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Mesa 21.2.2 Released "Late & Very Large"

Phoronix - Wed, 09/22/2021 - 12:00
Mesa point releases generally come every two weeks but for the past month have fallen off the wagon. Mesa 21.2.1 came in mid-August and on Tuesday was finally succeeded by Mesa 21.2.2 as a "late and very large" update...

X.Org Server 21.1 RC1 Released With VRR Support For Modesetting Driver, Other Features

Phoronix - Wed, 09/22/2021 - 06:55
More than three years after X.Org Server 1.20 was released, it's set to finally be succeeded soon by X.Org Server 21.1 under its new versioning scheme. Out today is the X.org Server 21.1 release candidate...

AMDGPU Linux Driver To Overhaul Its Approach To Device Enumeration

Phoronix - Wed, 09/22/2021 - 05:00
AMD's open-source Linux graphics driver engineers are working to overhaul how the initial driver loading with device enumeration happens to ultimately make it more robust. In the process though PCI IDs become less important and in turn less of an avenue for exposing possible indicators of new graphics cards...

Cycles X Merged Into Blender 3.0 With NVIDIA CUDA/OptiX Support, AMD HIP Pending

Phoronix - Wed, 09/22/2021 - 03:33
Cycles X as a modernizing of Blender's Cycles rendering engine has now landed in the latest development code for Blender 3.0. Cycles X brings big performance improvements but does eliminate OpenCL support in the process...

Chrome 94 Released With WebGPU For Testing, WebCodecs API Now Official

Phoronix - Wed, 09/22/2021 - 02:48
Chrome 94 is available today as another exciting update for Google's web browser...

Oracle's Next-Generation GNU Profiler "gprofng" Is Looking Great For Developers

Phoronix - Wed, 09/22/2021 - 02:21
Oracle engineers have been working on "gprofng" as a next-generation GNU Profiler that can analyze production binaries. Oracle talked up Gprofng today during the GNU Tools Track as part of Linux Plumbers Conference 2021...

Linux Foundation To Host PaSh For Automatic Parallelizing Of Shell Scripts

Phoronix - Wed, 09/22/2021 - 01:16
The Linux Foundation announced today they will be hosting the PaSh project that is focused on automatically parallelizing POSIX shell scripts...

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