GTA Online 釋出官方修正,大幅改善啟動效能

看到「GTA Online load time fix released, shaves off actual minutes of waiting for some」這邊的消息,先前在「GTA 的啟動讀取效能問題」這邊提到 GTA Online 啟動速度很慢的問題,官方正式推出修正版本了:「GTAV Title Update 1.53 Notes (PS4 / Xbox One / PC)」。

抓了一些在 Reddit 的討論「Loading Times Have FINALLY been patched - Discussion Thread」。

這則降的比率與當時 workaround 的修正差不多:

Insane. GTA menu -> GTA: Online.

Dropped from 7 minutes to 1:57

i7-2600k,GTX1070,16GB RAM and the game is on HDD.

這個就有點誇張了,這是 90% 吧?

Dropped from 5-8 minutes to 35 seconds

這個差不多 70%~80%:

Loading time 2m 20s for online directly from steam. Before it was like 8-10 minutes for me. Damn

Edit: 50s for story mode. 35s from story mode to online. So it seems it's still faster to load into online from story mode.

這個也差不多 70%:

From 4-5 minutes to 1 a minute and 22 seconds. Y e s p l e a s e

然後 PS4 的版本原來也受到一樣的影響?

Currently tested on PS4 , from main menu to online : 3min 45 sec From story mode to online: 1min 20sec (😩 i can't tell for sure )

整體看起來是正面的,畢竟大家等這個問題等超久了... 另外也可以看出來當初的 workaround patch 其實相當精準的把問題都解掉了,官方的修正並沒有快更多。

來繼續關注 libc 那邊的問題...

AWS 推出第二代的官方 Linux AMI:Amazon Linux 2

AWS 推出了第二代的官方 Linux AMI:「Introducing Amazon Linux 2」。這個版本提供五年 LTS 維護:

Amazon Linux 2 will offer extended availability of software updates for the core operating system through 5 years of long-term support and provides access to the latest software packages through the Amazon Linux Extras repository.

然後也大致提了一下內容物:

Amazon Linux 2 provides a modern execution environment with LTS Kernel (4.9) tuned for optimal performance on Amazon Web Services (AWS), systemd support, and newer tooling (gcc 7.2.1, glibc 2.25, binutils 2.27).

不過對 YUM-based 的系統不是很愛,應該還是會繼續龜在 Ubuntu 下...

Microsoft 虛擬化的兩個消息:Azure 被打臉以及 AWS 推出轉移工具

首先是 VMware 發文打臉 Microsoft 說他們所宣稱的轉移工具 (從 VMware 轉到 Azure 上) 並沒有 VMware 原廠支援:「VMware – The Platform of Choice in the Cloud」。

然後 AWS 則是推出了從 Hyper-V 轉移到 AWS 的工具:「Migrate Hyper-V VMs to AWS with AWS Server Migration Service」,這邊倒是沒提到官方支援...

這臉不只是腫腫的而已了,有種連續技的感覺 XD

AWS 推出新的 Cost Explorer API,不過 API 不是重點啦...

AWS 的「New – Interactive AWS Cost Explorer API」這篇文章在一開頭就提到了 Cost Explorer API 的情況,所以他們要推出新的 API 改進:

We launched the AWS Cost Explorer a couple of years ago in order to allow you to track, allocate, and manage your AWS costs. The response to that launch, and to additions that we have made since then, has been very positive. However our customers are, as Jeff Bezos has said, “beautifully, wonderfully, dissatisfied.”

不過讓我笑出來的是選圖啊... 大概是 Jeff Barr 夠硬的關係,直接選了這張:

我喜歡這張 XD (尤其配合著出現在官方 blog 上的時候)

PHP-FIG 成立官方網誌

Twitter 上看到 PHP-FIG 成立 official blog「PHP FIG」了,放在 Medium 上:

另外有更正說明的 tweet:

是一個知道 PHP-FIG 又有什麼大事的管道...

離 PHP 5.5 官方中止支援不到兩個禮拜了...

PHP 網站上的「Supported Versions」可以看到 PHP 5.5 將要停止支援了:

PHP 5.6 因為是 PHP 5 的最後一個版本,有特殊待遇,時間會拉的比較長 (功能性更新多四個月,安全性更新多一年):

As it is the final PHP 5 release, support for PHP 5.6 has been extended: active support will run for an additional four months, and the security fix period has been doubled from one to two years. Other releases are unaffected.

話說 PHP 7.1 也在 alpha 階段了...

Docker 預定將 Official Image 從 Ubuntu 換到 Alpine Linux

在「Docker Official Images are Moving to Alpine Linux」這邊看到的消息,消息引用自 Hacker News 上的討論串:「CoreOS Overview, Part One (deis.com)」,其中 shykes 這樣說:

Disclaimer: I work at Docker.

Incidentay, we have hired Natanael Copa, the awesome creator of Alpine Linux and are in the process of switching the Docker official image library from ubuntu to Alpine. You can help us with pull requests to https://github.com/docker-library if you want :)

所以已經雇用 Alpine 的創辦人,並且開始把 Docker 所使用的 Ubuntu-based image 換成 Alpine-based image,後續應該會有更多消息 (& 更正式的消息) 被放出來...