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Btrfs Performance From Linux 6.12 To Linux 7.0 Shows Regressions

Phoronix - Wed, 03/18/2026 - 23:00
Last week I provided a look at the EXT4 and XFS performance from Linux 6.12 LTS through Linux 7.0 in its current development form. As mentioned in that article and as requested by many Phoronix readers, benchmarks have since wrapped up looking at how the Btrfs copy-on-write file-system performance has evolved since that late 2024 period and all major Linux kernel releases past that Long Term Support version.

Ubuntu's Snap Affected By Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Phoronix - Wed, 03/18/2026 - 22:44
Last week it was security issues with AppArmor to worry about on Ubuntu Linux while this week a "high" rated vulnerability for Ubuntu's Snap daemon has been revealed...

Linux MGLRU Improvements Net A 30% Increase For MongoDB, More Than 100% On HDDs

Phoronix - Wed, 03/18/2026 - 21:00
It's been a while since having any improvements to talk about for the MGLRU multi-gen LRU functionality for the Linux kernel to optimize page reclamation and help with system performance especially when enduring memory pressure. But this week a Tencent engineer posted some very promising patches for further enhancing this kernel feature...

Samba 4.24 Released With Remote Password Management Support, Other Improvements

Phoronix - Wed, 03/18/2026 - 20:18
Samba continues strong in 2026 for this leading open-source SMB protocol re-implementation for Microsoft Windows file and print services interoperability. Samba 4.24 brings more features, including remote password management support...

Google Engineers Launch "Sashiko" For Agentic AI Code Review Of The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Wed, 03/18/2026 - 18:26
Google engineers have been spending the past number of months developing Sashiko as an agentic AI code review system for the Linux kernel. It's now open-source and publicly available and will continue to do upstream Linux kernel code review thanks to funding from Google...

GRUB Bootloader Development Moves To FreeDesktop.org

Phoronix - Wed, 03/18/2026 - 18:16
The widely-used GRUB bootloader is now being developed on FreeDesktop.org with a modern GitLab-based workflow...

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