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The Linux 7.4 merge window dominates, with Rust Binder, a huge memblock speed-up, memory-management and block updates. Elsewhere, SteamOS moves to the 7.2 kernel, Roku leaves GitHub, and Astral ties uv and ty together.
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Linux 7.4 memblock patches cut the early boot-time physical memory allocator's init time from about 268 seconds to about 50 ms.
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Linux 7.4 removes Google's C Binder driver in favor of the Rust Binder driver, intended for future Android devices.
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Linux 7.4 merged Andrew Morton's 539-patch memory-management set, including DAMON changes. Block and io_uring updates add NVMe support for Apple M4 devices and floppy driver fixes.
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Linux 7.4 adds temperature monitoring for AMD 600 Series chipsets, backported to v7.2 and v7.3. It also deletes the Realtek rtl8723bs staging driver, replaced by RTW88.
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Valve released SteamOS 3.9.5, the first stable 3.9 release, with the Linux 7.2 kernel and KDE Plasma 6.7.
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Roku moved its developer repositories from GitHub to GitLab, drawing substantial discussion on Hacker News.
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Astral is integrating its Python tools uv and ty so they work together more closely. Details are not in the summary.
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Raspberry Pi Desktop, a Debian 13-based release, is reviewed as running well on older ThinkPad laptops.
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