Rust-Based Coreutils 0.0.26 Increases Compatibility With GNU Coreutils
12:09 PM EDT - Free Software - Uutils 0.0.26 - 6 Comments
27 April
Llamafile 0.8.1 GPU LLM Offloading Works Now With More AMD GPUs
08:48 AM EDT - Radeon - Llamafile 0.8.1 - 2 Comments
Rework For Intel CPU Model Handling To Land With Linux 6.10
06:34 AM EDT - Intel - Intel CPU Model Handling - 2 Comments
GTK 4.15 Released With Vulkan Renderer By Default
06:16 AM EDT - GNOME - GTK 4.15.0 - 30 Comments
KDE Fixes Adaptive-Sync Issues & Less Glitches During GPU Resets
06:01 AM EDT - KDE - KDE Plasma - 9 Comments
26 April
Proton 9.0 RC2 Makes More Windows Games Playable On Linux, Other Fixes
04:42 PM EDT - Valve - Proton 9.0 - 11 Comments
New Patches Significantly Reduce Zink Driver Startup Time
11:25 AM EDT - Mesa - Faster Zink Start Time - 5 Comments
GNOME Foundation To Focus On Fundraising After Years Running A Deficit
09:26 AM EDT - GNOME - GNOME Foundation Deficit - 92 Comments
GCC 14.1 Compiler Aiming For Release Around 7 May
08:00 AM EDT - GNU - GCC 14 Branched - 4 Comments
GCC 14 Adds "GFX90C" For OpenMP Offloading To APUs With GFX9/Vega Graphics
06:48 AM EDT - AMD - GCC + GFX90C - 12 Comments
Linux 6.10 Adding Intel Low-Latency Hint To Aggressively Boost GT Frequency For GPU Compute
Servo Web Engine Now Passing Acid2 Layout Engine Test
06:08 AM EDT - Free Software - Servo + Acid2 - 11 Comments
Microsoft Open-Sources MS-DOS 4.0 Under MIT License
05:57 AM EDT - Microsoft - MS-DOS 4.0 Open-Source - 44 Comments
25 April
Systemd 256-rc1 Brings A Huge Number Of New Features
08:35 PM EDT - systemd - systemd-vpick, importctl + more - 44 Comments
NVIDIA Developer Opens Feature Pull Request For Open-Source NVK Driver
05:06 PM EDT - NVIDIA - What's Going On?!? - 41 Comments
AMD Ryzen 9 7950X & Intel Core i9 14900K: Ubuntu 22.04 vs. 23.10 vs. 24.04 Linux Performance
05:00 PM EDT - Operating Systems - 20 Comments
Red Hat Offering Up To 4 Years Extra Support For RHEL7
04:43 PM EDT - Red Hat - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 - 7 Comments
Wayland 1.23 Alpha Released With OpenBSD Support & New APIs
01:14 PM EDT - Wayland - Wayland 1.23 Alpha - 12 Comments
Intel Releases OpenVINO 2024.1 With More Gen AI & LLM Features
Sovereign Tech Fund Makes New Investments Into GNOME & PHP, Bug Bounty For systemd
10:26 AM EDT - Free Software - Sovereign Tech Fund - 32 Comments
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Downloads Now Available
10:03 AM EDT - Ubuntu - Ubuntu 24.04 LTS - 31 Comments
Intel ANV Vulkan Driver Enables VK_KHR_shader_float_controls2
09:51 AM EDT - Intel - Intel Vulkan - 2 Comments
Fedora Miracle Spin Proposed For Fedora 41
06:48 AM EDT - Fedora - Fedora Miracle - 12 Comments
Llamafile 0.8 Releases With LLaMA3 & Grok Support, Faster F16 Performance
06:36 AM EDT - Free Software - llamafile 0.8 - Add A Comment
24 April
Mesa 24.1-rc1 Released With Many OpenGL & Vulkan Driver Improvements
RadeonSI Squeezes "Many Improvements Around The Whole Driver" Into Mesa 24.1
05:04 PM EDT - Radeon - RadeonSI Performance - 13 Comments
Radeon GPU Profiler 2.1 Adds Radeon GPU Analyzer Interoperability
GCC 14 vs. LLVM Clang 18 Compiler Performance On Fedora 40
11:02 AM EDT - Software - 34 Comments
New AMD Linux Patch Acknowledges More Zen 5 CPU Models
10:08 AM EDT - AMD - AMD Zen 5 CPU Model IDs - Add A Comment
Red Hat Releases DNF 4.20 In Preparation For DNF5
08:55 AM EDT - Red Hat - DNF 4.20 - 5 Comments
Polychromatic 0.9 OpenRazer GUI Frontend Released With Port To PyQt6
TrueNAS SCALE 24.04 Released For A Wonderful NAS Platform
06:37 AM EDT - Operating Systems - TrueNAS 24.04 - 9 Comments
Nginx 1.26 Released With Experimental HTTP/3 Support
06:26 AM EDT - Free Software - Nginx 1.26 - 10 Comments
Wine's Wayland Driver Will Finally Set The Window Title
06:10 AM EDT - Wayland - Winewayland Fix - 17 Comments
23 April
QEMU 9.0 Released WIth True Multi-Queue Support For VirtIO Block Driver
09:35 PM EDT - Virtualization - QEMU 9.0 - 7 Comments
FFmpeg Makes Progress On Dolby Vision Support
08:00 PM EDT - Multimedia - Dolby Vision + FFmpeg - 13 Comments
Mozilla Has Been Rewriting Its Crash Reporter In Rust
03:45 PM EDT - Mozilla - Rust-Based Crash Reporter - 50 Comments
Intel Has Many Improvements For The Xe Graphics Driver In Linux 6.10
12:13 PM EDT - Intel - Linux 6.10 Xe - 8 Comments
Framework Raises $18M In New Funding, More Collaborations Coming With Cooler Master
10:55 AM EDT - Hardware - Framework Computer - 40 Comments
Fedora Linux 40 Available For Download As A Wonderful Upgrade
08:32 AM EDT - Fedora - Fedora 40 - 58 Comments
NVK Vulkan Driver Adds Implicit Pipeline Caching To Boost DXVK Performance
07:00 AM EDT - Nouveau - NVK Implicit Pipeline Caching - 5 Comments
CBD Proposed For The Linux Kernel: CXL Block Device
06:42 AM EDT - Linux Storage - CXL Block Device - 7 Comments
Bcachefs Sends In More Fixes For Linux 6.9: Recovery & Repair Issues Settling Down
06:33 AM EDT - Linux Storage - Bcachefs Fixes - 13 Comments
AMD Prepping Fixes & Enhancements For P-State CPUFreq Driver
06:21 AM EDT - AMD - AMD P-State - 3 Comments
NetBSD 9.4 Released With Security & Stability Fixes
06:01 AM EDT - BSD - NetBSD 9.4 - 5 Comments
22 April
Steam On Linux Changes The Default Scaling Factor For 4K Displays
08:20 PM EDT - Valve - Steam On Linux - 19 Comments
Linux AMDGPU Control Application Adds vBIOS Dumping, Fan Control Hysteresis
03:30 PM EDT - Radeon - LACT 0.5.4 - 26 Comments
Fwupd 1.9.17 Adds Firmware Updating For ASUS DC201 & Realtek RTS541x
02:31 PM EDT - LVFS - Fwupd 1.9.17 - 6 Comments
Reverse Engineered MSI WMI Platform Driver Being Worked On For Linux
12:55 PM EDT - Hardware - MSI WMI Platform Driver - 5 Comments
Kioxia KCD8XPUG1T92 CD8P-R & KCMYXVUG3T20 CM7-V PCIe 5.0 SSDs
11:20 AM EDT - Storage - 15 Comments
Audacity 3.5 Brings Cloud Project Saving, Improved BSD Support
10:15 AM EDT - Multimedia - Audacity 3.5 - 26 Comments
Steam Deck Motion Sensors Being Worked On For Linux's HID-Steam Driver
10:04 AM EDT - Valve - Steam Deck IMU - 8 Comments
Intel Enabling Linux Driver Display Support For Upcoming "Battlemage" GPUs
07:05 AM EDT - Intel - Display Support For Battlemage - 17 Comments
AMD: "Additional Parts Of The Radeon Stack To Be Open Sourced Throughout The Year"
06:40 AM EDT - Radeon - AMD Open-Source - 29 Comments
AMD SEV-SNP Hypervisor Support Nears The Mainline Linux Kernel
06:32 AM EDT - AMD - SEV-SNP Hypervisor - Add A Comment
udev-hid-bpf To Help Enable HID-BPF Use Rather Than Kernel Drivers To Fix HID Hardware
06:23 AM EDT - Hardware - udev-hid-bpf - 5 Comments
Intel Media Driver 2024Q1 Brings Arrow Lake H Support
05:59 AM EDT - Intel - Intel VA-API - Add A Comment
21 April
Linux 6.9-rc5 Released: The Diffstat "Looks A Bit Wonky" But Not Bad
04:47 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 6.9 - Add A Comment
AMD Posts RDNA3+ Firmware Files For Linux Users
10:25 AM EDT - Radeon - linux-firmware.git - 16 Comments
GNOME Mutter 46.1 Brings Explicit Sync, Better NVIDIA Hybrid GPU Acceleration
09:50 AM EDT - GNOME - GNOME 46.1 - 36 Comments
GNU Portability Library's Tool Rewritten In Python For 8~100x Better Performance
09:42 AM EDT - GNU - Gnutool-lib - 44 Comments
Acer Aspire One ARM Laptop To Have "Almost Full" Support With Linux 6.10
06:46 AM EDT - Arm - Acer Aspire One - 21 Comments
EROFS Eyes Zstd Compression, Intel QAT/IAA Accelerator Support, & Experimental Rust Code
06:36 AM EDT - Linux Storage - EROFS - Add A Comment
Linux 6.9-rc5 Picking Up Fixes For Intel FRED, BHI & GFNI/VAES Checks
06:08 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - x86 Urgent - Add A Comment
20 April
Niri 0.1.5 Scrollable-Tiling Wayland Compositor Adds New Animations
03:17 PM EDT - Wayland - Niri 0.1.5 - 16 Comments
GNOME Working To Make Key Rack A Viable Password Manager, Better Printing For Flatpaks
08:41 AM EDT - GNOME - GNOME This Week - 30 Comments
Linux BHI Mitigation Being Tweaked Following 12% Database Performance Hit
08:00 AM EDT - Linux Security - Native BHI - 10 Comments
Open-Source "Terakan" Vulkan Driver For Radeon HD 6000 Series Shown On Windows
06:41 AM EDT - Radeon - Terakan - 33 Comments
AMD Sends In More Kernel Graphics Driver Updates For Linux 6.10
06:21 AM EDT - Radeon - Linux 6.10 AMDGPU - 7 Comments
KDE Developers Work Through More Bug Fixes & Features For Plasma 6.1
06:06 AM EDT - KDE - KDE This Week - 17 Comments
19 April
Wine 9.7 Works On Build System For ARM64X, Other ARM Improvements
08:34 PM EDT - WINE - Wine 9.7 - 10 Comments
Mozilla Finally Begins Offering Firefox ARM64 Linux Binaries
02:56 PM EDT - Mozilla - ARM64 Firefox - 9 Comments
Git 2.45 Begins Landing Code For SHA1 & SHA256 Interoperability For Repositories
01:54 PM EDT - Programming - Git 2.45-rc0 Released - 13 Comments
Godot's Vulkan Backend Seeing Better Performance, 10~20% Reduction In Frame Times
01:00 PM EDT - Linux Gaming - Godot Better Vulkan - 6 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 - 31 Comments
Intel Compute Runtime 24.13.29138.7 Brings Improved OpenCL/OpenGL Sharing
09:42 AM EDT - Intel - 24.13.29138.7 - 5 Comments
Tow-Boot 2023.07 U-Boot Distribution Released With New Board Support
08:45 AM EDT - Free Software - Tow-Boot 2023.07-007 - 5 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 - 2 Comments
18 April
Fedora Linux 40 Cleared For Release Next Week
02:39 PM EDT - Fedora - Fedora 40 - 67 Comments
Rust-Written LAVD Kernel Scheduler Shows Promising Results For Linux Gaming
01:35 PM EDT - Linux Gaming - Rust-Written, BPF-Based Scheduler - 40 Comments
Ubuntu 24.04 Boosts Performance, Outperforming Windows 11 On The AMD Ryzen Framework 16 Laptop
11:25 AM EDT - Operating Systems - 42 Comments
openSUSE Factory Achieves Bit-By-Bit Reproducible Builds
10:13 AM EDT - SUSE - openSUSE Packages Are Reproducible - 28 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 - 45 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 - 39 Comments
17 April
System76's COSMIC Working On Drag & Drop, More Compositor Improvements
08:12 PM EDT - Desktop - COSMIC April - 42 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 - 100 Comments
RPM 4.20 Approved For Fedora 41 To Advance Hands-Free Packaging
06:24 AM EDT - Fedora - RPM 4.20 - 11 Comments
Linux 6.10 To Add Script For Building ARM64 Flat Image Trees
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 - 40 Comments
Valkey Celebrates Its First Stable Release As Open-Source Redis Fork
10:25 AM EDT - Free Software - Valkey 7.2.5 - 20 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 - 12 Comments
AlmaLinux 9.4 Beta Restores Support For Some Hardware Deprecated By RHEL
12:35 PM EDT - Operating Systems - AlmaLinux 9.4 Beta - 15 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 - 53 Comments
Fedora 41 Aims For More Reproducible Package Builds Thanks To A Rust Program
10:26 AM EDT - Fedora - Better Reproducibility - 26 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 - 20 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 - 45 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 - 30 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 - 33 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
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 - 14 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 - 33 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 - 49 Comments
Linux Mint Aims For More Reliable & Faster Repository Access
06:38 AM EDT - Operating Systems - Linux Mint Faster Repos - 16 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 - 250 Comments
KDAB Working On Embedding Servo Web Engine Within Qt
09:54 AM EDT - Qt - Qt + Servo - 37 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
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
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
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 - 34 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