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The Ubuntu Release Management Team is pursuing a new concept called "Dangerous" Desktop Images that will ship leading-edge Snaps atop the latest Ubuntu daily development images...

Intel FRED has been seeing Linux software enablement going on for the past three years. FRED is the Flexible Return Event Delivery that overhauls CPU transitions between privilege levels with a goal of lower ring transition latency and more robust software support. Unfortunately it has a late breaking incompatible change to the architecture and the Linux kernel is now being patched for it...

Barring any issues from coming up in the near future, it looks like DM-PCACHE will be submitted for the Linux 6.18 cycle later in the year as a high throughput, low latency cache for DAX-capable persistent memory devices...

Some old and unmaintained drivers for Linux's Virtual Function I/O (VFIO) support are being marked as deprecated for eventual removal, including the generic VFIO platform driver...

One of the Linux Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) patch series that has long been in the works is on a standardized Color Pipeline API. This is for improving advanced color management handling on Linux and aligns with what Valve and Igalia engineers have been doing with AMD-specific color management implementation on the Steam Deck and their Gamescope compositor. Sent out today by AMD was the 11th iteration of these Color Pipeline API patches...

As of today the Ubuntu 25.10 "Questing Quokka" is now under a feature freeze ahead of the stable release due out in October...

The folks at iXsystems announced this afternoon that nightly builds of TrueNAS 25.10 are now available for testing of this Linux-based network attached storage (NAS) operating system. With TrueNAS 25.10 there are more performance improvements, improved installation process, initial support for 400GbE networking, and other enhancements to this ZFS-focused platform...

The open-source Valkey key-value database that is forked from Redis is preparing for the big Valkey 9.0 feature release. Valkey 9.0-rc1 was issued today and comes with some exciting performance optimizations and other enhancements for this in-memory KV database...

Canonical is pursuing a rather ambitious baseline of Ubuntu 25.10 RISC-V too require the RVA23 profile that will leave most existing RISC-V developer boards to using Ubuntu 24.04 LTS or Ubuntu 25.04. They continue to pursue this RISC-V baseline and with more of the necessary alterations for it being prepped for landing into the Ubuntu 25.10 archive...