Linux 6.16 Articles & Reviews |
| Linux 6.16's New "X86_NATIVE_CPU" Option Enhances I/O & Some Graphics/Gaming Workloads | Software | 2025-07-28 |
| Intel Lunar Lake Showing Some Performance Improvements With Linux 6.16 | Software | 2025-07-03 |
| Linux 6.16 Features From NVIDIA Blackwell To Performance Improvements & Intel APX | Software | 2025-06-09 |
Linux 6.16 Linux & Open-Source News |
| Intel Prepares Wireless Mode Support For QAT Gen6 Hardware | Intel | 2026-03-29 |
| SteamOS 3.8 Preview Preps For Steam Machine, KDE Plasma Desktop With Wayland By Default | Valve | 2026-03-20 |
| Linux's KVM Virtualization Preparing For Intel Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) | Virtualization | 2026-03-11 |
| OpenVPN 2.7 Released With Multi-Socket Server & DCO Linux Kernel Driver Support | Linux Networking | 2026-02-11 |
| Linux 6.19-rc5 To Fix Broken Nouveau Driver With Newer NVIDIA GPUs | Linux Kernel | 2026-01-09 |
| Linux 6.19 Kernel Benchmarks With X86_NATIVE_CPU Optimization | Linux Kernel | 2025-12-30 |
| Linux Kernel Highlights For 2025: Schedulers, Rust & Torvalds' Commentary | Linux Kernel | 2025-12-27 |
| Nova Driver Progress & Other NVIDIA Linux News From 2025 | NVIDIA | 2025-12-26 |
| The Death Of Clear Linux, Other Intel Linux Engineering Setbacks In 2025 | Intel | 2025-12-25 |
| A Recap Of The Top AMD Linux News Of 2025: Strix Halo, AI, Kernel Improvements | AMD | 2025-12-24 |
| Intel Prepares For KVM Guest VMs To Support Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) | Intel | 2025-12-21 |
| AerynOS 2025.10 ISOs Released - GNOME 49, Switches Back To GNU libstdc++ | Operating Systems | 2025-10-31 |
| Linux 6.18-rc2 Will Make Sure To Wipe Stale Information About AMD System Reboots | AMD | 2025-10-19 |
| The Many Memory Management Improvements In Linux 6.18 | Linux Kernel | 2025-10-07 |
| OpenZFS 2.4-rc2 Released With Linux 6.17 Support, Bug Fixes | Linux Storage | 2025-10-01 |
| Linux 6.18 Updating The Baseline For Marking Intel CPU Microcode As Outdated | Intel | 2025-09-29 |
| Linux 6.17-rc6 Released With VMSCAPE Mitigation, FLYDIGI APEX 5 Support & Fixes | Linux Kernel | 2025-09-14 |
| Linux 6.17 Fix Lands To Address Regression With "Serious Breakage" In Hibernation | Hardware | 2025-09-12 |
| Linux 6.17 Successfully Lands In Ubuntu 25.10 | Ubuntu | 2025-09-09 |
| Linux Ready With Fix For Old Intel Pentium 4 CPUs Following Copy & Paste Fail | Intel | 2025-08-31 |
| Armbian 25.8.1 Brings Expanded Board Support, Linux 6.16 Option For Many Boards | Operating Systems | 2025-08-29 |
| Linux 6.17 Showing Off Some Nice Gains For 5th Gen AMD EPYC "Turin" Performance | AMD | 2025-08-28 |
| QEMU 10.1 Released With Intel TDX Improvements, Support For Compiling To WASM | Virtualization | 2025-08-27 |
| OpenZFS 2.3.4 Brings Linux 6.16 Kernel Compatibility, "zfs rewrite" Command | Linux Storage | 2025-08-25 |
| OpenZFS 2.4-rc1 Brings Linux 6.16 Compatibility, Better Encryption Performance With AVX2 | Linux Storage | 2025-08-22 |
| New Ubuntu Snapdragon X1E Concept ISO Published - Still A Mess On The Acer Swift 14 AI | Ubuntu | 2025-08-22 |
| AMD EPYC 9005 Squeezes Out More Performance On Linux 6.17 | AMD | 2025-08-20 |
| Linux 6.17 Performance Looking Even Better After Early Fallout Addressed | Linux Kernel | 2025-08-17 |
| Linux 6.16.1 Fixes A Large Intel GPU Driver Performance Regression - Up To 30% | Intel | 2025-08-16 |
| VirtualBox 7.2 Released With Windows 11 ARM Support, Linux 6.16 Compatibility | Oracle | 2025-08-14 |
| Early Linux 6.17 Tests Show Some AMD Strix Halo Performance Improvements & Regressions | Linux Kernel | 2025-08-11 |
| Ubuntu 25.10 Will Ship With Linux 6.17 Even If It Means An Unstable "-rc" Kernel | Ubuntu | 2025-08-11 |
| Framework 12, Clear Linux Going EOL, AMD EPYC Performance & Other Excitement In July | Phoronix | 2025-08-01 |
| Mesa 25.2-rc3 Released With RADV Vulkan Video Fixes, NVK Conformance Update | Mesa | 2025-07-30 |
| Linux 6.17 Staging Continues Cleaning The Realtek RTL8723BS Driver | Linux Kernel | 2025-07-29 |
| Intel Panther Lake Perf Integration Ready For Linux 6.17 | Intel | 2025-07-28 |
| GNU Linux-libre 6.16 Fights Firmware In Nouveau, NOVA, Ath12k & Other Drivers | Linux Kernel | 2025-07-28 |
| Linux 6.16 Released - Better Performance, NVIDIA Blackwell Open-Source & Intel APX | Linux Kernel | 2025-07-27 |
| AMD Kernel Graphics Driver Exceeds 5.9 Million Lines In Linux 6.16 | Radeon | 2025-07-27 |
| Linux 6.17 Introducing Support For The NVIDIA Tegra T264/Thor, New RISC-V SoCs | Linux Kernel | 2025-07-27 |
| New Ubuntu Concept Snapdragon X Laptop ISOs Published - Your Mileage May Vary | Ubuntu | 2025-07-27 |
| Linux 6.17 Looks To Address An Old & Obscure Kernel Limitation From 1993 | Linux Kernel | 2025-07-26 |
| Linux 6.17 Will Be Exciting With Intel "Project Battlematrix" GPU Driver Changes & More | Linux Kernel | 2025-07-25 |
| Linux 6.16 Is Exciting For Open-Source NVIDIA, OpenVPN DCO & More Performance | Linux Kernel | 2025-07-25 |
| Bcachefs Lands Last Minute Fixes For Linux 6.16 | Linux Storage | 2025-07-25 |
| Linux 6.16 Brings Some Minor Performance Boosts For Strix Halo's Radeon Graphics | Radeon | 2025-07-24 |
| Ubuntu Concept For Snapdragon X1 Laptops Moves To Linux 6.16, Enables More Devices | Ubuntu | 2025-07-24 |
| Btrfs Preps Performance Improvements & Experimental Large Folios For Linux 6.17 | Linux Storage | 2025-07-23 |
| Linux 6.16-rc7 Released: "I Think We're In Good Shape" | Linux Kernel | 2025-07-20 |
| Linux 6.16-rc7 Bringing Fix For Possible Bogus/Miscalculated Load Averages | Linux Kernel | 2025-07-20 |
| Bcachefs Lands More Fixes Ahead Of Linux 6.16-rc7 | Linux Storage | 2025-07-18 |
| Linux Receiving Fix For AMD Radeon Polaris GPUs Producing Lots Of Log Spam | Radeon | 2025-07-17 |
| Linux 6.17 To Fix AMDGPU Hibernation So It Doesn't Take ~50 Minutes On Large GPU Servers | AMD | 2025-07-17 |
| 12k Lines Of NVIDIA Blackwell 3D Class Header Files Open-Sourced | NVIDIA | 2025-07-16 |
| Linux 6.16-rc6 Released With Transient Scheduler Attacks Mitigations, AMD Zen 2 Fixes | Linux Kernel | 2025-07-13 |
| Linux 6.16 Ready With Fixes For Old AMD Hardware "Which Wasn't Even Supposed To Run Linux" | AMD | 2025-07-13 |
| Bcachefs Lands Fixes In Linux 6.16 For Some "High Severity" Regressions | Linux Storage | 2025-07-12 |
| Linux 6.15.6, 6.12.37 LTS & Other Stable Kernels Deliver TSA Mitigations | Linux Kernel | 2025-07-10 |
| Linux 6.16-rc5 Released With A Performance Fix, Bcachefs Fixes & New Device Support | Linux Kernel | 2025-07-06 |
| Linux 6.16 Performance Regression Tracked Down In New Futex Code | Linux Kernel | 2025-07-06 |
| Intel Wildcat Lake HID Support & Dell + ASUS Additions Ahead Of Linux 6.16-rc5 | Linux Kernel | 2025-07-05 |
| Bcachefs Fixes Merged For Linux 6.16-rc5 | Linux Storage | 2025-07-04 |
| Acer Nitro Gaming Controller"NGR200" To Be Supported By Linux 6.16 | Linux Gaming | 2025-07-04 |
| Mesa 25.2 Should Have Initial Vulkan Support In Good Shape For NVIDIA Blackwell | Mesa | 2025-07-01 |
| Framework 12, AMD Strix Halo & Linux Kernel Improvements Were Most Popular In June | Phoronix | 2025-07-01 |
| Linux 6.16-rc4 Released With AMD Cleaner Shader For More GPUs, Bcachefs Changes | Linux Kernel | 2025-06-29 |
| Linux 6.16 Extends Cleaner Shader Support To More AMD CDNA/GFX9 GPUs | Radeon | 2025-06-28 |
| NVIDIA Blackwell Support Coming Together For NVK Vulkan In Mesa | Nouveau | 2025-06-27 |
| Bcachefs Changes End Up Being Merged Into Linux 6.16, For 6.17: "We'll Be Parting Ways" | Linux Storage | 2025-06-27 |
| VirtualBox 7.2 Beta 2 Preps Linux 6.16 Support, More Windows On ARM Enhancements | Virtualization | 2025-06-26 |
| Intel Preps Linux PTC "Throttling Control Interface" To Run Hotter For Better Performance | Intel | 2025-06-25 |
| Linux 6.16-rc3 Released: Various Bug Fixes While Bcachefs Changes Not Pulled | Linux Kernel | 2025-06-22 |
| More Intel TDX Code Merged For KVM In Linux 6.16 | Virtualization | 2025-06-22 |
| Apple x86 Touch Bar Input & Apple Magic Keyboard USB-C Support In Linux 6.17 | Apple | 2025-06-20 |
| Linux Delivering Driver Fix For 30 Year Old Creative SoundBlaster AWE32 ISA Sound Card | Multimedia | 2025-06-20 |
| Latest Bcachefs Code Draws Torvalds' Ire Over Late Feature Code | Linux Storage | 2025-06-20 |
| Alienware "G-Mode" Reverted For Linux: It Actually Hurt Performance | Hardware | 2025-06-18 |
| Linux 6.16 Adds Support For Intel PMC SSRAM Telemetry For Lunar Lake + Panther Lake | Intel | 2025-06-17 |
| Intel's Next-Gen QAT Hardware Can Be Optimized For Just Decompression Use | Intel | 2025-06-17 |
| Linux 6.16-rc2 Released With An Initial Batch Of Fixes | Linux Kernel | 2025-06-15 |
| Graphics Driver Changes Begin Queuing Ahead Of Linux 6.17 | Linux Kernel | 2025-06-15 |
| Linux 6.16 Lands Proper Power Management Fix For Code That Caused Power Regression | Hardware | 2025-06-14 |
| Bcachefs Is Now Able To Auto-Fix A Few More Fsck Errors | Linux Storage | 2025-06-13 |
| Linus Torvalds Rejects The Idea Of Enabling DAMON By Default In The Linux Kernel | Linux Kernel | 2025-06-11 |
| DragonFlyBSD Updates Its Graphics Drivers With New GPU Support But Still Years Behind | BSD | 2025-06-11 |
| Linux 6.15.2 Fixes "Quite Dramatically...Potentially Dangerous" Idle Power Regression | Linux Kernel | 2025-06-10 |
| Linux's Turbostat Updated For Intel Diamond Rapids & Bartlett Lake | Linux Kernel | 2025-06-09 |
| Linux 6.16-rc1 Released: New AMD & Intel Drivers, More Performance & Blackwell Support | Linux Kernel | 2025-06-08 |
| Linux GPIB Drivers Maturing Into Good Shape 50+ Years After The Bus Was Introduced | Linux Kernel | 2025-06-08 |
| LoongArch Enables Multi-Core Scheduler Support In Linux 6.16 | Hardware | 2025-06-08 |
| Linux 6.16 Introduces New Helper For Restricting Symbols To Select Kernel Modules | Linux Kernel | 2025-06-07 |
| Linux 6.16 Preps For RISC-V's SBI Firmware Features Extension | RISC-V | 2025-06-07 |
| Linux 6.16 Lands Support For EcoNet MIPS Platforms | Hardware | 2025-06-07 |
| Initial USB Audio Offloading Code Merged For Linux 6.16 | Multimedia | 2025-06-07 |
| New AMD-SBI Code Merged For Linux 6.16 | AMD | 2025-06-06 |
| Intel Linux Driver Patch Posted For Wildcat Lake NPU Accelerator Support | Intel | 2025-06-06 |
| The Performance Gains Brought By Linux 6.15+ & Mesa 25.2 For AMD Strix Halo | Radeon | 2025-06-06 |
| AMD's Kernel Compute Driver "AMDKFD" Can Now Be Enabled On RISC-V | Linux Kernel | 2025-06-06 |
| Apple M2 Pro / Max / Ultra PCIe Support Upstreamed In Linux 6.16 | Hardware | 2025-06-06 |
| Linux 6.16 NFS Client Exposes LOCALIO State Via sysfs | Linux Storage | 2025-06-06 |
| More KVM Changes Merged For Linux 6.16: AMD "ALLOWED_SEV_FEATURES" Merged | Virtualization | 2025-06-06 |
| Linux 6.15 & Early Linux 6.16 Delivering Some Additional Gains For AMD Strix Halo | Linux Kernel | 2025-06-05 |
| Crate Improvements & Other Rust Changes Merged For Linux 6.16 | Linux Kernel | 2025-06-05 |
| Bcachefs Lands More Improvements For Linux 6.16 After Data Loss Bug Hit v6.15 | Linux Storage | 2025-06-05 |
| Linux 6.16 Exposes Statistics For NUMA Task Migration & Swapping | Linux Kernel | 2025-06-04 |
| Linux 6.15.1 Ships With Fix To Prevent Snapdragon X1 GPUs From Severely Overheating | Linux Kernel | 2025-06-04 |
| New CXL RAS Features Upstreamed For Linux 6.16 | Hardware | 2025-06-04 |
| Sched_Ext Boasts CPU Selection Improvements In Linux 6.16 | Linux Kernel | 2025-06-04 |
| Hardware Monitoring For More ASUS Motherboards & Additional Zen 5 CPUs In Linux 6.16 | Hardware | 2025-06-04 |
| Linux 6.16 Merges Support For The Apple Magic Mouse 2 USB-C | Apple | 2025-06-03 |
| Linux 6.16 Brings Many Laptop Driver Improvements, New Dasharo ACPI Driver | Hardware | 2025-06-03 |
| ByoWave Modular Proteus Controller Kit Support Lands In Linux 6.16 | Linux Gaming | 2025-06-03 |
| NVMe FDP Block Write Streams, IO_uring DMA-BUF Zero Copy Receive Land In Linux 6.16 | Linux Storage | 2025-06-03 |
| FUSE Improvements Merged For Linux 6.16 To Enhance File-Systems In User-Space | Linux Storage | 2025-06-03 |
| New Rust Abstractions Added In Linux 6.16 For More Core Areas | Programming | 2025-06-02 |
| Kexec HandOver "KHO" Merged For Linux 6.16 | Linux Kernel | 2025-06-02 |
| Linux 6.16 Will Now Conveniently Report Hard/Soft Lockups & RCU Stall Counts | Linux Kernel | 2025-06-02 |
| NFS Server Supporting Larger I/O Block Size With Linux 6.16 | Linux Storage | 2025-06-02 |
| Intel TDX Host Support Merged For KVM With Linux 6.16 | Intel | 2025-06-02 |
| Intel Overclocking Watchdog Driver Merged For Linux 6.16 | Intel | 2025-06-01 |
| Linux 6.15 Shipped With A Nasty Power Regression For Some Systems | Linux Kernel | 2025-06-01 |
| Linux 6.16 Enables Support For Arm Scalable Matrix Extension "SME" | Arm | 2025-06-01 |
| Apparent Git Scripting Issue Raised Concerns Of Possible Malicious Linux Kernel Activity | Linux Kernel | 2025-06-01 |
| Snapdragon X Elite & AMD's Grado + Strix Halo CPUs Captured Phoronix Reader Interest In May | Phoronix | 2025-06-01 |
| Linux 6.16 Now Enforces A Minimum Compiler Version Of GCC 8 | Linux Kernel | 2025-05-31 |
| Linux 6.16 Enabling Support For 11 More SoCs, Sophgo SG2044 & More Snapdragon X Laptops | Hardware | 2025-05-31 |
| Linux's Trusted Security Manager Sees First Updates In Over A Year | Linux Security | 2025-05-31 |
| A Few New Media Drivers Land In Linux 6.16 | Multimedia | 2025-05-31 |
| Intel PTC, Intel EAS & AMD Requested CPU Min Freq Features Merged For Linux 6.16 | Hardware | 2025-05-30 |
| AMD Virtual TPM Driver Merged For Linux 6.16 To Enhance Confidential Computing | AMD | 2025-05-30 |
| Intel SGX With Linux 6.16 Less Likely To Cause Fatal Machine Checks | Intel | 2025-05-30 |
| Coredump Socket Support Merged For Linux 6.16 | Linux Kernel | 2025-05-30 |
| F2FS Improvements Merged For Linux 6.16 | Linux Storage | 2025-05-30 |
| Linux 6.16 Adds Support For Graceful Host Removal For eMMC & SD Cards | Linux Storage | 2025-05-29 |
| Linux 6.16 Networking Brings Some Big Performance Improvements & OpenVPN Driver | Linux Networking | 2025-05-29 |
| Linux 6.16 Crypto Brings Faster AES-XTS On AVX-512 CPUs, Intel QAT Gen6 Support | Linux Kernel | 2025-05-29 |
| EROFS Lands Support For Tapping Intel QAT Accelerators | Intel | 2025-05-29 |
| More Intel Battlemage Graphics PCI IDs Added To Mesa OpenGL/Vulkan Drivers | Intel | 2025-05-29 |
| Intel Hardware Support Expanded In EDAC Drivers For Linux 6.16 | Intel | 2025-05-29 |
| Linux 6.16 GPU Driver Changes Land: NVIDIA Blackwell, Asahi UAPI, Intel Xe Fan Speeds | Linux Kernel | 2025-05-28 |
| Linux 6.16 Will Be Able To Exit User Mode Faster: 2~11% Improvement | Linux Kernel | 2025-05-28 |
| Intel Wildcat Lake Audio Support Merged For Linux 6.16 | Hardware | 2025-05-28 |
| Linux 6.16 Merges A Fix For The Macintosh II | Hardware | 2025-05-28 |
| EXT4 For Linux 6.16 Brings A Change Yielding "Really Stupendous Performance" | Linux Storage | 2025-05-27 |
| Linux 6.16 Upstreams Support For Hardware-Wrapped Encryption Keys | Linux Storage | 2025-05-27 |
| Intel APX Ready With Linux 6.16, Outdated Intel CPU Microcode Reporting Merged | Intel | 2025-05-27 |
| XFS Atomic Writes Support Merged For Linux 6.16 | Linux Storage | 2025-05-27 |
| Linux 6.16 Adds "X86_NATIVE_CPU" Option To Optimize Your Kernel Build For Your CPU | Linux Kernel | 2025-05-27 |
| Linux 6.16 Lands "rt_group_sched" Option, Faster Core Offlining & Scheduler Improvements | Linux Kernel | 2025-05-27 |
| Intel Auto Count Reload & Clearwater Forest PMU Support Merged For Linux 6.16 | Intel | 2025-05-27 |
