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Eight New Security Vulnerabilities Reported Against The X.Org Server & XWayland

Phoronix - Tue, 02/25/2025 - 23:39
Eight new security issues have now been made public around the X.Org Server codebase that also impact XWayland...

Rust-Written Zlib-rs Is Not Only Safer But Now Outperforming Zlib C Implementations

Phoronix - Tue, 02/25/2025 - 19:47
Zlib-rs as a Rust programming language implementation of the Zlib file format for better safety is now beginning to outperform the C implementations of the widely-used Zlib...

Linux 6.15 Intel Xe Driver Enabling PXP HWDRM, Survivability Mode & GPU + VRAM Temperatures

Phoronix - Tue, 02/25/2025 - 19:27
Complementing yesterday's initial set of Intel graphics driver feature patches planned for Linux 6.15, a drm-xe-next pull request was also submitted to DRM-Next containing a lot of new feature code for the modern Xe kernel Direct Rendering Manager driver. There's a few fun features on the Xe side for Linux 6.15...

GNOME 48 Mutter Merges Wayland's wp_color_management_v1 Support

Phoronix - Tue, 02/25/2025 - 19:07
As an exciting late addition to the GNOME 48 codebase ahead of its stable release in mid-March, the Wayland color management "wp_color_management_v1" protocol support has been merged!..

MythTV 35 Released For This Once Widely-Used Open-Source DVR/PVR Software

Phoronix - Tue, 02/25/2025 - 18:53
The MythTV open-source project is now 22 years old for being this PVR/DVR software for TVs and home theaters. While PVRs/DVRs aren't nearly as popular as they were in the pre Internet streaming era, MythTV continues forging ahead and MythTV 35 is now available as the newest annual feature release to the project...

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