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CouchDB Update Brings QuickJS Engine Option - 4~5x Faster Than SpiderMonkey

Apache CouchDB 3.4.1 was released today after the developers decided at the last minute before releasing CouchDB 3.4 to drop automatic upgrading of password hashes... Thus CouchDB 3.4.1 is out as the big "CouchDB 3.4" release. The CouchDB 3.4 series br...

2024-09-27 08:44

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Asynchronous Device Shutdown Doesn't Make It For Linux 6.12

Patches for wiring up async device shutdown within the Linux kernel were queued via the driver core branch for the in-development Linux 6.12 kernel. However, at the last minute these asynchronous device shutdown patches were reverted so that they can b...

2024-09-27 06:52

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Last Call For The 2024 Phoronix Premium Oktoberfest Promotion

If you wanted to get in on the last Phoronix Premium promotion before the end-of-year holidays, this is your last chance to do so with the "Oktoberfest" sale ending this weekend for helping to support the site while enjoying ad-free browsing, native da...

2024-09-27 06:41

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Sound Open Firmware 2.11 Adds AMD ACP 7.0 Strix Point & Intel Panther Lake Support

Sound Open Firmware 2.11 is now available for this open-source audio DSP firmware infrastructure and SDK project backed by Intel, AMD, and other IHVs/ISVs. With SOF 2.11 comes support for new hardware from both AMD and Intel...

2024-09-27 06:30

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Upstream Linux 6.12 Makes It Easier To Build A Debug Kernel For Arch Linux

The upstream Linux 6.11 kernel introduced the ability to easily produce a Pacman kernel package for Arch Linux with the new "make pacman-pkg" target. With Linux 6.12 new additions to the Kbuild code make it easy to also produce a debug kernel build for...

2024-09-27 06:20

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Blumenkrantz Seeks Clear Policy How Wayland Protocol Changes Can Be Rejected

As part of his new hope for helping to accelerate Wayland protocol development, Mike Blumenkrantz with Valve proposed an "experimental" protocol development area within Wayland-Protocols. He's also laid out a proposal for seeking to solidify the means ...

2024-09-27 05:53

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BusyBox 1.37 Adds "getfattr" Along With Other Improvements

BusyBox 1.37 has been released as the first feature release in one and a half years for this "Swiss Army Knife of embedded Linux" systems. With BusyBox 1.37 comes some new options, many fixes, and other enhancements...

2024-09-26 20:14

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Unauthenticated RCE Flaw With CVSS 9.9 Rating For Linux Systems Affects CUPS

There's been much speculation since this morning over a reported "severe" unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) flaw affecting Linux systems that carries a CVSS 9.9.9 score... The embargo has now lifted with the details on this nasty issue...

2024-09-26 16:10

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Intel Xeon 6980P vs. AMD EPYC Power Efficiency / Performance-Per-Watt Benchmarks

Earlier this week in the launch-day Intel Xeon 6980P Granite Rapids review/benchmarks I unfortunately wasn't able to provide any CPU power consumption and performance-per-Watt benchmarks due a Linux kernel issue and the minimal time ahead of launch for...

2024-09-26 13:52

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PostgreSQL 17 Released With AVX-512 Optimization & Up To 2x Better Write Throughput

PostgreSQL 17 is out today as the newest annual feature release to this widely-used SQL database server. Notable with PostgreSQL 17 is having an AVX-512 optimized bit_count function along with several other heavy hitting performance optimizations...

2024-09-26 10:38

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System76 Releases COSMIC Alpha 2 Desktop Packages

Following the release of the COSMIC Alpha desktop in early August, System76 is closing out September by issuing the second alpha release of their Rust-based open-source desktop environment...

2024-09-26 10:19

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Linux 6.12 Brings 9p Network USB Gadget Driver To Ease Embedded Device Development

The USB/Thunderbolt subsystem updates were submitted today for the Linux 6.12 kernel merge window along with the other areas of the kernel overseen by Greg Kroah-Hartman. A new USB driver is the 9p network gadget driver that has been in development for...

2024-09-26 09:00

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RISC-V Wires Up More Kernel Features With Linux 6.12

The RISC-V architecture updates have been submitted for the Linux 6.12 kernel cycle. More RISC-V CPU ISA extensions are being supported along with enabling some additional kernel features for this CPU architecture...

2024-09-26 07:05

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VirtIO Vsock Performance To Improve With Linux 6.12

The VirtIO Vsock guest/host communication interface using virtual sockets will see better performance with the in-development Linux 6.12 kernel...

2024-09-26 06:39

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DXVK 2.4.1 Released With Many Improvements, More Robust Direct3D 8

It's been nearly three months since the last DXVK release for this Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 implementation built atop Vulkan for Steam Play (Proton) / Wine. That changed today with Philip Rebohle having just released DXVK 2.4.1...

2024-09-26 06:26

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Vulkan 1.3.296 Released With VK_EXT_device_generated_commands

Vulkan 1.3.296 is out as the first spec update in nearly one month. Given the time that has passed there are more bug fixes than usual but there is also a prominent new extension: VK_EXT_device_generated_commands...

2024-09-26 06:17

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Valve Engineer Mike Blumenkrantz Hoping To Accelerate Wayland Protocol Development

Valve open-source graphics software engineer Mike Blumenkrantz is well known in the Linux community for his work on the Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver code, various Mesa driver optimizations, and creative writing on his blog. He's also taken up a new tas...

2024-09-25 16:46

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ChipStar 1.2 Released For Compiling & Running HIP/CUDA On SPIR-V/OpenCL Hardware

ChipStar 1.2 has been released as the open-source software enabling HIP/CUDA programs to be compiled and run atop SPIR-V whether it be OpenCL or Vulkan drivers...

2024-09-25 14:51

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Intel Working To Improve Virtualization Handling For P/E-Core Hybrid CPUs

While Intel has been making steady progress around enhancing the Linux kernel handling for CPUs with a mix of P and E cores for proper task placement and power optimizations, one area that still is less than desirable for these hybrid Intel Core proces...

2024-09-25 12:03

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Rust In Linux 6.12 Prepares For Rust Binder, Supports Sanitizers & CPU Mitigations

Miguel Ojeda has submitted all of the Rust toolchain and infrastructure changes for the in-development Linux 6.12 kernel...

2024-09-25 10:30

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