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Linux 6.17 is out as the latest Kernel release! Linus Torvalds announced it yesterday afternoon in lkml.org:

No huge surprises this past week, so here we are, with kernel 6.17 pushed out and ready to go.

Below is the shortlog for just the last week – not the full 6.17 release – as usual. It’s not exciting, which is all good. I think the biggest patch in there is some locking fixes for some bluetooth races that could cause use-after-free situations. Whee – that’s about as exciting as it gets.

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What’s New in Kernel 6.17

Linux 6.17 introduced Attack Vector Controls, which provides a simple method to manage CPU vulnerability mitigations. Which, so far supports 5 sets of attack-vector mitigations: User-to-Kernel, User-to-User, Guest-to-Host, Guest-to-Guest, and Cross-Tread. See the official documentation for more about it.

For Intel, the kernel added Intel IPU7 driver for web camera support on Lunar Lake and Panther Lake laptops. And, it added perf profiling support for Panther Lake, and EDAC (Error Detection and Correction) support for Granite Rapids D, Wildcat Lake, and Raptor Lake HX, and Core i5 14600, i7 14700 processors.

It as well added initial support for Wildcat Lake integrated graphics, enabled OpenGL and Vulkan support for Xe3 Panther Lake graphics by default, and added SR-IOV (Single Root I/O Virtualization) support for Battlemage GPUs but limit to Arc Pro graphics card.

There are as well DRM Panic support for the Intel i915 and Xe kernel drivers, Wildcat Lake “WCL” display enablement, and experimental flip queue support for Lunar Lake and Panther Lake hardware, and NPU accelerator support for Wildcat Lake.

On the AMD side, the kernel merged AMD’s Hardware Feedback Interface driver for dynamic core ranking, improved task scheduling, and better support for processors with mix of classic and dense cores.

It also added SmartMux support for hybrid laptops that dynamically switch the GPU being used. For example, when gaming, the system can be switch the active display to the discrete GPU for better performance.

Other AMD changes include CPUID faulting support, and fix for AMDGPU hibernation, which can save 50 minutes on large GPU servers.

Other changes in this Kernel release include:

• Apple System Management Controller (SMC) driver for being able to reboot modern M1/M2 Macs
• BRBE (Branch Record Buffer Extension) support for ARM64.
• Drop non-SMP (Symmetric Multi-Processing), meaning for system with only one CPU core, there might be small performance regression.
• Turbostat command-line utility can now display CPU L3 cache topology information.
• Much faster CRC32C error detection on modern Intel and AMD AVX-512 processors.
• Added “pm_async=off” parameter to disable async suspend/resume with the Linux kernel
• Large folio support for Btrfs (experimental).
• Multi-device filesystems like btrfs and bcachefs can handle certain device loss without the need to shutdown the whole filesystem.
• New driver for powering on the T-HEAD TH1520 RISC-V SoC’s GPU.

There are as well many new and updated hardware support, including:

• Raspberry Pi RP1 PCI device support
• Marvell PXA1908 and the CIX P1 SoC
• Andes Tech QiLai SoC and the Sophgo SG2000.
• NVIDIA Tegra264.
• Samsung Snapdragon X laptop support.
• Add support for Touch Bars on x86 MacBook Pros.
• BCM5325 switches.
• Support 50 / 100 / 200 / 400 / 800 gigabit Ethernet cards.
• Lenovo WMI Gaming Series Drivers for Lenovo Legion Go S gaming handheld.

For more changes about Linux Kernel 6.17, see either this page or kernelnewbies.

How to install Linux 6.17 in Ubuntu

Ubuntu 25.10 has already included Kernel 6.17 RC, while the stable release will be available soon in the final release.

For Ubuntu 24.04, it will probably have Kernel 6.17 in next 24.04.4 point release. If you can’t wait, try the mainline kernel PPA.

NOTE: The mainline Kernel is built for testing purpose! It’s NOT signed, so you need to disable secure boot for being able to boot the kernel. And, it may have compatibility issues with proprietary drivers.

For amd64, arm64, armhf, ppc64el, and s390x CPU architecture types, the Kernel PPA provides Linux Kernel 6.17 package at the link below:

If you don’t know your CPU type, run dpkg --print-architecture command to tell, then select download & install the proper packages for your system.

For modern Intel/AMD (amd64) platform, open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run the commands below one by one to download & install the kernel:

wget -c https://kernel.ubuntu.com/mainline/v6.17/amd64/linux-headers-6.17.0-061700-generic_6.17.0-061700.202509282239_amd64.deb

wget -c https://kernel.ubuntu.com/mainline/v6.17/amd64/linux-headers-6.17.0-061700_6.17.0-061700.202509282239_all.deb

wget -c https://kernel.ubuntu.com/mainline/v6.17/amd64/linux-image-unsigned-6.17.0-061700-generic_6.17.0-061700.202509282239_amd64.deb

wget -c https://kernel.ubuntu.com/mainline/v6.17/amd64/linux-modules-6.17.0-061700-generic_6.17.0-061700.202509282239_amd64.deb

sudo apt install ./linux-headers-6.17.0*.deb ./linux-image-unsigned-6.17.0*.deb ./linux-modules-6.17.0*.deb

After installed the kernel, restart and run uname -a to verify the new kernel.

Uninstall Kernel 6.17

To remove the kernel 6.17, reboot and select boot an old kernel entry from Grub boot-loader (usually under Advanced menu), then run the command below to uninstall:

sudo apt remove linux-modules-6.17.0-*-generic linux-headers-6.17.0-061700

Pop!_OS, the popular Linux Distribution powered by System76, announced the Beta release of 24.04 LTS few days ago.

As the version number says, it’s based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, but features Linux Kernel 6.16 and its own COSMIC desktop environment.

Pop!_OS is developed by System76, a American Linux computer manufacturer. It features COSMIC desktop, which was previously a customized GNOME desktop, but now a standalone desktop environment built from scratch.

Since version 18.04, Pop!_OS updated regularly with versions based on every Ubuntu releases. And, it was ranked as 12th popular Linux Distribution according to Google Trends Scores between Jan 2023 and Jan 2024.

The development however slows down since 22.04. There’s no Pop!_OS 22.10, 23,04, or 23.10.

The first Pop!_OS 24.04 development release (first alpha) was available in August of last year. Then, it got another few more alpha releases, and finally announced this Beta few days ago!

This is the first release that ships with new standalone COSMIC Desktop environment. It replaced Nautilus, Gnome Terminal, Gnome Text Editor, and Totem with its own COSMIC specific files, terminal, text editor, and video player apps.

Pop!_Shop is replaced by COSMIC Store, which prefers Flatpak when both Flatpak and Deb are available. And, the GDM display manager is replaced by new COSMIC Greeter with a redesigned login appearance.

Drag’n’dropping files from Wayland apps to X11 apps is not supported so far, though user may use the applications upload option as a work-around until the feature is added.

Other changes include new and redesigned settings app, as well as:

• Single bottom panel layout.
• Variable refresh rate (VRR) support.
• NVIDIA driver 580.82.07.
• Mesa 25.1.5-1
• New fonts, themes, and more.

Get Pop!_OS 24.04 Beta

The official release note as well as the .iso images are available in system76 website via the link below:

For Pop!_OS 22.04 users who want to upgrade to the new beta release, it can be done by opening terminal and run command:

pop-upgrade release upgrade -f

Though, it’s highly recommended to make a backup first, as bugs are expected in beta that may break things!

Ask Brave debuts in Brave Browser, merging AI chat with traditional search to deliver faster, grounded answers with context.

OpenTofu nightly builds add Ephemeral and Write-Only features, arriving soon in 1.11 for better secret and state management.

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Linux kernel 6.17 has been officially released, introducing new file system updates, security enhancements, and expanded hardware support.

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Fedora Project seeks community input on a draft AI-assisted contributions policy designed to ensure responsible and ethical AI use.

Kitty 0.43 GPU-accelerated terminal emulator adds session management, cursor trail colors, blinking text, and improved macOS compatibility.

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