Red Hat Releases DNF 4.20 In Preparation For DNF5
24 April
Polychromatic 0.9 OpenRazer GUI Frontend Released With Port To PyQt6
TrueNAS SCALE 24.04 Released For A Wonderful NAS Platform
Nginx 1.26 Released With Experimental HTTP/3 Support
Wine's Wayland Driver Will Finally Set The Window Title
23 April
QEMU 9.0 Released WIth True Multi-Queue Support For VirtIO Block Driver
FFmpeg Makes Progress On Dolby Vision Support
Mozilla Has Been Rewriting Its Crash Reporter In Rust
Intel Has Many Improvements For The Xe Graphics Driver In Linux 6.10
Framework Raises $18M In New Funding, More Collaborations Coming With Cooler Master
Fedora Linux 40 Available For Download As A Wonderful Upgrade
NVK Vulkan Driver Adds Implicit Pipeline Caching To Boost DXVK Performance
CBD Proposed For The Linux Kernel: CXL Block Device
Bcachefs Sends In More Fixes For Linux 6.9: Recovery & Repair Issues Settling Down
AMD Prepping Fixes & Enhancements For P-State CPUFreq Driver
NetBSD 9.4 Released With Security & Stability Fixes
22 April
Steam On Linux Changes The Default Scaling Factor For 4K Displays
Linux AMDGPU Control Application Adds vBIOS Dumping, Fan Control Hysteresis
Fwupd 1.9.17 Adds Firmware Updating For ASUS DC201 & Realtek RTS541x
Reverse Engineered MSI WMI Platform Driver Being Worked On For Linux
Kioxia KCD8XPUG1T92 CD8P-R & KCMYXVUG3T20 CM7-V PCIe 5.0 SSDs
Audacity 3.5 Brings Cloud Project Saving, Improved BSD Support
Steam Deck Motion Sensors Being Worked On For Linux's HID-Steam Driver
Intel Enabling Linux Driver Display Support For Upcoming "Battlemage" GPUs
AMD: "Additional Parts Of The Radeon Stack To Be Open Sourced Throughout The Year"
AMD SEV-SNP Hypervisor Support Nears The Mainline Linux Kernel
udev-hid-bpf To Help Enable HID-BPF Use Rather Than Kernel Drivers To Fix HID Hardware
Intel Media Driver 2024Q1 Brings Arrow Lake H Support
21 April
Linux 6.9-rc5 Released: The Diffstat "Looks A Bit Wonky" But Not Bad
AMD Posts RDNA3+ Firmware Files For Linux Users
GNOME Mutter 46.1 Brings Explicit Sync, Better NVIDIA Hybrid GPU Acceleration
GNU Portability Library's Tool Rewritten In Python For 8~100x Better Performance
Acer Aspire One ARM Laptop To Have "Almost Full" Support With Linux 6.10
EROFS Eyes Zstd Compression, Intel QAT/IAA Accelerator Support, & Experimental Rust Code
Linux 6.9-rc5 Picking Up Fixes For Intel FRED, BHI & GFNI/VAES Checks
20 April
Niri 0.1.5 Scrollable-Tiling Wayland Compositor Adds New Animations
GNOME Working To Make Key Rack A Viable Password Manager, Better Printing For Flatpaks
Linux BHI Mitigation Being Tweaked Following 12% Database Performance Hit
Open-Source "Terakan" Vulkan Driver For Radeon HD 6000 Series Shown On Windows
AMD Sends In More Kernel Graphics Driver Updates For Linux 6.10
KDE Developers Work Through More Bug Fixes & Features For Plasma 6.1
19 April
Wine 9.7 Works On Build System For ARM64X, Other ARM Improvements
Mozilla Finally Begins Offering Firefox ARM64 Linux Binaries
Git 2.45 Begins Landing Code For SHA1 & SHA256 Interoperability For Repositories
Godot's Vulkan Backend Seeing Better Performance, 10~20% Reduction In Frame Times
Miracle-WM 0.2 Released For Mir-Based Wayland Compositor
Linux 6.10 Preps A Kernel Panic Screen - Sort Of A "Blue Screen of Death"
Intel Compute Runtime 24.13.29138.7 Brings Improved OpenCL/OpenGL Sharing
Tow-Boot 2023.07 U-Boot Distribution Released With New Board Support
Rockchip NPU Open-Source Driver Taking Shape, Will Aim For Upstream Accel Driver
Intel oneVPL GPU Runtime 2024Q1 Brings VP9 Fix & AV1 Refinements
18 April
Fedora Linux 40 Cleared For Release Next Week
Rust-Written LAVD Kernel Scheduler Shows Promising Results For Linux Gaming
Ubuntu 24.04 Boosts Performance, Outperforming Windows 11 On The AMD Ryzen Framework 16 Laptop
openSUSE Factory Achieves Bit-By-Bit Reproducible Builds
Intel Preps Adaptive Sync SDP, Lunar Lake Display & More DG2 PCI IDs In Linux 6.10
Autodafe 0.2 Released For Freeing Your Project From Autotools
GTK4 Continues Improving Graphics Offload & DMA-BUF Integration
Rocky Linux To Support Upstream Stable Kernels
17 April
System76's COSMIC Working On Drag & Drop, More Compositor Improvements
MPV 0.38 Media Player Released With New Options & Fixes
Wayland Protocols 1.35 Introduces Alpha Modifier Protocol, Tablet-V2 As Stable
LXQt 2.0 Released For Qt6 Desktop Port, Greater Wayland Support
Former Nouveau Lead Developer Joins NVIDIA, Continues Working On Open-Source Driver
RPM 4.20 Approved For Fedora 41 To Advance Hands-Free Packaging
Linux 6.10 To Add Script For Building ARM64 Flat Image Trees
GNOME Mutter Lands NVIDIA Hybrid GPU Copy Acceleration
XWayland 24.1 RC Released With Explicit Sync, Improved Rootful & GLAMOR Optimizations
16 April
ROCm 6.1 Released With Ubuntu 22.04.4 Support, rocDecode For AMD Video Decode
Linux Foundation, Intel & Others Launch The Open Platform for Enterprise AI
Ubuntu 24.04 Supports Easy Installation Of OpenZFS Root File-System With Encryption
Valkey Celebrates Its First Stable Release As Open-Source Redis Fork
KDE Plasma 6.0.4 Ships With Dozens Of Bug Fixes
AMD Announces Ryzen PRO 8840 & PRO 8000G Series CPUs
Mesa 24.1 Now Supports Vulkan Explicit Synchronization On X11
Intel Vulkan Driver Wires Up Image Compression Control For VKD3D-Proton
Native BHI Mitigation Performance Benchmarks On Core i9 14900K Under Linux 6.9
Khronos Releases OpenXR 1.1 For Cross-Platform AR/VR Development
15 April
More Bcachefs Fixes & Recovery Improvements Land In Linux 6.9
AlmaLinux 9.4 Beta Restores Support For Some Hardware Deprecated By RHEL
openSUSE Leap Micro 6 Reaches Alpha
Linus Torvalds Injects Tabs To Thwart Kconfig Parsers Not Correctly Handling Them
Fedora 41 Aims For More Reproducible Package Builds Thanks To A Rust Program
Firefox 125 Adds AV1 Support In Encrypted Media Extensions, Other New Features
Servo Driving Modularity To Support Different JavaScript Engines
RNNoise 0.2 Released With AVX2 Optimizations For Neural Network Noise Suppression
Archinstall 2.8 Further Refines The Easy Arch Linux Installation Experience
FEX-Emu 2404 Optimization Can Take Memcpy From 2-3 GB/s To 88 GB/s
Vim Lands XDG Base Directory Specification Support
14 April
Linux 6.9-rc4 Brings More Bcachefs Fixes, Native BHI Mitigation
Linux 6.10 To Merge NTSYNC Driver For Emulating Windows NT Synchronization Primitives
AMD Prepares More Next-Gen GPU Driver Support For Linux 6.10
OpenJPH 0.11 Works Toward Low-Latency High-Throughput JPEG-2000 (HTJ2K)
Proposed "LibGodot" Lets You Embed Godot Game Engine Into Other Apps
OpenRazer 3.8 Brings Support For Newer Razer Devices On Linux
Linux 6.9-rc4 To Bring New Fixes For x86 Speculation Mitigations
13 April
Linux 6.10 To Account For NUMA Node When Allocating Per-CPU Cpumasks
Mesa 24.1 Zink Lands "Super Fast" Merge Request To Optimize IO
Fedora 41 Looks To "-O3" Optimizations For Its Python Build
KDE's Busy Week With Landing Explicit Sync & Many Other Changes
APT 2.9 Released: Debian's APT 3.0 To Have A New UI With Colors, Columnar Display & More
12 April
XWayland 24.1 Planned For Release Next Month With Explicit Sync & Other Features
KDE Frameworks 6.1 Released With Many Improvements & Fixes
Linux 6.10 SLUB Optimization To Reduce Memory Consumption In Extreme Scenarios
Dbus-Broker 36 Released For This Fastest D-Bus Implementation
LPython 0.21 Released For Alpha-Stage Python AOT Compiler
SDL 3.0 Will Now Prefer PipeWire Over PulseAudio
TUXEDO Computers Launches First Linux Laptop With AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS
11 April
Intel's Newest Software Effort For Achieving Greater Performance: Thin Layout Optimizer
Ubuntu 24.04 Brings Some Performance Gains For AMD Threadripper 7980X / System76 Thelio Major
X.Org Server Change Allows GLAMOR To Fallback To Software Rendering For Obsolete GPUs
GCC 14 Compiler Adds AArch64 GNU/Hurd Support
Ubuntu 24.04 Beta Now Available For Testing
Open-Source Radeon Driver Enables Support For Vulkan Video H.264/H.265 Encode
Wayland 1.23 Planned For Release Around The End Of May
Bcachefs Sees More Fixes For Linux 6.9-rc4, Reiterates Its Experimental Nature
10 April
Lutris 0.5.17 Game Manager Brings Bug Fixes, Library Syncing & New Runners
KDE's KWin Merges Wayland Explicit Sync Support
Lavapipe CPU-Based Vulkan Driver Implements Ray-Tracing Pipelines
Turbostat Becomes Semi-Useful To Non-Root Users
Intel FFmpeg Cartwheel 2024Q1 Brings New Filter To Transform Old Content
Linux 6.8.5 & Other Stable Kernel Updates Due To Native BHI Vulnerability
Gentoo Linux Now An SPI Project
Microsoft Rolls Out Azure Linux 2.0.20240403 With Security Fixes & Other Patches
Ubuntu Maker Canonical Announces New Collaboration With Qualcomm
Intel Updates OpenCL Intercept Layer With New Abilities
Intel HID Driver Ready For Arrow Lake & Lunar Lake Laptops With Linux 6.9
9 April
UPower 1.90.4 Fixes Excessive Disk Writes & High CPU Usage
Linux Kernel Patched For Branch History Injection "BHI" Intel CPU Vulnerability
SiFive HiFive Premier P550 Announced As New RISC-V Developer Board
Intel Announces Gaudi 3 AI Accelerator, Intel Xeon 6 Brand
Google Announces Axion ARM-Based CPUs For The Cloud
OpenSSL 3.3 Released With Many Additions For QUIC, CPU Performance Optimizations
Nouveau/NVK Driver Lands NIL Library Rewrite In Rust For Mesa 24.1
Explicit GPU Synchronization Merged For XWayland
Linux Mint Aims For More Reliable & Faster Repository Access
Canonical Announces Ubuntu Pro For Devices
Nouveau GSP Fix On The Way For Regression That Broke Ampere GPU Support
AMD Announces Versal Gen 2 Adaptive SoCs - AI Focused & Newer Arm Cores
8 April
FESCo Approves The Fedora 41 Switch To DNF5
Linux 6.10 AES-XTS For Disk/File Encryption As Much As ~155% Faster For AMD Zen 4 CPUs
AMD Radeon Linux Gaming Performance At Parity Between KDE Plasma 6.0 X11 vs. Wayland
KDAB Working On Embedding Servo Web Engine Within Qt
SolidRun Launches Bedrock R8000 As First Industrial PCs With Ryzen Embedded 8000 Series
RISC-V Adding Kernel-Mode FPU For Linux 6.10 To Enable Recent AMD Display Support
RADV Vulkan Driver Enables EXT_shader_object By Default With Mesa 24.1
Oracle Releases DTrace 2.0.0-1.14 For Linux Systems
Raspberry Pi OS Now Shipping With Vulkan Support By Default
7 April
Linux 6.9-rc3 Released With Many Bcachefs Patches
Arch Linux Increasing Its vm.max_map_count To Help Steam Play Games & Other Software
x86-64-v5? Questions Arise Over The Future Of x86-64 Micro-Architecture Feature Levels
Framework Hiring For Open-Source Firmware Development
CoCo VMs On Linux Will Now Panic If RdRand Is Broken To Avoid Catastrophic Conditions
Rust Bindings Are Being Worked On For Linux CPUFreq Drivers
Debian Policy 4.7 Outlines Latest Packaging/System Guidelines
6 April
Raspberry Pi V3D Kernel Graphics Driver Prepares For Big & Super Pages To Boost Speed
KDE On The Importance Of Wayland Explicit Sync
GNOME Improving Integration With systemd-homed, Mockups For An OS Installer
KDE Plasma 6 Can Now Sync Your RGB-Backlit Keyboard With Your Desktop's Accent Color
5 April
Pingora 0.1 Released As Cloudflare's Rust Code For Reliable & Fast Networked Systems
Wine 9.6 Adds Support For Advanced AVX Features In Register Contexts
New EEVDF Linux Scheduler Patches Make It Functionally "Complete"
OpenZFS Merges Support For Using Multiple Task Queues To Increase Performance
OpenBLAS 0.3.27 Adds C-SKY Arch, Improved GEMM For AMD Zen & Sapphire Rapids Fixes
Fwupd 1.9.16 Adds Support For More USB Docks & Qualcomm Devices
FFmpeg 7.0 Released With Native VVC Decoding & Multi-Threaded CLI
OpenBSD 7.5 Released - Faster Performance For Many-Core ARM Servers
OpenCL 3.0.16 Released With One New Extension, Semaphores & External Memory Finalized
4 April
AMD Working To Release MES Documentation & Source Code
Netplan 1.0 Is Ready To Go For Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
Wine Project's April Fools' Gag With Merit: Leveraging AI For Faster Code Review
Intel Xeon Max Sees Some Performance Gains For OpenVINO & ONNX With Linux 6.9
PostgreSQL Merges JSON_TABLE(), Incremental JSON Parser
UPower Power Profiles Daemon v0.21 Automatically Adapts For Linux Laptop Battery Use
LLVM's BOLT Being Adapted To Analyze Security Hardening Of Binaries
Qt Creator 13 Released For Enhancing Qt/C++ Development
Intel QAT Driver Preps Live Migration Support For Linux 6.10
3 April
Bcachefs Repair Code Reaching Complete & Robust Recovery
Google's Jpegli Offers ~35% Compression Improvement For High Quality JPEGs
NovaCustom Announces "Fastest Coreboot Laptops In The World" Built On Intel Core Ultra
X.Org Server & XWayland Hit By Four More Security Issues
GCC 14 Boasts Nice ASCII Art For Visualizing Buffer Overflows
Crucial T705 PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSD On Linux
RADV Lands New Extension To Better Debug GPU Hangs
Redict 7.3 Released As Fork Of Open-Source Redis
Ubuntu 24.04 Beta Delayed Due To XZ Nightmare
Fwupd Switches From XZ To Zstd Compression: More Trust & Slightly Better Performance
Sound Open Firmware 2.9 Released With Major Performance Optimizations
2 April
AMD Says They'll Be Open-Sourcing More Of Their GPU Software Stack & Hardware Docs
AMD's Longtime Open-Source Linux Graphics Driver Advocate Retires
PCIe 7.0 Specification v0.5 Published - Full Spec Next Year
Mesa 24.1 Merges Vulkan Support For Wayland Explicit Sync
TUXEDO Pulse 14 Gen 3 Continues Running Well As A Powerful AMD Ryzen 7 Linux Laptop
AMD Announces Ryzen Embedded 8000 Series With Focus On Industrial AI
The Linux Kernel Begins Preparing For Rust 1.78 Upgrade
ASUS WMI Driver For Linux Preps New Features For Recent ASUS Laptops
Qt 6.7 Released With Many Improvements For This Cross-Platform Toolkit
Fedora 42 Change Proposal Wants To Make KDE Plasma The Default Over GNOME
SDL 2.30.2 Released Along WIth New SDL3 Preview
1 April
Steam On Linux Use Increases - Moves Closer To 2%, AMD CPU Linux Use Hits 72%
Bcachefs Submits Lots Of Fixes For "Extreme Filesystem Damage" With Linux 6.9
Intel HFI Driver Will Quit Wasting CPU Cycles With Linux 6.10
Nova Driver, Linux 6.9 Features & Other Linux News From March
CachyOS Making Use Of Plymouth For Better Boot Experience, Mitigates For XZ Fiasco
Linux Mint 22 Will Use The PipeWire Sound Server, Support JPEG-XL Images
Linux 6.10 To Correct The CCD/CCX Topology Information For Some AMD CPUs
Linux 6.9 To Allow Building s390 Kernel With The Full LLVM/Clang Compiler
Serpent OS Hopes To Ship Pre-Alpha ISOs In The Coming Weeks
Drop-In CUDA On AMD, Kernel Discussions, NGINX Fork & Other Q1 Highlights
31 March
Linux 6.9-rc2 Released As An Easter Test Kernel
Llamafile 0.7 Brings AVX-512 Support: 10x Faster Prompt Eval Times For AMD Zen 4
Intel Continued Upstreaming A Lot Of Great Linux/Open-Source Code This Quarter
AMD XDNA Linux Driver For Ryzen AI, Zen 5 Compiler Support & Other AMD Q1 Highlights
Rust-Written Redox OS Enjoys Significant Performance Improvements
GNU Poke 4.0 & Poke-ELF 1.0 Released For Dealing With Binary Data
Flowblade 2.14 Video Editor Released, GTK4 Port Hopefully Ready Next Year
30 March
NetBSD 10.0 Released With Much Improved Hardware Support & Faster Performance
Servo Web Engine Adds WOFF2 Web Fonts, HTML Tables By Default
Tiny Corp Details More Of Their Planned Tinybox System Specs
Linux Fixes Botched SRSO Mitigation For AMD Zen 3 / Zen 4
Microsoft Helping Out In Making The Linux Kernel Language More Inclusive
Flax Engine 1.8 Brings ASTC Textures, New UI Editor & New Vehicle Features
KDE Introduces New Marknote App
Asahi AGX Gallium3D Driver Sees Big Sync For Mesa 24.1 To Improve Apple Silicon Graphics
KDE Plasma 6 Refinements Continue, Fixes 3+ Important Crashes This Week
29 March
GitHub Disables The XZ Repository Following Today's Malicious Disclosure
AMD Releases Orochi 2.0 With More CUDA/HIP Functions Implemented For Better Portability
XZ Struck By Malicious Code That Could Allow Unauthorized Remote System Access
Linux 6.9 Drives AMD 4th Gen EPYC Performance Even Higher For Some Workloads
Fedora 41 Will Try Again To Switch To DNF5 Package Manager
GNOME's Mutter Lands DRM Sync Obj v1 Support For Explicit Sync On Wayland
Intel Releases Its March 2024 Open-Source Linux GPU Compute Stack Update
Updated Windows NT Sync Driver Posted For The Linux Kernel
28 March
Intel "Family 6" CPU Era Coming To An End Soon: Code Suggests Cooper Forest & Adams Lake
Linux Foundation Launches Valkey As A Redis Fork
GNU Coreutils 9.5 Can Yield 10~20% Throughput Boost For cp, mv & cat Commands
Intel Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" Yields Faster Performance With Linux 6.9
Arm China Looking At Upstreaming Their "Zhouyi" NPU Driver Into The Linux Kernel
Flatpak 1.15.7 Will Now Automatically Remove Obsolete Driver Versions
More Efficient VirtIO DRM Driver To Import Scanout Buffers From Other Devices
EROFS Drops "Experimental" Warning For FSDAX With Linux 6.9
Reverse-Engineered Rockchip NPU Driver Hitting Same Performance As Proprietary Driver
Google Cloud's C3D Instances Provide Strong Performance Value For PingCAP's TiDB
Samba 4.20 Released With WSP Search Client, Service Witness Protocol
27 March
Pop!_OS Upgrades To The Linux 6.8 Kernel
SDL3 Will Keep Wayland Default At Least For The Time Being
Canonical Continues Exploring Ubuntu x86-64-v3 Images - Now In Microsoft's Cloud
Blender 4.1 Benchmarks Confirm Even Faster CPU Render Times Under Linux
RHEL 9.4 Beta Brings Full Support For Intel SGX & DSA Accelerator Drivers
Microsoft Engineer Sends Rust Linux Kernel Patches For In-Place Module Initialization
Intel Xe Developers Begin Looking At Cross-Device & Cross-Driver HMM
TornadoVM v1.0.3 OpenJDK/GraalVM Plug-In For Java Heterogeneous Hardware Support
26 March
Zstd 1.5.6 Released - Celebrating Google Chrome Support For Zstandard Encoding
Blender 4.1 Released With Faster Linux CPU Rendering & AMD RDNA3 APU Support
SDL Developers Weigh Reverting Wayland Over X11 For SDL 3.0
Fedora 40 Beta Released With GNOME 46 & KDE Plasma 6.0 On Wayland Desktops
Linux 6.9 Deprecates The EXT2 File-System Driver
AMDVLK 2024.Q1.3 Released With Fixes
Intel Adds Linux Driver PCI IDs For Arc Graphics A750E & A580E
Linux Enabling Shadow Stack Support For x32
Intel VA-API 2.21 Library Adds Intel Xe Kernel Driver Support, AV1 & Windows Fixes
Panthor DRM Driver Queued For Linux 6.10 To Support Newer Arm Mali GPUs
25 March
Linux 6.9 Features: DM VDO, AMD Preferred Core, Intel FRED & Larger Console Fonts
Canonical Extends Ubuntu LTS Support To 12 Years For Ubuntu Pro Customers
Inkscape Development Version Switches To Using GTK4
Linux 6.9 Will Boot Much Faster For Systems With Large Amounts Of RAM
Mesa 24.1 Merges AMD Radeon VPE 1.1 Engine Support
Tiny Corp Changes Course Yet Again With Plans To Offer AMD Radeon GPUs
XWayland-Run 0.0.3 Adds Support For KDE's KWin
SysVinit 3.09 Now Allows Building With musl C Library, Passing Boot Messages To Firmware