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Linux 7.0 Sees Last Minute Fix For Bogus Hardware Errors On AMD Zen 3

Phoronix | April 12, 2026, 6:23 a.m. | Original

Ahead of the Linux 7.0 stable kernel release expected later today are some last minute pull requests sent out this morning. Notable for those using AMD Zen 3 hardware is addressing some bogus hardware errors that began appearing for some users on recent versions of the Linux kernel.

Sent out today is a patch to filter the bogus hardware errors appearing for some users on AMD Ryzen 5000 series (Zen 3) hardware. This fix is also marked for back-porting to recent stable versions of the Linux kernel too

Trisquel 12.0 Released For Free Software Foundation Endorsed Distribution

Phoronix | April 12, 2026, 6:15 a.m. | Original

For those sticking to absolute free software ideals, Trisquel 12.0 was released this weekend for this Free Software Foundation (FSF) approved distribution for only containing free software and foregoing loadable microcode/firmware and running on the Linux-libre kernel even with its reduced scope in hardware support.

Trisquel 12.0 is the latest major release for this FSF-approved Linux distribution built atop a modified Ubuntu base. Trisquel 12.0 is based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS even with Ubuntu 26

AMD's GAIA Now Allows Building Custom AI Agents Via Chat, Becomes "True Desktop App"

Phoronix | April 11, 2026, 3:49 p.m. | Original

In addition to their efforts around the Lemonade SDK itself, AMD software engineers working on their AI initiatives continue to be investing quite a bit into the Lemonade-using GAIA, the project that originally stood for "Generative AI Is Awesome". AMD's GAIA now allows building your own custom AI agents via chatting with GAIA as well as becoming a "true desktop app" so it's easier to deploy across Windows, Linux, and macOS environments.

GAIA 0.17.2 released on Friday and now

D7VK 1.7 Brings More Improvements For Legacy Direct3D On Vulkan

Phoronix | April 11, 2026, 9:31 a.m. | Original

D7VK as the open-source project that began as a fork of DXVK in adding support for Direct3D 7 atop Vulkan has with time extended its range to also supporting Direct3D 6, 5, and 3 APIs. Out today is D7VK 1.7 in continuing to better support those vintage versions of Microsoft's Direct3D API.

D7VK 1.7 better supports legacy vertex transformations, clipping, and lighting. D7VK 1.7 also makes more games playable

RISC-V BeagleV Ahead Single Board Computer To See Working HDMI With Linux 7.1

Phoronix | April 11, 2026, 7:34 a.m. | Original

The BeagleV Ahead is an open-source RISC-V single board computer S(BC) built around the quad-core TH1520 SoC. With the Linux 7.1 mainline kernel there is HDMI display support coming now that the Device Tree bits have been added.

The T-Head TH1520 SoC features four Xuantie C910 processors running at 2GHz. This SoC also has an NPU rated for a basic 4 TOPS @ INT8 plus an Imagination BXM-4-

Microsoft Upgrades Its WSL2 Kernel Against Linux 6.18 LTS

Phoronix | April 11, 2026, 7:21 a.m. | Original

Microsoft on Friday released linux-msft-wsl-6.18.20.1 as the Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2) kernel updated against the Linux 6.18 LTS series.

Up to this point WSL2 was relying on the Linux 6.6 LTS series while now there is this new jump forward for Windows Subsystem for Linux to using the latest LTS series, based on Linux 6.18.20 LTS at the moment. Linux 6.6 is now two

FSMOUNT_NAMESPACE Feature Coming For Linux 7.1

Phoronix | April 11, 2026, 7:15 a.m. | Original

Among the new VFS features expected to land for the upcoming Linux 7.1 merge window is FSMOUNT_NAMESPACE.

FSMOUNT_NAMESPACE is a new feature developed by Christian Brauner. Using the FSMOUNT_NAMESPACE flag with fsmount() allows creating a new mount namespace with the newly-created file-system attached to a copy of the real root file-system. A namespace file descriptor is returned rather than the O_PATH mount file descriptor.

The intent with FSMOUNT_NAMESPACE is for creating a new file-system

Cage 0.3 Released With New Wayland Protocol Support

Phoronix | April 11, 2026, 6:38 a.m. | Original

Cage as the Wayland compositor providing a kiosk mode for single, maximized apps is out with a new feature release more than six months after its prior version.

Wayland developer Simon Ser announced the release today of Cage 0.3. With this new version it has upgraded to wlroots 0.20 as the newest feature release of this Wayland support library. The wlroots 0.20 upstream release brought new protocol implementations including color-representation-v1, ext-workspace-v1, foreign toplevel support in ext

GNOME-Aligned Amberol 2026.1 Music Player Released, Phosh Improves X11 Support

Phoronix | April 11, 2026, 6:23 a.m. | Original

A few weeks past the GNOME 50 release and there continues to be a lot of ongoing GNOME app activity worth highlighting.

This Week in GNOME is out with its latest issue highlighting all the interesting GNOME developments. While not much to talk about on the GNOME core side this week, there continues to be interesting GNOME app developments.

Amberol 2026.1 was released this week as the latest feature update to this open-source music player. Amberol 2026.1 is building off the GNOME

Support For AMD GFX11.7 "RDNA 4m" Pending For RADV & RadeonSI Drivers

Phoronix | April 10, 2026, 8:36 p.m. | Original

Back in February we were the first to report on a new AMD "RDNA 4m" target appearing in the AMDGPU LLVM shader compiler . While part of the "RDNA 4" family, it's graphics IP version is GFX 11.7 (GFX1170) that is associated with the RDNA 3 family but with some ISA changes to align it slightly more with the newer RDNA 4 graphics IP. While the RDNA 4m AMDGPU LLVM shader compiler patches have been out for two months, the

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