A new feature that appears ready for introduction in the upcoming Linux 6.20~7.0 kernel cycle is revocable resource management.

Google engineer Tzung-Bi Shih began working on this code to fix a possible use-after-free situation within the ChromeOS EC platform driver code. This Revocable Resource Management has since spun out into its own standalone infrastructure code and it's that is what is on the table for the upcoming Linux 6.20~7.0 kernel cycle.

Queued up this past

Support for newer HDMI features in the open-source AMD Linux graphics driver have been limited due to being blocked by the HDMI Forum . There are though some new HDMI gaming features being enabled via new AMDGPU kernel driver patches that are coming outside of AMD and based on public knowledge and/or "trying things out until they work/break" for functionality like HDMI Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) and Auto Low Latency Mode.

Tomasz Pakuła has been working on these new HDMI features for the AMDGPU Linux driver.

There have been a number of nice RADV driver Vulkan ray-tracing performance optimizations for Mesa in recent times... Here is yet another merge request now merged for Mesa 26.0 and helping deliver some nice performance uplift for ray-traced games on Linux. And, yes, this is yet another Valve contribution to this open-source AMD Radeon Linux graphics driver.

Konstantin Seurer has implemented HPLOC support for the RADV Vulkan driver. HPLOC is Hierarchical Parallel Locally-Ordered Clustering and is a faster algorithm to construct

Following last week's updated Intel LLM-Scaler-vLLM release for helping advance vLLM usage on Intel Arc Graphics, LLM Scaler Omni is out with a new release today for that LLM-Scaler environment focused on image / voice / video generation using Omni Studio and Omni Serving modes.

LLM-Scaler-Omni 0.1.0-b5 is the new release that adds support for Python 3.12 and PyTorch 2.9 for delivering some additional performance benefits. The updated LLM Scaler Omni brings a

Myrlyn 1.0 was released today as the package manager GUI developed by SUSE engineers and started out just over one year ago during a SUSE Hack Week event as a SUSE/Qt package manager program not dependent upon YaST or Ruby.

Myrlyn began life as YQPkg and then renamed to Myrlyn as it continued tacking on more features for this modern package manager GUI optimized for SUSE/openSUSE Linux environments. Myrlyn is written with the Qt6 toolkit and depends upon Zypper's libzypp as its back-end.

For those organizations on the Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) bandwagon for increasing transparency around software components with license compliance, vulnerability management, and securing the software supply chain, proposed patches to the Linux kernel would introduce an SPDX SBOM Generation Tool.

German consulting firm TNG Tech has been working on this SPDX SBOM generation tool for the Linux kernel source tree as a Python scripted tool to generate SBOM documents in the SPDX 3.0.1 format for Linux kernel builds in describing the kernel and modules built for SBOM compliance:

Linus Torvalds just tagged the Linux 6.19-rc6 kernel in working toward the stable Linux 6.19 kernel release likely on 8 February.

Linux 6.19-rc6 is now available for testing. While typically it would be the stable kernel version one week after next week's 6.19-rc7 release, Linus Torvalds already indicated he intends to go through v6.19-rc8 this cycle to accommodate due to slower testing/fixing around the end

ReactOS as the long-in-development "open-source Windows" project has been on quite a roll recently. Beyond a big Windows NT 6 compatibility improvement and fixing a very annoying usability issue , for this third week of the year there is another big change landing: a significant improvement in networking performance on ReactOS.

ReactOS finally supports asynchronous TCP connections with the latest-merged code. ReactOS developers describe this async TCP support on X as:

"BREAKING NEWS:
After 10 years, asynchronous TCP support patch is

Ahead of the Linux 6.19-rc6 kernel release due out later today are two USB fixes for Apple M1 / M2 Macs running the mainline kernel. These Apple USB fixes are also marked for back-porting to the stable Linux kernel series.

First up is a fix for the USB-C port controller on the Apple M2 and M1/M2 Pro/Max/Ultra devices that caused issues detecting USB 2.0 and USB 3.x devices. The patch explains that