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Final Draft Of PCI Express 7.0 Specification Published

Phoronix - Wed, 03/19/2025 - 02:22
The full PCI Express 7.0 specification remains on track for publishing later this year while out today is version 0.9 of the specification as the planned final draft...

Blender 4.4 Released With Vulkan Improvements & AMD HIP RT No Longer Experimental

Phoronix - Tue, 03/18/2025 - 23:38
Blender 4.4 is out today as the newest version of this incredible, open-source 3D modeling software...

OpenJDK Java 24 Released With Garbage Collector Improvements, Deprecating x86 32-bit

Phoronix - Tue, 03/18/2025 - 22:43
Along with the GraalVM 24 update today, Oracle has formally released OpenJDK Java 24. JDK 24 is now out under general availability status with many new features and changes...

Fedora 42 Beta Released With Countless Improvements

Phoronix - Tue, 03/18/2025 - 22:12
The beta of Fedora Linux 42 is out this morning with countless improvements over the prior release. There is the near-final GNOME 48 desktop packages and a whole host of other software updates for living on the leading-edge of open-source software as well as boasting a number of new innovations that were made by Red Hat engineers...

Linux Kernel's Zstd Code Gets A Co-Maintainer

Phoronix - Tue, 03/18/2025 - 21:07
Hopefully leading to more timely updates to the Zstd compression code within the Linux kernel is a decision to add on a co-maintainer of the in-kernel Zstandard code...

GraalVM Updated For Java 24, Adds Graal Neural Network Profiler For Better Performance

Phoronix - Tue, 03/18/2025 - 21:00
Ahead of the OpenJDK Java 24 release expected in the coming hours today, Oracle already released "GraalVM for JDK 24 Community 24.0" edition...

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