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Linux 7.4 merge-window coverage dominated, with scheduler, workqueue and driver changes. Fedora 45 slipped again, and smaller operational changes landed from Microsoft, Quad9 and LibreSSL.
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Linux 7.4 merges include a workqueue change Phoronix reports as 10 to 100 times faster in certain cases, scheduler latency improvements for short-slice tasks, and a Valve-contributed driver for the Nintendo Switch 2 controller.
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Torvalds merged a 48-part series removing __get_user() and __put_user() from the kernel, slated for Linux 7.4.
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Fedora 45 hit a second No-Go and will not release until November, because open blocker bugs prevented a go decision.
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Microsoft published steps for admins to re-enable the retired Exchange Web Services API in Exchange Online to fix broken apps.
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Quad9 announced it is withdrawing its public DNS resolver service from France. The summary gives no reason.
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LibreSSL 4.4 is released with a faster SHA3 implementation and several bug fixes. FFmpeg 9.1 is nearing release with an APV Vulkan encoder and NVIDIA optical flow FRUC support.
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Kernel developers are working on x86 kernel-space shadow stack support as control-flow protection against ROP attacks.
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FFmpeg 9.1 is nearing release with an APV Vulkan encoder and NVIDIA optical flow FRUC support.
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The release dance is underway for FFmpeg 9.1 as the newest feature release for this widely-used open-source multimedia library...
Linux 7.4 HID subsystem updates add a new driver for the Nintendo Switch 2 controller, contributed by Valve.
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The HID subsystem updates have been merged for the Linux 7.4 kernel that included a few new drivers...
An RFC on the Linux kernel mailing list proposes cleaning up AMD Zen microarchitecture detection code, with AI assisting the work.
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A request for comments (RFC) was sent out last night on the Linux kernel mailing list in seeking to clean-up the AMD Zen microarchitecture detection within the kernel. This is for enhancing the kernel where there are code paths specific to a certain generation of AMD Zen processors or select generations such as Zen 3 through Zen 5 CPUs. AI was leveraged in helping to clean-up this AMD Zen code in the Linux kernel...
Google advised Android users how to fix wrong clock times as Canadian provinces adopt permanent daylight saving time.
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As the US gets closer to permanently adopting daylight saving time following the House advancing the Sunshine Protection Act in July, there could be some unforeseen consequences to getting an extra hour of sun in the evening all year long. Following the Canadian provinces of British Columbia and Manitoba permanently switching to daylight saving this year, Google has shared some suggested fixes if Android devices are showing the incorrect time when clocks aren't turned back an hour there on November 1st. In an announcement shared to the Android community help forums, Google suggests a simple fix for Canadians experiencing issues as a result … Read the full story at The Verge.
NVIDIA released OpenShell, a project hosted on GitHub, shared on Hacker News with minimal discussion.
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Article URL: https://github.com/NVIDIA/OpenShell Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50198675 Points: 5 # Comments: 1
Linux 7.4 scheduler updates merged to improve latency for short-slice tasks and NVIDIA Vera SMT handling.
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The scheduler updates have been merged for the in-development Linux 7.4 kernel to deliver several nice scheduling enhancements...
Josh Triplett outlined upcoming Rust language features and their potential use in the Linux kernel at Kangrejos 2026.
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There are several Rust features that kernel developers have been hoping to stabilize, but Josh Triplett wanted to describe all of the other features that the Rust project is currently working on. He spoke about the topic at Kangrejos 2026, leaving the assembled kernel developers with several ideas about how to use these upcoming Rust features in the kernel. The features included refinements to the type system, small syntax improvements, and a smarter borrow checker.