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Zlib-rs 0.6 Released With Improved AVX-512 Support

Phoronix - Fri, 01/23/2026 - 19:21
Zlib-rs is the effort out of the Trifecta Tech Foundation to provide a Zlib compression implementation written in the Rust programming language that can serve as a C dynamic library and Rust crate. The intent here being that zlib-rs is potentially safer than the classic C-based implementation of Zlib...

Vulkan 1.4.340 Released With Descriptor Heap & Other New Extensions

Phoronix - Fri, 01/23/2026 - 19:00
Vulkan 1.4.340 is out today as the first significant new Vulkan API update following the end of year holidays. With Vulkan 1.4.340 comes four new extensions worth talking about...

KMSCON 9.3 Released With Mouse Support By Default, Other Improvements

Phoronix - Fri, 01/23/2026 - 18:58
KMSCON as a KMS/DRM-based virtual console emulator in user-space has been released. KMSCON is one of the leading solutions for potentially replacing the in-kernel Virtual Terminal (VT) implementation...

Servo 0.0.4 Browser Engine Released & Finally Supporting Multiple Windows

Phoronix - Fri, 01/23/2026 - 18:40
Servo 0.0.4 is out today as the newest monthly update to this open-source, Rust-based web browser engine. Building off recent Servo embedding API additions, Servo 0.0.4 introduces support for multiple browser windows...

AMD Lands Fresh Performance Improvements For RDNA4 In RadeonSI Driver

Phoronix - Fri, 01/23/2026 - 09:21
While slightly too late for making it into the Mesa 26.0 release that branched yesterday, merged now to Mesa Git for Q2's Mesa 26.1 release are some new RadeonSI Gallium3D (OpenGL) driver optimizations for the latest AMD Radeon RDNA4 graphics cards...

Linux GPU Driver Loophole Being Fixed For Unprivileged Users Being Able To Tap Unbounded Kernel Memory

Phoronix - Fri, 01/23/2026 - 04:25
An oversight in the Linux kernel's Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) graphics driver common code could allow unprivileged users to trigger unbounded kernel memory consumption for a potential system-wide out-of-memory "OOM" situation...

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