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      Mesa 26.2.1 Released With Dozens Of Fixes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 August 2026

    For those preferring the tradition of waiting for the first point release of a new Mesa feature release before upgrading, Mesa 26.2.1 is available today with a healthy round of bug fixing...
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      Linux 7.3 Cleans Up The Code For Disabling Of Legacy 32-bit Time Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 August 2026

    The Linux kernel has supported the CONFIG_COMPAT_32BIT_TIME Kconfig build time option for optionally disabling of legacy 32-bit time system call support. This is intended to disable the code that uses a 32-bit integer for time that is thus not Year 2038 safe, but at the cost of breaking compatibility for legacy 32-bit applications. Even if building without Linux 32-bit time support, it turns out some 32-bit time code persisted but that is now being fixed with Linux 7.3...
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      KDE Gear 26.08 Delivers The Latest KDE App Experience

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 August 2026

    KDE Gear 26.08 was released today to deliver the latest collection of KDE application updates...
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      X.Org Server 26.1 RC1 Prepares For First Feature Release In Five Years

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 August 2026

    Following today's release of XWayland 26.1 RC1, X.Org Server 26.1 RC1 was tagged. This xorg-server 26.1 release is aiming to become the first major feature release in five years, succeeding the xorg-server 21.1 series...
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      EXT4 Preps More Performance Improvements For Linux 7.3

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 August 2026

    In addition to the IOmap improvements helping EXT4 performance in Linux 7.3, the main EXT4 feature pull request has now been submitted for this next kernel version. That pull is set to land yet more performance optimizations for EXT4...
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      Two Very Exciting Memory Management Optimizations Going Into Linux 7.3

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 August 2026

    Andrew Morton on Tuesday sent out all of the memory management "MM" updates for the Linux 7.3 merge window. The MM pull was particularly heavy as he noted 1,250 "added-to-MM" emails were sent out this cycle compared to 920 the prior cycle. With a lot of patch churn, he also turned to Google's Gemini AI for writing his patch summaries. In going through the very verbose AI-generated summary, there are two patch series that get me excited on the performance front with Linux 7.3...
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      Go Language 1.27 Adds Generic Methods, Struct Improvement & More SIMD

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 August 2026

    Go 1.27 was released today as the newest version of this programming language from Google's Go team...
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      Btrfs Ready With More Performance Improvements For Linux 7.3: Some ~3x To ~5x Wins

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 August 2026

    David Sterba of SUSE sent in the Btrfs file-system feature updates today that target the Linux 7.3 merge window. Among other changes are more performance improvements for this next version of the Linux kernel...
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      AMD EPYC 9005 Series Memory Scaling Performance From 4 To 24 DDR5 RDIMMs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 August 2026

    With today's memory prices, a frequent question at Phoronix and throughout many organizations is about reducing cost by not necessarily populating all memory channels. Especially with modern servers going up to 12 memory channels per socket or even 16 memory channels with upcoming EPYC Venice, you may be curious about the performance impact of populating less memory channels to see if the trade-off is worthwhile given today's DDR5 RDIMM pricing. In this article are benchmarks from a Dell PowerEdge server looking at a dual AMD EPYC 9655 2P configuration when testing between four and the full twenty-four DDR5-6400 RDIMM configuration and the resulting performance impact in more than 250 benchmarks.