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Linux 6.5-rc6 Released With Latest CPU Security Mitigations & Bug Fixes

Phoronix - Mon, 08/14/2023 - 02:43
Linus Torvalds released the Linux 6.5-rc6 kernel a few hours early today after capping off a busy week...

Casefolding For Bcachefs File-System Posted

Phoronix - Sun, 08/13/2023 - 21:06
The Bcachefs file-system continues to work its way toward the mainline kernel while interestingly this weekend a Valve developer posted patches for implementing case-folding (case insensitive) feature support for this open-source file-system...

RADV Ray-Tracing To Become Much Faster With New Driver Code

Phoronix - Sun, 08/13/2023 - 18:45
The Mesa Radeon Vulkan "RADV" driver ray-tracing support is about to become much faster with a pending improvement that is currently undergoing review...

Mold 2.1 Linker Brings LoongArch CPU Support

Phoronix - Sun, 08/13/2023 - 18:32
Last month the Mold 2.0 high-speed linker was released that shifted from AGPL to MIT licensing after their monetization strategy didn't pan out. This weekend the project is out with its Mold 2.1 release as another step forward for this alternative linker to GNU Gold and LLVM LLD...

LibreOffice Lands APNG Export Support

Phoronix - Sun, 08/13/2023 - 18:24
Future LibreOffice releases will finally better handle animated PNG (APNG) files. After initial import support was added back in June, merged this week was initial export support for APNG files...

Glibc log2 Function Up To 69% Faster Thanks To FMA

Phoronix - Sun, 08/13/2023 - 18:08
Intel engineer and open-source compiler expert H.J. Lu has landed a much faster log2() implementation within the GNU C Library (glibc) that makes use of FMA instructions with modern x86_64 CPUs...

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