Raspberry Pi today announced the M.2 HAT+ Compact as a new smaller version of their M.2 HAT+ for these single board computers.

The Raspberry Pi M.2 HAT+ Compact is small enough that a 30mm M.2 PCI Express card can squeeze within the official Raspberry Pi case when this HAT+ Compact is positioned between the fan and the USB connectors.

The Raspberry Pi M.2 HAT+ Compact is available starting today for $15 USD.

Linus Torvalds just released Linux 6.17-rc7 as the last planned release candidate of the in-development Linux 6.17 kernel that is expected to go final next weekend.

Merged this week as part of the fixes for Linux 6.17 were a new ACPI ID in the AMD PMF driver for an "upcoming platform" without any further details on that upcoming AMD hardware now seeing Platform Management Framework support. Also as part of this week's x86 platform driver updates was adding

Not to be confused with AMD's Platform Security Processor (PSP), but Google's PSP Security Protocol (PSP) for encryption in-transit for TCP network connections is now ready for the mainline kernel. This initial PSP encryption support for network connections is set to arrive with the upcoming Linux 6.18 kernel.

After going through thirteen rounds of review, this Google PSP Security Protocol support for encrypting data in transit with TCP connections is expected to be merged for the Linux 6.18 kernel.

Code was open-sourced this week and posted to the Linux kernel mailing list as a "request for comments" (RFC) for a multi-kernel architecture. This proposal could allow for multiple independent kernel instances to co-exist on a single physical machine. Each kernel could run on dedicated CPU Cores while sharing underlying hardware resources. This could also allow for some complex use-cases such as real-time (RT) kernels running on select CPU cores.

Cong Wang of Multikernel Technologies Inc announced the open-

The past few years Google engineers have been reimplementing Android's Binder driver in the Rust programming language . Binder is a critical part of Android for inter-process communication (IPC) and now with Linux 6.18 it looks like the Rust rewrite will be upstreamed.

Queued this week into Greg Kroah Hartman's char-misc-next Git branch is the Rust Binder driver. With it making it into the char/misc area's "next" branch, it's expected to be submitted for

A patch queued into the PCI subsystem's "next" branch ahead of the Linux 6.18 merge window will uniformally expose the PCI device serial number of devices via sysfs for easy programmatic parsing.

This is similar to the PCI device serial number reporting available with lspci but now can be done via sysfs for those wanting to enumerate PCI device serial numbers that way.

Developers behind the Git distributed revision control system are debating whether to make Rust programming language support mandatory.

Earlier this year with Git 2.49 was a Rust foreign function interface introduced while a patch series floated earlier this month is debating the merits of requiring Rust support as part of building Git. So far the Rust support for Git is optional but could change in the future. Notable though is that this would restrict the architectures and platforms where Git could be deployed compared to the current C code.

Patrick Steinhardt started the

While years ago it was a annual ritual and closest thing to a vacation around here (even though the daily original content persisted), the Phoronix pilgrimage/meet-up at Oktoberfest in Munich sadly remains on hiatus. Web publishing operations remain difficult given the state of the industry and rampant ad-block use make even daily operations tight. But for those wishing to show their support for Phoronix during this autumn/fest period, there is the annual Phoronix Premium sale special for those wishing to help the site at a discounted

Rather than needing to parse package/history log files manually and akin to functionality provided by Red Hat's DNF, a merge request is pending to add a built-in history command for APT.

Ubuntu developer and Canonical employee Simon Johnsson has been working on this APT history support for the upstream code to benefit both Debian and Ubuntu.

The history command feature is similar to DNF's and currently supports apt history-list to view all transactions in the APT history log and apt history-info to view detailed information