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GNOME 49 Alpha 0 Releases Begin As GNOME 49 Preps For X11 Disabled-By-Default

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 June

The GNOME 49 Alpha release isn't expected until the end of June but for facilitating additional testing and a number of prominent changes this cycle, a number of GNOME packages have begun releasing "GNOME 49 Alpha 0" tags as part of plans to issue multiple alpha releases this cycle. Notable for GNOME 49 are plans moving forward for disabling X11 session support by default with that code then likely to be removed entirely with GNOME 50 for a Wayland-only desktop...

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LoongArch Enables Multi-Core Scheduler & Other New Features For Linux 6.16

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 June

All of the LoongArch CPU architecture changes have been merged for the Linux 6.16 kernel with the merge window set to wrap up later today...

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Linux Mint Continues Working On Its libAdwaita Fork, Fingerprint Authentication

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 June

The Linux Mint project published its newest monthly status report to outline various interesting development activities around this Linux desktop distribution project building off Ubuntu and Debian bases...

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Linux 6.16 Introduces New Helper For Restricting Symbols To Select Kernel Modules

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 June

All of the kernel build system "Kbuild" updates were merged today for the nearly-over Linux 6.16 merge window that is expected to conclude tomorrow with the Linux 6.16-rc1 release. Notable with the Kbuild pull is the introduction of the EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_FOR_MODULES helper...

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NumPy 2.3 Introduces OpenMP Parallelization Support

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 June

NumPy 2.3 is out today as the latest release of this widely-used library for scientific computing. Notable with NumPy 2.3 is finally adding some parallelization support via OpenMP...

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Linux 6.16 Preps For RISC-V's SBI Firmware Features Extension

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 June

The RISC-V architecture feature updates were merged on Friday for the Linux 6.16 merge window that is set to end on Sunday with the Linux 6.16-rc1 release...

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Mesa 25.1.3 Released As Emergency Update For Radeon RX 9000 Series Linux Users

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 June

It was just earlier this week that Mesa 25.1.2 arrived as the newest bi-weekly bug-fix release for these open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers. Coming out today is an emergency bug-fix release to fix a regression affecting AMD Radeon RX 9000 series RDNA4 graphics card owners...

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Vulkan 1.4.317 Introduces VP9 Video Decode, ARM Tensors & 8-bit Floating Point

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 June

Vulkan 1.4.317 was made public on Friday with a number of exciting new extensions, including VP9 video decoding for Vulkan Video, 8-bit floating-point data type support, and other additions...

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GNOME's Papers App Lands Better Annotations Experience

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 June

For those making use of GNOME Papers as the increasingly popular document viewer app for the GNOME desktop, a major rework was merged to enhance the annotations experience...