AMD has released AOMP 17.0-1 as the newest version of this open-source compiler focused on providing the latest OpenMP offloading support for Radeon and Instinct accelerator products.

AOMP is a set of patches carried atop the latest upstream LLVM/Clang state. AMD engineers continue working on upstreaming their various improvements to LLVM while for those wanting the leading-edge, best support have AOMP to leverage the best OpenMP device capabilities right now.

AOMP 17.0-1 is based on the state of upstream LLVM

Open-source fans, rejoice, the most exciting thing I have read all week or perhaps the month: " AMD is committed to open-source software and is now expanding into the various firmware domains with the re-architecture of its x86 AGESA FW stack - designed with UEFI as the host firmware that prevented scaling, to other host firmware solutions such as coreboot, oreboot, FortiBIOS, Project Mu and others. A newer, open architecture that potentially allows for reduced attack surface, and perceivably infinite scalability is

Cloud Hypervisor 31 was released this week as the Rust-written VMM started by Intel that runs atop Linux KVM and Microsoft MSHV while these days is a Linux Foundation project receiving regular contributions from not only Intel and Microsoft but also Tencent, Arm, and other players.

With the new Cloud Hypervisor 31 release they have moved to Linux 6.2 as their reference kernel version, updates against the latest ACPI Tables Rust VMM code, improved the console SIGWINCH handler, improved documentation, and fixed various bugs.

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It's been two weeks already since the release of LLVM 16.0 as the latest shiny feature update to this widely-used, open-source compiler stack. LLVM release manager Tom Stellard today issued LLVM 16.0.1 as the first point release with a wide collection of fixes and other maintenance work to LLVM and its contained sub-projects.

LLVM 16.0 introduced more C and C++ language features, faster LLVM LLD linking, Zstd compressed debug sections, the LoongArch CPU

One of several notable open-source projects to rewrite key Linux software components with the memory-safety-focused Rust programming language is uutils as an alternative to GNU Coreutils. Released this weekend was uutils v0.0.18 that continues to enhance compatibility with the upstream GNU Coreutils programs.

For two years already uutils has been able to work as a Coreutils replacement for a basic environment on Debian Linux. In the time since uutils has become more robust and working better as a drop-in replacement to Coreutils for