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Mesa 23.1 Zink Change Further Lowers CPU Overhead, Less vRAM Utilization
Yet another Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver optimization has landed in Mesa 23.1 ahead of its official release next quarter...
Intel TPMI Driver Merged As Part Of x86 Platform Driver Updates For Linux 6.3
The x86 platform driver updates were merged this week into the Linux 6.3 kernel and include the initial Intel TPMI integration along with several other driver changes...
Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS Released With Linux 5.19 HWE Stack Option
Following a small delay, Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS has been released as the latest point release for this current Long Term Support series for Ubuntu Linux...
Blender Shifting To Three Releases Per Year, Blender 4.0 In November
While the Blender open-source 3D modeling software decided three years ago that they would aim for quarterly releases and so delivering four releases per year, they have now decided to shift to delivering just three releases per year...
Linux 6.3 NFSD Adds AES-SHA2 Encryption, Memory Safety Improvements
The Network File-System (NFS) client and server changes have landed for the in-development Linux 6.3 kernel...
Google Summer of Code 2023 Organizations Announced For Students & New Developers
Google has published a list of the participating open-source organizations for this year's Google Summer of Code...
Linux 6.3 DRM Brings Intel VPU Driver, Drops Legacy Drivers, Many AMD Updates
The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem updates that also include the new accelerator "accel" subsystem updates have been submitted and subsequently merged for the Linux 6.3 kernel. This pull has a lot of changes to these kernel graphics drivers as well as the first two AI accelerator drivers as part of the new kernel area...
Intel Issues Big Updates To Their Compute-Runtime & IGC Compiler
Intel's open-source Compute-Runtime stack for OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero support along with the Intel Graphics Compiler (IGC) had been on a rhythm of typically seeing new tagged releases every week or two... Quite nice and living up to the open-source development philosophy of "release early, release often." That persisted for a long time until Q4'22 when the releases became less frequent. In early December though the release train stopped and not until this morning has there been a new release of the Compute-Runtime and IGC...
Intel TDX With Linux 6.3 Updated To Avoid "Total Insanity" Scenario
Intel Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) is one of the new features with 4th Gen Xeon Scalable "Sapphire Rapids" processors but is limited this generation to deployment by a few select cloud partners. For Linux 6.3 this feature for hardware-isolated virtual machines is continuing to be further refined...