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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Samba-4.24-Released
Samba 4.24 Released With Remote Password Management Support, Other Improvements - Phoronix
Samba continues strong in 2026 for this leading open-source SMB protocol re-implementation for Microsoft Windows file and print services interoperability
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/LXQt-2.4-Released
LXQt 2.4 Released With More Wayland Fixes/Improvements - Phoronix
The LXQt 2.4 desktop released today for joining the modern open-source desktop party alongside the likes of the recently debuted GNOME 50, KDE Plasma 6.6, and...
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/GIMP-3.2-Released
GIMP 3.2 Released With Many Improvements - Phoronix
Just under one year since the long-awaited GIMP 3.0 release, GIMP 3.2 is out today as the first feature release building off the GIMP 3.0 foundation.
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Redb-4.1-Released
Popular Rust-Based Database Turns To AI For Up To 1.5x Speedup, Other Improvements - Phoronix
Redb is one of the open-source, embed-friendly key-value databases written in the Rust programming language
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Plasma-6.6-Scheduler-Priority
KDE Begins Landing Features For Plasma 6.7, Some Last Minute Plasma 6.6 Improvements - Phoronix
KDE developers have been quite busy this week in preparing for the upcoming Plasma 6.6 release in February while also beginning to land features for what will...
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Servo-0.0.6-Released
Servo 0.0.6 Released With Many Great Improvements - Phoronix
Servo 0.0.6 is out today to round out the month with many great improvements made in recent weeks to this Rust-based browser engine advancing with its...
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-50-Released
GNOME 50 Released With Many Fantastic Improvements - Phoronix
GNOME 50 is out today, on-schedule and just in time for being the default desktop of the likes of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and Fedora Workstation 44.
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-8.1-Coming-Soon
FFmpeg 8.1 Preparing For Release With Vulkan Improvements, JPEG-XS & More - Phoronix
FFmpeg developers are preparing to soon release FFmpeg 8.1 with some great new features and other improvements.
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Plasma-6.7-Improvements
KDE's KWin Continues Working On Vulkan Support, Other Improvements For Plasma 6.7 - Phoronix
KDE Plasma developers continue working on new features for Plasma 6.7 while continuing to land more fixes and hardening for the current Plasma 6.6 stable...
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Top-Linux-News-2025
Valve's Linux Efforts, Kernel Improvements & KDE Plasma Wayland Advancements Topped 2025 - Phoronix
After looking yesterday at the most viewed Linux hardware reviews and benchmarks of 2025, today's look is at the most popular open-source/Linux news of the...
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/libvirt-12.0
libvirt 12.0 Released - Bhyve ARM64 Support & Other Improvements For The BSD Hypervisor - Phoronix
Libvirt 12.0 released today as this open-source virtualization API for management across different virtualization technologies/hypervisors
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-MM
A Lot Of Memory Management "MM" Improvements Merged For Linux 7.1 - Phoronix
Andrew Morton recently sent out his various 'MM' related pull requests for the ongoing Linux 7.1 kernel
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Cloud-Hypervisor-51
Cloud Hypervisor 51 Brings Performance Improvements, Better QCOW2 v3 Support - Phoronix
Cloud Hypervisor 51 is now available for this Rust-based VMM focused on secure cloud computing
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-More-AMDGPU
AMDGPU Driver For Linux 7.1 Preps Debug Improvements, New Hardware IP - Phoronix
Another round of AMDGPU/AMDKFD kernel driver improvements were sent out this week as feature development for DRM-Next ahead of Linux 7.1 begins to wind down.
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.0-rc4-More-Rust
Linux 7.0 Lands Improvements To Deal With Upcoming Rust Changes, Build Reproducibility - Phoronix
Merged to mainline yesterday for Linux 7.0 were yet more Rust changes in preparing for upcoming Rust releases as well as enhancing the kernel build...
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Qualcomm-MSM
Snapdragon X2's Adreno X2-85 GPU Sees Driver Improvements For Linux 7.1 - Phoronix
Rob Clark on Thursday sent out the batch of MSM DRM driver feature changes targeting the upcoming Linux 7.1 merge window
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Raspberry-Pi-OS-2025-11-24
Raspberry Pi OS 2025-11-24 Brings HiDPI Improvements, Wayland Enhancements - Phoronix
In addition to debuting the Raspberry Pi OS Imager 2.0 app, Raspberry Pi today announced the latest version of their operating system.
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-11.2-Released
Wine 11.2 Released With More Improvements & 32 Bug Fixes - Phoronix
Wine 11.2 is out as the latest bi-weekly development release in the road toward the Wine 12.0 stable release next January.
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