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      FFmpeg Merges A Number Of Vulkan Improvements To Start 2026

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 January 2026

    FFmpeg developer Lynne has landed a number of Vulkan-related imporvements to this widely-used open-source multimedia library. Over the past year FFmpeg saw Vulkan shader-based decoding for more video formats, AV1 and VP9 extension work, performance improvements, and other work around Vulkan Video. It will be very exciting to see how FFmpeg delivers in 2026 with Vulkan Video and how the software ecosystem as a whole begins taking up this cross-platform, open industry standard for video encode/decode...
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      Bcachefs Ships Latest User-Space Utilities With bcachefs-tools 1.35

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 January 2026

    Kent Overstreet has shipped the latest version of bcachefs-tools, the user-space code complementing the Bcachefs file-system kernel driver. There are a number of improvements present in this latest version with Overstreet remaining committed to advancing Bcachefs even with its current out-of-tree kernel status...
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      LLVM/Clang 22 Feature Development Ends With Intel Nova Lake, Arm C1 & Ampere1C Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 January 2026

    LLVM/Clang 22 feature development ended overnight with the code now being branched and working toward a stable release likely by the end of February...
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      Haiku OS Pulls In Updated Drivers From FreeBSD 15

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 January 2026

    The BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system project just published a new status report to detail how they ended out the year...
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      GCC 16 Compiler Steps Closer To Release With Algol 68 Frontend, AMD Zen 6, C++20 Default

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 January 2026

    GCC 16 as this year's major feature release of the GNU Compiler Collection should be out in the typical March~April timeframe if all goes well. Today the GCC 16 compiler transitioned to its final stage "stage 4" of development with a focus exclusively on documentation and regression fixing...
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      Wine 11.0 Planned For Release Tomorrow With NTSync Support, Better WoW64

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 January 2026

    Wine project leader Alexandre Julliard relayed on the mailing list today that the plan is to release Wine 11.0 stable tomorrow, 13 January...
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      The Surprising Spectre BHI Mitigation Performance Impact On Meteor Lake

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 January 2026

    When recently carrying out performance benchmarks of Intel Meteor Lake performance on Linux since launch day two years ago, the geo mean came in at 93% the original performance. Finding the performance trending clearly lower with an up-to-date Linux software stack compared to in December 2023 was quite surprising considering the rather nice gains we have seen over time on other Intel/AMD hardware. As noted in that article though, one of the possible explanations there is the Spectre BHI "Branch History Injection" vulnerability and microcode plus Linux kernel mitigations having come out post-launch and affecting Meteor Lake CPUs. Sure enough, follow-up tests looking at the Spectre BHI impact have revealed a measurable cost in a number of workloads for the Core Ultra processor.
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      Tinygrad 0.12 Released With Mesa NIR/NAK Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 January 2026

    Tinygrad 0.12 is out today for this deep learning stack led by George Hotz...
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      Firefox 147 Now Available With XDG Base Directory Specification Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 January 2026

    Firefox 147.0 release binaries have hit the Mozilla servers today as the latest monthly update to this open-source web browser. Firefox 147 is exciting for Linux users in finally delivering XDG Base Directory Specification support...