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Git 2.56-rc0 Released With Updated Contribution Guidelines, Improvements For Swift
2+ day, 21+ hour ago (207+ words) While still ultimately working toward Git 3.0 with SHA-256 hashes by default and the "main" branch name by default, among other breaking changes (and potentially coming around the end of 2026), Git 2.56-rc0 is now available for testing... - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics…...
Mold High Speed Linker Being Rewritten In Rust, Hopes To Be The Default Linker On Linux
2+ day, 18+ hour ago (217+ words) The Mold high performance linker that typically outperforms the likes of LLVM lld, GNU LD, Wild, and others is being rewritten in the Rust programming language and also has an ambitious goal of being adopted as the default linker on…...
AI Made A Lot Of "Hideous" Code But Found Major Bottlenecks For Faster Linux Compilation
5+ day, 6+ hour ago (239+ words) An ARM Linux engineer leveraged AI/LLMs to help uncover some improvements to "significant speed up" the Linux kernel build times. In the process the LLM used generated "a lot of code, much of it hideous" but in the end…...
KDE's KWin Merges Wayland Commit-Timing Protocol Support
5+ day, 14+ hour ago (199+ words) Merged today to the latest KDE KWin compositor development code is support for Wayland's important commit-timing protocol that is useful for video playback as well as for gamers relying on Adaptive-Sync/FreeSync support... - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux…...
Rustls 0.23.44 Released With ML-DSA Certificates Enabled By Default
6+ day, 21+ hour ago (200+ words) Rustls as the modern TLS library implementation written in the Rust programming language is out with a new feature release. This morning's Rustls 0.23.44 release enables post-quantum secure ML-DSA certificates by default... - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory…...
LLVM Developers Discuss Enabling ClangIR Build By Default
1+ week, 20+ hour ago (251+ words) ClangIR has been in development for a number of years now as a new intermediate representation for the Clang compiler. ClangIR makes use of MLIR and is higher-level than LLVM IR. With ClangIR able to preserve more C/C++ source…...
LLVM Developers Begin Debate Over AGENTS.md For Helping AI Agents
1+ week, 3+ day ago (196+ words) LLVM developers have begun a discussion on whether the project should host an AGENTS.md file (and CLAUDE.md) in their Git repository for helping to guide AI agents... - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory Motherboards Processors Software…...
FreeDesktop SDK 26.08 Released With Snap Support Dropped, Bootstrap Changes
1+ week, 4+ day ago (197+ words) The newest FreeDesktop SDK is now available for this collection of components used for Flatpak runtimes as well as for building out of containers and other software stacks... - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory Motherboards Processors Software…...
Rust Coreutils 0.11 Released With Some Nifty Debug Helper Messages
1+ week, 6+ day ago (218+ words) Rust Coreutils 0.11 was just released as this alternative to the GNU Coreutils. Besides the long-running task of catching up the GNU Coreutils compatibility with the GNU test suite and never-ending work on optimizing the performance, Rust Coreutils 0.11 is quite a…...
Patches Provide For Much Faster In-Kernel Zstd Due To Embarrassingly Bad Inefficiency
2+ week, 4+ day ago (200+ words) Patches sent out to the Linux kernel mailing list today can provide much more efficient Zstd compression and decompression by addressing a very unfortunate oversight in the existing code... - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory Motherboards Processors…...