Linux 6.17-rc5 Released With NVIDIA "Nouveau" Driver Stability Issues Addressed

Linux 6.17-rc5 is out for testing as the newest weekly release candidate as we near the stable Linux 6.17 release in late September.

Linux 6.17 changes merged this past week include an important stability fix for the open-source NVIDIA "Nouveau" graphics driver , preparing for the upcoming Rust 1.91 release due out in October, new x86 hardware support and device quirks , and even some PCMCIA fixes .

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Intel Preps Wildcat Lake Display Support For Linux 6.18, "enable_panel_replay" Option

In addition to the Intel Xe kernel graphics driver updates sent out this week in advance of the Linux 6.18 kernel, there was also a batch of drm-intel-next updates also submitted for predominantly display-related changes to the open-source Intel driver.

Notable with the drm-intel-next pull ahead of Linux 6.18 are the patches enabling Wildcat Lake display support. Intel engineers in recent months have been quite busy preparing for Wildcat Lake as a cut-down alternative to upcoming Panther

Hangover 10.14 Released With Updated FEX, Box64 & DXVK

Hangover is the open-source project that leverages Wine to allow running x86 32-bit and 64-bit Windows applications on AArch64 Linux systems. Hangover pairs Wine with an emulator like Box64 or FEX for the x86/x86_64 to AArch64 translation while also eyeing other CPU architecture support too.

André Zwing announced the release of Hangover 10.14 today as the latest snapshot and builds atop the recent upstream Wine 10.
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Imagination PowerVR Driver With Linux 6.18 To Support RISC-V

Imagination's open-source PowerVR kernel graphics driver for a while has seen patches extending it to work on RISC-V given that some RISC-V hardware coming to market has featured PowerVR graphics IP. With the upcoming Linux 6.18 kernel that work is landing along with enabling support for the T-HEAD TH1520's GPU.

Sent out this week to DRM-Next by way of drm-misc-next are the PowerVR Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) driver patches adding RISC
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FreeBSD 15.0 Alpha 1 Released For Early Testing

The first alpha release of FreeBSD 15.0 is now available! FreeBSD 15.0 is a major update to this BSD operating system that aims for its stable release before Christmas.

FreeBSD 15.0 comes with a lot of new hardware support thanks to many updated kernel drivers, like improved WiFi drivers , better power management, and a lot of newer hardware now simply playing nicely under FreeBSD. FreeBSD 15.0 also has been working to be more welcoming to new desktop users by offering a KDE

Ubuntu 25.10 Enters Its UI Freeze

The UI freeze for Ubuntu 25.10 is now in effect as the developers work toward the release of this next Ubuntu Linux installment in October.

The user interface freeze for Ubuntu 25.10 has now begun, Canonical engineer Utkarsh Gupta announced on Sunday morning.

The UI freeze serves as a point so documentation / screenshots, etc, remain relevant through release time without any other major user interface revisions planned. There can be UI freeze exceptions but the point is that the Ubuntu 25.10
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Intel PEPC 1.6 Released For Tuning Efficiency Latency Control "ELC" With Xeon 6 CPUs

Intel's open-source PEPC tool has been updated as the utility for managing and optimized Intel CPU power management features on Linux.

PEPC is short for the Power, Energy, and Performance Configurator and this week's PEPC v1.6 release brings support for Efficiency Latency Control handling found with current generation Xeon 6 Granite Rapids and Sierra Forest server processors.

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Linux 6.17 Lands Fixes For Upcoming Rust 1.91

Coming in today as the Rust "fixes" ahead of tomorrow's Linux 6.17-rc5 release is adjusting support for the upcoming Rust 1.91 compiler release.

Rust For Linux lead maintainer Miguel Ojeda sent in the batch of Rust fixes for Linux 6.17 . The fixes are just preparing for the upcoming Rust 1.91 release:
"Two changes to prepare for the future Rust 1.91.0 release (expected 2025-10-3
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Debian 13.1 Released With An Initial Batch Of Fixes

Following the release of Debian 13.0 "Trixie" nearly one month ago to the day, Debian 13.1 is out today with an initial batch of bug fixes and security updates.

Debian 13.1 is now available for refreshed install media for Debian 13 Linux installations. Debian 13.1 brings a variety of different bug fixes to a number of packages, updates with newer Linux 6.12 LTS kernel fixes, works around a GRUB bootloader graphics initialization bug, Python 3.
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Rust Coreutils 0.2 Released With "Massive" Performance Gains, Production-Ready Ubuntu Support

The uutils project today released version 0.2 of the Rust Coreutils as their alternative to GNU Coreutils written in the Rust programming language. This release comes as Ubuntu 25.10 prepares to make use of it by default .

Rust Coreutils 0.2 represents the project's first fully-internationalized release with comprehensive localization support and better Unicode handling. Rust Coreutils can also now handle non-UTF8 path support.

There are "massive" performance gains with Rust Coreutils 0.2 reported in the release announcement
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