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Git 2.52 Released With More Preparations Toward Git 3.0

Phoronix - Tue, 11/18/2025 - 03:51
Git 2.52 is out today as the newest feature release of this distributed revision control system and in working toward Git 3.0 that will hopefully release by the end of 2026...

SUSE Developer Working To Reimplement SSH Using The Zig Programming Language

Phoronix - Tue, 11/18/2025 - 00:46
SUSE engineer Lucas Mülling is leading an effort to work on implementing SSH within the Zig programming language, a popular language for robust, optimal, and reusable software...

VKD3D-Proton 3.0 Released: Big Update To Direct3D 12 On Vulkan With FSR4 Support

Phoronix - Mon, 11/17/2025 - 23:56
Hans-Kristian Arntzen of Valve just announced VKD3D-Proton 3.0 as a major update to this Direct3D 12 implementation atop the Vulkan API that is used by Valve's Steam Play (Proton)...

Updated LLVM/Clang Compiler Enables AVX 10.2 & APX For Intel Nova Lake

Phoronix - Mon, 11/17/2025 - 23:42
Last month when the LLVM/Clang 22 compiler merged support for Intel Nova Lake with the "-march=novalake" target there was no mentions of AVX10 or Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) support. But last week Intel published a new programming reference manual where they confirmed AVX 10.2 and APX for Nova Lake. Now that it's official, Intel compiler engineers are updating the LLVM/Clang (and GCC) compiler support to reflect these ISA additions...

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