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It was just earlier this month that AMD Linux kernel graphics driver patches appeared for introducing a new ISP hardware block for Image Signal Processing with new AMD APUs

A new AMD Linux kernel patch queued today via 'x86/urgent' for routing into the Linux 6.9 development kernel expands the range of recognized CPU model IDs for upcoming Zen 5 processors.

Ahead of the Linux 6.9-rc5 test kernel being released later today, this week's batch of 'x86/urgent' fixes were sent out this morning.

Due to yesterday's Native BHI vulnerability disclosure affecting all Intel processors with this variant of Branch History Injection (BHI) not requiring BPF to exploit, a slew of new Linux kernel stable releases are out today to back-port this security mitigation.

A new round of Bcachefs file-system fixes were submitted today for the Linux 6.9 kernel

Adding to the Linux 6.9 features is a minor post merge window change: the read-only EROFS file-system is no longer treading its FSDAX support as experimental.

The IO_uring changes were merged early during the nearly-over Linux 6.9 merge window

Intel has released new CPU microcode for addressing five security issues and additionally there is newly-merged Linux kernel code for mitigating the new Register File Data Sampling 'RFDS' micro-architectural vulnerability affecting Atom / E cores.

Linus Torvalds has gone ahead and released Linux 6.8 as stable today rather than drawing this cycle into overtime.

The open-source NVIDIA 'NVK' Vulkan driver within Mesa 24.1-devel has seen improvements made for systems capable of Resizable BAR 'ReBAR' support.