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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-10 09:54:01)
SQLite 3.54 Released With Faster Performance, Drops Windows XP Support

SQLite 3.54 released today for this wildly popular embedded SQL database engine used by countless applications and other software. With SQLite 3.54, support for Microsoft Windows XP and older is finally removed...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/SQLite-3.54-Released
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-10 03:09:02)
Ubuntu 26.10 To Include Desktop Images For RISC-V

Ubuntu Linux ISOs for RISC-V 64-bit to date have just been the server/CLI version without any desktop environment pre-seeded. But with next week's Ubuntu 26.10 release, there will now be Ubuntu 26.10 RISC-V desktop ISOs for both Ubuntu proper and a Xubuntu minimal ISO...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-26.10-RISC-V-Desktop
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-10 03:09:01)
Valve's Proton 11.0-2e Released To Fix EA App Issues

CodeWeavers working with Valve today released Proton 11.0-2e as their downstream of Wine that powers Steam Play for enjoying Windows games on Linux...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Play-Proton-11.0-2e
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-10 00:09:02)
Python 3.15 Released With Experimental JIT Compiler Running Faster

Python 3.15 is out today as the newest annual feature release for the Python programming language...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Python-3.15-Released
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-09 23:54:02)
AMD PerfOpt Boosting Prior-Gen Ryzen APU Performance For AI

Last week I ran benchmarks of the new AMD PerfOpt feature being introduced in Linux 7.4. In those PerfOpt benchmarks on current-gen AMD Ryzen AI APUs/SoCs the AI performance improved as much as 18~23%. Several Phoronix readers expressed interest in seeing how prior-gen AMD Ryzen hardware benefited or not from PerfOpt, so here are some additional benchmarks.
https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-perfopt-prior-gen
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-09 22:54:02)
Ubuntu 26.10 Sticks To Using GCC 15 By Default

From a performance and enthusiast perspective, what I personally find most disappointing and puzzling with the imminent release of Ubuntu 26.10 comes down to its default compiler version...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-26.10-GCC-15-Default
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-09 20:54:02)
Faster Zswap With Patches To Batch The Writeback I/O

For those making increased use of Linux's Zswap as a compressed RAM cache for swap pages amid these times of sky high RAM prices, a new patch series was posted providing some incremental performance gains for Zswap by batching the writeback I/O...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Faster-Zswap-Batch-Writeback-IO
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-09 19:39:02)
Linux Patches Finally Make Hibernation Possible In Secure Boot / Lockdown Mode

When booting the Linux kernel using UEFI SecureBoot, the kernel is put in the lockdown mode to restrict the ability to modify the running kernel image or leaking data from kernel memory. Kernel lockdown mode can also be manually enabled by the user/administrator. Among the limitations imposed in Linux's lockdown mode is no hibernation support. But that soon may be relieved with new patches pr…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Hibernation-With-Lockdown
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-09 19:24:02)
Boro: NVIDIA's Open-Source Effort For AI-Assisted Linux Kernel Development

Over the past few months NVIDIA has been developing Boro as a new AI-assisted kernel development CLI written in Rust and focused on local AI for enhancing efficiency for kernel development...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-Boro-Linux-Kernel-AI
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-09 19:09:02)
AMD Caps Off Linux 7.4 Graphics Driver Development With More HDMI 2.1 Fixes

AMD on Thursday sent out a final pull request of their feature work aiming to be submitted for the upcoming Linux 7.4 merge window. This round of "few last odds and ends" is mostly about landing some bug fixes but of which there are a few worth mentioning...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-AMDGPU-Final
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-09 18:54:02)
HDR Support Coming For Qualcomm MSM Driver To Benefit Snapdragon X Laptops On Linux

For those making use of Qualcomm Snapdragon X laptops on Linux, one of the features coming to the MSM DRM kernel driver is static HDR support for DisplayPort outputs and eDP panels...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qualcomm-MSM-DRM-HDR
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-09 09:54:01)
New AI Agent Resources Proposed For The Linux Kernel, AI Skills To Help Developers

The latest proposal for the upstream Linux kernel is introducing infrastructure for AI agent resources. Initially these agent resources would be for a skill so AI agents can automatically add a "Fixes: " tag on relevant patches for noting the first problematic Git commit automatically that a patch fixes...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-AI-Agent-Resources
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-09 09:39:01)
Valve Lands VK_AMD_anti_lag Support For AMD RADV Driver In Mesa 26.3

There is yet another feature to get excited about for this quarter's Mesa 26.3 release. Months in the making, the Valve-contributed VK_AMD_anti_lag support for the Radeon RADV driver was merged today for benefiting AMD Linux gamers as a nice improvement over the former implementation...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-26.3-RADV-VK_AMD_anti_lag
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-09 02:09:02)
EXT4 Deprecates Its Journaled "data=journal" Mode

The EXT4 file-system today deprecated its journaled mode of the "data=journal" mount option. Following its deprecation, this mode is planned for removal in the year 2028...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/EXT4-Deprecates-Journal-Mode
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-09 01:54:02)
COSMIC Epoch 1.10 Released With Launcher Now Using GPU Accelerated Rendering

System76 today released COSMIC Epoch 1.10 as the newest incremental update to this Rust-based desktop developed in-step with their Pop!_OS Linux distribution...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/COSMIC-Epoch-1.10
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-09 00:54:02)
Ubuntu Currently Suffering From Sustained DDoS Attack

Those trying to access the Ubuntu website, ISO downloads, and similar Ubuntu resources today are finding the site inoperable amid what's now confirmed as an ongoing distributed denial of service attack...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-DDoS-October-2026
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-09 00:39:01)
Ubuntu 26.10 Delivers Nice I/O Performance Wins Over Ubuntu 26.04 On AMD EPYC

While Ubuntu 26.10 is not a Long-Term Support (LTS) release and thus will see limited enterprise deployments compared to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, for those not after that long-term deployment support and preferring to live more on the leading-edge, Ubuntu 26.10 is delivering some nice performance gains on current 5th Gen AMD EPYC "Turin" hardware.
https://www.phoronix.com/review/ubuntu-2610-amd-epyc
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-08 23:39:02)
Secretive Rosaic Labs Hires Legendary Linux x86 Developer

The curiosity into secretive semiconductor startup Rosaic Labs builds. Earlier this year it was noted that Intel was providing Rosaic Labs with access to its Atom technology with RTL code. There have also been rather mysterious x86 additions not from Intel or AMD (or Zhaoxin / Hygon) that given the timing may pertain to Rosaic Labs. News today is that Rosaic recently hired a long-time, Linux x86 developer veteran…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/H-Peter-Anvin-Rosaic-Labs
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-08 22:39:01)
Nova Driver Continues Progressing With Long-Term Goal For Official NVIDIA Linux Use

NVIDIA engineer John Hubbard and Red Hat's Danilo Krummrich presented at this week's LPC2026 conference in Prague on the open-source and upstream Nova driver stack that continues forming as a Rust-based open-source NVIDIA Linux kernel driver...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Nova-Driver-LPC-2026
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-08 21:24:01)
Patches Updated To Begin Removing The Linux x32 ABI

Linux developers are once again considering the removal of the Linux x32 ABI...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Patches-Removing-Linux-x32-ABI
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-08 20:24:02)
Google's Sashiko AI Has Completed 191k Patch Reviews, Cited On Nearly 500 Kernel CVEs

Sashiko that was built by Google engineers for agentic review of the Linux kernel code changes and powered by Google's AI models continues proving very valuable to kernel developers. In less than one year since they launched Sashiko for agentic AI code review, their results are quite fascinating...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Sashiko-Linux-AI-Metrics
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-08 19:24:01)
SpacemiT RISC-V SoCs To See More Improvements With Linux 7.4

For those interested in the SpacemiT K3 as one of the few RVA23 RISC-V SoCs readily available so far and in the likes of the K3 Pico-ITX system, more improvements for its upstream kernel support are coming in Linux 7.4...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/SpacemiT-Linux-7.4
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-08 19:09:01)
Google Working To Leverage More Compiler Optimizations Within The Linux Kernel

While Linus Torvalds previously shot down plans for Profile Guided Optimizations (PGO) in the mainline Linux kernel, Google engineers are hoping still to get that out-of-tree functionality upstream. They also would like to see PGO supported for Linux kernel modules rather than just the main Linux kernel image. Additionally, they hope to see limitations overcome around AutoFDO and Propeller op…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Google-More-Kernel-Compiler-Opt
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-08 10:24:01)
Steam Beta Now Defaults Non-Steam Windows Binaries To Using Proton

Valve released tonight a new Steam client beta that includes some notable improvements for Linux users...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Beta-Use-Proton-Default
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-08 09:54:01)
Microsoft Issues First Release Of Their LiteBox Sandboxing Library OS

Back in February we featured LiteBox as a new Microsoft open-source project building out a Rust-based sandboxing Library OS. LiteBox leverages Linux virtualization security features and Rust language inherent benefits to provide the ability for sandboxing Linux apps on Linux, Linux programs on Windows, and other security-oriented deployments. Out today is the first tagged release of LiteBox for this o…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Microsoft-LiteBox-0.1
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-08 09:24:02)
AI Makes "Open-Source, Clean Room" Implementations Of Adobe Photoshop & Premier In Rust

As an interesting demonstrator for the power of AI and potentially pressing legal challenges, Claude Code and AI agents have created "open-source, clean-room reimplementation" versions of Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premier, and Adobe Lightroom. These new creations from the ArtCraft project are implemented in the Rust programming language...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Photocraft-Filmcraft-AI
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-08 06:24:02)
FEX 2610 Released With Handling For AVX-VNNI, Disk Cache Improvements

FEX 2610 released today as the newest monthly release of this open-source emulator for running x86_64 games/apps on AArch64 for ARM64 Linux systems, including most notably by Valve's Steam Frame headset...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FEX-2610-Released
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-08 01:09:02)
Star Labs StarFighter Ultra: A Modern High-End Linux Laptop With Coreboot

When it comes to Linux pre-loaded laptops, I have looked at hardware from most of these vendors over the past 22+ years of Phoronix. One vendor I haven't had the chance to personally test until now is the UK-based Star Labs. That changed recently and over the past few weeks I have been testing out their new StarFighter laptop that offers great Linux support and comes pre-loaded with Coreboot and s…
https://www.phoronix.com/review/star-labs-starfighter
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-07 22:54:01)
NVIDIA 615.78.08 Linux Driver Adds VK_NV_low_latency2 r3 For Improved VKD3D-Proton

NVIDIA today released their 615.78.08 Linux driver build with a useful improvement for gamers using Steam Play (Proton) with Direct3D 12 games via VKD3D-Proton along with a variety of other fixes...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-615.78.08-Linux
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-07 22:09:02)
Kage: Google Experimenting With Linux Driver Isolation Using In-Kernel LFI Sandboxes

Google engineers are experimenting with Linux kernel device driver isolation using in-kernel sandboxes leveraging LLVM's Lightweight Fault Isolation (LFI) functionality...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Kage-Linux-Driver-Isolation
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