Computer Science and Programming

SkiaSharp for .NET SkiaSharp 4.0 is now stable, marking the biggest release in years for the cross-platform rendering library that underpins .NET MAUI, WinUI 3, and Uno Platform. Built on Google's Skia engine (which also powers Chrome and Android), SkiaSharp provides a single GPU-accelerated, pixel-perfect rendering API across Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android, and WebAssembly. Version 4.0 brings the native engine current through Skia milestone m148 (28 upstream milestones), a reworked object lifecycle that eliminates use-after-free crashes, variable font support, color font palettes, animated WebP encoding, and up to 24% faster GPU rendering (30% for Uno Platform apps). Uno Platform is now a formal co-maintainer alongside Microsoft's .NET team, ensuring predictable release cadence

GigaChat 3.5 Ultra Publicly Released — The New Generation of the Flagship Model The GigaChat team has released GigaChat 3.5 Ultra as open source—a new 432B model under the MIT license. This is the first open-source hybrid of GatedDeltaNet and MLA scaled to hundreds of billions of parameters, featuring a proprietary training recipe we refined through more than 1,500 experiments. The model has grown in terms of code, mathematics, agent scenarios, and application domains—yet it’s 40% smaller than GigaChat 3.1 Ultra. What’s inside: 🔘A proprietary hybrid MLA + Gated DeltaNet architecture with a dedicated stabilization framework, without which this hybrid setup would not train reliably at this scale; 🔘 Gated Attention: the model can locally down-weight overly strong signals from the attention layer; 🔘GatedNorm: normalization with an explicit gate that controls signal magnitude across features; 🔘Approximately 4x lower KV cache per token: with the same memory budget, the model can support 2.14x longer context and deliver a 20% throughput increase under load; 🔘Two MTP heads, enabling up to 2.2x faster generation; 🔘FP8 across all training stages with no quality degradation compared with bf16, enabled by custom Triton and CUDA kernels; 🔘A new online RL stage after SFT and DPO. Results: 🔘 GigaChat-3.5-Ultra-Base outperforms DeepSeek V3.2 Exp Base and DeepSeek V4 Flash Base on average across a set of general, math, and code benchmarks: 🔘 GigaChat-3.5-Ultra-Instruct is comparable to DeepSeek V3.2 in terms of average score, despite having half the size; 🔘 According to the MiniMax-M2.7 LLM judge, the average win rate against GigaChat 3.1 Ultra is 75.9%, and against GPT-5 is 68.7%. The entire stack — data (our own LLM-filtered Common Crawl, 600+ programming languages in the code), architecture, training methodology, and infrastructure — was built end-to-end by GigaChat team. ➡️ HuggingFace