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XZ 5.8 Debuts As First Major Feature Release Since The Backdoor Disaster

Phoronix - Wed, 03/26/2025 - 02:33
XZ 5.8 is out today as the first notable feature release since last year's malicious backdoor in XZ 5.6 inserted by a then-co-maintainer of the project. XZ 5.6.2 was out last May while XZ 5.8.0 is now stable today for bringing new features to this lossless data compressor project...

MPV 0.40 Media Player Released With Wayland HDR Support

Phoronix - Wed, 03/26/2025 - 01:43
MPV 0.40 was just released as the newest version of this open-source media player derived from MPlayer/MPlayer2. With the MPV 0.40 release there is support for HDR videos on Wayland using the new color management protocol along with a variety of other new features...

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Linux Gaming/Graphics Performance

Phoronix - Wed, 03/26/2025 - 00:45
Earlier this month for launch-day there were NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Linux GPU compute benchmarks. The graphics/gaming benchmarks of the GeForce RTX 5070 on Linux were held up by waiting for a new R570 Linux driver release with proper support for this new Blackwell graphics card. Last week that new Linux driver arrived in the form of the NVIDIA 570.133.07 Linux build. That new NVIDIA Linux driver is working out great with the GeForce RTX 5070 Founder's Edition and in this article are some initial Linux gaming/graphics performance benchmarks for that new graphics card competing with the AMD Radeon RX 9070 series.

Fwupd 2.0.7 Released With New Plug-Ins & Additional Hardware Support

Phoronix - Wed, 03/26/2025 - 00:40
Fwupd 2.0.7 brings the newest plug-ins and expanded hardware support for being able to update a variety of system and device/peripheral firmware under Linux...

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