CFI Linux & Open-Source News |
| RISC-V In Linux 7.0 Brings User-Space CFI & Optimized strlen Assembly | RISC-V | 2026-02-16 |
| A Lot Of Exciting Changes To Look Forward To With Linux 7.0 | Linux Kernel | 2026-02-08 |
| RISC-V User-Space Control Flow Integrity / Shadow Stack Appears Finally Ready | RISC-V | 2026-01-30 |
| Linux 6.18-rc4 Introducing More AMD 6 Model IDs, Other x86 Fixes | Linux Kernel | 2025-11-02 |
| Linux's New "Transitional" Feature A Long Overdue Improvement For Kernel Configurations | Linux Kernel | 2025-09-30 |
| Linux 6.18 Preps KVM x86 CET Virtualization For AMD & Intel CPUs | Virtualization | 2025-09-29 |
| Intel Xe Driver Preps Additional Changes For Linux 6.16 | Intel | 2025-04-29 |
| FineIBT-BHI Looks To Be Ready Ahead Of Linux 6.15 To Provide Tougher Kernel Defenses | Linux Security | 2025-02-26 |
| Linux's FineIBT Protections "Critically Flawed" Until Intel CPUs Appear With FRED | Linux Security | 2025-02-21 |
| Linux FineIBT-BHI Updated For Toughening Up FineIBT Kernel Defenses | Linux Security | 2025-02-09 |
| A Microsoft-Contributed Change To Linux 6.13 Is Causing A Last Minute Ruckus | Linux Kernel | 2025-01-13 |
| Linux Patched For Unsafe Xen Behavior Around CPU Speculative Attack Protections | Virtualization | 2024-12-17 |
| Rust In Linux 6.12 Prepares For Rust Binder, Supports Sanitizers & CPU Mitigations | Programming | 2024-09-25 |
| Linux 6.11 Hardening Makes FineIBT Default Configurable At Build Time | Linux Security | 2024-07-21 |
| Linux 6.10's Hardening Configuration Now Enables KCFI & Other Features | Linux Kernel | 2024-05-22 |
| Linux 6.8 Brings More Sound Hardware Support For Intel & AMD, Including The Steam Deck | Linux Kernel | 2024-01-15 |
| Bcachefs Boasts Hefty Optimization For Linux 6.8: 4k MT Random Writes Jump ~30% | Linux Storage | 2024-01-10 |
| Bcachefs Lands Another Round Of Fixes For Linux 6.7 | Linux Storage | 2023-12-02 |
| Intel Preparing APX PPX Support For GCC: Push-Pop Acceleration | Intel | 2023-11-17 |
| GraalVM Updated For Java/JDK 21, Great Performance Results | Oracle | 2023-09-20 |
| RISC-V With Linux 6.6 Offers Better Kernel Security With KASLR | RISC-V | 2023-09-10 |
| New RISC-V Kernel Features Ready For Linux 6.6 | RISC-V | 2023-09-01 |
| Linux 6.5-rc2 Released With Some Early AMD Family 26 Bits, Fixing Up Some KCFI Assembly | Linux Kernel | 2023-07-16 |
| Linux kCFI/FineIBT Weaknesses Addressed By Rewriting Some Assembly In C | Linux Kernel | 2023-07-15 |
| Fedora Workstation Aiming To Improve Encryption, Possibly Encrypted Disk By Default In The Future | Fedora | 2023-04-03 |
| RISC-V Linux Patches Start On "zisslpcfi" Support For Control-Flow Integrity | RISC-V | 2023-02-13 |
| Fwupd 1.8.10 Released With New Hardware Support, Faster Startup On ChromeOS | Hardware | 2023-01-23 |
| Compiling The Linux Kernel With LLVM's Clang Matured In 2022 | LLVM | 2023-01-05 |
| Linux 6.1.2 Closed Out 2022 With Many Backported Fixes | Linux Kernel | 2023-01-01 |
| Call Depth Tracking Coming To Linux 6.2 To Help Recover Performance On Skylake-Era CPUs | Intel | 2022-12-14 |
| GNU Binutils Lands New "SFrame" Format Support For Simple Stack Unwinding | GNU | 2022-11-17 |
| Patches Posted For GCC LTO Optimizing The Linux Kernel | Linux Kernel | 2022-11-14 |
| Linux Moving Ahead With Enabling Kernel IBT By Default | Linux Security | 2022-11-05 |
| FineIBT Looks Like It Could Be Ready For Linux 6.2 | Linux Kernel | 2022-11-02 |
| FineIBT Updated For Linux As Alternative Control Flow Integrity (CFI) Approach | Linux Security | 2022-10-20 |
| Linux 6.1 Should Be Very Exciting With Rust, AMD PMF, MGLRU & Other Changes Expected | Linux Kernel | 2022-10-02 |
| Improved Control Flow Integrity (KCFI) Implementation Submitted For Linux 6.1 | Linux Kernel | 2022-10-02 |
| Call Depth Tracking Mitigation Updated For Linux In Better Mitigating Retbleed | Linux Security | 2022-09-02 |
| Clang RandStruct Lands As Part Of Kernel Hardening For Linux 5.19 | Linux Kernel | 2022-05-31 |
| Intel's Rewritten Audio Driver "AVS" Begins Landing In Linux 5.19 | Intel | 2022-05-27 |
| Google Posts Latest Code For KCFI As Better Control-Flow Integrity For The Linux Kernel | Linux Security | 2022-05-16 |
| Experimental "FineIBT" Series Published For Linux - Building Atop Intel CET/IBT | Linux Security | 2022-04-20 |
| Intel CET Indirect Branch Tracking Submitted For Linux 5.18 | Intel | 2022-03-26 |
| Indirect Branch Tracking Ready Ahead Of Linux 5.18 | Intel | 2022-03-09 |
| Microsoft Posts Updated "DXGKRNL" Linux Kernel Driver For WSL/WSA | Microsoft | 2022-02-05 |
| Clang CFI Patches For The Linux Kernel Updated To Beef Up Security | Linux Kernel | 2021-08-25 |
| Intel Working To Combine The Best Of CET + CFI Into "FineIBT" | Intel | 2021-08-06 |
| Linux 5.13 Released With Apple M1 Bringup, Landlock, FreeSync HDMI + Much More | Linux Kernel | 2021-06-27 |
| The 13 Most Interesting Changes Of Linux 5.13 From Apple M1 To Security Enhancements | Linux Kernel | 2021-06-25 |
| Profile Guided Optimizations (PGO) Likely Coming To Linux 5.14 For Clang | Linux Kernel | 2021-06-12 |
| Clang CFI Support Upstreamed For Linux 5.13 - But Only On ARM64 For Now | LLVM | 2021-04-30 |
| QEMU 6.0 Released With AMD SEV-ES Encrypted Guest Support, Experimental Multi-Process | Virtualization | 2021-04-29 |
| Fedora 35 Proposal Would Allow More Packages To Be Built Using LLVM Clang | Fedora | 2021-04-23 |
| The 12 Most Interesting Changes Of Linux 5.12 - PS5, N64, Intel VRR, RDNA2 OverDrive | Linux Kernel | 2021-04-15 |
| QEMU 6.0 On The Way With LTO Support, AMD SEV-ES Guests, Multi-Process Experiment | Virtualization | 2021-03-25 |
| Clang CFI Patches For The Linux Kernel Aim To Provide Better Security | LLVM | 2021-03-14 |
| Clang LTO Support Merged For Linux 5.12 Including ARM64 + x86_64 | LLVM | 2021-02-23 |
| Clang LTO PR Submitted For Linux 5.12, But x86_64 Support Not Included Yet | Linux Kernel | 2021-02-17 |
| Following LTO, Linux Kernel Patches Updated For PGO To Yield Faster Performance | LLVM | 2021-01-14 |
| Clang LTO Support Looks Like It Could Land For Linux 5.12 | Linux Kernel | 2021-01-11 |
| Clang LTO Support For The Linux Kernel Spun Up A Seventh Time | Linux Kernel | 2020-11-21 |
| Intel Tidies Up CET While Waiting For It To Land In The Linux Kernel | Intel | 2020-11-17 |
| Clang LTO Patches Updated For The Linux Kernel | Linux Kernel | 2020-09-04 |
| Google Posts Patches So The Linux Kernel Can Be LTO-Optimized By Clang | Linux Kernel | 2020-06-24 |
| Google Engineers Get Windows Booting When Kexec'ed Under Linux | Google | 2019-08-06 |
| Linux 5.1 Should Sound Great... Well, At Least Work With More Audio Hardware | Hardware | 2019-03-02 |
| HardenedBSD 12 Released With Jailed Bhyve, Disables SMT By Default | BSD | 2018-12-19 |
| Building The Linux Kernel With Clang Is Becoming Popular Again | Linux Kernel | 2018-11-21 |
| It's Been Five Years That Ubuntu Has Tried To Improve For Linux Gaming | Ubuntu | 2017-10-14 |
| Developers Discuss Future Of CD/DVD Optical Images For Fedora | Fedora | 2016-12-07 |
| Darksiders 2 Is Coming To Linux | Linux Gaming | 2014-08-14 |
| Changes So Far For LLVM 3.5 | LLVM | 2014-05-07 |
| Intel Fixes Anisotropic Filtering For Their OpenGL Mesa Driver | Intel | 2014-03-18 |
| Chrome 27 Loads Web Pages Faster | Google | 2013-05-22 |
| FreeBSD Works On AMD KMS, BHyVe, Clang | BSD | 2013-03-06 |
| Intel NVM Express Driver For Linux 3.3 Kernel | Linux Kernel | 2012-01-19 |
| The R600g Driver May Soon Be Working, But Lacks A Compiler | AMD | 2010-07-23 |
