Just in time for the next monthly ISOs of Arch Linux, Archinstall 2.6 has been released as the latest feature update for this easy-to-use, text-based Arch Linux distribution installer…

Source: Phoronix – Archinstall 2.6 Released For Latest Easy-To-Use Arch Linux Installer

Linus Torvalds released the latest weekly test candidate of the in-development Linux 6.5 kernel…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.5-rc4 Exposes An Interesting Numerical Coincidence

GNU Binutils 2.41 is out today as the latest major update to this important collection of binary utilities present on most Linux systems and other platforms…

Source: Phoronix – GNU Binutils 2.41 Released With Intel FRED / LKGS / AMX-COMPLEX Support

GNU Emacs 29.1 is out this morning as the latest update to this popular and powerful text editor…

Source: Phoronix – Emacs 29.1 Released – No Longer Chokes On Very Long Lines

As one of the last blockers for getting real-time (PREEMPT_RT) support mainlined in the Linux kernel, this week saw a revised patch series around non-blocking consoles…

Source: Phoronix – Linux Patches Revised Around Non-Blocking Consoles

Linux 6.5 upgraded its Rust toolchain against Rust 1.68.2. This was the first upgrade of the Rust toolchain from the original v1.62 requirements when the first Rust kernel code was mainlined. A second upgrade is now planned to take it to Rust 1.71…

Source: Phoronix – Linux Kernel Prepares Rust Toolchain Upgrade To v1.71

Last weekend I wrote about Zen 4’s Automatic IBRS security feature needing STIBP enabled for protecting user-space processes. Single-Threaded Indirect Branch Predictors though haven’t been enabled up to now with the Auto IBRS functionality on Linux. But the x86/urgent pull request sent out today ahead of the Linux 6.5-rc4 tagging makes that change…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.5-rc4 Brings Change For Enabling STIBP On AMD Zen 4 Auto IBRS Systems

LPython is the latest open-source Python implementation aiming to be a very performant version of Python among other interesting features…

Source: Phoronix – LPython Is The Latest Python Implementation Aiming To Be Very Fast, Multiple Backends

A new per-application workaround/optimization to the open-source Intel “ANV” Vulkan Linux driver has sharply reduced the time required for compiling Cyberpunk 2077 game shaders for this popular title running on Linux by way of Valve’s Steam Play…

Source: Phoronix – Intel Linux Driver Lands Workaround To Sharply Speedup Cyberpunk 2077 Shader Compilation

For those fond of the COBOL programming language and continuing to make use of it in new development efforts, GnuCOBOL 3.2 was released on Friday as the latest feature update for this 21+ year old free software effort around being an open-source COBOL implementation…

Source: Phoronix – GnuCOBOL 3.2 Released After 2+ Years In Development

Going back to May I wrote about AMD’s “k10temp” Linux temperature driver being updated to handle negative temperature readings and now finally merged on Friday as a fix ahead of Linux 6.5-rc4 is a change to that open-source driver for properly displaying negative temperatures…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.5-rc4 Fixes Support For Reporting Negative Temperatures On AMD Industrial CPUs

With most developers having recovered from the recent Akademy KDE developer conference, Plasma 6 is back to seeing a lot of new development activity for what will be the next major open-source desktop release likely debuting in early 2024…

Source: Phoronix – KDE Plasma 6 Making Progress On Sound Themes, Lower Cursor Latency On Wayland

The first release candidate of LLVM 17 is now available for testing as what will be the next half-year update to this innovative open-source compiler stack…

Source: Phoronix – LLVM 17.0-rc1 Released With Nearly 38k Commits

Sent out today was a batch of “new stuff” for the AMDGPU and AMDKFD kernel graphics drivers for queuing in DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 6.6 merge window opening in about one month…

Source: Phoronix – AMD Readies “New Stuff” For Linux 6.6 Graphics Driver, AMDGPU DC For RISC-V

Vulkan 1.3.260 is out today with a handful of specification clarifications/fixes as well as two new extensions…

Source: Phoronix – Vulkan 1.3.260 Released With AMDX_shader_enqueue, KHR_maintenance5

The new AMD EPYC Bergamo and Genoa-X processors have been very fascinating in the lab from the performance angle and the many different features and knobs provided by these new high-end server processors focused on dense cloud and energy-efficient deployments and HPC/AI, respectively. With Bergamo the flagship AMD EPYC 9754 provides 128 cores with SMT and the Zen 4C cores still boast AVX-512. Another nifty aspect on this high core count CPU catering to cloud service providers is the adjustable TDP from 320 to Watts. Prior Phoronix benchmarks have looked at the default 360 Watt performance and the 400W at the high-end with power determinism mode while today’s article is looking at the efficiency gains made possible by pulling back to a 320W cTDP.

Source: Phoronix – Running The AMD EPYC 9754 “Bergamo” CPUs With A 320W cTDP To Enhance Power Efficiency

It appears the OpenZFS 2.2 file-system driver for Linux and FreeBSD systems will see its release very soon while out today is the third release candidate…

Source: Phoronix – OpenZFS 2.2-rc3 Released With Linux 6.4 Support

Systemd 254 is out today in time for appearing in the late-2023 Linux distribution releases…

Source: Phoronix – systemd 254 With New Soft Reboots Feature, systemd-battery-check

Announced in early June by Intel-owned Codeplay Software was the oneAPI Construction Kit for helping to bring SYCL codebases to new processor/accelerator architectures with an emphasis on AI and HPC. Today marks the release already of the oneAPI Construction Kit 3.0…

Source: Phoronix – Intel’s oneAPI Construction Kit 3.0 Released

Richard Hughes is the Red Hat developer who is most prominently known for leading the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) and Fwupd development as well as formerly being behind the ColorHug monitor color calibration hardware effort and PackageKit, among other open-source software. He’s recently been developing a new software project called Passim that today he announced to the world…

Source: Phoronix – Richard Hughes Developing New “Passim” Local Caching Server