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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-07 07:39:05)
Linux 7.3-rc2 Released Following Another Busy Week
After the Linux 7.3 merge window concluded last weekend, today we are up to the Linux 7.3-rc2 test kernel release in working toward the stable v7.3 kernel during the second half of October...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-rc2-Released
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-07 05:09:06)
Shotcut 26.9 Video Editor Beta Brings UI Improvements, Better Audio Quality
Following the recent Shotcut stable release with a stock asset library and other improvements, Shotcut 26.9 Beta is out today with yet more improvements for this open-source video editing application for Linux, macOS, and Windows systems...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Shotcut-26.9-Beta
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-07 03:09:05)
NetBSD 9.5 Released To Cap Off The Series
NetBSD 9.5 released today as the final release of the NetBSD 9 stable branch...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NetBSD-9.5-Released
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-06 22:54:17)
Linux 7.3-rc2 Scheduler Fix For Cache Aware Load Scheduling Misfits On Hybrid CPUs
Ahead of the Linux 7.3-rc2 kernel being released later today, a set of scheduler fixes have been sent out for this week's kernel test release. Most notable with the scheduler fixes are dealing with possible misfits for Cache-Aware Load Scheduling on hybrid CPUs like Intel Core (Ultra) processors...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-rc2-Scheduler-Fixes
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-06 20:09:04)
Asahi Linux Now Officially Supports Apple M3 Macs - With Caveats
Asahi Linux developers announced today that they are now officially supporting the Linux distribution on Apple M3 powered Macs. With the exception of the Mac Studio M3 Ultra, other M3 / M3 Pro / M3 Max devices should now work with the latest Asahi Linux builds but with some feature caveats...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Asahi-Linux-Official-M3
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-06 19:54:04)
LLVM Developers Discuss Enabling ClangIR Build By Default
ClangIR has been in development for a number of years now as a new intermediate representation for the Clang compiler. ClangIR makes use of MLIR and is higher-level than LLVM IR. With ClangIR able to preserve more C/C++ source semantics, its usage can lead to better diagnostics, code/static analysis, and more performance optimizations compared to everything lowered straight away from AST to LLVM IR. While not ena…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/ClangIR-Build-Default-Maybe
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-06 19:39:07)
Linux 7.3-rc2 Transitions More kmalloc Calls To The Superior kmalloc_obj
Ahead of the Linux 7.3-rc2 kernel release due out later today, a merge causing a lot of code churn was pulled in by Linus Torvalds. This tree-wide effort converts more of the kmalloc() function calls over to the newer and superior kmalloc_obj() family of functions...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-rc2-kmalloc-obj
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-06 19:39:05)
Slackware 16 Alpha 1 Available Following GCC 16.2, Glibc 2.44 & Binutils 2.47 Upgrade
The timing on Saturday's Slackware-based Zenwalk ISO "current milestone" update is now more clear with upstream Slackware having prepared what is its first alpha release of the upcoming Slackware 16...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Slackware-16-Alpha
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-06 07:40:04)
Slackware-Based Zenwalk ISOs Updated With Linux 7.1, Flatpak Integrated + Xfce 4.20
It's been over four years since the original release of Zenwalk 15.0 while released today is a new Zenwalk Current Milestone snapshot. This Slackware-based Linux distribution with a long history has an exciting update out for testing this weekend...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Zenwalk-2026-Current
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-06 03:39:05)
Ikey Doherty Plans To Show How To "Properly" Build A Modern Linux Distro
Ikey Doherty is back in the Linux distribution space. Sort of. Ikey Doherty who was the founder of the Solus Linux distribution as well as Serpent OS (now AerynOS) as well as having been employed by Intel on their Clear Linux team is back at it again in the Linux space...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ikey-Doherty-Plans-Linux-Build
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-06 00:24:05)
NVIDIA Posts vGPU Manager & VFIO Variant Driver For Open-Source Nova
NVIDIA continues building out more functionality around the open-source, upstream Nova kernel graphics driver within the Linux kernel. Making it out to the mailing list this Saturday is a set of 13 patches for introducing a NVIDIA vGPU manager and VFIO variant driver...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-Nova-vGPU-Manager
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-05 20:39:04)
Nouveau Lands Display Fixes For NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs As It Works Toward HDMI 2.1
This week's Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) fixes that were merged ahead of Sunday's Linux 7.3-rc2 release contain a number of fixes to the open-source Nouveau driver's display support for current-generation NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Nouveau-Blackwell-Display-Fixes
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-05 20:24:04)
Linux Patches Posted For Initial Enablement Of The Apple A18 Pro + MacBook Neo
In addition to Linux developers focused on Apple Silicon being busy enabling functionality for the M3 and newer SoCs under the Linux kernel, there are also developers working on enabling the A18 Pro SoC used by the new, budget-friendly MacBook Neo laptop. Patches were posted this week for initial enablement of the A18 Pro and the MacBook Neo Device Tree... But even with these patches, the Li…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Apple-A18-Pro-MacBook-Neo-Patch
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-05 20:09:04)
AMD Working To "Push Rust Deep Into The GPU Stack"
AMD is building out what they are describing as an "elite" team of developers for driving Rust code "deep into the GPU stack" from firmware to drivers, shader compilers, and other GPU software in Rust...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Rust-Deep-Into-GPU-Stack
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-05 19:54:05)
GNOME Stakeholders Discussing RFC Process For Solving Major Technical Changes
GNOME has been working to establish a formal request for comments (RFC) process for solving major technical questions and changes moving forward. A drafted RFC is now under discussion by GNOME stakeholders for moving this process forward...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-RFC-Process-Discussion
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-05 06:09:05)
KDE Plasma 6.8 Lands Windows-Like Auto-Scrolling, Lower vRAM Usage For Breeze Theme
It's been an exciting start to the month of September for KDE Plasma developers with continuing to land last minute improvements for Plasma 6.8 ahead of its official release in mid-October...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.8-Autoscroll
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-05 05:24:05)
Wine 11.17 Released With Initial Support For Display Mode Emulation
Wine 11.17 is out today as the newest bi-weekly feature development release for this software enabling Windows games and apps to run on Linux...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-11.17-Released
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-05 00:54:02)
Amazon Linux 2027 Shows Off Nice Performance Gains On AMD EPYC In The AWS Cloud
Yesterday AWS announced the public preview of Amazon Linux 2027 as their successor to the current Amazon Linux 2023 in-house distribution. With all the software upgrades and improvements like building packages now with link-time optimizations (LTO), enforcing x86-64-v3 builds, and other changes, I was eager to run some performance benchmarks of Amazon Linux 2023 vs. Amazon Linux 2027 in the …
https://www.phoronix.com/review/amazon-linux-2027-benchmarks
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-05 00:09:06)
NetworkManager Works To Enforce AI Policy By Tricking AI Agents To Add A Canary
Last month the NetworkManager project adopted an AI coding policy where authors are responsible for 100% of the code they submit and must be able to explain it all. In an attempt to catch AI coding agents that may be trying to bypass their policy, they have added an interesting canary to the project to try to catch such AI-generated patches so they can then be automatically dealt with...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NetworkManager-AI-Canary
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-04 23:54:05)
PoCL 7.2 Released With Official OpenCL 3.0 Conformance On RISC-V & x86_64 CPUs
The Portable Computing Language project is out today with PoCL 7.2 as this portable, MIT-licensed OpenCL implementation that runs across various CPU architectures as well as targeting other GPUs/hardware with LLVM back-ends. Notable with PoCL 7.2 is bringing official OpenCL 3.0 conformance on x86_64 and RISC-V processors...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/PoCL-7.2-Released
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-04 22:09:06)
XDC 2026 Will Feature Many Interesting Talks: Vulkan Gallium, OpenCL On CUDA & More
The annual X.Org Developer's Conference "XDC 2026" is happening later this month in Toronto. A great number of interesting talks are planned this year from new Wayland features to OpenCL over CUDA, the possibility of Vulkan Gallium, and a lot of exciting driver developments...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/XDC-2026-Talks
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-04 21:24:05)
Linux 7.4 To Improve Apple Silicon Audio Support & Its "Impossible" Power Management
The Apple Silicon audio driver code within the Linux kernel is preparing to make use of the recent shared GPIO infrastructure for allowing multiple drivers / kernel components to nicely share the same GPIO lines. This should help clean things up in the mainline kernel for the Apple Silicon audio support and with a cleaner architecture than the current downstream Asahi Linux code...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Apple-Audio-Shared-GPIO
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-04 19:54:05)
Fedora 47 Considering Use Of Thin LTO Compiler Optimizations
A change proposal filed for what would be part of Fedora Linux 47 is on making use of Thin LTO rather than Fat LTO for link-time optimizations. With Thin LTO being more memory efficient and faster build speeds, the hope is that more Fedora packages could also use Thin LTO for packages where no link-time optimizations are currently leveraged...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-47-Considers-Thin-LTO
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-04 19:39:05)
Mesa 26.3 Preps For Intel Nova Lake P's New 64-bit GPU Mode
Merged overnight for Mesa 26.3 are changes to Intel's graphics compiler code for supporting a new 64-bit shader addressing mode. It turns out with upcoming Nova Lake P graphics will be a big fundamental change...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Nova-Lake-P-64-bit-Mode
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-04 19:09:04)
Vulkan 1.4.362 Released With New Extension Developed By Valve
Vulkan 1.4.362 is out this morning as the newest routine spec update. Making Vulkan 1.4.362 more notable beyond a couple bug fixes are two new Vulkan API extensions, both of which were worked on by Valve's Linux graphics team and one of them being a Valve vendor extension...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vulkan-1.4.362
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-04 09:40:06)
Ubuntu 26.10 Snapshot 3 Monthly ISOs Released For Testing
Released tonight is Ubuntu 26.10 "Stonking Stingray" Snapshot 3 as the newest monthly ISO candidates for Ubuntu Linux...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-26.10-Snapshot-3
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-04 06:24:06)
Amazon Linux 2027 Now in Preview: Powered By Linux 7.1, x86-64-v3 & Built With LTO
AWS announced today the public preview of Amazon Linux 2027. Given the time since Amazon Linux 2023, Amazon Linux 2027 comes with a heavy arsenal of software updates as well as many performance optimizations and other tuning for better running workloads geared for the AWS cloud...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Amazon-Linux-2027-Preview
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-04 03:09:04)
Intel Improving Its Content Match Refresh Rate "CMRR" Feature With Linux 7.4
Introduced with the Xe2 Lunar Lake graphics hardware was support for Content Match Refresh Rate (CMRR) as an improvement over typical Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) / Adaptive-Sync to more precisely match the video or content frame rates. Particularly for video playback it aims for no stuttering or frame drops. With the upcoming Linux 7.4 kernel will be better support for CMRR with the Intel graph…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Graphics-CMRR-Linux-7.4
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-04 02:24:04)
Mir 2.29 Released With Additional Wayland Protocols
For those using Canonical's Mir compositor for building Wayland-based shells, Mir 2.29 is now available with various improvements and new Wayland protocol coverage...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mir-2.29-Released
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-04 00:54:04)
LLVM Developers Begin Debate Over AGENTS.md For Helping AI Agents
LLVM developers have begun a discussion on whether the project should host an AGENTS.md file (and CLAUDE.md) in their Git repository for helping to guide AI agents...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/LLVM-Debates-AGENTS-MD
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