Canonical's Ubuntu team has partnered with Intel to introduce this enhancement in its upcoming 25.10 release. But make no mistake, this is Intel's initiative: the company is driving the performance improvements, publishing unmitigated binaries upstream, and coordinating with distribution partners to make the change broadly available., As Ubuntu developers found out, included GPU-mitigations reduce graphics performance by up to 20%, especially in computational problems. Ubuntu builds will now use the NEO_DISABLE_MITIGATIONS flag, which disables protection in Intel Compute Runtime. Such builds have long been used on GitHub, and Intel has officially confirmed that the risks are , Canonical, the makers of Ubuntu, are looking to disable these security mitigations in their OS due to the enormous performance impact these mitigations have on Intel GPUs., A bug report on Ubuntu’s Launchpad said users can expect “up to 20% performance improvement” but there’s a trade-off. “We are proposing to eliminate a vulnerability mitigation., The anticipated outcome is a notable performance boost of up to 20%. A bug report submitted to Launchpad indicates that users of Ubuntu could realize a 20% performance enhancement through these updates, expected to be integrated in version 25.10. The process to disable these mitigations in future Ubuntu packages will utilize the NEO_DISABLE , .