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Linux Kernel 6.11 Officially Released, Here’s What’s New

Highlights of Linux 6.11 include a new driver subsystem to enable support upstream for Bluetooth/WLAN chips on Qualcomm platforms, getrandom() support to vDSO on x86 systems adding a new kind of mapping to mmap(2) that lets the kernel zero out pages anytime under memory pressure, virtual CPU hotplug support for AArch64 (ARM64) ACPI systems, and a new mechanism to create interrupt domains.

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Milk-V DuoModule Eval Board with RISC-V Core, 8051 Core, and Linux Support

The Milk-V DuoModule 01 Evaluation Board offers a versatile platform for evaluating the Duo Module 01, featuring Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.4, and eMMC storage. It enables developers and makers to prototype solutions using the SG2000 SoC, with open-source documentation to streamline development.

ODROID-M2 Leverages RK3588S2 SoC and Supports LPDDR5 Memory

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HandBrake 1.8.2 Video Transcoder Adds FFmpeg 7.0.2 Support and Fixes Bugs

posted by Marius Nestor on Aug 10, 2024,
updated Aug 11, 2024

HandBrake 1.8.2 is the second maintenance update to the latest HandBrake 1.8 stable series fixing various bugs like an issue where an encoded file could be outputted with the wrong filename when using the queue on Linux systems.

For all supported platforms, this release also fixes a potential crash that occurred when trying to scan deleted files, an issue that could cause some audio tracks to be dropped, and scanning of broken video clips that use reserved color matrix values.

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HandBrake 1.8.2 Video Transcoder Brings Key Fixes and Library Upgrades

Less than two months after its previous 1.8.1 release, HandBrake, a widely used open-source video transcoder that converts video from nearly any format to a selection of modern, widely supported codecs, has just released version 1.8.2.

This update includes the impressive 99 commits since the last release, so let’s look at the main changes.

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