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A developer has released an updated version of a website tracking Linux system call tables across architectures, including x64, ARM, RISC-V, MIPS and others. The site now exposes calling conventions per architecture and offers a JSON API, along with per-kernel-version data showing when syscalls were added or removed.
OpenBSD 8.0, the 61st release of the security-focused Unix-like OS, has launched with virtualization upgrades supporting up to 64 vCPUs per VM, ARM64 hibernation, and expanded RISC-V support. The release also adds Intel Arc A-Series graphics support via updated DRM drivers, expands the amd64 kernel's virtual address space from 4GB to 512GB, and includes security hardening to pledge, unveil, and executable validation.
The OpenBSD project has shipped OpenBSD 8.0, with installation images and documentation available for platforms including alpha, amd64, arm64, armv7, hppa and i386. Source and system code is distributed via src.tar.gz, sys.tar.gz, xenocara.tar.gz and ports.tar.gz, with a changelog detailing new features leading up to the release.
The OpenBSD project released version 8.0 on October 20, 2026, marking its 61st release. The update brings architecture-specific improvements across amd64, arm64, riscv64, sparc64 and luna88k, including a larger amd64 kernel address space, faster swap encryption via AES instructions, hibernate support on arm64, and new RISC-V extensions support. The project also retired support for the loongson architecture.
The open-source memory testing tool Memtest86+ now runs on ARM64 systems with UEFI and ACPI, tested on Qualcomm Snapdragon X laptops, Raspberry Pi 4 and 5 with community firmware, and QEMU. The update also lets users save full test reports to a FAT32 USB drive via F6, introduces a new bus stress test for DDR5+ systems, and reworks test algorithms with SIMD instructions for faster, more thorough error detection.
Romain Vimont has released scrcpy 5.0, an open-source tool for mirroring Android screens to PCs, featuring hardware-accelerated video decoding and native Windows on ARM64 binaries. The update reduces CPU load and power use by shifting decoding tasks to the GPU, while also adding improved audio capture and bug fixes.
Microsoft has released Windows 11 version 26H2 to the stable channel as a 174 KB 'enablement package' that activates features already delivered through prior monthly updates rather than introducing new code. It shares the same underlying build as 25H2 and 24H2, part of the Germanium release, and adds no new functionality on its own but switches on dormant tools across the Start menu, Taskbar, File Explorer, Search, Task Manager, AI settings, and more.
Go 1.26 introduced architecture-specific SIMD APIs for amd64, and Go 1.27 extends this with support for arm64 (NEON) and wasm. Go 1.27 also adds an experimental, platform-agnostic 'simd' package modeled loosely on the C++ Highway library, letting developers write vector code once that runs across AVX, AVX2, AVX512, NEON, and wasm SIMD instructions, with software emulation on unsupported platforms.
The gearhash crate, used for content-defined chunking via the GEAR rolling hash, has been updated to version 0.1.4 with a new NEON-based backend for ARM64 processors. The change is automatically selected on aarch64 systems and remains backwards compatible, delivering roughly double the throughput at typical chunk sizes without requiring any code changes from users.
Suyu, a successor to the Yuzu emulator that Nintendo sued out of existence, released what its developers called a final version featuring a new recompiler mode that translates Switch game code directly into native x86-64 binaries for faster PC performance. Days after the team archived the project's repository and halted development, a new group forked the code under a fresh version scheme to keep the emulator alive. Separately, another developer built Wine-NX, a tool that runs older Windows PC games on Switch hardware.
Valve's new $1,059 Steam Frame VR headset ships with a native ARM64 version of Half-Life: Alyx, letting the 2020 PC VR game run standalone on the device's Snapdragon chip without needing a desktop PC. The port preserves mods and save files and, according to Valve, was made possible by combining the headset's eye-tracking-driven foveated rendering with 16GB of VRAM.
A developer building a bare-metal ARM64 hypervisor for postmarketOS ran into random system lockups whenever the CTR_EL0 register trap was enabled, forcing a watchdog reset within seconds. After ruling out register corruption in the exception handler and stack setup, the investigation eventually traced the fault to how executable-page protections (the NX bit) interacted with the trap handling, rather than any obvious logic error in the emulated instruction handling.