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Blender 3.5 Released With Lighting Improvements For Cycles, Better glTF 2.0 Handling

Phoronix - Wed, 03/29/2023 - 22:00
Blender 3.5 has been released as the newest version of this widely-used, open-source 3D modeling software. Blender 3.5 is another exciting update for this free software that has garnered significant industry interest and support...

Arch Linux Installer v2.5.4 Adds Initial Swapfile Support

Phoronix - Wed, 03/29/2023 - 20:43
In time for the new month to begin and in turn a new Arch Linux installer ISO, Archinstall 2.5.4 was just released as the newest version of this easy-to-use, text-based Arch Linux OS installer...

Trend Micro Uncovers Yet Another X.Org Server Vulnerability: CVE-2023-1393

Phoronix - Wed, 03/29/2023 - 20:30
For over a decade now the X.Org Server has been seeing routine security disclosures in its massive codebase with some security researchers saying it's even worse than it looks and security researchers frequently finding multiple vulnerabilities at a time in the large and aging code-base that these days rarely sees new feature work. Today another disclosure was made by the folks with the Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative...

Qt Creator 10 Released With Improved C++20 Support, QML Code Model From Qt 6.5

Phoronix - Wed, 03/29/2023 - 19:05
Qt Creator 10 has been released as the newest version of this open-source C++ and Qt focused integrated development environment provided by The Qt Company...

AMD Adds New Option To Help Improve Debugging With RADV & RadeonSI Drivers

Phoronix - Wed, 03/29/2023 - 18:57
Merged to Mesa 23.1-devel yesterday was UMD metadata v2 support for the RADV and RadeonSI drivers to provide extra metadata that can be optionally enabled to help with Radeon GPU debugging...

Linux 6.4 Adding Support For Many Kye/Genius Drawing Tablets

Phoronix - Wed, 03/29/2023 - 18:40
The upcoming Linux 6.4 kernel cycle is set to introduce support for a number of Kye drawing tablets, which are also marketed as Genius tablets...

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