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Bcachefs Racing To Track Down New Upgrade Bug In Linux 6.14

Phoronix - Sat, 03/15/2025 - 22:16
The Linux 6.14 stable kernel is likely to be released in just over one week and thus leading to Bcachefs file-system developers racing to track down a new bug that's been reported by a user on upgrading to the new kernel...

OpenRazer 3.10.1 Adds Support For A Few More Razer Devices On Linux

Phoronix - Sat, 03/15/2025 - 20:00
OpenRazer 3.10 released last month with support for new Razer devices and a wealth of other enhancements for these open-source, community-developed Razer kernel drivers for Linux. Out today is OpenRazer 3.10.1 with some fixes as well as supporting a few more Razer products...

digiKam 8.6 Released With Working To Better Its AI Integration

Phoronix - Sat, 03/15/2025 - 18:45
The KDE-aligned digiKam photo management software is out today with its version 8.6 release. With digiKam 8.6 the open-source photo manager has been working on better enhancing its artificial intelligence (AI) integration...

KDE Plasma 6.4 Adding Support For P010 Formatted Videos, KWin Improving Pixel Perfection

Phoronix - Sat, 03/15/2025 - 18:36
KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his traditional weekend update to highlight all of the interesting Plasma desktop changes to have been merged over the past week...

Intel Compute Runtime Publishes Initial Panther Lake Xe3 GPU OpenCL/L0 Support

Phoronix - Sat, 03/15/2025 - 08:22
Intel engineers today released Compute Runtime 25.09.32961.5 as their newest update to this open-source compute stack for Windows and Linux systems providing OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero GPU compute support. Most notable in this release is rolling out initial "pre-release" support for next-gen Core Ultra "Panther Lake" SoCs with integrated Xe3 graphics...

Radeon RX 9070 Fan Speed Reporting & Other Last Minute AMD Changes For Linux 6.15

Phoronix - Sat, 03/15/2025 - 04:43
Additional AMDGPU and AMDKFD kernel driver updates were sent out today for collecting ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.15 merge window. As we are late in the cycle, most of the new AMDGPU kernel graphics driver and AMDKFD compute driver changes are fixes, but there are some minor feature changes particularly for the new RDNA4 GPUs...

Git 2.49 Released With Faster Packing, Rust Foreign Language Interface

Phoronix - Sat, 03/15/2025 - 02:22
Git 2.49 is out today as the latest feature update for this widely-used distributed version control system...

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