Magisk Canary Update
2025-12-01
#MagiskCanary

Build version:
30500

Changelog:
https://github.com/topjohnwu/Magisk/releases/download/v30.5/notes.md

Download:
Magisk-v30.5.apk

Linux 6.18 Adding New Option For More Detailed Bug Reporting But Cost Of Greater Memory
1 December 2025 - CONFIG_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE_DETAILED

Among the big flow of pull requests today for this first day of the Linux 6.19 merge window are some core kernel bug handling improvements.

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Magisk Stable Update
2025-12-02
#Magisk

Release tag:
Magisk v30.6

Assets:
app-debug.apk (24.2 MB)
Magisk-v30.6.apk (12.3 MB)
notes.md (817 bytes)

Magisk Canary Update
2025-12-02
#MagiskCanary

Build version:
30600

Changelog:
https://github.com/topjohnwu/Magisk/releases/download/v30.6/notes.md

Download:
Magisk-v30.6.apk

Magisk Beta Update
2025-12-02
#MagiskBeta

Build version:
30600

Changelog:
https://github.com/topjohnwu/Magisk/releases/download/v30.6/notes.md

Download:
Magisk-v30.6.apk

LLVM Update
2025-12-02
#LLVM

Release tag:
LLVM 21.1.7

Assets:
There are too many, see here

Slim LLVM toolchains:
Here

Kernel Credential Guards Merged For Linux 6.19
2 December 2025 - Linux Kernel Credential Guards

Merged yesterday for the Linux 6.19 kernel were "substantial" improvements to the kernel's credential infrastructure to provide guard-based management that allows for kernel code simplification and avoiding manual reference counting across many subsystems.

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Optimized NUMA Distances For Intel GNR & CWF, Other Scheduler Improvements In Linux 6.19
2 December 2025 - Linux 6.19 Scheduler

The big set of kernel scheduler changes were merged on Monday for the in-development Linux 6.19 kernel.

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Linux 6.19 Merges "klp-build" As New Livepatch Module Generation Solution
2 December 2025 - Linux 6.19 klp-build

Merged as part of the objtool changes for the Linux 6.19 kernel is introducing the "klp-build" script as a new solution to generate livepatch modules using a source .patch file as the input. This klp-build effort was spearheaded by Josh Poimboeuf with ideas learned from the out-of-tree Kpatch project over the past decade.

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Important Performance Work: Overhaul Of RSEQ & CID Management Merged For Linux 6.19
2 December 2025 - core/rseq

An important set of patches were just merged a few minutes ago to Linux Git for the ongoing Linux 6.19 kernel with some important performance implications.

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v5.4 EOL

AES-GCM Optimizations Land In Linux 6.19 - Benefiting AMD Zen 3, AVX-512 CPUs Too
3 December 2025 - AES-GCM Optimizations

Google engineer Eric Biggers who is known for his many Linux crypto subsystem performance optimizations has seen his latest pull requests land in Linux 6.19. Notable among them are some AES-GCM optimizations benefiting AMD Zen 3 processors and separately AVX-512 processors also benefit too from this latest round of optimization work.

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Microsoft ACPI Fan Extensions & Configurable Hibernation Threads For Linux 6.19
3 December 2025 - Linux 6.19 Power Management

The pull requests landing the power management subsystem updates for Linux 6.19 along with the ACPI and thermal control code have landed. There is new hardware support, Microsoft ACPI Fan Extensions support, and other new features for Linux power management in this new kernel.

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Linux 6.18 Officially Promoted To Being An LTS Kernel
3 December 2025 - Linux 6.18 LTS

Not exactly a big surprise but the recently released Linux 6.18 kernel is now officially promoted to being this year's Long Term Support "LTS" kernel.

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Sched_EXT With Linux 6.19 Improves Recovering For Misbehaving eBPF Schedulers
3 December 2025 - sched_ext

The Linux kernel's innovative sched_ext code for being able to easily write extensible task schedulers using eBPF programs has some nice enhancements merged for Linux 6.19.

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Linux 6.19 Goes Ahead And Enables Microsoft C Extensions Support
3 December 2025 - -fms-extensions

Last month I reported on Linux 6.19 looking to enable Microsoft C Extensions support throughout the Linux kernel with setting the -fms-extensions compiler option to allow Microsoft C Extensions when building the kernel. Linus Torvalds today merged that support without objections.

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Linux 6.19 Fixes A Thundering Herd Problem For Big NUMA Servers
4 December 2025 - Timers Issue

The "timers/core" pull requests for updating Linux kernel timer-related code doesn't tend to be too interesting each kernel cycle, but this time around for Linux 6.19 it is for addressing a problem HPE discovered on big NUMA servers.

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Raspberry Pi OS (64-bit) Update
2025-12-05
#RaspberryPi #RaspberryPiOS

Build date:
2025-12-04

Changelog:
https://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspios_arm64/release_notes.txt

Download:
2025-12-04-raspios-trixie-arm64.img.xz

Size:
1.2 GB

Printk Improvement For Linux 6.19 Can Significantly Speed-Up Boot Times For Some Systems
4 December 2025 - printk

The Linux kernel's printk code for logging kernel messages has some useful improvements with the Linux 6.19 kernel.

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Linux 6.19 GPU Driver Features: Color Pipeline API, Intel Xe3P, AMDGPU For GCN 1.0/1.1
4 December 2025 - Linux 6.19 Graphics Drivers

The big set of kernel graphics driver features were merged today for the Linux 6.19 kernel. As usual there is a lot of new feature work on the AMD Radeon, Intel, and NVIDIA graphics drivers plus the smaller Arm/embedded graphics like now having initial Qualcomm Gen8 GPU support. Plus the growing number of accelerator "accel" drivers for NPUs / AI accelerators.

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