Released on Thursday were the Linux v6.7-rc2-rt1 real-time “PREEMPT_RT” patches that now re-bases the RT patches against the in-development Linux 6.7 kernel series…

Source: Phoronix – Real-Time “RT” Patches Updated Against Current Linux 6.7 Development

Eclipse OpenJ9 v0.41 debuted this week as the newest version of this OpenJDK JVM focused on a small footprint and fast performance…

Source: Phoronix – Eclipse OpenJ9 0.41 Released With OpenSSL 3.x Support & Performance Improvements

PHP 8.3 is out today as the latest major annual update to the PHP programming language…

Source: Phoronix – PHP 8.3 Released With Typed Class Constants & Override Attribute

It’s been well over a decade since many were wanting open-source Imagination PowerVR graphics when their graphics IP was more common among SoCs, but with the Linux 6.8 kernel in early 2024 there will finally be an upstream, open-source PowerVR DRM kernel graphics driver! But before getting your hopes too high, this is the effort that’s only around the newer PowerVR graphics and not the prior generation hardware from many years ago…

Source: Phoronix – Imagination PowerVR Open-Source GPU Driver To Be Introduced In Linux 6.8

OpenSSL 3.2 was released this morning as the latest major update to this widely-used cryptography and SSL/TLS project…

Source: Phoronix – OpenSSL 3.2 Released With Client-Side QUIC, SSL/TLS Security Level 2 Default

LibreOffice 24.2 Alpha 1 was just tagged in Git as the first development snapshot toward this next major release of this open-source office software…

Source: Phoronix – LibreOffice 24.2 Alpha 1 Brings Many New Features

The Qt Company today released Qt Creator 12 as the latest major update to this C++ and Qt focused integrated development environment. Most significant with Qt Creator 12 is integrating the Compiler Explorer while there are also many smaller changes for this Qt/C++ optimized IDE…

Source: Phoronix – Qt Creator 12 Released With Godbolt Compiler Explorer Integration

The very convenient Archinstall for quickly deploying new Arch Linux installations with some level of defaults and making it effortless to setup an Arch Linux desktop is out with a new release…

Source: Phoronix – Archinstall 2.7 Brings Unified Kernel Image Support To The Arch Linux Installer

The crew at System76 published a US Thanksgiving themed status update to their work on the open-source, Rust-written COSMIC desktop environment that will soon be powering their in-house Pop!_OS Linux distribution…

Source: Phoronix – System76 Stuffing More Features Into COSMIC Desktop Ahead Of The Holidays

As a nice US Thanksgiving surprise, AMD engineers on Wednesday posted their initial patches for adding the GFX1200 and GFX1201 targets to the LLVM compiler…

Source: Phoronix – AMD Begins Preparing LLVM For RDNA4 With GFX1200/GFX1201 Targets

While Ubuntu 23.10 isn’t a long-term support (LTS) release and thus won’t see too much exposure in the enterprise space, it’s worthwhile today looking at the AMD EPYC and Intel Xeon server performance. It’s interesting for a look ahead being just a few months until Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and with Ubuntu 23.10 incorporating GCC 13 that will also be the default compiler of Ubunu 24.04 among other close software package versions, the kernel not too far off from what will be in this next LTS release, and with Ubuntu 23.10’s Linux 6.5 kernel bringing some nice performance optimizations. So with that said I recently wrapped up some fresh benchmarks looking at the current generation Intel Xeon Scalable Sapphire Rapids performance against AMD EPYC 9004 Bergamo, Genoa, and Genoa-X processors.

Source: Phoronix – AMD EPYC Genoa/Genoa-X & Bergamo vs. Intel Xeon Sapphire Rapids On Ubuntu 23.10

The Linux Foundation today announced the release of the Xen Project Hypervisor 4.18 for this open-source hypervisor that serves as an alternative to Linux KVM use…

Source: Phoronix – Xen 4.18 Hypervisor Released With Support For New AMD EPYC & Intel Xeon CPU Features

Those using OpenZFS 2.2 will want to update to OpenZFS 2.2.1 right away. A block cloning bug was uncovered that is causing data corruption issues for users…

Source: Phoronix – OpenZFS 2.2.1 Released Due To A Block Cloning Bug Causing Data Corruption

Back during the Linux 6.3 kernel support for a number of legacy DRM drivers was removed and now patches have been volleyed for taking things one step further by now eliminating the infrastructure for supporting these older user-space mode-setting graphics/display drivers…

Source: Phoronix – The Linux Kernel Preparing To Drop Infrastructure For Old & Obsolete Graphics Drivers

While micro-architecture specific optimizations are rather common place within the Linux x86_64 kernel for various Intel and AMD CPU families with various performance tricks, the ARM64 Linux kernel maintainers are against introducing new micro-architecture specific optimizations as it affects new ARM processors…

Source: Phoronix – 64-bit ARM Linux Kernel Against CPU-Specific Optimizations: “Pretty Unmaintainable”

Ahead of the US Thanksgiving holiday extended weekend, NVIDIA Linux engineers published their 545.29.06 Linux driver as the latest bug-fix release in the R545 series…

Source: Phoronix – NVIDIA 545.29.06 Linux Driver Released With Source 2 Engine Fix On XWayland

Thanks to AMD’s Linux graphics drivers being open-source, they can be easily ported/adapted for new CPU architectures. For years older AMD Radeon GPUs have been working great on RISC-V such as shown in my HiFive Unmatched review back in 2021 with a Radeon graphics card in the PCI Express x16 slot. But newer AMD Radeon GPUs hadn’t worked out-of-the-box due to AMDGPU’s “DC” display code but that is changing with new patches from SiFive they are allowing the latest AMD GPUs to work on RISC-V…

Source: Phoronix – SiFive Gets Newer AMD Radeon GPUs Working On RISC-V

Released on Tuesday was a new version of wlroots, the Wayland compositor support library that was born out of the i3-inspired Sway compositor project. With this new release are new Wayland protocols, continued work on their Vulkan renderer, and the ability for the Wayland back-end to embed a wlroots compositor inside an existing Wayland client…

Source: Phoronix – wlroots 0.17 Adds New Wayland Protocols, Continued Vulkan Renderer Work

A recently posted Linux kernel driver patch by Lenovo is for a new “ultra-performance capability” with their latest ThinkPad laptops for ensuring their hardware achieves the best Linux performance when in the “performance” ACPI Platform Profile while conserving the most power in the balanced and power-saving mode…

Source: Phoronix – Lenovo Prepares The Linux Kernel For “Ultra-Performance Capability” On Latest ThinkPads

Ahead of AMD’s Advancing AI event coming up quickly in early December, AMD today announced ROCm and PyTorch support has been extended to supporting the Radeon RX 7900 XT graphics card…

Source: Phoronix – AMD Extends PyTorch + ROCm Support To The Radeon RX 7900 XT