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      GCC 16 Compiler Aiming For Mid-April Release Candidate But "Slow" Progress On Fixes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 March 2026

    Richard Biener of SUSE published a new status report on the state of GCC 16 development. Regression fixing has been going slow but they are hoping to publish a release candidate by mid-April...
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      Rust Coreutils 0.7 Released With Many Performance Optimizations

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 March 2026

    Rust Coreutils 0.7 released on Sunday as a performance-focused update to this popular alternative to GNU Coreutils that is still striving for 100% compatibility against the GNU Test Suite...
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      Linux 7.0-rc3 Released: "Some Of The Biggest In Recent History"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 March 2026

    Linux 7.0-rc3 is out as the latest weekly test candidate in leading up to the stable Linux 7.0 release in mid-April...
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      CachyOS Handheld Edition Switches To Wayland, CachyOS Installer Drops Bcachefs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 March 2026

    The March 2026 ISO refresh of the Arch Linux powered CachyOS distribution is now available for new installations and upgrading from existing CachyOS installs...
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      FFmpeg 8.1 Preparing For Release With Vulkan Improvements, JPEG-XS & More

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 March 2026

    FFmpeg developers are preparing to soon release FFmpeg 8.1 with some great new features and other improvements...
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      Experimental Intel Nova Lake P Device Bits Merged For Mesa 26.1

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 March 2026

    Merged this week for Mesa 26.1 are the initial Nova Lake P "NVL-P" device bits for Intel's ANV Vulkan and Iris Gallium3D drivers. But this support isn't yet exposed by default and not yet ready for end-users with more driver changes still to be published...
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      Notable Intel & AMD CPU Changes Merged For Linux 7.0-rc3

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 March 2026

    This week's batch of "x86/urgent" patches that were merged overnight for Linux 7.0 contain some fixes and other adjustments worth highlighting for both AMD and Intel...
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      LLM-Driven Large Code Rewrites With Relicensing Are The Latest AI Concern

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 March 2026

    The newest open-source concern around AI that is seeing a lot of interest this weekend is when large language models / AI code generators may rewrite large parts of a codebase and then the "developers" claiming an alternative license incompatible with the original source license. This became a real concern this week with a popular Python project experiencing an AI-driven code rewrite and now published under an alternative license that its original author does not agree with and incompatible with the original code...
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      digiKam 9.0 Leading Open-Source Digital Photo Manager Software Released

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 March 2026

    The KDE/Qt-aligned digiKam software for managing RAW digital photos is out today with the big digiKam 9.0 release...