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      Many EXT4 Fixes Lined Up For Linux 7.0-rc6

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 29 March 2026

    Ahead of the Linux 7.0-rc6 kernel due to be released later today, quite a number of EXT4 file-system fixes were sent out this morning...
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      AMDXDNA Driver Introducing Per-Process Memory Usage Queries In Linux 7.1

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 29 March 2026

    Sent out this week was another drm-misc-next pull heading to DRM-Next ahead of next month's Linux 7.1 merge window. Notable with this week's Direct Rendering Manager code changes was introducing per-process buffer object "BO" memory usage query support for user-space...
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      Nginx 1.29.7 Delivers Multipath TCP Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 29 March 2026

    Released this week was Nginx 1.29.7 as the newest mainline version of this HTTP(S) web server. Releasing alongside Nginx 1.28.3 stable, it fixed buffer overflow vulnerabilities and some other vulnerabilities. Making Nginx 1.29.7 more exciting though is that it landed Multipath TCP support...
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      RadeonSI Driver Lands Fixes For EDuke32 For Those Wanting To Enjoy Duke Nukem 3D In 2026

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 29 March 2026

    It's fairly rare for the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver to hit OpenGL rendering game bugs these days as besides more games going opting for Vulkan API use, RadeonSI is rather robust and very mature at this stage. Recently though a Linux gamer that upgraded to a Radeon RX 9070 XT RDNA4 graphics card noticed that the open-source EDuke32 Duke Nukem 3D build and its derivatives were failing to render properly with the RadeonSI driver...
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      GIMP 3.2.2 Released With Minor UI/UX Updates & Bug Fixes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 28 March 2026

    It was just two weeks ago that GIMP 3.2 released, one year after the big GIMP 3.0 debut. Out today is GIMP 3.2.2 with various bug fixes, plug-in / file format handling updates, and some minor UI/UX work...
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      AMD Introduces GAIA Agent UI For Privacy-First Web App For Local AI Agents

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 28 March 2026

    AMD's GAIA AI agent framework (that previously stood for "Generative AI Is Awesome" albeit they seemed to have dropped promoting it as that name) for Ryzen AI hardware is out with a new version. AMD GAIA 0.17 introduces Agent UI as a new privacy-first web application for local AI agents...
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      Linux 7.0-rc6 Bringing A Lot Of Audio Quirks / Fixes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 28 March 2026

    The Linux 7.0-rc6 kernel due for release tomorrow has a lot of audio fixes/quirks to correct a wide variety of different hardware issues, mostly different problematic laptops for their speakers and/or microphone behavior under Linux...
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      LLVM's DTLTO Now More Efficiently Adding Files To The Link For Much Better Performance

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 28 March 2026

    Last year LLVM began landing their Distributed ThinLTO "DTLTO" support as an enhancement to their ThinLTO approach for link-time optimizations. An improvement merged this week to LLVM addresses a performance bottleneck discovered when adding files to the link...
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      Gedit Aims For More Frequent Releases, Bans AI / LLM Contributions

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 28 March 2026

    Following the release of GNOME 50, Gedit 50 was released on Friday as the newest version of this graphical text editor aligned with the GNOME desktop. Moving forward the Gedit developers are banning AI / large language model (LLM) driven developments and aim to ship more releases faster...