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      Firefox 149 Beta Released With Convenient Split-View Mode

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 February 2026

    Following the Firefox 148 release with the new AI controls, Mozilla promoted Firefox 149 to beta today...
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      b4's Review TUI With AI Integration Nearing Pre-Alpha Release

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 February 2026

    The b4 tool used for managing patch workflows to the Linux kernel has been seeing a lot of work recently on b4 review as the text user interface (TUI) to help expedite the patch review process for the Linux kernel. The b4 review TUI has been integrating AI agent code review helpers powered by the likes of Claude Code too for trying to help enhance the efficiency for Linux kernel patch reviews. That b4 review work is quickly approaching a pre-alpha state...
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      Linux 6.18 LTS / 6.12 LTS / 6.6 LTS Support Periods Extended

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 25 February 2026

    Greg Kroah-Hartman today extended the planned maintenance periods of the latest Linux 6.18, Linux 6.12, and Linux 6.6 Long Term Support (LTS) kernel series...
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      LLVM Clang 22 Compiler Performance Largely Unchanged Over Clang 21 On AMD Zen 5

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 25 February 2026

    With yesterday's stable release of the LLVM Clang 22 compiler it didn't take long for Phoronix readers to begin asking about the performance of this half-year feature update to this prominent open-source C/C++ compiler. What I am seeing so far are no big surprises with the performance largely being similar to Clang 21 across various open-source C/C++ workloads in the testing thus far. This initial round of reference benchmark results between LLVM Clang 22, Clang 21, and Clang 20 were done on an AMD EPYC Turin (Zen 5) Linux server.
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      Mesa 26.0.1 Released With Important Security Fix For OOB Memory Access From WebGPU

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 25 February 2026

    Mesa 26.0.1 is now available as the first point release of this quarter's Mesa 26.0 series. Besides the usual bug fixing, Mesa 26.0.1 is more pressing than usual since it contains a security fix for possible out-of-bounds memory access in WebGPU contexts from web browsers...
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      systemd 260-rc1 Released: New "mstack" Feature, System V Service Scripts No Longer Supported

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 25 February 2026

    The first release candidate of systemd 260 is now available for testing. Systemd 260 finally does away with System V service scripts support. Also notable to systemd 260 is the work around the new "mstack" feature...
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      Sub-Scheduler Support Could Be One Of The Most Exciting Features To Come For Linux 7.1

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 25 February 2026

    While there are many great Linux 7.0 features with that still-young development cycle, looking ahead to Linux 7.1 this summer there's an interesting feature on track: cgroup sub-scheduler support for sched_ext...
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      AMD Announces The EPYC 8005 "Sorano" Series

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 25 February 2026

    The EPYC 9005 series for high-end Zen 5 server processors is a year and a half old and then at the lower-end of the spectrum is the EPYC 4005 series AM5 server processors that launched last year. On the embedded side is also the EPYC Embedded 2005 series. AMD has now filled the void between with the long-awaited EPYC 8005 series...
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      Arm & Linaro Launch New "CoreCollective" Consortium - With Backing From AMD & Others

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 25 February 2026

    The embargo just lifted on an interesting new industry consortium... CoreCollective. The CoreCollective consortium is focused on open collaboration in the Arm software ecosystem and to a large extent what Linaro has already been doing for the past decade and a half. Interestingly though with CoreCollective for open collaboration in the Arm software ecosystem, AMD is now onboard as a founding member along with various other vendors...