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Libcamera 0.7 Released - GPU Acceleration Support For SoftISP Can Deliver 15x Performance

Phoronix - Fri, 01/30/2026 - 00:51
Libcamera 0.7 was published today for this modern software library for image signal processors (ISPs) and embedded cameras under Linux. The standout change with libcamera 0.7 is initial plumbing for GPU acceleration in the software ISP "SoftISP" for delivering better performance than just CPU-based...

IO_uring Zero-Copy Large Receive Buffer Support To Provide A Nice Performance Win

Phoronix - Fri, 01/30/2026 - 00:21
Slated for introduction in the next kernel cycle (Linux 6.20~7.0) is introducing large receive buffer support for IO_uring's zero-copy receive code path. This large receive buffer support can be very beneficial for those with higher-end networking hardware capable of handling the larger buffers for some significant performance and efficiency wins...

Libgcrypt 1.12 Released With VAES/AVX-512 Accelerated AES: 2x Performance On AMD Zen 5

Phoronix - Thu, 01/29/2026 - 22:39
Werner Koch released libgcrypt 1.12 as the newest feature release to this library providing the cryptographic building blocks used by GnuPG and other software like email clients, file encryption utilities, and other software...

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