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Linux 6.18 LTS / 6.12 LTS / 6.6 LTS Support Periods Extended

Phoronix - 4 hours 28 min ago
Greg Kroah-Hartman today extended the planned maintenance periods of the latest Linux 6.18, Linux 6.12, and Linux 6.6 Long Term Support (LTS) kernel series...

LLVM Clang 22 Compiler Performance Largely Unchanged Over Clang 21 On AMD Zen 5

Phoronix - 4 hours 42 min ago
With yesterday's stable release of the LLVM Clang 22 compiler it didn't take long for Phoronix readers to begin asking about the performance of this half-year feature update to this prominent open-source C/C++ compiler. What I am seeing so far are no big surprises with the performance largely being similar to Clang 21 across various open-source C/C++ workloads in the testing thus far. This initial round of reference benchmark results between LLVM Clang 22, Clang 21, and Clang 20 were done on an AMD EPYC Turin (Zen 5) Linux server.

Mesa 26.0.1 Released With Important Security Fix For OOB Memory Access From WebGPU

Phoronix - 7 hours 51 min ago
Mesa 26.0.1 is now available as the first point release of this quarter's Mesa 26.0 series. Besides the usual bug fixing, Mesa 26.0.1 is more pressing than usual since it contains a security fix for possible out-of-bounds memory access in WebGPU contexts from web browsers...

systemd 260-rc1 Released: New "mstack" Feature, System V Service Scripts No Longer Supported

Phoronix - 8 hours 31 min ago
The first release candidate of systemd 260 is now available for testing. Systemd 260 finally does away with System V service scripts support. Also notable to systemd 260 is the work around the new "mstack" feature...

Sub-Scheduler Support Could Be One Of The Most Exciting Features To Come For Linux 7.1

Phoronix - 8 hours 47 min ago
While there are many great Linux 7.0 features with that still-young development cycle, looking ahead to Linux 7.1 this summer there's an interesting feature on track: cgroup sub-scheduler support for sched_ext...

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