Notices by Phoronix (phoronix@masto.ai)

GNU C Library Lands Workaround After Breaking Various Steam Games, Discord & Other Apps

The release of the GNU C Library 2.41 at the end of January ended up inadvertently breaking some Steam games, Discord, Julia, MATLAB, and other select user-space software. A workaround was merged today for Glibc to workaround the problem...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Glibc-WA-Steam-Exec-Stack

Wine 10.5 Brings Vulkan H.264 Video Decoding, Mono 10.0 & Bluetooth Pairing

Wine 10.5 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software that is the basis for Valve's Steam Play and allows Windows games and applications to run on Linux systems and elsewhere...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-10.5-Released

Linux 6.15 Device Mapper Brings Inline Crypto Passthrough For DM-Stripe

All of the Device Mapper "DM" changes have been merged to mainline for the in-development Linux 6.15 kernel...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.15-DM

Qt 6.9 Released With Performance Work, Better Emoji Handling & Greater Visualizations

Qt 6.9 was just released as the newest version of this open-source, cross-platform graphics toolkit...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qt-6.9-Released

CachyOS Adds Limine Bootloader, Easier Samba Integration & NTSYNC Wine

The Arch Linux powered CachyOS is out with its March 2025 update that delivers a number of new features for this OS that is popular with open-source enthusiasts and power users for its out-of-the-box performance optimizations and extensive tuning...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/CachyOS-March-2025-Release

Linux 6.15 Adds Raptor Lake-S Support To Intel EDAC Driver

The Linux Error Detection And Correction (EDAC) subsystem updates have been merged for the ongoing Linux 6.15 kernel...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.15-EDAC

KDE KWin Lands FIFO v1 Wayland Support, GNOME 48 Squeezed In XDG Toplevel Drag v1

There is some new Wayland protocol support activity this week worth mentioning for both the KDE Plasma and GNOME desktops...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-KWin-Does-FIFO-v1

GNOME 48 Released With New Default Font, HDR Support, New Audio Player & More

GNOME 48 is officially out as the newest stable release for this open-source desktop that will be powering the likes of Fedora Workstation 42 and Ubuntu 25.04...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-48-Released

Another Round Of Rust Compiler Improvements Merged For GCC 15.1

A few days ago there was a batch of 145 patches merged for the upcoming GCC 15 compiler release to enhance the Rust "gccrs" front-end. That big set of patches merged the Polonius borrow checker and made other notable improvements. Today another 144 patches for enhancing gccrs were merged ahead of the GCC 15.1 stable release due out in the coming weeks...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/More-Rust-Merged-GCC-15.1

Asahi Lina Pausing Work On Apple GPU Linux Driver Development

Following Hector Martin stepping down from the Asahi Linux project that he founded for bringing Linux to Apple Silicon hardware, Asahi Lina announced today that she is pausing work on all of the Apple GPU driver development she had been pursuing for Asahi Linux with the open-source DRM kernel driver as well as Mesa contributions...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Asahi-Lina-Steps-Down-Linux-GPU

Fedora 42 Beta Released With Countless Improvements

The beta of Fedora Linux 42 is out this morning with countless improvements over the prior release. There is the near-final GNOME 48 desktop packages and a whole host of other software updates for living on the leading-edge of open-source software as well as boasting a number of new innovations that were made by Red Hat engineers...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-42-Beta

AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D Linux Performance

Last week AMD began shipping the Ryzen 9 9900X3D and Ryzen 9 9950X3D Zen 5 3D V-Cache desktop processors. We delivered Ryzen 9 9950X3D benchmarks and review for launch day but AMD sadly didn't seed any review samples of the 12-core Ryzen 9 9900X3D processor. Being curious about its performance for Linux developers, enthusiasts, and technical computing workloads, I bought the $600 USD processor on launch d…
https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-ryzen-9-9900x3d

GIMP 3.0 Stable Being Released As Long-Awaited Update To Adobe Photoshop Alternative

After some 13 years of writing about GIMP 3.0 development, today is finally the day: GIMP 3.0 has been tagged and is in the process of being released...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GIMP-3.0-Tagged

Debian 12.10 Released With More Bugs Fixed & Security Updates

Debian 12.10 is out today as the newest routine media refresh for the Debian 12 "Bookworm" Linux distribution release...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-12.10-Released

AMD's 3D V-Cache Optimizer Driver For Squeezing More Ryzen 9 9950X3D Performance

Merged for the Linux 6.13 kernel was the AMD 3D V-Cache Optimizer driver for being able to influence the kernel's scheduling decisions on AMD processors where only a subset of CCDs have the larger 3D V-Cache. With this new driver users can communicate their cache vs. frequency preference for influencing where new tasks are first placed if on the CCD w…
https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-3d-vcache-optimizer-9950x3d

Ubuntu 25.10 Looks To Make Use Of Rust Coreutils & Other Rust System Components

Plans have been drafted to begin using more Rust-rewritten Linux system components within the Ubuntu 25.10 release due out later this year and ahead of next year's all important Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release. Among the Rust components being planned for use in Ubuntu 25.10 is the Rust Coreutils "uutils" software...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-25.10-Rust-Coreutils

Fedora 43 Looking At RPM 6.0, JPEG-XL Wallpapers & Other Early Change Proposals

Fedora 42 isn't even releasing until next month but a number of early change proposals have been filed for the upcoming Fedora 43 development cycle that will be released this autumn...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-43-RPM-6.0-Early-Changes

Rust Coreutils 0.0.30 Enhances GNU Compatibility, Uutils To Port More Common Unix Tools

The uutils project has released Rust Coreutils 0.0.30 as the newest version of this GNU Coreutils rewrite within the Rust programming language. Uutils developers will also be targeting more common Unix tools to port over to Rust too...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/uutils-Coreutils-0.0.30

PipeWire 1.4 Released With MIDI 2.0 Support & Other New Features

Wim Taymans of Red Hat today released PipeWire 1.4 as the newest major update for this leading open-source software to replace PulseAudio, JACK, and other solutions on the modern Linux desktop for managing audio and video streams in a very excellent way...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/PipeWire-1.4-Released

Rustup 1.28 Adds New Windows AArch64 & LoongArch Platform Support

Rustup 1.28 is out today as the newest version of this official tool that is the Rust project's recommended means of installing the Rust programming language support...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rustup-1.28-Released