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      Linux Kernel AES Library Seeing Improvements For Better Performance & More

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 January 2026

    A set of 36 patches sent out overnight is making big improvements to the Linux kernel's AES library. The patches allow for making use of the kernel's existing architecture-optimized AES code for better performance, that code is also constant-time, lower memory use, and all-around a nice improvement over the status quo...
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      There Is No One Left On Debian's Data Protection Team

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 January 2026

    Besides Debian's aging bug tracker interface, another challenge as the Debian Linux distribution project begins 2026 is that all volunteers have left their Data Protection Team. The Debian Data Protection Team deals with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) issues and related data protection/privacy related matters...
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      AMD RDNA4 With RADV Now Support New Performance Counters For Better Profiling

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 January 2026

    Merged back in December for Mesa 26.0 was RADV now supporting some new performance counters to help game developers and open-source driver developers. That new performance counter support aligned with the AMD GPUOpen Radeon GPU Profiler 2.6 release. At first those new performance counters were wired up for RDNA1 through RDNA3.5 GPUs while now the support has arrived for the latest RDNA4 GPUs...
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      GCC 16 Lands Support For Using Picolibc

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 January 2026

    While veteran open-source developer Keith Packard is known for his X.Org Server contributions over many years, another more recent open-source creation of his is Picolibc as a C library for embedded systems. As the latest achievement on that front, merged this weekend to the GCC 16 compiler codebase is support for using Picolibc...
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      Linux 6.19-rc4 Released Following A Quiet Holiday Week, 6.19-rc8 Already Planned

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 January 2026

    Following the holidays, Linux 6.19-rc4 was released today in working toward the Linux 6.19 stable kernel release in early February...