Ahead of tomorrow's Linux 6.16-rc6 kernel release a number of Bcachefs file-system fixes were merged.

On Friday the Bcachefs lead developer Kent Overstreet sent out a pull request contianing the latest Bcachefs fixes. This includes a number of fixes, tweaking the b-tree cache helpers, b-tree node scans no longer using the cache, b-tree read retry fixes, and various other fixes.

Overstreet followed-up today to the Bcachefs pull request by noting :

"These are fixes

It's been a while since there have been any new patches in the Wine-Staging experimental area to note. More patches though have continued working their way from Wine-Staging to upstream/mainline Wine while this weekend Wine-Staging 10.2 is out at 292 patches atop upstream Wine and containing two new patches.

Wine 10.2 released yesterday with an experimental EGL back-end for the X11 driver, support for Bluetooth Low Energy services, and other enhancements. Wine-

In addition to Intel preparing Bartlett Lake S EDAC driver support for Linux 6.17, several other recent and upcoming Intel processors are also set to see Error Detection and Correction (EDAC) driver coverage with this next version of the Linux kernel.

Wildcat Lake has been seeing a lot of Linux patches recently for this low-power processor series rumored to be the successor to Alder Lake N. The latest on the Wildcat Lake enablement side for Linux is Wildcat Lake SoC support in the iGen6 EDAC driver . The patch

NVIDIA software engineers ended out the week by releasing a new beta of their RTX Neural Texture Compression (NTC) SDK. The RTXNTC software is NVIDIA's interesting solution for compressing material texture sets with very promising results for helping to reduce game data sizes moving forward.

RTX Neural Texture Compression is interesting from a technical perspective and works with Windows and Linux but works best using NVIDIA GPUs although Intel and AMD graphics can work with RTXNTC too.

On top of this week's release of the GNOME 49 Alpha , other application improvements and more came about in the past few days.

This Week in GNOME is out with their newest issue to outline the notable GNOME desktop changes for the week. Some of the highlights this week included:

- The GNOME Calendar application now allows exporting events as ICS files for easy event sharing.

- The GNOME Builder integrated development environment has added built-in inline Git blame support to see who last modified particular lines of code.

KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his weekly development recap of all interesting things and fixes merged for the week to Plasma.

Summer holidays aren't lightening the Plasma 6.5 development activities as it's been another busy week working on new Plasma 6.5 features and further fixes for Plasma 6.4. Some of this week's KDE Plasma highlights include:

- Plasma 6.5 will now allow configuring rotatable dials on drawing tablets.

- When sharing the current WiFi network on Plasma 6.5

Wine 10.12 has been uncorked as the latest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software running Windows games and applications on Linux and other operating systems.

While many open-source projects are no longer pursuing enhancements to their X11 code paths, Wine 10.12 does bring some additional work to its X11 driver. Wine 10.12 has gained an optional EGL back-end in the X11 driver for OpenGL contexts as an alternative to the

The AMD engineering led work on Attack Vector Controls for the Linux kernel could be mainlined with the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel with the remaining patches now being queued within a TIP branch.

Sent out last year were the original patches for Attack Vector Controls as a way to re-think CPU security mitigation handling . With Attack Vector Controls it becomes easier for Linux system/server administrators to control which CPU mitigations are applied based upon the intended role of the system, rather than worrying about enabling/disabling individual security mitigations