In addition to the IEEE-1394 Firewire support still being maintained within the Linux kernel, another Apple tech still seeing code churn within the Linux kernel years later are the HFS and HFS+ file-systems. For the Linux 6.18 kernel are more fixes to the HFS/HFS+ support.

Earlier in the year there was talk of potentially removing the HFS/HFS+ drivers from Linux over being unmaintained. But shining light onto that issue ended up leading to new maintainers stepping up to help

Debuting today is the newest NVIDIA 580 Linux driver series release.

There is one new feature of the NVIDIA 580.95.05 Linux driver release and that is supporting YCbCr 4:2:2 display modes over HDMI Fixed Rate Link (FRL). This YCbCr 4:2:2 HDMI FRL support works with just the latest NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs and newer.

Merged as part of the kernel hardening updates for Linux 6.18 is not a direct hardening improvement but rather a long overdue enhancement to the kernel configuration "Kconfig" system. The introduction of this new "transitional" keyword for Kconfig options can ease the process of renaming Kconfig options across kernel versions with less breakage/headaches for those maintaining their own kernel configurations/builds.

The hardening pull request landed this Kconfig "transitional" support as it's renaming the "CONFIG_CFI_CLANG" option to just

The XFS file-system updates have been merged for the Linux 6.18 merge window.

Most notable with the XFS updates for Linux 6.18 is enabling online fsck support by default . The online fsck code has been available in the mainline kernel the past year without any real issues and is now being enabled by default for Linux 6.18, which is anticipated to be this year's LTS kernel version.

XFS for Linux 6.18 also removes the (no)attr2 and

So far on this last day of Q3'2025 we are at just over 800 original Linux news articles for the quarter on Linux hardware and open-source software. Here is a look back at what proved to be most popular for the quarter.

There was a lot of interesting developments for the Linux kernel this quarter both of technical merit as well as Linux kernel mailing list (LKML) drama. The ongoing Intel layoffs/restructurings have also led to a number of unfortunate setbacks in their

While IEEE-1394 Firewire hardware in the wild is increasingly rare, modern Linux IEEE-1394 subsystem maintainer Takashi Sakamoto has committed to maintaining Firewire support until 2029 . With the in-development Linux 6.18 kernel there are more incremental improvements to this code.

Linux 6.18 is expected to become this year's Long Term Support "LTS" kernel version making the IEEE-1394/Firewire fixes all the more notable this cycle.

The Error Detection And Correction "EDAC" subsystem continues seeing a lot of new hardware support and code churn across AMD, Intel, and Arm hardware platforms for the Linux kernel. With Linux 6.18 there are several notable additions.

A new EDAC driver for Linux 6.18 is "a72_edac" as EDAC support for the Arm Cortex-A72 . While the Arm Cortex-A72 cores have been out for years, with Linux 6.18 there is finally

With Linux 6.17 was the decision by Linus Torvalds to mark Bcachefs as "externally maintained" and not accept any new Bcachefs code into the mainline kernel but keeping the existing code within the tree. That was useful for those relying on Bcachefs to still boot a mainline kernel at least. Now for Linux 6.18, the Bcachefs code was removed from the mainline kernel.

Linus Torvalds a short time ago stripped out the Bcachefs code from the mainline kernel. He commented in the removal :

"bcachefs was

Following AMD announcing the end of the AMDVLK Vulkan driver development in favor of focusing on the Mesa RADV driver for Linux systems, Red Hat engineer David Airlie who was one of the co-lead developers of the RADV driver shared some interesting insight on NVK as the open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver being developed within Mesa.

With the success of AMD dropping AMDVLK in favor of the RADV driver in Mesa, David Airlie remarked that it's onward now to " NVK victory :-) " as this open-source Mesa