News [Phoronix] Canonical Experimenting With x86-64-v3 Packages For Ubuntu 26.10

[LinuxBot]

Canonical engineers are again evaluating the impact of building the Ubuntu Linux archive for the x86-64-v3 "amd64v3" micro-architecture feature level for its performance benefits on modern Intel and AMD systems. An amd64v3 archive is available of Ubuntu 26.10 for testing with the packages targeting this level that allows for AVX/AVX2 and other newer CPU x86_64 ISA capabilities of the past decade...

Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-26.10-amd64v3-Packages

Aggregated via Linux News