Similar to what has been available on Intel and AMD processors for users with the shadow stack for control-flow integrity , Linux on RISC-V is finally ready to roll-out its user-space control-flow integrity support.

After going through 23 rounds of patches , the Control Flow Integrity "CFI" for user-mode on RISC-V is approaching the mainline kernel. This security feature is for fending off ROP attacks manipulating the control flow of the user-space software to gain control. RISC-

Following last week's Vulkan spec updates that brought descriptor heaps and other notable new extensions and the Vulkan Roadmap 2026 Milestone , Vulkan 1.4.342 was published this morning as the latest routine spec update plus one new extension.

Vulkan 1.4.342 brings just a few fixes/clarifications to the existing documentation that aren't too notable but does come with one new extension: VK_QCOM_cooperative_matrix_conversion.

Linux's user-space block device driver framework "ublk" for implementing virtual block device drivers in user-space relayed by IO_uring is introducing batch I/O dispatch infrastructure.

This code on the way to the mainline kernel for Linux 7.0 allows for delivering I/O commands to the ublk user-space server in batches. By batching the I/O, there is "significantly" reduced notification overhead by allowing multiple I/O completions within a single uring_cmd.

In kicking off 2026, AerynOS developers have continued to make progress on their build tooling and infrastructure for this Linux distribution formerly known as Serpent OS. They have also been working on a new website design and other updated branding to start the new year.

AerynOS recently established a policy that contributions to the project cannot include content generated by large language models (LLMs) or similar tooling. Due tp ethical concerns, "disproportionate use of electricity and water of building / running them", negative influence on quality,

This week the Rust DRM changes intended for the Linux 7.0 merge window were sent out by Danilo Krummrich. The Apple Silicon Asahi Linux "AGX" DRM kernel driver still isn't positioned for upstreaming to the mainline kernel so that leaves most of the Rust DRM upstream work currently around the NVIDIA Nova driver as well as the Arm Mali Tyr drivers.

The open-source NVIDIA Nova driver development continues being worked on by engineers from NVIDIA, Red Hat, and others. It's still a lengthy bring-

Queued up in DRM-Next for the Intel open-source graphics driver ahead of the Linux 7.0 kernel cycle is expanding GPU temperature sensor reporting , multi-device SVM prep , multi-queue support for Crescent Island , Nova Lake display support , and other feature work. With the Linux 6.19 stable release fast approaching, DRM-Next is now focusing in on reading early fixes with concluding feature activity for this next merge window.

Sent out yesterday was the first round of drm-xe-next

Intel today released the LLM-Scaler-vLLM 1.3 update with expanding the array of large language models that can run on Intel Arc Battlemage graphics cards with this Docker-based stack for deploying vLLM.

The new Intel llm-scaler-vllm 1.3 release via Docker and GitHub adds support for eight new models on capable Intel Arc Graphics hardware: Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct, Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking, InternVL