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Wine 11.1 Released In Kicking Off The New Development Cycle

Phoronix - Sat, 01/24/2026 - 05:12
Following the release of Wine 11.0 stable just under two weeks ago, Wine 11.1 is now available as the first of the bi-weekly development snapshots for Wine in leading toward the Wine 12.0 release next January...

Firmware Upstreamed For Audio Support With Upcoming Dell & Lenovo Panther Lake Laptops

Phoronix - Sat, 01/24/2026 - 02:53
Similar to the new Intel IPU 7.5 firmware upstreamed for Panther Lake this week, Cirrus has upstreamed their CS42L45 codec firmware for upcoming Dell and Lenovo laptops making use of this audio codec...

Linux 6.19 Scheduler Feature Being Disabled Due To Performance Regressions

Phoronix - Sat, 01/24/2026 - 01:00
Queued into tip/tip.git's "sched/urgent" Git branch today is a patch to disable the kernel scheduler's NEXT_BUDDY functionality that was re-implemented back during the Linux 6.19 merge window. It turns out to cause some performance regressions that have yet to be otherwise addressed...

VVenC H.266 Encoder Rolls Out More ARM Optimizations For Nice Performance Gains

Phoronix - Sat, 01/24/2026 - 00:08
Fraunhofer HHI this week released a new version of VVenC, their open-source H.266 video encoder. Among the changes this release are more performance optimizations for ARM and I have run some comparison benchmarks using a NVIDIA GB10 SoC with the Dell Pro Max GB10...

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