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As part of updates to the older file-system drivers for Linux 6.6, the ReiserFS file-system is no longer marked as 'Supported' but is officially treated as 'Obsolete' within the Linux kernel.

The first release candidate of PHP 8.3 is now available for testing this annual feature release.

With the in-development Linux 6.6 kernel adding support for more upcoming Radeon graphics processors, that means more auto-generated header files for the new IP blocks..

Chuck Lever III of Oracle has submitted the NFSD changes for Linux 6.6 for this NFS server of which he is particularly thrilled about one of the new features this cycle.

The Linux mitigation for the Intel Gather Data Sampling (GDS) 'Downfall' vulnerability was updated to reflect all Skylake and Kabylake CPUs being vulnerable to this nasty issue

The Intel Shadow Stack support that is part of their Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET) has finally been merged for the Linux 6.6 kernel after it was previously rejected by Linus Torvalds.

Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux) has been part of the mainline kernel for two decades to provide a security module implementing access control security policies and is now widely-used for enhancing the security of production Linux servers and other systems

MidnightBSD 3.1 is now available for this desktop-minded, FreeBSD-forked operating system that aims to be 'the BSD for everyone' with an Xfce-based desktop and focus on ease of use.

Some code cleaning within the sysctl space of the Linux kernel will eventually eliminate around 64 bytes of bloat per array within the kernel where a sentinel can be removed.

AMD's open-source Linux graphics driver engineers are working on a new set of interfaces for user-space to support OverDrive overclocking