https://www.phoronix.com/ Linux Hardware Reviews, Performance Benchmarks & Open-Source / Free Software News en-us https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-17-FMV-For-APX-AVX10.2 https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-17-FMV-For-APX-AVX10.2 Earlier this month I wrote about Intel working on function multi-versioning support for APX and AVX10.2 with the GCC compiler. This allows developers to write optimized code paths specifically targeting Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) or Advanced Vector Extensions 10.2 capabilities of future processors while being able to otherwise fall-back to generic or other optimized code paths for other ISA target features. This work is now merged for GCC 17... Sat, 13 Jun 2026 06:20:46 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Haiku-OS-May-2026 https://www.phoronix.com/news/Haiku-OS-May-2026 The BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system now enables Advanced Vector Extensions 512 on capable Intel/AMD CPUs. A number of other hardware driver improvements were also merged for this interesting OS during the last month... Sat, 13 Jun 2026 06:04:05 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.7-Next-Week https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.7-Next-Week Ahead of the much anticipated Plasma 6.7 desktop release next week, KDE developers have been busy putting final touches on it, mostly in the form of bug/regression fixes... Sat, 13 Jun 2026 05:46:41 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Arch-Linux-AUR-More-Than-1500 https://www.phoronix.com/news/Arch-Linux-AUR-More-Than-1500 The day started out with Arch Linux's AUR user-contributed repository seeing more than 400 packages compromised with malware. Now in ending out the day they believe all affected commits have been addressed. But it ended up being more than 1,500 affected packages... Fri, 12 Jun 2026 20:55:00 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenZFS-2.4.3-Released https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenZFS-2.4.3-Released OpenZFS 2.4.3 is out today as the newest stable point release to this open-source ZFS file-system implementation as well as point releases for the OpenZFS 2.3 and 2.2 series too... Fri, 12 Jun 2026 20:32:15 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-11.11-Released https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-11.11-Released Alexandre Julliard just released Wine 11.11 as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software that powers Valve's Steam Play (Proton) and allows for running Windows games and applications under Linux as well as other platforms... Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:13:46 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Ryzen-AI-Halo-Pre-Order https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Ryzen-AI-Halo-Pre-Order AMD today announced the opening of pre-orders for their Ryzen AI Halo petite PC powered by AMD Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo" and working with either Microsoft Windows or Linux... Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:34:00 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-Features-Expected https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-Features-Expected Linux 7.1 stable is expected to be released this Sunday with its many new features. Immediately following the Linux v7.1 tagging, the Linux 7.2 merge window will open and a lot of new feature material is expected to be merged over the next two weeks... Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:46:30 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Red-Hat-RHEL-10.2-For-RISC-V https://www.phoronix.com/news/Red-Hat-RHEL-10.2-For-RISC-V Last year when releasing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0, Red Hat announced a RHEL 10.0 developer preview for RISC-V. Since then that RISC-V developer preview hadn't been updated but now Red Hat has published a new developer preview snapshot based on RHEL 10.2... Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:56:14 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-opensil-coreboot-ar1 https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-opensil-coreboot-ar1 Ever since AMD announced openSIL in early 2023 for open-source CPU silicon initialization to eventually replace AGESA and enhance their Coreboot support, I have been eager to try it out. The openSIL code drops to date though have just focused on select reference platforms with only aiming for production status in the Zen 6 timeframe. But thanks to 3mdeb porting openSIL and Coreboot to a Gigabyte server motherboard, it's now possible to try out openSIL+Coreboot right now on Zen 5 hardware. Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:45:00 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Best-Features https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Best-Features On Sunday it's anticipated that Linus Torvalds will released the stable Linux 7.1 kernel. This is a really terrific mid-year update to the Linux kernel! Here's what makes me excited about Linux 7.1... Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:38:18 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-26.10-Dbus-Broker https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-26.10-Dbus-Broker Among the many new features planned for Ubuntu 26.10 is switching the default D-Bus implementation over to using the high performance Dbus-Broker drop-in replacement... Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:26:51 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/NTFS-Windows-Symbolic-Links https://www.phoronix.com/news/NTFS-Windows-Symbolic-Links One of the exciting additions to the Linux 7.1 kernel is the introduction of the new NTFS file-system kernel driver. While in good shape already and proving advantageous over other NTFS open-source driver options, one of the initial limitations on it is around Windows native symbolic link handling but that is now in the process of being resolved... Fri, 12 Jun 2026 09:00:46 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/AVX-512-Linux-RAID-Optimization https://www.phoronix.com/news/AVX-512-Linux-RAID-Optimization Linux cryptography subsystem expert Eric Biggers Eric Biggers of Google worked on some pretty nice Intel/AMD x86_64 optimizations over the years. Especially around AVX-512 optimizations within the Linux kernel's crypto code has been one of his many nice improvements to the kernel in recent times. Today he's out with another enticing AVX-512 optimization and this time it's for the software RAID code... Fri, 12 Jun 2026 06:42:01 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Arch-Linux-AUR-400-Compromised https://www.phoronix.com/news/Arch-Linux-AUR-400-Compromised The Arch Linux User Repository "AUR" was hit by a large-scale malware campaign this week with more than 400 of these user-supplied packages being compromised... Fri, 12 Jun 2026 06:39:07 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-Wayland-Alpha-Modifier https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-Wayland-Alpha-Modifier The Wine Wayland driver continues to be improved upon for bettering the experience around Windows games/applications running natively on Wayland Linux desktops without having to go through X11/XWayland. The newest feature merged is alpha modifier support for opacity handling of surfaces... Fri, 12 Jun 2026 06:15:11 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qt-6.12-Beta-1 https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qt-6.12-Beta-1 The first beta release of the Qt 6.12 toolkit is now available for testing. Qt 6.12 is packing a number of refinements and new features compared to earlier Qt6 releases. For paying Qt commercial customers, Qt 6.12 is also going to be the latest Qt6 Long Term Support (LTS) release... Fri, 12 Jun 2026 06:06:26 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-15.3-Released https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-15.3-Released For those relying on last year's stable GCC 15 series in not yet having migrated to the latest GCC 16, out today is GCC 15.3 to ship all of the latest back-ported bug fixes... Fri, 12 Jun 2026 05:53:01 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-26.2-Preps-AMD-GFX1156 https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-26.2-Preps-AMD-GFX1156 Being submitted on the kernel side with the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel is initial support for the GFX 11.5.6 graphics IP block along with several other newer IP blocks such as SDMA 6.4, NBIO 7.11.5, IH 6.4, HDP 6.4, MMHUB 3.4.2, SMU 15.0.5, ATHUB 3.4.2, and VPE 2.2. Now in user-space for the Mesa RadeonSI Gallium3D and RADV Vulkan drivers is the GFX1156 (GFX 11.5.6) support being prepared too... Thu, 11 Jun 2026 13:34:14 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Git-2.55-rc0-Released https://www.phoronix.com/news/Git-2.55-rc0-Released Git 2.55-rc0 is out today as the first tagged test version of the forthcoming Git 2.55 distributed version control system. Most notable with Git 2.55 is that Rust support is being enabled by default... Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:15:02 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/review/ubuntu-2610-amd64v3 https://www.phoronix.com/review/ubuntu-2610-amd64v3 With Canonical engineers again experimenting with x86_64-v3 package builds for Ubuntu Linux using an "amd64v3" archive for the current Ubuntu 26.10 development, I decided to see how these latest amd64v3 packages comparing to their conventional Ubuntu 26.10 amd64 packages. Thu, 11 Jun 2026 11:24:24 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Khronos-glTF-2.1-Released https://www.phoronix.com/news/Khronos-glTF-2.1-Released It's crazy realizing that glTF 2.0 is already nine years old for this API-neutral 3D runtime and asset delivery format. The Khronos 3D Formats Working Group today extended that with the debut of glTF 2.1 as a backward-compatible revision to the specification... Thu, 11 Jun 2026 10:02:22 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/YSERVER-Rust-X11-Server https://www.phoronix.com/news/YSERVER-Rust-X11-Server Open-source developer Jos Dehaes wrote in to Phoronix today in announcing a new X11 server he has been working on from scratch that has been quietly developed to this point but now ready to announce to the world... The YSERVER... Thu, 11 Jun 2026 09:46:11 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenJPH-0.28-Released https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenJPH-0.28-Released OpenJPH as an open-source implementation of high-throughput JPEG2000 Part-15 (or JPH or HTJ2K) is now significantly faster for both encode and decode operations thanks to new AVX2 optimizations for Intel and AMD processors... Thu, 11 Jun 2026 07:27:04 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Open-Image-Denoise-2.5 https://www.phoronix.com/news/Open-Image-Denoise-2.5 Intel's Open Image Denoise is the open-source project providing a high performance denoising library for ray-tracing and used by the likes of Blender and other renderers/creative apps for powerful denoising capabilities. Released last week was Open Image Denoise 2.5 with some very nice performance improvements for Intel GPUs... Thu, 11 Jun 2026 06:04:20 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Fellowship-First https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Fellowship-First Back in March the GNOME Foundation announced a fellowship program. The GNOME fellowship program will help with the long-term sustainability of the GNOME desktop and looked to fund independent/community contributors over a twelve month period. Today the first recipients of the fellowship program have been announced... Thu, 11 Jun 2026 05:50:30 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Airoha-N8801R-Linux-7.2 https://www.phoronix.com/news/Airoha-N8801R-Linux-7.2 One of the new network drivers destined for the upcoming Linux 7.2 merge window is for supporting the Airoha AN8801R Gigabit Ethernet PHY... Thu, 11 Jun 2026 05:21:19 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/ReactOS-Running-Half-Life https://www.phoronix.com/news/ReactOS-Running-Half-Life ReactOS, the open-source operating system working for binary compatibility with Microsoft Windows computer programs and drivers, has reached the milestone of being able to enjoy the classic game Half-Life running on this open-source platform... Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:31:26 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Framework-13-Pro-July https://www.phoronix.com/news/Framework-13-Pro-July Framework Computer began informing those that pre-ordered the new Framework Laptop 13 Pro that it will begin shipping in July rather than their original June target. The setback is coming to address two issues that came up in their testing process that delayed the start of mass production... Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:10:08 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-XPU-Manager-2.0 https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-XPU-Manager-2.0 Just a week after the release of Intel XPU Manager 1.3.7, Intel today released XPU Manager 2.0 as a major overhaul for this software for monitoring and management of their data center GPUs on Microsoft Windows and Linux... Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:06:18 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-ESWIN-Default https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-ESWIN-Default An important one-liner is set to come for Linux 7.2 to enable ESWIN SoC support by default for RISC-V kernel builds. This change will allow default RISC-V kernel builds in turn to boot on the likes of SiFive's HiFive Premier P550 developer board... Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:42:00 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Lemonade-10.7-Released https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Lemonade-10.7-Released Lemonade, the local AI server solution developed by AMD that is designed to work across their CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs, is out with a new version today that also adds NVIDIA CUDA support... Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:25:27 -0400 Michael Larabel