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dav1d 1.1 Released With More AVX-512 Improvements

Phoronix - Wed, 02/15/2023 - 05:00
Yet another prominent open-source software release for Valentine's Day today is... dav1d v1.1! This leading open-source AV1 video decoder is out with its first major update in nearly one year and comes with more AVX-512 tuning as well as more work on Arm NEON optimizations...

Firefox 110 Released With Better WebGL Performance, GPU-Accelerated 2D Canvas

Phoronix - Wed, 02/15/2023 - 02:25
Mozilla has pushed out Firefox 110 today as the latest major version of their open-source web browser...

Linux KVM Gets Patched For New AMD Cross-Thread Return Address Predictions Bug

Phoronix - Wed, 02/15/2023 - 01:30
CVE-2022-27672 is being made public today as the "Cross-Thread Return Address Predictions" bug affecting various AMD and Hygon processors. This vulnerability affects the SMT mode where one sibling thread transitions out of the C0 state and the other sibling thread could use return target predictions...

GNOME Shell & Mutter 44 Beta Released With Many Changes

Phoronix - Wed, 02/15/2023 - 01:00
It's GNOME 44 Beta week and today marked the tagging of the beta updates for the GNOME Shell and Mutter...

CrossOver 22.1 Released With Updated VKD3D 1.5, More Gaming Improvements

Phoronix - Wed, 02/15/2023 - 00:00
Following last month's release of Wine 8.0 stable with much of Wine's upstream development being carried out by CodeWeavers employees, CodeWeavers has now released CrossOver 22.1 as their commercial product for enjoying Windows games and applications on both Linux and macOS...

XWayland 23.1 Aims For Release In March With New Features

Phoronix - Tue, 02/14/2023 - 23:00
Planning and early preparations are underway to get out XWayland 23.1 as the next feature release by the end of March...

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