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      Wayland's Weston 16 Alpha Brings HDR Improvements, Vulkan Renderer Fixes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 June 2026

    Wayland developers have prepared the release of Weston 16.0 Alpha 1 for this reference Wayland compositor with new features...
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      Linux 7.2 Improves Anonymous/Unnamed Pipe Performance For Shell Pipelines & More

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 June 2026

    Yet another performance optimization merged for the in-development Linux 7.2 kernel is improving the speed of anon_pipe_write, the kernel function used for writing data into anonymous/unnamed pipes such as when using shell pipelines or standard streams from applications...
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      Intel Compute Runtime Now Advertises Early Support For Nova Lake, Introduces Experimental "LEO"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 June 2026

    Intel's open-source Compute Runtime stack for OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero on their graphics processors has been bringing up Nova Lake support since January. With today's release of the Intel Compute Runtime 26.22.38646.4, the Nova Lake Xe3P support has matured to the state of it being advertised now as under an "early support" status...
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      Linux 7.2 Can Significantly Lower Container Exit/Unmount Latency

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 June 2026

    A patch series merged for the Linux 7.2 kernel addresses a race condition that can occur when a container is exiting yielding "VFS: Busy inodes after unmount" messages and a possible user-after-free condition. But the patch series also goes further and delivers a very nice optimization to lower the container unmounting latency for environments with heavy I/O load...
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      Linux 7.2 Adds Ability To Limit Programs To Only Open Regular Files, Avoid Being Tricked Or Doing Silly Things

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 June 2026

    Merged as part of the many VFS changes for Linux 7.2 is the new OPENAT2_REGULAR flag for the openat2 system call. This can be used to limit programs to only open regular file-systems and avoid accidentally or intentionally opening up device files or other non-conventional data files on the file-system...
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      Wine Wayland Lands Fractional Scaling Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 June 2026

    Following last week's Wine 11.11 release that brought alpha modifier support for opacity handling with the Wine Wayland driver, merged this week to Wine is support for fractional scaling with the Wine Wayland driver...
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      Linux 7.2 Continues Removing Old i486 Code Remnants, Adds Rugged Panther Lake

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 June 2026

    The x86/cpu changes have been merged for the Linux 7.2 kernel with an interesting span of changes covering 36 years from the Intel 486 days up to adding the new "rugged" Panther Lake variant...
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      XFS Zone Allocator No Longer Experimental With Linux 7.2

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 June 2026

    The XFS file-system updates for the Linux 7.2 kernel aren't too notable with the exception of its zone allocator being promoted from behind its previously-experimental flag...
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      Linux 7.2 Power Management Adds New Hardware Support While Dropping AMD Elan

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 June 2026

    The power management changes merged for the Linux 7.2 kernel are aplenty as usual. New hardware support, dropping obsolete hardware support, and various bug fixes and other enhancements throughout this important area of the kernel...