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Linux 6.19 Fixes A Thundering Herd Problem For Big NUMA Servers

Phoronix - Thu, 12/04/2025 - 21:11
The "timers/core" pull requests for updating Linux kernel timer-related code doesn't tend to be too interesting each kernel cycle, but this time around for Linux 6.19 it is for addressing a problem HPE discovered on big NUMA servers...

Zlib-rs 0.5.3 Expands AVX-512 Usage For Faster Performance

Phoronix - Thu, 12/04/2025 - 19:20
The Trifecta Tech Foundation today released zlib-rs 0.5.3 as the newest version of this Zlib implementation written in the Rust programming language for better memory safety. Zlib-rs is advertised as "a safer Zlib" for use by both C and Rust projects while delivering competitive performance to the C-based zlib-ng...

Linux 6.19 Will Allow Enforcing IPE Security Checks On Indirectly Executed Scripts

Phoronix - Thu, 12/04/2025 - 19:07
Linux's Integrity Policy Enforcement "IPE" module is gaining a useful addition with the in-development Linux 6.19 kernel...

Mesa 25.3.1 Released With Initial Set Of Fixes, Mesa 25.2 Comes To An End

Phoronix - Thu, 12/04/2025 - 18:54
Mesa 25.3.1 was released overnight as the first point release of the Mesa 25.3 series. The Mesa point releases are typically bi-weekly but this one dragged out to nearly three weeks. In turn this also marks an end to the Mesa 25.2 series...

EXT4 Optimizes Online Defragmentation, Improves Performance & Larger Block Sizes

Phoronix - Thu, 12/04/2025 - 18:42
The merged EXT4 changes for Linux 6.19 bring some of the most prominent feature changes in recent times for this mature and widely-used Linux file-system...

ReactOS Lands Improvements For Its USB Stack - Fixing Various Blue Screens of Death

Phoronix - Thu, 12/04/2025 - 09:31
ReactOS as the open-source operating system aiming to be an "open-source Windows" by striving for binary compatibility with Windows programs and device drivers is now slightly better with its USB support...

Linux 6.19 Goes Ahead And Enables Microsoft C Extensions Support

Phoronix - Thu, 12/04/2025 - 09:14
Last month I reported on Linux 6.19 looking to enable Microsoft C Extensions support throughout the Linux kernel with setting the -fms-extensions compiler option to allow Microsoft C Extensions when building the kernel. Linus Torvalds today merged that support without objections...

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