20 April

Linux BHI Mitigation Being Tweaked Following 12% Database Performance Hit

08:00 AM EDT - Linux Security - Native BHI - Add A Comment

Open-Source "Terakan" Vulkan Driver For Radeon HD 6000 Series Shown On Windows

06:41 AM EDT - Radeon - Terakan - 1 Comment

AMD Sends In More Kernel Graphics Driver Updates For Linux 6.10

06:21 AM EDT - Radeon - Linux 6.10 AMDGPU - 1 Comment

KDE Developers Work Through More Bug Fixes & Features For Plasma 6.1

06:06 AM EDT - KDE - KDE This Week - Add A Comment

19 April

Wine 9.7 Works On Build System For ARM64X, Other ARM Improvements

08:34 PM EDT - WINE - Wine 9.7 - 5 Comments

Mozilla Finally Begins Offering Firefox ARM64 Linux Binaries

02:56 PM EDT - Mozilla - ARM64 Firefox - 8 Comments

Git 2.45 Begins Landing Code For SHA1 & SHA256 Interoperability For Repositories

01:54 PM EDT - Programming - Git 2.45-rc0 Released - 8 Comments

Godot's Vulkan Backend Seeing Better Performance, 10~20% Reduction In Frame Times

01:00 PM EDT - Linux Gaming - Godot Better Vulkan - 4 Comments

Miracle-WM 0.2 Released For Mir-Based Wayland Compositor

12:02 PM EDT - Wayland - Miracle-WM 0.2 - 3 Comments

Linux 6.10 Preps A Kernel Panic Screen - Sort Of A "Blue Screen of Death"

10:09 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - DRM Panic Handler - 27 Comments

Intel Compute Runtime 24.13.29138.7 Brings Improved OpenCL/OpenGL Sharing

09:42 AM EDT - Intel - 24.13.29138.7 - 3 Comments

Tow-Boot 2023.07 U-Boot Distribution Released With New Board Support

08:45 AM EDT - Free Software - Tow-Boot 2023.07-007 - 4 Comments

Rockchip NPU Open-Source Driver Taking Shape, Will Aim For Upstream Accel Driver

06:36 AM EDT - Hardware - Rockchip NPU - 2 Comments

Intel oneVPL GPU Runtime 2024Q1 Brings VP9 Fix & AV1 Refinements

06:23 AM EDT - Intel - oneVPL - Add A Comment

18 April

Fedora Linux 40 Cleared For Release Next Week

02:39 PM EDT - Fedora - Fedora 40 - 53 Comments

Rust-Written LAVD Kernel Scheduler Shows Promising Results For Linux Gaming

01:35 PM EDT - Linux Gaming - Rust-Written, BPF-Based Scheduler - 38 Comments

Ubuntu 24.04 Boosts Performance, Outperforming Windows 11 On The AMD Ryzen Framework 16 Laptop

11:25 AM EDT - Operating Systems - 39 Comments

openSUSE Factory Achieves Bit-By-Bit Reproducible Builds

10:13 AM EDT - SUSE - openSUSE Packages Are Reproducible - 25 Comments

Intel Preps Adaptive Sync SDP, Lunar Lake Display & More DG2 PCI IDs In Linux 6.10

08:45 AM EDT - Intel - Intel Kernel Graphics Driver - Add A Comment

Autodafe 0.2 Released For Freeing Your Project From Autotools

07:00 AM EDT - Programming - Autodafe - 41 Comments

GTK4 Continues Improving Graphics Offload & DMA-BUF Integration

06:49 AM EDT - GNOME - GTK4 Improvements - 7 Comments

Rocky Linux To Support Upstream Stable Kernels

06:42 AM EDT - Operating Systems - Rocky Linux - 26 Comments

17 April

System76's COSMIC Working On Drag & Drop, More Compositor Improvements

08:12 PM EDT - Desktop - COSMIC April - 27 Comments

MPV 0.38 Media Player Released With New Options & Fixes

04:51 PM EDT - Multimedia - MPV 0.38 - 32 Comments

Wayland Protocols 1.35 Introduces Alpha Modifier Protocol, Tablet-V2 As Stable

11:38 AM EDT - Wayland - Wayland Protocols 1.35 - 4 Comments

LXQt 2.0 Released For Qt6 Desktop Port, Greater Wayland Support

08:45 AM EDT - Desktop - LXQt 2.0 - 39 Comments

Former Nouveau Lead Developer Joins NVIDIA, Continues Working On Open-Source Driver

06:45 AM EDT - Nouveau - Working At NVIDIA - 80 Comments

RPM 4.20 Approved For Fedora 41 To Advance Hands-Free Packaging

06:24 AM EDT - Fedora - RPM 4.20 - 10 Comments

Linux 6.10 To Add Script For Building ARM64 Flat Image Trees

06:10 AM EDT - Arm - Flat Image Trees - 1 Comment

GNOME Mutter Lands NVIDIA Hybrid GPU Copy Acceleration

05:52 AM EDT - GNOME - GNOME Mutter - 12 Comments

XWayland 24.1 RC Released With Explicit Sync, Improved Rootful & GLAMOR Optimizations

05:45 AM EDT - Wayland - XWayland 24.1 - 7 Comments

16 April

ROCm 6.1 Released With Ubuntu 22.04.4 Support, rocDecode For AMD Video Decode

07:08 PM EDT - Radeon - ROCm 6.1 - 26 Comments

Linux Foundation, Intel & Others Launch The Open Platform for Enterprise AI

05:00 PM EDT - Standards - Open Platform for Enterprise AI - 4 Comments

Ubuntu 24.04 Supports Easy Installation Of OpenZFS Root File-System With Encryption

12:05 PM EDT - Ubuntu - OpenZFS - 37 Comments

Valkey Celebrates Its First Stable Release As Open-Source Redis Fork

10:25 AM EDT - Free Software - Valkey 7.2.5 - 19 Comments

KDE Plasma 6.0.4 Ships With Dozens Of Bug Fixes

10:02 AM EDT - KDE - KDE Plasma 6.0.4 - 28 Comments

AMD Announces Ryzen PRO 8840 & PRO 8000G Series CPUs

09:00 AM EDT - Processors - 16 Comments

Mesa 24.1 Now Supports Vulkan Explicit Synchronization On X11

07:00 AM EDT - Mesa - X11 Explicit Sync - 66 Comments

Intel Vulkan Driver Wires Up Image Compression Control For VKD3D-Proton

06:46 AM EDT - Intel - VK_EXT_image_compression_control - Add A Comment

Native BHI Mitigation Performance Benchmarks On Core i9 14900K Under Linux 6.9

06:27 AM EDT - Intel - Spectre Native BHI - 2 Comments

Khronos Releases OpenXR 1.1 For Cross-Platform AR/VR Development

05:55 AM EDT - Standards - OpenXR 1.1 - 13 Comments

15 April

More Bcachefs Fixes & Recovery Improvements Land In Linux 6.9

04:54 PM EDT - Linux Storage - Bcachefs Fixes - 11 Comments

AlmaLinux 9.4 Beta Restores Support For Some Hardware Deprecated By RHEL

12:35 PM EDT - Operating Systems - AlmaLinux 9.4 Beta - 14 Comments

openSUSE Leap Micro 6 Reaches Alpha

11:35 AM EDT - SUSE - openSUSE Leap Micro 6 - 6 Comments

Linus Torvalds Injects Tabs To Thwart Kconfig Parsers Not Correctly Handling Them

11:23 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux Kconfig - 52 Comments

Fedora 41 Aims For More Reproducible Package Builds Thanks To A Rust Program

10:26 AM EDT - Fedora - Better Reproducibility - 24 Comments

Firefox 125 Adds AV1 Support In Encrypted Media Extensions, Other New Features

09:55 AM EDT - Mozilla - Firefox 125 - 28 Comments

Servo Driving Modularity To Support Different JavaScript Engines

07:10 AM EDT - Free Software - Servo JavaScript Engine Modularity - 34 Comments

RNNoise 0.2 Released With AVX2 Optimizations For Neural Network Noise Suppression

06:44 AM EDT - Multimedia - RNNoise 0.2 - 13 Comments

Archinstall 2.8 Further Refines The Easy Arch Linux Installation Experience

06:32 AM EDT - Arch Linux - Archinstall 2.8 - 42 Comments

FEX-Emu 2404 Optimization Can Take Memcpy From 2-3 GB/s To 88 GB/s

06:23 AM EDT - Linux Gaming - FEX 2404 - 13 Comments

Vim Lands XDG Base Directory Specification Support

06:04 AM EDT - Free Software - Vim + XDG_BASE_DIR - 16 Comments

14 April

Linux 6.9-rc4 Brings More Bcachefs Fixes, Native BHI Mitigation

05:22 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 6.9-rc4 - 8 Comments

Linux 6.10 To Merge NTSYNC Driver For Emulating Windows NT Synchronization Primitives

10:09 AM EDT - Linux Gaming - NTSYNC QUEUED! - 37 Comments

AMD Prepares More Next-Gen GPU Driver Support For Linux 6.10

09:29 AM EDT - Radeon - AMDGPU DRM-Next - 5 Comments

OpenJPH 0.11 Works Toward Low-Latency High-Throughput JPEG-2000 (HTJ2K)

08:52 AM EDT - Free Software - JPEG-2000 Open-Source Library - 6 Comments

Proposed "LibGodot" Lets You Embed Godot Game Engine Into Other Apps

07:02 AM EDT - Linux Gaming - LibGodot - 41 Comments

OpenRazer 3.8 Brings Support For Newer Razer Devices On Linux

06:38 AM EDT - Linux Gaming - OpenRazer 3.8 - 8 Comments

Linux 6.9-rc4 To Bring New Fixes For x86 Speculation Mitigations

06:21 AM EDT - Linux Security - x86/urgent - Add A Comment

13 April

Linux 6.10 To Account For NUMA Node When Allocating Per-CPU Cpumasks

09:30 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Improve Performance - 5 Comments

Mesa 24.1 Zink Lands "Super Fast" Merge Request To Optimize IO

06:46 AM EDT - Mesa - ZINK_DEBUG=ioopt - 19 Comments

Fedora 41 Looks To "-O3" Optimizations For Its Python Build

06:27 AM EDT - Fedora - -O3 Python - 27 Comments

KDE's Busy Week With Landing Explicit Sync & Many Other Changes

06:13 AM EDT - KDE - KDE This Week - 10 Comments

APT 2.9 Released: Debian's APT 3.0 To Have A New UI With Colors, Columnar Display & More

12:00 AM EDT - Debian - APT 2.9 - 30 Comments

12 April

XWayland 24.1 Planned For Release Next Month With Explicit Sync & Other Features

01:39 PM EDT - Wayland - XWayland 24.1 - 56 Comments

KDE Frameworks 6.1 Released With Many Improvements & Fixes

11:59 AM EDT - KDE - KDE Frameworks 6.1 - 29 Comments

Linux 6.10 SLUB Optimization To Reduce Memory Consumption In Extreme Scenarios

10:38 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - SLUB Tuning - 7 Comments

Dbus-Broker 36 Released For This Fastest D-Bus Implementation

10:23 AM EDT - Free Software - Dbus-Broker 36 - 9 Comments

LPython 0.21 Released For Alpha-Stage Python AOT Compiler

08:59 AM EDT - Programming - LPython 0.21 - 8 Comments

SDL 3.0 Will Now Prefer PipeWire Over PulseAudio

06:31 AM EDT - Linux Gaming - PipeWire Over PulseAudio - 51 Comments

TUXEDO Computers Launches First Linux Laptop With AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS

06:19 AM EDT - Hardware - TUXEDO Sirius 16 Gen 2 - 15 Comments

11 April

Intel's Newest Software Effort For Achieving Greater Performance: Thin Layout Optimizer

05:00 PM EDT - Intel - Thin-Layout-Optimizer - 16 Comments

Ubuntu 24.04 Brings Some Performance Gains For AMD Threadripper 7980X / System76 Thelio Major

01:01 PM EDT - Operating Systems - 9 Comments

X.Org Server Change Allows GLAMOR To Fallback To Software Rendering For Obsolete GPUs

11:20 AM EDT - X.Org - Software Fallback - 17 Comments

GCC 14 Compiler Adds AArch64 GNU/Hurd Support

10:27 AM EDT - GNU - GNU/Hurd + AArch64 - 25 Comments

Ubuntu 24.04 Beta Now Available For Testing

10:10 AM EDT - Ubuntu - Ubuntu 24.04 - 21 Comments

Open-Source Radeon Driver Enables Support For Vulkan Video H.264/H.265 Encode

06:51 AM EDT - Radeon - Vulkan Video Encode - 31 Comments

Wayland 1.23 Planned For Release Around The End Of May

06:36 AM EDT - Wayland - Wayland 1.23 - 29 Comments

Bcachefs Sees More Fixes For Linux 6.9-rc4, Reiterates Its Experimental Nature

06:23 AM EDT - Linux Storage - Bcachefs Fixes - 37 Comments

10 April

Lutris 0.5.17 Game Manager Brings Bug Fixes, Library Syncing & New Runners

08:21 PM EDT - Linux Gaming - Lutris 0.5.17 - 1 Comment

KDE's KWin Merges Wayland Explicit Sync Support

04:48 PM EDT - KDE - linux-drm-syncobj-v1 - 63 Comments

Lavapipe CPU-Based Vulkan Driver Implements Ray-Tracing Pipelines

02:56 PM EDT - Mesa - Lavapipe Ray-Tracing Pipelines - 21 Comments

Turbostat Becomes Semi-Useful To Non-Root Users

12:41 PM EDT - Intel - turbostat - 7 Comments

Intel FFmpeg Cartwheel 2024Q1 Brings New Filter To Transform Old Content

12:21 PM EDT - Intel - Intel FFmpeg Cartwheel - 1 Comment

Linux 6.8.5 & Other Stable Kernel Updates Due To Native BHI Vulnerability

11:25 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 6.8.5 - 5 Comments

Gentoo Linux Now An SPI Project

11:11 AM EDT - Operating Systems - Software In The Public Interest - 12 Comments

Microsoft Rolls Out Azure Linux 2.0.20240403 With Security Fixes & Other Patches

07:00 AM EDT - Hardware - Azure Linux - 13 Comments

Ubuntu Maker Canonical Announces New Collaboration With Qualcomm

06:45 AM EDT - Ubuntu - Ubuntu Core + Qualcomm - 17 Comments

Intel Updates OpenCL Intercept Layer With New Abilities

06:35 AM EDT - Intel - OpenCL Intercept Layer 3.0.4 - Add A Comment

Intel HID Driver Ready For Arrow Lake & Lunar Lake Laptops With Linux 6.9

06:13 AM EDT - Hardware - x86 Platform Drivers - Add A Comment

9 April

UPower 1.90.4 Fixes Excessive Disk Writes & High CPU Usage

08:08 PM EDT - Hardware - UPower 1.90.4 - 10 Comments

Linux Kernel Patched For Branch History Injection "BHI" Intel CPU Vulnerability

02:12 PM EDT - Linux Security - Native BHI - 27 Comments

SiFive HiFive Premier P550 Announced As New RISC-V Developer Board

12:30 PM EDT - RISC-V - HiFive - 31 Comments

Intel Announces Gaudi 3 AI Accelerator, Intel Xeon 6 Brand

11:35 AM EDT - Processors - 8 Comments

Google Announces Axion ARM-Based CPUs For The Cloud

10:24 AM EDT - Google - Google Cloud Axion - 11 Comments

OpenSSL 3.3 Released With Many Additions For QUIC, CPU Performance Optimizations

08:45 AM EDT - Hardware - OpenSSL 3.3 - 2 Comments

Nouveau/NVK Driver Lands NIL Library Rewrite In Rust For Mesa 24.1

08:30 AM EDT - Nouveau - NIL Library Rewritten In Rust - 10 Comments

Explicit GPU Synchronization Merged For XWayland

06:44 AM EDT - X.Org - Explicit GPU Sync - 48 Comments

Linux Mint Aims For More Reliable & Faster Repository Access

06:38 AM EDT - Operating Systems - Linux Mint Faster Repos - 15 Comments

Canonical Announces Ubuntu Pro For Devices

06:12 AM EDT - Ubuntu - Ubuntu Pro For Devices - 7 Comments

Nouveau GSP Fix On The Way For Regression That Broke Ampere GPU Support

05:53 AM EDT - Nouveau - Nouveau GSP - Add A Comment

AMD Announces Versal Gen 2 Adaptive SoCs - AI Focused & Newer Arm Cores

04:15 AM EDT - AMD - AMD Versal Gen 2 - 8 Comments

8 April

FESCo Approves The Fedora 41 Switch To DNF5

08:00 PM EDT - Fedora - Fedora 41 + DNF5 - 26 Comments

Linux 6.10 AES-XTS For Disk/File Encryption As Much As ~155% Faster For AMD Zen 4 CPUs

12:52 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Faster AES-XTS - 28 Comments

AMD Radeon Linux Gaming Performance At Parity Between KDE Plasma 6.0 X11 vs. Wayland

10:41 AM EDT - Linux Gaming - 115 Comments

KDAB Working On Embedding Servo Web Engine Within Qt

09:54 AM EDT - Qt - Qt + Servo - 34 Comments

SolidRun Launches Bedrock R8000 As First Industrial PCs With Ryzen Embedded 8000 Series

09:00 AM EDT - AMD - Bedrock R8000 - 4 Comments

RISC-V Adding Kernel-Mode FPU For Linux 6.10 To Enable Recent AMD Display Support

07:01 AM EDT - RISC-V - AMDGPU DCN Support - 8 Comments

RADV Vulkan Driver Enables EXT_shader_object By Default With Mesa 24.1

06:53 AM EDT - Mesa - EXT_shader_object + RADV - 17 Comments

Oracle Releases DTrace 2.0.0-1.14 For Linux Systems

06:48 AM EDT - Oracle - D-Trace 2.0.0.1-14 - 11 Comments

Raspberry Pi OS Now Shipping With Vulkan Support By Default

06:18 AM EDT - Raspberry Pi - Mesa Vulkan Driver Enabled - 7 Comments

7 April

Linux 6.9-rc3 Released With Many Bcachefs Patches

04:43 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 6.9 - 20 Comments

Arch Linux Increasing Its vm.max_map_count To Help Steam Play Games & Other Software

02:28 PM EDT - Arch Linux - vm.max_map_count - 24 Comments

x86-64-v5? Questions Arise Over The Future Of x86-64 Micro-Architecture Feature Levels

09:24 AM EDT - Hardware - x86-64-v5? - 54 Comments

Framework Hiring For Open-Source Firmware Development

09:08 AM EDT - Hardware - Framework Laptops - 13 Comments

CoCo VMs On Linux Will Now Panic If RdRand Is Broken To Avoid Catastrophic Conditions

07:00 AM EDT - Virtualization - CoCo Needs RdRand - 9 Comments

Rust Bindings Are Being Worked On For Linux CPUFreq Drivers

06:56 AM EDT - Hardware - Rust + CPUFreq - 29 Comments

Debian Policy 4.7 Outlines Latest Packaging/System Guidelines

06:17 AM EDT - Debian - Debian Policy 4.7 - 17 Comments

6 April

Raspberry Pi V3D Kernel Graphics Driver Prepares For Big & Super Pages To Boost Speed

12:39 PM EDT - Raspberry Pi - Big + Super Pages - 2 Comments

KDE On The Importance Of Wayland Explicit Sync

08:45 AM EDT - KDE - Wayland Explicit Sync - 105 Comments

GNOME Improving Integration With systemd-homed, Mockups For An OS Installer

06:53 AM EDT - GNOME - GNOME Highlights - 63 Comments

KDE Plasma 6 Can Now Sync Your RGB-Backlit Keyboard With Your Desktop's Accent Color

06:29 AM EDT - KDE - KDE Plasma 6 Activity - 31 Comments

5 April

Pingora 0.1 Released As Cloudflare's Rust Code For Reliable & Fast Networked Systems

02:45 PM EDT - Programming - Pingora 0.1 - 33 Comments

Wine 9.6 Adds Support For Advanced AVX Features In Register Contexts

01:39 PM EDT - WINE - Wine 9.6 - 8 Comments

New EEVDF Linux Scheduler Patches Make It Functionally "Complete"

12:21 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Completing EEVDF - 32 Comments

OpenZFS Merges Support For Using Multiple Task Queues To Increase Performance

10:49 AM EDT - Linux Storage - Multiple Taskqs - 7 Comments

OpenBLAS 0.3.27 Adds C-SKY Arch, Improved GEMM For AMD Zen & Sapphire Rapids Fixes

10:17 AM EDT - Programming - OpenBLAS 0.3.27 - 1 Comment

Fwupd 1.9.16 Adds Support For More USB Docks & Qualcomm Devices

08:57 AM EDT - LVFS - Fwupd 1.9.16 - 5 Comments

FFmpeg 7.0 Released With Native VVC Decoding & Multi-Threaded CLI

06:57 AM EDT - Multimedia - FFmpeg 7.0 - 104 Comments

Mesa Adds PCI IDs For Intel Arc Graphics A580E & A750E

06:50 AM EDT - Intel - Mesa 24.1 - 1 Comment

OpenBSD 7.5 Released - Faster Performance For Many-Core ARM Servers

06:37 AM EDT - BSD - OpenBSD 7.5 - 10 Comments

OpenCL 3.0.16 Released With One New Extension, Semaphores & External Memory Finalized

06:23 AM EDT - Standards - OpenCL 3.0.16 - 29 Comments

4 April

AMD Working To Release MES Documentation & Source Code

08:18 PM EDT - Radeon - Micro-Engine Scheduler - 44 Comments

Netplan 1.0 Is Ready To Go For Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

02:27 PM EDT - Ubuntu - Netplan 1.0 - 38 Comments

Wine Project's April Fools' Gag With Merit: Leveraging AI For Faster Code Review

11:25 AM EDT - WINE - AI Code Review - 25 Comments

Intel Xeon Max Sees Some Performance Gains For OpenVINO & ONNX With Linux 6.9

10:30 AM EDT - Software - 2 Comments

PostgreSQL Merges JSON_TABLE(), Incremental JSON Parser

09:48 AM EDT - Programming - JSON_TABLE - Add A Comment

UPower Power Profiles Daemon v0.21 Automatically Adapts For Linux Laptop Battery Use

08:43 AM EDT - Hardware - Power Profiles Daemon 0.21 - 16 Comments

LLVM's BOLT Being Adapted To Analyze Security Hardening Of Binaries

07:35 AM EDT - LLVM - BOLT Security Hardening - 4 Comments

Qt Creator 13 Released For Enhancing Qt/C++ Development

06:47 AM EDT - Qt - Qt Creator 13 - 14 Comments

Intel QAT Driver Preps Live Migration Support For Linux 6.10

06:13 AM EDT - Intel - QuickAssist Live Migration - 1 Comment

3 April

Bcachefs Repair Code Reaching Complete & Robust Recovery

08:08 PM EDT - Linux Storage - Newest Pull Request - 29 Comments

Google's Jpegli Offers ~35% Compression Improvement For High Quality JPEGs

03:33 PM EDT - Google - Jpegli - 67 Comments

NovaCustom Announces "Fastest Coreboot Laptops In The World" Built On Intel Core Ultra

03:10 PM EDT - Coreboot - NovaCustom V54 + V56 - 17 Comments

X.Org Server & XWayland Hit By Four More Security Issues

02:56 PM EDT - X.Org - Byte-Swapped Issues - 151 Comments

GCC 14 Boasts Nice ASCII Art For Visualizing Buffer Overflows

10:44 AM EDT - GNU - GCC 14 Debugging - 19 Comments

Crucial T705 PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSD On Linux

10:20 AM EDT - Storage - 8 Comments

RADV Lands New Extension To Better Debug GPU Hangs

09:59 AM EDT - Mesa - VK_EXT_device_address_binding_report - 19 Comments

Redict 7.3 Released As Fork Of Open-Source Redis

09:32 AM EDT - Programming - Redict 7.3 - 4 Comments

Ubuntu 24.04 Beta Delayed Due To XZ Nightmare

06:58 AM EDT - Ubuntu - Ubuntu 24.04 - 60 Comments

Fwupd Switches From XZ To Zstd Compression: More Trust & Slightly Better Performance

06:40 AM EDT - LVFS - Fwupd + Zstd - 49 Comments

Sound Open Firmware 2.9 Released With Major Performance Optimizations

06:21 AM EDT - Free Software - Sound Open Firmware - 1 Comment

2 April

AMD Says They'll Be Open-Sourcing More Of Their GPU Software Stack & Hardware Docs

05:10 PM EDT - Radeon - More Software + Hardware Docs - 66 Comments

AMD's Longtime Open-Source Linux Graphics Driver Advocate Retires

02:38 PM EDT - Radeon - John Bridgman - 76 Comments

PCIe 7.0 Specification v0.5 Published - Full Spec Next Year

12:05 PM EDT - Hardware - PCI Express 7.0 - 22 Comments

Mesa 24.1 Merges Vulkan Support For Wayland Explicit Sync

11:26 AM EDT - Mesa - linux-drm-syncobj-v1 - 27 Comments

TUXEDO Pulse 14 Gen 3 Continues Running Well As A Powerful AMD Ryzen 7 Linux Laptop

11:00 AM EDT - Computers - 17 Comments

AMD Announces Ryzen Embedded 8000 Series With Focus On Industrial AI

09:50 AM EDT - AMD - AMD Ryzen Embedded 8000 Series - 22 Comments

The Linux Kernel Begins Preparing For Rust 1.78 Upgrade

09:40 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Rust 1.78 - 20 Comments

ASUS WMI Driver For Linux Preps New Features For Recent ASUS Laptops

06:57 AM EDT - Hardware - ASUS-WMI - 7 Comments

Qt 6.7 Released With Many Improvements For This Cross-Platform Toolkit

06:35 AM EDT - Qt - Qt 6.7 - 7 Comments

Fedora 42 Change Proposal Wants To Make KDE Plasma The Default Over GNOME

06:19 AM EDT - Fedora - Fedora 42 + KDE Plasma Default? - 96 Comments

SDL 2.30.2 Released Along WIth New SDL3 Preview

05:58 AM EDT - Linux Gaming - SDL 3.1.1 Preview - 11 Comments

1 April

Steam On Linux Use Increases - Moves Closer To 2%, AMD CPU Linux Use Hits 72%

08:22 PM EDT - Linux Gaming - Steam Survey - 95 Comments

Bcachefs Submits Lots Of Fixes For "Extreme Filesystem Damage" With Linux 6.9

07:49 PM EDT - Linux Storage - Bcachefs Fixes - 62 Comments

Intel HFI Driver Will Quit Wasting CPU Cycles With Linux 6.10

01:27 PM EDT - Intel - Hardware Feedback Interface - 1 Comment

Nova Driver, Linux 6.9 Features & Other Linux News From March

12:55 PM EDT - Phoronix - March 2024 Highlights - 2 Comments

CachyOS Making Use Of Plymouth For Better Boot Experience, Mitigates For XZ Fiasco

10:26 AM EDT - Operating Systems - CachyOS April Update - 33 Comments

Linux Mint 22 Will Use The PipeWire Sound Server, Support JPEG-XL Images

08:51 AM EDT - Operating Systems - Linux Mint 22 - 17 Comments

Linux 6.10 To Correct The CCD/CCX Topology Information For Some AMD CPUs

06:48 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - AMD 0x80000026 leaf - 1 Comment

Linux 6.9 To Allow Building s390 Kernel With The Full LLVM/Clang Compiler

06:30 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - s390 LLVM=1 - 4 Comments

Serpent OS Hopes To Ship Pre-Alpha ISOs In The Coming Weeks

06:17 AM EDT - Operating Systems - Serpent OS - 24 Comments

Drop-In CUDA On AMD, Kernel Discussions, NGINX Fork & Other Q1 Highlights

12:00 AM EDT - Phoronix - 2024-Q1 Open-Source / Linux Highlights - Add A Comment

31 March

Linux 6.9-rc2 Released As An Easter Test Kernel

06:24 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 6.9 - 10 Comments

Llamafile 0.7 Brings AVX-512 Support: 10x Faster Prompt Eval Times For AMD Zen 4

10:00 AM EDT - Programming - Llamafile 0.7 - 25 Comments

Intel Continued Upstreaming A Lot Of Great Linux/Open-Source Code This Quarter

09:38 AM EDT - Intel - Intel 2024-Q1 Recap - Add A Comment

AMD XDNA Linux Driver For Ryzen AI, Zen 5 Compiler Support & Other AMD Q1 Highlights

09:25 AM EDT - AMD - AMD Highlights 2024-Q1 - Add A Comment

Rust-Written Redox OS Enjoys Significant Performance Improvements

09:20 AM EDT - Operating Systems - Redox OS Performance - 37 Comments

GNU Poke 4.0 & Poke-ELF 1.0 Released For Dealing With Binary Data

06:52 AM EDT - GNU - GNU Poke - 3 Comments

Flowblade 2.14 Video Editor Released, GTK4 Port Hopefully Ready Next Year

06:37 AM EDT - Multimedia - Flowblade 2.14 - 35 Comments

30 March

NetBSD 10.0 Released With Much Improved Hardware Support & Faster Performance

04:37 PM EDT - BSD - NetBSD 10.0 - 34 Comments

Servo Web Engine Adds WOFF2 Web Fonts, HTML Tables By Default

02:22 PM EDT - Free Software - Servo Engine - 19 Comments

Tiny Corp Details More Of Their Planned Tinybox System Specs

01:23 PM EDT - Hardware - Tinybox Green And Red - 22 Comments

Linux Fixes Botched SRSO Mitigation For AMD Zen 3 / Zen 4

01:15 PM EDT - AMD - AMD Inception Fixes - 19 Comments

Microsoft Helping Out In Making The Linux Kernel Language More Inclusive

01:07 PM EDT - Microsoft - Controller And Target - 106 Comments

Flax Engine 1.8 Brings ASTC Textures, New UI Editor & New Vehicle Features

09:14 AM EDT - Linux Gaming - Flax 1.8 - 5 Comments

KDE Introduces New Marknote App

08:56 AM EDT - KDE - KDE Marknote - 51 Comments

Asahi AGX Gallium3D Driver Sees Big Sync For Mesa 24.1 To Improve Apple Silicon Graphics

06:45 AM EDT - Mesa - Asahi Driver Sync - 3 Comments

KDE Plasma 6 Refinements Continue, Fixes 3+ Important Crashes This Week

06:37 AM EDT - KDE - Plasma 6.1 Development - 21 Comments

29 March

GitHub Disables The XZ Repository Following Today's Malicious Disclosure

09:53 PM EDT - Linux Security - XZ Repository Disabled - 141 Comments

AMD Releases Orochi 2.0 With More CUDA/HIP Functions Implemented For Better Portability

02:02 PM EDT - Radeon - AMD Orochi 2.0 - 7 Comments

XZ Struck By Malicious Code That Could Allow Unauthorized Remote System Access

12:28 PM EDT - Linux Security - XZ CVE-2024-3094 - 252 Comments

Linux 6.9 Drives AMD 4th Gen EPYC Performance Even Higher For Some Workloads

10:18 AM EDT - Software - 3 Comments

Fedora 41 Will Try Again To Switch To DNF5 Package Manager

08:47 AM EDT - Fedora - Fedora 41 + DNF5 - 30 Comments

GNOME's Mutter Lands DRM Sync Obj v1 Support For Explicit Sync On Wayland

06:53 AM EDT - GNOME - linux-drm-syncobj-v1 - 62 Comments

Intel Releases Its March 2024 Open-Source Linux GPU Compute Stack Update

06:43 AM EDT - Intel - Intel CR 24.09.28717.12 - 5 Comments

Updated Windows NT Sync Driver Posted For The Linux Kernel

06:22 AM EDT - Linux Gaming - NTSYNC - 27 Comments

28 March

Intel "Family 6" CPU Era Coming To An End Soon: Code Suggests Cooper Forest & Adams Lake

01:40 PM EDT - Intel - Intel Adams Lake & Cooper Forest - 15 Comments

Linux Foundation Launches Valkey As A Redis Fork

01:30 PM EDT - Free Software - Valkey - 26 Comments

GNU Coreutils 9.5 Can Yield 10~20% Throughput Boost For cp, mv & cat Commands

12:35 PM EDT - GNU - GNU Coreutils 9.5 - 25 Comments

Intel Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" Yields Faster Performance With Linux 6.9

11:10 AM EDT - Software - 4 Comments

Arm China Looking At Upstreaming Their "Zhouyi" NPU Driver Into The Linux Kernel

10:34 AM EDT - Arm - Arm China Zhouyi NPU - 14 Comments

Flatpak 1.15.7 Will Now Automatically Remove Obsolete Driver Versions

09:54 AM EDT - Programming - Flatpak 1.15.7 - 23 Comments

More Efficient VirtIO DRM Driver To Import Scanout Buffers From Other Devices

06:47 AM EDT - Virtualization - Buffer Sharing - 4 Comments

EROFS Drops "Experimental" Warning For FSDAX With Linux 6.9

06:36 AM EDT - Linux Storage - EROFS + FSDAX - Add A Comment

Reverse-Engineered Rockchip NPU Driver Hitting Same Performance As Proprietary Driver

06:16 AM EDT - Hardware - Open-Source Rockchip NPU Driver - 3 Comments

Google Cloud's C3D Instances Provide Strong Performance Value For PingCAP's TiDB

05:00 AM EDT - Software - 1 Comment

Samba 4.20 Released With WSP Search Client, Service Witness Protocol

12:00 AM EDT - Linux Networking - Samba 4.20 - 14 Comments

27 March

Pop!_OS Upgrades To The Linux 6.8 Kernel

05:00 PM EDT - Operating Systems - Pop OS + Linux 6.8 - 33 Comments

SDL3 Will Keep Wayland Default At Least For The Time Being

12:13 PM EDT - Linux Gaming - SDL 3.0 - 115 Comments

Canonical Continues Exploring Ubuntu x86-64-v3 Images - Now In Microsoft's Cloud

11:29 AM EDT - Ubuntu - Now On Microsoft Azure - 7 Comments

Blender 4.1 Benchmarks Confirm Even Faster CPU Render Times Under Linux

10:38 AM EDT - Free Software - Blender 4.1 Performance - 9 Comments

RHEL 9.4 Beta Brings Full Support For Intel SGX & DSA Accelerator Drivers

10:14 AM EDT - Red Hat - RHEL 9.4 - 21 Comments

Microsoft Engineer Sends Rust Linux Kernel Patches For In-Place Module Initialization

06:52 AM EDT - Microsoft - Microsoft + Rust + Linux - 24 Comments

Intel Xe Developers Begin Looking At Cross-Device & Cross-Driver HMM

06:22 AM EDT - Intel - Cross-Device Memory - 2 Comments

TornadoVM v1.0.3 OpenJDK/GraalVM Plug-In For Java Heterogeneous Hardware Support

05:57 AM EDT - Programming - TornadoVM 1.0.3 - 2 Comments

26 March

Zstd 1.5.6 Released - Celebrating Google Chrome Support For Zstandard Encoding

08:35 PM EDT - Free Software - Zstandard 1.5.6 - 14 Comments

Blender 4.1 Released With Faster Linux CPU Rendering & AMD RDNA3 APU Support

12:38 PM EDT - Free Software - Blender 4.1 - 24 Comments

SDL Developers Weigh Reverting Wayland Over X11 For SDL 3.0

11:27 AM EDT - Linux Gaming - Possible Revert - 106 Comments

Fedora 40 Beta Released With GNOME 46 & KDE Plasma 6.0 On Wayland Desktops

10:30 AM EDT - Fedora - Fedora 40 Beta - 17 Comments

Linux 6.9 Deprecates The EXT2 File-System Driver

09:20 AM EDT - Linux Storage - EXT2 - 49 Comments

AMDVLK 2024.Q1.3 Released With Fixes

08:57 AM EDT - Radeon - AMDVLK 2024.Q1.3 - 2 Comments

Intel Adds Linux Driver PCI IDs For Arc Graphics A750E & A580E

07:03 AM EDT - Intel - Expanded Family - 1 Comment

Linux Enabling Shadow Stack Support For x32

06:43 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - x32 Shadow Stacks - 4 Comments

Intel VA-API 2.21 Library Adds Intel Xe Kernel Driver Support, AV1 & Windows Fixes

06:33 AM EDT - Multimedia - libva 2.21 - 4 Comments

Panthor DRM Driver Queued For Linux 6.10 To Support Newer Arm Mali GPUs

06:20 AM EDT - Arm - Panthor Driver - 1 Comment

25 March

Linux 6.9 Features: DM VDO, AMD Preferred Core, Intel FRED & Larger Console Fonts

01:00 PM EDT - Software - 6 Comments

Canonical Extends Ubuntu LTS Support To 12 Years For Ubuntu Pro Customers

12:53 PM EDT - Ubuntu - 12 Year LTS - 48 Comments

Inkscape Development Version Switches To Using GTK4

11:04 AM EDT - Free Software - Inkscape GTK4 - 95 Comments

Linux 6.9 Will Boot Much Faster For Systems With Large Amounts Of RAM

10:21 AM EDT - Hardware - HugeTLB Servers - 16 Comments

Mesa 24.1 Merges AMD Radeon VPE 1.1 Engine Support

10:07 AM EDT - Radeon - VPE 1.1 - 2 Comments

Tiny Corp Changes Course Yet Again With Plans To Offer AMD Radeon GPUs

08:46 AM EDT - Radeon - Tinybox Red Green - 68 Comments

Intel NPU Linux Driver 1.2 Released

06:53 AM EDT - Intel - Intel NPU Linux Driver - 1 Comment

XWayland-Run 0.0.3 Adds Support For KDE's KWin

06:43 AM EDT - Wayland - xwayland-run - 10 Comments

SysVinit 3.09 Now Allows Building With musl C Library, Passing Boot Messages To Firmware

06:26 AM EDT - Free Software - SysVinit - 46 Comments

24 March

Linux 6.9-rc1 Released With AMD P-State Preferred Core, Larger FB Console Fonts

06:03 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 6.9 - 2 Comments

SDL3 Preview Release Aims To Help Test The New SDL 3.0 API

11:22 AM EDT - Linux Gaming - SDL3 Preview Release - 12 Comments

KVM Virtualization With Linux 6.9 Brings More Optimizations For Intel & AMD

11:00 AM EDT - Virtualization - KVM - 20 Comments

Rust-Written Coreutils 0.0.25 With Improved GNU Compatibility

10:25 AM EDT - Programming - uutils 0.0.25 - 47 Comments

Linux 6.9 Improves Speakup - Its In-Kernel Speech Synthesizer

10:10 AM EDT - Multimedia - /dev/synthu - 7 Comments

Linux 6.9 Delivers More Improvements To The SLUB Allocator

09:51 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - SLAB - 1 Comment

Linux 6.9 Sees Further Security Hardening

06:58 AM EDT - Linux Security - Linux 6.9 - 5 Comments

IO_uring With Linux 6.9 Gains Truncate Support, Per-Ring NAPI

06:43 AM EDT - Linux Storage - IO_uring - 18 Comments

23 March

Linux 6.9 Sees Invasive & Significant Changes To Workqueues

04:30 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Workqueues - 20 Comments

AMD FRU Memory Poison Manager Makes It In For Linux 6.9

04:12 PM EDT - Hardware - Linux 6.9 EDAC - Add A Comment

DIRT 5 Now Runs On Intel Arc Graphics Under Linux With Driver Workaround

04:05 PM EDT - Intel - DIRT 5 - 18 Comments

Linux 6.9 Expands Hardware Monitoring Support For More AIO CPU Coolers

03:05 PM EDT - Hardware - All In One Liquid Coolers - Add A Comment

Rust Bindings Posted For KMS Drivers, VKMS Ported To Rust

06:57 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - RVKMS - 29 Comments

KDE Sees A Number Of Regression Fixes & Some Crash Fixes This Week

06:41 AM EDT - KDE - KDE Bug Fixing - 13 Comments

22 March

Wine 9.5 Released With More Feature Work, 27 Bug Fixes

07:39 PM EDT - WINE - Wine 9.5 - 5 Comments

Microsoft Enables DNS Tunneling By Default For WSL - More Reliable Networking

02:00 PM EDT - Microsoft - WSL DNS Tunneling - 10 Comments

Linux 6.9 Adds New RISC-V Vector-Accelerated Crypto Routines

12:53 PM EDT - RISC-V - Linux 6.9 - 4 Comments

GCC Compiler Adds Support For Device Offloading With AMD RDNA3 APUs (GFX1103)

11:16 AM EDT - AMD - AMD RDNA3 APUs - 2 Comments

LoongArch Enables More Kernel Functionality With Linux 6.9

10:30 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - LoongArch - 5 Comments

LibreOffice Enables Multi-Threaded 3D Rendering

10:12 AM EDT - LibreOffice - Multi-Threaded 3D Rendering - 14 Comments

NVK Driver Adds Vendor ID Workaround For Games Expecting NVIDIA's Proprietary Driver

09:35 AM EDT - Mesa - Mesa NVK - 11 Comments

LLVM BOLT Optimizations Net ~6% Improvement For GNOME's Pango

06:43 AM EDT - GNOME - BOLT Optimizations - 4 Comments

AOMP 19.0-0 Released For AMD's OpenMP Offloading Compiler

06:30 AM EDT - Radeon - AOMP 19.0 - Add A Comment

Linux 6.9 To Allow Larger Frame-Buffer Console Font Size For Today's 4K Displays

12:30 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Larger Fonts On Console - 40 Comments

21 March

Fedora Linux 40 Beta Cleared For Release Next Week

04:39 PM EDT - Fedora - Fedora 40 - 12 Comments

Intel's Linux Software Optimizations Continue Paying Off Big Time For Xeon Emerald Rapids