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      DXVK 3.0 Released With DXBC-SPIRV For Shader Compilation, Descriptor Heaps By Default

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 25 June 2026

    Philip Rebohle announced the release today of DXVK 3.0 as the latest major feature release for this Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 implementation atop the Vulkan API for use by Wine and Valve's Steam Play (Proton)...
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      Academy Software Foundation Announces The "Wayland For Artists Working Group"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 25 June 2026

    The Academy Software Foundation that advances open-source efforts for the VFX/cinema industry and more with the likes of OpenVDB, OpenMoonRay, Open Shading Language, and other projects, has announced the formation of a new working group to help with Wayland adoption for artists...
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      Updated Raspberry Pi OS With Linux 6.18 LTS Delivers Some Performance Benefits

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 25 June 2026

    Last week marked the release of an updated Raspberry Pi OS that moved to Linux 6.18 LTS from its former Linux 6.12 kernel base along with making a number of other package updates. Given the jump to the newer Long Term Support kernel and other improvements, I ran some fresh benchmarks on the Raspberry Pi 5 (Raspberry Pi 500+) to see the performance difference out of the updated operating system.
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      Servo 0.3 Released With The Demo Browser Becoming More Useful

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 25 June 2026

    Servo 0.3 released today as the latest version of this modern browser engine developed in Rust. With Servo 0.3 the demo servoshell browser is becoming more useful and supporting additional modern web features while Servo also continues to possess much potential moving forward on the embedded front as an alternative to the likes of the Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF)...
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      Linux 7.2 Drops Ancient PROFIBUS Driver: Ported From SCO Unix In 1998, Unused For Years

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 25 June 2026

    Linux 7.2 is continuing the trend of removing obsolete hardware drivers for which the code hasn't seen any maintenance in years and there are no believed users left of said drivers, especially those that would be running modern mainline versions of the Linux kernel. The char/misc changes merged dropped two more obsolete drivers from the Linux source tree...
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      Linux Cache Aware Scheduling Extended For Even Better Performance: Up To 360% In MySQL

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 25 June 2026

    Cache Aware Scheduling is one of the most exciting kernel innovations to land in Linux this year. While it was finally merged last week to Linux 7.2, a new patch series today is already working to extend Cache Aware Scheduling and is showing some exciting performance improvements...
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      AMD Contributes ONNX Runtime Backend To FFmpeg DNN Filter

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 25 June 2026

    An AMD engineer has contributed to the upstream FFmpeg library an ONNX Runtime back-end for its DNN filter. The FFmpeg Deep Neural Network (DNN) filters allow for running AI models natively inside the video processing pipeline for upscaling, object detection, background segmentation, and more. This ONNX Runntime back-end support is notable in that it expands the GPU and NPU capabilities with FFmpeg...
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      Linux 7.2 Staging Still Working To Tame The Realtek RTL8723BS "Beast Of A Driver"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 25 June 2026

    Way back in 2017 for the Linux 4.12 kernel the Realtek rtl8723bs WiFi driver was added to the kernel's staging area. Nearly a decade later, it's still being cleaned-up to suit the more rigorous non-staging area of the kernel in the formal networking subsystem. For Linux 7.2, the staging pull request is once again dominated by clean-ups to this Realtek WiFi driver...
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      KSMBD Adds SMB2 Compression Support In Linux 7.2

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 25 June 2026

    Merged back in Linux 5.15 in 2021 was KSMBD as an in-kernel SMB3 file server. There hasn't been much KSMBD news to report on recently but for Linux 7.2 there is now SMB2 compression support...