Linux 3365 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

Deepin Linux 23.1 has been released, focused on enhancing system update experiences and overall stability. The focus is on enhancing installation efficiency related to core component updates, simplifying the setup process for new users, and incorporating functional optimizations along with bug fixes. Major improvements include better hardware compatibility, optimizing the kernel, upgrading key features, enhancing development tools and support for different platforms, advancing UOS AI, and making the system more stable by fixing over 100 issues reported by users in various parts of the system, DDE, file manager, and cross-device collaboration.

Linux 3365 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

Linus Torvalds has announced the release of the second release candidate for Linux kernel 6.15 with a quarter of the patch being self-test updates. The rest of the patch is evenly spread out, including drivers, arch updates, core kernel and networking, filesystems, and documentation. The changes include fixes for various issues, such as false-positive lockdep splat, gpiolib, and gpiolib. The kernel also includes fixes for RPG during live self-tests, pinning DMA buffers into VRAM, and fixing firmware memory leaks. The release is expected to continue testing and improve the overall performance of the system.

The list of bug fixes includes fixes for various issues in the GEM context, such as attaching GEM to a non-created context, removing unnecessary prompts for CONFIG_CRC32, removing unnecessary prompts for CONFIG_CRC16, removing unnecessary prompts for CONFIG_CRC_T10DIF, removing unnecessary prompts for CONFIG_CRC_ITU_T, and more. Other fixes include adding missing IP discovery FW, fixing incorrect AVX2 match of the 5th field octet, and fixing encoded extents handling. The list also includes fixes for coding mistakes in sizeof() calls, renaming entry_ibpb(), and fixing RSB clearing in indirect_branch_prediction_barrier().

Linux 3365 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

Linus Torvalds has announced the first release candidate for Linux kernel 6.15. The change log includes a number of driver updates, architecture updates, filesystems, core kernel (scheduling, timers, MM, networking), and misc infrastructure. The release aims to go as smoothly as the previous ones, despite the sizable drop of new code. The changes can be viewed at the git tree for a detailed overview.