Flatpak 1.18 Released With Integration For AMD ROCm
Flatpak 1.18 is out today for providing the latest improvements to this leading open-source app sandboxing and distribution tech.
Flatpak 1.18 brings improved error handling and better printed output from the flatpak-coredumpctl command. The output from flatpak update has also been enhanced. Another nice addition is the improved start-up time when running under the Fish shell. Plus there are several small bug fixes.
Most notable with Flatpak 1.18 is adding support for AMD's /dev/kfd device exposed by the AMDKFD kernel compute driver. The DRI device permission is added so applications can request /dev/kfd access now without having to use an override for opening up access to all devices.
This AMD ROCm /dev/kfd integration thus can allow for nice AMD ROCm/OpenCL compute support by sandboxed apps without needing to open up their access to all devices.
This stems from a 2023 feature request for having a /dev/kfd specific device permission. This pull request merged recently added the support.
Flatpak 1.18 details and downloads via GitHub.
Flatpak 1.18 brings improved error handling and better printed output from the flatpak-coredumpctl command. The output from flatpak update has also been enhanced. Another nice addition is the improved start-up time when running under the Fish shell. Plus there are several small bug fixes.
Most notable with Flatpak 1.18 is adding support for AMD's /dev/kfd device exposed by the AMDKFD kernel compute driver. The DRI device permission is added so applications can request /dev/kfd access now without having to use an override for opening up access to all devices.
This AMD ROCm /dev/kfd integration thus can allow for nice AMD ROCm/OpenCL compute support by sandboxed apps without needing to open up their access to all devices.
This stems from a 2023 feature request for having a /dev/kfd specific device permission. This pull request merged recently added the support.
Flatpak 1.18 details and downloads via GitHub.