Posted to the mailing list on Friday were the latest proposed guidelines for tool-generated contributions to the Linux kernel. The coding tools in large part being focused on AI generated content.

Intel Linux engineer Dave Hansen posted the third draft of the proposed AI/tool generated content guidelines for the Linux kernel. The new guidelines rename "LLM" mentions to "coding assistant", mentioning testing as part of the change if done by a tool, and some other minor revisions.

The guidelines continue to be focused on kernel contributions

NVIDIA engineers continue working a lot on the in-development and in-tree open-source Nova kernel driver for their GPUs. Sent out on Friday night were the Turing enablement patches for this Rust-written Nova-Core driver code.

Timur Tabi of NVIDIA sent out a set of 11 patches working on Turing support for Nova. The several hundred lines of new Rust code complements the Ampere hardware support already in Nova-Core and other NVIDIA GPU generations in the works. As noted previously with Nova, it'

Stemming from AMD's recently acknowledged Zen 5 issue with the RDSEED instruction and AMD releasing Zen 5 CPU microcode updates to address it, this week brought some additional microcode updates.

Merged this week to linux-firmware.git was additional updates to the AMD Family 1Ah binary just two weeks after the prior round of updates as a result of the RDSEED issue.

While that commit to linux-firmware.git didn't acknowledge the changes, a kernel patch noted additional fixed RDSEED microcode revisions. This new update fixes

The Servo open-source and Rust-based web browser engine made a lot of progress during the month of October. The project has issued its monthly status report to outline all of the exciting new features made on the engine itself as well as its "servoshell" example web browser application.

Some of the October 2025 highlights for Servoshell include:

- Support for the "source" tag within "audio" and "video" HTML tags.

- Support for the name and area properties on HTMLMapElement.

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KDE Plasma 6.6 continues seeing a lot of development activity while the Plasma 6.5 series is calming down after its first few point releases. Plasma 6.6 landed many more features and improvements this week.

KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his weekly status update in This Week In Plasma. Some of the KDE Plasma highlights for this week include:

- The KDE Spectacle screenshot recording utility has gained optical character recognition (OCR) support. This allows turning words within images into selectable text. This OCR support

Mesa 25.3 is out tonight as the newest quarterly feature release to this set of (predominantly) OpenGL and Vulkan drivers widely used across Linux systems. Mesa 25.3 features numerous Vulkan extensions added to the different open-source drivers, continued enhancements to the OpenGL drivers, and various other changes.

Mesa 25.3 adds a Gallium driver for Arm Ethos NPUs for use with the Teflon framework, mesh shader support for Zink, various AMD video acceleration improvements, the PowerVR Vulkan driver now exposes Vulkan

Ahead of the Wine 11.0 code freeze beginning in early December , Wine 10.19 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release for running Windows games and applications on Linux.

Wine 10.19 brings more feature work and other refinements in advance of next month's code freeze. Wine 10.19 highlights include:

- Support for reparse points.
- More support for WinRT exceptions.
- Refactoring of Common Controls after the v5/v6 split.

Sent out today is likely the last batch of AMDGPU kernel graphics driver feature updates ahead of the Linux 6.19 merge window getting underway around the start of December. And it's an exciting one too from adding a new SMART POWER OLED feature to switching from the Radeon to AMDGPU drivers by default for aging GCN 1.0 Southern Islands and GCN 1.1 Sea Islands GPUs.

Today's pull request does have the recently talked about patches from Valve's Timur Kristóf for moving the Radeon

ollama 0.12.11 released this week as the newest feature update to this easy-to-run method of deploying OpenAI GPT-OSS, DeepSeek-R1, Gemma 3, and other large language models. Exciting with ollama 0.12.11 is that it's now supporting the Vulkan API.

Launching ollama with the OLLAMA_VULKAN=1 environment variable set will now enable Vulkan API support as an alternative to the likes of AMD ROCm and NVIDIA CUDA acceleration. This is