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GIMP 3.2.2 Released With Minor UI/UX Updates & Bug Fixes

Phoronix - 3 hours 17 min ago
It was just two weeks ago that GIMP 3.2 released, one year after the big GIMP 3.0 debut. Out today is GIMP 3.2.2 with various bug fixes, plug-in / file format handling updates, and some minor UI/UX work...

AMD Introduces GAIA Agent UI For Privacy-First Web App For Local AI Agents

Phoronix - Sat, 03/28/2026 - 22:55
AMD's GAIA AI agent framework (that previously stood for "Generative AI Is Awesome" albeit they seemed to have dropped promoting it as that name) for Ryzen AI hardware is out with a new version. AMD GAIA 0.17 introduces Agent UI as a new privacy-first web application for local AI agents...

Linux 7.0-rc6 Bringing A Lot Of Audio Quirks / Fixes

Phoronix - Sat, 03/28/2026 - 19:57
The Linux 7.0-rc6 kernel due for release tomorrow has a lot of audio fixes/quirks to correct a wide variety of different hardware issues, mostly different problematic laptops for their speakers and/or microphone behavior under Linux...

LLVM's DTLTO Now More Efficiently Adding Files To The Link For Much Better Performance

Phoronix - Sat, 03/28/2026 - 19:28
Last year LLVM began landing their Distributed ThinLTO "DTLTO" support as an enhancement to their ThinLTO approach for link-time optimizations. An improvement merged this week to LLVM addresses a performance bottleneck discovered when adding files to the link...

Gedit Aims For More Frequent Releases, Bans AI / LLM Contributions

Phoronix - Sat, 03/28/2026 - 19:11
Following the release of GNOME 50, Gedit 50 was released on Friday as the newest version of this graphical text editor aligned with the GNOME desktop. Moving forward the Gedit developers are banning AI / large language model (LLM) driven developments and aim to ship more releases faster...

Fish 4.6 Shell Brings Support For Recent systemd Environment Variables

Phoronix - Sat, 03/28/2026 - 18:54
Fish 4.6 released today as the newest version of this Rust-based interactive shell for Linux and other platforms...

KDE Plasma 6.7 Addresses 5 Year Old Request For Easier Microphone Testing

Phoronix - Sat, 03/28/2026 - 18:35
It's been another busy week in the KDE space as Plasma developers continue working on new feature activity for the big Plasma 6.7 release...

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