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Redis 8.6 Released With "Substantial" Performance Improvements & Memory Reduction

Phoronix - Tue, 02/10/2026 - 22:25
The open-source Redis 8.6 release is now available and this GA release has brought "substantial" performance improvements and to memory reduction too. Plus various new features like TLS certificate-based automatic client authentication, time series enhancements, and new eviction policies...

Linux 7.0 Block Changes Land, Bounce Buffer DIO For Stable Pages

Phoronix - Tue, 02/10/2026 - 22:09
In addition to the BPF filtering support for IO_uring that was merged on Monday, the other block device changes and IO_uring updates were also merged for the newly-opened Linux 7.0 merge window...

Experimental Zones Protocol Merged To Wayland After 2+ Years, 620+ Comments

Phoronix - Tue, 02/10/2026 - 21:22
After the merge request was opened back in 2023 and after going through 628 comments/activity, merged now to Wayland Protocols is the experimental zones "xx-zones" implementation for area-limited window positioning...

Linux 7.0 Adds support For BPF Filtering To IO_uring

Phoronix - Tue, 02/10/2026 - 21:09
The wonderful IO_uring for the Linux kernel for high performance asnyc I/O has picked up a new capability with Linux 7.0: BPF filtering...

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