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Ubuntu MATE Leader Stepping Down, Seeking New Contributors

Phoronix | March 30, 2026, 9:25 a.m. | Original

After starting and leading the Ubuntu MATE flavor since 2014, Martin Wimpress announced he's looking to step down from leading this flavor of Ubuntu Linux with the MATE desktop environment. He's hoping for new passionate contributors to keep it going.

Due to lacking sufficient time to maintain Ubuntu MATE and no longer having the passion for it that he once did, Wimpress announced over the weekend that he's looking to hand over the reins of the project to new contributors that have more time and energy.

Rspamd 4.0 Released For Open-Source Spam Filtering

Phoronix | March 30, 2026, 9:17 a.m. | Original

Rspamd 4.0 is out today as a big update to this powerful open-source spam filtering system.

Rspamd 4.0 introduces external pre-trained neural / large language model (LLM) embedding support, /checkv3 multi-part protocol support, a pluggable async Hyperscan cache, multi-flag fuzzy hashes, HTML fuzzy phishing detection, HTTPS server support for workers, and a new built-in fast text shim that can provide ~500MB to 7GB in memory savings.'

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RADV Vulkan Video Adds Low-Latency Encode/Decode Options

Phoronix | March 30, 2026, 8:56 a.m. | Original

The Mesa Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver has added new low-latency Vulkan Video encode/decode options for those seeking better performance.

The RadeonSI Gallium3D driver with its VA-API video acceleration support has supported non-default low-latency options . The low-latency support with AMD Video Core Next (VCN) GPUs is for lowering the video encoding/decoding latency at the cost of higher GPU power usage and in turn the power consumption. AMD developers have now prepared similar low-latency video support for

Intel Graphics Driver For Linux 7.1 Preps Workaround For Dell XPS Panther Lake Laptop

Phoronix | March 30, 2026, 6:32 a.m. | Original

Sent out today was the latest batch of drm-intel-next changes as feature work toward DRM-Next for Linux 7.1 winds down. This week's drm-intel-next pull is mostly fixes and some low-level code refactoring. The only item really standing out is some new quirk infrastructure for dealing with laptop display panels that may have buggy Panel Replay handling.

VESA Panel Replay provides power-savings with capable displays using DisplayPort 2.0+ / eDP 1.5+. The power

AMD Revives Linux Kernel Patches For Hardware-Accelerated vIOMMU

Phoronix | March 30, 2026, 6:03 a.m. | Original

Back in 2023 AMD posted hardware-accelerated virtualized IOMMU patches for the Linux kernel as a request for comments (RFC). In 2024 they then posted a second iteration of the AMD vIOMMU patches but then seemingly fell off the radar. This morning is now the first set of updated AMD vIOMMU patches sent out on the Linux kernel mailing list with the RFC tag now removed.

Suravee Suthikulpanit of AMD sent out the set of 22 patches working on the AMD hardware-accelerated Virtualized IOMMU "

SolveSpace 3.2 3D CAD Tool Adds Qt Frontend, Experimental Web Version

Phoronix | March 30, 2026, 5:48 a.m. | Original

SolveSpace 3.2 was released this past week as the newest feature update to this open-source parametric 3D CAD tool for creating 2D/3D parts and other CAD diagrams.

With the SolveSpace 3.2 release, there is now an optional Qt6 GUI front-end for this application on Linux. There is also an experimental port of SolveSpace to the web browser using WebAssembly and relying on EmScripten.

Beyond those major UI and WASM changes, SolveSpace 3.2 also contains a number of usability improvements

Linux 7.0-rc6 Released With The Fixes Still Coming In Heavy

Phoronix | March 29, 2026, 7:08 p.m. | Original

Linux 7.0-rc6 was just released in quickly working toward the stable Linux 7.0 release in mid-April. This was another busy week with lots of bug fixes.

The Linux 7.0 cycle has been quite heavy on the fixes side since the merge window and it continued this week. Landing for Linux 7.0-rc6 were rather a lot of EXT4 file-system fixes , x86 fixes for Intel TDX and AMD SEV-SNP VMs, numerous audio hardware quirks

Linux Ham Radio KISS Serial Driver Being Modernized In 2026

Phoronix | March 29, 2026, 10:52 a.m. | Original

Here's something that wasn't on my bingo card for this year of the "MKISS" driver for ham radio being modernized in 2026 as opposed to just being dropped. The MKISS code hasn't seen much driver activity since the original Git import of the Linux kernel more than twenty years ago.

Posted to the Linux kernel mailing list this Sunday by open-source developer Mashiro Chen is modernizing and cleaning up the MKISS ham radio driver. This is a serial port KISS protocol driver for exchanging

Intel Prepares Wireless Mode Support For QAT Gen6 Hardware

Phoronix | March 29, 2026, 9:56 a.m. | Original

Last year Intel began preparing their QuickAsist Linux driver support for QAT Gen6 hardware with upcoming platforms. That initial Intel QAT Gen6 driver enablement landed back in Linux 6.16 while for the upcoming Linux 7.1 kernel they are preparing support for a new wireless mode with this next-gen QuickAssist hardware.

QAT Gen6 wireless mode appears to target specific SKUs based upon a fuse bit and then loading a separate firmware binary focused on wireless cryptography standards. QAT GEN5 hardware already supports wireless algorithms like ZUC-

Many EXT4 Fixes Lined Up For Linux 7.0-rc6

Phoronix | March 29, 2026, 7:30 a.m. | Original

Ahead of the Linux 7.0-rc6 kernel due to be released later today, quite a number of EXT4 file-system fixes were sent out this morning.

Ted Ts'o sent out the latest round of EXT4 fixes for Linux 7.0, which appear heavier than normal with various Syzkaller issues resolved, some memory leak fixes, a use-after-free bug, a potential crash, an fsync bug, and a variety of other fixes all making it into this stable pull:

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