Following last week's Wine 11.0-rc1 release that marked the feature freeze as well in working toward Wine 11.0 in January, out today is Wine 11.0-rc2.

Wine 11.0-rc2 provides a week's worth of bug fixing. With all the attention on bug/regression hunting ahead of Wine 11.0, there are 28 bug fixes that were collected over the past week.

Wine 11.0-rc

The Kernel-based Virtual Machine "KVM" updates for Linux 6.19 include preparations by AMD for handling up to a possible 4,096 virtual CPUs for VMs.

It was just a few years ago that AMD Linux engineers were working on x2AVIC support for handling more than 255 vCPUs . Now with Linux 6.19 they have landed their x2AVIC changes for supporting up to 4,096 vCPUs.

With the first of RISC-V RVA23-compatible hardware expected to be released in 2026, we are beginning to see more Linux developers prepare for this RVA23 profile and the now-mandated extensions. Sent out this week was an initial "request for comments" patch series on RVA23 adjustments for the Linux kernel.

Charlie Jenkins of Rivos sent out a set of ten patches for supporting the RVA23 profile in the Linux kernel. The work includes Kconfig adjustments around RISC-

Merged a few days ago for the ongoing Linux 6.19 merge window were all of the "char/misc" updates. A lot of random changes throughout this time from the Industrial I/O "IIO" drivers to an interesting new feature for User-Space I/O "UIO" for PCI/PCIe devices.

Linux's User-Space I/O functionality via the "uio_pci_generic" kernel module allows for PCI/PCIe devices to be interacted with via a user-

The Blender 3D modeling software could enjoy better macOS support with better cross-platform code paths thanks to in-development work for leveraging KosmicKrisp for Vulkan API usage on macOS via Metal.

Blender has been making good progress on its Vulkan acceleration for the viewport rendering as an alternative to OpenGL. Blender 5.1 is aiming for Vulkan by default on Windows and Linux systems.

KosmicKrisp meanwhile is an open-source project started by LunarG in cooperation with Google and others. KosmicKrisp was merged into Mesa 26.0 and

Sure enough, yesterday's inaugural TheRock 7.10 release tag ended up being a precursor to ROCm 7.10 as predicted in the earlier article. Overnight ROCm 7.10 was released as a new developer preview and with it comes expanded hardware support -- including for Ryzen AI 300 Strix Point APUs finally being officially mentioned.

Back in October was ROCm 7.9 as the start of a new developer/technology preview series not to be confused with the current ROCm 7.1 series

Framework Computer had worked to keep their memory prices lower than other laptop vendors amid the ongoing memory shortages throughput the industry worldwide. But today they've finally had to cave in and increase their DDR5 memory modules for the Framework Laptop DIY Editions by 50%.

Due to the ongoing price hikes around system memory with shortages throughout the supply chain, Framework raised their DDR5 memory options today by 50% for the Framework Laptop DIY Edition. Framework Computer is keeping the prior prices for existing pre-orders and

A new patch series from an NXP engineer optimizes the secure erase performance for certain Kingston eMMC devices. Currently with the Linux kernel performing a secure erase on 1GB of data can take around ten minutes. With these new patches that 1GB secure erase can be done in around two seconds.

Some Kingston eMMC devices will consume a fixed two seconds per secure erase operation regardless of the erase size. When the Linux kernel is currently performing a secure erase it is limited by the max discard size and thus will issue around 3