OpenZFS Lands Exciting RAIDZ Expansion Feature

In addition to the OpenZFS code this week landing sync parallelism to improve write performance scalability, another shiny new feature was also merged: RAIDZ expansion...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenZFS-RAIDZ-Expansion

Terakan Driver Continues Working To Bring Vulkan To The Radeon HD 6000 Series

While AMD officially supports a much narrower range of more recent Radeon hardware with their official graphics drivers for Windows (and Linux - as it pertains to their Radeon Software for Linux packaged driver and AMDVLK official Vulkan driver), thanks to the open-source community around AMD's open-source driver code there are always nifty things that come…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Terakan-Does-Triangles-HD-6000

Intel Posts Latest AVX10.1-256 & AVX10.1-512 Compiler Patches For GCC

Since announcing AVX10 earlier this year, Intel compiler engineers have been quite busy preparing the open-source compiler toolchains like GCC and LLVM/Clang for this next iteration of Advanced Vector Extensions. On Thursday night the latest AVX10.1 work was posted for the GNU Compiler Collection ahead of its upcoming feature freeze...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-AVX10.1-256-512-GCC

AOMedia Announces Royalty-Free IAMF Audio Container Specification

Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia) is known for their work on the AV1 video codec and AVIF image file format while now they have released their first royalty-free audio specification...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AOMedia-IAMF-Audio-Spec