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GRUB Bootloader Received 73 Patches To Fix A Variety Of Recent Security Issues

news.movim.eu / Phoronix · Tuesday, 25 March - 00:26

The GRUB bootloader saw a set of 73 patches last month for addressing a variety of security flaws that were discovered...

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GIMP 3.0.2 Released To Fix Early Bugs From GIMP 3.0

news.movim.eu / Phoronix · Monday, 24 March - 20:56

GIMP 3.0 was 7+ years in development before releasing as stable last week for this much anticipated, GTK3-ported image manipulation program update. Thankfully we're not seeing any lengthy periods of time for new bug-fix releases with today already marking the release of GIMP 3.0.2...

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Bcachefs Aims For "Soft Frozen" On-Disk Format With Linux 6.15 Along With New Features

news.movim.eu / Phoronix · Monday, 24 March - 19:16

Last month Bcachefs lead developer Kent Overstreet talked of Bcachefs getting to the point of freezing its on-disk format with future on-disk format updates slated to be optional. With today's Bcachefs pull request for Linux 6.15, it's now being treated as "soft frozen" and also landing other new features for this copy-on-write file-system. Among the new features is case insensitive file/folder support contributed by Valve...

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Btrfs Adding Fast/Realtime Zstd Compression & Other Performance Optimizations

news.movim.eu / Phoronix · Monday, 24 March - 18:29

David Sterba of SUSE sent in all of the Btrfs file-system updates today for the now-open Linux 6.15 kernel merge window. There are some new performance optimizations, new and faster Zstd compression level options, and other changes slated to be included for this CoW file-system in Linux 6.15...

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New FWCTL Subsystem Submitted For Linux 6.15

news.movim.eu / Phoronix · Monday, 24 March - 16:48

Assuming no objections from Linus Torvalds, the now open Linux 6.15 merge window could introduce a brand new subsystem: fwctl...

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AMD Lands LLVM Flang Fortran Runtime Support For Compiling Directly On The GPU

news.movim.eu / Phoronix · Monday, 24 March - 15:50

An AMD engineer has landed experimental support within the LLVM codebase for building Flang-RT on GPUs. Flang-RT being the run-time for LLVM's modern Fortran "Flang" compiler and in turn this effort working to allow more Fortran code to easily run on GPUs with capable LLVM back-ends...

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Linux 6.14 Released With Working NTSYNC Driver, AMD Ryzen AI Accelerator Support

news.movim.eu / Phoronix · Monday, 24 March - 14:22

There was a hiccup yesterday with no Linux 6.14 release or 6.14-rc8 otherwise... Linus Torvalds has a very good track record of sticking to his Sunday release regiment. Yet yesterday was quiet. Today though Linus Torvalds released the Linux 6.14 kernel as the newest stable version. Linux 6.14 is what's set to go on and power Ubuntu 25.04, Fedora 42, and other spring 2025 Linux distribution releases...

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Intel's AVX10.2 Patches Merged For GCC 15 To Drop 256-bit Rounding & AVX10.2-256 Options

news.movim.eu / Phoronix · Monday, 24 March - 14:00

What a week. Last week Intel published a new AVX10 whitepaper where they dropped the optional 512-bit support of AVX10.2 and confirmed future P and E cores will have AVX10.2-512 support unconditionally. A very welcome change by Intel albeit late in rushing to get patches out to change that behavior ahead of the GCC 15 stable compiler release as well as working similar changes into the LLVM Clang compiler. As of today those GNU Compiler Collection patches have been merged to prepare for AVX10.2 always having 512-bit support available...

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Faster Intel/AMD Crypto Performance & Initial Intel APX Enablement Slated For Linux 6.15

news.movim.eu / Phoronix · Monday, 24 March - 12:56

Among the early pull requests submitted in advance of the Linux 6.14 stable release and in turn the Linux 6.15 merge window opening were the x86 FPU updates. Notable this round are faster x86/x86_64 encryption/decryption performance for both Intel and AMD processors as well as beginning to land the kernel-side changes needed to support Intel Advanced Performance Extensions (APX)...

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