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Git 2.55-rc0 Released With Rust Enabled By Default

Phoronix - 1 hour 30 min ago
Git 2.55-rc0 is out today as the first tagged test version of the forthcoming Git 2.55 distributed version control system. Most notable with Git 2.55 is that Rust support is being enabled by default...

Benchmarking The Performance Benefits To Ubuntu 26.10 amd64v3 Packages

Phoronix - Thu, 06/11/2026 - 23:24
With Canonical engineers again experimenting with x86_64-v3 package builds for Ubuntu Linux using an "amd64v3" archive for the current Ubuntu 26.10 development, I decided to see how these latest amd64v3 packages comparing to their conventional Ubuntu 26.10 amd64 packages.

Khronos Releases glTF 2.1 To Make This 3D Asset Standard Work Well For Large Scenes

Phoronix - Thu, 06/11/2026 - 22:02
It's crazy realizing that glTF 2.0 is already nine years old for this API-neutral 3D runtime and asset delivery format. The Khronos 3D Formats Working Group today extended that with the debut of glTF 2.1 as a backward-compatible revision to the specification...

YSERVER: Modern X11 Server Written In Rust With The Help Of Claude Code

Phoronix - Thu, 06/11/2026 - 21:46
Open-source developer Jos Dehaes wrote in to Phoronix today in announcing a new X11 server he has been working on from scratch that has been quietly developed to this point but now ready to announce to the world... The YSERVER...

OpenJPH 0.28 Up To 1.9x Faster With New AVX2 Optimizations For High-Throughput JPEG2000

Phoronix - Thu, 06/11/2026 - 19:27
OpenJPH as an open-source implementation of high-throughput JPEG2000 Part-15 (or JPH or HTJ2K) is now significantly faster for both encode and decode operations thanks to new AVX2 optimizations for Intel and AMD processors...

Intel's Open Image Denoise 2.5 Delivers Solid Performance Improvements For GPUs

Phoronix - Thu, 06/11/2026 - 18:04
Intel's Open Image Denoise is the open-source project providing a high performance denoising library for ray-tracing and used by the likes of Blender and other renderers/creative apps for powerful denoising capabilities. Released last week was Open Image Denoise 2.5 with some very nice performance improvements for Intel GPUs...

GNOME Foundation Announces First Participants Of Fellowship Program

Phoronix - Thu, 06/11/2026 - 17:50
Back in March the GNOME Foundation announced a fellowship program. The GNOME fellowship program will help with the long-term sustainability of the GNOME desktop and looked to fund independent/community contributors over a twelve month period. Today the first recipients of the fellowship program have been announced...

Airoha AN8801R Gigabit Ethernet PHY Driver Coming To Linux 7.2

Phoronix - Thu, 06/11/2026 - 17:21
One of the new network drivers destined for the upcoming Linux 7.2 merge window is for supporting the Airoha AN8801R Gigabit Ethernet PHY...

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