Kexec Linux & Open-Source News |
| A Lot Of Memory Management "MM" Improvements Merged For Linux 7.1 | Linux Kernel | 2026-04-20 |
| GNOME 50 Alpha Released With The X11 Code Gutted | GNOME | 2026-01-15 |
| Live Update Orchestrator "LUO" Merged For Linux 6.19 | Linux Kernel | 2025-12-08 |
| MEMINSPECT Proposed For The Linux Kernel To Help In Memory Analysis / Debugging | Linux Kernel | 2025-11-19 |
| Amazon AWS Working On Linux "PCSC" To Help With Dense SR-IOV Deployments | Linux Kernel | 2025-10-14 |
| AMD Dev Proposes Dynamic Mitigations For Linux: Run-Time Toggling Of CPU Mitigations | Linux Security | 2025-10-13 |
| Microsoft Hyper-V Support Further Improved With Linux 6.18 | Microsoft | 2025-10-10 |
| The Many Memory Management Improvements In Linux 6.18 | Linux Kernel | 2025-10-07 |
| Linear Address Space Separation Revised Following Prior Intel Engineer's Departure | Intel | 2025-10-07 |
| Intel TDX Will Now Work With Linux's Kexec - Except For Early CPUs With Known Bug | Intel | 2025-10-06 |
| Linux 6.18 Non-MM Pull Request: "A Mere 150x Speedup Was Measured..." | Linux Kernel | 2025-10-03 |
| Multi-Kernel Architecture Proposed For The Linux Kernel | Linux Kernel | 2025-09-21 |
| Linux 6.17 Making Kdump Crash Kernel More Reliable, Less Wasted Memory | Linux Kernel | 2025-08-04 |
| Linux 6.16 Preps For RISC-V's SBI Firmware Features Extension | RISC-V | 2025-06-07 |
| Linux 6.16 Exposes Statistics For NUMA Task Migration & Swapping | Linux Kernel | 2025-06-04 |
| Kexec HandOver "KHO" Merged For Linux 6.16 | Linux Kernel | 2025-06-02 |
| Google Posts New Version Of Live Update Orchestrator For Speedy Kernel Updates In Production Environments | Google | 2025-05-16 |
| Kmemdump Proposed For The Linux Kernel To Help With Memory Dumping & Debugging | Linux Kernel | 2025-04-22 |
| Kexec HandOver "KHO" Looks Like It Might Be Ready For The Linux 6.16 Kernel | Linux Kernel | 2025-04-14 |
| Linux 6.14 Working To Make It Less Painful Debugging Early Boot Issues | Linux Kernel | 2025-01-22 |
| GNU Shepherd 1.0 Service Manager Released As "Solid Tool" Alternative To systemd | Free Software | 2024-12-09 |
| Linux EFI Zboot Abandoning "Compression Library Museum", Focusing On Gzip & Zstd | Linux Kernel | 2024-12-08 |
| Linux 6.13-rc2 To Workaround Buggy Intel Lunar Lake Leading To Responsiveness Issues | Linux Kernel | 2024-12-08 |
| Microsoft's Azure Linux 3.0 Adds 64K Kernel Option, NFTables & Intel E800 Networking | Microsoft | 2024-12-07 |
| Many AMD CPU Feature Additions Land In Linux 6.13 | AMD | 2024-11-20 |
| Linux Fixes Hosts Randomly Rebooting During Virtualization With Ryzen 7000/8000 CPUs | AMD | 2024-11-17 |
| Canonical Shipping Updated Intel TDX Software For Ubuntu 24.04 LTS | Ubuntu | 2024-09-10 |
| Experimental Linux Patches Allow Kernel Tracing To Work Past Reboots/Crashes | Linux Kernel | 2024-03-07 |
| Amazon Proposes Pkernfs For Better Handling Hypervisor Live Updates | Virtualization | 2024-02-06 |
| Linux 6.8 Upstreams More Intel TDX Bits For Protecting KVM Guests | Intel | 2024-01-12 |
| SysVinit 3.08 Released With A Couple Patches | Free Software | 2023-08-18 |
| Parallel CPU Bringup Lands For Linux 6.5 To Shorten Boot/Reboot Time On Large Servers | Linux Kernel | 2023-06-27 |
| Parallel CPU Bring-Up Poised For Linux 6.5 | Linux Kernel | 2023-05-16 |
| Linux Patches Updated For Parallel CPU Bring-Up | Linux Kernel | 2023-05-09 |
| Reworked x86_64 Parallel Boot Support Posted For The Linux Kernel | Linux Kernel | 2023-04-15 |
| systemd 253 Released With Ukify Tool, systemd-cryptenroll Unlocking Via FIDO2 Tokens | systemd | 2023-02-15 |
| systemd 253 Is Near With RC3 Out For Testing | systemd | 2023-02-10 |
| Linux Parallel CPU Bring-Up Shows Great Impact Bringing Up 1,920 Sapphire Rapids Cores | Linux Kernel | 2023-02-06 |
| systemd 253 RC1 Released With New "ukify" Tool | systemd | 2023-01-24 |
| Linux 6.1-rc7 Makes It Easier To Manage The AMD P-State Driver | AMD | 2022-11-27 |
| LoongArch Picks Up New CPU Capabilities With Linux 6.1 | Hardware | 2022-10-13 |
| Experimental Patches Allow Much Faster AArch64 & RISC-V Kexec Kernel Reboots | Linux Kernel | 2022-08-22 |
| Linux 6.0 To Continue Advancing Its Random Number Generator (RNG) | Linux Security | 2022-08-01 |
| ByteDance Working To Make It Faster Kexec Booting The Linux Kernel | Linux Kernel | 2022-07-25 |
| Linux Lands Fix For A Trivial Lockdown Bypass Bug | Linux Security | 2022-07-20 |
| Linux 5.19-c4 - A Bit Bigger, Also Fixes A Previously Reported Performance Regression | Linux Kernel | 2022-06-26 |
| Linux 5.19 Makes Its Signature Verification Code FIPS Compliant | Linux Security | 2022-06-22 |
| LinuxBoot Joins The Open-Source Firmware Foundation | Free Software | 2022-06-11 |
| RISC-V With Linux 5.19 Allows Running RV32 32-bit Binaries On RV64, Adds Svpbmt | RISC-V | 2022-06-01 |
| Linux 5.19 Will Be Super Exciting For Intel Customers, Many Other Features Expected | Linux Kernel | 2022-05-22 |
| RISC-V With Linux 5.19 Preps "COMPAT" Mode For 32-bit Apps On 64-bit Kernels & More | RISC-V | 2022-05-21 |
| Fedora 37 Looks To Make pkexec Optional For Improved Security | Fedora | 2022-02-20 |
| Linux 5.17 RISC-V Allows Rebooting Without Needing Special Driver, HiFive Unmatched Improvements | RISC-V | 2022-01-19 |
| Linux 5.16 Arm SoC Changes Bring-Up The Snapdragon 690, Other Hardware | Arm | 2021-11-04 |
| "PKRAM" Revived For Preserving Memory Pages Across Kexec'ing Kernels | Oracle | 2021-03-31 |
| Microsoft Contributes Integrity Improvements To Linux 5.12 | Microsoft | 2021-02-22 |
| GRUB 2.06 Should Be Released This Year, Cooperation Increasing With Distro Vendors | GNU | 2021-02-10 |
| Webboot Is Becoming Quite Useful For Quickly/Easily Booting ISOs From The Web | Free Software | 2020-12-07 |
| RHEL 8.3 Released With TSX Disabled By Default To Avoid Mitigation Overhead | Red Hat | 2020-10-29 |
| Oracle Working On "PKRAM" For Memory That Survives After Booting Into A New Kexec Kernel | Oracle | 2020-05-08 |
| Oracle Ships Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 6 - Based On Linux 5.4 + DTrace Over BPF, Etc | Oracle | 2020-03-31 |
| GRUB 2.06 Planning For Release This Year - Possibly With Intel TXT + AMD SKINIT Support | Oracle | 2020-02-03 |
| Linux 5.5 Begins Plumbing Secure Boot Infrastructure For POWER9 | Hardware | 2019-12-04 |
| LinuxBoot Continues Maturing - Now Able To Boot Windows | Linux Security | 2019-11-12 |
| Google Engineers Get Windows Booting When Kexec'ed Under Linux | Google | 2019-08-06 |
| Linux 5.3 Is Another Busy Kernel Merge Window Even For The Summer Months | Linux Kernel | 2019-07-11 |
| AMD Submits Initial AMDGPU Graphics Driver Improvements Ahead Of Linux 5.1 | Radeon | 2019-01-25 |
| The Next Linux Kernel Will Further Fend Off Buggy EFI Firmware | Hardware | 2018-10-24 |
| 64-bit ARM Changes For Linux 4.19 Has "A Bunch Of Good Stuff" | Arm | 2018-08-15 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 Offers Wayland In Tech Preview Form | Red Hat | 2018-01-24 |
| Kernel Lockdown: Tightening Up Linux Kernel Access From User-Space | Linux Kernel | 2017-04-06 |
| ELC2017: The State of U-Boot | Free Software | 2017-02-26 |
| Kernel Lockdown Patches Published (LOCK_DOWN_KERNEL) | Linux Kernel | 2016-11-17 |
| Many PowerPC Changes Line Up For Linux 4.5 | Hardware | 2016-01-15 |
| PlayStation 3 Support Is Still Being Worked On Within The Linux Kernel | Hardware | 2015-02-12 |
| Xen 4.4 Is On Approach With Many Features, 4.4-RC4 Is Out | Virtualization | 2014-02-17 |
| Linux 3.14 To Support EFI Kexec Capability | Linux Kernel | 2014-01-20 |
| Xen 4.4 Will Be Riding High With New Features | Virtualization | 2013-12-22 |
| Defeating Secure Boot With Linux Kexec | Linux Kernel | 2013-12-04 |
| Secure Boot Breaks Kexec, Hibernate Support On Linux | Linux Kernel | 2013-01-28 |
| ELF Executable Signing/Verification Comes For Linux | Free Software | 2013-01-16 |
| Reverse-Engineered NVIDIA Driver Works On Re-Clocking | Nouveau | 2012-01-24 |
| Another Linus Rant About Linux DRM; Rejects Pull | Linux Kernel | 2011-12-06 |
