Linux 6.17 Fixes A Performance Bottleneck In The Futex Code Merged last week for Linux 6.17 were the FUTEX locking changes that include addressing an observed performance bottleneck... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.17-FUTEX

Btrfs Sees Urgent Fix Following Recent Reports Of Log Tree Corruption On Linux 6.15.3+ there have been increased reports of log tree corruption being hit by users of the Btrfs file-system. Fortunately, a fix has now been submitted for Linux 6.17 Git and then for back-porting to the recent stable kernel versions... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Btrfs-Log-Tree-Corruption-Fix

Linux 6.17 Optimizes khugepaged For ARM64 With Huge "16x" Impact For One Code Path Andrew Morton this week sent in some additional memory management "MM" changes for the Linux 6.17 to complement last week's many MM patches from new optimizations to more DAMON features. Most notable with this secondary set of patches are khugepaged optimizations that especially help ARM64 Linux systems... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.17-khugepaged-Optimize

Intel Updates Legacy Compute Driver To Benefit Broadwell Through Ice Lake iGPUs Last year Intel's open-source Compute Runtime stack for OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero support discontinued its support for Broadwell through Ice Lake integrated graphics to focus strictly on Tigerlake with Intel "Gen12" graphics and newer. Today though they issued an update to their legacy driver branch for helping with the graphics compute support on those older hardware platforms... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Compute-24.35.30872.36

Git 2.51-rc0 Makes More Preparations For Git 3.0 Where It Will Use SHA-256 By Default Junio Hamano announced the release of Git 2.51-rc0 to kick off the new week and the first step toward Git 2.51 as the next milestone for this open-source distributed version control system... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Git-2.51-rc0

Google Preparing To Ship Chrome With "--ozone-platform-hint=auto" For Wayland Google Chrome/Chromium is preparing to ship with "--ozone-platform-hint=auto" functionality by default so the web browser will play nicer out-of-the-box with Wayland... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Chrome-Auto-Ozone-Platform

GNOME Mutter 49 Beta Released With Pointer Warp Protocol, Wayland Fixes The GNOME 49 Mutter beta release is now available for testing ahead of the stable release of GNOME 49 coming up In September... https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Mutter-49-Beta

Apple HFS/HFS+ File-System Drivers See Many Fixes In Linux 6.17 Earlier this year there was talk of Linux potentially dropping its Apple HFS and HFS+ file-system drivers as they had been orphaned for a decade and proving to be a maintenance burden. Following that some developers stepped up to better maintain the code for HFS and HFS+ file-system support. In Linux 6.17 we are seeing some of the fruits of that work... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Apple-HFS-Linux-6.17

Linux 6.17 Memory Management Optimizations, DAMON_STAT & Other Improvements All of the memory management "MM" changes were merged this week for the ongoing Linux 6.17 merge window... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.17-MM

Linux 6.17 Enables x86 MacBook Pro Touch Bars, Intel THC Wake-On-Touch All of the HID subsystem device driver updates have been merged for the Linux 6.17 merge window... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.17-HID