Valkey as the popular, Linux Foundation backed fork of the Redis key-value database is out today with its big v9.0 release.

Valkey 9.0 features scalability improvements that can help achieve up to 40% more throughput than prior versions. The biggest wins come from memory prefetching for pipelining commands while there is also now zero-copy responses for large requests, support for Multipath TCP (MPTCP), and AVX-512 SIMD optimizations .

Valkey 9.0 has been tested to achieve over

Following the recent Xe3P graphics enablement for Nova Lake as well as Nova Lake compiler target enablement and other early hardware enablement for Intel's Nova Lake processors, today has brought initial enablement for Nova Lake's NPU.

Compared to Intel Panther Lake and Wildcat Lake having a 5th Gen Intel NPU, Nova Lake will feature a 6th Gen NPU. The patch today confirms the Intel "NPU6" generation for Nova Lake.

"Add support for NPU6 generation that will be present on Nova Lake CPUs

Going public today is CVE-2025-62518, or better known by the name given by the security researchers involved: TARmageddon. The TARmageddon vulnerability affects the popular async-tar Rust library and its various forks like tokio-tar. In turn TARmageddon impacts the uv Python package manager and other users of this library.

Edera made public today their discovery of a critical boundary-parsing bug in the async-tar Rust library and downstream forks like tokio-tar. TARmageddon is rated as

Following the initial set of drm-misc-next updates for Linux 6.19 , another round of drm-misc-next updates were sent out today in queuing ahead of that next kernel cycle. There are a number of updates to the smaller DRM graphics/display drivers as well as growing activity around the accelerator "accel" open-source drivers for different NPUs / AI accelerators.

Another week's worth of drm-misc-next material is now on the way to DRM-Next for queuing ahead

The AMD Platform Management Framework "PMF" Linux driver is being extended to enable better integration with user-space tooling. AMD SystemDeck is the initial beneficiary of the integration improvements to this AMD platform Linux driver.

The patches posted last week for the AMD PMF driver introduce a user-space interface to enhance the integration with user-space tooling. AMD SystemDeck is the initial user in mind.

AMD SystemDeck is a private software tool from the company covered by non-disclosure agreement (NDA) for power management monitoring and tuning

The Linux 6.19 kernel coming out in early 2026 will add full support for the Logitech G13 gaming keypad, a device first launched back in 2009. Some functionality has worked in Linux over the past 17 years while full support is only coming to this next version of the Linux kernel.

As covered back in August, a Logitech G13 Linux support patch was posted for the G13 with its 25 programmable keys, mini joystick, and other functionality

While the Blender 5.0 3D modeling software is being released next month, there is already exciting changes to look forward to with Blender 5.1 in the new year. Beyond AMD HIP-RT ray-tracing by default in Blender 5.1 , this follow-on Blender release is also planning on enabling Vulkan API support by default.

During this week's Blender Viewport and EEVEE meeting, the developers reaffirmed plans to switch to Vulkan by default for Blender 5.1. Blender 5.1 stable

KDE Plasma 6.5 is out today as the newest major feature release for the Plasma 6 desktop. Plasma 6.5 brings many great improvements and continues further evolving this modern, Wayland-focused open-source desktop.

Plasma 6.5 brings rounded bottom window corners, automatic light-to-dark theme switching, KDE System Settings improvements, the hibernate option from the KDE login screen, various accessibility improvements, better HDR display support with a tweaked tone mapping curve, experimental Wayland picture-in-picture protocol support