, which includes removing some seemingly useless CRC-32 checksum code from the kernel.

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Xiaomi.eu inject Module Update
2025-03-22
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Build date:
Sat, 22 Mar 2025 14:54:29 UT

MD5:
33b2a1d6e49bd37fb8b43a04090ba06a

Download:
XiaomiEUModule_2025.03.22.apk

Size:
12.8 KB

Sched_Ext Changes Submitted For Linux 6.15
23 March 2025 - sched_ext

The sched_ext code for extensible scheduler support and being able to quickly prototype new Linux kernel scheduling improvements continues evolving nicely since its much anticipated merging to the mainline kernel in 2024. Ahead of the imminent Linux 6.15 merge window, the sched_ext feature updates were sent out today for this next kernel cycle.

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Clash Verge Rev Update
2025-03-24
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Release tag:
Clash Verge Rev v2.2.1

Assets:
There are too many, see here

Linux 6.15 CRC Code Should See Big Speed-Ups For Intel/AMD AVX-512 CPUs
24 March 2025 - VPCLMULQDQ

While we are still awaiting the Linux 6.14 release (or a 6.14-rc8 release) with no kernel drop having occurred on Sunday, early pull requests for the Linux 6.15 kernel cycle continue flowing in. Among the early pull requests over the weekend were the CRC code updates that include some nice optimizations for those running on AVX-512 processors.

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Linux 6.14 Released With Working NTSYNC Driver, AMD Ryzen AI Accelerator Support
24 March 2025 - Linux 6.14

There was a hiccup yesterday with no Linux 6.14 release or 6.14-rc8 otherwise... Linus Torvalds has a very good track record of sticking to his Sunday release regiment. Yet yesterday was quiet. Today though Linus Torvalds released the Linux 6.14 kernel as the newest stable version. Linux 6.14 is what's set to go on and power Ubuntu 25.04, Fedora 42, and other spring 2025 Linux distribution releases.

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Faster Intel/AMD Crypto Performance & Initial Intel APX Enablement Slated For Linux 6.15
24 March 2025 - x86 FPU

Among the early pull requests submitted in advance of the Linux 6.14 stable release and in turn the Linux 6.15 merge window opening were the x86 FPU updates. Notable this round are faster x86/x86_64 encryption/decryption performance for both Intel and AMD processors as well as beginning to land the kernel-side changes needed to support Intel Advanced Performance Extensions (APX).

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New FWCTL Subsystem Submitted For Linux 6.15
24 March 2025 - fwctl

Assuming no objections from Linus Torvalds, the now open Linux 6.15 merge window could introduce a brand new subsystem: fwctl.

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Clash Verge Rev Update
2025-03-25
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Release tag:
Clash Verge Rev v2.2.2

Assets:
There are too many, see here

Intel Engineer Posts Cache-Aware Load Balancing For Linux - May Be Very Useful For AMD
25 March 2025 - Cache Aware Load Balancing

An exciting new Linux kernel patch series was posted today for testing... Introducing support for cache-aware load-balancing. The patch comes from a veteran Intel Linux engineer but this cache aware load balancing may also prove very applicable for AMD Linux users for EPYC and Ryzen processors.

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Minor VFS File Optimizations Merged For Linux 6.15
26 March 2025 - VFS File

Among other Linux Virtual File-System (VFS) changes submitted and already merged for Linux 6.15 was a set of minor performance optimizations around VFS file operations.

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Google 正在改变 Android 开发流程，将不再实时同步开发流程至公开分支

注意：Google 尚未通过正式渠道宣布这一改变，这里主要是引用来自 Android Authority 的报道，文章背后作者是各位很熟悉的 Mishaal Rahman，可信度相对较高

目前 Google 维护了两个主要的 Android 开发分支，分别为公共 AOSP 分支和内部开发分支；任何人都可以访问公开的 AOSP 分支，而内部分支仅限 Google 工程师及有合作关系的厂商拥有访问权限。

出于简化开发流程的目的，如今 Google 计划将所有工作流都转移至内部分支，公开 AOSP 分支将只会在正式发布时才会同步相关代码。这意味着公众将更难参与 Android 开发的新功能决策，也更难提交自己的代码。

来源：
https://www.androidauthority.com/google-android-development-aosp-3538503

这不会影响 Android 的开源本质，只是变得像是“开源但不开放参与”，不少商业公司的开源项目也是待正式发布后一次性公开代码，只能说有点可惜…