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Arch Linux's AUR Sees More Than 400 Packages Compromised With Malware

Phoronix | June 12, 2026, 6:39 a.m. | Original

The Arch Linux User Repository "AUR" was hit by a large-scale malware campaign this week with more than 400 of these user-supplied packages being compromised.

Since yesterday Arch Linux maintainers have been working to reset/delete all of the malicious content and banning affected accounts. Over 400 packages are believed impacted by this latest malware campaign for Arch Linux's AUR. Again, to be completely clear, this just is affecting AUR packages and the official Arch Linux packages.

Wine Wayland Driver Lands Alpha Modifier Support For Opacity Handling

Phoronix | June 12, 2026, 6:15 a.m. | Original

The Wine Wayland driver continues to be improved upon for bettering the experience around Windows games/applications running natively on Wayland Linux desktops without having to go through X11/XWayland. The newest feature merged is alpha modifier support for opacity handling of surfaces.

JiangYi Chen and Rémi Bernon authored support in the Wine Wayland driver for the alpha-modifier-v1 protocol. Wayland's alpha-modifier-v1 protocol allows for specifying an opacity multiplier that the compositor then applies to the window surface during rendering

Qt 6.12 Beta Released With Qt Quick 3D XR Apps Now Able To Run On 2D AR Glasses

Phoronix | June 12, 2026, 6:06 a.m. | Original

The first beta release of the Qt 6.12 toolkit is now available for testing. Qt 6.12 is packing a number of refinements and new features compared to earlier Qt6 releases. For paying Qt commercial customers, Qt 6.12 is also going to be the latest Qt6 Long Term Support (LTS) release.

Qt 6.12 is promoting its Qt Canvas Painter module out of a technology preview state into a fully-maintained/supported Qt module. Qt 6.12

GCC 15.3 Compiler Brings Nearly A Year Worth Of Bug Fixes

Phoronix | June 12, 2026, 5:53 a.m. | Original

For those relying on last year's stable GCC 15 series in not yet having migrated to the latest GCC 16 , out today is GCC 15.3 to ship all of the latest back-ported bug fixes.

GCC 15.3 is a point release delivering nearly a year worth of bug fixes in GCC 15.2 having debuted in early August of last year. As such there is quite an assortment of different bug fixes that have been picked up for the GCC 15.3

Mesa 26.2 Preps For AMD GFX1156 For New, Post-Strix-Halo RDNA 3.5 Graphics

Phoronix | June 11, 2026, 1:34 p.m. | Original

Being submitted on the kernel side with the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel is initial support for the GFX 11.5.6 graphics IP block along with several other newer IP blocks such as SDMA 6.4, NBIO 7.11.5, IH 6.4, HDP 6.4, MMHUB 3.4.2, SMU 15.0.5, ATHUB 3.4.2, and VPE 2.2. Now in user-space for the Mesa RadeonSI Gallium3

Git 2.55-rc0 Released With Rust Enabled By Default

Phoronix | June 11, 2026, 12:15 p.m. | Original

Git 2.55-rc0 is out today as the first tagged test version of the forthcoming Git 2.55 distributed version control system. Most notable with Git 2.55 is that Rust support is being enabled by default.

Git 2.55-rc0 landed the change to enable Rust by default. Up to this point you had to opt-in to Rust by default with Meson or the standard Makefile with WITH_RUST . But beginning in Git 2.55, the

Benchmarking The Performance Benefits To Ubuntu 26.10 amd64v3 Packages

Phoronix | June 11, 2026, 11:24 a.m. | Original

With Canonical engineers again experimenting with x86_64-v3 package builds for Ubuntu Linux using an "amd64v3" archive for the current Ubuntu 26.10 development, I decided to see how these latest amd64v3 packages comparing to their conventional Ubuntu 26.10 amd64 packages.

Khronos Releases glTF 2.1 To Make This 3D Asset Standard Work Well For Large Scenes

Phoronix | June 11, 2026, 10:02 a.m. | Original

It's crazy realizing that glTF 2.0 is already nine years old for this API-neutral 3D runtime and asset delivery format. The Khronos 3D Formats Working Group today extended that with the debut of glTF 2.1 as a backward-compatible revision to the specification.

While up to now glTF was basically focused on shipping single assets, glTF 2.1 makes the format more applicable for large, composed scenes as the main focus of the v2.1 release.

YSERVER: Modern X11 Server Written In Rust With The Help Of Claude Code

Phoronix | June 11, 2026, 9:46 a.m. | Original

Open-source developer Jos Dehaes wrote in to Phoronix today in announcing a new X11 server he has been working on from scratch that has been quietly developed to this point but now ready to announce to the world... The YSERVER.

The yserver is a "modern X11 server written from scratch in Rust." In looking at the latest Git activity, it's also written with the help of Claude Code AI.

The stated goal is to not be a 1:1 replacement to the

OpenJPH 0.28 Up To 1.9x Faster With New AVX2 Optimizations For High-Throughput JPEG2000

Phoronix | June 11, 2026, 7:27 a.m. | Original

OpenJPH as an open-source implementation of high-throughput JPEG2000 Part-15 (or JPH or HTJ2K) is now significantly faster for both encode and decode operations thanks to new AVX2 optimizations for Intel and AMD processors.

This high-throughput JPEG2000 implementation is now even more high-throughput with new Advanced Vector Extensions 2 (AVX2) optimizations benefiting Intel and AMD x86_64 CPUs from the past number of years. OpenJPH 0.2

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