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Intel Vulkan Driver Lands Optimization To Help GravityMark, Other Demanding Software   Intel   2023-10-23
Intel Vulkan Driver Lands ASTC LDR Emulation For Latest GPUs   Intel   2023-10-14
Cisco Posts Rust-Written PuzzleFS File-System Driver For Linux   Linux Storage   2023-06-09
Raspberry Pi V3D Driver Adds Native ASTC Texture Compression Support   Mesa   2023-05-31
Linux 6.3 Adds ath12k Driver For Qualcomm WiFi 7 Hardware Support   Linux Networking   2023-02-22
Mesa Adds Compute Shader Decoding For ASTC   Mesa   2023-02-17
Mesa Preparing Software Fallback For S3TC Texture Compression   Mesa   2022-09-05
AMDVLK 2022.Q3.2 Released With Game Optimizations, Fixes CTS Failures   Radeon   2022-08-05
Arm Releases ASTC Encoder 4.0 With Even Faster Performance   Arm   2022-07-22
AMDVLK 2022.Q3.1 Released With Fixes, Minor Enhancements   Radeon   2022-07-18
MythTV 32 Released With Vulkan Rendering, Tons Of Other Improvements   Multimedia   2022-02-24
AMDVLK 2022.Q1.1 Released With Radeon RX 6500 XT Support   Radeon   2022-01-19
Radeon RADV Lands Emulated ETC2 Support For Improving Android Support   Radeon   2021-12-14
RenderDoc 1.17 Released For This Leading Open-Source Graphics Debugging Tool   Programming   2021-11-27
Vulkanised Fall 2021 Material Available - Autodesk Has Begun Using MoltenVK   Vulkan   2021-10-23
Intel Removes ASTC Hardware From Gen12.5+ Graphics   Intel   2021-10-07
NVIDIA Jetson TX2 NX + Other ARM Platforms Now Supported By Linux 5.15   Arm   2021-09-02
Zink Now Achieves OpenGL ES 3.2 Atop Vulkan   Mesa   2021-08-31
New/Updated Benchmarks For June From GravityMark To L4D2 Vulkan, Updated Neural Networks   Phoronix Test Suite   2021-07-03
Arm Releases ASTC Encoder 3.0 With Even Better Performance   Arm   2021-06-04
ASpeed AST2500 SSIF BMC Driver Being Worked On For The Linux Kernel   Hardware   2021-05-21
Khronos Ratifies KTX 2.0   Standards   2021-04-20
Many New/Updated Benchmarks For March With New SDR/Radio Tests, More Code Compilation   Phoronix Test Suite   2021-03-28
Intel "IGEN6" Driver Comes To Linux 5.11 For In-Band ECC (IBECC)   Intel   2020-12-15
Vulkan Comes To Apple Silicon GPUs / M1 By Means Of MoltenVK 1.1.1   Vulkan   2020-12-10
New/Updated Benchmarks For August From TensorFlow Lite To ASTCENC   Phoronix Test Suite   2020-09-01
Linux 5.7's USB Changes Range From Apple Fast Charging To Reporting USB-C Orientation   Apple   2020-03-31
New High Quality GPU Compression Codec Going Open-Source In The Coming Days   Standards   2020-03-09
Arm's ASTC Encoder Replaces Its Restrictive EULA With Apache 2.0 License   Arm   2020-02-17
Linux 5.7 To See USB Fast Charge Support For Apple iOS Devices   Apple   2020-02-15
TURNIP Vulkan Driver Gets MSAA Working   Mesa   2019-10-16
ASTC Texture Compression License Turns Out To Be Restrictive Outside Of Khronos APIs   Free Software   2019-10-03
Wine 4.17 Adds DXTn Compressed Textures, Windows Script Runtime Library   WINE   2019-09-27
Vulkan 1.1.117 Adds Line Rasterization - Helping Out CAD Applications & More   Vulkan   2019-07-29
A Decade Later, Mesa Wiring In Support For Qualcomm/AMD's ATC Texture Compression   Mesa   2019-04-23
RADV Driver Patches Revive shaderStorageImageMultisample - Useful For DXVK   Mesa   2018-12-20
Qt 3D Studio 2.1 Released With Editor Enhancements, Better Runtime Performance   Qt   2018-10-01
RADV's Iffy 16-bit Integer Support Merged Into Mesa   Mesa   2018-09-18
RADV Vulkan Driver Finally Picking Up 16-Bit Integer Support In Shaders   Radeon   2018-09-14
NVIDIA Vulkan Beta Driver Updated With New Extensions (v396.54.05)   NVIDIA   2018-09-10
Vulkan 1.1.84 Brings KHR Memory Model, ASTC Decode Mode Extensions   Vulkan   2018-09-09
Mesa 18.2 Released With Vega 20 Support, OpenGL 4.4 Compat Profile & A Lot More   Mesa   2018-09-07
Mesa 18.2 Should Now Be Clear For Releasing With Its Many OpenGL/Vulkan Improvements   Mesa   2018-09-01
RadeonSI Gets Another Handful Of OpenGL Extensions, Mirroring The PRO Driver's Behavior   Mesa   2018-08-24
Mesa 18.2 Is Releasing Soon With Many OpenGL / Vulkan Driver Improvements   Mesa   2018-08-21
More OpenGL Extensions For RadeonSI Are The Latest In A Flurry Of Interesting Activity   Radeon   2018-08-09
Mesa 18.2 Branched, Mesa 18.3 Enters Development   Mesa   2018-08-02
ASTC Gallium Bits Land, VirGL Already Hits OpenGL 4.3 + GLES 3.2   Mesa   2018-08-01
All Gallium3D Drivers Getting ASTC Compression Support, RadeonSI Hits OpenGL ES 3.2   Mesa   2018-07-29
Vulkan CTS 1.1.1 Adds 26,272 New Test Cases   Vulkan   2018-04-09
RadeonSI Now Supports KHR_blend_equation_advanced, Needed For OpenGL ES 3.2   Mesa   2018-04-03
RADV Vulkan Driver Picks Up Support For ETC2 Textures   Radeon   2018-01-03
Etnaviv Gallium3D Driver Now Wiring Up ASTC Texture Compression   Mesa   2017-11-02
Many Vega Improvements & Other Fixes Land In Mesa For RADV Vulkan Driver   Mesa   2017-10-20
The S3TC Patent Finally Expires Next Week - S3 Texture Compression   Standards   2017-09-29
RADV Gets More Last Minute Fixes For Mesa 17.2   Radeon   2017-07-24
RADV Vulkan Driver Now Exposes INT64 Support   Radeon   2017-07-03
Intel Broxton Gets ASTC HDR Support In Mesa   Intel   2017-05-22
sparseBinding Lands For Radeon RADV Vulkan Driver   Mesa   2017-03-29
Performance-Boosting Fast Clears To Be Enabled By Default For RADV Vulkan Driver   Vulkan   2017-02-06
Geometry Shader Support Lands In RADV Vulkan Driver   Radeon   2017-01-30
RADV Vulkan Driver Has Geometry Shader Support For Testing   Vulkan   2017-01-19
Haswell On Mesa Now Has Nearly Complete OpenGL ES 3.2 Implementation   Intel   2017-01-06
RADV Radeon Vulkan Code Enables More Driver Features   Vulkan   2016-12-22
Lighttpd 1.4.42 Brings New Modules, Rewritten Authentication Framework   Free Software   2016-10-16
Google Releases Chrome 54 Web-Browser   Google   2016-10-13
OpenGL ES 3.2 Officially Enabled For Intel Mesa Driver, Limited To Skylake+   Mesa   2016-09-21
Chrome 54 Beta Brings Custom Elements V1: Create Custom HTML Tags   Google   2016-09-15
Intel Finishes Up Another OpenGL ES 3.2 Extension In Mesa   Intel   2016-07-18
AMD Polaris Doesn't Support ETC2 Texture Compression   AMD   2016-04-13
Nouveau NVC0 Adds ETC2/ASTC Texture Compression For Newer GPUs   Mesa   2016-04-04
AMD Stoney APUs Bring ETC2 Open-Source Driver Support   AMD   2016-01-22
NVIDIA Open-Source Christmas Present: Some Documentation   NVIDIA   2015-12-22
Nouveau Support For ETC2/ASTC Texture Compression   Nouveau   2015-12-19
Gallium3D Support For ASTC Compression Is Being Worked On   Mesa   2015-11-21
The Changes Needed For OpenGL ES 3.2 Support In Mesa   Mesa   2015-09-12
Intel Enables ASTC Texture Compression In Mesa For Skylake   Intel   2015-08-31
ASTC Texture Compression May Finally Supplant S3TC   Linux Gaming   2015-08-12
Radeon Gallium3D Tackles A Bit More, OpenGL 4.1 Patches Pending   Mesa   2015-07-28
Intel Skylake Adds ASTC Texture Compression, Open-Source Support Coming   Mesa   2015-05-20
Firefox 38 Adds Responsive Image Support, Ruby Annotations   Mozilla   2015-05-12
OpenBSD's Custom HTTP Web Server Is Set To Replace Nginx   BSD   2015-03-17
HHVM Plans To Integrate LLVM This Year   LLVM   2015-02-17
Kodi 14.0 Released For The Holidays - Formerly Known As XBMC   Multimedia   2014-12-23
Another LZ4 Security Issue Analyzed   Linux Security   2014-07-13
EmScripten Merges Its Speedy "Fastcomp" Backend   Programming   2014-04-21
S3TC Is Still Problematic For Mesa Developers, Users   Mesa   2013-08-14
ETC2 Texture Compression Looks Good For OpenGL   Mesa   2012-08-12
Khronos ASTC: Royalty-Free Next-Gen Texture Compression   Standards   2012-08-06