Linux 6.16 is live! Arch Linux users will be able to try it out soon!

#Linux #kernel #LinuxKernel #TechNews #TechUpdates #Computers #Laptops #ArchLinux

https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/2025/07/28/linux-6-16-released/

Anyone know what topics you need to learn when you're faced with a task of "it doesn't work yet because the device trees are invalid. But fixing them should be trivial to do on your own"?

Asking for a friend of course.

Linux 6.17 Looks To Address An Old & Obscure Kernel Limitation From 1993 - Phoronix

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.17-Execve

Linux Kernel releases as of Week 30, July 26th, 2025.

#Linux #Kernel #LinuxKernel #Computers #Laptops #TechNews #TechUpdates

https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/2025/07/27/linux-weekly-releases-week-30-7-26-2025/

Linux 6.17 will be able to reboot the Apple Silicon Macs!

#Linux #kernel #LinuxKernel #Computers #Laptops #TechNews #TechUpdates #Apple #AppleM1 #AppleM2 #AppleSilicon #Mac #MacBook

https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/2025/07/26/linux-6-17-will-be-able-to-reboot-silicon-macs/

Get ready for the epic week that puts the end to July!

Expected releases for Week 31 [Jul 27th -> Aug 2nd]:

- Linux 6.17 (Jul 28th)
- One UI 8 B4 (Jul 28th to 31st)
- Terminaux 7.0 B4 (Jul 31st)

The Linux Kernel Seeing Rare Code Activity Around SPARC64 • Phoronix

｢ SPARC64 was the last architecture not using the generic vDSO library code that in turn prevented some necessary code clean-ups. With this patch series transitioning the SPARC code to the generic vDSO infrastructure saves several hundred lines of code and slightly reducing the SPARC maintenance burden ｣

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-SPARC64-vDSO-Library

Support for stack unwinding using #sframe is making progress on multiple fronts, #Linux #kernel included. In case you have never heard about it or are interested in the current status of things, check out this @lwn article that just became now freely available:

https://lwn.net/Articles/1029189/

Now running #Linux #kernel 6.15.7.

Stuck on a debugging issue? Check out our practical guide that outlines which tool to use for the media subsystem: https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2025/07/22/a-practical-debugging-guide-for-media-driver-developers/

#XFS Directory Parent Pointers since #Linux 6.16-rc1 are not considered experimental in the #kernel any more[1]. They allow constructing a file path from a file descriptor or a file handle, which should result in better redundancy and reporting.

In case your want to know more about it, checkout the recently published text "#XFS - Directory Parent Pointers in UEK8"[2], which was written by Allison Henderson and Darrick Wong, who developed and upstreamed the feature.

[1] Just like online fsck and the exchange-range syscall: https://git.kernel.org/linus/ca43b74ac3040a

[2] just ignoring the Oracle/UEK specific bits

Like expected, Linux 6.16 RC7 is now live! Final release expected on August 28th!

#Linux #Kernel #LinuxKernel #Computers #Laptops #TechNews #TechUpdates

https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/2025/07/21/linux-6-16-rc7-released/

Linux 6.16 RC7 released!

Linux 6.16 RC7 is now live for developers and curious users to try out. All the interesting changes from performance improvements to bug fixes have been integrated to this release candidate.

In addition to that, the release announcement has indirectly confirmed (with the statement of “we’re in good shape”) that the final release (July 28th) is the only release remaining for the development of the 6.16.x series before moving on to 6.17 RC1 (August 11th) two weeks later. Those are expected dates, though.

In the release announcement for this version of the kernel, Linus Torvalds said:

So last week started very quiet and that always makes me happy. Then on Thursday I started getting some updates, and I went "ok, so at least we have some networking fixes", but things otherwise still felt like this was going to be a tiny rc7.

And then Friday came along.

And the weekend.

And here we are, with a not inconsiderable rc7.

That said, the last few days I ended up getting a fair amount of pull requests, but pretty much all of them were tiny. A lot of single-fix pulls, and while rc7 isn't the tiny release it looked like mid-week, it's also not really any bigger than usual.

So there are fixes all over, they are all pretty small.

Nothing really stands out - the biggest patches in here are for some documentation and self-tests or tooling, not actual kernel code changes.

So unlike the week before, it all feels very trivial and I think we're in good shape.

Why not try out this awesome pre-release of Linux 6.16?

Linux 6.16 RC7 is expected to be released on Monday @ 12 AM GMT+3!

Linux Kernel releases as of Week 29, July 19th, 2025.

#Linux #Kernel #LinuxKernel #Computers #Laptops #TechNews #TechUpdates

https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/2025/07/20/linux-weekly-releases-week-29-7-19-2025/

Ah yes, another "riveting" deep dive into exploiting #coprocessors, because who doesn't want to spend their weekends mapping DRAM for kicks? The writer proudly updates their #kernel #exploit to support more outdated devices, as if anyone was clamoring for "Trigon: The Sequel".
https://alfiecg.uk/2025/07/16/Trigon.html #deepdive #outdateddevices #techhumor #DRAMmapping #HackerNews #ngated

It's looking like #linux #kernel 6.14+ will contain the driver I need for an intel AX201 on a #Debian 12, which doesn't work on my #thinkpad right now (no wifi! agh!).

I'm telling you all that for the context behind this question:

Is it bad/dangerous/unstable to run Debian 12 on kernel 6.14?

Further, should I use the Ubuntu kernel or get the "raw" kernel?

Edit: 6.14 might not be necessary after all. Sigh.