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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-20 23:40:06)
Gzip 1.15 Released With Many Bug Fixes For Issues Present Since Its Inception
Gzip 1.15 is out today for succeeding the Gzip 1.14 release from April 2025. With this release comes a number of fixes for bugs present since the beginning of Gzip...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Gzip-1.15-Released
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-20 21:40:32)
KDE To Focus On Next-Gen Styling, Better Documentation & KDE For Enterprise
At the KDE Akademy 2026 conference going on right now in Graze, Austria the three KDE goals for the next two years were unveiled...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Goals-To-2028
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-20 20:09:04)
AI-Assisted Starling Desktop Introduces 3D View With "Walkable 3D Waterfront City"
From a few months ago you may recall Starling as the new Linux desktop written with its own Wayland compositor, using the Swift programming language, and written in large part via AI with Claude Code. Out today is Starling 0.5 with this desktop now gaining an optional 3D desktop mode...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Starling-0.5-3D-Desktop
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-20 19:54:07)
Vulkan 1.4.363 Released With New VK_INTEL_device_info Extension
Vulkan 1.4.363 is out as the latest routine update to the Vulkan API specification and also introduces a new Intel vendor extension...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vulkan-1.4.363
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-20 19:40:25)
Linux 7.3 Adds Support For Victrix Pro BFG & Azeron Controllers
Sent out this morning were a big batch of input subsystem fixes ahead of the Linux 7.3-rc4 kernel releasing later today. Alongside many bug fixes to different drivers is also expanding the range of supported gaming controllers by the XPad driver...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-rc4-Input
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-20 09:54:18)
Linux 7.3-rc4 To Address Two Unfortunate Bugs With Btrfs
Merged today were this week's set of Btrfs file-system fixes for the Linux 7.3-rc4 kernel, which include two notable bug fixes...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Btrfs-Fixes-For-Linux-7.3-rc4
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-20 01:39:23)
Simple Optimization For Linux 7.4 Can Open Files For Reading ~39% Faster
More than two years in the making, Linux 7.4 is poised to introduce a patch that amounts to a rather simple optimization to avoid unnecessary/duplicative work that can net some nice gains when opening files for reading...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-Faster-Do-Open
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-19 22:40:08)
Wine-Staging 11.18 Adds New Patches To Further Improve WoW64
Building off yesterday's Wine 11.18 bi-weekly development release is now Wine-Staging 11.18. This experimental flavor of Wine is presently carrying 273 extra patches over that upstream Git state, including some new patches for helping enhance the WoW64 support...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-Staging-11.18
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-19 19:54:08)
GNOME OS Turns To Zswap To Deal With OOM Issues, Progress On Geary Email Client Fork
In addition to this week's GNOME 51 release were several other exciting developments in the GNOME desktop space...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-OS-Goes-Zswap
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-19 19:39:05)
Intel Xe Driver For Linux 7.4 Adds vRAM Health Check, Degraded Memory Handling
Sent out this week were more Intel Xe kernel graphics driver changes targeting the upcoming Linux 7.4 kernel cycle. The theme this week was around dealing with video memory health and also being able to better deal with hardware degraded video RAM...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Xe-vRAM-Health-Check
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-19 19:24:05)
KDE Plasma 6.8 Seeing More Polishing & Fixes, Plasma 6.9 Begins Seeing More Activity
Following last week's Plasma 6.8 beta release, KDE desktop developers have spent this week mostly working on bug fixes as well as some early changes toward Plasma 6.9...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Plasma-6.8-Post-Beta-Fixes
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-19 10:09:06)
Ubuntu 26.10 Switches To The Linux 7.3 Kernel
As a very pleasant surprise, the upcoming Ubuntu 26.10 release will now be powered by the Linux 7.3 kernel rather than their original plans and switch over to the Linux 7.2 kernel...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-26.10-With-Linux-7.3
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-19 06:39:04)
Wine 11.18 Continues Building Out Its NTOSKRNL Implementation
Wine 11.18 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software for running Windows games and apps on Linux, macOS, and other platforms...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-11.18-Released
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-19 05:24:04)
Steam Frame Making Use Of Zink For OpenGL On Vulkan
Valve's Steam Frame VR headset that makes use of a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC with Adreno graphics is using the open-source "Turnip" Vulkan driver from Mesa as reported last year. For OpenGL it turns out that the Mesa Zink driver is being used on the Steam Frame for OpenGL atop the Vulkan API...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Frame-Uses-Zink
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-19 01:40:20)
Google's "Painful To Maintain" Binder C Linux Driver Being Removed In Favor Of Rust
Google's Binder driver written in the C programming language has long been part of the mainline kernel as the inter-process communication (IPC) mechanism used on Android. The past few years the Binder driver was rewritten in Rust as one of the first "real" drivers in the Rust programming language. The Rust Binder driver was upstreamed in Linux 6.18 and now for the upcoming Linux 7.4 kern…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Google-Binder-C-Goodbye
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-19 01:09:04)
Apple Video Decode Driver Posted For Upstream Linux Kernel Review
The latest Apple Silicon enablement code working its way from the Asahi Linux project toward the upstream Linux kernel is the AVD driver used for accelerated video playback across Apple M1 / M2 / M3 SoCs...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Apple-Video-Decode-AVD-Linux
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-18 23:09:07)
AMD Strix Halo Enjoys Some Performance Gains On Ubuntu 26.10, Especially With amd64v3
Ahead of next week's Ubuntu 26.10 beta release I have been testing the "Stonking Stingray" on a variety of systems. Ubuntu 26.10 is performing well overall with some nice upgrades over Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, especially if opting to use the new snapshot/daily ISOs of Ubuntu 26.10 in amd64v3 form for x86_64-v3 packages. In today's tests are a look at the performance benefits of Ubuntu 26.10 o…
https://www.phoronix.com/review/ubuntu-2610-strix-halo
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-18 22:09:05)
Linux Ready With Fix For Intel's FRED Crashing Some Games Under Wine / Steam Play
Recently there have been some bug reports to Mesa around Intel Panther Lake graphics crashing with some games like Red Dead Redemption 2 and Elden Ring crashing or freezing quite quickly. This turns out not to be an Intel Xe3 Arc Graphics B390 driver bug with Panther Lake but rather due to a kernel issue with the new Flexible and Return Event Delivery "FRED" that debuted with the Core Ultr…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-FRED-Fix-For-Wine-Games
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-18 19:54:09)
Ubuntu 26.10 Desktop Adjusting Its Behavior Under Memory Pressure
The Ubuntu 26.10 desktop is adjusting its default out-of-memory (OOM) daemon behavior when dealing with memory pressure on the system...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-26.10-OOM-Adjustments
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-18 19:39:22)
Linux Kernel Build Times Ready To Be Significantly Reduced With Latest Patches
The past few weeks we have eagerly been following a Linux kernel patch series after AI found some major bottlenecks in the Linux kernel build code. With AI helping to address these bottlenecks, Linux kernel build times are substantially reduced. These optimizations might be ready in time for Linux 7.4 for reducing incremental kernel build times as much as around 70%. This week the latest iter…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Kbuild-Faster-v3
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-18 19:24:05)
AMD Sends In More HDMI FRL Updates For Linux 7.4, Fixes For Upcoming Hardware
Linux 7.4 is set to be a very exciting holiday gift for AMD Radeon graphics customers. As covered last week on Phoronix, with this next kernel AMD Is enabling HDMI 2.1 support by default now that FreeSync, VRR, and ALLM support is included too. This week another round of AMDGPU kernel graphics driver updates were sent out ahead of the Linux 7.4 merge window in October...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/More-AMDGPU-For-Linux-7.4
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-18 19:09:05)
Intel Appears To End Its Bug Bounty Program
Amid a boom of bug reporting in general due to AI/LLMs across the entire software ecosystem, Intel this week appears to have ended its paid bug bounty program. They have (re)launched a new bug reporting program but with the bounties removed...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Bug-Bounty-Program-Ends
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-18 13:24:05)
Help Linux Hardware Testing & Reviews Continue While Enjoying Phoronix Without Ads
If you missed out on the Phoronix Premium special back during the 22nd birthday of Phoronix.com in June, there is another promotion now active for helping to support the site and allow for continued daily original content and relentless Linux performance benchmarking and other open-sourced focused hardware testing...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Phoronix-Oktoberfest-2026
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-18 09:39:13)
OpenCL 3.1.2 Released With cl_khr_command_buffer Promoted
The Khronos Group today released the newest revision of the OpenCL specification with a handful of changes...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenCL-3.1.2-Released
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-18 07:54:06)
Jemalloc 5.4 Released With Portability Improvements, Code Cleanups
Earlier this year Meta announced a renewed investment into the jemalloc memory allocator that's been popular for server and HPC use among various desktop use-cases too. After stagnating a bit in recent years, Jemalloc has been off to seeing new developments since Meta's announcement and out today is Jemalloc 5.4 as the latest step forward...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Jemalloc-5.4
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-18 04:39:11)
Intel Granite Rapids WS vs. AMD Threadripper Zen 5 SMT Performance
As a follow-up to the article earlier this month of the Intel Xeon 600 workstation performance against AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series in over 400 benchmarks -- including when carried out at the same core count and memory configuration -- today's article is exploring the Hyper Threading / SMT impact on both the Intel Redwood Cove and AMD Zen 5 cores for workstations.
https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-zen5-intel-gnr-ws-smt
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-18 03:24:04)
Rust Issues Warning Over Key Developers Being Targeted For Compromise
The Rust security response working group and Crates.io team have issued a warning that a targeted attack is underway against key Rust programming language developers...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-Developers-Targeted
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-18 01:40:21)
Mojo 1.1 Released, Now Accepting Community Contributions To The Compiler
Last month Modular's Mojo language was open-sourced following the acquisition of Modular by Qualcomm. Modular was the AI startup founded by Chris Lattner of LLVM and Swift fame. Released today was Mojo 1.1 and also marks the project recently now beginning code contributions from the community to its compiler...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mojo-1.1-Released
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-18 01:09:05)
Ubuntu 26.10 Snapshot 4 ISOs Published
The fourth monthly-ish snapshot of Ubuntu 26.10 "Stonking Stingray" is now available for testing and comes ahead of next week's Ubuntu 26.10 beta milestone...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-26.10-Snapshot-4
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-18 00:39:17)
Proposal Raised To Finally Standardize Video Memory Stats Reporting Under Linux
The idea has been talked about before but in 2026 still hasn't made it to the mainline Linux kernel.... Standardized reporting of video memory statistics that would work across different vendors / kernel graphics drivers. A new proposal was raised today in an effort to get a standardized interface established...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Standardize-vRAM-Stats
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