… Greg Kroah-Hartman in today's USB pull request for Linux 7.1-rc6 characterized the changes as: " a set of USB fixes and new device ids for 7.1-rc6. Nothing major in here, just lots of tiny fixes for reported issues found by users and some older patches found by some scanning tools. …
… The motivation of such upstream quirk is related to users that want to test latest kernel trees on their devices and get no only non-working sound device, but seems some games like Ori and the Blind Forest can't properly work without a proper functional audio device." That patch was merged this wee… …
… More details on these libinput security issues via today's advisory . As a result of these disclosures, libinput 1.31.1 and libinput 1.30.3 have been released with security fixes for these vulnerabilities. …
… COSMIC Now Implements Wayland Pointer Constraints For Better Gaming Experience COSMIC Desktop's Frosted Glass Is Giving Windows Aero Vibes FreeRDP 3.25 Adds Experimental AV1 Support LXQt 2.4 Released With More Wayland Fixes/Improvements XDG-Desktop-Portal 1.20.4 Released To Protect Against Apps Tra…
… Plus Lenovo docks in the provisioned mode now work as do other hardware devices: - Egis MoC devices with PID 9201 - Intel Arc Pro B65 and Arc Pro B70 10389 - Lenovo dock devices in 'provisioned' mode - Pixart TP devices with PID 1343 - Several GigaDevice and Puya SPI chips There are also many bug f… …
… The sound fixes for this week were merged to Git ahead of Linux 7.1-rc4 due out later today. So just be aware of this if you happen to be an early pre-order customer of the Framework 13 Pro and encounter any microphone issues under Linux -- look out for a kernel update for your distribution. …
… Intel To Support DRM Background Color Property With Linux 7.2 Intel Sends Out Revised Linux Patches For Directed Package Thermal Interrupts Intel Arc G-Series Processors Announced For Handheld Gaming Devices Intel TDX Runtime Updates Looks Like It Will Land For Linux 7.2 Intel Working On pmtctl Too…
… This maintenance release also improves handling of docks with input devices, fixes playback of AMR voice messages via MMS, fixing the scaling factor for certain applications, addresses the shutdown process hanging on some devices, and various other bug fixes and security updates. …
… These networking fixes in time for Sunday's Linux 7.0-rc7 release include addressing performance issues within the Qualcomm Ath11k and Ath12k WiFi drivers that have always existed ever since the drivers were upstreamed. …
… There are a few other fixes for the core part, but most of them are not-too-serious UAF fixes, while the rest are mostly device-specific fixes and quirks." Checking the Linux sound mailing list, there's no shortage of "assisted-by" patches and the like from Claude Code to GPT-5.5 this month. …