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X.Org Server 21.1.22 Released Due To Five New Security Vulnerabilities

Phoronix - Tue, 04/14/2026 - 21:59
X.Org Server 21.1.22 is out today and driven by five new security vulnerabilities being disclosed for the aging codebase. In turn these vulnerabilities also impact XWayland too and thus necessitating the XWayland 24.1.10 release...

Sunshine Game Streaming Introduces Vulkan Video Encode Support

Phoronix - Tue, 04/14/2026 - 21:48
Sunshine v2026.413.143228 released this week as a new feature release for this self-hosted game stream host for Moonlight, an open-source game streaming client that is an implementation of the NVIDIA GameStream protocol. Notable with this Sunshine release is Vulkan Video encode support as an alternative to using the Video Acceleration API (VA-API) for game streaming...

OpenSSL 4.0 Released With Encrypted Client Hello, RFC 8998 Support

Phoronix - Tue, 04/14/2026 - 21:18
OpenSSL 4.0 was just released as a big update for this widely-used SSL/TLS and crypto library...

Linux 7.1 Revamps T10 PI Data Integrity Handling For Better Read Performance

Phoronix - Tue, 04/14/2026 - 21:03
Merged yesterday for the Linux 7.1 kernel is overhauling the T10 PI code for generating and verifying data integrity information. In turn the new code is cleaner while also allowing for better read storage performance...

Mesa 26.1 RADV Driver Merges Vulkan Descriptor Heap As Big Improvement For Steam Play

Phoronix - Tue, 04/14/2026 - 20:23
As a big helper for Valve's Steam Play with DXVK and VKD3D-Proton, the Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" has merged its initial support for the VK_EXT_descriptor_heap Vulkan extension...

KDE Merges Per-Screen Virtual Desktops After 21 Years

Phoronix - Tue, 04/14/2026 - 18:24
A request made a KDE user all the way back in June 2005 on KDE 3.3.2 is finally resolved. After being sought after for 21 years, the latest KWin code now has support for per-screen virtual desktops...

AMD Ready With CPPC Performance Priority & Dynamic/Raw EPP In Linux 7.1

Phoronix - Tue, 04/14/2026 - 18:10
All of the power management subsystem feature updates have been merged for the Linux 7.1 kernel...

BeOS-Inspired Haiku OS Gets ARM64 Port Booting

Phoronix - Tue, 04/14/2026 - 17:57
Over the course of March there was much progress made on the ARM64 port of Haiku OS, the open-source operating system serving as the spiritual successor to BeOS...

Linux 7.1 Lands ARM64 NEON-Accelerated CRC64-NVMe For ~6x Improvement

Phoronix - Tue, 04/14/2026 - 17:50
Merged yesterday were all the CRC code updates for the Linux 7.1 kernel. Most notable with that pull is an ARM64-optimized CRC64-NVMe implementation that can deliver multiple times faster performance...

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