#performance-improvements

#performance-improvements

On first blush, the biggest difference in the new Fire TV UI is that everything is rounder. Shows, movies and apps have rounded corners, and Amazon's changed the spacing in the interface to give everything more room to breathe. Tweaks to typography and color gradients also give the UI a more modern feel, and Amazon says it's rebuilt the code of the Fire TV software to make everything faster, too, in some cases demonstrating "up to 20-30 percent gains in speed."

Baldur's Gate 3 is apparently even better to play on the go now, as Larian Studios has released a new native version of the RPG for Steam Deck as part of a hotfix. The developer states that the game has "a more stable frame rate, lower loading times, and smoother gameplay" on the PC handheld. Larian detailed what's included with hotfix 34 on Steam, with the spotlight on the Steam Deck-native build.

Ubuntu 24.04.3 includes updates for bootloader on RISC-V hardware, better early boot networking configuration, and improvements to QEMU, lib-virt, and cloud-init.

The new difficulty option, Journeyman, is set to bridge the gap between Adept and Expert for a more balanced player experience.

Node.js v20.8.0 has been released, featuring significant performance improvements for streams, enhancing both writable and readable streams by approximately 15% and improving memory overhead.

Zod 4 introduces deep internal optimizations that make parsing up to 3x faster and more memory-efficient, especially for complex, nested schemas.

With .NET 10 Preview 3, the LightGBM trainer gains deterministic options to enable controlled training behavior, enhancing reliability and predictability for developers.

Go 1.24 introduces significant improvements including full support for generic type aliases and notable performance enhancements, making the language more efficient and user-friendly.