It's Fedora 43 release day! This latest installment of Fedora Linux is now available for download with Fedora Workstation 43 using the GNOME 49 desktop, the modern Linux 6.17 kernel powering this distribution release, and many exciting improvements and other leading-edge software updates powering this Red Hat sponsored Linux distribution.

Fedora 43 continues enhancing its Anaconda WebUI for installing Fedora Linux, migrates to Python 3.14, RPM 6.0, LLVM 21, Wayland-only GNOME support,

The upcoming Linux 6.19 kernel cycle is expected to land initial support for USB3 with Apple Silicon devices.

Being worked on the past few months for upstream inclusion into the mainline Linux kernel has been patches for USB3 support on Apple M1 and M2 devices . Sven Peter has been leading the charge. These patches were updated earlier this month and now look good to go for making it into the next Linux kernel merge window.

Last week USB subsystem maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman queued the various Apple Silicon

For those making use of Device Mapper's DM-VERITY target for transparent integrity checking of block devices, the upcoming Linux 6.19 kernel has an enticing performance optimization en route that for some processors can lead to nearly doubling the hashing performance.

Google engineer Eric Biggers continues making very significant performance optimizations to the Linux kernel crypto code. One of his latest focuses has been on enhancing dm-verity performance by using two-way interleaved SHA-256 hashing for data blocks.

Biggers explained with the commit

Linaro engineer Adhemerval Zanella recently sent out a set of 59 patches to allow building the GNU C Library "glibc" with the LLVM Clang compiler as an alternative to GCC.

The patches are focused on being able to use Clang to build the GNU C Library for x86_64 Linux and AArch64 Linux systems. Clang 18 and newer in turn can then build a working glibc. One caveat though is that the GCC runtime support is still needed with further work needed to adapt to Clang'

Stride 4.2.1.2485 is now available as the latest feature release for this open-source and cross-platform game engine written in C# while still having first-rate Linux support. Stride is formerly known as Xenko and offers realistic rendering and virtual reality (VR) support.

Yesterday's 4.2.1.2485 release brought compute shader support to its Vulkan back-end. This new code generates GLSL compute shaders with compute intrinsics. The updated Stride

OpenRazer 3.11 is out as the newest version of these out-of-tree but open-source and community-maintained drivers for Razer devices on Linux. Plus OpenRazer also provides a user-space daemon for controlling Razer RGB lighting and other features. Paired with the likes of the Polychromatic app , OpenRazer makes for a pleasant Razer device experience for gamers and enthusiasts under Linux.

With OpenRazer 3.11 there is support for a variety of newer Razer devices including:

- Razer Blade 16 (2

A big focus for the FreeBSD 15.0 development was on supporting reproducible builds as has been a growing trend in the open-source ecosystem in recent years. One month out from the official FreeBSD 15.0 release, the FreeBSD project is today celebrating having crossed the milestone of being able to be built reproducibly and as well now building FreeBSD without requiring root privileges.

The FreeBSD Project announced today:

"The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce that it has completed work to build FreeBSD without requiring root privilege.

The Ubuntu Unity community flavor of Ubuntu Linux built around the Unity desktop is in a difficult position and at risk for its survival given the lack of developers involved. A call-out has been made in seeking more community developers to contribute to Ubuntu Unity.

Ubuntu Unity 25.10 wasn't released due to critical bugs and the project's longer-term health is at risk. Maik Adamietz who is one of the two main developers on Ubuntu Unity issued a call for help given their lack of time

Beyond packing many exciting new features and changes , Linux 6.18 is expected to become this year's Long Term Support (LTS) kernel version. Assuming the Linux 6.18 LTS designation, this next kernel version will see lots of use in enterprise environments and thus recently carried out some AMD EPYC 9965 2P "Turin" benchmarks between Linux 6.17 stable and the Linux 6.18 development kernel state.

The AMD EPYC 9965 2P testing of