Linux NewsLinux 7.3 TPM Makes Cleanup Preparations For TrenchBoot
The Trusted Platform Module (TPM) subsystem changes for the Linux 7.3 kernel are centered around code clean-ups and improvements being made as a precursor toward TrenchBoot support...
Eight stable kernels with fix for a single vulnerability
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 7.2.2, 7.1.12, 6.18.48, 6.12.107, 6.6.155, 6.1.186, 5.15.219, and 5.10.268 stable kernels. Each of these contains a single fix for a vulnerability (CVE-2026-80590) that allows marking IPv4 or IPv6 fragments as GSO, which can allow an unprivileged user to cause a kernel panic. This vulnerability has been present since Linux 2.6.27. Users are advised to upgrade.
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Security updates for Friday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (assertj-core, golang, httpd, kernel, and libxml2), Debian (chromium and suricata-update), Fedora (rust-h2), Mageia (avahi and python-django), Oracle (kernel and mingw-openssl), SUSE (c-ares-devel, dracut, gh, gstreamer-plugins-bad, java-11-openjdk, liboqs, librest0_7, openssl, openssl-3, pcp, python313-mistune, python36-pip, qt6-svg, rmt-server, rsync, suseconnect-ng, texlive, tor, wicked, and xmlrpc-c), and Ubuntu (linux-azure, linux-azure-4.15, linux-azure-fips, linux-azure-6.8, linux-ibm, linux-ibm-6.8, linux-oracle-6.8, linux-raspi, linux-raspi-realtime, linux-azure-fde-5.15, linux-fips, linux-gke, linux-gcp-fips, opencryptoki, and pam).
DXVK 3.1 Released With DXGI Incremental Presentation, D3D11 Buffer Render Targets
DXVK 3.1 is out today as the newest feature release for this Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 implementation built atop the Vulkan API as a key component to Valve's Steam Play (Proton)...
Flatpak Secures €508K to Bring Stronger Sandboxing to Linux Apps
Germany’s Sovereign Tech Agency is investing €508,640 in Flatpak development, targeting stronger sandboxing, new portals, and infrastructure improvements.
HP Z4 G6i: A Linux-Friendly Workstation Powered By The Intel Xeon 600 Series
The past month I have been testing out the HP Z4 G6i workstation across many different workloads and grueling tasks. This HP workstation powered by the Intel Xeon 600 series "Granite Rapids WS" and NVIDIA RTX graphics offers a lot of compute power, but with the top-end configuration retailing for over $41k USD is quite pricey in today's environment. Windows 11 Pro is the default operating system of the HP Z4 Gi but Ubuntu LTS releases are supported and it's "Linux-ready" at large.
The Linux Kernel Is Approaching 2,000 CVEs Per Release
With the proliferation of AI/LLM models analyzing the Linux kernel's vast codebase, there has been a surge in the number of CVEs per kernel release. After typically being around 500 CVEs fixed per release, we are now approaching 2,000 CVEs fixed per release and perhaps will break that threshold for Linux 7.3...
GPU Reset Recovery Merge Request For GNOME Mutter Submitted
Google Summer of Code 2026 featured a project working on GPU reset recovery for GNOME's Mutter compositor. GSoC has now wrapped up and the project overall was largely successful although some outstanding work remains. In this last week the merge request has been opened to conduct code review on this GPU reset recovery implementation for GNOME...
Vulkan 1.4.361 Released With New NVIDIA Vendor Extension
The Khronos Group is closing out the month of August with the Vulkan 1.4.361 specification update...
Chris Mason Steps Down As Btrfs Co-Maintainer, Departing Meta
Longtime Linux kernel developer Chris Mason is departing Meta. In the process of doing so, he is also stepping down from his co-maintainership role of the Btrfs file-system...
Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS Released, 24.04 LTS Upgrades Coming in a Few Weeks
Canonical ships the first Resolute Raccoon point release while delaying automatic 24.04 LTS upgrades to address regressions.
Linux 7.3 Will Begin Checking USB-C Cables For Alt-Mode Support
The USB and Thunderbolt changes have been merged for Linux 7.3. Two changes stand out for me in the USB subsystem code with Linux 7.3. First, the kernel arguably being long overdue for checking USB-C cables capabilities whether they support alt-modes. Second, a new low-latency USB4STREAM option for lower latency data transfers between USB4-connected systems...
Old IBM Driver Joins Insecure SGI Drivers In Being Removed For Linux 7.3
The char/misc changes were merged this week for the Linux 7.3 cycle. While there is a lot of IIO driver churn as usual and updates to the likes of the Google Binder drivers, there continues to be the 2026 trend of removing old hardware drivers that are rarely updated these days and likely have no active users left on the mainline Linux kernel. This trend is further pushed along by the surplus of AI/LLM-generated bug reports and patches these days causing additional maintenance burden for these obsolete drivers...
Calibre 9.14 E-Book Manager Adds AI-Generated Book Covers
Calibre 9.14 introduces AI-powered cover generation with multiple styles, adds Anthropic and Grok backends, and patches Content Server security flaws.