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      Ubuntu 26.04 Delivers Great Performance Improvements For AMD Strix Point, Especially For RDNA 3.5 Graphics

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 April 2026

    As part of my ongoing testing around the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 release I have been running a lot of benchmarks. After recently showing some nice performance gains for AMD Ryzen AI Max "Strix Halo" with Ubuntu 26.04, several Phoronix readers inquired about any performance uplift from the more modest but still powerful Strix Point laptops like the popular Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 SKU. Here are benchmarks showing the performance of Ubuntu 26.04 in its near final state compared to Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS with its HWE stack on an ASUS Zenbook S16.
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      Nginx 1.30 Released With Multipath TCP, ECH & More

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 April 2026

    Nginx 1.30 was just released as the newest stable version of this popular web server. Nginx 1.30 incorporates all of the changes from the Nginx 1.29.x mainline branch to provide a lot of new functionality like Multipath TCP (MPTCP)...
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      GNOME Mutter 50.1 Fixes Performance Regression For Some NVIDIA Driver Versions

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 April 2026

    GNOME Shell 50.1 and Mutter 50.1 were released today as the first point releases in the GNOME 50 series...
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      X.Org Server 21.1.22 Released Due To Five New Security Vulnerabilities

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 April 2026

    X.Org Server 21.1.22 is out today and driven by five new security vulnerabilities being disclosed for the aging codebase. In turn these vulnerabilities also impact XWayland too and thus necessitating the XWayland 24.1.10 release...
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      Sunshine Game Streaming Introduces Vulkan Video Encode Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 April 2026

    Sunshine v2026.413.143228 released this week as a new feature release for this self-hosted game stream host for Moonlight, an open-source game streaming client that is an implementation of the NVIDIA GameStream protocol. Notable with this Sunshine release is Vulkan Video encode support as an alternative to using the Video Acceleration API (VA-API) for game streaming...
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      OpenSSL 4.0 Released With Encrypted Client Hello, RFC 8998 Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 April 2026

    OpenSSL 4.0 was just released as a big update for this widely-used SSL/TLS and crypto library...
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      Linux 7.1 Revamps T10 PI Data Integrity Handling For Better Read Performance

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 April 2026

    Merged yesterday for the Linux 7.1 kernel is overhauling the T10 PI code for generating and verifying data integrity information. In turn the new code is cleaner while also allowing for better read storage performance...
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      Mesa 26.1 RADV Driver Merges Vulkan Descriptor Heap As Big Improvement For Steam Play

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 April 2026

    As a big helper for Valve's Steam Play with DXVK and VKD3D-Proton, the Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" has merged its initial support for the VK_EXT_descriptor_heap Vulkan extension...
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      KDE Merges Per-Screen Virtual Desktops After 21 Years

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 April 2026

    A request made a KDE user all the way back in June 2005 on KDE 3.3.2 is finally resolved. After being sought after for 21 years, the latest KWin code now has support for per-screen virtual desktops...