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Zlib-ng 2.3.1 Released With More CPU Performance Optimizations

Phoronix - Thu, 11/27/2025 - 23:52
Zlib-ng 2.3.1 is out today as the first stable release in the v2.3 series for this Zlib replacement that carries a variety of performance optimizations for speedier compression/decompression...

Valve-Backed Color Pipeline API For Linux Is Finally Ready For Upstream

Phoronix - Thu, 11/27/2025 - 19:49
For those Linux desktop users in the US needing another reason to be thankful this Thanksgiving, a huge and long-awaited accomplishment is ready for merging to the kernel: the Color Pipeline API that is important for HDR is ready for merging! As of last night the code is queued in DRM-Misc-Next for this years-in-the-making effort...

GNU C Library Sees Up To 12.9x Improvement With New Generic FMA Implementation

Phoronix - Thu, 11/27/2025 - 19:30
Just a few days ago I wrote about the Glibc math code seeing a 4x improvement on AMD Zen by changing the used FMA implementation. Merged overnight was a new generic FMA implementation for the GNU C Library and now yielding up to a 12.9x throughput improvement on AMD Zen 3...

Ubuntu 26.04 "Resolute Raccoon" Snapshot 1 ISOs Published

Phoronix - Thu, 11/27/2025 - 19:01
Canonical announced today the Ubuntu 26.04 "Resolute Raccoon" Snapshot 1 images as their first monthly ISO snapshots of the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release...

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