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      Firefox 152 Now Available With JPEG-XL Support Built By Default, Modernized Settings UI

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 June 2026

    The Firefox 152.0 release binaries are now available ahead of tomorrow's official unveiling. With Firefox 152 there is now the JPEG-XL support code being compiled by default for the release albeit still disabled at run-time by default behind a preference for now...
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      Reading /proc/filesystems Is Surprisingly Done Very Often & Now As Much As 444% Faster

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 June 2026

    Reading /proc/filesystems for obtaining a list of file-systems supported by the running kernel is done frequently on Linux. Namely due to being read by the SELinux library (libselinux), reading of /proc/filesystems is done more often than one would typically expect and now the Linux 7.2 kernel is optimizing for it to yield much better performance...
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      Framework Computer Making Progress On Coreboot For Their Modern Intel-Powered Laptops

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 June 2026

    While we have seen Coreboot work-in-progress support for older Ryzen-powered Framework Laptops, it seems there is a recent uptick in development around supporting Coreboot on Framework Computer's modern Intel-powered wares...
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      Cache Aware Scheduling Merged For Linux 7.2 For Boosting Modern Intel & AMD CPUs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 June 2026

    The scheduler updates were merged this morning for the Linux 7.2 kernel and it's exciting. Cache Aware Scheduling has finally been merged! This is a win for especially modern Intel and AMD processors with multiple last level caches (LLCs)...
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      Linux 7.2 Introducing The Rust Zerocopy Library To Eliminate More "Unsafe" Code

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 June 2026

    Miguel Ojeda already mailed in the many Rust code changes for the in-development Linux 7.2 kernel. This is quite a big Rust code with more than forty thousand new lines of Rust code in the kernel...
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      Linux 7.2 To Better Communicate File-System Casefolding For Helping Windows NFS & More

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 June 2026

    Newly-merged code for the in-development Linux 7.2 kernel will now expose the case-folding (case insensitive) behavior of local file-systems so that Linux file servers and others can properly report the actual behavior rather than guessing if case-folding is actually used/supported...
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      GNU Linux-libre 7.1-gnu Released With More Driver Deblobbing, Unhappy With i486 Removal

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 June 2026

    Following yesterday's release of the upstream Linux 7.1 kernel release, GNU Linux-libre 7.1 is out with its new build for de-blobbing various drivers from loading non-free-software microcode/firmware and other sanitizing of the kernel code in the name of software freedom...
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      Linux 7.2 To Raise LLVM/Clang Compiler Requirement, Add Support For Distributed ThinLTO

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 June 2026

    Among the early pull requests sent in prior to today's Linux 7.1 release of new material aiming for Linux 7.2 were all the Kbuild updates...
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      Linux 7.1 Released: New NTFS Driver, Intel FRED For Panther Lake, Faster Arc Graphics

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 June 2026

    Linus Torvalds just released the stable Linux 7.1 kernel and it's coming a half-day early thanks to his travel plans...