A few days ago I wrote about Intel fixing some Panther Lake Xe3 graphics performance issues ahead of launch. The downside of those performance optimizations for Panther Lake was that they led to longer shader compilation times. The good news though is that some separate improvements were merged now for Mesa 25.3 to help enhance the Intel graphics shader compilation performance.

Caio Oliveira landed a rework to Intel's shader compilation code within Mesa to rework how instructions are allocated. This will benefit both the Intel Iris Gallium3D/

While Linux Mint 22.2 was just released one week ago, Linux Mint developers are planning for a Linux Mint 22.3 update before year's end.

The Linux Mint crew published their August 2025 status update today that outlined their ongoing work toward releasing Linux Mint Debian Edition 7 (LMDE 7) as well as LInux Mint 22.3.

Linux Mint Debian Edition 7 is their forthcoming release that will be based upon Debian 13 packages. LMDE is the project's hedge

Fish 4.0.6 is out as the newest update to this shell that with Fish 4.0 was rewritten in Rust from C++ .

Fish 4.0.6 replaces Fish 4.0.2 that was released back in April. Fish 4.0.6 running under Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2) will now properly inherit the $PATH, remote file-systems are now detected properly on non-Linux systems, key binding changes, and a wide variety of different bug fixes

Samba 4.23 is out today as the newest version of this SMB protocol re-implementation for file and print services interoperability with the Microsoft Windows world.

Samba 4.23 now enables the SMB3 Unix Extensions by default. These extensions provide "first-class" support for POSIX semantics over SMB3 for proper POSIX permissions and the like with Unix/Linux clients as well as allowing symlinks, hardlinks, and more. Windows clients not supporting these extensions will still behave normally.

Another big change with Samba

This week's round of power management fixes for the in-development Linux 6.17 kernel are on the more notable side with fixes for both AMD and Intel P-State drivers plus addressing a system hibernation issue that could lead to "serious breakage" and stems from a Linux 6.16 regression.

Intel engineer and power management subsystem maintainer Rafael Wysocki kicked off this week's power management pull request by noting a fix for a "nasty hibernation regression introduced during the 6.16 cycle.

It was just two days ago that Fwupd 2.0.15 released with new hardware support and other improvements. That has already been replaced by Fwupd 2.0.16.

This isn't a "brown paper bag" software release but rather to ship a new feature. Fwupd 2.0.16 adds a new "search" feature for the fwuptool and fwupdmgr utilities. The new search feature for Fwupd allows for finding matching releases available in configured remotes. In effect, searching firmware releases

With Linus Torvalds having recently marked Bcachefs as being "externally maintained" following ongoing disagreement over the generally accepted Linux kernel development practices, the plans were laid out today for shipping Bcachefs as an out-of-tree DKMS module.

Bcachefs lead developer Kent Overstreet laid out his plans for shipping the file-system kernel driver as a DKMS (Dynamic Kernel Module Support) module moving forward. Akin to the NVIDIA driver support and other out-of-tree drivers being able to jive with the DKMS framework for easier out-

Fedora 43 Beta is declared a "GO" and ready for release next Tuesday.

Fedora 43 Beta will be releasing on schedule. Aoife Moloney announced today that Fedora 43 Beta is ready to ship and will debut next Tuesday: 16 September.

Or for those wanting Fedora 43 Beta right away, these Compose images as Fedora Linux 43 Beta RC-1.3 are what have been blessed as the Fedora 43 Beta images for release.

There are many exciting improvements with Fedora 43 as

Out-of-tree file-system drivers not licensed/compatible with the GPL will have a new obstacle to deal with come time for Linux 6.18 later this year.

A patch queued up this week in advance of the Linux 6.18 merge window opening removes write_cache_pages. In turn this will cause issues for non-GPL out-of-tree file-systems for writing dirty data from the page cache. After the NTFS3 and Bcachefs in-tree users of the