LF Networking, the networking group within the Linux Foundation, announced from the Open-Source Summit Europe today the release of Essedum 1.0. Essedum 1.0 is for integrating AI into networking environments.

The heart of the open-source Essedum project was contributed to LF Networking by Infosys. Essedum covers data ingestion, pipeline orchestration, and model deployment for AI-powered networking solutions.

Generative AI "GenAI" is now being used in part to help determine the Linux kernel patches that should be back-ported to prior current stable Linux kernel releases such as the all-important Linux Long Term Support (LTS) branches.

Linux LTS co-maintainer Sasha Levin was the one helping push along the recent Linux kernel documentation around AI coding assistant use . It now appears Sasha Levin is using AI/LLMs to help in figuring out the patches that should be back-ported to existing Linux kernel releases.

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LLVM 21.1 is out today as the first stable version of the LLVM 21 compiler stack. This half-year stable release to the open-source LLVM compiler software brings new hardware support, new language features, and a lot of other enhancements throughout this massive and widely-used codebase.

LLVM 21.1.0 is released right on schedule following three release candidates over the past month. LLVM 21.1.0 was just tagged and is now available for downloading from GitHub as -

Mir 2.22 is out today as the newest version of this Canonical project providing libraries for building Wayland-based shells/compositors. Mir 2.22 brings some notable improvements around NVIDIA GPU/driver support as well as initial preparations for Rust programming language support.

Mir 2.22 brings NVIDIA support through the atomic KMS / GBM platforms code path. A few changes were needed for getting the official NVIDIA Linux driver playing nicely with the Mir code.

Mir 2.22 also brings some initial Rust