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Ubuntu 26.04 Delivers Great Performance Improvements For AMD Strix Point, Especially For RDNA 3.5 Graphics
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.
OpenSSL 4.0 Released with ECH Support and Significant Legacy Code Removal
OpenSSL 4.0 introduces Encrypted Client Hello support, removes SSLv3, and implements extensive changes to APIs, TLS, and FIPS-related features.
Security updates for Tuesday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (gdk-pixbuf, gst-plugins-bad1.0, and xdg-dbus-proxy), Fedora (chromium, deepin-image-viewer, dtk6gui, dtkgui, efl, elementary-photos, entangle, flatpak, freeimage, geeqie, gegl04, gthumb, ImageMagick, kf5-kimageformats, kf5-libkdcraw, kf6-kimageformats, kstars, libkdcraw, libpasraw, LibRaw, luminance-hdr, nomacs, OpenImageIO, OpenImageIO2.5, photoqt, python-cryptography, rawtherapee, shotwell, siril, swayimg, vips, and webkitgtk), Red Hat (firefox and podman), Slackware (libarchive), SUSE (expat, glibc, GraphicsMagick, libcap-devel, libpng16, libtpms, nodejs24, openssl-1_0_0, openssl-1_1, openssl-3, openvswitch, polkit, python-requests, python311-biopython, python312, python39, and tigervnc), and Ubuntu (corosync, kvmtool, libxml-parser-perl, linux-azure, linux-azure, linux-azure-6.17, linux-azure, linux-azure-6.8, policykit-1, redis, lua5.1, lua-cjson, lua-bitop, rustc, vim, and xdg-dbus-proxy).
DaVinci Resolve 21 Adds RAW Photo Editing
DaVinci Resolve 21 introduces a Photo page with RAW editing tools, providing Linux photographers a native alternative to Adobe Lightroom.
OpenSSL 4.0 Released with Support for Encrypted Client Hello, SNMP KDF, and More
OpenSSL 4.0 is now available for download with support for Encrypted Client Hello, support for SNMP KDF and SRTP KDF, and other changes. Here's what's new!
Latest Raspberry Pi OS Release Disables Passwordless sudo by Default
Raspberry Pi OS 2026-04-13 is now available for download with a much-improved Control Center app, passwordless sudo disabled by default, Chromium enhancements, and many other changes.
Raspberry Pi OS April Update Disables Passwordless sudo by Default
Raspberry Pi OS April update disables passwordless sudo by default, adds a toggle for it, and brings several desktop and Control Centre changes.
Nginx 1.30 Released With Multipath TCP, ECH & More
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)...
GNOME Mutter 50.1 Fixes Performance Regression For Some NVIDIA Driver Versions
GNOME Shell 50.1 and Mutter 50.1 were released today as the first point releases in the GNOME 50 series...
The Raspberry Pi's 15-year reign is quietly ending—here's why
The Raspberry Pi is starting to feel like a square peg in a round hole.
X.Org Server 21.1.22 Released Due To Five New Security Vulnerabilities
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...
Sunshine Game Streaming Introduces Vulkan Video Encode Support
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...
openSUSE Tumbleweed Lands GNOME 50, systemd-boot on New UEFI Installs
openSUSE Tumbleweed get the GNOME 50 desktop environment, systemd-boot as the default bootloader for new UEFI installs, and better Full Disk Encryption.