With Bcachefs now being "externally maintained" with the upstream kernel not accepting any further feature changes for now to this copy-on-write file-system, Bcachefs is pursuing a nice DKMS experience for distributing updated file-system kernel driver support out-of-tree. Convenient DKMS Debian packages of Bcachefs are now available on Ubuntu and Debian Linux platforms.

Bcachefs lead developer Kent Overstreet is now maintaining Debian packages providing Bcachefs DKMS (Dynamic Kernel Module Support) packages for recent Ubuntu and Debian releases. Thus with simply adding

While KDE Plasma 6.5 beta released this week , KDE developers have been busy landing last-minute minor features and fixes into this next desktop release.

KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his weekly recap to summarize all the interesting Plasma developments for the week. There were yet more Wayland enhancements and fixes and a number of other smaller changes worth mentioning for Plasma 6.5:

- Plasma 6.5 squeezed in text insertion point tracking in the zoom effect on Wayland.

- Fortigate is now a VPN vendor supported

Merged to Mesa Git are new contributor guidelines added to the documentation. This can help new users in submitting patches to Mesa. It also lays out a policy of allowing AI-generated/assisted code but the author submitting the code must be able to understand the code in question and take responsibility for it.

The AI-covered contributor guidelines for Mesa stem from this RFC a few weeks ago. A independent contributor brought forth suggestions on improving the CPU overhead in the RADV command buffer code. Those suggestions were acknowledged as coming

Announced last month was the Ubuntu "Dangerous" Desktop Images as a new form of the Ubuntu Linux desktop images that would ship with leading-edge Snaps atop the latest Ubuntu development images... Basically, pulling in the very latest Snaps to go along with the latest Ubuntu development Debian packages.

Ubuntu Dangerous Desktop Images are to pull all of the Snaps from their respective "edge" channels. Traditionally the Snaps were on the "stable" channel.

Announced today is that the Ubuntu Daily Dangerous Desktop images are now being

In addition to working on optimizing the performance of Zink for workstation graphics , Mike Blumenkrantz has also been tackling support for OpenGL mesh shaders with this generic OpenGL-on-Vulkan open-source driver.

GL_EXT_mesh_shader has been in the works for upstream OpenGL as a cross-vendor OpenGL mesh shader extension . That GL_EXT_mesh_shader work has been pursued by an AMD engineer and while still waiting for it to hit the OpenGL repository, the Mesa support has begun landing for the core

In addition to AMD posting patches this week working on ACPI C4 power savings support available in some newer AMD systems, patches were separately posted this week for enabling S0ix sleep support within the AMDKFD compute kernel driver.

We've seen a lot of AMD power management improvements for Linux in recent years but coincidentally or not, it seems there is a nice uptick recently in working to further enhance AMD power management on Linux both at the platform level and individual components like the AMDKFD compute driver for AMD graphics hardware.

The beta release of KDE's Plasma 6.5 desktop took place on Thursday as they work toward the stable release expected on 21 October.

A module new to KDE Plasma 6.5 is KNightTime, which helps in scheduling the dark-light cycle for the desktop and adjusting the screen's color temperature based on time of day and related functionality.

Also new to Plasma 6.5 is support for GPU underlays , addressing a 22 year old feature request around its clipboard, rounded bottom corners for windows

Canonical today released the Ubuntu 25.10 Beta as they work toward the stable Ubuntu 25.10 release in mid-October.

Ubuntu 25.10 is a very feature-rich update with using the leading-edge Linux 6.17 kernel, moved to the modern GCC 15 compiler, switched to various Rust system components like sudo-rs and Rust Coreutils, GNOME 49 is in use for the Ubuntu 25.10 default desktop, and many other changes for