Linux sound subsystem maintainer Takashi Iwai of SUSE submitted already the sound code feature changes ready for Linux 6.17 .

Notable with the new sound hardware support for Linux 6.17 is enabling support for AMD Audio Co-Processor "ACP" v7.2 IP. AMD ACP 7.2 is the next iteration of AMD's audio IP with the existing ACP 7 .0 IP being found in the likes of Strix Point SoCs. The ACP 7.2 enablement is along their legacy driver as well

We are just a few weeks out from seeing the release of the FFmpeg 8.0 multimedia library with many new features and improvements for this widely-used open-source software.

Michael Niedermayer announced that he will soon begin relase preparations on FFmpeg 8.0. The FFmpeg 8.0 code should be branched in the next week or two and to then create the FFmpeg 8.0 release one or two weeks after that. So roughly by the end of August FFmpeg 8.0 should be christened.

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One of the nice Linux kernel accomplishments during the pandemic was getting the NTFS3 driver upstreamed for that modern NTFS file-system read/write driver developed by Paragon Software. In recent times that NTFS3 driver has been seeing occasional fixes and for the Linux 6.17 kernel -- and perhaps then back-ported to existing kernels -- are some notable fixes for those relying on drives formatted with this Microsoft file-system.

The NTFS3 driver will now handle symlinks created on NTFS partitions under Windows. It

The ARM64 (AArch64) architecture updates have been submitted ahead of the imminent Linux 6.17 merge window .

One of the new features coming for ARM64 in this next version of the Linux kernel is enabling BRBE support within the Linux kernel's perf subsystem. BRBE is short for the Branch Record Buffer Extension and has been part of the Arm ISA spec the past five years. The Branch Record Buffer Extension allows for capturing a recent sequence of branches for low-compute and low-

Released on Friday was a new version of the oneDNN deep neural network library maintained by Intel and the UXL Foundation. This library used by various deep learning applications continues preparing for upcoming Intel CPUs and GPUs.

The oneDNN 3.9 release candidate is now available for testing. The 3.9 series is bringing initial support for next-generation Intel Xeon Diamond Rapids processors with Intel AVX 10.2 and Intel AMX support. This Diamond Rapids "DMR" support isn't yet enabled by default but requires use of

One week ago in the KDE Plasma land it was talking about rounded bottom corners for windows by default while this week in the KDE Plasma space is another long overdue feature: notifications for Plasma around low printer ink cartridge levels. The upcoming KDE Plasma 6.5 will finally feature built-in notifications on printer ink levels running low.

The KDE Plasma integration with the print manager relies on the CUPS print server information for knowing about ink cartridge levels. The merge request had been open for two months and is now ready to

With Linux 6.16 expected to be released on Sunday unless an extra week of testing is deemed necessary, the Linux 6.17 merge window will then kickoff the next day. Based on monitoring the various subsystem "-next" trees and other mailing list activity, here is a look at many of the changes expected for Linux 6.17 barring last minute issues or other objections raised by Linus Torvalds.

Linux 6.17 will be another exciting release with a ton of great work building up

Longtime Linux developer Sasha Levin of NVIDIA (and formerly of Google and Microsoft) as well as being the Linux LTS kernel co-maintainer today proposed a Linux kernel AI coding assistant configuration and documentation/rules for contributing to the Linux kernel with patches that are (co)authored by AI coding utilities.

Sasha Levin sent out a short time ago a Request For Comments "RFC" on introducing an AI coding assistant configuration file to the Linux kernel documentation area for AI coding assistants like Claude to interpret. Plus an initial set

While there have been various elements of the Apple M1 and M2 SoC support in the mainline Linux kernel along with support for various Macs, different features have been missing from the upstream kernel such as the Apple GPU kernel graphics driver as one big example. On a more fundamental level, the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel is going to cross off another low-level expectation for Apple Silicon Macs on the mainline kernel: the ability to reboot the system.

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