Flatpak 1.19 was released today as a new development release along with the Flatpak 1.18.1 stable point release. Both of these releases ship a number of newly-discovered security issues with this app sandboxing and distribution tech.

There are nine security fixes to Flatpak 1.19 and ten for Flatpak 1.18.1. These security fixes include a a possible sandbox escape with full host file-system read/write access via a symlink attack. There is also a local root

GNOME interaction designer Tobias Bernard has shared some of the plans and ideas for long-term GNOME Shell improvements they have been eyeing for future GNOME releases.

Some of the areas being looked at for improvements to the GNOME Shell include search enhancements, like making search results display with richer content and actions. With the GNOME Shell "quick settings" area they also want to add the ability to customize the quick settings with adding or removing different options depending upon your needs.

GNOME Shell designers and developers have also been looking at simplifying

Linux developer Rik van Riel has pulled off some nice Linux kernel optimizations over the years and the Meta engineer has been working on another one around batching of look-ups with Linux's follow_page_mask() that is used for translating virtual addresses to the corresponding struct page.

With the Linux kernel's follow_page_mask() function currently walking the page tables one page at a time, Rik van Riel has been working on adapting it so walkers can hand back more than one page per

One of the Raspberry Pi device drivers that has remained elusive from the mainline Linux kernel has been for the performance monitoring unit (PMU) for the Broadcom AXI on all Raspberry Pi 1 through Raspberry Pi 5 models. Thanks to the work of a Google engineer, there is a new effort working to get a mainline Linux driver for the Raspberry Pi AXI PMU.

Ian Rogers of Google has been working to address the lack of a Linux perf-compatible PMU driver for the performance counters exposed by the Broadcom AXI on Raspberry Pi

FastFlowLM is the open-source software for getting vision, audio, embedding, and MoE large language models up and running on AMD Ryzen AI NPUs. FastFlowLM 1.0 released today and is also now part of the AMD ROCm software umbrella.

In helping to unify the AMD software ecosystem around LLMs on Ryzen AI NPUs and Radeon GPUs, FastFlowLM has been pulled into the ROCm organization. FastFlowLM is now developed under "ROCm" on GitHub. This MIT licensed software continues to support all AMD XDNA2 NPUs and later.

With the recent release of Mesa 26.2 the Rusticl OpenCL driver now supports OpenCL 3.1 on RadeonSI, LLVMpipe, Zink, Intel Iris, and Apple Asahi. But the work is not over and more improvements to this Rust-based, modern OpenCL driver continue to land.

The latest achievement by Karol Herbst in spearheading the Rusticl driver is now enabling cl_ext_float_atomics for Mesa 26.3. The cl_ext_float_atomics extension is for supporting atomic operations on floating

The HP OmniBook X Flip 14-kc0xxx is an AMD Ryzen AI 300 "Strix Point" powered laptop. While most AMD Strix Point laptops work fine on modern Linux distributions, with this particular HP OmniBook X there is no working audio with current mainline Linux kernel builds. With Claude Opus 5 acting as a debugging assistant and coding agent, patches are now pending to correct the audio support for this HP OmniBook X Flip 14 laptop to function on Linux.

Ville Saarinen has been battling the lack

Sent to DRM-Next this week was the DRM Rust core and driver changes targeting the upcoming Linux 7.3 merge window. There continues to be a lot of DRM core infrastructure work happening for Rust integration plus two leading Rust DRM drivers of Nova for open-source NVIDIA GPU support as the successor to Nouveau and then Tyr as the in-development Arm Mali driver.

The DRM Rust code for Linux 7.3 continues to contain a lot of infrastructure work around I/O, a SysMem back-end for