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Bcachefs hopes to finally merge in Linux 6.5 while for those wanting a mature Linux file-system with all the bells and whistles, Btrfs is a good candidate worth considering

In addition to yesterday bringing EDAC support for AMD Zen 4 client CPUs, the set of RAS 'Reliability, Availability and Serviceability' updates for the Linux 6.5 kernel have separately brought initial GPU/accelerator support.

The ARM64 (AArch64) architecture code has seen some clean-ups and support for new Arm ISA features with the in-development Linux 6.5 kernel.

Processing the vmlinux.o object with objtool has been the most memory intensive step of the Linux kernel build process

Ingo Molnar submitted today the scheduler updates destined for the Linux 6.5 kernel

Blender 3.6 is out today as the latest exciting update for this open-source, cross-platform 3D modeling software

The power management and ACPI feature changes have been merged for the in-development Linux 6.5 kernel

'Some people relax with a nice drink by the pool, I relax by playing around with inline [Assembly code],' as a nice quote of the day as Linus Torvalds explained after he took on improving upon a performance optimization patch that was proposed for the ongoing Linux 6.5 merge window.

As expected Linux 6.4 is out today as stable as an on-time release following a relatively quiet cycle the past two months.

Following yesterday's release of Linux 6.4, the FSFLA team has released GNU Linux-libre 6.4-gnu as the newest version of this downstream kernel that aims for '100% freedom' with removing any kernel remnants that depend upon non-free-software microcode/firmware or other binary blobs as well as removing the ability to load proprietary kernel modules.