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FFmpeg Merges A Number Of Vulkan Improvements To Start 2026

Phoronix - Tue, 01/13/2026 - 21:15
FFmpeg developer Lynne has landed a number of Vulkan-related imporvements to this widely-used open-source multimedia library. Over the past year FFmpeg saw Vulkan shader-based decoding for more video formats, AV1 and VP9 extension work, performance improvements, and other work around Vulkan Video. It will be very exciting to see how FFmpeg delivers in 2026 with Vulkan Video and how the software ecosystem as a whole begins taking up this cross-platform, open industry standard for video encode/decode...

Bcachefs Ships Latest User-Space Utilities With bcachefs-tools 1.35

Phoronix - Tue, 01/13/2026 - 19:21
Kent Overstreet has shipped the latest version of bcachefs-tools, the user-space code complementing the Bcachefs file-system kernel driver. There are a number of improvements present in this latest version with Overstreet remaining committed to advancing Bcachefs even with its current out-of-tree kernel status...

LLVM/Clang 22 Feature Development Ends With Intel Nova Lake, Arm C1 & Ampere1C Support

Phoronix - Tue, 01/13/2026 - 18:59
LLVM/Clang 22 feature development ended overnight with the code now being branched and working toward a stable release likely by the end of February...

wl-proxy Announced As Rust Crate For Proxying Wayland Connections

Phoronix - Tue, 01/13/2026 - 18:55
Announced today on the Wayland mailing list is wl-proxy as a Rust crate for proxying Wayland connections and intercepting/manipulating Wayland messages...

Haiku OS Pulls In Updated Drivers From FreeBSD 15

Phoronix - Tue, 01/13/2026 - 18:41
The BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system project just published a new status report to detail how they ended out the year...

GCC 16 Compiler Steps Closer To Release With Algol 68 Frontend, AMD Zen 6, C++20 Default

Phoronix - Tue, 01/13/2026 - 09:06
GCC 16 as this year's major feature release of the GNU Compiler Collection should be out in the typical March~April timeframe if all goes well. Today the GCC 16 compiler transitioned to its final stage "stage 4" of development with a focus exclusively on documentation and regression fixing...

Distributions - Hackaday

Google News - Tue, 01/13/2026 - 05:03
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Wine 11.0 Planned For Release Tomorrow With NTSync Support, Better WoW64

Phoronix - Tue, 01/13/2026 - 04:57
Wine project leader Alexandre Julliard relayed on the mailing list today that the plan is to release Wine 11.0 stable tomorrow, 13 January...

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